A thread for free-floating hatred of "Away We Go" a.k.a. the Dave Eggers movie

We went to the movies this afternoon and were confronted with this:

Umm... Seriously? This movie hasn't even been released and the trailer alone makes me want to go on a tri-state killing spree. Except I can't because I've already stabbed my eyes out.

I will join you in this glorious crusade of loathing.

haha, eggers + director of american beauty. all it needed was zach braff for some kind of trifecta of shit

jim from the office in a serious role is a fine substitute in that regard

I swear, ILX is the *only* place around that is this rampantly, endlessly vicious and cynical about Eggers/Braff/Kelley/etc etc.

I mean they're not a pantheon of the gods or anything but I dont understand the unrepentant loathing.

But...they suck.

I liked Egger's autobiog *shrug*. I *LOVE* Jon Safran Foer. I thought Scrubs was a great TV series and yanno, Garden State is watchable enough too.

I'm not saying I adore any of em but kill murder death hate? Zuh?

It just makes me think that whats at play here is actually "cynical middle aged men who think the stuff 18 year old girls like is loathesome"

even if it is, is there a problem with that?

u r 18??????????????

Nah that was the Twilight thread.

i am a cynical middle aged man, and i will not be silenced!

It just makes me think that whats at play here is actually "cynical middle aged men who think the stuff 18 year old girls like is loathesome"

I'll go with cynical middle aged men who loathe a rewrite of Juno for the thirty/fortysomething set.

Seriously though, do you think this movie is being marketed to 18 year old girls?

yeah this looks horrendous - echoing elvis' sentiment, it's my generation's "look at how quirky we are!" pop culture (she staples his itinerary to his jacket - the fuck outta here) for our parents

I admit I wasnt talking specifically about this new movie, I will watch the trailer and if it looks shit I'll happily say so.

yall were out of control on that where the wild things are thread but this looks like a pretty fair target for frothing at the mouth hatred

So it's basically Children of Men except the baby isn't actually needed.

Nick Drake-ish acoustic guitar/gentle voice music has been a plague on movies and movie trailers in the last five years or so

OK eh now I've watched the trailer, I'm pretty meh, but because it looks like utter feelgood schmaltz, it comes across more pukey "Marley and Me" than "OMG Eggers is a cunt and should go to hell", but whatevs.

Isn't that john Martyn on the trailer soundtrack? I kinda like Dave Eggers but yeah this looks like just another nail in the already rusty and pillaged coffin of US indie cinema.

This looks so obnoxious and terrible. I don't think there's a cliche from the quasi-indie, 'we so sad and dysfunctional, but we shall see it through with our love and retro stylings and ipods', quirkfest genre that was left unused. Fucking gag.

"White Winter Hymnal" makes me think of trailers like this. And vice versa.

i hated on juno like nobody's business but tbh hating on twee fake-indie* films is getting to be the hating on special-effects driven summer movies de nos jours. not necessarily wrong, just boring.

*not a super-useful descriptor at any time

yeah this almost looks like a hoax! BUT i will rep for Eggers as a writer. We Shall Know Our Velocity was awesome (the staggering genius one too)

So in order to be exciting and one step ahead do I need to be either loving these piece of shit movies or at least indifferent to their existence, rather than hating them?

i think the inside thing is to REALLY LIKE THEM based on the trailer and nothing else.

I would love it if about halfway through there's a scream, startled looks, several fast fades down and then up on frightened faces, lightning flashes, and a menacing silhouette approaches with a goddamn machete.

"Are we losers? I mean we're like 34.."

"33."

"Yeah. And -- what was that noise?"

lol

"hey - I found this old board game, I used to love as a kid!"

"That is so cool! Don't you sometime think we lost something when we..."

*Lynch backwards voice effect - Office Jim wears a rabbit mask on his head*

miranda july also has a movie coming out this year, don't use up all your hate on this

good lord guys

this looks okay to me. i actually laughed 2 or 3 times at the trailer alone. there are plently people on this thread more loathesome than eggers, imo.

