a thread for movie BRIDESMAIDS starring rose byrne + snl cast members past & present

this looks like it will be p funny

probably either see this or PRIEST 3D this weeknd

It's funny but soooooo shapeless.

True of most comedies, I guess.

Tim Heidecker is in it and doesn't get to do a damn thing.

well thats probably for the best, really

rose byrne

Going to go see this with *my* bridesmaids! Excited. Old School for snarky girls?

It's funny but soooooo shapeless.
True of most comedies, I guess.

Since film comedy was taken over by TV ppl, u bet.

this is ... weird?

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/11/late-star-clayburghs-dirty-jokes-cut

Imagine if Brando had not dropped out of Scary Movie 3.

hey sitcoms have pretty rigid 3 act structures. and it's not like TV vets like Apatow are the only people making rambling sloppily assembled two hour comedies.

It is weird. Didn't Apatow think to ask Clayburgh's relatives or close friends? xp

Perhaps JA productions could be classed up if he realized the entire cast is gonna die someday.

lol

I'm actually looking forward to this, though. Wiig was exponentially funnier in Knocked Up than in the entirety of the last two seasons of SNL combined. And the preview seems to show her in relaxed non-SNL mode.

Pretty excited to see this tonight.

I don't know how Lubitsch, Hawks and Sturges made do w/out diarrhea gags.

I'm definitely looking forward to this, but I'll admit I was crestfallen as soon as I heard there were diarrhea gags.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v9soxcdxE-8/TJloNQgke-I/AAAAAAAAAE4/BFrFVzQaxY8/s1600/Approaching+Diarrhea.jpg

this was hysterical. it is kind of 'shapeless' and it's really long for a comedy. i could see it being a tighter movie with almost 30 minutes cut, however, I was glad they didn't do that, because the scenes that stretch on forever (the airplane scene for instance) are just really funny the longer it goes on.

will happily see this, but had to pick one or the other this weekend and Werner won

^Ha, I'm also trying to decide between the two for tonight.

i laughed, i cried

Melissa McCarthy doing a Ricky Gervais through the whole thing, classic. in fact, I didn't even realize it was her until the movie was over.

Since film comedy was taken over by TV ppl, u bet.

So since Woody Allen? Or Mel Brooks?

kind of a weirdly traditional hollywood narrative, just raunched-up and stretched out. I get the enthusiasm for it, because uh the ladies deserve their own Hangover and Kristin Wiig was righteous but alot of this was interminable, especially any scene with Tail Lights.

oh i thought those were cute enough.

the sequence in the plane was p bad tho

disagree, thought that was funny

my wife's only complaint about it, and it is a legitimate one, is that SPOILERS (if you care) nothing about this woman's life gets any better at the end except she gets a boyfriend. Which seems weirdly cliched. I mean her life gets worse and worse and worse and at the end it's ok because the guy likes her. Which could be any old awful hollywood romantic comedy.

I viewed that as rthe beginning of her healing process rather than a "happily ever after" scenario.

i suppose so

my favorite moment right now is during the credits with the sandwich

Posted this elsewhere:

If we're talking about Bridesmaids, I liked it too. I have to admit, though, I really don't understand what's funny about gross-out humor like the scene in the dress shop. Apparently Apatow fought for that scene to be included, despite Wiig's reservations. Maybe he was right to do so, since the audience with whom Kr and I saw it was uproarious with laughter, but we just kind of looked at each other, baffled. Thankfully it was the only scene like that in the movie.

― jaymc, Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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Yes, the best parts of that scene were Wiig trying to deny that she wasn't suffering and Maya Rudolph plopped down in the street in her dress. The projectile vomiting was just ... no.

― jaymc, Monday, May 16, 2011 7:34 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Plane scene was funny, even if Wiig slipped into her Kathie Lee Gifford impression for a second there.

I thought the food poisoning scene was hilarious. That kind of grossout humor can be poorly done if the actors/actresses don't commit to it, but the OTT nature of it sold it for me.

