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I saw Gail Daughtry a little early! It was fun!

It was less consistently funny than I was hoping for but still got plenty of laughs out of me. Slattery killed

brundlefly wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2026 4:16 pm

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 11:06 pm David Wain to direct Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, and John Slattery in new comedy

Teaser for Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.

Here's hoping Richard Kind is also playing himself.

Escaped the fate of some other recent Sony films and will get a Blu-ray next month

therewillbeblus wrote:It's gotten rave reviews out of Sundance, near-universal praise

Worst film I’ve seen all year, and I’ve seen some real dogs!

Watched the generic thriller trailer for Verity, which I’m sure will make a hundred million dollars, and couldn’t believe it when I saw Michael Showalter was the director. Somehow I don’t think this one is a subversive parody of Hoover and her ilk

zedz wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 5:29 am

therewillbeblus wrote:It's gotten rave reviews out of Sundance, near-universal praise

Worst film I’ve seen all year, and I’ve seen some real dogs!

Any reason you disliked it so strongly?

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2026 3:57 am

zedz wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2026 5:29 am

therewillbeblus wrote:It's gotten rave reviews out of Sundance, near-universal praise

Worst film I’ve seen all year, and I’ve seen some real dogs!

Any reason you disliked it so strongly?

The jokes are, almost without exception, dumb, obvious and lazy. The comic timing is abysmal, piling up unfunny gags or repeating the same one incessantly as if quantity somehow equals quantity. The plot is inane and the characters barely cliches. It equates "recognize some guy from TV" with "hilarious gag". An hour and a half sniffing somebody else's flopsweat? No thanks.

As I glumly recall, you hated another film from members of the State, the Baxter, too, so I’m not surprised to see you not share Wain and company’s style of humor (and had you known there was a connection, you might have been able to save yourself the hour and a half of torture in advance)

domino harvey wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2026 7:52 pm As I glumly recall, you hated another film from members of the State, the Baxter, too, so I’m not surprised to see you not share Wain and company’s style of humor (and had you known there was a connection, you might have been able to save yourself the hour and a half of torture in advance)

You're absolutely right, though I think I found The Baxter less actively annoying (certainly less shrill) than this film.
To be honest, I only booked this because it filled a gap between two much better films (Time and Water, Flesh and Fuel - maybe disrupting that pattern should have been a clue!) and there was literally nothing else I could fit into that gap. Maybe I should have taken a walk in the park, or lay down in the middle of the road, instead.

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 3:06 pm Watched the generic thriller trailer for Verity, which I’m sure will make a hundred million dollars, and couldn’t believe it when I saw Michael Showalter was the director. Somehow I don’t think this one is a subversive parody of Hoover and her ilk

And now he's directing a Serendipity "redo." Oh what fun

I remember after Role Models came out and was a surprise hit, there was an article about how Wain gained industry respect by turning down directing the lucrative Meet the Parents sequel, which then enabled him to follow a career path more aligned to his voice and interests because studios were more willing to take meetings with the guy who said no to easy money. Showalter def took a different approach