oh god do you mean joseph gordon-levitt
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:10 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
People who saw Bridesmaids do!
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
what are the 2 reputable names
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, July 26, 2013 2:09 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is one of them tony danza
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, July 26, 2013 2:09 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, July 26, 2013 2:10 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol i had the same thought process
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 26 July 2013 06:52 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
50/50 was very good. this doesn't look nearly as good
― akm, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:01 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
serious, serious!
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:31 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
akm, asking the right questions!
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:50 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
i hope the black friend has some funny lines
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:51 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Jon Sr. apparently
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:40 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
nah brah i hated this movie before this thread was started
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:46 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
it's almost too rich that Morbs knocks any film that seems proletarian
srsly wtf, nitwit
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
Did we run out of clusterfuck threads already? I wasn't paying attention...
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
Based entirely upon the trailer, if you see this you deserve everything that happens to you.
― akm, Friday, July 26, 2013 11:45 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark
shame was the comedy version.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 27 July 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 26, 2013 1:03 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
lol u sound like a psycho dude
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 27 July 2013 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/don-jon
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
tsk tsk, absolutely no one in NJ sez "Joisey," Andrew.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Gordon-Levitt attempts to situate his own lead character's porn obsession within a very specific context: a working-class Italian New Jersey home life whose patriarchal structure perpetuates the view that women are little more than objects of desire and a media environment that echoes these same ideas.
i hope this isn't true b/c porn addiction doesn't really discriminate in terms of class, geography, etc. people get addicted to strong hits of dopamine, it's not much more complex than that. i suppose background might help to explain what _type_ of porn someone is addicted to, but i can't imagine the film will go too far down that road, unless JGL is hoping to make his mark as a director by doing some kind of gaspar noe poetics of transgression thing.
indeed from description in that review film seems fundamentally conservative.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
the depiction of the mother in the trailer seemed pretty insulting tbh
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't really think JGL was gay until he cast Julianne Moore as the ideal sex partner.
-- signed, another gay/actressexual who thinks Julianne Moore is the ideal sex partner.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
Zacharek raves.... maybe you just have to love JGL and hate Italians.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-09-25/film/don-jon/
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Julianne Moore is prized by the straights, too, damn it
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Rene Rodriguez's weekend feature:
For his 21st birthday, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt bought himself a copy of Final Cut Pro, the revolutionary software that allowed anyone with a digital camera and a bit of computer savvy to turn their home movies into polished films.
“I’ve probably made hundreds of little videos since then,” says the actor, now 32. “I would shoot little movies with me in them, put them on my computer, edit them and put music to them. I was just doing it for myself, and I had so much fun. But I also learned a lot. If it hadn’t been for all of those videos, I wouldn’t have been able to make Don Jon the way I did.”
One of the most impressive things about Don Jon, the first feature film Gordon-Levitt wrote and directed, is how stylistically ambitious it is. The ingenious editing, sound effects, music and camera placements fly against the traditional emphasis on performance most actors-turned-directors use their first time out. The success of Don Jon, which opens Friday, ultimately rests on the strengths of its cast, but the movie also has the craft and technique of a veteran filmmaker’s work.
Most importantly, Gordon-Levitt uses all the toys in his tool chest not to show off, but to underscore the emotional journey of Jon, an online-porn addict and gym rat who tries to go clean after he meets Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), a beautiful young woman whose idea of true love is defined by Titanic and film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels.
“Style is not about having cool shots,” he says. “It’s about drawing the audience closer to the story you’re telling and accentuating the evolution of your characters. That to me is the mark of a good filmmaker.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/25/3650084/joseph-gordon-levitts-don-jon.html#storylink=cpy
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
James Wolcott wrote a feature about 10 years ago complaining about how terribly new actors moved in character. It's true: JGL is an exception.
A friend who went to last week's screening said ScarJo's accent was most convincing.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link