I am glad that the entire movie wasn't like that though as it would have gotten old and...well...disgusting.

maya rudolph just kind of sitting down in the street got at the essential horrible awkwardness of that kind of thing irl, i think.

fouling oneself in public is about as humiliating as it gets. then there's doing it SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

...in a wedding dress.

that whole dress shop scene happened so we can all publicly acknowledge that girls also have gross bodily dysfunctions. hooray we all get diarrhea now can we have a moratorium on vomit humor for one generation please?

but yeah did love maya sitting in the street bit

why have a moratorium on any kind of humor when it's not the humor itself but how it's played that matters?

because ive never laughed when people started vomiting on each other

and maybe come up with a new scene instead of requisite shit/puke fest in every r-rated comedy

thread titles like this and Glenn Close But Yet So Far: Spooky Legal Thriller "Damages" (Rose Byrne Also Dwelleth Here) that treat rose byrne like a household name kinda weird me out

because ive never laughed when people started vomiting on each other

dunno what to make of this tbh

next you'll be telling me you've never laughed at a guy getting kicked in the balls

http://bp1.blogger.com/_2hwiLzOjm6M/RkXjZgTgrqI/AAAAAAAABuU/3rlChVfylac/s320/Football_in_the_Groin_by_Turnip89.gif

well just the phrase "guy getting kicked in the balls" still makes me laugh a little so i guess theres hope for me

balls-humor and fart-humor are great, but vomit/diarrhea humor leave me cold tbh... too gross!!!

also you're cherrypicking there. nobody sells that shit like Hans Moleman
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puke humor in general can fall flat but it was the way they did it that was great. everybody frantically running into the bathroom, girl puking in other girl's hair cuz she was too sick to even bother looking if anybody else was using the toilet first.....

nothing about this woman's life gets any better at the end except she gets a boyfriend

It's exactly the same ending as Pretty In Pink. In fact, I suspect it's a bit of an homage.

Re: puking --

People behaving in ways that they cannot control is always funny. Vomiting and pooping is the lowest level of this kind of joke, obviously. Higher up on the scale is people doing ridiculous things that they are not aware are ridiculous. I think of Ben in The Graduate, deciding that he's going to marry Elaine. "Ben, this all sounds a little half-baked." "No, it's completely baked."

The premium example, though, may be the scene in A Fish Called Wanda where Kevin Kline finds John Cleese robbing his own house, knocks him out with a frying pan, tries to apologize to an unconscious man, and then begins ranting about how stupid he is, begins kicking him, and then jumps back, horrified at his own behavior, and begins trying to apologize again. That, to me, is the essence of this kind of joke. He knows it's not the right thing to do, and he knows that it's exactly the WORST thing to do at that moment, but he is who he is.

thread titles like this and Glenn Close But Yet So Far: Spooky Legal Thriller "Damages" (Rose Byrne Also Dwelleth Here) that treat rose byrne like a household name kinda weird me out

― suggest ban the subbest man (some dude),

well I guess you don't have a rose byrne shrine in your closet so you wouldn't understand

Which could be any old awful hollywood romantic comedy.

― akm, Monday, May 16, 2011 12:27 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

or, you know, any wonderful old hollywood romantic comedy. bad guy dies at the end of action-thriller, etc.

went & saw this last nite, liked it a lot

- the whole sequence on the airplane was the best bit imo particularly the other terrified passenger
- tht melissa mccarthy oversold it in parts but had some lol lines
- was weird 2 see a movie in which male characters were so marginal but not bad
- john hamm kinda looked gross
- i like in movies when poor characters only have $300 sweaters
- cake baby is a shitty name for a bakery!!!
- it probably was too long but there wasnt really anything that i was bored w/

thread titles like this and Glenn Close But Yet So Far: Spooky Legal Thriller "Damages" (Rose Byrne Also Dwelleth Here) that treat rose byrne like a household name kinda weird me out

shes really pretty!

- the whole sequence on the airplane was the best bit imo particularly the other terrified passenger

One day I want to say to a stranger on a plane "I had a dream this flight was going down...you were in the dream!" (paraphrased).

well yeah she is a doll obv (xp)

- the whole sequence on the airplane was the best bit imo particularly the other terrified passenger

IIRC that's Wiig's cowriter, Annie Mumolo.

i lold and lold at this movie!!!!! wiigs roommates were hi-lar-ious

dude from Little Britain wasn't it?

guys this movie! it was perfection!!!! i saw it a couple of nights ago and i'm still a little sad that it's over.

the bit on the airplane was unbelieveable

i bet wiig is fun to hang with

<3 wiig so much esp the scene where she spazzes out & tries to flip over the chocolate fountain, etc

"It's called civil rights! This is the '90s!"

