Rate LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

[abcdefz]

Anybody else seeing this this weekend? Me am. Maybe some of you already saw it?

[Nuzzolese]

Didn't it get into theatres about 2 hours ago? I'm seeing it soon I hope, I hope, ah hope ah hope....


I love saying that repeatedly the way Helen Hunt said it in As Good As It Gets. Do you know the scene I'm talking about?

[abcdefz]

I'm seeing it soon I hope, I hope, ah hope ah hope....


I love saying that repeatedly the way Helen Hunt said it in As Good As It Gets. Do you know the scene I'm talking about?



No... which one? I know that movie pretty well.

Ivan Reitman rocks in that movie. (y)

[Nuzzolese]

They're at dinner in Maryland and He'd just given her the compliment of her life and she says something, I don't know what, but she's nervous and she kind of stammers and just goes I hope...I hope I hope I hope like it's a little song or something. It's fun to say because it's kind of awkward and giddy like Annie Hall saying Lah dee dah.

[Bob]

i want to see it but probably won't, i don't get to theaters much

this doesn't help but there you go

[Nuzzolese]

Oh I remember now! She had just asked him about how it was going with his medication, his pills, and she said "Good I hope..." and yeah yeah anyway it's in the movie you've seen it, it probably just didn't strike such a memorable emotional chord with you as it has clearly done with me. I'm changed forever.

[DIGI]

Jill Talley <3

[abcdefz]

They're at dinner in Maryland and He'd just given her the compliment of her life and she says something, I don't know what, but she's nervous and she kind of stammers and just goes I hope...I hope I hope I hope like it's a little song or something. It's fun to say because it's kind of awkward and giddy like Annie Hall saying Lah dee dah.


Wow. I can sort of see it, but I can't remember.

[abcdefz]

Oh I remember now! She had just asked him about how it was going with his medication, his pills, and she said "Good I hope..." and yeah yeah anyway it's in the movie you've seen it, it probably just didn't strike such a memorable emotional chord with you as it has clearly done with me. I'm changed forever.


Yep -- I remember it now. Good memory! (y)

[Nuzzolese]

I have a really good memory for the most useless information. I can remember a confusion over my fro yo order at TCBY when I was 9 years old (she said strawberries, I thought she said spoons), I can remember Helen Hunt saying something stupid. But I can't remember where I parked my car or whether or not my boyfriend likes avacado.

[abcdefz]

Most movies I've seen that I remember -- they're pretty much trapped. But I'd forgotten that moment.

[DandyFop]

7!!!

Pretty funny!

I saw it for free!!

It get's a little too ridiculous at some points!!!

The end was a little lame!!!!!

[abcdefz]

that was 14 exclamation marks, young lady :mad:

[abcdefz]

I saw this yesterday.

Pretty good dysfunctional family road trip comedy with very, very frightening little pageant girls at the end. Very scary, because you just know this is some people's twisted idea of what a "beautiful little (eight year old?) girl" looks like. We're talking two degrees away from Tammy Faye, here.

The cast is really, really good. Toni Collette is great, Steven Carell is spot-on and underplays nicely; the little girl is great and the teenage son is a revelation. Hell, Greg Kinnear didn't even annoy me with his acting. Alan Arkin's always good, and he really commits to the foul-mouthed grandpa thing, and when the movie reveals just what he's been training the little girl to do for her talent act, it's perfectly in character and very terrible at the same time.

It's a little predictable overall, but not so much in the details. Mainly, the acting wins the day.

7.5/10

[DandyFop]

I saw this yesterday.

Pretty good dysfunctional family road trip comedy with very, very frightening little pageant girls at the end. Very scary, because you just know this is some people's twisted idea of what a "beautiful little (eight year old?) girl" looks like. We're talking two degrees away from Tammy Faye, here.


I know - those girls were the fucking creepiest things I've ever seen. And you do know they are pageant girls, like they've got the crazy stage moms and everything.

[abcdefz]

*shivers*


Seeing them get spray-tanned and stuff was a really great introduction.

From an interview at MovieWeb: (http://www.movieweb.com/news/18/13718.php)


What was it like filming the pageant? Were all the girls actresses?

Jonathan Dayton: This is really important, there were no directions. Those were real pageant girls, done up by their mothers. They brought all their own equipment. They brought every aspect of that. It's tricky here, because this is a community that has been beaten up so much, and they were really paranoid.

Valerie Faris: Very sensitive.

Jonathan Dayton: Our first sentence to them was, "Okay, this is not going to be Jean-Benet Ramsey's," just to get it out on the table, because they know.

Valerie Faris: When we did the bathing suit contest. We said, "Okay do what you do in a bathing suit contest." So we get one of the moms to organize this. They told us, "Well, this is how we do it," and they all came out just to hit their poses, and she comes out pigeon-toed, and that was just the way it happened.

Jonathan Dayton: Our point is not to make a big editorial statement about beauty pageants, it's to depict it as honestly as we can and then to let the audience make their judgment.

[DandyFop]

Wow. Eeck.

[abcdefz]

Oh, cool! I just read that the teenager, Paul Dano, is in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are. Good for him. (y)

[DandyFop]

He's also in The Girl Next Door. Yeah that's right. I watched it. Now that I don't have TV, when I find a free movie to download, I watch it. Sigh.

[abcdefz]

Is that some teen comedy thing?

[HEIRESS]

I highly highly enjoyed it

(!)

[kll]

I highly highly enjoyed it

(!)

me too.

just saw this on sunday... i liked how every time i thought i knew what was going to happen, the exact opposite did... no predictability at all... splendid acting... love when movies draw you in, so you feel just as awkward or uncomfortable as the characters feel...

[HEIRESS]

It was a perfect lazy sunday afternoon matinee choice

[beastiegirrl101]

Best line in the movie. . .

"LINDA!"


I was the only one in the theatre that laughed out loud at that.

[bigblu89]

I finally got around to seeing it, after eveyone I know raving about it.

I thought it sucked.

I was giving it a chance, until they "stole" grandpa.

It went from a dark comedy to slapstick for me.

Of course the girl dancing to superfreak was funny, but other than that, I wasn't entertained.

[Yeti]

It was a 7 in my rating system. My wife really enjoyed the film. I am with BigBlu-----when Gramps was abducted I cringed. The script was well rounded and I did feel like I got to know each character. My heart felt good after watching Little Miss Sunshine and that is probably because the film had heart.

[QueenAdrock]

I saw this last night at my friend's house!

I liked it. It wasn't the best, but it was very enjoyable. I give it an 8.

[abcdefz]

I really liked it when the boy finally exploded, and then how quickly he turned back to family when his sister came for him.

The guy's performance is way underrated. He was doing more with looks and glances than a lot of people can do with monologues.

[ScarySquirrel]

I saw it. I liked it for the most part. I agree with BigBlu on the whole "stealing grandpa" thing but it didn't quite ruin the whole film for me or anything. I actually really enjoyed most of this film.

I give it an 8.

[abcdefz]

Yeah -- the stealing grandpa bit was really, really bad. The worst thing in the movie, by far.

It's funny how often the movie was skirting with real contrived stupid comedy/plotting and then would pull out of the nosedive. except the stealing grandpa bit: agreed.