So I've learned in the last 24 hours that ILX dislikes Dave Eggers, Hotel California, and Dora the Explorer. Good work, ILX!

IHX

Mordy the list is far longer than that

Not that I've learned in the last 24 hours.

Could sombedy pls explain the widespread hate of Eggers? For me, he's just that "staggering genius" guy - am I missing sth?

Hipster’s Head Explodes During Away We Go Trailer
Mar 17th, 2009 | By Dan | Category: Ham, The Films

Williamsburg-based Hipster Dan Rice died last night after viewing the trailer for the upcoming film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and co-written by Dave Eggers. Upon watching it, his mind was literally blown, causing his skull to explode in his bedroom.

Rice’s roommate, and fellow hipster, Matt, found him moments later.

“I was reading my Believer magazine when I heard what I thought was Dan remixing the new Deerhoof album,” said Matt, who later realized that the explosion was not part of a noise-rock exploration. “I ran in with my washtub bass to join the action and found him on the floor, with the Away We Go trailer playing on his computer.”

The film considered by many to be a “hipster’s dream” stars such hipster darlings as Maggie Gyllenhaal and Allison Janney. While its male lead, John Krasinski, operates outside the indie world, his mainstream appeal is masked by a thick beard and thicker glasses, making him the ultimate hipster.

While these factors all contributed to Rice’s unfortunately hip death, it was the reveal that the screenplay was penned by none other than hipster icon, Dave Eggers, that was the final straw.

“Dan loved Dave Eggers,” recalled Matt. “But not in the ironic way that he loved Judy Blume. In the ‘downloading his NPR podcasts and listening to them on the subway even though he had no reason to leave the house’ sort of way.”

A forensic unit was able to uncover more causes to the head explosion.

“We watched the trailer afterward for clues,” said the Chief Investigator, who claimed not to know what a Dave Eggers was. “We think the title cards were written in same font as Juno’s titles. That combined with the soft song by an under-the-radar singer songwriter certainly did not help.”

I <3 maggie gyllenhaal. Also Revolutionary Road was pretty good, I loved Staggering Genius, but I was about 17 when I read it. I met Eggars at a reading once and he was really nice and incredibly hot.

I don't see where Scrubs comes into it, doubt the real thing will be such an iPod ad.

I don't mind Eggers but Mendes is consistently dreadful.

i meant to say surprisingly hot instead of incredibly : / at freudian slips

ha, certainly the trailer is pretty bad (but then it's a carefully marketed trailer), but I read Staggering Genius just last year and thought it was great, and now I feel like I'm celebrating Dick Cheney's humanitarian efforts.

Also not quite sure what Zach Braff has to do with anything.

Allison Janney is a hipster darling?

You know hipsters like the West Wing.

haha, if you guys hate this wait until you see robert pattinson's new film, opening on ifc festival direct april 29

nice

: )

but then it's a carefully marketed trailer

salient point. i usually hate trailers of frat pack movies. so coarse. but im still their biggest stan.

the first adventureland trailer was repulsive, but i know i'm going to love that film.

Sorry, I missed your stuff upthread.

this one is much more like Broken Flowers than Little Miss Sunshine.

Yes, that's a recommendation.

Although I'll say that even LMS I sorta liked while I was watching it, and it was only later that it began to leave a sour taste in my mouth.

made a decision to have a kid after a life of selfishness

...thanks?

I would love to see Sam Mendes and Ashton Kutcher team up for a documentary road trip titled America, You So Crazy! paid for by Twitter

scott fwiw i have neutral-to-friendly feelings about dave eggers.

chaotic neutral to friendly

and my main problem isn't necc with the main characters, despite their bizarre sulky entitlement (why a couple of 30somethings would flip out so hard when one set of their parents, who they clearly don't even like, decides to go on sabbatical is beyond me) but with the paper-thin, shrill and altogether boring supporting characters they turn up their noses at. the movie is full of the cheapest of shots.

...thanks?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:29 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahaha! yeah, really.

cuz everyone knows that having kids is the most selfless act on earth.

