Little Miss Sunshine must be the best movie ever made, right?

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I didn't like Slums of Beverly Hills too much, but I don't think I've seen ANY of the other Arkin films you listed, so I have already set my mind to watching a few of them! I appreciate the recommendation! I don't know that I've seen too many road trip movies, but I was never a fan of the NL Vacation movies. LMS reminded me more of The Out of Towners than anything else I can think of. (Obviously, I am not talking about the Steve Martin version!)

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

SPOILER

both movies even have dead grandparent in the car!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 6 August 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, way to ruin it. Do you think there's one person who didn't read that spoiler? You can read it in your peripheral vision without even trying.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i do not feel sorry for you.

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

spoilerized me before it was too late :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would you feel sorry for me? I've already seen it. I feel sorry for anyone who reads this thread before seeing the movie and I'm sorry I started it. I sort of thought I must be behind the curve as usual on this one and that everyone had already seen it.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

This is still the best "road + family angst" movie:

http://filmbrain.typepad.com/filmbrain/harrytonto3.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

the last roadfamilyangst movie i really liked was probably The Day Trippers. Even though they didn't go that far. And Kingpin of course.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 7 August 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

daytrippers is great.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

just finished watching this one. it's cute. the ending is pleasant.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 7 August 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, this has to be the silliest "best movie ever made" proclamation I've read. The screenplay is about as cloying and banal as any other Sundance indie 'hit'. The story unfolds too fast and unevenly. Even the pretty great comedic performances from Arkin, Kinnear, Carrell and the little girl couldn't save this from seeming pretty half-hearted. The sitcom comparisons are spot-on.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

come on dude steve carrell is the finest actor of our generation

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw this movie for free because fox was sponsoring free showings in my town. i went with my girlfriend. they made us turn off our cell phones and made sure we didn't have cameras, and then the movie began. it was good, but the audience around us kept on laughing at little bits of the movie that weren't very funny, so i guess most people will like it. the acting is good, as well as most of the writing. i guess the only problem i have with this movie is the story, but that's just me. definitely a good free movie :)

― Han P (hansterp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

some super-funny moments, and the roadtrip parts had great tone and pretty honest heart; the end was sort of boring and the teenager was kind of a beat character, but kinnear and carrell and collette were all really good.

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

it was pretty funny

The trailer makes it look very twee/indie (like that Thumbsucker movie last year).

definitely way the hell better than Thumbsucker

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got Thumbsucker in from netflix. :(

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

best use of a broken VW van horn i've ever seen in a movie. i really liked it.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OSARS AHOY.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

This movie isn't as grebt as ppls say. Still cuet tho. I would like this to be the death knell for the sundanceTM coming of age/offbeat humor/nebulous era/audience-pleasing filmTM... but it won't be.

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 20 August 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link

joining the cute-but-slight chorus, but it was pretty funny. typically, I've never watched the Office, so was (somewhat) impressed with Carell (not his fault, but the #1-Proust-scholar thing was overdone). sorry to Toni C. for being somewhat distracted from her performance by her gorgeousness.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it is cute, but just cute. also: Steve Carrell is beautiful in it. the beard really works for him.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

ILE apparently more tolerant of street teams than ILM.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Basically a mediocre movie saved by really strong performances.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

steve carrell is the finest actor of our generation

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The little girl is awesome, I just want to wrap her up in croissant dough and bake her in the oven.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry to Toni C. for being somewhat distracted from her performance by her gorgeousness

dude so true

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

awful awful ad compaign

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It's this year's Napoleon Dynamite

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't imagine where the desire to go see this is coming from for people. Dysfunctional families, beauty pageants, and a road trip? Depressing that this is the only type independent film people go see/gets produced anymore. I'm sure the cast is good though.

― theodore (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

best ensemble cast in recent whatever.

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"Depressing that this is the only type independent film people go see/gets produced anymore."

and they are all made by rich rock video makers. okay, not all. it just feels like it sometimes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Best movie ever made and you know it. By the way, I'm also the "street team" for Hawkwind over on ILM.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

life sux 4 u, huh :(

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

keep trying

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

suri.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

How could life sux 4 me if I like something you don't? Don't go in circles trying to figure it out. It's the best movie ever made. Suri jpeg and all!

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

you're forgetting something... Battlefield Earth

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Miss Psychlo

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

you're forgetting something... Battlefield Earth

does life sux 4 u or something?

