Over-rated Yawnfest - Trainwreck (2015) Discussion

[–] Final_Hitokiri 9 years ago

Apatow is probably embarrassed that he backed Lena for so many years... and then her book came out where she admitted to sexually molesting her younger sister.

So he's probably working quickly to get someone new in the limelight. However, he should probably do his research a little better.

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[–] holly-4ever 9 years ago

He seems to like the same type of women: unattractive, not funny, etc. He's got issues. :D

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[–] Beehandz 9 years ago

i don't see what that has to do with amy schumer though

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[–] vspeller013 9 years ago

Your "opinion" has gone WAY off the map

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

I wasn't even going to watch it, but not wanting to judge unfairly without at least giving it a shot, I tried.

Yeah, sounds like you went into it with a real open mind. 

Also, there's no such thing as "overrated" and "underrated" (in the arts...)

There's what everyone thinks and what you think. When they don't line up people scream "overrated" or "underrated", but just b/c what you think doesn't line up with what the masses think doesn't have any bearing what so ever on the film.

People aren't "overrating" this film. They are rating it the exact amount they feel it should be rated. Would you want people saying you are "underrating" it b/c you didn't like it as much? That wouldn't even make sense.

The film is the film. You didn't like it. Some people did.

Yea, this sounds harsh, but the truth hurts. And a 7.1 score on IMDB? HAHAHA. Now THAT's funny!

The funniest part to me is that you think your opinion is an universal truth. The fact that the score is a 7.1 would suggest the exact opposite and should be quite humbling to you.

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[–] holly-4ever 9 years ago

The film is the film. You didn't like it. Some people did.

Wow. You're a genius, aren't you? Didn't know an opinion meant I might not like it, but others might... 😒

The funniest part to me is that you think your opinion is an universal truth. The fact that the score is a 7.1 would suggest the exact opposite and should be quite humbling to you.

Look up the word "opinion" and then maybe you wouldn't equate it to "universal truth". It obviously is painful for you that someone doesn't like this garbage - why, I don't know, don't care - but a score of 7.1 being humbling? Not a chance. I know what my opinion of the masses are...😎

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[–] wardeadpool 9 years ago

Do you a favor instead of telling you to look up the word "truth".
truth (tro͞oth)
n. Conformity to fact or actuality.
n. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.

Yea, this sounds harsh, but the truth hurts.

Your opinion that the movie was bad is no truth. With all due offense, try forming your opinion in a way that doesn't come off as self-centered like your opinion is truth.

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

 Thank you!

I think she was trying so hard to be clever that she forget to be smart.

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[–] roofall 9 years ago

Whatever rocks your boat, BUT - and this is just as an example (there are hundreds and thousands of such movies, very few beyond the year 2000) - if anyone should remember Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) & ALL of the other comedies of days past (excluding, ofc., most of Adam Sandler's disaster movies);

How we thought, meh, ok, cool... Good movie, not great, but funny at times - this-and-that was alright in it - sometimes we would quote stuff from it, reenact scenes (when drunk, hehe). Well, THOSE movies were Oscar-winning, shop-stopping, over the Moon dazzling, stunning features - compared to this (yes, vomit-inducing) JUNK that we're watching today.

It's amazing, to me, how it seems that it's what people "want" to see... Because they don't stop and the movies are making money... Really, just, having trouble understanding it (all), meh. ;-/

Edit: Deuce Bigalow, because it's also -sorta- to do with sex, like this film.

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

Look up the word "opinion" and then maybe you wouldn't equate it to "universal truth".

I wasn't the one acting as though my opinion was a universal truth. That was you.

Yea, this sounds harsh, but the truth hurts.

See?

I anxiously await your jaded hipster response. 

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[–] playagurlrocks 9 years ago

The movie was not that funny, but entertaining for sure. I liked it for many different reasons. It had entertainment value.

And this might piss you off but i gave this movie a 7 too. I liked it and rated it according to my "opinion", sorry but truth hurts. :)

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[–] smk23 9 years ago

Opinion is one thing but you already admitted you have already prejudged the Director, Writer/Star going into the film where your first instinct was not to even go. You very much judged this film going into it so your "opinion" of "Over-rated Yawnfest" was ALWAYS going to be judgement of the film. You had personal opinions of the film makers and star going into the film... SO your "opinion" and this post is irelelvant

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

I agree. Very rarely have I gone into a movie that I expected to hate and actually enjoyed it. Actually, I can't think of one time where that's ever happened. I have gone in with low expectations and been pleasantly surprised, but that's not the same as going in angry.

There was no reason for the OP to even go see this movie (other than trying to fool herself into thinking she has an open mind.......which she clearly does not).

