one of the few movies to make me tear up. gets in touch with your inner child and wild thing.
"Let the wild rumpus start!" said Max.
The premise is very appealing especially for a Christmas movie, but everything else unfortunately falls short. I had hopes for this one as "European", especially Scandinavian humor usually has a darker edge with almost no second-hand embarrasment compared to US comedies, but this could easily pass as the latter. Even if it's based on true events and they had happened like this, the filmmakers could have altered some things to be...better. (And if this is the altered version, they didn't do such a great job.)
Now I really want to watch a Scandinavian×Indian family introduction movie that is witty and good
I wanted to like this movie, but the main couple has no chemistry , I liked the ending :full_moon_with_face:
I’m not a big Christmas film fan but I’m surprised ive only just got around watching this one because it sure made me giggle and it’s got a lovely message and great cast.
It started off good and wholesome then it quickly jumped the shark. It was nice to see some familiar faces but it just wasn't enough in the end.
This movie is completely bizarre. It’s kind of charming that Netflix makes larger budget Hallmark movies. Heather Graham is completely miscast with a unhinged, who gives a shit performance and maybe that is the exact right choice?
I was rolling my eyes the whole episode as it was clear what was going on from the start. A boring walk through the inevitable..... and then... those last 3 minutes they manage to surprise.
Are those 3 minutes enough though
Funny how they all wear masks for the radiation but the horses are like: I'm ok LOL
anyways the episode was good, Victor is such a pain in the a**, IDK how to feel about him
sometimes I like him and other times I hate him
he's one of the OGs so I would rather if his stays alive until the last season
overall this season feels like it will make me rage a lot LOL so I'm excited
Good god, that was boring.
Homage to 80s music, first love and big brothers. This was a pleasant surprise in last night's sneak preview. One of the best music movies I have ever seen and easily a top 5 movie for 2016. Watch it!
A really great film, wish I could find more movies like this that just hit every emotion. It's a feel good movie that hits emotional elements also very funny, good romance, and great music.
Good intentioned but ultimately, the skippable episode of this season. At least it didn't go into this ridiculous bromance stuff like last season.
Same problem as The Simpsons. It looks the same and sounds the same as in the good old days except it’s just not funny or good anymore.
In the NBA there is something called a +/- radius, it shows how many points are scored verses given up when a player is in the game. If this applied to acting and Morgan had this, who by the way was my favorite character period around season 7 of TWD, then he'd easily be the worst rating imaginable. This character who was formally so amazing just bombs every scene he's in now with his bullshit passivness. He once pulled someone's guts out of him with his BARE HANDS, now he doesn't even have any. This episode was at least twice to three times as good as the opener, which doesn't say much, but does say this show is better the less it focuses on Morgan, which absolutely breaks my heart but couldn't be more obvious.
Seriously, what the heck did I just watch?
I'm not sure who thought any of this was a good idea but it will probably go down as the worst episode of the entire series? Just, wow.
I don't normally rank individual episodes nor review them, but dear god was this episode awful. It's so terrible it inspired me to actually go to the effort.
I was thinking this season has a lot of the taste of modern Simpsons to it, but dear god this episode has plumbed new depths in bad that not even The Simpsons can reach. How did it ever get released?
When i see episodes with lot of negative comments i usually think that people are overreacting and they are really not that bad.
Its usually the case but... but holy shit, it was really that bad.
Totally awesome Adam Sandler film! Christopher McDonald rocks as Shooter McGavin. Never get tired of this movie!
"You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!"
You would think this is still loved mainly because of nostalgia, but no! It has so many memorable quotes and characters and it just hits right. Shooter McGavin is the best!
I had no idea a good, scratch that… great Top Gun could ever be made but I was wrong. A good story with tense action, emotions and amazing cinematography with some of the coolest shots I’ve ever seen. I also think this is Tom Cruises best performance to date. Hats of to the director for not making it cheesy.
What’s happened to Mr Burns? He sounds like someone who can’t do a Mr Burns impression
I lost count of how many times groups of people with guns happened upon other groups of people with guns in this episode. The episode did feature the return of Daniel, which is a plus, except that a major plot point last season was that he was suffering from dementia, and now in this episode, he's just back as the leader of a group of parents, fresh as a daisy? The writers seemingly tried to explain away his miraculous recover from dementia by having him drink yerba mate for "focus." Seriously?? Call every neurologist in the the country! Fear the Walking Dead has come up with a simple cure for Alzheimer's! :facepalm: The big reveal about PADRE was super lame and underwhelming. Otherwise, the writing in this episode is dreadful and often nonsensical, and the acting is uninspired. At one point, Crane is really worried when his father leaves some binoculars behind. I mean, he's way more worried than anyone on planet earth should ever be about binoculars. So he runs off to find his father and give him the binoculars. His sister asks why he has to take the binoculars to his father, and he says, "Because how will he see what's coming without them?" Dreadful.
It's almost as if everyone involved knows this shit sucks, and they're just trying to get to the finish line at this point.
I thought this episode sucked. Boring as hell.
I am a simple man. I see Sam Adesanya, I watch.
This is just a movie about a movie about a play about a play. And that's where the disappointment lies.
There's no arch. No heroes or foes. No obstacles to overcome. Nothing gets solved, and there's no real payoff. It's just a story within a story within a story and you the audience is expected to marvel at how terribly clever it is. It's incredible clever. But it's not very watchable.
Ultimately it's just a series of scenes, one after another, that you don't care about.
