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I'll save you 90 minutes if you haven't seen this yet.

posted 8 years ago by Siamois
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This is a crappy, mumblecore, unfunny comedy that only virgin hipsters willl enjoy.

[–] FilmFigment 8 years ago

i'm so disappointed! in my opinion it started off pretty well and I was really into it but when they got to ex Dylan's house so many characters speaking af the same time, way too many people in that whole scene with wannabe witty sharp comments being thrown around left and right got so distracting! l got lost and it got very annoying! especially with berating the main character over what she had done seemed way too dramatic and over the top! what a waste of my time hbo has seriously been playing such crappy movies lately!

[–] rtw416 8 years ago

I like Greta,so it was tolerable..

[–] Steve-684 8 years ago

FilmFigment, that was the point though, wasn't it? Remember how Tony criticized Tracy's story as being fake in the middle? I'm assuming that scene was supposed to mirror that. Think of Adaptation and how the climax of that film was awful and contrived -- that served the purpose of that particular film's concept as well.

[–] greg164 8 years ago

Another movie that celebrates self-absorbed people and excuses it as personal growth. Hard to laugh at such narcissism, just annoying characters and fairly flat acting.

[–] Established1981 8 years ago

I always find it funny when people watch a film and say 'people dont talk like that"

If you want dialogue that sounds like real people talking just save your money and sit in a coffee shop for 90mins

[–] Steve-684 8 years ago

I always find it funny when people watch a film and say 'people dont talk like that"

Established, it's funny -- people do talk all sorts of ways in real life, but for some reason, when a film has people talking in what appears to be a very unrealistic manner, it seems to take one out of the story. I am reminded of a writer -- I think it was Stephen King -- saying you can't have two old friends randomly meeting each other in New York City after decades of being apart because critics, and maybe even audiences, just won't accept that kind of fictional coincidence. Yet, in reality, it probably happens more often than one might think.