Bridesmaids

[WitchyPoo]

May 17, 2011 22:42:23 GMT -4 @huntergrayson said:

My only quibble is that they made Melissa McCarthy soooo unattractive. She was so pretty on Gilmore Girls! Fun fact: her paramour in the film is her real-life husband.

What a neat bit of trivia. Holy hell, that last scene during the credits. She's so fantastically funny!

I just got back from seeing this. Half my eye makeup is gone from the tears running down my face. I almost peed my pants during Maya's street scene in her wedding dress.

Very funny. with sweet moments but not sappy at all.

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I forgotten how much I loved Wiig. None of her non-celeb recurring characters on SNL interest me anymore, so I was starting to resent her. For anyone who didn't see Whip It, she was great in that - and surprisingly dramatic.

I agree about Whip It!, she was awesome in that. She was good in Extract too. In fact I think she's better in movies than she is on SNL, and I still like her on SNL (unpopular opinion I know.)

[huntergrayson]

I still like her - I just think all her non-celeb recurring characters are awful. Except the Target Lady, who isn't used enough. I've heard she was excellent in Paul. I, uhm, apparently don't remember Extract at ALL because I have no memory of her being in it. I actually passed the DVD case while in the store and couldn't remember anything beyond "Jason Bateman is in this and my mom and I redboxed it? "

ETA: My absolutely favorite skit of hers was when Alec Baldwin hosted a few years back and they're in a carpooling - one of them says an innocuous statement and the other remarks, completely deadpan, upon it in a horrible way, culminating in "well, as Bobby Darin says, 'don't worry, be happy' " being responded to with "Bobby Darin raped my grandmother!". It's the ONLY time I've ever seen Alec laugh so hard that he nearly breaks character and has to cover by doing an awkward covering his mouth gesture. I can't find it on YouTube anywhere but if you have Netflix Streaming or Hulu Plus or want to browse NBC.com, it's Season 32, Episode 5 according to SNL Transcripts. Which, upon watching it now, I realize is also her first Nancy Pelosi cold-open, which I still find funny. PALOMINO!

Double ETA: What the fuck? The carpool sketch isn't there? Did Celine Dion and Bobby McFarin sue?

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She was really good in Paul. That's an underrated movie, I was surprised the reviews were so bad.

She's not doing Gilly or Penelope anymore, and those were my least favorite of her characters. Except for Garth and Kat. I HATE that. Those bits always go on for way too long and they're just. Not. Funny.

[huntergrayson]

Awesome - director Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy went to celebrate the news of the huge Friday numbers by going to see it at the theatre after-dinner on Saturday, only to happily discover that the director and a star of the film can't get in because it's completely sold-out!

They were, needless to say, super happy.

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Just got back home after seeing it with my awesome ex from San Francisco, walking against the mobs of Canuckleheads exiting the hockey game and loved every minute of it. Tim Heidecker as Maya's fiancé, in an entirely nonspeaking role, had me wetting myself. LOVE Melissa McCarthy ever since she rocked "The Nines" so hard with Ryan Reynolds. Loved all the supporting cast. But... Not to get too TMI, but last year at exactly this time I got my li'l heart ground up by someone very much like Jon Hamm's character, so those parts were more ouchy than funny for me. God, he's gorgeous, though. Kristen was perfect, too, and how weird was it to relate -- REALLY relate -- with a female character so unlike me and yet... Ultimately very much like me. As my ex, Tim, mentioned as we walked and discussed the dickwaddery of Hamm's character... "Don't worry, some day YOUR Chris O'Dowd will stop you on the street."

I'll settle for Chris O'Dowd. Highly recommended movie.

[huntergrayson]

Me too! It isn't just a "chick flick with vomit" because it also is highly relatable by gay dudes! (We were basically fuck buddies years after we broke up but he would, like, never let me go to his place because he didn't want his roomies to know we still saw each other. And he would constantly insist that it was JUST SEX and ONLY PHYSICAL and basically forbid me from feeling anything emotional and yet? He would be the one to call/text me EVERY YEAR on our Aniversary. He's dead to me now).

I know comedy gets short shrift at Awards Time but The Hangover won the fricking Golden Globe, so I would like to see Wiig & Annie Mumulo get some recognition. How good is the script? It makes SEX WITH JON HAMM seem like a poor life choice. That's good writing.

And I'm pretty sure adorably Irish is the only type of UK/former UK Empire dude I haven't banged, so bring on my O'Dowd as well.

Despite my Ryan love and my John August love and your rec, I still haven't seen The Nines. It just went to the Top of the Instant Queue!

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OMG, huntergrayson, you MUST see "The Nines"! McCarthy, Hope Davis and that Reynolds slob? Oh, OH!!! It's far from a perfect movie and I *so* hate new-agey/faithy mumbo-jumbo -- yet "The Rapture" is still one of my Top Ten -- but, like diamonds, what makes "The Nines" more precious is its flaws. But the intersection of three entertainment-industry storylines in the myth plane is irresistible. It's in my Top Ten, too. Although, if truth be told, I think my Top Ten actually numbers closer to 17.

[huntergrayson]

Wait, Hope Davis? HOPE DAVIS!?

Have you ever watched "In Treatment"? Her season two arc was one of the most brilliant pieces of acting I have ever seen in any medium.

(I'm trying to see God of Carnage here in LA with her, Marcia Gay Harden, Galdofini & Jeff Daniels before it closes at the end of the month).

Topic?: My favorite review snippet was from NY Mag: "Super-coiffed and dressed in microminis to show off her coltish legs, Wiig emerges as a likable hybrid of Jennifer Aniston and Lucille Ball — i.e., what many of us hoped Aniston would be." True and an excellent BURN to Blandiston's always settling for comic mediocrity.

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One more thing about Hope Davis and "The Nines" before we return to your regularly-scheduled topic. While both she and McCarthy play utterly pivotal characters (six of them between the two) in the stories/story, when the puzzle pieces start falling into place, Davis leaves you breathless.

Yeah, "Bridemaids". I hafta say, I was more than a little sad seeing the criminally-underused Jill Clayburgh onscreen. She was great but... she was an untouchable superstar in the '70s and really deserved above-the-title roles until the moment she passed.

Really, "Bridesmaids" had so much comic talent reining their worst tendencies in and providing the perfect terrain through which the leads traveled. Director Paul Feig spun every plate perfectly, and if you look at his IMDb credits, he's responsible for my fave epsiodes of "Nurse Jackie", "Parks & Recreation" and "Arrested Development", too.