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― Ponger12, Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Crystal Fairy is a nice little film. Best acting I've seen Cera do.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist -- pretty good; I'll take it over Scott Pilgrim, anyway. The drunk friend was great. Kat Dennings isn't exactly credible as the plain Jane who mothers her friend and gets taken for granted, but, you know, movies--I liked her fine, and Cera, and everyone else. The music should have been a lot better. With Chris Bell and mix-CDs, though, I wonder if there's some influence from Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mix Tape. Unlikely, but possible--the book came out Dec. 3, 2007, the movie Oct. 3, 2008. I always wonder if I ever supply-taught Michael Cera. According to IMDB, he went to two schools in the mid-'90s where I occasionally subbed.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Youth in Revolt (found a dump-bin DVD for $2) was more than a little affected, but not unwatchably so--even Cera's alter-ego was used relatively sparingly. Just like Nick & Norah above, the highlight for me might have been the friend (Adhir Kalyan). (If not him, then M. Emmet Walsh on mushrooms.) For the whole film, I was thinking I was watching a younger Portia de Rossi. There was a great song towards the end when Cera was on the run, but couldn't pick out the name in the credits. I've liked three Miguel Arteta films now to varying degrees (also Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl), and I see he did three Six Feet Unders too.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 February 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
No other thread for Nick and Norah - what a weird fucking movie. Everyone's in high school but everything about it is more reminiscent of a college movie but then I guess the virginity of the protagonists would be really weird. The fingerbanging/graphic EQ scene, good god.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
Cera has a self-effacing Broadway role in Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery -- a mediocre, broke painter who doesn't realize his work is being displayed by a woman (Elaine May) who's slipping into dementia... he keeps blaming her hearing aid. Very unshowy part despite his Masshole dialect.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
who'd have thought that Cera would be thought of more kindly than Gira these days
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
yeah, gira can go fuck himself for life
is this effectively the michael cera thread now? too bad it has that other fucker's name in the title. anyway, no michael cera thread is complete without reference to Wally Brando, his greatest and most important role
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
absolutely
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
Cera deserves credit for mostly doing weird shit that leans into his oddball screen presence, like TP:TR, Entertainment, and the Silva movies
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
he is great in This is the End
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
there's a delightful moment in Tyrel (out December 5th) where Cera, having arrived mid-way into a weekend-long house party, smirks admiringly across a table at Caleb Landry Jones' pasty white oddball character. the crown has been usurped, the sceptre knowingly passed.
― Bing The Mighty Seat (sic), Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Has Cera played really creepy roles like Gita? I can't think
― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Creepy roles like Caleb rather, too much gin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHRMpvcoLo
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Cera’s brief moments in This is the End (probably the funniest thing in the film) and Twin Peaks really stood out and warmed me to him again after that unfortunate (can’t really blame him) several year stint as the go-to charmingly awkward indie kid in some not great movies. Sounds like a good dude in interviews too. I like him.Gira was an earth shaking force throughout a lot of my life. Even New Swans felt totally vital until it... just kinda didn’t. Something to be said for just stopping. That’s not even taking into account the accusation. Idk, I’m kind ok with leaving it all behind.
― circa1916, Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpzWzaLHyZH/
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
i still love and appreciate Swans historical catalogue but I don't need to listen to anything further from him or go see him play.
― akm, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link