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

that's not grammatically correct.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

subject verb agreement demands you use the singular of sux, which is suxor.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

our agreement demands the singular use of you, which is suxor.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

does not compuet

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

you can't-a fool me. there ain't no such thing as a sanity clause!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Our local film critic intimated that it was typically Sundance, which sums up its faults. Alarmingly well-cast; that's all it's got. n/a OTM upthread.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Dysfunctional families, beauty pageants, and a road trip?

Then don't see this then...

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00026L8O4.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1084474033_.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 3 September 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

How's that new Battlestar Galactica series?

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS EXACTLY LIKE FUCKING NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION!

-- chaki (chaki.tim...), August 6th, 2006.

I just saw this movie, and fuck if that wasn't exactly what I was just going to post. I mean, strip away the Proust and Nietzsche references, and that's pretty much what you've got.

Not that that's a bad thing. I LIKED NL's Vacation.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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See also: religions, sports figures, and just about everything else ever.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link

because people see it, and realize that it's awful?

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link

otm

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link

i've been spending some time trying to eliminate all my critical judgement so that i can enjoy as many things as possible

― Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm sure at least a couple of actor/supporting noms, maybe script.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 27 February 2000 02:34 (10 years ago) Bookmark

Ok, this is seriously clever. He predicted stuff 3 months before the script was even started. Perhaps more impressively he posted to ILE 18 months before it started,

― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link

It's amazing that I was able to predict anything about this movie's oscar prospects as early as February, 2000.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:05 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

He impressed himself!

― Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link

because people see it, and realize that it's awful?

lol YES

― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link

I like Kinnear a lot but this movie was basically a waste, very predictable

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Have never seen this. I'm fairly good at spotting the ones that won't ever matter.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link

good eye in this case. it's like a feel-good movie that tries really hard to be edgy. sorta annoying really.

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link

like, could you guess that the motto-spouting motivational speaker character learns an important lesson about what really matters in life blah blah blah

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link

The little girl from this getting an Oscar nomination over Shareeka Epps from Half-Nelson is pretty offensive.

― litel, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link

steve carrel was so bad in this. retread of every luke wilson in a wes movie ever.

― dyao, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link

I have never felt so alone as I did in a roaring, packed house watched this movie. It SUCKED

― Eyewona (admrl), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link

i thought there were some ok parts & performances (<3 toni collette 4eva) but if there were ever a movie crying out for an ambiguously depressing 70s style ending it's this one, but this being 00s, everything comes out ok.

i mean, it's about a loser-ass family led by a self-deluded guy and his deluded daughter and unhappy wife & son stuck in a van. on the way, the junkie grandpa dies. everybody dance!

― goole, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

one of those movies where i feel like the actors all deserve a better script.

― tylerw, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

except for the john candy bits, this movie was better than national lampoon's vacation which is basically the same movie.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

That's not my recollection of it

― Eyewona (admrl), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

also, rachel getting married is better than ferris bueller's day off but not better than sixteen candles, which it weirdly combined.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

whoops -- i didn't see this!
IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS EXACTLY LIKE FUCKING NATIONAL LAMPOONS VACATION!
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, August 6, 2006 9:16 PM (4 years ago)

independently confirmed!

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link

nobody actually likes this movie

― plax (ico), Monday, 16 August 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link

i know ppl who love it :(

― just sayin, Monday, 16 August 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link

I just saw timecop and greenberg so am feeling pretty generous to this movie in hindsight.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 August 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Have never seen this. I'm fairly good at spotting the ones that won't ever matter.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 16, 2010 5:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, you're really good at not seeing movies.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 16 August 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Just saw this. It was ... watchable. Felt like whoever made this movie had five ideas for wacky characters, wasn't sure if they were going to get to make more than one movie so put all five in this one. Gave one not much to think about besides "family drives you crazy but it's all we've got in this crazy world mmmmkay?" There were amusing moments (e.g. malfunctioning horn gag) but it's extremely hard for me to imagine anyone laughing out loud at any point during this movie, let alone loving it. Also kind of hard to imagine really going out of one's way to hate it. But evidently my imagination is not good enough!

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 10 January 2011 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Hurting did 9/11

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 January 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Directors are back with Riggs (Steve Carrell)/King (Emma Stone) film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FxwbPTjnA&feature=youtu.be

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FxwbPTjnA&t=1s

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link

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