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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.

[–] redwriteandblue 11 years ago

If ignorance really is bliss, you must have been having multiple orgasms after your inane post.

[–] JFMJJ88 11 years ago

Are you an arrogant jerk in real life or just in writing?

[–] sethgadman 11 years ago

Respectfully disagree. I respect the way you presented your diatribe, and since you felt so strongly it was valid for you to make it, but I disagree about your opinions on this film and Baumbach as a director.

If you have to attack a film such as this, you need to be familiar with its influences. For the first five minutes this felt alot like an Indie from the 90s, but as it drew on, became an obvious homage to French New Wave. Which I thought was a horribly pompous thing to do, before I realised this story centred around Brooklyn hipsters, then it seemed a perfect satirical and thematic choice.

Baumbach isn't lauding these characters, with the exception of Frances, who is so clearly the epitomé of that sort of spirit depicted in French New Wave pictures, and that these hipsters seek to emulate. After that I just enjoyed it as a series of humourous vignettes depicting Frances bumble through her life after her anchor has gone.

Frances Ha is a film for anyone who has been in love with their best friend more than the person they were sleeping with. And in that respect, is actually not a film to be laughed at, considering Frances loses the love of her life, and ends up, *bleuch*, grown up.

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[–] charlotte20 11 years ago

I thought "The Squid and the Whale" was pretty ingenious, especially when you stop and consider the clever use of metaphor. Anyway, at least Noah Baumbach is brave enough to be out there doing something worth while and stirring up conversation. I have a lot of respect for film makers, even the ones I don't like so much. But anyway, when you trash someone's work, you should at least provide reasons to back up your argument instead of superfluous adjectives that reflect feelings instead of ideas.

[–] daweller 11 years ago

I am impressed at how the OP can string adjectives together.

[–] chicago85 10 years ago

Th OP reminded me of a guy who I ran across ranting against every movie Ed Burns has made or appeared in. I came to the conclusion the guy was either rejected for a role in a Burns movie or some girl he was interested in had eyes only for Burns. And it burned the poster right down to the water line.

Sour grapes. Come back when YOU do something.

I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else

[–] chardy999 10 years ago

That is a sensational rant from the OP.

[–] jjmn 10 years ago

Your post has to be about a couple of hundred times better than this first world rich hipster moron problems waste of time flick.

[–] heyanerd 10 years ago

I could give the OP's claims validity if they were able to actually spell the name of the film correctly.
*nod*