Perhaps JA productions could be classed up if he realized the entire cast is gonna die someday.

― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:56 PM (2 weeks ago)

<3

yeah this was great... loved mya rudolph pantomiming to wilson phillips at the end, she seemed really into it

thread titles like this and Glenn Close But Yet So Far: Spooky Legal Thriller "Damages" (Rose Byrne Also Dwelleth Here) that treat rose byrne like a household name kinda weird me out

― suggest ban the subbest man (some dude), Monday, May 16, 2011 5:02 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

otm

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0dbe4274f6/bridesmaids-outtakes?playlist=featured_videos

maya rudolph was adorable and hilarious throughout

lol I just watched that and now I want to see it. I didn't think I would because K Wiig always seems really annoying but I LOLd hard at that 3 min clip and think I might love it.

erica, wiig is soooo good in this!

i actually meant to say... 'omg this was great'... can a mod edit that... thanks...

kristin wiig was really impressive. she's been great in literally everything i've seen her in (i dont watch SNL so for the longest time she was just the funny chick from knocked up to me...) - she did a bunch of different kinds of comedy in this and also nailed the dramatic stuff. shes a ~star~

i thought the weakest bridesmaid was the pixar girlchild - she just seemed outclassed and underwritten. thats about the only bad thing i can think of to say

she has amazing physical control of her face + body. in that scene on the airplane she really exploits how rangy she is. and in the gross-out fitting scene i swear i could see individual nerves in her face pulsing when she tried to eat the Jordan almond.

xp about wiig

HS you're like my litmus test for girly movies so I'm sold now.

I don't remember her being in Knocked Up at all but it's been a while. I don't watch SNL either but I feel like I've caught a couple sketches with her in it and didn't like them. That's probably more to do with the sketches than her though. What else has she been in?

mmmm jordan almonds

pixar girlchild does get the great line about how the weary mom is more beautiful than Cinderella and smells like pine needles, but yeah, she was definitely underwritten

xp she was in adventureland and whip it. she was great in whip it!

the only other things i've seen her in where macgruber, whip it and knocked up... and apparently she was in forgetting sarah marshall but i dont remember her

*were

Neither do I.

And I didn't see Whip It or Mcgruber so I am pretty much thinking of her only in relation to the SNL stuff I have seen and promptly turned off. OK, gonna give it a shot this weekend.

is whip it actually good?

Wait - whip it is the roller derby movie, right? Is that worth watching?

i love whip it. i have a high tolerance for projects drew barrymore is involved in tbf. there are a lot of good performances in it: wiig, marcia gay harden, juliette crazy lewis.

whip it is pretty good!

maeby funke

oh I like mg harden and j cray!

daniel stern's unrecognizable in it

marcia gay harden is perfect and juliette lewis is terrifying

xp ha totally!

and maeby - she's cute

I secretly love Drew Barrymore too but don't let that one get out.

HS you know what movie I thought of the other day and felt like we might need to talk about? Mad Love.

ellen page is really good in it too!

i don't really remember that movie, though i must have seen it! <3 drew forever, but here is a problem with the mid-90's: chris o'donnell. wtf was that about?

xp yes ellen page made me cry and cry tbh

but here is a problem with the mid-90's: chris o'donnell. wtf was that about?

lol i was thinking about this recently - it seems like hes making a resurgence these days too and i still dont get it

Yeah, I don't know what that was about at all. He is definitely a problem though. Oh man You must have seen it! I don't know why because it's truly awful but I must have seen that at least 10 times.

i think i had an aversion because of o'donnell and blocked it out, but i remember drew looking A+ fantastic in it.

I think that's probably why I watched it so many times - to try and copy her hair/outfits. She looks awesome.

ugh Whip It is p terrible, and I tried so hard to like it and I usually LOVE most of the people in it

Jon Hamm was awes in Bridesmaids. Also, Roy from IT Crowd was ok, despite me finding it a weird role for him.
Wiig totally won me over by wearing similar plastic earrings in different colours because this is something I do a lot.

