| Bigger than Life was like Happy Days from Hell for me. Follows all the trappings for a 50s melodrama, white picket fences, smiles all around, dress for dinner, and have the Dad a drug addled maniac. |
Well for me, the key word in there is melodrama. I like the idea of Happy Days from Hell, but Happy Days was a comedy. Kind of like what they did with the Brady Bunch movie. But, by keeping it as a melodrama on the surface, I lose all interest. Ray and Sirk both work in bad surface melodrama, which just kills any interesting irony below the surface for me. Many people here like melodrama, but to me it's like rap music (e.g., no matter how great the lyrics might be, I'm never going to like the song
).