Yall. I was at the movie theatre seeing ‘Star Trek Wolverine Bro’ or something, and I saw this indie movie poster.
At first I thought it was some sort of advertisement for an NBC spinoff show since it had a worker from The Office and another classic ‘unfunny’ broad from Saturday Night Living.
Then I saw the trailer. I think it has a lot of elements that draw me in2 it.
- Guy with beard and glasses
- Quirky conversation
- sillie situations
- moments where it looks like some1 is ‘breaking free’ from society’s norms
- Meaningful moments (sometimes with a bunch of people laughing)
- some sort of folk/indie ballad in the background
- It is made by focus features
- couple with shitty car in a modern world
- animated meaningful drawings that are probably metaphorical
- scene where people are ‘moving’ on one of those things in the airport
- directed by an old guy who gets to ‘make love’ to Kate Winslett
- cartoony drawn font
- actors who create ‘caricatures’ bc they don’t really ‘know how 2 act’/it has become a popular tool in the modern ‘indie’ genre
- has a bunch of people who are in ‘comedies’ trying 2 be taken seriously [via Jim Carrey].
- Remember when Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels were in Dumb And Dumber, but then they decided 2 stop making money and get serious?
I feel like these are some critical elements that draw me into films, cuz they are sort of like a mashup of Nappy Dynamite, Juno, Lil Miss Sunshine, Gigantic, and 500 Days of Summer. Hopefully the themes that are portrayed in this movie don’t isolate tweens and teens, who don’t want 2 go 2 the movies to see a movie ‘about some pregnant bitch.’ Probably would be boring 2 them, ever since the text message was invented.
I feel pretty intrigued by the guy from The Office’s (John Krasinski’s) personal brand. I feel like he is sort of like Zach Braff 2.0. I think he is just trying to be ‘authentic’ but not make anything that will ‘pigeon-hole’ him quite like ZBraff’s masterpiece Garden State. Think he will probably just be on TV for a long time, and make some krappie movies, and his ceiling is probably co-starring in a Julia Roberts/Sandra Bullock/Anne Hathaway movie.
He seems like he’s just here to be on the Earth to say ‘hey whats up. I’m just a chill bro. A little bit funnie, a lil bit meaningful. Always willing to look into the camera and make a face that tells u I am in a meaningful, zany, absurd situation bc of my boss, The 40 year old virgin.’
I feel weird finding out that Maya Rudolph is married to P.T. Anderson. Not sure if P.T. films are more authentic than Wes [Anderson] films. I think that There Will Be Blood / Boogie Nights / Punch Drunk Love are better than Tenenbaums / Rushmore /etc.
Wonder if he advised his wife against doing this ‘krappie film.’
Have yall seen n e good quirky-core indie movies lately with a meaningful theme
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The soloist.
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//////////Reply by affirmitive
//////////Posted May 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
@Marko M., http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/indievision/darkvision.shtml
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fail 2 understand if u r leavin behind wes anderson.
wut about zissou? r u finally becoming post-2010.5? or r u already there and we dont know?
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shawshank redemption
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The only thing this movee’s missing is Zoey Deschanel/Giganticbro
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<3 u long time, j.kras
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this is what is supposed to happen when you are an old alt
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i saw the trailer//poster for ‘away we go’ at a
V A L E N T I N O :: [the last emperor]
screening my immediate reaction was that z.brafv.2bro was way too attractive for the snl chick and also that i as an audience member was being manipulated
ALSO it was followed by a ‘julia/julie’ trailer
am i imagining it or is nora ephron branding the ‘he’s-just-not-that-fucking-into-you’-chick as the next meg ryan [via haircut+m.ry getting old]???
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B. McGILLICUDDY
i’m kind of worried CRLZ
don’t know what appealz 2 me n e moar
thought that these…quirky/zany/meaningful-core altfilms were my ‘end all-be all’ and that the 2ks would be ’so much fun’ b/c of them
wrong.
it all just feels so unauth, bro
they have ‘defined’ ‘convention’ bro
i just want to be ‘unconventional’ bro
not ‘just another brick in the wall’ bro
& @thesametime i kind of really enjoyed watching ‘Star Trek’, which is even moar confusing
h8 u J.J. Baybramsbro
and didn’t Sammy Mendes direct ‘American Beauty’?
h8 u Kevin Spacebro
and wasn’t the British version of ‘The Office’ more auth/funnie?
h8 u John Krasinski, even tho ur my bro
s000 confused,
B. McGILLICUDDY
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//////////Reply by affirmitive
//////////Posted May 13th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
@RoRhet, http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/indievision/darkvision.shtml
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i find all those things in that list appealing
mayb im in their demogrphc
dont want 2 be a number
want 2 start my own filmaking career [via youtube/vimeo and young unpaid actors/bros
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this is the stage in any alt’s jrny where it is time 2 move 2 the woods and have a fireplace that heats the entire house
its how you get rid of all “materialistic” things like electricity (never electro tho) and get “organic” things, like wood and hand woven blanets 4 ur cabin
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crls, didn’t u already post this like 1000 blog yrs ago?
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//////////Reply by May
//////////Posted May 13th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
@urm0m, if I could thumps up your comment I would
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feelin objectified
but i am human
advertising schemes
not legit
don’t want to be boxed in
2 authentic 4 this
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Ha They filmed that shit in Tucson!
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damn carles nice post.
saw ‘ipod shot’ and ‘deadpan conversations w ppl not looking at each other’. it so going 2 change me life.
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your ‘blogs’ are turning into mindless rants. wheres the fucking joke you fool
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//////////Reply by heroine
//////////Posted May 13th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
@.,
LMFAO
look in the mirror
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//////////Reply by heroine
//////////Posted May 13th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
@.,
Before you take that the wrong way, I look in the mirror too. to put on lipstick and stuff.
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//////////Reply by heroine
//////////Posted May 13th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
@.,
Miss u, garden state
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will see this film bc john ‘Krazy’nski is ‘hawt’ and bc it is like Ellen Page & Michael Cera have grown older/a beard.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted May 14th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
@brobro, duggg
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lol why did you say saturday night living
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whoa bitch maya rudolph is kinda funny.. funnier than poehler
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hate dave eggers thats for sure
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“I feel like he is sort of like Zach Braff 2.0.”
s0 true. he directed a cover version of DFWbro’s “Brief Interviews w/Hideous Bros” @ Sundance this year, pretty impressive.
mayB the br0 who plays Kenneth the Page will be Zach Braff 3.0.
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gimme my movie back.
this is not a metaphor.
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ugly broke 30somethin losers with an xtra mouth to feed, yuck.
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//////////Reply by mainstreamer
//////////Posted May 14th, 2009 at 7:41 am
@littlesparrow, this
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seeing this tonight.
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damn, is that ‘multi-colour scarf bro’ pic available in poster form [via outside of dorm-room door]
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god this movie looks like a giant piece of shit
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you missed anotha crucial elmnt:
written by dave eggers, quirky writer of a heart breaking work of staggering genious
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just wanna escape the alien8in city
live in a cabin w/ my gf
write some folk songs
& send the whole stuff 2 Pfork (via FedEx)
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this blog is official irrelevant and uncool. i associate with its disassociation. horrah.
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you nailed it brother, looks like shit!
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