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

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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

ugh, the Proust references. that bit was really annoying. my poor Steve Carrell, the shit they had you saying.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, killing off Alan Arkin so early really harmed the movie.

Also, the trailer for "Running With Scissors" made me think "The Octopus and the Dolphin" or something.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

"What beats it?"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

who even cares if movies are good or not

― ath (ath), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"Holy shit!"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"One of those 'audience applauds the credits' movies."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"One of those 'audience applauds themselves' movies."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Steve Carell is the most beautiful actor of our generation

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

you seem to be forgetting bob balaban

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"One of those 'audience applauds themselves' movies."

ugh. exactly. reminded me of 'my big fat greek wedding' in that respect and also with some awful, awshucks slapstick humor.

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

How do we tolerate living?

― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

since when do you have to bump start a car with no clutch? did the starter go out too?

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i understand the need to push before going into third, but couldn't they start it in neutral?

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, this was just okay, with a few cute/funny moments. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to flinch at movies that beat you over the head with how "endearingly quirky" its entire ensemble is.

The beauty pageant host was genuinely creepy (and great), though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, that Running With Scissors movie is supposedly based on the guy's actual childhood. Will that be "beating us over the head with the 'endearingly quirky'" cast, too? Maybe you're cynicism has outgrown comfortable existence on this plane.

― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Will that be "beating us over the head with the 'endearingly quirky'" cast, too?

I don't know. I never read the book.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Running With Scissors a lame indie quirk update on a beloved 80s comedy?

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The Royal Tenenbaums was some guy's actual childhood?

― Petroski (petroski), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I must admit: The book was unbearable, but the Scissors trailer piqued my interest. Must have been Annette Bening.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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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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