i apologize for using the word old there, but it was in the spirit of the douchebags in the movie
― Ludo, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
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