Little Miss Sunshine (Amazing Funny Movie Related)
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Just watched this last night and I think you should all go out and see it, unless you don't like funny, smart movies with good acting. 
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He's good in this movie. How was Talladega, worth my hard-earned $10?
Total co-sign on the Sunshine. The biker's reaction to the performance was classic!
Talladega was a disappointment, though. Not nearly as funny as I had hoped. The best bits were used in the trailers, IMO.
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Same here. These are quality jokes too not just stupid one liners with great delivery, very well krafted. I'm copping this when the DVD drops fo' sho.
Too bad I was sitting next to some annoying bitch that felt the need to comment out loud every 1-2 minutes, saying things such as "Oh My GOD!" and "They forgot the KID!"...
the first half of the movie was pretty blah to me. the characters were introduced separately during the credits, but not enough to the point where you really understood the personalities involved, so when the dinner scene rolls around and the conversation begins with everyone involved, it's just an overload of quirkiness. it only overcomes that misstep when the characters start to develop [personal development, not introduction to further quirkiness, if that makes sense]. i really enjoyed the last 1/2 hour or so [maybe because the fanboy in front of me quit cracking up at any semblance of substance - *tangent* - a lot of people in the theatre i went to were really anxious for this movie to be hilarious. really anxious. that's all i'll say about that]. the young actress playing Olive was absolutely adorable. i couldn't believe it. she kept me watching until everyone else came around.
talledega was uneven in places but plenty of solid laughs, and no crap. if you like will ferril, go now. B
just got in from miami vice. this film looks amazing, sounds incredible (seriously, i gotta give major props to sound editors and effects, because when the guns went off, holy shit!), and while the story wasnt groundbreaking, it was well told and elegantly done. Mann scores again. A-
recently rented the original japanese 'Pulse'. what a piece of shit! is the US one any good at all? talk about a non scary, non interesting bore-fest!
'talladega nights' paled in comparison to the paragon of comedic excellence that is ANCHORMAN - i'd go watch that again before i see 'talladega' again.
for real deal funny shit, i'd recommend WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER.
i agree. i didn't like this movie and i tried to. just ended up rolling my eyes nonstop. it's like they try to pack so many idiosyncracies and neuroticisms into each character for easy identification. i thought it was overkill and that they were kinda sitcomy. (**spoilers**) the gas station store scene with carell is an example of the situational comedy vibe. how convenient to run into the young dude and his partner who is carell's nemesis with all this porn.
the only one who didn't annoy me was carell, not because i like him but he was the only one who played it understated. but please, a suicidal gay scholar about to be awarded a macarthur genius grant and who is the nation's #1 proust expert? these characters were overwritten and unbelievable
exactly
also - i disagree with the happy ending criticism - when you look at it... [spoiler alert]
...no one's lives are fixed, sorted out or corrected at the end. one guy dies, the girl doesnt win, carell is still in his situation, family is still bankrupt, the father is jobless and without direction. The positive side is in my opinion way more realistic than most films, in that the good part is that these people had an attitude adjustment. That message of 'things may suck but youll live and deal with it' may be a well-worn one, but its way better than the standard 'against all odds, i won the prize and defeated the bullies and everything is perfect now!' bullcrap.
PLUS - rick james! c'mon now, cant hat on that.
wes anderson's work involves clever/quirky worlds where the characters aren't conscious of their quirkiness, so there's a little more innocence/fairy tale-ish feel. LMS involved a quirky family in today's society as we know it.
this is the appeal of anderson's films for me. they are all their own separate entities [utilizing, for the most part, the same cast]. i'm not saying dude's technique is infallible, but it is a welcome change.
...and i was wondering..."freudian oedipal complex"? splain plz.
REALLY? Come on now! Okay it's like a toned down napoleon dynamite wes anderson mashup with a good dose of will ferrell/carrell style humor..road trippin' national lampoon style too, sorta
but it's still worth seeing over um like Pirates or something
oh snap - i meant to type "folks"!!! sorry!
if anyone took that as, well, something bad, know that it was not meant to be "fooks". Im such a fook.
I was very dissapointed that: SPOILED ALERT[/b]
grandpa died so early in the film. Dude was the best part of the movie IMO. The only character type that hasn't been over-used. Cocaine addicted, loud-mouth grandpa == fire.
yeah it is similiar, but the difference for me is that the characters are more sympathetic and likeable to me in anderson movies (i'm not even a fan). the characters in lms annoyed me. i was hoping someone would slap kinnear during the ice cream scene and none of the character's asshole vibes ever really convincingly redeemed themselves in my opinion. gene hackman was an asshole in tennebaums but the whole time he was likeable, charming and hilarious. also wes anderson's flicks are heavily stylized and have a distinctive fairytale aestheic so i see that as a major difference. this movie tries to disguise the cuteseyness with cringeworthy, raw and crazy mean humor, like todd solondz flicks, but i didn't buy it, it still was cute as hell and heartwarming to me. it is a happy ending, albeit not typical, because the family came together and all had personal epiphanies of family love when they all hated each other's guts at the beginning. also this movie tries to come off as real with real people dealing with real world probs (bankruptcy, drug addiction, suicide) - wes anderson never deals with the real world. hell, i would have bought the cuteseyness if i liked the characters.
yup, you got to actually "know" each character and feel what they were going through in a realistic manner, unlike P.T. anderson's Hollywood-ized/unrealistic faux feelings
I had two chicken tamales, coffee, and a couple chocolate chip cookies this morning, call me fatty
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