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

It drives me crazy that nobody will watch it when I tell them to until 2 years later on HBO, maybe. Great movies are so much better at the time of their release and on the big screen.

FYI, I searched "little miss sunshine" and found no threads w/ that in the title. I searched it as Keywords and broke ILX. If I could've found the thread which surely must exist, I would have.

the russians are coming the russians are coming

wait until dark

the heart is a lonely hunter

catch-22

last of the red hot lovers

freebie and the bean

rafferty and the gold dust twins

fire sale

the in-laws

simon

chu chu and the philly flash

glengarry glen ross

slums of beverly hills

(cuz if it is, then it might be the best movie ever made)

Haha! Yes, in the same way that Titanic was exactly like fucking Watership Down.

http://movies.go.com/movies/review?name=little-miss-sunshine_2006&genre=comedy&studio=Fox%20Searchlight%20Pictures

The quotes and reviews at the bottom are right on, too, except Premiere.

both movies even have dead grandparent in the car!

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

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

definitely way the hell better than Thumbsucker

dude so true

Would anyone feel less of a person if you found out this was their favorite movie ever?

that question makes no sense.

think less of a person

Not really, it would almost be endearing.

says the guy in the "human suit."

you're not fooling anyone.

I think I'm fooling myself.

I think my taste in movies is as terrible as everyone else's taste, so I wouldn't hold it against anyone for liking this film. But I wouldn't want to talk about it with them and I wouldn't want to hear them defend ugly children.

That is also to say I think everyone ever has terrible taste in films.

um, to elaborate- it's quite clear in the movie that CHARACTER of the little girl is less that aesthetically perfect and entering a beauty pageant. it's the whole premise of the movie.

i'm quite sure that abigail breslin is a perfectly cute little girl.

ok now? and don't be so pissy. there's lots more to be offended at on the internet.

what i really hated about the end is how it set up, yet again, a binary between american idol style heartless virtuosity and dumb yet heartfelt amateurishness, as if actually being good at something were evidence of conformism

uh, but she actually danced well, didn't she?

I thought it was about the oh never mind.

i blame the parents

i hated that the end was about a little girl doing a striptease. it was fuckin gross

right but the striptease was actually innocent and cute unlike the slutty gross cheerleader dances of the other girls... but who cares anyway? this was a nothing movie. i can't see getting worked up about it either way. (and maybe there are people who have done less work for an oscar than alan arkin in this, but there can't be many.)

this movie was so spiteful

Hmm, this thread was starting in 2000 for a movie that came out in 2006.

It would certainly explain the initial lack of replies.

i don't remember a thing about this movie. did it actually win an oscar? wtf?

this movie was spiteful and fun. kinnear's hopeless wreck of a gibberish spouting dad was pretty cruel. enjoyed that.

Hmm, this thread was starting in 2000 for a movie that came out in 2006.

I had no idea Hurting was a time traveler.

This thread is a great example of how as a film goes from unseen to widely seen it attracts haters.

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

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

otm

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

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,

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!

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

lol YES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

That's not my recollection of it

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

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!

nobody actually likes this movie

i know ppl who love it :(

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

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.

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!

Hurting did 9/11

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

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

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