Maybe this helps?
2.5 hours for a comedy is fucking insane. A movie really has to earn that run time. Still trying to slog through this last 40 minutes of donāt look up.
Oh goddamn you just blew my mind here. Because youāre bringing up the ending of Starship Troopers, which is kind of on point except that Starship Troopers is the greatest satire of all time. And that exact scene is what brings it all together. Itās totally vapid, everyone ends up with exactly the wrong person, and the unease is prodding the viewer into a are we the baddies type moment.
Which makes me thinkā¦is Love, Actually, Actually a satire? Because all the āloveā in the movie is like a 12 year old boyās idea of love. Romantic gestures, love at first sight, whatever. Then the Jojen plotline is ACTUALLY about a childās idea of love. A little on the nose, right!!!
I donāt think it is a satire, or if it is, itās a failed one. Because a satirical movie needs to work as a regular movie on some level. Like, Starship Troopers is a perfectly cromulent shoot em up sci fi action movie. Dr Strangelove is a perfectly good cold war thriller. Whatever.
Although the fact that itās generally regarded as a classic means that it IS successful on a superficial level. Goddamn it. Do I have to rewatch Love, Actually to figure out if itās a satirical masterpiece?
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The script was clearly written for an older man in Grantās role, they cast Grant and were then too lazy to rewrite the script. The script makes clear that the PM is Emma Thompsonās older brother, and Grant is younger than she is.
I really donāt think itās a satire butā¦ it is probably closer to working as that than it is to working as a straightforward movie. The movie plays the line āhey if we canāt tell each other the truth at CHRISTMAS, when CAN we tell the truth?ā completely straight on multiple occasions, which is likeā¦ I mean if you just told me that and nothing else about the movie I would be like ālol this movie is 100% trolling youā.
The Jojen plotline is striking to me as well because its this weedy 11 year old kid and youāre like āaww, how is the movie going to let him down gentlyā but then it just kind ofā¦ works? Like the message is āthe most naive possible infatuation is a highway directly to romantic successā and this message is repeated in the PM and language barrier plotlines. Meanwhile the message of the Laura Linney plotline is like, are you a damaged person? Do you have incredibly difficult shit going on in your life? BZZZZT sorry you fail, love isnāt something that can OVERCOME OBSTACLES lol, fuck off.
So itās amazing that itās not a dark satire. A Verhoeven remake wouldnāt need to change very much to make it awesome.
Solid meh. Some really funny parts. Overlong and heavy handed.
RT score seems about right
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Hard to respond, because sheās not sure when the movies were from. Insanely specific guess: āMy best guess is the same age as Harold & Kumar when that movie came outā.
Doesnāt look like any of them. [My guess is that theyāre too current and sheās thinking about older movies.] Heās not hot. Kind of nerdy.
I know itās not Adam Driver, but curlier hair than Adam Driver? Skinnier than Adam Driver? On a scale of skinniness from Adam Driver to Timothy Chalamet, how skinny are we talking here? On a scale of Adam to Tim, how curly hair are we talking here?
Curlier hair, much less muscly, and not as good looking. (Adam Driver is not that good looking - her words, not mine.) And heās nerdy looking (the guy sheās thinking of).
āI can picture him in a movie. I just donāt know that movie. Heās wearing a suit jacket.ā
Adam Driver is not that good looking but he is hot.
Jesse Eisenberg was my guess, but no.
I think the skin is darker. āAnd heās completely wrong.ā [not helpful.]
Too hot, and not curly haired enough, but is this about the right skin tone?
This is the overall look. Hair is not good (not curly enough), but I could see him wearing this. [This is obviously all her words.]
āIām wondering if he doesnāt exist and I made him up.ā
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Showed our 7yr old Gremlins today and she fucking ate it up. Picking up on the scores treatment of Xmas songs she, on her own, starts singing āfa la la la laā¦.Every one will dieā even hitting every as 1/8th notes to fit the time signature. I almost died of Joy.
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I almost posted Adrian Grenier but heās not thin enough, not tall, not in any movies, and doesnāt really have curly hair. Sheād just say itās that doucebag from Entourage.
Geoffrey Arend?
Penn Badgley isnāt tall and is most known for playing a serial murderer on a Netflix show but thatās the best I can come up with.
