I think the idea of a movie about a guy trying to give up porn for a girl is not a totally terrible idea, but sounds more like something that a Judd Apatow movie should cover.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
who should've been cast as Anthony Weiner?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
also surely there are gu*dos who are 5'6"?
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
I thought they all were!
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
I think he means JGL should look like he's eaten every steroid in the world
― My Buddy® of sexting (DJP), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
yeah I thought his arms looked small for a supposed jersey guido gym rat. Do you even lift bro?
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
Agreed. He needs to actually have pushed it to the point of looking bad, and he stopped shy of that.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Probably not willing to sacrifice his gonadal health on the altar of his directorial debut.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 July 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
also, he looks like he lifts, bro.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 July 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link
hurting otm
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Thursday, 25 July 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
singing at the stop light scene sold me on this tbh
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 25 July 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
seems like a pale imitation of the wilson phillips singalong in harold and kumar
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
God this looks terrible, how did 2 such reputable names get involved in a film who's premise could have been an 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episode circa 2004?
Also is ScarJo really that bad of an actress?
― All kinds of heinous things, Friday, 26 July 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link
what are the 2 reputable names
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
is one of them tony danza
oh god do you mean joseph gordon-levitt
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:10 (ten years ago) link
a pale imitation of the wilson phillips singalong in harold and kumar
except no one with a life remembers that or what Wilson Phillips sounded like.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:44 (ten years ago) link
People who saw Bridesmaids do!
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:50 (ten years ago) link
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lol i had the same thought process
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link
needs to do bro "comedies" to raise ILEsteem
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
already did brohttp://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/new-50-50-post-released__oPt.jpg
― Number None, Friday, 26 July 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
50/50 was very good. this doesn't look nearly as good
― akm, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
waiting for the third-act twist to be that she's pregnant and after the credits the kid pops out, already rockin the wifebeater and yelling "booooooashk!!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
I wouldn't assume we know what this film is "about," given that Julianne Moore is barely in the trailer because Too Old to Sell.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
i love when people who have been fabulously wealthy movie/tv stars literally their entire lives attempt to approximate what it's like to be "working class." like somehow when they do these really cartoonish accents and say dumb things (BECAUSE THEY'RE POOR) it's supposed to be funny and not disgusting. and meanwhile trying to ironically equate the falseness of romcoms with the falseness of porn while somehow being totally unaware of the irony of trying to present this in the framework of a totally false movie.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
serious, serious!
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
The way the mom is written/directed looks particularly egregious too "WHATSEH NAME WHATSEH NAME!"
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Julianne Moore has to be the therapist, right? Working class people otherwise played for laughs always find redemption through the upper middle class pursuit of therapy in these fantasies.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
I'm guessing it's related to the "porn addiction" or w/e.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Which really kind of fits in with a larger theory of the sub-genre that's kind of coming to me. Working class people are loveable primitives lacking in full self-awareness, but therapy offers them a pathway to bourgeois enlightenment and self-understanding. Thus the audience can feel superior and charitable at the same time for having affection for these doltish characters and wanting them to better themselves.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
wanting *them* to better themselves.
why is he out in the park waslking with his therapist? I can only hope he fucks her too.
is this like the comedy version of Shame?
― akm, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
bah ok looks like she's not the therapist, just a wise older woman who helps him understand women
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
it's like he watched silver linings playbook and was like how can i make this even more boring and dumb? there should be a mash-up sequel where tony danza and robert deniro sit on a couch together wearing wifebeaters, eating pasta, and watching football on tv for two hours.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
akm, asking the right questions!
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
i mean most movies are dumb and offensive so really the main problem here is how boring it looks
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
i hope the black friend has some funny lines
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
there should be a mash-up sequel where tony danza and robert deniro sit on a couch together wearing wifebeaters, eating pasta, and watching football on tv for two hours.
My Dinner Wit Ant'ny
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
hold the phone - have we determined whether tony danza's character is named "tony"?!?
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Jon Sr. apparently
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
:(
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
could jon somehow be short for tony
lol:http://www.donjonrecycling.com/
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Be honest. It's Morbs' enthusiasm that's inspiring this gangpile.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
nah brah i hated this movie before this thread was started
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh no doubt, it's almost too rich that Morbs knocks any film that seems proletarian and then is psyched to see a condescending, middlebrow take on the proles.
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
JOE GOR always seems very eager to come across as a versatile guy who can do comedy and disappear into extreme roles, so i'm not surprised this is his passion project. looks like it could be fun, or could be as painful as some of his SNL sketches.
― some dude, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
it's nice to see someone ELSE review a movie they haven't seen yet xp
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
elmo what is your point, we have a million different movie threads where people talk about how good or shitty it will be based off of trailers or even less info, why are you getting so defensive about this one?
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
i didn't realize i was being 'defensive'! this movie may or may not be crap, that's fine with me, i think hurting going talking a streak about cultural stereotyping of italian americans and the working class based on the trailer is kinda bizarre tho
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
chick-flicks seems kind of like a lazy and inapt comparison too. I've never heard of women binging on chick-flicks or compulsively clicking one rom com clip after another for hours.
you have never heard of girl weekends, where they watch 3 or 4 in a row. ;) (ok maybe they'll just watch a zillion episodes of Girls... or Friends.)
i thought Julianne Moore was funny on a meta-level (Boogie Nights, and more specifically The Kids Are Alright)like she's the old woman who knows about TRUE SEXi kinda disliked she had this trauma though. also no one is truely communicating, and there are not enough snappy dialogues. (maybe, none)
― Ludo, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
i apologize for using the word old there, but it was in the spirit of the douchebags in the movie
Julianne Moore is very slightly older than I am, so I'm theoretically fine with her being his sexual savior, but it didn't work
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
I didn't really think JGL was gay until he cast Julianne Moore as the ideal sex partner.
can't get over this quote from eric h.
― goole, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
Thought this was all over the map - apparently the entire plot takes place in the final 15 minutes. Also, inverting the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope to a Manic Damaged Dream Older Woman trope is still a trope.
Didn't dislike it, but felt like it needed far more of an edge to it.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 20 April 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
this film was directed like a car commercial
not nearly that good
has some truly awful buzzwordy filler dialogue scenes, oh u don't know abt SWIFFERS or TIVO??
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 April 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
This had its charms but I won't defend anything people have criticized up thread. StillAdvance wrote, for a film objecting to overt female sexualisation, its constantly poring over scarlet johannsen's body
I think this was an intentional and rather subtle way to connect her to...let's call it the porn-industrial-complex...that self-serving "one-sided" or instrumentalist view of relationships (porn vs romance movies and both against "real" intimacy). what's interesting about all that is that it suggests that porn is simply the logical end point of her worldview and even the (supplemental, excluded) thing that made him seem like the perfect guy! so long as he kept it hidden.
― ryan, Sunday, 4 May 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Finally watched this. Far more enjoyable (and less homophobic) than Shame, but much of this ground was already covered in a far more probing and challenging (and less cutesy) manner 40 years prior in Carnal Knowledge.
It was fun to see Tony Danza and Glenne Headly again, though. And JGL clearly devoted a lot of time towards developing a gym bod for this film, as he never missed an opportunity to show it off (not a complaint).
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 6 August 2015 04:49 (eight years ago) link
Not sure which JGL thread this should go in, but ... not the prettiest of women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWs1QkK9k8
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Friday, 20 November 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link