Day: March 10, 2014

I think you could easily fall into the “Bor-ring” side of this movie, but given your life experience and how restless you are, it might also be quite fascinating. For myself, I’ve had the kind of jobs where you go out after work and also experienced the unfortunate and hopeless coworker sexual tension that never ends well, so I was totally in.  After I finished watching, I read that the majority of the movie was improvised I was even more impressed.

Cost: $2.00 Videorama
Where watched: at home.

Um.  Where is Jake Johnson’s copious amount of facial hair? It has been excised for the poster.  Did they think the facial hair would scare people and keep them away?

Yeah, so Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman should just keep writing/directing movies together as the two things they have produced have not only been awesome, but also incredible portraits of interesting (shhh, don’t say it too loudly or it might not get made) women.  Charlize Theron is incredible as the unlikable Mavis Gary, but Patton Oswald–who was not listed on the cover and is only in a tiny picture on the back of the DVD–also was amazing.  Most of the movie was funny and tragic for seemingly no reason, but when I realized what the reason for the funny and tragic is, I wanted to boost Diablo Cody on my shoulders and parade her around the room.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home.

Poster commentary.  I hate the above poster and feel it does nothing to capture the nuance of the movie.  The one below is a tiny bit better, though still not quite up to par.  I never saw the poster below, only the one above, which is categorized as version 2.