Bridesmaids.. GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

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I haven't laughed this hard since The Hangover.. The girl from Mike and Molly steals the show.Kristin Wiig was extremely funny as well. She had some great moments. I had tears in my eyes and probably missed some of the jokes because I was in hysterics laughing! 4 stars in my book.
 
Thanks, Steve! The GF has been bugging the hell out of me wanting to see this....maybe it won't be so bad and I will be given many blessings from her for seeing it ;) Actually we were gonna go this Friday anyway cause she saw Thor with me lol :)
 
It's the best chick flick I've seen. Don't drink a lot, cause you will pee yourself laughing. Especially the extra scene during the beginning of the credits.
 
Turns out there's a friendly get together this Friday so the gf I and went to see this movie tonight...

OMG it was hilarious!!! Thanks for letting me know it was ok to see, Steve ;) lol
 
I just caught the movie yesterday, wanted to see it anyway because of all the Paul Feig bashing in the GB threads-

I found the movie very tough to endure. I used the fast forward button quite often. Because so many scene were dragged out. And I used the 10 sec button on my fire remote, to the effect that it really shows how repetitive some of the gags are. It sometimes was like the scene was stalling, i.e. NOTHING going on for 30 to 40 secs. The "drugged in the airplane" sequence was unbelievably long and how did its length propel the story forward? It IMO would have been much funnier to see the main character act up after being drugged and then immediately cut to the ladies on the bus. No need to show a plane landing in Wyomning, going through the airport etc .
The toilet humour in it was really appaling and so damn unnecessary. The timing sometimes felt really off, gags were predictable, no surprises. I liked the scenes with the cop, the scenes on the airplane with the air marshall were a bit funny, but I really shook my head when I saw the "sandwich" after credits-scene. Bleargh ...

All in all, the movie is IMO totally overrated.

Sorry for the necro, but if a dedicated threadfor a movie already exists why open another one ;) Oldie but goldie I say :p
 
I liked Bridesmaids. A lot of the humor isn't so much in the flat out jokes but in Kristen Wiig's deadpan character moments and her interactions with Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy. Sure, it's a shtick she plays in almost every film (e.g. Forgetting Sarah Marshall) but you either like it or you don't.

 
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I just caught the movie yesterday, wanted to see it anyway because of all the Paul Feig bashing in the GB threads-

I found the movie very tough to endure. I used the fast forward button quite often. Because so many scene were dragged out. And I used the 10 sec button on my fire remote, to the effect that it really shows how repetitive some of the gags are. It sometimes was like the scene was stalling, i.e. NOTHING going on for 30 to 40 secs. The "drugged in the airplane" sequence was unbelievably long and how did its length propel the story forward? It IMO would have been much funnier to see the main character act up after being drugged and then immediately cut to the ladies on the bus. No need to show a plane landing in Wyomning, going through the airport etc .
The toilet humour in it was really appaling and so damn unnecessary. The timing sometimes felt really off, gags were predictable, no surprises. I liked the scenes with the cop, the scenes on the airplane with the air marshall were a bit funny, but I really shook my head when I saw the "sandwich" after credits-scene. Bleargh ...

All in all, the movie is IMO totally overrated.

Sorry for the necro, but if a dedicated threadfor a movie already exists why open another one ;) Oldie but goldie I say :p

sounds like a paul feig movie.

the man has no sense of timing, or directing ability.

I honestly don't see what people find appealing about his movies.
 
sounds like a paul feig movie.

the man has no sense of timing, or directing ability.

I honestly don't see what people find appealing about his movies.
Feig does have a characteristic tone in his films. You either like it or you don't.

If you don't, there's nothing I can say that could change your mind. It's just a matter of taste.

Some people think Martin Short is funny but I think he's just tiresome.

I think every Zucker Abrams Zucker film (starting with Kentucky Fried Movie) is hilarious. I've tried to get my wife into them but she refuses to be amused.
 
Is this real life?

Is the overdone hate for a mediocre "who cares?" movie getting so boring on the other thread we're resurrecting a long dead thread to drag a pretty damn funny flick down as well?

