Coyote Cinema: Double Feature
Oct. 1st, 2013 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Damn. This was just... so well done. It's a romcom about a woman whose life doesn't revolve around whether she has a man or not. She has a career she's pursuing, goals she very badly wants to reach. The romantic plot doesn't hinge around a stupid misunderstanding that could have been resolved with ten seconds of conversation. The characters feel real and comfortable... lived in. It's a movie about working in Hollywood, so it's self referential. But still funny as hell. Lake Bell wrote, directed, and starred, which is usually a danger sign, but she's just a frickin' natural.
Coyote says four out of five wags.
I will start out flatly admitting that I had no interest in this. Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson... None of these guys usually do anything for me. So when folks bailed on another film for this, I was prepared to roll my eyes, sigh, and read Facebook. And the first... twenty minutes or so met all my expectations. But when the world ended, things started to pick up. The film is self referential as all hell--just about everybody in here plays themselves, and they're pretty obviously poking fun at their own lives. And that's probably what saved it for me. That's what made it fun and worth seeing. Well. That and the cameos. They set up Channing Tatum early in the film, but leave you waiting to see him until nearly the end. And Emma Watson kicking ass, and schooling schmoes, that might have been worth the price of admission right there. Michael Cera appears in one more movie where I like him.
Coyote gives it three wags.
Damn. This was just... so well done. It's a romcom about a woman whose life doesn't revolve around whether she has a man or not. She has a career she's pursuing, goals she very badly wants to reach. The romantic plot doesn't hinge around a stupid misunderstanding that could have been resolved with ten seconds of conversation. The characters feel real and comfortable... lived in. It's a movie about working in Hollywood, so it's self referential. But still funny as hell. Lake Bell wrote, directed, and starred, which is usually a danger sign, but she's just a frickin' natural.
Coyote says four out of five wags.
I will start out flatly admitting that I had no interest in this. Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson... None of these guys usually do anything for me. So when folks bailed on another film for this, I was prepared to roll my eyes, sigh, and read Facebook. And the first... twenty minutes or so met all my expectations. But when the world ended, things started to pick up. The film is self referential as all hell--just about everybody in here plays themselves, and they're pretty obviously poking fun at their own lives. And that's probably what saved it for me. That's what made it fun and worth seeing. Well. That and the cameos. They set up Channing Tatum early in the film, but leave you waiting to see him until nearly the end. And Emma Watson kicking ass, and schooling schmoes, that might have been worth the price of admission right there. Michael Cera appears in one more movie where I like him.
Coyote gives it three wags.