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It’s gay life, jump into gay life. The Kids Are All Right trailer, you guys:
No homo, but this looks pretty good! It’s like Noah Baumbach without all the boring stuff to prove. (We get it, Noah Baumbach, private school was annoying.) And it has Mark Ruffalo in it. You love Mark Ruffalo! And I think this goes without saying, but it’s about time we showed upper-middle-class white people struggling with the difficulties of being so upper-middle-class and so white.
Just kidding about that last part. I feel like there are two kinds of movies these days: movies about upper-middle-class white people going through a moment of transition in their seemingly perfect lives, and Iron Man 2 (which is about a super-rich white person going through a moment of transition in his seemingly awesome life). It’s fine for me, because as a lower-to-middle-middle-class white person myself, I LOVE relating to stuff. Relating to stuff is one of our favorite things to do. “I really relate to that” you will hear us all say all the time. “No, but see, they’re gay.” Doesn’t matter, I CAN RELATE TO ANYTHING WITH A MORE THAN MODEST INCOME AND WHITE SKIN THAT ENJOYS DRINKING WINE ON PATIOS.
Oh, and SPOILER ALERT: the threesome scene at the end of this movie is HILARIOUS.
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I can relate to this too. BFF?
Let’s have brunch.
Brunch is another thing I enjoy. (Because I’m a middle-class white person, you see.) Also, I enjoy movies with Vampire Weekend in the trailers.
You’ve given yourself away as non-white, CUFK. White people don’t have brunch. They brunch. It’s definitely a verb these days.
That boy was kind of rude to Mia, I don’t care if he’s technically kinda her dad no one can deny Ruffalo’s hotness
The Vampire Weekend song during the trailer just took this past “You’ve Got Mail” on the all-time whitest movies list.
What about the Julian Casablahblahblabdnhfdczvcaxz track? And The Ruffalo? Did that skew it a little toward Italian?
Honestly I didn’t make it that far… I got this strange urge to cut coupons and stock up on mayonnaise for some reason.
The Strokes => Spider-Man soundtrack
Julian Casablancas => Kids of the Spider-Women soundtrack
Yes, but Mom, it also had Julian Casablancas!* He’s so cool.**
*whiny voice
**Fact: I will always think JC is cool. You wil never change me.
He doesn’t wash his hair. He is so cool.
My best friend looks exactly like him. He gets recognized on the street. I like my friend but fffffffuuuuuck you, JC.
Lol then there was Julian
But I loved “You’ve Got Mail”! And it’s not THAT white, after all: Dave Chappelle plays a comical sidekick friend, at hand whenever Tom Hanks needs to bitch about Meg Ryan being a “pill.” Chappelle also works for Hanks, so their friendship has a (racially, socially, etcly) awkward employer-employee dynamic, meaning we can’t trust if Chappelle likes Tom Hanks or thinks he’s the worst, if he resents his white boss’ boo-hooing about falling in love with a pre-plastic surgery nightmare Meg Ryan or enjoys it in a benignly middle-class way specific to ALL Nora Ephron stories. It’s an interesting relationship!* Well, maybe you are right.
*It isn’t an interesting relationship
The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance
The original title “The Kids are all White” tested poorly with preview audiences on account of middle class white guilt. Several movie-goers interview stated that they were more comfortable assuming that the characters probably had a black friend, or at least employed a Latino, even if that person was never seen on screen.
They probably have a picture of a black person in their wallet.
They totally showed the latino guy. Then they made fun of his face.
The did, however, enjoy the part where Sandra Bullock swoops in and saves the marriage by teaching them all how to pass block.
My white skin just got goosebumps.
The Least Greatest Story Every Told
Those wine glasses are already getting some modest Best Supporting Actor buzz.
Something something something lesbian Julianne Moore something something and I Love You Phillip Morris will probably never see a cinema release
I don’t think I’ve ever needed to see a movie more than I need to see I Love You, Philip Morris. I’m really dissapointed with society in general right now*. Why can’t you just let Ewan MacGregor and Jim Carrey be great, society?
*Stop the presses!
The two biggest threats to lesbian marriage are red wine at lunch time and kissing Ben Affleck in the rain.
to be fair, that is the threat to MOST marriages.
There is literally nothing about this trailer I can relate to other than white skin.
1) Motorcycles
Having red hair
2) Being gay
3) Being very handsome
4) Donating sperm
5) Having lesbian parents
6) Being a donated sperm baby
7) Drinking wine on the patio
Nothing.
#8′s future is so bright is has to wear shades.
