The Meyerowitz Stories

Started by wilder, May 19, 2017, 05:00:00 PM

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wilder



An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Written and Directed by Noah Baumbach
Starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Candace Bergen, Emma Thomspon, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, and Grace Van Patten
Release Date - October 14, 2017 on Netflix



wilberfan

I found watching this quite unbearable.  I was out 40 minutes in.

What am I missing??

Drenk

Ascension.

Yes

I worship Baumbach, but this is a mess-- he so clearly aims for accessible broad material, but he's trapped by just how talky and unnaturally stylized the film is

Drenk

What do you mean by unnaturally stylized? To me it is filmed like most of his movies. I find the structure fascinating. It's mostly linear and the gaps add something to the story. They all follow the same "story" in a different way.

I don't know. It deeply touched me.
Ascension.

wilberfan

I wasn't into the story at all.  I just kept thinking, "Wow.  Great cast.  They sure have a lot of words to say...  Wonder how many pages the script was...?"

Drenk

I'll quote this line by @fauxbeatpoet about the movie : "Living with inherited trauma is noisy business."
Ascension.

Sleepless

I'm not a huge fan of Baumbach's stuff (WA collabs aside) post but this was okay. It held my interest, but not great. Like wilberfan said, great cast, and that's what held it for me. For all those reviewers saying this is next-level Sandler, though, even PDL aside, he's not doing anything here that he hasn't done before in, say, Reign Over Me. I did really like the very, very ending though - like an anti-Raiders ending. Not everything is forgotten. Overall, though, it's unremarkable and forgettable. Pure manifestation of what "a Netflix original" has come to mean.
He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.

Robyn

this felt like a continuation of The Squid and the Whale, and I liked that. it could almost have been a direct sequel to that one.