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I wanted to call attention to this movie because it blipped across my radar before the pandemic hit, but I didn’t really know much about it until I watched it tonight. Now, if you can get on it’s oddball wavelength, I think it’s one of the funniest comedies to be released this year. All of the actors are awesome (particularly the Maeve Higgins and Barry Ward) and it mixes (and subverts) horror and rom-com cliches in clever and funny ways. Obviously taste is subjective and it got decent—not rave—reviews, but I’ve been watching some heavy films lately (I pretty much watched Relic and She’ll Die Tomorrow back to back for some fucked-up reason) and this was a film that I was thoroughly, unexpectedly entertained by. With the world the way that it is, it was a refreshing distraction, which right now is a small miracle. But maybe I’m just a sucker for movies where Will Forte plays an inept Satanist. P.S., I don’t recommend judging it by the trailer, it just makes it look weird and dumb.

I'm so angry I watched this. Can't wait for Friday.

Seconded, this movie was really cute.

'groundhog day' meets 'a beautiful mind' but stupid

I will show you fear in a handful of dust, now show me that rockin' bust.

I watched this movie again recently after having not seen it since it was on VHS. Its something else, it blows my mind how well received this movie was critically. In at least two separate occurrences in this movie it is decided that the best possible solution to providing help to a gay man who has been the victim of a horrible crime is to have is openly antagonistic neighbor care for his dog and provide him with transport on a roadtrip to his parents house. Like how on earth is forcing someone who is openly hateful to your friend and client a better idea than paying someone to house sit with the dog or finding a friend who could actually be trusted to take care of the dog well. Later on in the movie Kinnears agent again finds himself in a bind and rather than hire a driver/ find a friend to drive, he again enlists someone who up until then had been incredibly rude to Kinnear. And this is all before getting into the outright absurdity of Helen Hunt being paired with Jack Nicholson romantically, who is the better part of 3 decades older than Hunt.

During the episode the audience states that it opened during 9/11. It was actually released earlier as per the information on the IMDB: Opening Weekend USA: $18,145,632, 10 June 2001 And in the Trivia notes: The film was withdrawn from cinemas shortly after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, due to a scene involving an exploding building.

This movie severely misunderstands the causes of terrorism

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