DON JON, the first film authored by the hyphenate Joseph Gordon-Levitt

also surely there are gu*dos who are 5'6"?

I thought they all were!

I think he means JGL should look like he's eaten every steroid in the world

yeah I thought his arms looked small for a supposed jersey guido gym rat. Do you even lift bro?

Agreed. He needs to actually have pushed it to the point of looking bad, and he stopped shy of that.

Probably not willing to sacrifice his gonadal health on the altar of his directorial debut.

also, he looks like he lifts, bro.

hurting otm

singing at the stop light scene sold me on this tbh

seems like a pale imitation of the wilson phillips singalong in harold and kumar

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?

what are the 2 reputable names

is one of them tony danza

oh god do you mean joseph gordon-levitt

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.

People who saw Bridesmaids do!

what are the 2 reputable names

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is one of them tony danza

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oh god do you mean joseph gordon-levitt

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lol i had the same thought process

needs to do bro "comedies" to raise ILEsteem

already did bro
http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/new-50-50-post-released__oPt.jpg

50/50 was very good. this doesn't look nearly as good

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!!"

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.

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.

serious, serious!

The way the mom is written/directed looks particularly egregious too "WHATSEH NAME WHATSEH NAME!"

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.

I'm guessing it's related to the "porn addiction" or w/e.

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.

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?

bah ok looks like she's not the therapist, just a wise older woman who helps him understand women

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.

akm, asking the right questions!

i mean most movies are dumb and offensive so really the main problem here is how boring it looks

i hope the black friend has some funny lines

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

hold the phone - have we determined whether tony danza's character is named "tony"?!?

Jon Sr. apparently

:(

could jon somehow be short for tony

lol:
http://www.donjonrecycling.com/

Be honest. It's Morbs' enthusiasm that's inspiring this gangpile.

nah brah i hated this movie before this thread was started

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.

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.

it's nice to see someone ELSE review a movie they haven't seen yet xp

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?

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

I am not "psyched" to see this film, Hurting, and unfortunately I've met my quota of telling ppl to get stuffed for July.

You know what really trashed proles? The Honeymooners. Damn stereotyped loud fat bus drivers.

it's almost too rich that Morbs knocks any film that seems proletarian

srsly wtf, nitwit

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

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.

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.

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??

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.

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).

Not sure which JGL thread this should go in, but ... not the prettiest of women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWs1QkK9k8