[9.5/10 on a Selman Era scale] Remember when the Simpsons felt like human beings? It seems like such a long time ago now. The show’s still had its emotional high points over the years (largely while Matt Selman was serving as substitute showrunner for Al Jean), but in large part, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa stopped feeling like real people and started feeling like joke machines who existed to be bumped from zany scene to zany scene.
Despite its fantastical dreamworld setting, “A Mid-Childhood’s Night Dream” is achingly real. It is founded on real emotions: of parent worried about losing the sweet children she knows to the inexorable march of years and growing up, of kids maturing and wanting to be seen for what they are and not what they were, of the way that relationships evolve over time but in a way that doesn’t have to diminish them, of the fact that fifth grade boys definitely need to learn about deodorant.
It is beautiful. I’m a firm believer in the idea that oftentimes the abstract and the impressionsitic can do a better job of getting at truth than the literal. So I love using the dream imagery of bubbles, representing both a touching memory of domestic bliss and the sense of something precious about to pop. I love the visceral panic of Marge losing Bart’s hand in a department store, frantically trying to find him, and encountering a dismissive teenager instead. I love the use of size here, with Ms. Peyton growing immensely when warning about the end of Bart’s childhood and Marge feeling tiny as she imagines walking through her home as an empty nester.
All of these big choices communicate the feeling of what Marge is confronting in the way that's accentuated by the exaggerated and surreal imagery. It’s disorienting and in some cases distressing to see, which puts is in Marge’s shoes.
Frankly, it felt like one of the dream episodes of The Sopranos, which is high compliment! (Maybe it’s just the mutual premise of food poisoning prompting emotional epiphany and psychological hardship with your kids growing up.)
Not for nothing, it’s still funny! There is a lot of heavy stuff here, with Marge reckoning with the fact that Bart may not be her “special little guy” anymore. But there’s also a lot of cute, clever, and downright hilarious choices here. For whatever reason, my favorite jokes in the whole thing were the freeze frame gags in Marge’s file folder of yesterday’s thoughts. Absurd bits like “I have manly thumbs” and “Do I have to watch The Wire?” really tickled my funny bone for whatever reason.
But honestly, every comic element of this one clicked. Ms. Peyton’s grave seriousness about preteen B.O. hit home in an amusing way; the inner Lisa half-translating our favorite eight-year-old’s insights in Marge’s “Lucy dream” was a clever device; Homer’s various transformations were creative and fun; and all they kept finding new layers to the gags about food making Marge nauseous in a way that surprised me. The advent of a “summer sushi” stand, and the radio ad involving “warm mayonnaise” got especially absurd laughs out of me.
With all the humor, the episode never loses the heart or the truth behind what it’s doing. I love the little insights here that feel very human. The fact that Marge remembers a time when Bart was the sweet one and Lisa was a handful is a particularly nice touch, dovetailing with the theme of how kids are constantly evolving, and that's okay.
There’s some clever writing in how “bounce-a-thon” becomes the inflection point for Marge’s anxiety about those changes. Her realization that Lisa is still a mommy’s girl and so she’s desperate to be there to capture a photo of Lisa for her scrapbook smartly dramatizes the immense pressure Marge is feeling to hold onto her kids’ childhoods by any means necessary. The fact that Bart won’t do the thumbs up photo to add to her scrapbook is an equally canny choice to turn their conflict into something tangible.
It too feels real. Again, the lived in touches help drive this one home. Bart being able to express himself so maturely about why he doesn’t want to do the pose leaves Marge taken aback. Her removing a splinter from his palm makes her realize how much his hand has grown. These small signs that your son is not a little kid anymore pile up, in a way that would make any parent wistful.
And yet, what I admire most about the episode is it doesn’t resolve all of this anxiety in a place of hopelessness, or cheap gags, or even a saccharine “their childhoods will always be there” message. Instead, Marge embraces Bart doing comic picture poses over sweet ones. She laughs at the cleverness of his faux-mooning tableau. She may still mourn the little boy he isn’t, but she comes to love the young man he’s become, and there is great beauty in that, to love the evolution and change you see as someone grows into the person they’re going to be. Bart may not be her sweet and “special little guy” in the same way, but now he’s her “funny little guy”. Being validated like that means as much to Bart as it does to Marge.
In a strange way, it gives Marge what she wanted. The episode returns to hand-holding again and again as a motif. Marge remembers her little boy grasping her fingers as a sign of maternal bond. She remembers the bittersweetness of convincing him to let go to go to kindergarten. She senses his disinterest when she removes a splinter from his hand now.
It’s a potent image.You don’t have to dig too deep to understand the meaning and impact of letting go, of feeling a loss of connection, that's represented by your child not reaching for you anymore.
That's why there’s such catharsis in the final moments, when Marge earnestly likes Bart’s little gag, and he’s plainly touched by being affirmed in that way. So he does what he always did. He takes his mother’s hand and invites her into his world, into the life he has now and the person he’s becoming. I get misty-eyed just thinking about it.
That's not typical for The Simpsons in its post-classic years. And yet, under the new regime, the door has opened wider and wider to this kind of earned emotion and earnest character exploration once again. (See also: last season’s superlative “Pixelated and Afraid”.) The show had leveled out after the insanity of the Scully years, but largely stagnated, in ways that sanded down the characters. Now, they’re allowed to consistently be people again. And like Marge with her son, it is once again exciting, and heartening, to see what the show might grow into next.
I really liked the style and making of the episode. There are 2-5 episodes per season that stand out and I remember them still; that became a theme for me in the last 10-15 years. And imho this one is a really entertaining one.
Great Simpsons episodes have two options to succeed for me: either they leave the standard formula (as in the great gatsby or the coen brothers episode) or have a really great topic/story and through this stand out. And this one got me…don’t know why but I liked it.
