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Post by politicidal on Mar 9, 2023 17:39:58 GMT
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Mar 10, 2023 0:00:43 GMT
I get the feeling the twist is already given away in the title.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Mar 10, 2023 0:35:04 GMT
Sounds like a boring premises.
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Post by forca84 on Mar 10, 2023 4:56:16 GMT
I like JLaw... I'd watch it.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 10, 2023 11:22:27 GMT
Not the kind of comedy I would normally be interested in, but J Law's presence might make the difference.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 10, 2023 13:33:56 GMT
Odd choice of film for Lawrence, it seems like a role for an up and comer.
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Post by Nora on Mar 10, 2023 13:51:37 GMT
hmm, 32 yo sleeping with a 19 yo - if it was a man in her role, I wonder if they were labelled a predator?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 10, 2023 16:44:07 GMT
hmm, 32 yo sleeping with a 19 yo - if it was a man in her role, I wonder if they were labelled a predator? Regardless of age - can you imagine a comedy about parents who hire a man to "date" their shy daughter who's a virgin and doesn't like partying?
It's a double standard, but not one that particularly bothers me.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 10, 2023 17:59:20 GMT
Odd choice of film for Lawrence, it seems like a role for an up and comer. Perhaps she wanted to have some fun. Or maybe one of her associates was like "hey do this movie cuz people kind of think you're unlikable". |
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Post by Nora on Mar 10, 2023 19:25:32 GMT
hmm, 32 yo sleeping with a 19 yo - if it was a man in her role, I wonder if they were labelled a predator? Regardless of age - can you imagine a comedy about parents who hire a man to "date" their shy daughter who's a virgin and doesn't like partying?
It's a double standard, but not one that particularly bothers me.
exactly, total double standard. (but i will watch it and probably like it) |
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Post by darkpast on Mar 11, 2023 1:27:22 GMT
Odd choice of film for Lawrence, it seems like a role for an up and comer. |
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Post by Sarge on Mar 15, 2023 22:37:40 GMT
Watched the trailer last night and he's the standard milquetoast white boy zoomer. She's a down on her luck 30-something that will do anything to pay the rent. She comes on to him in creepy, slutty, stalkerish, way that turns off males of any generation and is shocked he doesn't respond. Eventually her crazy antics draw him out of his shell and he becomes more assertive. I got bored just watching the trailer.
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Post by moviemanjackson on Jun 25, 2023 12:04:15 GMT
Watched this yesterday morning. It's a cute watch with some laughs, not hilarious from start to finish but have seen worse comedies. JLaw can totally be the lead in a rom-com, and she commits to the role, the movie just needed better comedic writing because while I think she can be funny, she's not inherently funny (i.e. can't improvise comedy).
First two acts move good and are balanced nicely, last act drags until like the last 10 minutes. Probably would say a 6, maybe a 6.5/10.
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Post by Nora on Jun 28, 2023 1:45:10 GMT
i enjoyed it quite a lot. 7/10 from me. Loved the parents characters 🤣
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Post by Ransom on Jun 28, 2023 12:56:43 GMT
Odd choice of film for Lawrence, it seems like a role for an up and comer. Was anyone disputing their bank balance? |
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Post by bluerisk on Jun 29, 2023 14:04:59 GMT
I like Lawrence but her last movies were rather misses. But this one was ok.
7/10 with a trend up.
SPOILER AHEAD!
I really enjoy it and she really nailed her part in a premise that otherwise makes no sense. Like the ending: she sells the house she did everything for to her friends, who will be faced with the very same problem.
And this issue is an real one for many people who are squeezed out by gentrification.
She is funny and sexy.
Her two friends are also a good addition, and so are the two parents who hire her.
Only the male lead is odd, but so is the premise.
In regard of the controverse:
Everyone seems to have a problem with the age gap, but no one that Lawrence's character is actually acting as hired prostitute. In a country like the US where it is illegal what leads to Kraft, Watson Epstein and Co.
In a country that has sold itself to capitalism, one forbids the oldest profession of men. In ancient times it was even a duty - in some cultures - to provide such services in order to generate income for the state or a temple.
In this movie it is ok to provide this service (or to sell out the female body - in metoo wording - but Jesus: she is too old!!!
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PS: I'm writing this with my damn cell phone. Something I'm absolutely not used to.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jul 18, 2023 22:09:39 GMT
Odd choice of film for Lawrence, it seems like a role for an up and comer. I don't understand the significance of that list |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jul 18, 2023 22:10:20 GMT
Thought it was meh. I think I have it a 6/10 on IMDb.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jul 28, 2023 2:52:45 GMT
Regardless of age - can you imagine a comedy about parents who hire a man to "date" their shy daughter who's a virgin and doesn't like partying?
It's a double standard, but not one that particularly bothers me.
(but i will watch it and probably like it)Did anyone see Red Rocket from 2021? I viewed it twice in the theater and found it "very good," about as good as any other movie from that year. Indeed, it offers an extremely raunchy, daring situation that would place any "controversial" aspect from No Hard Feelings to shame. (And of course, Red Rocket did not receive any Oscar or Golden Globe nominations, although it did fare well among critics societies and on the film festival circuit.) But, yes, there is certainly a double standard at play, as also seen in Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021). That film also proved "very good" and received three major Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay), which Red Rocket certainly did not. The discrepancy cannot entirely be attributed to the gendered double standard, as the Academy makes all kinds of dubious decisions for all sorts of reasons, and Red Rocket is probably just too raw and darkly comedic for Oscar voters anyway. But, yes, Red Rocket is politically incorrect in a way that No Hard Feelings and the much better Licorice Pizza are not (incongruously enough). |
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