Little Miss Sunshine must be the best movie ever made, right?

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I'm sure at least a couple of actor/supporting noms, maybe script.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 27 February 2000 02:34 (twenty-five years ago)

six years pass...

What beats it? Great writing. Holy shit! One of those "audience applauds the credits" movies.

It drives me crazy that nobody will watch it when I tell them to until 2 years later on HBO, maybe. Great movies are so much better at the time of their release and on the big screen.

FYI, I searched "little miss sunshine" and found no threads w/ that in the title. I searched it as Keywords and broke ILX. If I could've found the thread which surely must exist, I would have.

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Some more details plz. I know this film exists and that's about it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Google works, Nedward.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

but... what about thoroughly modern millie?!?

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

greg kinnear makes me suspicious, but, it does look good despite him

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Details? That's a puzzler. Having read the synopsis prior to seeing it, I was expecting a pretty good movie, I guess, but it's impossible to explain how well done this movie is without ruining it. So many little details and surprises that are so true to life. There's bursts of hilarity in what I guess should be an overall depressing storyline, but it's not. It's not a suspense thriller by any means, but there are things that pop out of the script you never see coming which are emotional, hilarious or surprisingly true to life. The acting is fantastic.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Another great thing about a movie like this is when it gets rereleased to a large audience like this, the previews for upcoming movies are also great! I saw trailers for 4 movies I actually am dying to see, which is shocking as hell, since great movies seem so rare to me these days. The only title I can remember is Running With Scissors. Maybe it was a misleading trailer, but it looks quite funny and interesting.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen two trailers for it and they both look great. I'll see it first weekend of release for certain.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Also: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ailx.wh3rd.net+%22little+miss+sunshine

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched the trailer on the official site and thought, "no no no you're giving too much away!" But, I guess you have to do that to suck people in. I went in completely fresh, having only read a brief synopsis, so every character was unfolding for me on the screen. I think it's better that way than going in having an impression what the characters are like already, knowing how my own hypercritical mind works on things.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

i have one question. is it better than THESE alan arkin movies?:

the russians are coming the russians are coming

wait until dark

the heart is a lonely hunter

catch-22

last of the red hot lovers

freebie and the bean

rafferty and the gold dust twins

fire sale

the in-laws

simon

chu chu and the philly flash

glengarry glen ross

slums of beverly hills

(cuz if it is, then it might be the best movie ever made)

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS EXACTLY LIKE FUCKING NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm, was it as good as Clifford? i love clifford.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS EXACTLY LIKE FUCKING NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION!

Haha! Yes, in the same way that Titanic was exactly like fucking Watership Down.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

The trailer makes it look very twee/indie (like that Thumbsucker movie last year). Am I being mislead?

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

or misled, even

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Eber...erm, Leno and Roeper really liked it. That's all I know.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but that's the problem with the trailer. Now you've already got this idea in your head. Forget it. Don't see it. It sucks.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

i want to see it. it looks good. i like road movies.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a good page of reviews and stuff. This reviewer actually sounds like he feels the same way about the movie and building up hype as I do:

http://movies.go.com/movies/review?name=little-miss-sunshine_2006&genre=comedy&studio=Fox%20Searchlight%20Pictures

The quotes and reviews at the bottom are right on, too, except Premiere.

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Rafferty & The Gold Dust Twins is a GREAT road movie. Rent it out. Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, and Mackenzie Philips go on the road to find fame and fortune. Sally Kellerman is awesome in that one. similar desolate but funny search for the heart of thr darkside of the american dream in a post-everything universe by oddballs who have never been given the chance to...whatever. you know the type!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't like Slums of Beverly Hills too much, but I don't think I've seen ANY of the other Arkin films you listed, so I have already set my mind to watching a few of them! I appreciate the recommendation! I don't know that I've seen too many road trip movies, but I was never a fan of the NL Vacation movies. LMS reminded me more of The Out of Towners than anything else I can think of. (Obviously, I am not talking about the Steve Martin version!)

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

SPOILER

both movies even have dead grandparent in the car!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, way to ruin it. Do you think there's one person who didn't read that spoiler? You can read it in your peripheral vision without even trying.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

i do not feel sorry for you.