Uhhh btw this was like 15 years ago or whenever it came out. I wasn't doing this like last week or anything.

i really love wiig

Roy from IT Crowd

Oh I like him!

yeah jon hamm deserves notice for how completely gross he was. my sister told me he was gross and i kind of didn't believe it and then he just went above and beyond in being totally charmless and disgusting.

wiig is really, really fantastic in this -- she is about the least subtle player on SNL but here she hits all the right notes and never ever goes unbelievably ott

^^ Yeah. I wasn't expecting much from this movie but now I'd probably watch anything with her in.

ttly agree abt wiig - ive always liked ~90% of her snl work but here she does really pull off 'leading woman' imo

Max I think that's what rubs me the wrong way about her on any SNL bits I've seen she always seems to be making a dumb face like this http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eLZccgjR5n0/R_pYlYoQvcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/4t_dNxoAN0A/s1600/wiig1.jpg or something really ott. But with all the love your guys are throwing her way this sounds promising!

i love her on SNL but only in very small doses! her characters tend to tire p fast, like, during the sketches, but here she was totally winning and normal and not at all annoying

btw speaking of drew barrymore

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4192/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-body-fuzion

^^ one of my favorite SNL skits of the last few years

p funny! Not true here but I stopped being able to watch SNL like 5 years ago because it just seems like they kill anything that's even a little bit funny by making the skits about 10x longer than they should be.

Maya Rudolph <3

i wish to make maya rudolph my bride

Rory from IT Crowd is my imaginary boyfriend, I <3 him so much

This movie was so great, so good to see a movie that makes you laugh SO hard & has such heart...Wilson Phillips made me DIE

good stuff! everyone was great in this - had no idea Melissa McCarthy was so funny, she didn't get that much to do on Samantha Who. wish I could have seen more of the Reno 911 chick / Erin from the Office, seemed like their stuff got cut?

wiig always has to go up to 11 on SNL, it's really nice to see her actually get to play a human being with different levels. I actually think she's kind of underrated because of this - her part in Knocked Up, quieter bits in SNL show that she's really a lot more versatile than people give her credit for because of... well, Gilly, Target Lady, movie-reviewing Aunt character, etc.

nice to see both Chris O'Dowd and Paul Feig getting some higher profile work, too

Melissa McCarthy was fantastic. And I saw the other day that Air Marshall John is her irl husband <3

OK you were all right. I really really loved it.

- The plane scene was fantastic. I LOLd hard at the whole thing esp ". . . this is the 90s."
- Melissa McCarthy was funny throughout - loved the nine puppies in her pick-up truck.
- I'm not normally a fan of toilet humor but I died during the food poisoning scene. That could be because I've been in a not entirely dissimilar situation and have actually had to yell, "DON'T LOOK AT ME!" A la M McCarthy's character (don't ask) but Rudolph sitting down in the street and then mumbling, "I just took a shit on the street" killed me.
- Wiig was fantastic and great throughout. I take back whatever I said about her the other day. I loved her a lot.
- Whatever ppl said about nothing in her life actually getting better is true but I felt hopeful at the end like things were just sort of going to work out from there.
- That Wilson Phillips CD was the first CD I ever bought with my own money. I may have done a little chair dancing during the last scene.

also LOL @ "Stove" the FA.

stove!

Wiig KILLED in the different-ways-of-breaking-the-law-while-driving sequence.

Oh god that killed me...and Rose Byrne gesturing to Wiig's boobs for the topless driving was lolololololololl

The "Stove" joke was brilliant! It could have been embarrassingly unfunny (and on SNL it would have been), but it was hilarious.

I really liked this

I didn't realize just how much I missed Wendi McLendon-Covey until she showed up

Initially worried Wiig would be too alienating (esp around the time she's just nonsensically awful at the jewelry store gig), but I feel like they gradually got across that she really was a funny, talented person genuinely going through a serious low, and not just some Ally McBeal "i'm horrible and incompentent, somebody - preferably male - save me!" type.

I don't agree with the complaint that the movie didn't have enough of the other bridesmaids - there was plenty of them and having more would have really changed what the film was about - but if they WANTED to make the sequel more of an ensemble Hangover type film, I'm not against it.

I really kind of hope there isn't a sequel.

Yeah, this movie ran the gamut for me. It was hilarious, but also legitimately tearjerking (the waterworks started just as Wiig's character hit her nadir, which was also when my friend looked over at me, realizing that I was probably hardcore identifying with all of that). I'm so glad it's done as well at the box office as it has.

Also, I'm frankly of the opinion that Kristen Wiig needs to leave SNL ASAP. She's incredibly talented, so it's really sad that I kinda get sick of seeing her in sketches. She's really misused, as evidenced by her performance in films (she was also really good in MacGruber and Paul), so I want to see more of those. Lots more.