Damn. Damn damn damn. Now my response mentioning the formatting error (thanks a lot smiley face, who in the gum-family commenting crowd would ever want to render a smiley face?) will surely get more attention than the original comment which I am more proud of.
Why can’t white people make a movie about these kinds of problems?
:/ I don’t know. :S I think Smiley Faces are kind of the best
what WOULD a videogum movie be about?
))((
NOOOOOOOO
I can relate to being very handsome. And having a mother with red hair.
Also wine.
I have red hair and once road on a motorcycle*!!
PAH!
*back of a scooter
The problem is that motorcycles can’t relate to me. I’m always like, “Damn it, Motorcycle! WHY DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND ME!” and then I run off and cry until my emotional issues are resolved with a montage set to an Arcade Fire song.
For me it’s the white skin and being a quarter Annette Benning. Other than that…nothing.
Very nice.
This is the opposite of getting a tan.
“Annette Bening’s haircut is gay.” – Ellen Degeneres
Ellen Degeneres Fun Fact: She hates this movie because Mark Ruffalo turns Julianne Moore un-gay.
No, she hates this movie because it takes place in America, and everyone knows Ellen Degeneres hates America.
She doesn’t hate it! She just doesn’t like it very well.
Before I watched the trailer, I was going to make a joke about how Mark Ruffalo would try to seduce Julianne Moore into becoming un-lesbian, like Chasing Amy. Then there was a scene in the trailer that kinda suggested just that? Don’t go down that road, The Kids Are All Right. Just don’t.
I don’t mean to get all serious but I will be offended if they go down that road. But it seems so fucking typical.
DRAMA!
Don’t worry, werttrew. They were probably just drunk. Drunk people do things like that.
Rejected The Who songs rejected for the title are as follows: Substitute, A Quick One While He’s Away and, my personal favorite, Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand.
I do want to see this even though the whole rich white people scenario is very super repetitive. But I like everyone in this movie! So there. What I don’t like is that in the trailer she kisses the guy? Because she likes it? Really? Do we have to do this with every gay film Hollywood? I’m pretty sure there are plenty of lesbians (gays as a whole) people with issues in their relationship without needing a penis for comfort. SERIOUSLY.
I want to see this too! I like Julianna Moore and Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska and this trailer made me smile! I’m willing to let the lesbian-kissing-a-guy thing because human sexuality is complicated and pretty much no one is 100% anything, blah blah blah #lesbiangum
Also, can we talk about how beautiful Mia is? So pretty!
She is really cute! Also #lesbiangum would be awesome (I say this as a bisexual butterfly etc)
I don’t know…I think Lesbian Gum tastes…kind of strange…
I can’t put my finger on why.
There’s a fingering pun in there somewhere.
Yes it’s right here:
“I can’t put my finger on why.”
she’s absurdly stunning. i’ll see this movie just to see if she can do things which don’t involve superfluous special effects
actually i’ll see this movie because it looks pretty good. also to look at mia!
I’m not relating to this post
The movie looks silly and I would dump it into the bargain bin at Big Lots with the rest of the cheesy RomComs. As far as the white stuff goes, I’ve said this before, I don’t get it. Have we learned nothing from Carl Sagan (haha), the human experience is the same for everyone. Why do we have to imply it is somehow more or less worthy based on race and class.
(crickets)
I thought you were being serious for a second.
No, just ideologically evasive…
Oh wow I actually thought you were serious for a sec. *phew*
I was definitely serious about the Big Lots bargain movie bin. The rest of it was sort of a bate, but after seeing people ask if it was serious, I’m kind of confused.
One question: How is this a “Nearly note perfect picture of todays modern family!”
I mean, I understand that there are gay couples raising perfectly fine children, but its not THE common thing out there, Is it? I guess I need to meet more of the neighbors.
LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD IS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE THIS THE ‘NORM’
(OOPS I accidentally posted this from my “Gay Looking Pictures of Glenn Beck File,” not my ” Glenn Beck Looking at Gay Pictures” file)
DUURRRRR, MY SWEATER HAS A FIRETRUCK.
I don’t normally post these kinds of comments, but this time, DS3M & Chareth, this time:
LOL.
Agreed. An unabashed, unmuffled, inadvertent spit-spray of a LOL. Thank the linguistic evolution from squawks and screams to full-on syntax-play, as well as the deft mind of DS3M for this post.
I’m glad they wrote “USA” on the sweater in comic Sans serif, just in case you didn’t get it based on the flag, statue of liberty, and …map of the USA.
