andrewcl-31356
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"HappyThankU...etc" is a light and optimistic film about struggling New Yorkers in their early 20s. The reviews of this movie here, however, indicate this movie attracted a demanding film festival audience expecting something heavier that could thrill the pros. It's just not that deep or complex though.
Interesting that the script identifies some of the challenges it would get from critics and places retorts to them in the dialogues!
Maybe this lit a fire from critics; or maybe they wanted to blunt a rising ego from Radnor lol.
Zoe Kazan was good, but I would have dropped that to focus on the other two. The three stories intertwine but not require each other. The story of taking in a lost child could have gone in more interesting directions.
For instance, What were Josh Radnor's freinds saying about him? What happens when a guy who fancies himself a good guy go through when government agencies think otherwise, and he can't let go?--- Like parenting as a drug. Rooney Mara could have been more of a psychologist instead of a troubled person--- After all we don't see the troubles.
All the females claim they are magnetized to the wrong men; and these are the men, well-meaning, perhaps shuffled, who cause that belief.
Plotting opportunities were not taken in order to achieve the mood of young adults who have not found their place in NYC, finding some contentment. Josh Radnor, lead, writer & director, is still doing Ted Moseby of tv's HIMYM.
Interesting that the script identifies some of the challenges it would get from critics and places retorts to them in the dialogues!
Maybe this lit a fire from critics; or maybe they wanted to blunt a rising ego from Radnor lol.
Zoe Kazan was good, but I would have dropped that to focus on the other two. The three stories intertwine but not require each other. The story of taking in a lost child could have gone in more interesting directions.
For instance, What were Josh Radnor's freinds saying about him? What happens when a guy who fancies himself a good guy go through when government agencies think otherwise, and he can't let go?--- Like parenting as a drug. Rooney Mara could have been more of a psychologist instead of a troubled person--- After all we don't see the troubles.
All the females claim they are magnetized to the wrong men; and these are the men, well-meaning, perhaps shuffled, who cause that belief.
Plotting opportunities were not taken in order to achieve the mood of young adults who have not found their place in NYC, finding some contentment. Josh Radnor, lead, writer & director, is still doing Ted Moseby of tv's HIMYM.
I have read here this series replicates the conceits of the (better) book. A movie treatment that follows what a book does best often fails. The time-jumping problems mentioned in so many reviews of The Luminaries may be overrated, but one way or another, watching this left me spaced-out and in need of existential recovery.
The pace is slow and things are a little off--- this "western" is victorian New Zealand after all. I wanted some insight into this region's version of the American western, but I don't know how authentic this is. As can happen with Canadian or ANZ productions, I feel like I miss the influence of the German contribution to the US melting pot, in trying to relate to it. It seems here the celtic nature is unleashed, with slumming anglos thrown in, all in a survival mode or flat fortune-hunting.
The show enjoys the fascinations of the day contrasted with the muddy streets and shady motivations of the characters. The viewer is not informed of much and the leads are not in secure positions.
Good? Bad? Up? Down? I have other things to do and stability to re-acquire. My spark feels dampened. I think this show is more for female viewers who want some viewing challenge from a novel source. This series probably qualifies as an intellectual diversion.
The acting is promising.
The pace is slow and things are a little off--- this "western" is victorian New Zealand after all. I wanted some insight into this region's version of the American western, but I don't know how authentic this is. As can happen with Canadian or ANZ productions, I feel like I miss the influence of the German contribution to the US melting pot, in trying to relate to it. It seems here the celtic nature is unleashed, with slumming anglos thrown in, all in a survival mode or flat fortune-hunting.
The show enjoys the fascinations of the day contrasted with the muddy streets and shady motivations of the characters. The viewer is not informed of much and the leads are not in secure positions.
Good? Bad? Up? Down? I have other things to do and stability to re-acquire. My spark feels dampened. I think this show is more for female viewers who want some viewing challenge from a novel source. This series probably qualifies as an intellectual diversion.
The acting is promising.
So far (ep 2) this might be the best medieval drama I have seen. That would be maybe a dozen, including ones with this series' setting, 1572 England.
The young king Edward VI is well cast & acted, and written, given his father was Henry VIII, whose death starts this. All the dialogue is succint and dramatic, and generally not so accented as to be muddled. That and the solid logic are not assured in English productions, but B. E. comes through for this American.
The faces of the romantic leads are quite expressive but still believable. This might be the major difference in this version of the events depicted. The actors do not get that many words to work with, so must emote.
The suggestion is made that Mary queen of Scots could/should have been prevented from fleeing to France. That makes a big what-if. She's not in this though. In general, the world the characters inhabit is fairly small, and the Elizabeth character bemoans this. As do I as the show's biggest flaw. Politics & such are present only as they affect the given characters. There was one not-bad war scene.
Modern sensabilities exist in such as 1.5 characters made black and Eliz. Killing a deer. This is amusingly almost addressed in the dialogue though, so is easily forgivable.
There is an edgy tone throughout that might annoy smoe. The music is simple but uses modern instruments.
Very promising.
The young king Edward VI is well cast & acted, and written, given his father was Henry VIII, whose death starts this. All the dialogue is succint and dramatic, and generally not so accented as to be muddled. That and the solid logic are not assured in English productions, but B. E. comes through for this American.
The faces of the romantic leads are quite expressive but still believable. This might be the major difference in this version of the events depicted. The actors do not get that many words to work with, so must emote.
The suggestion is made that Mary queen of Scots could/should have been prevented from fleeing to France. That makes a big what-if. She's not in this though. In general, the world the characters inhabit is fairly small, and the Elizabeth character bemoans this. As do I as the show's biggest flaw. Politics & such are present only as they affect the given characters. There was one not-bad war scene.
Modern sensabilities exist in such as 1.5 characters made black and Eliz. Killing a deer. This is amusingly almost addressed in the dialogue though, so is easily forgivable.
There is an edgy tone throughout that might annoy smoe. The music is simple but uses modern instruments.
Very promising.