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Life During Wartime trailer, you guys:
Poor Todd Solondz. What a grumpy old grumpus. This movie is being billed as a “sort of” sequel to Solondz’s 1998 movie, Happiness, and I suppose that makes sense, since it seems to take place about five minutes after Happiness ended, with the air still cloudy and rank with pedophile farts and the sweet decay of rotting dreams. You half expect Paul Reubens to lick a pocket knife as Weiner Dog walks by. You half expect Michael K. Williams (Omar coming! Omar coming!) to have a gratuitous sex scene with Selma Blair in a seedy hotel room. We are treading murky water here, Todd Solondz, although it somehow still looks very inviting.
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I think I can resist the Todd Solondz aspect of this (yuck, gross), but I’m not sure I can resist the Talking Heads title.
Ahh…(sigh of relief). This looks great. I was starting to get worried after Palindromes. Welcome back, Todd! I very excite (2010)!
I liked Palindromes. I liked the music, I liked the different actresses, I liked the island (tract house) of misfit toys (children), I liked the fact that the child-raping abortionist-killer has a KANSAS LICENSE PLATE. oh! that part was the best. I laughed for days.
I’m so looking forward to this. I just really enjoy his movies. Maybe I’m an asshole.
me: OH! i’m not laughing at you. I’m laughing with you.
you:….but i’m not laughing.
(you are such a loser)
I liked Palindromes for what it was. It was an interesting concept and the ambition of the structure was admirable, but it just left me a little dry. A good part of that reaction was probably due to my expectations. I like my Solondz like I like my sex: awkward, depressing and hilarious – often at the same time.
Wow, I bet the ladies are just beating a path to your door.
I would be. you have no idea.
I liked Palindromes too….kept thinking about it for days, and I always appreciate when a movie can stay in my head like that. Also, “Jesus tears.” So perfect.
I loved Palindromes. Happiness I eventually grew to love. Todd Solondz is the best. Wish I could down vote Gabe’s lack of enthusiasm for this movie
Despite the critics’ quotes they chose for the trailer, I am looking forward to seeing this.
A new Solondz film? Groovy.
I have a clarinet. Can I be in your band?
I’m confused, what is this a re-make of?
On which Parker Brothers board game is this movie based? Boggle Junior? Ants In The Pants?
I’m super unclear what this movie is about. Is it about Jews? Lady had a chai necklace on, and they’re in Florida. And all the women were kind of dowdy and had frizzy hair so I wasn’t sure who the main characters are. I basically have no idea what I just watched.
This must be just something I don’t get. I have pretty specific references I guess. That rock I was trapped under keeps holding me back..
Philip Seymour Hoffman: I’m so happy they’re making a sequel to the movie we did together!
Jane Adams: Me too! You are in no way jerking off onto a phonebook right now!
Where were the block letters drawn by hand on the title card? That’s the only way I know if the movie I’m watching is independently funded.
In spite of the all-punchline-no-plot trailer, I will see this film. Mainly because Moaning Myrtle is in it.
That trailer had no explosions or gunfights.
“Life During Wartime”= deceptive title
“Profound in its hipness?” Excuse me while I mark my calendar. Ugh.
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back and forth. forever?
“Everyone thinks I mock them, that I am cruel and condesending…its really hard on me”
~DAD
yaaaay for solondz news. Does anyone know if this will get a theatrical release?
Doubt it?
I saw Palindromes in a little art house theater.
it was the best…though I was the only one laughing.
I took some guy ,on a first date, to Storytelling.
Dude is king of the L:(L.
One of the critics is named McCarthy, which makes me think of McCarthyism, which makes me think of Communism, which makes me think of how much I want to go watch Red Dawn. Now that’s life during wartime! Harf harf harf. I seriously have no idea what’s going on in this trailer.
Welcome to the Dollhouse is my life story!!!!
Then Storyteller is my college life story!
I don’t know if i want your life…or if it deserves so many exclimation marks…
I mean, my family all died in a *spoiler alert* gas leak as well, but I’m not excited about it.*
*i am a known liar.
Yes Paul Reubens I know you would love us to forget the past but we will always remember…
how funny you were on 30 Rock
Needs more Channing Tatum.
Does anyone else think Todd Solondz and that guy from Xiu Xiu are soul mates? There should be a show called The Thematic Locator that pairs people like this. I see it going a bit like.
Solondz: So you into fantasy football?
Xiu Xiu: Sorry man, I’m in like three leagues as it is.
Extremely apt comparison. They are both artist that began their careers producing deeply personal, challenging projects and have since devolved into self-parodies. All they both seem to be concerned with now is making “shit that’s fucked up.” And that’s fucked up!
Jamie Stewart, that’s his name right? I often change my opinion about how I feel about artists that spend an entire career hammering home the same themes. You could make the argument that these two are no moe guilty than say Tarrentino and Radiohead yet have such jarring subject matter that everything seems a bit samey. Or that Radiohead know enough to change up the sound of each record in order to distract from the fact that thematic concerns are fairly down the line. But like, (and you are only going to get this ref if you are a New Jersey/New Yorker/Serios baseball fan) Alvaro Espinoza was a really terrific defensive short stop who couldn’t hit a baseball to save his life and his tenure with the Yankees was not without merit. And I guess the obvious comparison would be Morrisey who got the joke often and early enough that the moments of gravitas worked (and still work) quite well.
Either way it is interesting. Sorry for going on so long but the people on this board are more interesting than my coworkers.
Or (promise last thing) Scorcese who can do both (Casino and Goodfellas) vs (Bringing Out the Dead and New York, New York) or arguably Woody Allen (Crimes and Mis and Match Point) vs (Sweet and Lowdown and Bananas). I guess what I’m getting at is that it’s difficult to nail it on the first go around and any artist probably has to repeat himself if what he is saying has merit. Todd Solondz problem, to me at least, is that he’s willfully branding himself in order to have his movies be this sort of perverse/funny event (Why wasn’t I Molested Faggot?). When that starts happening people start to coast.
Ok done, swear. Oh and I know my spelling is terrible but I’m just not willing to open up spellcheck at this point. No disrespect, Gabe.
The long-awaited return of ALLY SHEEDY! Speaking of ’80s stars making a comeback, I just can’t take Paul Reubens seriously. I kept expecting him to yell, “I know you are but what am I?!”
“It’s all in the game.” — Life During Wartime
Three reasons I won’t see this movie:
1) This ain’t no party.
2) This ain’t no disco.
3) This ain’t no foolin’ around.
I actually saw this at the London Film Festival this year, and I thought it was Solondz’s best in years, though extremely low-key and not as broad as the trailer makes it seem. It helps if you refresh your memory of the events of Happiness first, as this film picks up a few years from where that one left off. Also, some of the casting choices are so bizarre they’re almost brilliant (namely, Jon Lovitz replaced by Omar-from-The-Wire).