This movie is not a comedy. There are some funny parts and the actors and actresses all play their characters perfectly, but it's not a comedy.
This is more like a Lost in Translation or Garden State. It's a movie about people gathering after an event and the events that transpire during that time. As much as this is a Thomas Middleditch movie, Nick Kroll and Jenny Slate really steal the show. I think they may have the most dialogue in the movie with Brett Gelman coming in third.
It's a really well written and well acted movie. It won't change your life, but it won't ruin it either. Take some time out to watch a movie about events and the people within them, even if the conclusion isn't what you thought it would be.
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Mid90s
(2018)
Like the 90's if you were there
13 May 2019
This movie was the 90's skate scene to a T. The music, a mix of punk, indie and hip hop, the clothes, baggy pants and 2XL tees, drugs, underage drinking, and of course street skating.
If you were there, you know, if not you can experience a time that will never come back. Skating is not the outlaw thing you do to escape your sh!tty life anymore, it's city built skateparks and X games.
That's why this film hits hard. Everyone who was around then had their crew and every crew had the jokester, the pro, the poor kid and the hanger-on who wasn't really good but a nice dude so you kept him. That's what Stevie is in this film and that's why you feel for him.
Jonah Hill has made an authentic time capsule into the mid 90's that feels real and not forced.
The Depraved
(2011)
One good part (WARNING SPOILER)
8 October 2012
Warning: Spoilers
First of all, having a majority of this movie be in German and NOT subtitling it is very stupid. It's like wanting to make it very artistic but failing miserably. Second, this was waaaay too long. The set up for it and the two opening sequences introducing the four "explorers" was pointless and kind of made me hate them. Third, the whole Nazi subplot seemed irrelevant except for the fact that Nazis are cool and Nazi images in a film, even more cool. (see Frontiers, Dead Snow, Blood Creek) Maybe this did all play into the movie, but seeing as how the antagonist spoke German and their was no subtitles, I only have to guess. Fourth, isn't torture porn a little blasé? I mean hasn't the torture by a psychopath thing been done to death? I've seen countless movies do it better and honestly, if you're going to do the whole torture porn thing, at least show a little more gore and make it worth it. Having only really two, possibly three scenes of semi-gore seems a waste and when you have nothing else going in a film but gore, you should at least play it up. Having said all that, I watched half of this movie and then forwarded to key scenes til the end. I got bored quickly and knowing that nothing was really going to be resolved by the end, decided to just skip to that. SPOILER One cool idea was the salt on the skinned guy. The only piece of creativity in the whole movie. Decent, but didn't make suffering through the long beginning worth it.
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