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Film: Tiny Furniture
Boring. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing about Netflix streaming, it really encourages turning bad/boring/otherwise unspectacular movies off. Was anyone else kind of surprised Lena Dunham wasn't...how should I say this...hotter?
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I just watched Tiny Furniture a few weeks ago on NF streaming. I really enjoyed it. I am, however, a sucker for bourgeois, neurotic, jewish, urbane story lines...please refer to my undying love of Woody Allen.
I thought her ugliness was kind of interesting actually. She definitely knows she's "unattractive" but still made the point of exposing her body continually. I rather liked that she did it - don't think I'd want to see it as a recurring theme on say a tv show (which she's presently making) - but as a motif in a 90 minute movie it held my attention.
i put this more in the whit stillman, noah baumbach camp as opposed to woody allen. for manners comedies, i much prefer woody, seinfeld, or renoir. there is a hue to these comedies that i just don't find really funny. the joke is always on other people for being so stupid. i turned this off and started watching party down, which made me laugh.
I would have thought you liked whit Stillman and noah Baumbach.
I do agree with you about movies that generally portray characters as being stupid - and derive "comedy" from that. I've just never enjoyed them.
I was horrified at Sundance this year by a movie called Compliance. Though it's not a comedy it's entire premise depends on the characters being idiots - making it unwatchable for me.
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