*****, guys.
 
I just caught the movie yesterday, wanted to see it anyway because of all the Paul Feig bashing in the GB threads-

I found the movie very tough to endure. I used the fast forward button quite often. Because so many scene were dragged out. And I used the 10 sec button on my fire remote, to the effect that it really shows how repetitive some of the gags are. It sometimes was like the scene was stalling, i.e. NOTHING going on for 30 to 40 secs. The "drugged in the airplane" sequence was unbelievably long and how did its length propel the story forward? It IMO would have been much funnier to see the main character act up after being drugged and then immediately cut to the ladies on the bus. No need to show a plane landing in Wyomning, going through the airport etc .
The toilet humour in it was really appaling and so damn unnecessary. The timing sometimes felt really off, gags were predictable, no surprises. I liked the scenes with the cop, the scenes on the airplane with the air marshall were a bit funny, but I really shook my head when I saw the "sandwich" after credits-scene. Bleargh ...

All in all, the movie is IMO totally overrated.

Sorry for the necro, but if a dedicated threadfor a movie already exists why open another one ;) Oldie but goldie I say :p

I think we had the same experience. I heard how great it was and watched it and thought it was just terrible. I rarely turn off a movie if i start watching at the beginning, but i don't think i made 40 minutes before killing it. I never even made it to the airport. I quit just after the dress store scene.
 
I had to do that 4 times for the Heat and 6 times for Spy. it was very hard to continue spy once the lady took a knife that was stabbed through her hand and onto a desk and continued to fight like nothing ever happened. IIRC.
 
Its a funny flick, at least I enjoyed it. Then I rented Spy and didnt feel ripped off for the $1.99 rental fee from Red box. The Heat was on FX the other night, changed the channel to the paint drying channel. Chick flick or not, I laughed as it was well made.
 
Feig does have a characteristic tone in his films. You either like it or you don't.

I have seen Spy and now Bridesmaids. I think they are quite different, both tonally and gag timing-wise. While Bridesmaids felt very, very slowpaced and redundant in many, many scenes I thought of Spy as a bit more witty, except for the scenes with that british comedian. Those scenes felt EXActly like many scenes in Bridesmaids, i.e. more like improv and without a "directed" or planned timing. The great comedians of my youth were Louis DeFunes, Fernandel, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers and as far as I know they all were absolutely nuts about perfect timing and planning gags.

If you don't, there's nothing I can say that could change your mind. It's just a matter of taste.

Yes and no. Good craftsmanship makes good movies and sometimes mediocre movies.

Some people think Martin Short is funny but I think he's just tiresome.

That IMO indeed is a matter of personal taste. Liking a comedian and his work is directly intertwined. Inner Space is one of my all time fave movies, so I guess there is one Genre movie that we can´t watch together, huh? ;)

I think every Zucker Abrams Zucker film (starting with Kentucky Fried Movie) is hilarious. I've tried to get my wife into them but she refuses to be amused.

I bet it was the Catholic School Girls in Danger that your wife did not like :D Very special humour, same goes for the Farrelly Brothers or the Adam Sandler gang.

But here it´s a director we are talking about, and ...

Is this real life?

Is the overdone hate for a mediocre "who cares?" movie getting so boring on the other thread we're resurrecting a long dead thread to drag a pretty damn funny flick down as well?

*****, guys.

... no, it´s not about continuing a thread but at least for me about analysing a director and his body of work. As I stated, I just saw the movie and wanted to add to the discussion. I did like Spy to some extent, although it is not a great movie its a fun and entertaining movie. But Bridesmaids was so well received that I gave it a try, and I found it to have a lot of issues that to me personally scream "not a well-crafted movie". I wanted to get onto the ride and see what it was all about and be entertained. What I found did not entertain me because I could not see across all the bad writing. Even the cookie cutter characters and preformatted storyline patterns were IMO executed in a very sloppy way.

E.g the Tennis match. A setup like that is, although I cannot pull up a comparison, a standard for showing rivalry. But usually there is at least SOME dramaturgy visible, start-middle-end with some curvature. The only curvature that I can see is that of the ladies. Duh.
The antagonist, i.e. other best friend. Comes out of nowhere. Was she mentioned or hinted at earlier in the movie? Did I miss something that was said in a dialogue because of the 10 sec jumps? The confession at the end and redemption came a bit too Anakin-like for me in the end.
The main character was not really likeable. We IMO were meant to pity her, but I found her just annoying. What deeper meaning i.e. function did it have that she was a failed bakery owner? The movie would have totally worked without that information. It IMO was totally deliberate and did not add anything to the character or the story.
I liked the Cop. Because I am able to identify with him to some extent. He is an everyman, a good guy.

