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'Francis Ha' Is Nothing To Laugh About

posted 12 years ago by kiss_trigger-570-471334
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Baumbach is a scourge and a plague... a fifth rate bargain basement
Woody Allen wannabee whose "Greenberg", "Margot At The Wedding" and
"The Squid and The Whale" were such cinematic atrocities that even the
empty seats wanted their money back. You could take the worst Hollywood
Z movie schlock that ever played in a old fleapit drive-in and it would
have more memorable impact that even one second of any of these
lethally pretentious, Vassar-infected,hipster-conservative,literati-tainted wankfest-pieces of dysfunctional bourgeois sludge. It's as if Ed Wood came back from the dead with a Criterion DVD collection and an issue of The New Yorker tucked under his arm. Gerwig's "quirky girl" act is so way past it's sell-by date that you want to spray the screen with Raid. He gives Ben Stiller work,
which has already guaranteed him a loveseat in hell.

No wonder the masses watch comic books.

[–] atlas_kind_of_shrugged 12 years ago

I have to give you credit for kind of hating this chick, and reading and diagnosing a lot more into some indie film director and a film about disassociation in America, if that's what I can discern from the plot summary.

Life really doesn't have to be this hard mate. Buck up!

[–] JyLx 12 years ago

Relentless.

[–] willy99 12 years ago

I'm going to have to disagree with you about the Squid and the Whale. I love that movie. Greenberg was trash, and I haven't seen/don't care to see either Margot at the Wedding, or Frances Ha. I need to look into Kicking and Screaming, though. I've heard it's quite good.

[–] tra1n_n_va1n 10 years ago

Kicking and Screaming is perfection. I still watch it a couple times a year. Fantastic movie.

I really liked Margot at the Wedding as well. I wasn't sure I would, but it surprised me. Might want to have a drink nearby while watching...

The OP seems very angry. My suggestion is don't watch anymore of Noah's movies since they raise your blood pressure so. The rest of us will be over here enjoying his films.

You better understand I'm in love with myself Myself My beautiful self

[–] lambiepie-2 12 years ago

Why would you want to dis Woody Allen like that?!?!? OR Ed Wood for all that matters?

When I read what this was about, it sounded a tad disjointed but I like independent film. However, not all independent film. This reminds me of when I was in my lat 20s and folks were putting out "quirky" films that was to reflect what some women were going through. Yeah, two or three women. The rest of us, nah. Now we have to look back at that and watch the younger generation exclaim, "So, that's what it was like back then for you and your friends?" No. God, no. Only for the critics that liked this stuff.

Greenberg", "Margot At The Wedding" and "The Squid and The Whale" were such cinematic atrocities that even the empty seats wanted their money back.

When I see something 'brand-worthy', I've got to clap to it, and what I put in bold is brand-worthy. Please copyright that phase, go out and make some money off of those who will undoubtedly use it. It's yours, claim it. I love it.

What other people think doesn't pay the rent.

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[–] tranquility_804 12 years ago

I am not a fan either but I loved Frances Ha.

[–] GuyWhoSezThatsNotGood 12 years ago

Oversold it. it's obvious you've got a chip on your shoulder, so no one's going to take your critique seriously.

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[–] elundegaard-2 12 years ago

http://eriklundegaard.com/item/movie-review-frances-ha-2013

[–] PotassiumMan 12 years ago

From now on, before I read a tirade about a film I've recently watched, I should first make myself some popcorn and get a large diet coke. Because sometimes these rants are just as entertaining as the actual film itself- even if they take a shorter amount of time to put together.

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