lucas hedges active listening skills UNMATCHED

obviously this is about grad school, but specifically it is about the moment in grad school in which one of my professors made a big show of having to end class early because she had to go speak at a consortium or something and I said, "what are you speaking on?" and her face got very severe and she said, "excuse me?" and I said, "what are you speaking about... at the event...?" and she blinked twice and said, "I don't have to tell you that."

let them* all** talk***

*me
**fuck
***lucas hedges

Fully expected a mom-pleaser movie and, it totally is, but I also...liked it way more than I thought I would?? Super entertaining and very jazzy throughout. Mostly got a kick out of my dad roasting Lucas Hedges for his dweeby backpack in every scene. I like it! Fuck it!

Watched with parents. Everyone in the movie was breathing very honestly. Very good movie we all laughed and my mother either cried or fixed her glasses as well. 

Mom thought the characters were interesting. Dad thought there was some twist ending where the aunt and nephew were actually mother and son? Right before the credits, he said “ah, I get it,” and then tried to convince us of his theory. Mom and I disagreed and Dad immediately went to bed.

Damn it Soderbergh you actually made me want to go on a cruise

He really just...let them all talk

At times slight enough that it feels like Soderbergh concocted an excuse to tool around a cruise ship with a camera, but even if that were true just about anybody else would have produced worse results.

very kind of lucas hedges to let all of these women talk & laugh at their jokes i would like to hug him

I would like to play Clue and Monopoly with Dianne and Candice

I really, really loved this movie. I wasn’t sure I would, but I did. It all felt so real and focused, which I really liked. Each of the characters felt like real people to me, and I cared about them all very much by the end. Some of them I loved the entire way through, and some of them were more complicated than that for me, which just added to their believability.

My favorite part was the relationship between Alice and Tyler. I was very worried that they’d end up hurting each other when it inevitably came to light that absolutely everyone had Tyler playing an angle for them. I assumed Alice would find out and be angry, disappointed, or hurt or any combination and that would hurt Tyler as well. That’s something that I think would have ruined the whole movie for me if I’d been right. Those two needed each other.

Really liked it! Loved Meryl and loved the lady from Boston Legal. Sweet and interesting story. Some of the acting felt really authentic but sometimes it felt forced. But overall enjoyable

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Im putting away my usual quips and one liners for this because I think I can only describe this movie as frustrating.

It was very beautifully shot and the characters were compelling until they just weren’t. Truthfully, the most frustrating character was Tyler and that’s because it just felt like the studio or producers forced the movie to have a male character.

This movie was almost exhilarating when it showed these older female friends interacting. But then the movie for a third or more crammed a weird romantic plot into the story and that just cheapened the movie.

Literally if they had tossed Tyler’s character and replaced it entirely with Gemma Chan’s character, the movie would’ve been 4-5 stars. I’m honestly wondering if 3 is too many stars but some of the scenes in it just felt 5 star worthy. This movie has caused me turmoil.

Kinda shocked that they were able to have that ending have the movie still feel like a chill, relaxing movie

Steven Soderbergh’s Enchanted April. The warm tones and jazz music got me feeling really calm

Improv shows aren’t good when they’re not funny. 

This one almost broke that rule. But only almost.

The script is really good, super sweet and intricate which allows for Soderbergh’s dramaturgy to show. The last one I watched from him was Oceans Eleven and this confirmed his sharp editing style while much more emotional and warm. 
The cast is cute, Meryl was my most watched actor of 2020 ???? so let’s keep at it i guess

Dianne Weist es el balance de todo el casting, el ego se come a cada personaje de la película casi al punto de asfixiarlo, eso puede hacer que la película no logre conectar del todo con el espectador pero aún así el plato fuerte en la opinión del director es clara directa y disfrutable en gran medida, no esta a la altura del director pero llega como un abre bocas que deja mejor sabor que su anterior película.

❤️ Candice Bergen ❤️

Was this movie meant to funny? I lol’d a lot

more movies should be set on boats with passive aggressive board games

Haven't heard anyone talk about this, but this was quite enjoyable. It's basically Soderbergh filming a movie while on an actual cruise, though there's still a lot of craft and intention evident. And Streep, Bergman and Wiest could do roles like this in their sleep but they're quite present and you can tell that they're old pros who are so comfortable in their characters that improvising as their characters isn't a chore for them.