Lorne Michaels loves her.

Oh, I know. What'd he say, one of the top five performers in the show's history? He's not gonna give her up without a fight. So maybe he should start using his new-found ability as a producer of legitimately funny movies (a la MacGruber and Hot Rod) to provide her a better outlet for her talents.

This was mildly funny, but I feel like I had my expectations raised a little too high going in. McCarthy, O'Dowd, and even Hamm made the movie funny, but this cements it - I just do not find Wiig that funny. I kept feeling like "oh here she's doing Penelope" and "a little Target lady there". It pretty much felt like an above average SNL episode from the past few seasons, some really hilarious skits surrounded by too much one-note Wiig character sketches drawn out too long. My favorite moment of the whole thing was probably watching Maya Rudolph belt out "Hold On". <3

i found it very funny in parts and i loved all the actors, but left the theatre pretty pissed off because i could feel the film wanting to go in one direction about halfway through but then it went in stupid unfunny hollywood rom-com direction. the wedding should've been cancelled or held in vegas.

(a la MacGruber and Hot Rod)

oh man let's talk about how hot rod is one of the best comedies of the past decade

I did like that they played with convention (and expectations, given all the pre-release comparison to The Hangover) by having the bachelorette party not happen at all. I actually didn't mind the rom-com aspects so much, because O'Dowd was really endearing in that role.

This was hilarious

is it me or does Chyna Phillips look really weird now

i cried at the end of this and i am a dude

ps we are meant, right, to understand that cop/boyfriend is also in recovery and was bill cozbi's sponsor? i think so and i also think this takes away a bit from the idea that the ending should be read as "all her problems are solved, she has a boyfriend" -- more like "two kind of broken people found each other and will make a go of it, and maybe k wiig's character can find a way to make money using the marketable skill she has, thus solving some of her other problems."

I have no idea if we were meant to understand that. I didn't pick up on it personally but that doesn't mean it might not be the case. LOL Bill Cozbi. That dude was the "Jump to Conclusions Mat" guy from Office Space, I think.

he certainly was!

i buy this cute cop was in recovery interpretation even though it didn't occur to me

What's the evidence though that the cop was in recovery? Weren't they at a bar at some point? I mean not that that means anything necessarily. I'm just wondering if I totally missed something big here.

oh true

evidence was just that bill cozbi owes him big time

i cried at like four different junctures in this movie tbh

right, that line was given a lot of weight and never explained, and we know cozbi is in aa.

the whole scene of cop in bar was confusing -- surely state troopers are not actually allowed to drink in uniform! which makes me wonder whether cop was not actually drinking and that this was explained in a deleted scene

he had a beer in front of him, tho

Yeah idk. I think you may be reading too much into this one.

well i didn't say it was a successful recovery

it's also possible that he owes cop for something cop-related, you know

maybe the whole reason dude is in AA is because of cop helped him

yeah I assumed cop pulled him over for drunk driving and either didn't bring him in or did something on his behalf.

i see your point, it would be in character as established in-movie for rhodes to be all "i'll spare you the dui if you go to aa"

too bad, i like the ending better if cop has his demons too. is resembling judge reinhold a demon?

he probably has demons being as he is a person who has lived a while. movie wasn't really about him, though.

liked this a lot! (although i suspect the internet screener i watched might have been a bit butchered so caveat lector).

wouldnt say it was shapeless exactly but it does that thing all apatow films do of belatedly and grudgingly starting to wrap up the plot after spending most of the time just agreeably hanging out with the characters. (if you were harsh you could say they probably lean a bit much on this kinda knowingly smug "so you're watching a movie, we're making a movie, let's wrap it up eh" meta audience co-dependance generally). felt like a few of the secondary characters were unsatisfactorily passed over by the end, rita and becca in particular.

surprised it wasn't anywhere near as gross as the media made it out to be. canny marketing though.

actually it's probably only rita and becca i was missing; they left the roommates and her mom & the mechanic exactly where they should have, where a blunter film would have kept them going til the end.

loved this by the end, not as i'd imagined: wiig is really fn good, legit good, streets ahead of poehler or fey. i haven't liked her in anything since 'walk hard' but she brought it, hard style. not rly objective about rose byrne, but her saying she is a pretty cryer was gd hilares.

