 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 Now online (1)recycle ...and 219 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2618565 Today 4 Topics 127845 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Anyone seen this? It's on tonight, I want to know if it's worth staying up for. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
mm i dont like the title.. uh oh yeah never seen it.. so i dunno you could watch it if your really bored i guess... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I've seen it. I liked it - but it's rather painful to watch in places. The subject matter is kind of tough and the director uses anxious tension to great advantage. It took guts to make this film ... don't watch it if you want some light viewing. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ohhhh yes definitely watch it. best line ever is towards the end during the conv. with the father and son |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it's incredibly transparent and pretentious.. I wasn't the least bit affected by it. don't buy into it.. it's a joke |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it's really 'enjoyable' to watch. very intense. i've seen it twice, and i'll never watch it again. but, prolly worth watching once. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it's really = it's not really |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It's a black depressing hell-pit of a movie with a core of human misery, like a cyanide flavored tootsie pop with drano crystals in the center. I like it! I understand Welcome to the Dollhouse is also very good. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
What, it wasn't authentic enough for you? Go watch some Holocaust footage you zany nutbar. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I loved it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it was terrible. * 1/2 (out of *****) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it is good. you should watch it. it's a funny film. not much more. (so how you can say it's pretentious, I have no idea) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i thought it was funny |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yes, you already said that. never really said why, though. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I don't really remember any specifics.. I just remember being annoyed at a lot of stilted dialogue and an overt attempt to be shocking.. that's all this movie was.. a big "look at me" / "make me feel important, daddy!" cry.. so fucking what some little boys got touched in your movie?? that's all it gets its undeserved attention for.. bloah blah blah we've all heard the story of hidden decay behind the happy suburban facade.. nothing new.. I wasn't shocked.. I was annoyed .. esp. because I knew a lot of people were going to buy its gimmick and laud it for all the reasons the director, todd solonz, wanted everyone to. I take away that 1/2 *. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
if you're into shitty, stagey movies based entirely around gimmicks (esp. those of the ultra-fallible variety), I recommend any/everything m. night shamaylan (that's not his real name by the way..) has done |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I never saw it like that. I wasn't shocked by it at all. seems to me like you're focusing much to much on all the hype that surrounded the film. how can you take it that seriously? it's so overtly over the top! it's a big comic strip! but I did think it was very funny - which is pretty good in my mind. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
watch it! it's great, really funny if you're into that kind of humour... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hmm.. I might be missing some of the context.. I didn't see the whole thing :/ am I thinking of "Storytelling"? or is that the one where he tries to get people with the black professor that fucks a white student and makes her call him nigger? that made me gaassspp!! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
that doesn't sound like 'Happiness'... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
that's "Storytelling", yes. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
dude one of the funniest movies i had seen in a while... 'i cummed' 'is yer pussy all, uh, wet, uahauh' yeah... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i like the shock value i guess...... i still found it funny |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It's really funny eventhough the subject matter is very serious. I love the scene where the father tells of his dream where walks into a park with an M4 and mows people down. "What's different this time?" "This time I didn't kill myself at the end." or something.. It is worth seeing. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Thanks. I will watch it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
good! tell us if you enjoyed it or not. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
enter the lone dissenter. i thought there was very little about this film that was funny. i have difficulty understanding that people find humor in what seems relentlessly uncomic and misanthropic. there are a few (tragi-)comic moments (a lonely woman makes a date with a lonely, socially inept crank caller who uses remote humiliation and dirty talk as a sexual stimulus, then when they meet, there is a long, awkward silence, and as the crank caller edges towards the woman, she suddenly says "this isn't working..."), but otherwise the film's obsession with misery is like a two hour symphony in which the same miserable chord repeats over and over. at times the film is successful in revealing the hidden depths of unfulfilled desires that fuel human unhappiness, but it lingers on those depths with a self-absorbed prurience and schadenfreude. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
