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This actually made me think of the last generation's Scott Pilgrim. It's basically an author (here Steve Martin, there Edgar Wright adapting O'Malley, but they were on such the same wavelength that there's not much distinction) taking a specific geographical location and using it, along with his own passions and hobbies and boyhood interests, to tell a deeply personal story. Sure, Martin doesn't have to fight any evil exes, but there are so many sight gags that the whole thing is just this side of a Zucker Bros. movie. As soon as Scott Pilgrim comes out on Blu-Ray, have a double feature.
Easy A
Very charming comedy. I'm sure if it's as feminist as it thinks/wants to be though. You might say it plays around with slut-shaming, though I wouldn't go that far... although there's a scene where a woman says she was a slut in high school, and I wish she had just said she liked having sex instead of mentioning her low self-esteem. I think it might've come out because they were trying to staple a moral onto an absurd high-concept comedy, so I don't really know what the theme ends up being. "Don't be an attention whore"? What and ever.
Still, there are lots of great character actors who are obviously there because they love the script (Malcolm McDowell, what are you doing here? No, seriously, go play Dr. Doom) and it's wildly successful as a spiritual successor to the John Hughes generation of teen movies, which is what it positions itself is. Even though it has the usual caveat that Emma Stone plays a character who can't get a date although she's incredibly cute, funny, and a sparkling conversationalist. Seriously, I want to live in one of those high school movies where Alyson Hannigan is supposedly a beast in the looks department. It must be really easy to get a date.
The Town
Probably this year's The Departed, although I wish they'd gone a little more in-depth into some of the subplots, instead of jumping around so fast.
This actually made me think of the last generation's Scott Pilgrim. It's basically an author (here Steve Martin, there Edgar Wright adapting O'Malley, but they were on such the same wavelength that there's not much distinction) taking a specific geographical location and using it, along with his own passions and hobbies and boyhood interests, to tell a deeply personal story. Sure, Martin doesn't have to fight any evil exes, but there are so many sight gags that the whole thing is just this side of a Zucker Bros. movie. As soon as Scott Pilgrim comes out on Blu-Ray, have a double feature.
Easy A
Very charming comedy. I'm sure if it's as feminist as it thinks/wants to be though. You might say it plays around with slut-shaming, though I wouldn't go that far... although there's a scene where a woman says she was a slut in high school, and I wish she had just said she liked having sex instead of mentioning her low self-esteem. I think it might've come out because they were trying to staple a moral onto an absurd high-concept comedy, so I don't really know what the theme ends up being. "Don't be an attention whore"? What and ever.
Still, there are lots of great character actors who are obviously there because they love the script (Malcolm McDowell, what are you doing here? No, seriously, go play Dr. Doom) and it's wildly successful as a spiritual successor to the John Hughes generation of teen movies, which is what it positions itself is. Even though it has the usual caveat that Emma Stone plays a character who can't get a date although she's incredibly cute, funny, and a sparkling conversationalist. Seriously, I want to live in one of those high school movies where Alyson Hannigan is supposedly a beast in the looks department. It must be really easy to get a date.
The Town
Probably this year's The Departed, although I wish they'd gone a little more in-depth into some of the subplots, instead of jumping around so fast.
