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

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?)