at times the film is successful in revealing the hidden depths of unfulfilled desires that fuel human unhappiness, but it lingers on those depths with a self-absorbed prurience and schadenfreude. didn't understand much of that mumbo-jumbo, but I think that 'Happiness' is a really funny picture! sure, it's tragic and dark, but I still think it's meant to be funny. just watch it, and allow yourself to laugh... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
well worth staying up for and watching and recording to watch again sometime.. it was one of the DVD's I bought..infact one of the things to inspire us to buy a DVD player cuz it was not available on VHS.. now I can't find Storytelling in any of the shops.. grrr... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
and then go and track down and find Welcome to the Doll's House... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
aw shit I was thinking of 'Storytelling' too. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
again, seems to me a case of taking the film too seriously. the film is ridiculous in how sad and lonely all the people are, it's stylized. that gives it breathingspace, which allows for a lot of humour to creep in. about the 'schadenfreude' - you could see it like that, although that does seem to be a part of the film's message. there you are laughing at all these sad people and suddenly you see how it refers back to reality and probably your own life. in it's depiction for 'schadenfreude' you could say it's being pretty honest - that's how the world works at times. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i loved it...i would love to see it in a cinema some time - seems really appropriate for the big screen and the actors - the best part of the film imo, but im sure solondz had a lot to do with that as well |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
well, he did write and direct the film. :) but it is an "actors film", yes, so it does work because of the great cast. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
directED.. sheesh.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I did see it in the movie theatre and the scene near the beginning with Jon Lovitz was the most excruciating bit of cinema I've ever sat through. It's hard to explain, but I was literally squirming in my seat... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i put it a bit wrong there - what i meant was that solondz must've had quite some impact on actors... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ok, now i have to see it in a theatre :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I saw it in the theatre too when it came out. all film is essentially meant to be seen on the big screen and this is no different. well, some films really need to be seen in film theatres - LoTR, Star Wars, etc. :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"LoTR, Star Wars, etc" havent seen none of those yet :) dont go to movies much...the kind of movies i prefer comes to our cinemas like once or twice per month...except when it's a local film festival (like the one right now!!!) then i get to see many i like :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Well put sir qrter - I'll also add that the characters were humanized by the brutality of their portrayal - a far cry from the usual bulletproof stainproof humans in american films - you never quite get under Kevin Spacey's skin in American Beauty, or feel convinced by Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt, to cite two films that are on a similar but less extreme tangent - |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I especially liked the end where the kid masturbates and cums on the balcony than the dog licks it up and then the goody goody mom kisses the dog on the mouth at the dinner table.... hilarious. Great film! If you didn't find this movie funny then you must be a Jerry Lewis fan. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I thought the new star wars sucked compared to the old ones. They are so digital looking and everyone is a kid. It's like a disney movie with robots. The older ones were all models done by ILM. So much more real than the polished digital look. The robot vocals were better in the first, too. Better analog ring mods. Again, no digital. The new ones look like kiddie films. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
qrter true, i do take films seriously, but only when i think it is warranted. i find it difficult to believe that a film that depicts the degree of pain and degradation that "happiness" does, including the sexual exploitation of a child, *can* be taken so lightly, as if it were all a smug in-joke. fleet, i cannot agree that the "brutality of their portrayal" could have "humanized" the characters, though the performances in and of themselves were mostly stunning. i am more than willing to agree to disagree, and i recognize that there is no one here who agrees with my perspective, nevertheless i stand by my comments and short critique of the film. next you'll be telling me that "kids" was hilarious. ; ) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
now "kids" I loved. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
happiness is the most sick, fucked up movie i've ever seen. yeah, definately check it out. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you havent seen many then eh? :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ugh, "kids", now that I didn't like much. if we're talking about films made for their shock-value.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
happiness is a great film. it has one of the best opening scenes ever (with john lovitz getting dumped)! storytelling is also great. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I like Kids. Happiness, too, but I think it might be cut some for television, depending. I finally ordered Ken Park yesterday too. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