The shots that showed the City scape. Again and again and again. What was so special about that city? What made it necessary for the movie and the audience to show establishers/expository shots again and again and again? Wouldn´t it have been much better to keep the city generic? Or is that bridesmaids and friend stealing thing somehow connected to that particular city?

I guess it is not only a matter of taste but also a matter of tolerance towards the quality of movie work that makes you like or dislike a particular movie these days. Next discussion stop: does getting swamped by mediocre works of art make us more susceptible to accepting levels of quality getting lower?

My girlfriend likes NCIS and CSI Cyber and whatnot. I hate most of the shows because of their low quality. I showed her Ripper Street. It did not make her lose her interest in NCIS etc. but I usually try to have my way and watch tv shows with at least some quality. And I want the kids to watch quality tv if they want to watch tv. That starts early, but BOY is that a tough job. But more about that in another thread, not trying to derail this one :p
 
I love it.

People are getting up in arms about even saying criticizing things about a director now ;o). and a D list one at that..;o)


For me, I wanted to see what i was going to get into with the other movie.

I've had people tell me you can't judge a film by it's trailers. I actually liked the trailer to spy....and was thinking of giving it a chance anyway.
I thought, how bad could it be? 6 aborted attempts to finish it later, I finally slogged through the unbelivablity.


Ok, maybe it's just one bad movie. Katie Dippold wrote Heat...lets see if that's better.

It was a TAD better because it had a real actress in sandra bullock, but 5 aborted attempts later, I got through it.

It was the same exact problems with heat as it was with spy. Bad timing. bad plotting. bad directing. not sure what the plot of the movie was. didn't care about any of the characters. the actors where so bad it broke the 4th wall. uncomfortable looking actors on screen saying load after load of swear words and bad jokes...

You know how in birdemic, there is this shot where rod, or whatever the lead guys name was, couldn't even WALK right for a minute or so? that's the entire level of directing and acting for a standard paul feig movie. uncomfortable to watch.

Your description of this one. a movie I Was thinking of checking out to see if feig would be 3 for 3 made me realize my initial assumption is right and i do not need to waste my time on it. it sounds like all the other feig movies. over rated slop fests..
 
Feig is D-List... ha. okay.

Comedy is SO FRIGGIN subjective. I can never say a comedy is "Bad" just "Not my thing"...

I HATE punchline humor. Hate it. But "2 Broke Girls" ratings and 34 years of "Two and a half men" tell me there's an audience.

I actually got notes on a script I handed in that said "Can we get this a little more Two and a Half Men, and a little less Apatow?" Cuz the producer who read it was more of "Family Guy humor" type of guy than a "Bob's Burgers" (to use other examples)

So if you don't like Bridesmaids because scenes go on too long, or are not funny, it may not because the director and actors suck, maybe it's just not YOUR thing.

I mean most people would agree that "The Jerk" is a comedy classic... but I showed my buddy and he hated it. Just hated every minute. From "I was born a poor black child" to the end he just stared at me thinking "What is wrong with you??? Why is that funny?"

But he would never say "Steve Martin is an unfunny hack... his movies suck and he has no idea what humor is"

But some on here would.
 
I have seen Spy and now Bridesmaids. I think they are quite different, both tonally and gag timing-wise. While Bridesmaids felt very, very slowpaced and redundant in many, many scenes I thought of Spy as a bit more witty, except for the scenes with that british comedian. Those scenes felt EXActly like many scenes in Bridesmaids, i.e. more like improv and without a "directed" or planned timing. The great comedians of my youth were Louis DeFunes, Fernandel, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers and as far as I know they all were absolutely nuts about perfect timing and planning gags.
I don't understand your point. That the comedy of Bridesmaids has less to do with the direction than with the actors?

I think we can agree that the "tone" of a film is determined by a number of factors. While the director is typically charged and credited with establishing tone there are some directors who lean more heavily on their assistants and editors and you find it hard to nail down their exact "voice." Some directors (e.g. Ridley Scott, John Woo) give actors tremendous leeway with interpreting their characters and work around them while some directors need to micromanage performances. Still there are some directors (e.g. Woody Allen) who are simply versatile enough to craft solid films with distinctly different tones - even within the same genre (e.g. Love and Death, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Sleeper ...).

