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The Break-Up

post #1 of 8
12/20/06 at 2:50am
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Color me surprised. I rented it for hangover-fodder, expecting nothing but fluff, nothing to engage any sort of actual emotional response. As the movie went on, I was thinking how neat it would be if it were setting up for something real, but knew it wouldn't ever go that route in the end, and was just sort of waiting for the shoe to drop. I gotta say I was pretty impressed with where it went in the end. I certainly didn't expect it to end up melancholy and sobering the way it did. Anyone actually catch this? I know it had skip written all over it, but I think it did a hell of a job bucking the usual rom-com formula by the time the movie ends.
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post #2 of 8
12/20/06 at 2:55am
I went with a friend of mine and she was expecting the typical romantic comedy which she loves (and it was her turn to pick...)

and I dug it. I laughed and loved the realistic ending. Everyone else in the theatre hated it...but hell my friend even liked it.

I also saw it maybe a week or two after X3...so basically any movie after that would be golden so I could be biased.
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post #3 of 8
12/20/06 at 2:58am
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I was curious how this did. I couldn't imagine the crowd that would go to see it based on what it seemed to be would be anything but turned off, and I imagine anyone who'd actually dig it probably skipped it, as I probably would have if I wasn't in an odd mood while tossing stuff onto netflix.
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post #4 of 8
12/20/06 at 4:50am
It's more in the vein of Swingers and Made than Wedding Crashers. I really admire what they pulled off. There seems to have been a conscious effort to maintain the tone they wanted. And that choice made them have to jettison what would have made it much more accessible to a broad audience. It still made a fucking ridiculous amount of money in spite of all of this. The only scene in the film that feels out of place is the acapella singing at the dinner table. But that was cleary there just to have another trailer moment.

And I love that they had another one of those "taking the piss out of the moral of the story" scenes at the end. Swingers had the classic bit with Vaughn cutting Favreau off because of the woman with the baby. The scene in this film isn't on that level, but it's hysterical how Vaughn's attempt to explain what he learned over the course of the movie is derailed by Favreau misunderstanding his intentions and thinking he wants to whack the guy. This ended up in my top ten of the year list.
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post #5 of 8
12/20/06 at 10:11am
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Originally Posted by Sean Bateman
It's more in the vein of Swingers and Made than Wedding Crashers. I really admire what they pulled off. There seems to have been a conscious effort to maintain the tone they wanted. And that choice made them have to jettison what would have made it much more accessible to a broad audience. It still made a fucking ridiculous amount of money in spite of all of this. The only scene in the film that feels out of place is the acapella singing at the dinner table. But that was cleary there just to have another trailer moment.
Good comparison. I can forgive some of the romcom trailer moments earlier on since it led to my surprise when it started coming to a close.
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post #6 of 8
12/20/06 at 12:51pm
Did anyone see the alternate ending on the DVD? Whoever made the call to ditch that ending might have very well saved the movie.
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post #7 of 8
12/21/06 at 12:16am
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Originally Posted by Minsky
Did anyone see the alternate ending on the DVD? Whoever made the call to ditch that ending might have very well saved the movie.
Completely agreed. I listened to it with Vaughn's commentary, and it made me think he had a lot to do with the film taking the correct route.
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post #8 of 8
12/21/06 at 3:25pm
Watched it last night. Surprised me some. Cole Hauser and Jon Favreau were probably my favorite parts about the movie, despite having only a few scenes a piece. It also does a great job of making the story have a believable and totally serious emotional core without becoming a self important affair like this year's THE LAST KISS.
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