I don’t understand the patch of tartan on the sleeve. Is that because 88% of Americans are of Scottish descent? Or perhaps an homage to that great American icon Scrooge McDuck?
It’s a place to wipe his tears where no one can see the stain.
I would like to own this sweater.
13 bucks. Email me.
It looks like something Ralph Lauren would make for the winter olympics…
i have the sweater you’re talking about!
but honestly, I think i’d much rather have this one.
Agree. i love this sweater. like hardcore. the tartan patch is my favorite part.
where can i buy this? Or do i have to beat up Glenn Beck to get it?
I’m kind of open to both options.
Well, to everyone who doesn’t think a person’s sexuality is the most important and notable thing about them, they are to perfect, normal American family.
Yea, this was posted on ontd and someone pointed out they grew up with two moms and it was very difficult for her. I mean, it’s great that they’re portrayed in this movie as ok but since it’s not normal it’s not always that easy. We can’t all be Modern Family.
I am happy that they were able to find two brave heterosexual actors to portray the lesbians in this movie. How about some Oscars over here.
Jodie Foster was busy shooting … oh, are we still not talking about that? Sorry. Never mind. Move along, nothing to see here.
White people problems are real problems. This morning I was staring at my organic yogurt, trying to determine if it had gone bad or not, and I was very, very upset. It reminded me of the time I thought I was allergic to salmon and was prepared to start carrying around benadryl so that I could have quick access immediatly upon the post-salmon hives breakout.
Fortunatly, it turned out that I’m not allergic to salmon and my yogurt was totally fine (especially after I added my frozen berries and coconut almond organic granola!
White people problems? Solved!
It was so sad they were out of agave nectar at whole foods yesterday so I have nothing to sweeten my yerba mate with
There was a closing parenthesis in there, I swear, right before the unnecessary exclamation marks. (Nearly all exclamation marks are unnecessary. So why do I use them? Internet peer pressure.)
I’m black and I had the SAME EXACT PROBLEM. True proof that we are living in post-racial America.
But then I went to the supermarket and an old white lady thought I worked there
Old white ladies think everyone works everywhere. I honestly ran into a (white) friend last night walking around the grocery store (co-op) with an old lady, helping her find everything on her list. She does not work there.
This is very true. My grandma’s white and she does the same thing. She also talks to everyone. Oh, old people.
In that old lady’s defense, co-ops always have the most complicated floor plans and you inevitably end up in the bulk grains section and you can’t find your way out so then you buy 3 lbs of quinoa that you will probably never use.
Now we’re getting into the serious white people problems.
It’s a Blindness reunion! Will it have a terrorscape gang rape scene?
No, but there will be a dog that licks tears. At every movie theater.
Let us hope for a small budget for false fecal matter.
I found this preview pretty unrelatable. I drink my wine on a deck, not a patio.
There is something about seeing Julianne Moore smiling that makes me irrationally angry.
I saw her at a YouTube after party at Sundance (long story short, last day of ski trip turned “let’s crash the YouTube afterparty at Sundance), and yes, seeing her talking to a bunch of directors/artists/whatever sucking up to her made me want to vomit all my free booze. By the way she’s really short.
I know that skateboard accidents don’t necessarily equal trampoline accidents, NEVERTHELESS, I think The Kids Are Alright’s inclusion of some sort of falling-on-pavement-related accident merits a VG Movie Club status for this.
Looks like a better lit version of Chasing Amy.
Yikes. 14,526 cringes in 2:27. A new record for me personally.
Could this be the first trailer to be WMOATed?
is that the little girl from jurassic park??
no, it’s Annette Bening.
Margot at the Wedding 2: The Gayening?
Godamn rug-munchers.
I am going to make this point one more time and then I’m going to drop it. My best friend killed herself. She was white and middle class. Diminishing the validity of her problems isn’t very funny to me. That’s it.
WHATEVER gabe, i love noah baumbach. my family stress and disillusionment with my life requires sweater vests and milan kundera references to feel authentic!
gabe, usually i’m a big fan of your witty banter, but i’ve got to say, i don’t think i would necessarily try to call this movie out for pandering to the complaints of white, upper middle class life. sure, that’s probably a minor element of the conflict in this movie, but i think you probably could’ve hopped on something a little more relevant, like the fact that a. it’s about a gay couple b. there’s a deadbeat dad c. who’s also a sperm donor 4. who inexplicably gets cast in a positive light, despite the fact that he sort of seems like a bum and looks like he’s tearing these peoples’ marriage apart.
then again, its not my website. a rare miss, delahaye. a rare miss.