Noah Baumbach's THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) with Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson

Title, subject matter and cast border on Baumbach self-parody.

or just his wheelhouse

yeah I guess I'm just bored of his wheelhouse. His films are fine. They're well done. I just don't need to see any more of them.

this is irredeemable shit & you are a sucker if you like this guy

When the movie (finally) gets to the hospital, the actors get to demonstrate their chemistry; before then, though, Baumbach's beats are off, with lots of expository dialogue clumsily delivered.

Sandler is the least objectionable element.

Yikes

yea this was predictably disappointing, tho I do like & defend baumbach generally

I know they've made a couple movies together, but Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman have no chemistry.

It's flawed and easy to make fun of but I really enjoyed watching this. The lunch scene w/Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman was great.

It felt like 'cool daughter' wish fulfillment though.

The lunch scene w/Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman was great.

the bit of business involving the wine and the next table over

loved this

it puts together elements from all his other films, i think its really layered & moving & complete

haven't seen it in years but i didn't know people hated punch drunk love

hoffman was on Charlie rose w/ sandler & baumbach & complemented sandler's acting in PDL & said something like it was a great portrayal of someone w bipolar disorder

I haven't seen PDL since it was in theaters and I remember liking it, but coolly.

yeah my memory is similar, that i was like, yeah, that was good, but not feeling especially strongly about it

This is great though. I feel like it ties together margot at the wedding, squid & the whale, while we're young, just a lot of thematic stuff he's worked w/ before just in a more completely rendered package

im not a big frances ha guy though

It's okay, I liked Sandler, who I'll take over Stiller any day. Elizabeth Marvel's performance as Jean is the best thing about the film. I haven't seen a film of his since The Squid and Whale, which I hated.

I just realized he stole the ending of this from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I Love the squid & the whale but maybe overidentify w it as a product of divorce

Xp

Came to mind too, but probably only because the Raiders ending (and its connection to Citizen Kane) was like just discussed on ILX.

Thought this was nice and frequently pretty funny. Not sure how I’d rank his stuff, but I guess this would be somewhere in the middle for me.

Baumbach's derivative take on the Royal Tenenbaums, with Ben Stiller playing the exact same character. Still I kinda liked it

this is way more like his own other films than it is RT

i've been on a roll of agreeing with deej on matters of tv and film but this was a massive THUMBS DOWN

i'm not sure I've ever seen a movie that digs into half-sibling issues as much as this one did. As a half-sibling myself that aspect of the movie gave me a lot to think about.

does flopson like 'margot at the wedding'? curious

haven't seen

i want to know what you think

what didn't you like about this?

i'm going to watch all baumbachlats i haven't seen (i think its most of them) and give a full rundown soon

found the dialogue clunky as hell, most of the comedy fell flat (i LOLd at the scene where they watch his daughter's video) (the arrogance of casting stiller and sandler in Serious Roles and then having dustin hoffman and emma thompson botch it as comic relief put me off), didn't felt i loved any of the characters

yeah see margot at the wedding. i think you're looking for this to be a comedy in a more purposeful way than what its actually going for

i don't think i've ever seen a less convincing drunk than Emma Thompson in this

I found the movie unconvincing, period, despite a couple of acerbic moments.

But it's fine -- Baumbach will return.

Didn't like this much at all. First time I've felt like Baumbach was making a bad Noel Baumbach-type film; that's probably been there since The Squid and the Whale (still far and away my favourite), but I thought he was always able to keep that under control. I liked Grace Van Patten, and Sandler's sort of interesting (even though the bursts of rage are right out of Punch-Drunk Love). Couldn't stand Hoffman (Kael's "humping one note on a piano for two hours" comes to mind), and Ben Stiller scowling and being nasty felt overly familiar--was he a comedian at one time? Van Patten's first film was funny...or at least the image of dad and aunt and grandfather watching it.

That Kael quote is from her Rain Man review. It occurs to me that Hoffman bothered me so much because he really is playing Meyerowitz as Raymond Babbitt. Which, in view of the fact that Meyerowitz is supposed to be a somewhat renowned sculptor (unappreciated or otherwise), and that he considers his wife to be his intellectual inferior, is a really strange decision on Hoffman's part.

the blood pressure is getting read in india part in the hospital was off the money. As someone who has worked in health care for many years, this comment makes no sense. Liked this though for the most part

This is on netflix streaming for some reason. I resisted.

That’s how it was released. It’s good, imo

it was financed by Netflix

can't bring myself to care about it

Despite a few bumps, this strikes me as the best of the 7 NB-directed films I've seen, nosing out Frances Ha and The Squid and the Whale (Dad Was a Prick, Part I). Sandler is excellent and actually moved me to tears, though I now expect to go back to ignoring his career.

This struck me throughout as a (generally) comic version of one of Arthur Miller's prime family tragedies, before I realized that was Miller's daughter playing the woman Sandler is pining for. (And the only Willy Loman I've seen on the stage is Hoffman.)

sorry about all the striking, I should read my posts more often

I needed a bump to finish it.`

casting Sandler AND Hirsch w/out driving me out of the theater is a miraculous achievement

pretty much agree with how you feel about this morbs with the exception of it being his best

you know what kind of family you're in when the first meal scene is shark

Baumbach did a Q&A at MoMA yesterday, said he had a laughing fit the day he was describing the student film to the actors as their reactions were being shot.

showing in 35mm near me for a couple of weeks, might go

yeah, wow – this was leaden even by the standards of the guy who made While We're Young. Then again, Frances Ha is only half Baumbach's movie.

"accredited bloggers"

Wow.

I go to shows before noon. No way am I fighting evening crowds.

they both are huge mediocrities is my booming stance

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:36 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nahhh

I thought people didn't go to movie theaters anymore

Everyone who's not an accredited blogger.

I'm a little surprised Netflix bothered with theater distro

they're in the business now, dude. Prestige, so it's not just another fucking TV thing for normies.

distributing the imminent Woody Allen film, then a dozen next year.

no sorry, the Woody is Amazon....

https://qz.com/1104262/netflix-will-release-more-movies-next-year-than-disney-and-other-studios-combined/

it was financed by Netflix

No, it was independently financed; Netflix bought distribution rights after the fact. One suspects that Baumbach made theatrical release a condition of sale.

basically, Shakey Fuck Off Part CCLXVII

Um what did i do now idgi

Given that Baumbach won a bunch of awards/plaudits (incl an Oscar nomination) for Squid and the Whale, which this film most closely resembles, why the hell would he settle for a streaming release?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000876/awards

btw he will be presenting a 35mm print of Meyerowitz in NY this weekend, and also this all-time great

http://metrograph.com/film/film/264/letter-from-an-unknown-woman

Way into this. What an ensemble. Seems like a MoMA audience ^^ would be the ideal crowd to see this with.

guess I should watch this. interesting how his star has been eclipsed by Gerwig now.

A few years ago, this probably would have been the Oscar contender and Lady Bird would've been on HBO.

Lady Bird is fresher, though. Whereas here -- if you want to see New Yorkers trying to find parking spots, Squid and the Whale 2, this delivers.

Also am a sucker for movies/etc about the change in status symbols in NYC culture: this, Oh, Hello in its own way, While We're Young (more stacks VHS tapes, as here), and so on.

does flopson like 'margot at the wedding'? curious

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:25 AM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya this one is his best imo

Seeing this a second time, I just love the structure of the whole thing, how it takes so long to get all the siblings in the same room.