ALS. Wiki It!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis

That will teach you all there is to know about ALS because the trailer of So Much So Fast, a documentary about ALS just assumes the audience is completely familiar with it. If I can be truthful, and I hope I always can be, I didn't know what ALS was until I saw this trailer. I mean, I'd heard of Lou Gherig's disease, which is just another, more hip name for such a trendy disease, and I've seen how intellectually decrepit Stephen Hawking looks, but I've never really delved into the facts. Increasing my knowledge of terminal illnesses that I could potentially get at any time without any way of prevention isn't of a priority right now. I'm already predicting I'll get cancer somewhere down the road. And that it will be in an embarassing place no less, so everytime someone asks what it is that's killing me, I'll have to say "The tumour on my weiner" or something like that. Ugh. I have luck like that. Srsly.

I can't say I'm looking forward to acquiring an immobilitating disease. Because I've always hated (and I know this is so incredibly wrong of me) people that joke about their own mortality or their own piss-poor conditions. I just hate that. I just really really hate that. There is nothing unfunnier than a crippled guy beaming about how he should run the New York marathon. Ha Ha Ha Ha. Prime-quality wit there.
Have no arms? That won't stop them from having a good old laugh at themselves. "I'd shake your hand but, you know." Yeah, I noticed the fact you have NO FUCKING ARMS as soon as I walked in the room. You don't have to make light of such a horrific situation. No arms. How in god's name is that supposed to be funny?
In general, I think gallows humour is only funny if its said in the context of someone's last words. Like Oscar Wilde's famous wallpaper bickering. Now that is one very hilarious, very gay man. On the other hand, Gallows humour in 16 year old cancer patients with an over-abundance of personality is the worst thing on the planet. Nothing shits me off more. You know, it's tough that the kid has cancer and all, but fucking give me a break. The disease destroying someone's body is not funny, and if someone doesn't have anything real to say about it, just shut up and keep your 'brave little senses of humour' to your fucking self. If you think cancer's such a big laugh, then why should I care that you have it.

So Much So Fast is a movie about a guy that basically never stop making jokes at his own expense. So you can imagine how much I enjoyed it.
It's not that I want this ALS sufferer to be depressed, and it's not that I don't want him to have a laugh, but please... there are people who laugh in the face of death, and then there are those who, in the face of death, laugh at themselves. And that is just weak.

In the So Much So Fast trailer, it's apparent that the guys in question were unfunny even before ALS intruded on their perfect lives. Listen to this ATROCIOUS best man's speech at the brother's wedding: "I can't imagine a better match for Stephen. Like peanut butter and jelly. And like Marge... and Homer. *crowd laughs, they love it*"
I hate these people. I guess their intentions of curing a previously incurable condition is a really great cause, but I just genuinly hate them. I can't think of anything worse than to listen to any more zingers from the Wheelchair of Comedy. A completely inanimate guy using his simulated voice computer to describe his sex life and that he wishes he had more sex on film is just a terrible thing to witness.
Honestly, you'll wish he never got the disease simply because that would mean you'd never have to hear his appalling attempts at self-deprecation.


These brothers, as well as the wife, are not funny. But they think they are hilarious. This documentary doesn't bring hope, it makes me just dread becoming that sort of person. See I don't think I'm that funny, I don't think I could provide laughs for a huge audience, and I certainly would NEVER have the ego to put a documentary crew together to shoot a movie with an angle of capturing how funny having a neurological disease can be, probably based on the fact their family always commented on how uproariously funny they both were.
So Much So Fast. So Shit.

So Much So Fast - Balcony Releasing (?)
Anticipation Level: Stay unreleased.
Look out for: Don't bother. Just don't bother.
US Release date: October 11th, 2006.
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