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

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

Did we run out of clusterfuck threads already? I wasn't paying attention...

Based entirely upon the trailer, if you see this you deserve everything that happens to you.

is this like the comedy version of Shame?

― akm, Friday, July 26, 2013 11:45 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

shame was the comedy version.

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, July 26, 2013 1:03 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

lol u sound like a psycho dude

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/don-jon

tsk tsk, absolutely no one in NJ sez "Joisey," Andrew.

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.

the depiction of the mother in the trailer seemed pretty insulting tbh

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.

Zacharek raves.... maybe you just have to love JGL and hate Italians.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-09-25/film/don-jon/

Julianne Moore is prized by the straights, too, damn it

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

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.

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.

really? this is, in my experience, the hallmark and big problem with first time films from actors.

really? this is, in my experience, the hallmark and big problem with first time films from actorseveryone.

You just want filmed plays with the camera nailed down, is that it?

I love how the poster crops out his haircut in favor of the almighty dimples.

eh this was pretty simpleminded. cute though.

yeah its a sitcom. it's okay. there's a few startlingly real moments w/julianne moore near the end that dont fit in with the rest of it... kinda makes u picture the movie jlg could've made. also brie larsen is the shit. shes definitely my favorite actor under 30

is JGL nude in it

i cant remember. he shows off his bare torso a fair amount anyway.

i will see this when i am sufficiently hungry for ass

didn't really believe that in 2013 a) a reasonably with-it woman, even if written as controlling and bitchy, would be so mortally aggrieved by a straight bro's porn viewing, or b) a straight bro porn viewer, even if written as a dim guido, doesn't know how browser histories work

though it did make for one good gag: the misunderstood double meaning of a girlfriend shrieking IT'S IN YA HISTORY. IT'S IN YA HISTORY.