Away We... RUH ROH! The world's most charming preview, for Away We Go, is apparently for a movie that is less charming than it might be! "The main sin of 'Away We Go' is simple dullness," says the Liberal Web Times. And then there is a real rib-roasting of Sam Mendes in The Paper That Old People Get Delivered in Westchester.
"Away We Go" — which was directed by Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida — is, at worst, an exploration of self-absorption that is itself too self-absorbed to be either entertaining or enlightening.... To observe that they inhabit no recognizable American social reality is only to say that this is a film by Sam Mendes, a literary tourist from Britain who has missed the point every time he has crossed the ocean.But I was ready to really like it! Perhaps I will be defiant and indie and I will enjoy it as a point of hipster perversity.
RUH ROH! IndieWIRE, the indie film bible, also blasetd "The Goat of Mendes," leaving no indie way out.
blasted = blasetd
I was blasetd once. Not as fun as it looks.
It's a bit rich for any writer from the Times to complain about the depiction of "no recognizable social reality".
That's funny, my problem is the opposite of yours. I find the social reality depicted in The New Rich Times all too recognizable. Or maybe we actually have the same problem with two different names, like Phosphorus and Hesperus.
I saw a commercial for it last night and was really, really confused.
I liked it more than I thought I would. I thought it was going to suck but after about 10 mins it picks up.
Hangover was much more disappointing, just to bring up another movie with a guy from "The Office".
I really like this review. It is really true about Sam Mendes. American Beauty made me feel like I'd just seen the best, most daring film of 1965. Get a brain.
Although I'm somewhat interested to see whether this movie dislikes me as much as Funny Games dislikes me. That movie stole my date for the prom.
JK seemingly cannot pick a screenplay.
I mostly just feel like "real-life couples" should not collaborate on creative projects. There is way too much potential for people who are in luv to not shoot down each others' crappier ideas. Somehow singer/songwriter and director/actor couples can sometimes be exempt from this dictum, but not writer/writer couples, ever. Name me an exception?
Up Close and Personal, starring Redford and Pfeiffer by Didion & Dunne.
Wait, what does "exception" mean again?
Yeah, that sucked. But they also did share screenplay credits on "True Confessions" and "Panic in Needle Park."
Hmmm. How about director/director couples? Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris did "Little Miss Sunshine."
I don't think director/director counts for writer/writer evidence, but just because I actually know one - not as in *know*, like conocer, I'm just proud I held this info in my brain - Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, who directed Sugar, which I thought was pretty alright.
Ruth Gordon/Garson Kanin
CAPTAIN & TENNILLE!
(Rhymes with "thank you, try the veal.")
But what about My Life in Ruins?
I may just see it for Allison Janney.
QUITE SO!
Hey the Metro, "Boston's Largest Newspaper"(??), said it's "an excellent ride".
And I believe the previews used that quirky jittery Juno font, but then that font jumped the shark even before I saw it used on my Bank of America ATM screen this morning.
I think the lesson here might be if you have a movie coming out, wait until the newspaper reviews are in before you announce you're going to fix the newspaper industry..?
Mendes gets a pass for a while for having a naked dancing Jake Gylenhaal in a Santa hat g string in Jarhead.
What I gathered from this review is that Wes Anderson must die.
The director's cut includes more fart jokes.
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden not only did Sugar, they're responsible for Half Nelson too. I'd say they're excellent collaborators.