(and i kinda liked baby mama, js)

Wiig really is great in this, agree w. above posters that some of the supporting cast gets shortchanged. Had I been in a preview audience before the movie got titled I would never have thought to call it Bridesmaids.

I'd watch a half-hour short of Ellie Kemper and Reno 911 lady Rosencrantz & Guildensterning the actual bridal preparation stuff

Boy, was I shocked when I finally saw this. I loved Wiig in it, but frankly it felt like it could have been a great film - like, truly great, Oscar stuff - but instead settled for being an OK comedy. The food poisoning bit, the airplane, Wiig's profane exchanges working at the jewelry shop, Wiig trying to get the attention of the cop ... all those things felt like they were cynically dropped into slots when the filmmakers realized they had accidentally made a drama and needed to toss in some laughs. Wiig is so perfect, and so perfectly heartbreaking in this, that I felt like she needed a better movie. Like an "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" or something. Oh, well. Next time. She's got our attention.

(and i kinda liked baby mama, js)

― so brycey (history mayne), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

theres some really funny stuff in baby mama. like, dax shepard's character, shockingly, cracks me up

i totally like baby mama

posts v much in character

I watched a totally different movie than Josh in Chicago.

i bet this move was funny http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Highest grossing Apatow film yet.

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHaiXtr2Gpw&feature=player_embedded#at=249

Felt like a few of the secondary characters were unsatisfactorily passed over by the end, rita and becca in particular.

I thought this as well - like maybe their characters were going somewhere but the scenes were cut? I was enjoying the stories about her kids and that kinda fell by the wayside.

Can't believe ppl were hating on this movie at first itt. Btw, I thought the gross out stuff was lol

just saw this movie it was horrible what the hell!

this didn't feel like a movie at all, just a bunch of slapdash ideas. I dunno I thought it would be good because of the posts or something, but it felt like everyone was who their characters are on other shows.

the whole apatowworld bantering between self loathing boring people is p tedious but it was k lol anyway #shrug

I quite disliked this movie. I posted a full review here, but the gist: it's amazing that a comedy starring and co-written by a hilarious woman accepted every premise of the centrality of wedding planning and, most offensively to me, validates every stereotype about fat and lonely women.

The Wilson Phillips joke was unintentionally perfect: that trio has had so much plastic surgery and tummy tucking that their presence reaffirms the filmmakers' points about women.

Which sucks because I wanted to love this.

"accepted every premise of the centrality of wedding planning"

what do you mean?

Instead of conceiving herself as this put-upon loser who needs to participate in bridal and bachelorette parties, Wiig could have been the outsider challenging the silliness of most of this shit; she's much funnier as a quiet, sharp-eyed Bill Murray type than a mope.

and, man, those airplane scenes dragged.

The movie comes closest to what I'm talking about in the Melissa McCarthy, and she's given one expositional speech in the last third and dispatched.

i think its absurd to suggest that this film is reinforcing, rather than critiquing, that sort of thing dude

I did like that they played with convention (and expectations, given all the pre-release comparison to The Hangover) by having the bachelorette party not happen at all

this is otm

I watched this last night and I think I had the exact opposite reaction, Alfred

Just don't aim frozen peas at my sore tattoo.

will concede that the roommate stuff was bad. i'm willing to forgive endings because ya know genre etc... but there was a lot of good here.

also definitely a critique of the bullshit opulence with weddings. not sure i'd agree that it should be taking down the general concept of bridal showers, etc.

I liked those early scenes of Wiig and Rudolph bullshitting and acting like pals. It's hard to mimic the in-jokes, patter, and giggles of close friends on screen without looking facile, and those two nail it.

I think the humor of the roommates was more than just "lol fat." They were also weird and British and siblings.

just saw this movie it was horrible what the hell!

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, October 2, 2011 10:52 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

still kinda mad because I trusted ilx on this

the humor of the roomates wasnt lol fat at all in my memory, it was lol weirdos

were they playing fattey caricatures? I don't remember that at all

Brit woman showing her tat on her fat.

