6. "Just want to be a positive voice" In response to Reply # 0
Never saw Funny People. Thought Whackness was ok but poorly constructed. This trailer had me having feelings like a motherfuck, maybe if only because I had a similar scare that turned out to be some other shit. But I was watching this trailer like, damn, I reacted to my situation the same way until I finally found out it was a different situation.
I'm 22 by the way, but I have had three friends already that battled various cancers. Maybe that's my ignition. All I know is I liked this trailer A LOT. I had to show a bunch of people right away.
7. "UP for the wide release" In response to Reply # 0
Just got back from this, and it was incredible. Easily in my top 5 for films I've seen this year, this walks the line of crude humor and heart better than any of Apatow's flicks (and I like those.)
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ricky_BUTLER Member since Jul 06th 2003 16899 posts
Sat Oct-01-11 04:52 PM
9. "Picks up in the third act." In response to Reply # 0
A little too basic at times: characters, narrative, thematically, music etc. Sort of just skates along at a B-minus clip until it becomes something else / stronger in the final third*.
I actually thought Rogen was the most consistent performer. I mean, he's playing himself, so there's not much to the performance, but he's at least interesting front-to-back and probably also gets the most rewarding laugh (see: cathartic).
I still have yet to find that one performance that sells me on Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but, in fairness to him, he's not given much room to breathe / stretch until the end.
I'd put it just a notch below Moneyball, which is another film people seem to be enthusiastic about that sort of amiably though unspectacularly makes the grade for most of the movie and then finally hits its stride in the concluding act. There's a stronger central performance in Moneyball and a couple of memorable sequences--don't think 50/50 has one standout scene--but both are, for better or worse, the work of clearly second-tier directors. Nothing amazing going on.
*SPOILERS
Anna Kendrick looking at her watch really got to me.
11. "Mysterious Skin?" In response to Reply # 9 Mon Oct-03-11 03:34 AM by Sponge
>I still have yet to find that one performance that sells me on >Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but, in fairness to him, he's not given >much room to breathe / stretch until the end.
I pretty much hate JGL and forgot to post about him in the recent actors you hate post but I reluctantly have to give him props for his work in Mysterious Skin. He's great there. Other than that, I really don't get why some people think he's the best actor his age (give or take a few years) in America, but that's because I just hate his face and can't say I can evaluate him fairly.
ricky_BUTLER Member since Jul 06th 2003 16899 posts
Mon Oct-03-11 08:56 AM
12. "Oh yeah, the teenage prostitue movie I've avoided." In response to Reply # 11
>>I still have yet to find that one performance that sells me >on >>Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but, in fairness to him, he's not >given >>much room to breathe / stretch until the end. > >I pretty much hate JGL and forgot to post about him in the >recent actors you hate post but I reluctantly have to give him >props for his work in Mysterious Skin. He's great there. Other >than that, I really don't get why some people think he's the >best actor his age (give or take a few years) in America, but >that's because I just hate his face and can't say I can >evaluate him fairly.
I'm pretty close to being in that same camp.
Scott Frank called him "young Keanu," which I think was intended as a term of endearment but still . . .
Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86670 posts
Mon Oct-03-11 09:59 AM
13. "He's like a warmer Keanu." In response to Reply # 12
I think he is more expressive and tends to be a bit more physical than we've seen from Keanu in awhile. JGL's wheels turn when often Keanu's don't. But I don't think the comparison is wrong.
I like JGL, especially in these "cool young guy" kind of roles, since he's cute enough that girls like him but not good-looking enough that guys don't. He's got a good everyyoungman appeal. But you're right that he doesn't have an incredible performance in the books-- he just picks interesting projects which gives him a high profile in the minds of many.
10. "I really like it but one quibble (spoiler)" In response to Reply # 0
I didn't think that he and Anna Kendrick should have gotten together. Probably not a good look for a doctoral candidate to start dating her third patient. I thought they had a nice connection but I would have just preferred that they had a mutually beneficial friendship or something.
Other than that, I really enjoyed it. The acting was great. Anjelica Houston stole the show. I'm very happy that Gordon-Levitt was in it instead of James McAvoy. Not that McAvoy couldn't have pulled it off but I think JGL was perfect for the role. Bryce Dallas Howard really needs to get herself in a nice role or she's going to be typecast as a bitch.
Definitely recommend it. It might not knock your socks off but it's one of the best movies I've seen this year.
15. "Rogen actually ACTED in this" In response to Reply # 0
seriously, this movie is good stuff I know comedy performances rarely get nominated for awards but as a supporting actor Seth Rogen pulled off probably the hardest thing to do in a film-mix comedy and drama with an acting performance and have them play off one another to the point of it being natural don't sleep on this movie, niggas
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Tiger Woods Member since Feb 15th 2004 18385 posts
Sun Oct-09-11 08:34 AM
16. "uninspired as a whole, none of the characters click" In response to Reply # 0
just a morose drag of a movie, much like Seattle, a morose drag of a town. I guess that was the point of the setting?
The mom nails it towards the end. That's pretty much all that's worth watching. The rest is just this tepid and plodding death march through this meek dude's months of suffering.
18. "late to the party, but I actually really liked it" In response to Reply # 0
and Seth Rogen had me LOL like 5 times...
Other then that it was a movie I thought that was easy to connect too, I thought JGL did a great job of portraying someone with this life altering curveball thrown at him, how you want to play it cool but it's scary as shit
I liked it... little more somber then I expected but that's a good thing based on subject matter
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