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Dan in Real LIfe

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#1Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 7:53am

Just watched this film last night, and I loved it. I especially loved the soundtrack by Sondre Lerche and purchased it on iTunes directly after watching.

Did anyone else dig it?


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#2re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:23am

I saw it when it was first released, due to my love for both Steve Carell and Norbert Leo Butz. I enjoyed it immensely. And Juliette Binoche was luminous.

I rented it last week and it still moved me...funny, without being slapsticky, and sweet. A celebration of family. I adored it.

I loved the soundtrack as well. It so perfectly captured the mood of the film.

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#2re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:28am

I was really surprised by this one -- I didn't expect to love it so much. The trailers made it seem a lot more silly than it is.

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#3re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:40am

I had no urge to see it, but it was playing on a flight I was on, so I watched it and LOVED it!

Steve is funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.

I highly recommend it!


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#4re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:56am

I remember when the movie came out the few people I knew who saw it found it disappointing. I think they must've been expecting something more along the lines of Judd Apatow.

I don't know. I loved it. I can't believe I hadn't heard more about it. And I'm so glad that I Netflix-ed it!


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roquat
#5re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 10:10pm

I loved it. The very rare movie that presents a believable famiily dynamic, without any commercial "wackiness" or bad, worn-out bathroom humor (except for that weird shower scene).


I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

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#6re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 10:10pm

Agree, agree.

I loved it.

And have the soundtrack.


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#7re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 10:54pm

Allison Pill = life


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#8re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/8/08 at 10:55pm

good movie good actors good soundtrack

do you need much more?

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#9re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 12:07am

It was such a sweet movie. Really well written and entertaining. And Carrell was fantastic in it...very restrained and really touching. He should have gotten a Golden Globe nod for this, IMO. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

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#10re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 3:02pm

I really enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I would. I also had no idea that there were so many "Broadway" actors in it (Allison Pill, Matthew Morrsion, Norbert Leo Butz, to name a few).

I wonder how long until this movie is musicalized...


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#11re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:02pm

Yep- loved it too! Very sweet movie! Very character driven so it was an actor's movie. The girls playing his daughters did a great job! By the way- Flowery- did you decide on a grad school?

roquat
#12re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:31pm

SPOILER**********************************************************

The only thing I really couldn't believe was that shower scene, and it bothers me more and more as I think about it. I mean, seriously, ladies--if you open the bathroom door on someone you barely know who's about to take a shower, do you nonchalantly walk in, sit on the toilet, and start having a heart-to-heart talk with her as she showers? First of all, it's a serious invasion of privacy; second of all, how could she hear you?


I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
Updated On: 5/9/08 at 04:31 PM

Mattbrain
#13re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 5:06pm

It was refreshing to see a movie like this. So many families go through so much crap nowadays (you should see mine). It was honest...well, apart from the shower scene. Movies like this are just a breath of fresh air for me.


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Kasie
#14re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 5:51pm

I just bought this movie and I'm going to try to watch it within the next couple of days. I love me some Steve Carrell!

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#15re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 7:03pm

Wait!

Matty Fresh was in it?

I don't remember seeing him. What scene was he in?


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#16re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 8:44pm

Diva, Matty is a police officer who stops Dan in a few scenes.


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DG
#17re: Dan in Real LIfe
Posted: 5/9/08 at 11:00pm

Just finished this. We laughed and we cried. Thoroughly satisfying.


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