Bottoms, dir. Emma Seligman, with Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri

Stone cold instaclassic; the Mean Girls of its time only even more outrageous/great, honestly. Funny as fuck, over the top and perfectly buried jokes all over the place, some amazing payoffs, Sennott and Edebiri carry aperfect chemistry, ensemble cast really perfect (great to see Ruby Cruz again), Seligman directs the cowrite with Sennott just so, and everyone involved knows exactly what they're doing. See it immediately.

just watched the preview, i'm in

Oh and also a crisp hour and a half runtime, not a moment wasted either. (There's some end credit footage with alternate takes so looks like there was a lot of improv at work around the basic setup; handled damn well.)

Can't go wrong with Rachel Sennott, and Ayo Edebiri is on a roll.

Yeah kinda insane summer for Ms E -- besides this and The Bear she was also great in the new TMNT movie, three totally different roles.

yeah, saw this last week, fun movie

Seligman's debut, Shiva Baby, is pretty great too

just saw the trailer, and oh good gravy i'm in. marshawn lynch!

love both Sennott and Edebiri so I'm in as well!

the Mean Girls of its time only even more outrageous/great

zero probability the second part of this is true

You’ll find out for yourself!

Oh good, I'd really been looking forward to this (and hoping it was as good as the trailer suggested).

Flopson, are you generally a "we live in fallen times" guy?

hardly be as good as booksmart tho?

I remember early in the covid pandemic, I saw Marshawn Lynch driving a miniature car around Lake Merritt and handing out masks to random strangers... he was alone and apparently it was his birthday.
Dude's a freak in the best way

Flopson, are you generally a "we live in fallen times" guy?

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shiva baby was terrible, and none of the jokes in the trailer for this were funny. i'm not even that much of a hater tbh; rachel sennot is super funny and talented. but i'm personally going in with low expectations

they played a preview for some Carlos Santana thing right before this started, that was weird

this was excellent

this movie is actually funny enough that it forgives all of the messy plot issues like the fact that the motivation for the big ending doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and also it's not clear who Punkie Johnson's character is at all, but she was great.

So, this was like a sketch comedy team improvising a cross between "Booksmart" and "Heathers." Wish it was funnier, but I was not expecting it to be so gleefully strange.

this movie fuckin owns

i loved this, marshawn was a surprise and a genuine delight

Supremely unfunny. Not for me, obviously.

I didn't think too much of the foreground was particularly funny, but a lot of stuff in the background made me chuckle. Posters, things on the chalkboard, the fact that the mascot literally has visible genitals ...

I was shocked to learn that this reportedly cost twice as much to make as "Booksmart." That's baffling to me, since this seemed significantly cheaper, even by small-scale standards.

I have realised that "extremely ambitious and strange comedy that isn't actually at all funny" is a good description of at least 50%;of my favourite things, so maybe I should check this out?

bewildered by people who didn't find this funny!

I call that the Wet Hot American Summer syndrome

oh possibly. I didn't find that very funny myself

Can't think of a comedy I love that someone else in my life doesn't think is wholly without laughs

Airplane?

I call that the Wet Hot American Summer syndrome

Ha, yeah, I don't think Wet Hot is funny, aside from the Paul Rudd meltdown scene. I also know some people that swear by Super Troopers or Brain Candy, but not me.

Wait, is this funny like WHAS or actually funny?

You should avoid

it is actually funny, unlike WHAS

they're both funny, wtf

this movie def had a lot of overdriven/extended improv that either got funnier as it went (e.g. marshawn lynch) or didn't, it's not my favorite thing that comedies do these days

ayo edebiri is hilarious tho, making anything funny by virtue of how she delivers it

Oh, the leads (incl. Lynch) are great. But I do think I maybe laughed more during the outtakes than the film itself.

blooper reel during the end credits did have some prime jokes i wish were in the film proper (even though they technically are), "you look like you know how to yodel" is funnier to me than "you look like a little dutch boy"

Quality deez nuts joke, too.

To clear it up, WHAS is hysterically funny, and BOTTOMS is pretty funny

I laughed a lot with Bottoms, but I'm sure it'd be more up my alley if it were more written and less improv'ed.

How does the saying go, composition is just really slow improvisation?

I accept that I have received the full range of answers to my question.

"it's called quartering!"
"i KNOW!"

i liked this better than heathers as far as surreally violent hs comedies go, but i am not really a heathers fan. it's pretty good.

I saw about half an hour of this a few nights ago. I was quite hating it, so when there were a couple of technical glitches--about 5-7 minutes of a black screen (the audio continued)--I took that as an opportunity to get a rain check. I won't even get into what happened after that. Anyway, can't imagine I'll ever go back to it. Not for me.

I admit I'm confused by "what happened after that", as my reading of previous sentence is that your engagement with the film ended at 'that'?

Short version: I got into a heated argument with the guy working there whether or not I was entitled to a rain check (the concept of which I had to explain to him).

Huh, I don't think I've ever heard of it (as a free ticket - I've known it "let's just bail")

I liked this a lot. the directing was…a bit amateurish, and I don’t think the screenplay will be winning any awards, but I thought the cast was great, and overall it was a charming and breezy 90 minutes. probably more in the NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE lineage than DAZED AND CONFUSED or something, but it seems like it’ll hold up to repeat viewings

also thought that the gender/movement politics were pretty clever given how flimsy the story was in general. and the costumes!!

Andrew: a rain check--I think you're British, right? it might be a North American term--means you're not asking for a refund, just a ticket to another film in lieu of the one you're bailing on. Which I thought was fair, seeing as the screen had been black or about 25% of the first hour.

Irish, but I've been exposed to a lot of US media over the years - and I've heard rain check a lot, just in its (secondary, I now find out) meaning of "let's not do that now, but let's do that later"

“Rain Check” originated when punters at a baseball game that was rained out would be given a free ticket for another game.

Really enjoyed this yesterday. I think it made a difference that I saw it at the cinema amongst an appreciative audience.

I didn't find the script as sharp as Shiva Baby, and the directing looks maybe intentionally amateurish (?) though perhaps well-suited for the genre being satirised, but all of the performances are great. I particularly love Rachel Sennott's facial expressions.

people hating this movie are wild. an absolute dumb delight.

Kino releasing Bottoms on Blu-ray

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=22007788

I wonder if this is a harbinger of how niche Studio Indies go to disc in this late-stage physical media market...

Works for me! Kino is just as great as Criterion at its best when it comes to prep and presentation (the Columbo botch being a notable exception)