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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2011 20:07:02 GMT -4
And the other bridesmaids didn't know Annie that well, Ellie met her for the first time at the engagement party and Rita hadn't seen her in years. They were much closer to Lillian than Annie. Also, if they were like me when I was a bridesmaid, they'd just as soon avoid getting involved in any drama and avoid the situation entirely. When I was in my brother's wedding I figured it was my job to wear what I was told, show up when and where I was told, and otherwise keep my mouth shut.
This. Also, it's a comedy. Exploding in a ball of expletives and violence to pastries is a lot funnier than biting ones tongue or trying to be nice and talk about it calmly.
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Post by satellite on Oct 28, 2011 12:52:51 GMT -4
I just rented this and didn't find it that funny. I thought it was well written, but I think the main characters were too old or something, so it just didn't sit right with me. Like Annie's in her mid-30s and still doing the f-buddy thing? Really?
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Post by Ginger on Oct 29, 2011 16:26:53 GMT -4
I just saw this on an airplane, and I didn't find it that funny either, but I still thought it was great even though I never laughed out loud like I was expecting to.
I saw that as the whole point of the movie. She's in her 30s and can't get any aspect of her life together, and that's why she's so sad. If she were in her early 20s, her career problems and relationship problems would be no big deal because that's normal.
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Post by LurkerNan on Oct 30, 2011 16:08:29 GMT -4
I just rented this and didn't find it that funny. I thought it was well written, but I think the main characters were too old or something, so it just didn't sit right with me. Like Annie's in her mid-30s and still doing the f-buddy thing? Really? You'd be surprised how many mid-30s women are still doing the fuck-buddy thing, no matter how much they wish things were going differently for them. It's a hard cycle to break, especially when there are no alternative men orbiting their lives. I'd say the same was true for men, but I really think the fuck-buddy thing favors guys, because they can coast through to their 40s and then decide to marry some younger woman and have a family, while the women with whom they spent many years casually sleeping have trouble having kids past 40. Almost ALL of my lifelong friends are single and childless because of the fuck-buddy process, and even the ones who eventually got married can't have kids. Seriously - ALL of them, including my sister. I've got the only kid among 10 women I can think of who I hung around with in my 20-30s. Let me tell you this - my husband gave me that "I'm not the marrying kind" bullshit, right before I threw a plate at his head and told him he had better become the "marrying kind". And at the time we had been lving together for 5 years in a house we bought together. So some guys will never make the first step you want them to... be prepared to be kind of aggressive about it, for both your sakes. Anyway, back to the movie - One thing about this movie I thought was annoying was the whole stream-of-consciousness dialogue... in went on for too damn long in many scenes. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2011 16:51:20 GMT -4
As my mother said, "Some men don't know they want to get married until you tell them they do." She's the one who said to my dad, "So we're getting married right?" And six weeks later they were married (mom doesn't mess around.)
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Post by satellite on Oct 30, 2011 17:58:00 GMT -4
I just rented this and didn't find it that funny. I thought it was well written, but I think the main characters were too old or something, so it just didn't sit right with me. Like Annie's in her mid-30s and still doing the f-buddy thing? Really? You'd be surprised how many mid-30s women are still doing the fuck-buddy thing, no matter how much they wish things were going differently for them. It's a hard cycle to break, especially when there are no alternative men orbiting their lives. I'd say the same was true for men, but I really think the fuck-buddy thing favors guys, because they can coast through to their 40s and then decide to marry some younger woman and have a family, while the women with whom they spent many years casually sleeping have trouble having kids past 40. Almost ALL of my lifelong friends are single and childless because of the fuck-buddy process, and even the ones who eventually got married can't have kids. Seriously - ALL of them, including my sister. I've got the only kid among 10 women I can think of who I hung around with in my 20-30s. Yeah, I mean I've been there myself, but I had the good sense to be ashamed of it, I guess? Like I wouldn't even talk about my former f-buddy to girlfriends in serious relationships, because I didn't want to seem like a loser, and I guess deep down I knew the guy was an asshole. Annie was cynical, but not naive per se. I think the fact that Jon Hamm's character was financially successful sweetened the deal there. |
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Post by kostgard on Oct 30, 2011 18:14:06 GMT -4
I just saw this myself, and I think a big point of the movie was that Annie was suffering from a sort of arrested development. She took a stab at being a grown-up when she opened the bakery, and when that failed she basically said "screw it" slid into a depression and went back to being a kid (and it seems that she didn't go about the bakery thing in a completely adult manner since she apparently built no safety net for herself). I mean, she drives that POS car, she lives with roommates who are not her friends and it's probably an "answered an ad on Craig's List" thing, and she had a crap retail job she hated and apparently only got that one through her mother. She couldn't afford a decent 10-15 year old car? She couldn't have gotten a job that she would enjoy - like at another bakery or as the pastry chef for a restaurant? Or go to culinary school to make herself more marketable? She did none of that.
I think she allowed herself to slowly go down hill like that because it didn't really hurt her, but then her best friend moving forward with life without her pushed her down to the edge, and then Helen came by, sniffed out her weaknesses, and shoved her right off the edge. And Annie let her do it.
I thought this movie was funny, but not the funniest thing ever. It did say some interesting things about friendship and how someone like Annie can just slowly but surely slide down hill without really noticing until it is too late, and how someone like Helen can "have it all" but be just as messed up (she didn't have any female friends because she either smothered them or competed with them).
Melissa McCarthy totally stole the show. I thought the other two bridesmaids would be more involved, but they kinda faded away after they made out with each other on the plane.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2011 19:42:03 GMT -4
They definitely could have gotten funnier stuff out of them. That kissing scene was dumb. Totally agree about Melissa McCarthy. I just liked it because it was a best friend movie.  (And because that bit of Maya Rudolph in the wedding dress in the middle of the street was the funniest grossout scene ever.) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2011 0:16:28 GMT -4
There will be a sequel, right? There is no way with this much success, they don't drive this into the ground. I'm guessing Melissa M will marry the air marshal and hilarity will ensue?
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Post by bitca on Oct 31, 2011 13:58:52 GMT -4
That's her husband in real life, so I think it'd be kinda cute.
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(And because that bit of Maya Rudolph in the wedding dress in the middle of the street was the funniest grossout scene ever.)