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[–] jeff_mcjefferson 9 years ago

It wasn't terrible, but it was long. It felt like I was watching four episodes of a tv show I didn't really care about.

Get on the scale! Get off the scale.

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[–] eurobank 9 years ago

I have to agree... 7.0 rating from ~12.000 people and the move is boring as duck...

Were those scores bought somehow or what?

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[–] hopeseekr 9 years ago

I have no idea how this 3 or 4 movie is ranked a 7. It completely mystifies me. I have only gotten to the 48 minute mark, but I haven't laughed once. I'm stopping now out of sheer boredom!

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[–] mcmingus 9 years ago

Good for you.

The next 72 minutes is the same if not worse. Yeah, worse...really.

*Danny's not here, Mrs. Torrance*

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[–] jane_bront 9 years ago

There were only a few people in the theater when I went on a weekday afternoon and none of us laughed. I half-chuckled once or twice. About halfway through I started coughing. I might have watched until the end if it weren't for that but once I left my seat to get some water I just kept going.

However, my friend who saw it a day or two later after I warned her how awful it was says she laughed her guts out. To each his own!

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

To each his own!

See! That's how you do it. Some people liked it. Some didn't. No one is wrong.

It never ceases to amaze me how passionately people argue about movies. I equate arguing about movies to arguing about food. Both are pointless and you are not going to convince someone that a movie they like is bad....just as you wouldn't convince someone that a food they like tastes bad. Has anyone ever said "Anyone that likes a chulapa from Taco Bell is a moron and should kill themselves immediately!")

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[–] holly-4ever 9 years ago

Never ceases to amaze you? You're butthurt because I didn't like the movie. You're going on and on and on about it, while I moved on.

Get a hobby. lol

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

What do you mean "I am stopping now..."? Are you pirating the film?

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[–] hopeseekr 9 years ago

At $25 a pop in Manhattan, I left my seat and successfully got credit to go see another movie. I was very happy with the decision.

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

You posted on IMDB from the actual theater? (the "I'm stopping now" implies that you were in the process of "stopping at that moment".)

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[–] hopeseekr 9 years ago

Yes I did. I make it a habit to rank all of my movie theater movies on IMDB. In this case, I wanted to warn people before they wasted money.

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

You are a true hero. Thank you for your service! 

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[–] mcmingus 9 years ago

Somebody had to do it, hopeseekr.

The reviewers sure didn't warn anyone off this.

Manohla Dargis did no one any favors with her rave in the NY Times (7/16).

That's a headshaker.

*Danny's not here, Mrs. Torrance*

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[–] Final_Hitokiri 9 years ago

In this case, I wanted to warn people before they wasted money.

 At least there is hope!

I do agree with you though, movie tickets are expensive. If it's bad, tell people!

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[–] holly-4ever 9 years ago

Good for you. A+ decision. 👍

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[–] catdaddyd 9 years ago

I loved Amy Schumer on those celebrity roasts, but don't care for her series. This movie is a train wreck, didn't find it funny and was way to long. Just finished her new HBO special, ehh.

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[–] doggie_rodriguez 9 years ago

Were those scores bought somehow or what?

I would say indirectly...yes they were bought.

People bought tickets to the movie and liked it enough to give it a 7.

Can we please get past the point where we automatically assume that something is rigged just b/c we disagree with it? If people rated pizza a 7 would you think that was rigged? Arguing about movie ratings is about as dumb (and useless) as arguing over food.

People liked it. You didn't. No one is wrong. No one cheated.

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[–] veil182 9 years ago

errrr no Amy has been big for the last year and this movie came out a couple weeks ago. Inside Amy Schumer is hilarious and funnier than anything Judd has come up with in nearly a decade

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[–] Keith100 9 years ago

Agree with the OP. This film reminds me of the time Carl Reiner, the creator of the classic Dick Van Dyke show, was lamenting about how comedic TV and movies have gotten away from plots and have morphed into putting a comedian's stand up act onto film. No humorous situations, just a bunch of one-liners. He was not a giant fan of all those shows given to Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen nor was he nuts about Eddie Murphy. Yet those shows ran a long time and Murphy had a great run. I think this movie is the same. It is Schumer cracking as many expletive-laced one-liners as she can in two hours. So if you think this is a rip-roaring good time, so be it. As for me, I guess if I want plots and funny lines, there's always "I Love Lucy."

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[–] mcmingus 9 years ago

It is Schumer cracking as many expletive-laced one-liners as she can in two hours.

...using about 20 minutes worth of actual material.

*Danny's not here, Mrs. Torrance*

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[–] Therunningbrook 9 years ago

For me, John Cena was hilarious. Every line of his made me laugh

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