Trainwreck — Page 3

I love Amy Schumer. I think I love her because she is a PC Goddess for the PC generation and everything she does is super PC and my initials are almost PC but not quite Gothampc. I've been looking forward to this movie from the moment I heard about it and the only reason I waited so long to see it is because I went on a cruise that left the weekend it opened.

I didn't love it. I didn't hate it, in fact I laughed a lot and thought that if the movie was cut down to an hour forty or so that might have raised my opinion of it.

I need to highlight this comment of Namo's though, because this exact thought hit me around the scene that had Chris Evert the inexplicable appearance of Matthew Broderick.

PS This movie has a protagonist who HATES sports and the people who love sports (with a father who loves sports -- an unexamined issue in the move) and the cast is populated by pro athlete after pro athlete after sports announcer after cheerleaders after pro teams. THIS is the best example of how a Judd Apatow ruins what could have been a Bridesmaids-level great Amy Schumer headlining movie.

Because I thought the sports stuff was kind of overkill. It's not the sports per se, but all the time devoted to that (including the wildly overrated Lebron James performance) and I wondered if it was an attempt to bring in the straight male audience to a movie that the powers that be thought might not normally attract them.

Full disclosure - I generally hate Judd Apatow movies but there was enough of Schumer in this that it didn't make me want to die the way abominable Knocked Up did (a movie I still maintain plays like a bleak drama about terrible people treating each other terribly when there's no audience laughing through it), but by the end I realized that this movie was (or maybe at one time was) almost an inversion of a typical romantic comedy, but it's the woman who meets someone that makes her want to change her wild ways and ultimately perform a grand gesture to the fair maiden who in this is the marvelous Bill Hader. But Judd Apatow is just about the absolute worst director to have at the helm of that kind of film.

Updated On: 7/28/15 at 06:24 PM

I adore your opening statement and the neat way it demonstrates how PC you and Amy are.

I also agree with your final summation.

Great work, counselor.

I thought the focus on sports in the movie made perfect sense. As Amy is stepping into a world she knows nothing about--the world of serious relationships--she is stepping into another world she knows nothing about--the world of sports. At the beginning of the film, Amy looks down upon traditional relationships and athletics in the same way. The connection between the two seemed to be that both represent an image of the mainstream American life that Amy wants no part of.

it didn't make me want to die the way abominable Knocked Up did

Oh God, I try to forget I saw that movie. I kept waiting for what everyone was raving about to happen. Instead, I got a contemptible ending that undermines EVERYTHING in the film where the woman suddenly needs a man once she's in labor and isn't that so sweet and the way it really should have been all along?

Updated On: 8/5/15 at 05:52 PM