They were also kind of incest-y.

omg the lady who played the roommate: "Rebel" is her real given name. Wilson was born and raised in Sydney with her three siblings, Liberty, Ryot and Annachi.

should start a poll called "which of these names would you hate your parents for the most"

she plays a juggalo named big money hustla in workaholics w/ great aplomb imo

http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAkgKSwK4m8rb3h&w=130&h=130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomedycentral.mtvnimages.com%2Fimages%2Fworkaholics%2FV6%2Fworkaholics_105_04_V6.jpg

hahaha i am watching that episode right now

the humor of the roommates was that they were weird and british and siblings

you guys all watched this movie wrong, sorry

That's what I said yesterday night.

First movie that I've given up on midway through. I suppose it's OK that someone liked it, but I'm just not agreeable to Apatow humor. Next?

(First movie in years... Punch-Drunk Love was the last one)

pretty bad track record dude no offense

I was gonna say. But then I figured it went without saying.

While "too heteronormative for my taste" is one of the few anti-apatow comments I can't really argue with, I'm wondering when Wiig has ever played a "quiet, sharp-eyed Bill Murray type."

It was frustrating as hell as Wiig was great in every scene, but the directing was so draggy and uninvolved that I was bored silly waiting for something to happen and when something did, it was just an obligatory puke scene. Feh.

give us an insight into your movie choosing process ET

give us an insight into your movie choosing process ET

I watch a movie that I haven't seen yet. If I don't care for it I turn it off.

i was asking cos of your "first movie in years" comment

i was asking cos of your "first movie in years" comment

First movie in years I bailed out of mid-way through.

i turned this off halfway through too

not just bad but depressing, so terrible that it infected everything around it

it makes fun of fat people for being fat, people get sick from mexican food, black characters tend to say "motherfucker!" and "goddamn!", i mean this is basically the movie robert mitchum was talking about when he said "movies that piss on the world... if i've got five dollars in my pocket i don't need to make money that way, daddy-o"

this is good but totally dragged down by the melissa mccarthy character, who the writers just can't help making fun of. she's fat and butch and alone, haha, we get it

hamm is great tho

i really can't with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0yDQvRQQ4E

my wife and i constantly quote that scene
"yew dewwwwwwww? ohhh helen knows the owner"

best line

im partial to "this is civil rights. this is the 90s."

this is good but totally dragged down by the melissa mccarthy character, who the writers just can't help making fun of. she's fat and butch and alone, haha, we get it

this is a bizarre misreading

xp yea that one too. that and "no ... it's not me. i'm with him ... i am mrs. iglesias"

god i need to watch this movie and macgruber as a back to back

this is good but totally dragged down by the melissa mccarthy character, who the writers just can't help making fun of. she's fat and butch and alone, haha, we get it

this is a bizarre misreading

Yeah, one of the great things about this movie is that it didn't just turn her into "sad, clingy butch" caricature the way most comedies would do, but actually subverted it, especially in the talk she has with the protagonist when she's all depressed.

Kinda like the standard romcom "evil rich bitch" caricature turns out not to be so evil after all... So yeah, definitely the biggest the strength of the movie is how it takes these cliche character types and does things with them you wouldn't expect.

Btw, I'm the only one who found it weird that the protagonist's roommates were basically the guy from Little Britain, and the chav girl parody that guy plays in Little Britain, except here she was played by an actual woman? It seemed like the movie-makers wanted to include that character from Little Britain, but felt it would've been too OTT to just have the guy play both roles, so they had to get someone else to imitate it...

No. That's mental. The characters aren't even remotely similar

^^^^

god i need to watch this movie and macgruber as a back to back

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this is an excellent idea, i think i'm p much always in the mood for macgruber

God dammit, that is good ... oh shit, that is freshhh.

ILX's McGruber love is one of the longtime bafflers on a board full of bafflement.

Campfire scene is all-time tho

Pretty much all the critical posts itt were insane but this...

i turned this off halfway through too

not just bad but depressing, so terrible that it infected everything around it

it makes fun of fat people for being fat, people get sick from mexican food, black characters tend to say "motherfucker!" and "goddamn!", i mean this is basically the movie robert mitchum was talking about when he said "movies that piss on the world... if i've got five dollars in my pocket i don't need to make money that way, daddy-o"

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 March 2013 18:06 (five years ago) Permalink

No one gets made fun of for being fat, It’s Brazilian food not Mexican, I just watched it and don’t recall any black character saying “motherfucker”—maybe terry crews says it at the beginning in a clever scene abt her trying to freeload an exercise class? Reach reach reach

I’ll admit I’m falling for the temptation any time I see a now classic film to go back in the ilx archives & roll my eyes at ppl who were wrong

"now classic"

class, sic

It's only like 30% soggy (referring generally to the 'why is this even here?' bits which really should've been excised and are likely only there to pad the thing out to feature length), which is a pretty good percentage for a comedy movie. Feel like any percentage below 40% qualifies a laffer for classic status. I'm hard-pressed to think of many even among my very favorites that go much lower than 20%

the last film I saw was To Be Or Not To Be (1942), does that count as classic and if so when did it qualify?

