I still think that this is a silly, phantasmagorical flick. But that doesn’t prevent me from objectively acknowledging the mastery of Colin Farrell’s acting. He delivers there his most farcical performance to date in his pitch-perfect American accent. His Bobby Pellitt is a caricature of those real people I frequently describe here—those who think that GAAP and GAP are the same things.
Huffington Post nominated the following exchange as one of the funniest movie quotes of the year. It’s both funny and quite probable—believe me.
(Written by Michael Markowitz and John Francis Daley.)
Bobby: We need to trim some of the fat.
Kurt: What do you mean by trim the fat?
Bobby: I want you to fire the fat people. They’re lazy and they’re slow and they make me sad to look at.
You can watch the whole clip here: Horrible Bosses
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