You know what quirky road-trip movie is the absolute worst, though? Transamerica.

transamerica 2: revenge of the fallen

haha

I had an idea long ago for a road-trip movie with Jim Carrey and John C. Reilly where they would play everyone in the movie. Like, their car breaks down and they walk into a biker bar, and all of the bikers are played by them.

speaking of ashton and road trips, this just might be the worst movie i've seen in years:

http://roddysrockinreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/just-married.jpg

Also FYI the film starts out with John Krasinski eating out Maya Rudolph under a blanket so maybe don't bring your 14-year-old sister to see it like I did.

that sounds mega-awkward (haha both for you and in terms of Krasinki's beard), but on the other hand: 14-year-old boys probably can't even get through a day without seeing something related to blowjobs, so this probably qualifies as a positive message

hat sounds mega-awkward (haha both for you and in terms of Krasinki's beard)

Why did you even go there.

http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2252d77b88e1d00cd973bf6584cd5-320pi

i decided to hate this movie not for the obvious targets - eggers, mendes - but for vendelea vida. she needs to be taken down a peg or two

something for everyone to hate! they should use that on the poster.

i think i want that woman's doughnut...

who will you hate?

vendela vida sounds like a name of someone who wrongly thinks she is really important

That's clever.

thx

harbl's favorite writer name, obviously

lol true! sorry though it just sounds like one of those names

"who will you hate?"

maggie gylllllenhayllll. just cuz. or maybe jim gaffigan. can't be hating on jeff daniels or catherine o'hara.

dude from the office is such a non-entity to me. like he doesn't even exist. can't hate what you can't see.

and i ain't hating on maya cuz her mother is one of my gods on earth and in heaven. that would be liking hating jeebus.

if he were invisible this would be a more interesting movie

Maya Rudolph, her imaginary husband and her phantom pregnancy.

Loving You Is Easy 'Cuz You're A Hybrid Human-Lizard Creature

not imaginary, but invisible. they wouldn't have even needed the blanket for that opening scene, for instance.

on second thought, i guess they would since maybe maya rudolph wouldn't want to be on full display

i would watch jk and maya rudolph smashing if he was invisible

jfk

not imaginary, but invisible.

I prefer my take!

maybe it could be a big reveal at the end of the movie
omg HE'S NOT REAL

He's a ghost! The movie has run backwards in time! John Connor sent him back to prevent himself from happening!

Maya Rudolph sees dead people.

Gobble, gobble?

Haven't seen it, but I have to say, if I were about to have a kid I wouldn't be spending precious money I'd be needing to feed and take care of the child on an existential road trip.

The couple is living where they are living only because his parents are there, and his parents are moving away, and they both have jobs they can do from anywhere and are not slacker/bohemian/artist/writers but two professionals who can afford to figure out where they want to live.

I never said anything about their jobs, though.

I guess I'm an alarmist about money, though, especially when it comes to taking care of kids. (I don't have any, thank heavens, because I can barely afford to feed myself.)

I just saw this. It was okay. I can understand the knee-jerk reaction to want to hate it. It feels a little bit preachy, I guess. It's like the main couple is being held up as worthy of emulation, and many of the other characters they encounter are put there to teach a lesson by way of counter-example. It's a bit like "Pilgrim's Progress" in that regard - I guess the second part in which Christian is joined on his journey by his wife Christianna and they encounter characters such as Mrs. Inconsiderate and Mrs. Light-mind on their way through the city of Vanity to the Celestial City. It's like Eggers and Vida have swung so far in the anti-irony direction that they've ended up crafting allegorical tales of moral instruction. That said, I join Roger Ebert in finding this kind of willful uncoolness kind of refreshing.

Saw it recently too. Have a basic dislike for people with "jobs they can do from anywhere." Particularly the ones who move to Montreal and drive the rents up.

Best review ever.

This dude is AWESOME!

Dancing with the Stars? Might as well be Dancing with Space Aliens as far as I’m concerned. Who are these people?

http://images.cnhi.zope.net/images_sizedimage_352121937/med

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZXkHRi4sFY