So how do I explain the difference in tone between Spy vs Bridesmaids? I don't know nor do I have enough interest to research the topic.

I just know that I thought Bridesmaids was funny while someone else didn't. If you want to argue that one of us has objectively poor taste then be my guest.


That IMO indeed is a matter of personal taste. Liking a comedian and his work is directly intertwined. Inner Space is one of my all time fave movies, so I guess there is one Genre movie that we can´t watch together, huh? ;)
No offense but I'd rather put needles in my eyes.:angry


I bet it was the Catholic School Girls in Trouble that your wife did not like :D
I don't think she even made it to that part.
"Show me your nuts!":p


... no, it´s not about continuing a thread but at least for me about analysing a director and his body of work. As I stated, I just saw the movie and wanted to add to the discussion. I did like Spy to some extent, although it is not a great movie its a fun and entertaining movie. But Bridesmaids was so well received that I gave it a try, and I found it to have a lot of issues that to me personally scream "not a well-crafted movie". I wanted to get onto the ride and see what it was all about and be entertained. What I found did not entertain me because I could not see across all the bad writing. Even the cookie cutter characters and preformatted storyline patterns were IMO executed in a very sloppy way.

E.g the Tennis match. A setup like that is, although I cannot pull up a comparison, a standard for showing rivalry. But usually there is at least SOME dramaturgy visible, start-middle-end with some curvature. The only curvature that I can see is that of the ladies. Duh.
The antagonist, i.e. other best friend. Comes out of nowhere. Was she mentioned or hinted at earlier in the movie? Did I miss something that was said in a dialogue because of the 10 sec jumps? The confession at the end and redemption came a bit too Anakin-like for me in the end.
The main character was not really likeable. We IMO were meant to pity her, but I found her just annoying. What deeper meaning i.e. function did it have that she was a failed bakery owner? The movie would have totally worked without that information. It IMO was totally deliberate and did not add anything to the character or the story.
I liked the Cop. Because I am able to identify with him to some extent. He is an everyman, a good guy.
I saw the film before Spy was released so my expectations would naturally be different. And I saw it cold without knowing anything about the film or who directed it. (= my wife made me watch it with her). I didn't think the main character was relatable but I thought she was amusingly pathetic in a way that's either appealing to a viewer or isn't. That quality is not unique to Wiig (*cough*Martin Short*cough). At the same time I can't say that, under different circumstances, I wouldn't have found her character irritating, too.

I thought the passive aggressive exchanges between Wiig and Byrne were funny. The romance was unoriginal but tolerable.

I didn't feel the spirit of the film required that every sketch service the plot. The tennis match played like a protracted slapstick bit. I didn't feel it was missing structure.

Her backstory as a baker is entirely disposable, yes. If anything it probably functions merely to underscore the fact that she's failed and given up both in her career and in her personal life.

I viewed the film as a comedy without inherent stakes - attempting to be more like Airplane than There's Something About Mary. I can't say if that was the intent but that's how I watched it. I didn't have to care about the dramatic climax of the film.

Moments were definitely hit or miss - e.g. I really have not even the slightest idea what the point of that sequence where she makes the single cupcake was. But the film did make me laugh.

I don't want to go on. I can't believe I referenced Ridley Scott, Woody Allen and John Woo in a discussion about Feig and Bridesmaids.
 
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These oil cans like your argument is defective! ;)


Feig is D-List... ha. okay.

Comedy is SO FRIGGIN subjective. I can never say a comedy is "Bad" just "Not my thing"...

I HATE punchline humor. Hate it. But "2 Broke Girls" ratings and 34 years of "Two and a half men" tell me there's an audience.

I actually got notes on a script I handed in that said "Can we get this a little more Two and a Half Men, and a little less Apatow?" Cuz the producer who read it was more of "Family Guy humor" type of guy than a "Bob's Burgers" (to use other examples)

So if you don't like Bridesmaids because scenes go on too long, or are not funny, it may not because the director and actors suck, maybe it's just not YOUR thing.

I mean most people would agree that "The Jerk" is a comedy classic... but I showed my buddy and he hated it. Just hated every minute. From "I was born a poor black child" to the end he just stared at me thinking "What is wrong with you??? Why is that funny?"

But he would never say "Steve Martin is an unfunny hack... his movies suck and he has no idea what humor is"

But some on here would.
 
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