You Hurt My Feelings

OP, thanks for posting about this, it looks really good. Hopefully, Oppenheimer and Barbie are hopefully pointing to a trend of more intelligent, sophisticated movies coming back into prominence.

I've seen the trailer for this on Prime and it looked good-ish. I'll give it a go, thanks for the rec.

R1 Barbie? Extremist ideology agenda flicks are neither intelligent or sophisticated.

I saw it in the theater and really liked it. It's a small, quieter movie. The target audience is probably matching the protagonists' age (mine).

And I liked that Louis-Dreyfus for once played a character who isn't cynical. Her character was vulnerable and played it really well.

Boring as fuck.

R5 go watch Barbie, you fucking YAAASSSSS KWEEN.

I don't care that it is with JLD, it is with Tobias Menzies though.

R7 your emotions are not conveying. Please explicate.

R5 go away, adults are talking.

It took me a minute to realize that’s David Cross and Amber Tamblyn talking to the husband. She’s really put on the pounds since her General Hospital days.

I used to get my feelings hurt all of the time. Not anymore. I’ve got a bulletproof heart. Nobody is gonna hurt baby again.

EG here. I really enjoyed this movie and laughed a lot. It's plot is pretty sitcommy but the jokes and performances rise above it.

That plotline was in the first season of White Lotus. Remember the new bride writer and her uptight new husband? Her feelings got crushed. CRUSHED, I tell you.

The actress who played Julia's sister, Michaela Watkins, was terrific.

Just finished a Veep rewatch that inspired a new love for JLD's depth and brilliance. Looking forward to seeing this one.

I want to see Barbie to see what exactly triggered some of you bitches SO MUCH.

R3 Barbie conveying "extremist" ideology? Ok, do tell, open your dark heart and tell us what that means to you.

I haven’t seen this yet, and I’ve been dying to. Nicole Holofcener Is such an underrated filmmaker; I love her movies.

I also saw it in the theater and loved it. Well written and great performances all around.

R18 'Lovely and Amazing' and 'Friends With Money' are both really good and well cast.

Grown-up style movies.

I liked the movie, but couldn't help but think both of the main characters are rather shallow and self-centered, spoiled people. The audience isn't privy to any of her writing samples so we can't judge if she is a good writer - it's assumed that she may be because of the memoir. Now a few people hate this new book, why?

Her husband, on the other hand, is firstly shown as a fairly ineffective therapist. When he gets called out on it and his ineffectiveness by the scene-stealing couple of Cross/Tamblyn, he wakes up to the fact that he indeed, may suck. He changes his approach with his other male client who isn't facing the fact he needs to do something for his siblings and stop whining.

They seem like helicopter parents - their adult but young son seems messed up. Can we live up to their supposed success and be his own person? That's a good theme and true in families.

I felt like the whole cast screamed NEW YORK PRIVILEGE so I didn't really relate to a lot of it. Loved the sister and her husband characters but even they were very privileged. Should we all be so lucky so have a later start career as a decorator and a maybe trying actor but it's ok if that doesn't work because there's still family money. Sigh.

Love Nicole Holofcener and I'm waiting for to pop up for free on Prime or cable.

I've liked all of Nicole's films except the one with Ben Mendelson - The Land of Steady Habits.

[quote] I liked the movie, but couldn't help but think both of the main characters are rather shallow and self-centered, spoiled people.

I’m in!

R6 How reductive of you. One is a Yass Queen because he or she found this boring? Low iq imbecile.

Anyways I absolutely want to see this film.

R21 Nicole Holofcener's movies tend to be set within tiny bubbles of white privilege. Don't look for a black person because you will find nary a POC in her films--I'm not saying this is a negative thing, but I think a lot of her source material is autobiographical / "write what you know". Which works, but doesn't necessarily translate to universal relatability.

I love that Holofcener uses the same actors over and over again. A pre-existing relationship between actor and director allows for better performances, I think. JLD was sooo terrific in Enough Said and it looks like she's bringing her A-Game to this one.

I enjoyed it but not as good as Nicole Holfencer’s other movies.

Agreed.

Does JLD mug through the whole thing as that seems all she knows how to do.

It’s more like she shrugs through the whole thing…

I loved it and Jeannie Berlin was great as the mother.

You hurt my asshole