I’d be interested though to see what you think of Wet Hot American Summer, which is pretty much tongue and cheek and meta from minute one to the very end. and it again stars Showalter with cameos galore.

Why isn’t Theroux as big as Rudd is now. He is due.

@Kurt I thought the film may suffer from rewatch but it is truly better, it seems effortless the first time through but the second time I can see how well the pieces are put together.

I dont think that scene was very well executed, but you were able to get that the gag wasnt about the underwear itself, but about the romcom/sitcom misundestanding cliche, right?

holy cameos, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Peter Dinklage.

I dont dispute this, but maybe the script to some extent, because so much of it is intentionally cheesy and bad. That’s the Stella humor for sure. I can look past those imperfections and give it high marks for many of the same reasons I can look past a lot of the problems with The Man From Earth, or a number of sloppy 70s movies I enjoy that make up for in charm what they lack in modern innovations and techniques.

That said I enjoyed it despite its imperfections. And it was genuinely funny at parts, but as many times as it was funny it was at others, excruciatingly unfunny.

But all is forgiven because Michelle Williams is at her cutest in this film, and also in it a lot, and that totally made it worth watching.

I also rewatched Wendy and Lucy and I liked it even more than originally. Its now a 4.5/5. I was wrong about it being devoid of an aesthetic, there is an aqua blue brownish-yellow colour scheme carried throughout the film that I never noticed the first time. And the Wendy hum is carried over into the grocery store as muzak, but besides that this is as sparse a film as one can get with style. This hits that spot for me that Gerry does, I can watch this over and over, I just get lost in the world depicted, and its all about the smallest details, not about plot, or aesthetics, or anything, just this zen experience.

The only question is the director, Derek Cianfrance, who has basically done nothing. Good. Fresh blood. Hope it pans out.

Orlando Bland, hahaha, I completely agree!

Ok I am sold on both, I am going to have a Michelle Williams marathon this month.

Baxter
Deception
Wendy and Lucy
Land of Plenty
Prozac Nation

can anybody vouch for:

Imaginary heroes

Deception is unbelievably trashy, but if you can let go of any hang-ups you may have over the ridiculous plot and just have fun with it, it’s worth a look. I wouldn’t pay more than $5 to own it, but it’s worth a rental if you’re a fan of the cast. How could anyone not like a movie with McGregor, Jackman, and Williams? I’d love to see them do something again together, but with a good script next time.

I can’t think of any actors off the top of my head that I’ve switched from not liking to liking, but I can go the other way. I was had a huge fan girl crush on Orlando Bloom back during the LOTR craze and first Pirates. His poster is still hanging in my childhood bedroom at my parents house. :S

I adore the Baxter, but I have no idea if you’d like it.

Are you familiar with Stella? Michael Schowalter? Eugene Mirman type of dry comedy? Wet Hot American Summer?

Its a romantic comedy, and the humor comes from how over the top unfunny, innocent and lame Schowalters character is. And not necessarily in a Napoleon Dynamite way, just a suit and tie boring way, not a zillion light years off from a Kids in the Hall businessman.

It’s ridiculously sweet though. Anyone I know who likes it, likes it a lot. its a 5/5 from me easy, but I honestly have no idea what you’d think. The scene I posted may give a good indication.

There is this other film I am tempted to buy used on blu-ray, always see it in my regular place, has Williams and Hugh Jackman, called Deception… anybody know if this is any good?

I bought Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty from the bargain bin last week and watched it. Had a weird reaction to the film, I was constantly in a state of dislike of the hit you over the head storytelling that it does but I could not turn it off, and I guess a lot of that had to do with Michelle Williams. But by the end I sort of liked the film even though I know how terrible it is, strange conflict there.

and Wendy and Lucy is still my #1 film of 2009.