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

spoilerized me before it was too late :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Why would you feel sorry for me? I've already seen it. I feel sorry for anyone who reads this thread before seeing the movie and I'm sorry I started it. I sort of thought I must be behind the curve as usual on this one and that everyone had already seen it.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

This is still the best "road + family angst" movie:

http://filmbrain.typepad.com/filmbrain/harrytonto3.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

the last roadfamilyangst movie i really liked was probably The Day Trippers. Even though they didn't go that far. And Kingpin of course.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 7 August 2006 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

daytrippers is great.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

just finished watching this one. it's cute. the ending is pleasant.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 7 August 2006 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, this has to be the silliest "best movie ever made" proclamation I've read. The screenplay is about as cloying and banal as any other Sundance indie 'hit'. The story unfolds too fast and unevenly. Even the pretty great comedic performances from Arkin, Kinnear, Carrell and the little girl couldn't save this from seeming pretty half-hearted. The sitcom comparisons are spot-on.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

come on dude steve carrell is the finest actor of our generation

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

i saw this movie for free because fox was sponsoring free showings in my town. i went with my girlfriend. they made us turn off our cell phones and made sure we didn't have cameras, and then the movie began. it was good, but the audience around us kept on laughing at little bits of the movie that weren't very funny, so i guess most people will like it. the acting is good, as well as most of the writing. i guess the only problem i have with this movie is the story, but that's just me. definitely a good free movie :)

― Han P (hansterp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

some super-funny moments, and the roadtrip parts had great tone and pretty honest heart; the end was sort of boring and the teenager was kind of a beat character, but kinnear and carrell and collette were all really good.

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

it was pretty funny

The trailer makes it look very twee/indie (like that Thumbsucker movie last year).

definitely way the hell better than Thumbsucker

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

I just got Thumbsucker in from netflix. :(

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

best use of a broken VW van horn i've ever seen in a movie. i really liked it.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

OSARS AHOY.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

This movie isn't as grebt as ppls say. Still cuet tho. I would like this to be the death knell for the sundanceTM coming of age/offbeat humor/nebulous era/audience-pleasing filmTM... but it won't be.

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 20 August 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago)

joining the cute-but-slight chorus, but it was pretty funny. typically, I've never watched the Office, so was (somewhat) impressed with Carell (not his fault, but the #1-Proust-scholar thing was overdone). sorry to Toni C. for being somewhat distracted from her performance by her gorgeousness.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

it is cute, but just cute. also: Steve Carrell is beautiful in it. the beard really works for him.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

ILE apparently more tolerant of street teams than ILM.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Basically a mediocre movie saved by really strong performances.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

steve carrell is the finest actor of our generation

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

The little girl is awesome, I just want to wrap her up in croissant dough and bake her in the oven.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

sorry to Toni C. for being somewhat distracted from her performance by her gorgeousness

dude so true

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

awful awful ad compaign

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

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Would anyone feel less of a person if you found out this was their favorite movie ever?

― milo z, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago)

that question makes no sense.

― s1ocki, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

think less of a person

― milo z, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

Not really, it would almost be endearing.

― humansuit, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

says the guy in the "human suit."

― s1ocki, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

you're not fooling anyone.

― s1ocki, Friday, 31 August 2007 01:00 (seventeen years ago)

I think I'm fooling myself.

― humansuit, Friday, 31 August 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago)

I think my taste in movies is as terrible as everyone else's taste, so I wouldn't hold it against anyone for liking this film. But I wouldn't want to talk about it with them and I wouldn't want to hear them defend ugly children.

― Eric H., Friday, 31 August 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

That is also to say I think everyone ever has terrible taste in films.

― Eric H., Friday, 31 August 2007 03:58 (seventeen years ago)

um, to elaborate- it's quite clear in the movie that CHARACTER of the little girl is less that aesthetically perfect and entering a beauty pageant. it's the whole premise of the movie.

i'm quite sure that abigail breslin is a perfectly cute little girl.

ok now? and don't be so pissy. there's lots more to be offended at on the internet.

― darraghmac, Friday, 31 August 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago)

what i really hated about the end is how it set up, yet again, a binary between american idol style heartless virtuosity and dumb yet heartfelt amateurishness, as if actually being good at something were evidence of conformism

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

uh, but she actually danced well, didn't she?

I thought it was about the oh never mind.