Well, nothing in black and white counts, obviously. Did you watch a colorized version? Because then it might qualify.

I wouldn't call this a classic (def has too much filler in it) but its true that there are some weird opinions on this thread that seems to be about a different movie entirely.

I mean, I guess it's theoretically possible for a movie with no color to be funny, but I find that I'm just too distracted the whole time, wondering where the color is. It's like those movies with the words at the bottom. It isn't funny if you have to read things.

Tim Heidecker's in it, I can't dislike this movie for that alone

Read a recent article saying this movie seemed to suggest a new trend forward for female buddy movies that hasn’t continued to be successful based on the crop of movies this summer in that vein (spy who dumped me etc)
Seems like a stretch

what about those Bad Moms movies, those did p well iirc?

Yeah, it seems it was focused on this summers crop of blockbusters

Tim Heidecker's in it, I can't dislike this movie for that alone

― frogbs, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 10:33 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would give you that except that I'm still baffled by the decision to hire him specifically and then consign him to basically the status of an extra.

"now classic"

― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, August 21, 2018 9:39 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you saying you don’t think it’s considered a classic or that it was immediately considered a classic

consign him to basically the status of an extra.

#WhaleMan is coming 2019

a really overlong and unfocused movie saved by Melissa McCarthy

🤔

Bridesmaids is not a lean efficient comedy machine to be sure. Everything with the cop is a drag. The roommates, meh. In the end it's worth it for the many very funny scenes.

(and Hold On, of course)

You know one thing that might've made this even better: zero men with speaking roles.

hated the cop character b/c they tried too hard to make him quirky and adorable and you just know they're gonna end up together anyway blah blah blah, that stuff is poison for a movie that's too long as it is

that said the movie is generally very funny

Frogbs otm

The roommates, meh. In the end it's worth it for the many very funny scenes.

― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:40 (four hours ago) Permalink

Every time itt someone tries to criticize this they say something totally RONG like dissing the roommates ... those scenes are hysterical ... she pours frozen peas on an infected tattoo of an oversized tequila worm

Cop character is essential love interest... it’s a rom com tf

nah all those subplots/characters are lame

it's not really a rom com, the love interest part is a bit of an ancillary strand to the main storyline with the wedding and the struggle between wiig and byrne for rudolph's attention. it's not really wrong to point out that the cop character sucks and is a waste

yeah, and the roommates aren't exactly Terri Garr and Bill Murray in Tootsie

someone help me out here, how can cohen/anyone prove the payoff was "to influence the election" and not just standard-issue hush money like he probably pays out all the time

nah all those subplots/characters are lame

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 5:00 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

disagree completely

XP Was that in the Extended Cut?

oh lol I got my tabs crossed

uh anyway Hamm's sex faces inn this still haunt me

lol @ Simon's post!

Saw A Simple Favor last night (never saw Bridesmaids--same director). First half was a somewhat interesting and sometimes amusing variation on (or plagiarism of) Gone Girl. It got sillier after that, until it was so silly by the end that it became amusing again. I do find Anna Kendrick fetching; she really amps up her schtick here, so most people will be driven up the wall.

Olivia Sandoval from the third season of Fargo (Carrie Coon's detective friend) has a good scene.

I went to the fucking salon with her and got my asshole bleached, too. And I love my new asshole!

My kid watches a chill cartoon about north atlantic seabirds and the Irish cop from this movie is the narrator... so basically I think about this movie a lot.

i often find myself saying "custard" the way he does in this movie

Gracias para vivar en la casa
en la escuelas...
en... en el azul... marcada.

Tienes con vivir
en las fochuatsa...

and gracias!

Tim Heidecker is in it and doesn't get to do a damn thing.

― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:30 AM (twelve years ago)

it really is surreal how goofy and dorky he is in this non-speaking role (I think he might mumble one line?)