durdencommatyler wrote:She's Funny That Way (2014)
It was on HBO Max and I'd never heard of it before. Just a stupid awesome cast. Directed by Bogdanovich. Described as a farcical romantic comedy set in the world of Broadway theater. Hell ya! So of course I watched it.
What a weird fucking movie.
I saw Bogdanovich introduce this film at a festival some years ago. He talked about how it was originally called Squirrels to Nuts and was meant to be like a 50s screwball comedy. It played really well but I'd be curious to rewatch it because sometimes hearing an audience laugh uproariously at every joke colors your perception a little
Doesn't surprise me at all that it was originally called Squirrels to Nuts. I actually said to my wife that that should have been the title.
It's definitely funny. There is some bonkers shit in it though that baffles me. And yet I wish it had been more over the top. I wanted more screwball to it. I didn't hate the movie by any means but it's fucking weird. It should work better than it does. It really should have been as perfect as Noises Off, I think. The ingredients are all there.
Part of the problem, might be too much adherence to it's 50's style. That stuff felt too forced too often. It wasn't effortless, the way that other nostalgia bate pieces (something like 'Everyone Says I Love You' for example) are.
And like HOW and WHY are all these people in it?? And it got like zero play here. It's six years old and I'd never heard of it until I saw it on the HBO Max menu.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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What a casting! Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver are incredible. Some pretty intense moments and some beautiful ones. A very abrupt end for an overall great movie.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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What a casting! Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver are incredible. Some pretty intense moments and some beautiful ones. A very abrupt end for an overall great movie.
Yeah this movie is wonderful. I remember putting it on again immediately after it ended (I was watching at home, didn't see it in theatres) because I was so captivated and because I needed more!
What a casting! Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver are incredible. Some pretty intense moments and some beautiful ones. A very abrupt end for an overall great movie.
One of my all time favorites. Maybe Ang Lee’s best?
Im not a huge Lee fan. I love Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Sense and Sensibility, but i havent seen Ride With The Devil Or Life of Pi for example.
What a casting! Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver are incredible. Some pretty intense moments and some beautiful ones. A very abrupt end for an overall great movie.
Yeah this movie is wonderful. I remember putting in again immediately after it ended (I was watching at home, didn't see it in theatres) because I was so captivated and because I needed more!
yeah, it felt like one of those movies its hard to see these days. The cast is just superb, and the photography and overall feeling is great.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Dogshit, though it inadvertently says something interesting about neoliberalism and history.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Orpheus wrote:I held off on watching Prospect for a long time and loved it when I did. Excellent world building for a low budget sci-fi. Highly recommend this one.
Orpheus wrote:I held off on watching Prospect for a long time and loved it when I did. Excellent world building for a low budget sci-fi. Highly recommend this one.
Been meaning to watch and then forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
Orpheus wrote:I held off on watching Prospect for a long time and loved it when I did. Excellent world building for a low budget sci-fi. Highly recommend this one.
I actually just watched this the other day and loved it. I agree about the excellent world building.
Great performances, too. Pedro Pascal is wonderful.
