Woah, Carol Burnett is in this?!
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Agree with most of Dr. Morbius' commentary (that grocery store scene was terrible) but "mixed bag" is pretty high praise for a Woody flick in 2014 for me, I liked it.
― dmr, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
Is it tacky to read a film in terms of the personal life of its director?I was thinking of Blanchett’s character as the Woody analogue in this
I think I found this likable partly (largely?) because it was easier NOT to think of the main character as a Woody Allen analogue. Most of his male main characters feel like puppets delivering "stock Woody lines" imo.
― dmr, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
lately I mean
― dmr, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
Thought cannavale's character pleasingly layered relative to most of the others tbh, or maybe pleasingly unlayered perhaps, the clumsy stitching of clumsy layers being a major problem here.
blanchett was pretty good playing such a second rate blanche tho
dice clay had a nice turn.
Dentist scenes were awful. Everything with lokilike was awful.
overall, not as good as, say, sideways
― politically autocorrect (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 March 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
I've been wanting to believe that the 21st Century Woody films were that point in the year when an annoying relative stops the family meal to show you pictures of their vacation or whenever you receive a family newsletter included with a holiday card. You're compelled to watch and take it seriously, but you don't really expect anything out of it. I don't get the weird defender cult he has, but maybe that's eventually what happens to anyone who becomes an Institution. Just be suspicious of anyone saying "it's their best since..." It's the mantra of the nostalgia cult.
Of course Allen doesn't know what to do with good actors, because he's utterly dependent on them to save the movie. Is Allen even engaged with his work anymore? I honestly can't tell.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 April 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
Blue-collar San Francisco makes Blue Jasmine as much a fantasy as Midnight In Paris
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 April 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
worst film of 2013
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 April 2014 10:53 (ten years ago) link
this was not as horribly unwatchable as I expected
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Way better than "To Rome With Love", that's for sure.
― o. nate, Monday, 21 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
so many of his recent films have been so poorly constructed, sloppily underwritten, aimless, painful to sit through - I was surprised when this didn't put me to sleep, even with all of its wrong notes and weird idiosyncrasies.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
can't help but lol at things like New Jersey accent = working class! "let's get sum CLAMS" indeed
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
there's a new woody out in a few weeks, hadn't heard a thing about it until I saw the movie poster in a theater.
― akm, Monday, 21 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
thought this was quite compelling and pleasurable except (as other upthread have also noted) for the wildly off-base attempt to do "san francisco working class"- why they had these bizarrely off / cartoonish ways of speaking and acting complete with a weird Jersey-Shore-goes-to-North-Beach thing was just baffling to me- does Woody Allen not get out of Manhattan ever? does he just not know any actual, uh, poor peopl? but when that wasn't happening, this movie delivered some tough / strong stuff. Weirdly Tennessee Williams-ish, actually.
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
Did you learn about computers from a course
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
does he just not know any actual, uh, poor peopl?
I'd guess he almost certainly hasn't done for some decades.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
Maybe part of the cartoonish disconnect is that Sally Hawkins is actually English
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
I took this to be a signal that it was hopeless for Blanchett, because I was feeling generous.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
Yes, his cultural disconnect matches up nicely with this character.
All of Woody's working-class males match the "It's for my bruddah" autograph seeker inAnnie Hall.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
Allen grew up in working class Brooklyn, but he has seemed to spare little thought for it since leaving. Manhattan always exuded the powerful gravitational pull for him that it often does for outer-borough aspiring artist types. New York in his movies is mostly synonymous with the Manhattan cultural elite.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
In this interview I linked in the general WA thread, he says that "living in New York has got to be made practical for the middle class," but lays emphasis on Manhattan rather than Brooklyn, which in his standup routine 50 years ago he called "the very Heart of the Old World."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/18/woody-allen-on-magic-in-the-moonlight-the-crisis-in-gaza-new-york-city-and-those-allegations.html
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
This was disappointing. I was one of those people who said "Midnight in Paris" was the best Woody film since.... It had charm and a magic to it. Yes, it was fluffy but entertaining fluff nevertheless. I always commend anyone for trying to make an IMPORTANT FILM about the fallout from the recession but this never convinced me at all. The writing and characterization was pretty shaky. Did anyone else think it was ridiculous that Sarsgaard's character proposed to her after what seemed like a week? Allen has no idea how to write working-class characters either. They all looked and sounded like they stepped off of the set of Jersey Shore. Cate Blanchett was terrific though.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Saturday, 18 July 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
* drinks from glass of vodka clutched in shaking hand *
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 July 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
*pops a pill*
― tayto fan (Michael B), Saturday, 18 July 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link