Not too bad for cliche-ridden silliness

jesusofjonesboro writes: "Seyfried is very pretty but as wooden as always."

I found her teary eyes in the bar scene very authentic!

What I did find cliché was the notion that if your career is on the rocks, it is because you don't have a child.

I think the main problem with Stiller was the material. [spoiler]accepting that you are an "old man" is boring![spoiler] The writer/director is at fault here, for seemingly saying that is life -- it may be, but it's rather a boring conclusion.


 "Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy

The ayahuasca scene was the best part.

Text is cheap.

Well, I think Baumbach is brilliant. You may have forgotten Greenberg, but that's demonstrably you and not the movie, because I think it's a masterpiece and I sure as hell remember it from beginning to end. (It's one of my 60 favorite films of all time ... and my review here, which you might check out if you want to understand what I see in it, is the most helpful.)

One thing that I've learned from reactions to Baumbach's films is that they don't work at all for people who believe "likeable" and "sympathetic" are the same thing. In fact, I've liked his movies in inverse order of the likeability of his characters.

If you don't have an interest in the intensely sympathetic portrayal of (often quite) unlikeable characters -- if that seems like some kind of contradiction in terms to you -- then just move on. Your brain isn't wired for his films. But no filmmaker has ever tackled that slice of humanity better.

And it goes without saying that your reaction is just that. Films are ultimately judged on two axes: the strength of the response of those who like them, and their breadth of appeal, which is to say the proportion of people that can relate to them. It would be a dull film world indeed if every filmmaker wanted to speak to a broad audience. For someone like Baumbach who has a very strong appeal to a relatively narrow audience (which, understand, I do not think is generational or attitudinal, but defined by an interest in moral complexity and some kind of extra capacity for empathy), the opinions of folks who aren't wired to get him is pretty much irrelevant.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

You summed it up very well - not too bad for a cliche ridden sillines. I enjoyed a bit in fact, it was somewhat amusing and i dont regret i watched it.

my vote history:
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur13767631/ratings