The less time spent finding and reading random people shitting on things you enjoy on Twitter the better
I rewatched Frances Ha just before this and I loved it even more than I remembered. This was still easily my favourite film of his.
Frances Ha and Squid are probably my top two. This, Mistress America, and Kicking & Screaming in the next tier. I respect Margo but never want to watch it again. The rest is alright
I’m not trying to find them, twitter’s algorithm dumps them into my feed and I don’t even follow the people tweeting. It sucks!
Not super familiar with Noah’s earlier work, so every time someone brings up Kicking and Screaming in this thread the Will Ferrell coaches a youth soccer team movie crosses my mind first. That’s all I have to add here right now
I’ll update my verbiage to “dwelling on them” then, haha It’s really hard not to sometimes though, I get that and am guilty of it myself.
There are some movies where I'm pretty confident that the end product is quite good, but the subject matter makes me - in no way shape or form - want to engage with it. As a child of divorce, and someone who super adores his wife, I think I'm good on this one – even with how much I love Baumbach and Driver.
@iCarly Rae Jepsen I both love and hate you for not warning me that Adam Driver would sing Being Alive in this because it RUINED ME.
The more I listen to him sing “Being Alive” the more I realize it’s kind of this plea for sincerity and it makes me even angrier at this shitty discourse.
I wish the pie/rotisserie chicken scene was what was circulating out of context but yeah like I imagine a lot of scenes from great movies would look bad out of context, because that's not how movies work, and of course human beings don't speak in monologues the people who don't want to see another movie about an angry white man I get because I felt that at times
When she said the pie was just a pie I started singing Obvious Child to myself and had to keep it together. Loved that scene.
What would you guys say Baumbach's best is? I tried watching Frances Ha before I even saw this and couldn't finish it, the only thing good about that was Greta Gerwig lol I'll try again at some point I just didn't enjoy it at all first time around. Not familiar with anything else from him, and I absolutely loved this
Frances Ha, bar none. It’s also in my ten best of the decade though so that shouldn’t be surprising ha.