"Igby Goes Down"

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The wife I and I rented this tonight....and are only about halfway through it now. The fact that I am not waiting for the film to be over before commenting on it ought to tell you how I'm feeling about it.

Your thoughts on it?

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the Salon review made me afraid to see it (all faux-literary and snooty), but all my friends liked it. I'll wait till its a buck on video.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was all right, but I've realized my standards are much lower for things I rent than things I see in the theater: I tend to rent movies four or five at a time, to have on while I'm working on the computer or cooking.

But it was one of those movies where my interest was held purely by the performances, not any real investment in the story. I really like Kieran Culkin in both this and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (again, he was the highlight of that for me, although it was worth the rental price), and I thought Jeff Goldblum was perfect. I'd much rather see him as this sort of condescending prick than ... anything else I've see him play in a long time.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretentious, masturbatory, meaningless shit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

So you're saying you liked it, then?

― JeremyZag, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Eh...the acting was pretty good, but Alex is OTM. It's difficult to give a shit about Igby, spoiled and annoying, but Culkin plays him well. I have fairly mixed feelings about it.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I started this one.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Rotten. Acting was good but as a "Salinger-esque" slice o' east coast "angst" it sucked..."Salinger-esque" was the requisite adj. for descriptions of "Igby," wuddn't? At least "Royal Tenns" had a nice almost Nabokov-like "alternate world" fake NYC and had a real subject--*yawn*, the "Sixties" and being stuck in same, back when you could still be *eccentric* and it meant something. Also, better soundtrack.

Burr Steers, he was in "Pulp Fiction," which I just re-watched for the first time since I saw it in '94...

― frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't find one remotely likable character to empathize with in the entire pointless, pretentious mess.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, good. That clears it up. You did like it.

― JeremyZag, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything Jeff Goldblum is doing lately is genius, but aside from that, the movie is so very, very clever, yet not clever enough to leave the slightest funny or emotional impression on my memory...

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 20 February 2003 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Realize that the movie is not about Igby; he's just the picaro. If you get to hung up on him, the movie will be boring. It's not a bildungsroman.

Oh,and fuck Wes Anderson. (There, I've exorcised my film demons for the week.) Heheh.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything Jeff Goldblum is doing lately is genius

I haven't seen Lisa Marie at any Mensa meetings lately.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

ehehehehehehehehe...

Me and Emma watched K-Pax last night. Very much enjoyed it, which surprised me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"Realize that the movie is not about Igby; he's just the picaro."

I understand where you're going with this, but it still doesn't excuse the film.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I really liked it. It wasn't nearly as masturbatory or smarmy as I'd expected it to be. Reminded me of those great Hal Ashby black comedies from the '70s -- smug and pretentious in a good, smart way, observant, intuitive, etc (without whacking you o'er the head with agonizingly obvious second-hand observations about art, philosophy, and love).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 May 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

JBR completely OTM.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Saturday, 17 May 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

What does the name MEAN? Igby gives a blowjob?

― squirl plsie, Saturday, 17 May 2003 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Deadly awful film, watched it on the plane back from Europe and almost clawed my eyes out.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you people even watch the movie, or have you all just automatically decided that any contemporary update of the Salinger "troubled rich kid" template is shit? (BTW I'm a Salinger fan but I've always disliked Catcher for some reason, so maybe I like Igby because I'm not so attached to Holden Caulfield.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I just misread this (I swear) as "Toby Goes Down". I'll refrain from explaining what I thought it was about and who started it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked it. It never occured to me that this could be an annoying movie, actually.

Tell you what I didn't like:

"Rules of Attraction". Now that was pretentious, masturbatory, meaningless shit (and every other insult aimed at "Igby..." up above).

― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 17 May 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you people even watch the movie, or have you all just automatically decided that any contemporary update of the Salinger "troubled rich kid" template is shit?

I watched the movie, and independently came to the conclusion that I didn't like it. Tadpole was a better movie.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 18 May 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

though recent posts make me less certain about its suckitude, I'm still just way afraid to see it. It being good in the way people are saying isn't worth the chance of it being bad the way people are saying.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 18 May 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't find one remotely likable character to empathize with in the entire pointless, pretentious mess.

I liked it for that reason. Oh and the two Dandy Warhols songs don't hurt.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

Cadet: And Igby... goes... down.

only thing I remember about this

― how's life, Monday, 31 December 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

idgi goes down

― the memoirs of gaydrian (clouds), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:59 (thirteen years ago)

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