― Mark G, Friday, 31 August 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

i blame the parents

― darraghmac, Friday, 31 August 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

i hated that the end was about a little girl doing a striptease. it was fuckin gross

― s1ocki, Friday, 31 August 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

right but the striptease was actually innocent and cute unlike the slutty gross cheerleader dances of the other girls... but who cares anyway? this was a nothing movie. i can't see getting worked up about it either way. (and maybe there are people who have done less work for an oscar than alan arkin in this, but there can't be many.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

this movie was so spiteful

― dyao, Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago)

Hmm, this thread was starting in 2000 for a movie that came out in 2006.

― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

It would certainly explain the initial lack of replies.

― fear mongrels (Abbott), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago)

i don't remember a thing about this movie. did it actually win an oscar? wtf?

― akm, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

this movie was spiteful and fun. kinnear's hopeless wreck of a gibberish spouting dad was pretty cruel. enjoyed that.

― "It's far from 'loi' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago)

Hmm, this thread was starting in 2000 for a movie that came out in 2006.

I had no idea Hurting was a time traveler.

― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago)

This thread is a great example of how as a film goes from unseen to widely seen it attracts haters.

― Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

See also: religions, sports figures, and just about everything else ever.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

because people see it, and realize that it's awful?

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

otm

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

i've been spending some time trying to eliminate all my critical judgement so that i can enjoy as many things as possible

― Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

I'm sure at least a couple of actor/supporting noms, maybe script.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 27 February 2000 02:34 (10 years ago) Bookmark

Ok, this is seriously clever. He predicted stuff 3 months before the script was even started. Perhaps more impressively he posted to ILE 18 months before it started,

― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

It's amazing that I was able to predict anything about this movie's oscar prospects as early as February, 2000.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:05 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

He impressed himself!

― Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

because people see it, and realize that it's awful?

lol YES

― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

I like Kinnear a lot but this movie was basically a waste, very predictable

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago)

Have never seen this. I'm fairly good at spotting the ones that won't ever matter.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago)

good eye in this case. it's like a feel-good movie that tries really hard to be edgy. sorta annoying really.

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago)

like, could you guess that the motto-spouting motivational speaker character learns an important lesson about what really matters in life blah blah blah

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

The little girl from this getting an Oscar nomination over Shareeka Epps from Half-Nelson is pretty offensive.

― litel, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

steve carrel was so bad in this. retread of every luke wilson in a wes movie ever.

― dyao, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

I have never felt so alone as I did in a roaring, packed house watched this movie. It SUCKED

― Eyewona (admrl), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

i thought there were some ok parts & performances (<3 toni collette 4eva) but if there were ever a movie crying out for an ambiguously depressing 70s style ending it's this one, but this being 00s, everything comes out ok.

i mean, it's about a loser-ass family led by a self-deluded guy and his deluded daughter and unhappy wife & son stuck in a van. on the way, the junkie grandpa dies. everybody dance!

― goole, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

one of those movies where i feel like the actors all deserve a better script.

― tylerw, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

except for the john candy bits, this movie was better than national lampoon's vacation which is basically the same movie.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

That's not my recollection of it

― Eyewona (admrl), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

also, rachel getting married is better than ferris bueller's day off but not better than sixteen candles, which it weirdly combined.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

whoops -- i didn't see this!
IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS EXACTLY LIKE FUCKING NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION!
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, August 6, 2006 9:16 PM (4 years ago)

independently confirmed!

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

nobody actually likes this movie

― plax (ico), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

i know ppl who love it :(

― just sayin, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

I just saw timecop and greenberg so am feeling pretty generous to this movie in hindsight.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

Have never seen this. I'm fairly good at spotting the ones that won't ever matter.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 16, 2010 5:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, you're really good at not seeing movies.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 16 August 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

Just saw this. It was ... watchable. Felt like whoever made this movie had five ideas for wacky characters, wasn't sure if they were going to get to make more than one movie so put all five in this one. Gave one not much to think about besides "family drives you crazy but it's all we've got in this crazy world mmmmkay?" There were amusing moments (e.g. malfunctioning horn gag) but it's extremely hard for me to imagine anyone laughing out loud at any point during this movie, let alone loving it. Also kind of hard to imagine really going out of one's way to hate it. But evidently my imagination is not good enough!

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 10 January 2011 06:36 (fourteen years ago)

Hurting did 9/11

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 January 2011 07:55 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

Directors are back with Riggs (Steve Carrell)/King (Emma Stone) film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FxwbPTjnA&feature=youtu.be

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:03 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FxwbPTjnA&t=1s

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:04 (eight years ago)

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