Honestly not a terrible movie, and it's overall pretty sweet even, but there is just a wild disparity between the jokes that hit and the jokes that don't. I'm kind of confused by David Wain in general in that it seems like he started out with Indie Cred and then at this point has been swallowed up a bit by the Apatow machine, but this one seems kind of like a balance between the more off-kilter stuff and the more…
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Running on Empty 1988
This feels like it should have been a breakout success even more than it actually was. It made decent money for a film like this but nothing crazy when I could definitely see this being the sort of drama that randomly made enormous amounts of money and was awards-successful..... but it didn't really happen that way seemingly. I guess that doesn't always happen with movies that are actually amazing, which this one is. The hook of the story is pretty…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
i'm being cynical but what the HELL is the rating on here. (not like i'm surprised, this might be the first example of a movie that has been made to appeal to as many letterboxd users as possible.) this movie is basically a strange combination of in the mouth of madness and one of the early domestic ang lee dramas with the sense of humor of like taika waititi and you can genuinely tell that the russo brothers produced this,…
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May December 2023
Wow. I'm glad I knew very little going into this so I would perhaps suggest not reading this if you haven't seen it yet but you can do whatever you want of course. Just... ten minutes or on whenever the main plot is actually revealed is such a pure "What the hell" moment and I was so excited to see where Haynes and co. were going to take this. Fortunately they take it to some dazzling / uncomfortable / hilarious…
