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LOL (2007)
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Funny Ha Ha - A Review
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"First paragraph of a review that I posted last year:"If I'm in the mood for a Western, I want horses. If I'm in the mood for explosions, I go to a Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay movie. In either case, I don't want, say, Max Von Sydow playing chess with Death in some black-and-white hovel on the rocky shores of Sturnnveggloven. In the same way, if I'm in the mood to watch echo-boomer twenty-somethings filming their friends hanging out with each other in small apartments and on the urban stoop and in the homes and basements of their parents and grandparents, none of whom will ever appear onscreen, then for those of you who haven't seen one such film before, this would be mumblecore."My assigned movie, "Funny Ha Ha," would be perhaps the first film in the mumblecore genre. Did I read something somewhere about how frequently, for some mysterious reason, the first in a genre is also the best? Homer, Milton, and Cervantes were mentioned. Could this be true of FHH? Is it the purest, a ... "
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Mumblecore Shmumblecore?
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"Joe Swanberg’s latest mumblecore film examines the relationships of three men, Tim, Chris, and Alex, and their addiction to technology. Swanberg is considered a forerunner of the mumblecore movement, a term given to films of the new millennium that are independent, usually shot digitally, and portray the lives of twenty-somethings through improvisation and non-professional acting. LOL of course fits that criteria, delving into how the men seek satisfaction in internet relationships, cell phones, and other technology. As if the film’s title wasn’t indicative enough, it’s clearly a film for the twenty-first century, though certainly not for everybody.Along with the staples of mumblecore films, Swanberg’s own flavor permeates the film. Artistic, uncomfortable, and somewhat gratuitous nudity attempts to put the audience directly in the mind of the helpless men. Swanberg, also headlining the cast as Tim, joins C. Mason Wells and Kevin Bewersdorf as the f ... "
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WTF, LOL?
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"Well, it certainly took me long enough, but I finally got around to watching and reviewing "LOL," Joe Swanberg's movie about the effects of modern technology and relationships. I'd been hearing a lot about the Mumblecore genre, especially since the folks here at Spout have all but canonized Swanberg and his fellow Mumblecore artists as the patron saints of a new generation of filmmakers. I was curious to see how the movie lived up to all the hype. What I found was a movie that, while interesting, didn't really reveal its message until the last possible moment. In fact, up until the last fifteen minutes of the film, I was prepared to write off "LOL" as just another interesting but ultimately failed artistic experiment. The movie is about a group of friends (Swanberg, Kevin Bewersdorf and C. Mason Wells) each going through some relationship issues that have something to do with their addiction to online porn. These guys all seem perfectly normal and good otherwise, but when it comes ... "
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"Before dealing with the end of the world as we know it, which this movie does not explicitly mention but which is lurking there in the unspoken background - before dealing with that, it being a pet peeve of mine, let me mention first an equally annoying pet peeve: many podcasters, the Spout podcasters occasionally among them, use the expression "begs the question" when they actually mean "raises the question." This error of diction has become so common in the U.S. today that it's probably useless to even mention it here, but since I heard it again on FilmCouch recently, let me remind those who might be unaware of it that "begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which an argument is assumed to be true without evidence other than the argument itself. Thank you. Meanwhile, back in the day, if you hated documentaries but had to write a paper on one, you could head down to Ninth and Trawler and catch The Nudist Story at the Jewel Box. The Nudist Story is the film where eve ... "
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FilmCouch #35
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"Mumblecore on a hot plate. Karina gets tired of the spitfire debating over Hannah Takes the Stairs and the rest of the mumblecore movies playing at IFC Center this week. Paul and Kevin review LOL (on DVD this week) and Quiet City for all non-new yorkers. FilmCouch #35 Subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday. Join the FilmCouch group Hannah takes the Stairs, Quiet City, LOL
it's all about the meta
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"So, while my computer was busying itself crunching some video in Final Cut, I thought it appropriate to finally get around to watching LOL. I've been putting it off because I was afraid I was going to hate it. I'm sure I'll never see it again, but it came early enough in my Mumblecore experience to warrant my indulgence.I think Mumblecore is a pretty awful term for what this is. It totally misses the fact that it's all about the meta. I felt all the more secure having just enjoyed the pleasures of round tripping a photograph into a transparency projected and painted and back into a photograph to be layered in with the original subject. Meta. That's what it's all about. Everyone has the technology to create and manipulate an artifact all the way back around into another manipulatable artifact ad infinitum. It's fun. What I see in Four Eyed Monsters and LOL is this propensity to play with technology. Also this desire to manipulate our own reflection. We se ... "
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LOL
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"If I'm in the mood for a Western, I want horses. If I'm in the mood for explosions, I go to a Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay movie. In either case, I don't want, say, Max Von Sydow playing chess with Death in some black-and-white hovel on the rocky shores of Sturnnveggloven. In the same way, if I'm in the mood to watch echo-boomer twenty-somethings filming their friends hanging out with each other in small apartments and on the urban stoop and in the homes and basements of their parents and grandparents, none of whom will ever appear onscreen, then for those of you who haven't seen one such film before, this would be mumblecore.I mention this in case you're confronted with the movie LOL on one of those evenings when you in fact don't want an unscripted little semi-plotless handheld film, but instead crave a Hollywood-du-jour mind-destroying offering like those which are currently available at the Metroplex. No sense wasting a tasty little morsel like ... "
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