BruiserBrody
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I'm glad Scorsese brings the best out of De Niro yet since the last 20 years have been a lot of fluff. I guess I should be glad this isn't a sequel movie.
Had no idea this guy was still around
Don't Ex-spend your money
Don't know where else to post this, but I really enjoyed this comedy and, I'm glad it's finding an audience on streaming. It's a flop in theaters, but it's doing amazing numbers on Netflix.
https://deadline.com/2023/11/friend...-no-hard-feelings-nielsen-ratings-1235641723/
I imagine the minutes that were the most viewed were during the around 2 minute scene where Jennifer Lawrence shows full frontal nudity. But, this shows that sex still sells and people want to see some eye candy when they watch hollywood movies. Lawrence also gave one of the most committed performances of the year. She goes all out with the physical comedy, facial expressions, weird gutteral voices, and ability to laugh at herself and be the butt of the joke. The awkward sheltered kid played by Andrew Barth Feldman is also really good, and he gave me Michael Cera in Superbad vibes. Their chemistry makes the movie. But, the problem I had, is that the first half or so is an excellent raunchy sex comedy with Jennifer Lawrence playing a trash person. Then it turns into a rom com where everyone is redeemed in the second half and it is way too serious at points. I miss silly comedies without dramatic scenes. Billy Madison or either Ace Ventura didn't have the serious scenes. It also does have some good Matthew Broderick. I get tired of his shtick pretty quickly, but he's very funny here.
Sony has won this streaming war. They aren't hemorrhaging money like Max, Disney+, Paramount Plus, Peacock etc. They just license movies to Netflix and occasionally other streaming services, and reap the benefits and make money. All at the same time, as they run a gigantically successful video game empire.
There’s almost zero value in hosting these shows. Almost everyone will be criticized for being too edgy or not edgy enough, not being as good as previous hosts.It's weirder that they had Jim Gaffigan there to present an award. He probably could deliver a much better monologue. I get that Koy was last minute and was only offered 10 days ago, but Gaffigan is right there.