How do you feel about Kristen Wiig

I keep confusing whoever this lady is with Kristen Schaal.

(we dont get SNL here, or if we dont watch it)

Yeah, Knocked Up was actually the first thing I ever saw her in, and she was such a delightful surprise.

― jaymc, Monday, June 6, 2011 2:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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Neither this thread or Bridesmaids mentions "Walk Hard" which she was predictably good in

Extract is a really iffy movie but has two classic Wiig moments:

-Lounging around the pool in a bikini in the Poolboy's flashback of her seduction.

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2009_Extract/009XTT_Kristen_Wiig_002.jpg

-The exchange w/Bateman when he finally confronts her about cheating

"You paid him 15 times!?"

I like her most of the time, but there's a couple characters I just can't stand

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Surprisingly good in the surprisingly good though heavily flawed Skeleton Twins. Hader is great in it.

I thought at the time that Bridesmaids was a good drama hampered/compromised by its desire to be stupid/silly/make money.

This was sort of a "sad comedy" in a way, not really a drama but too dark to be called a comedy even though very funny. Marred by heavy-handed "dramatic blowup argument" moments that felt like a tv movie and a few quirky indie comedy cliches, but otherwise a pretty original and personal story and the two have great onscreen chemistry.

I enjoyed Skeleton Twins. This last batch of SNL stars has turned to drama pretty early on in their movie acting careers. The 'Wiig dances and lip syncs to 90s (late 80s?) pop song' bit is probably done now, though. It was weird how Hader uses that to cheer her up given that we have a reference for Wiig and not her character enjoying that sort of thing. Also Hader saying 'Maggie' in the 'Gilly' tone kinda threw me.

She was excellent in Skeleton Twins as was Hader. I actually always disliked him and now I am a little in love with him.

He was so good throughout but, I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZzS8a29XfI

You hated Bill Hader? MONSTER!

I like Kristen Wiig okay (Arrested Development cameo!), but I'm dubious about her involvement in this upcoming mental health rom-com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Me Be careful Kristen...

x-post - I hated him a lot! I don't know why. It's like how I hate Lithgow. There's no real reason, he just really bothered me. Until now. I think he's great now!

TBH I think it's this one particular face he makes that bugs me which he did not make in TST.

She and Hader are good, considering, but that Skeleton Twins script is a desiccated collection of Sundance cliches. Oh no, Joanna Gleason as an Evil New Age Mother! Suicide attempts all around! Lipsyncing a shitty '80s tune cuz gay!

yeah, the sibling chemistry between Wiig and Hader made it worthwhile for me, though.

I basically agree with Morbs' assessment except I would flip the things on either side of the "but," i.e. the performances outweighed the cliches for me. Also thought Ty Burrell was very good as the teacher.

I also didn't know sundance movies were full of suicide attempts, guess I just don't see enough of them.

if you liked that Starship scene, there are like 3 or 4 more just like it in the movie

She and Hader are good, considering, but that Skeleton Twins script is a desiccated collection of Sundance cliches. Oh no, Joanna Gleason as an Evil New Age Mother! Suicide attempts all around! Lipsyncing a shitty '80s tune cuz gay!

Yeah, there's this totally mad libs indie quality to it, like "Little Miss Sunshine." He's a depressed gay Proust professor just ... because! The ornery old coot is teaching her to dance to Rick James! Suicide abounds!

At least I assume there was suicide in "Little Miss Sunshine." God, I hated that fucking movie.

I guess there was the grandpa heroin od thing? I don't remember if there was suicide otherwise.

We should actually write a movie like this collectively, mad-libs style. I need a quirky or unusual occupation.

music critic

ok now I need a non-major-city US location

i've never really understood that "mad libs" are improv. I guess I grew impatient the wat TSt tried to be dark dramedy + SNL sketch.

it's definitely not one I'd watch again

Honestly I go to movies so little now that I think my standards might have lowered. I haven't actually disliked any of the last handful of movies I saw in theaters, although worst in the last couple years was probably Silver Linings Playbook -- now THERE'S an indie madlib.

BTW trailer for new Cooper/Lawrence film looks ATROCIOUS

St. Joseph, Michigan

Ok, I feel like the music critic in St. Joseph's michigan has probably moved there to escape something in his past...what?

A music critic and his estranged twin brother, a failed professional musician, reunite in St. Joseph, Michigan, for their father's funeral, only to discover from their mother that their actual father d is a former rock star who lives alone in an empty mansion in the Los Angeles hills. They fly out to meet him, teach him how to rock again and, more importantly, teach him how to love.

St. Joseph scenes will be filmed in LA, natch.

But when they get there, they discover that he's committed suicide and that they have a precocious seven-year-old half sister who writes a romantic advice column in the local alt weekly.

this probably functions as a biography of andrew bird

I feel like pretty soon after that they're going to get some kind of unusual/exotic pet dumped into their lap

Estranged brothers must quickly learn to be grownups, then team together to get her into an elite LA private school.

needs a shot of the caravan peeling away frantically from lower-class folk they accidentally riled

From the real father's estate, his pet aye-aye named tenzin gyatso

They host a benefit by forming a band to cover the songs of their father, which suddenly shoot up the iTunes chart, get them a financial windfall, and get them a record deal. Then the school decides to let their little sister in afterall, but they tell the school to take a hike.

Movie ends with the girl all grown up, finishing the book about her crazy family.

Post credits, she gets a phone call optioning the crazy story for a movie.

Estranged brothers must quickly learn to be grownups, then team together to get her into an elite LA private school.

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Is this a Dave Eggers reference?

Oh shit, forgot about him. Eggers sort of is the embodiment of a whimsical indie movie cliche.

they feed the aye-aye human flesh. it develops a taste for it, and they use the crazed human-eating aye-aye to avenge their father, who committed suicide because he never successfully defended his podcast patent.

(the aye-aye eats marc maron in the movie)

post credit shot of the aye-aye knocking on adam corolla's studio door dressed as a pizza delivery man

mid-film side plot -- after the real Dalai Lama suddenly dies, a group of exiled tibetan buddhist monks find them through a facebook page listed in the aye-aye's name, mistakenly thinking they may have found the next incarnation. After laughs over their misunderstanding, they agree to do guest throat-singing vocals on a track for the covers record.

T-shirts with the aye-aye and a movie catchphrase would work well, maybe "Are you sure you didn't order anchovies?"

man, I've been waiting to be able to say this, but Dr. Morbius otm with his assessment of Skeleton Twins.