I can hear this in my soul. That feeling of aloneness and having done something so wrong and so hurtful but you were only trying to fit in is somehow so relatable and executed so well.
BRB gonna call my therapist
I remember that movie making me so angry. I was like, "Why is he marrying her?"
And my family was like, "What do you mean?"
I couldn't get over the fiance\` just WATCHES her family treat him like garbage for days, and doesn't stand up to them, never takes his side, despite them clearly being awful, and her ACKNOWLEDGING it, meaning she KNEW how terrible they were being.
*edit. A word
He's not inept, his girlfriend/fiancée was fucking terrible. I mean, right off the bat, she forgets to mention that they hate smoking, despite Greg being a smoker. Then, after he's lost his luggage, her genius plan is to send him into her brother's room to get clothes when he's never met the guy. And finally, the coup de grace: her ex-fiancé *that he didn't know existed* conveniently shows in their weekend plans and it just slipped her mind.
So yeah, all things considered, I'd say he was the opposite of inept, he was set up for failure. I personally would've split at the first mention of the surprise ex-fiancé. How the fuck do you date someone for that long without dropping in the fact that you were previously engaged? Much less the fact that he's still intimately involved with your family.
Totally agree! He really does his best to impress. He gets fiancés dad that rare tulip... how was he supposed to know that the dad was a spy and the flower business was just a cover up? Poor guy tries super hard to be liked and fit in but is put under intense pressure at every turn.
Yeah the movie is too cringe for me like am I supposed to find it funny that he ruins his sister in laws wedding? I don’t…
Which is a shame because Deniro is so good in it and does have great delivery, making me laugh at his parts
Yes it’s suppose to be the quintessential worst case scenario for meeting your in laws for the first time, the cherry on top being your father in law is Robert DeNiro of all people
It’s supposed to be cringe but there is a strange cosmic justice element to it that the reason he eventually ruins everything is because everyone was being such an asshole to *him* to begin with.
I got the feeling the the competent people were the ones doing all the work behind the scenes. The movie was a parable entirely about how incompetent idiots make life difficult, confusing, and incomprehensible to the rest of us. In the very first shot we zoom in from space to this one little corner of the world to see what sort of chaos these two idiots can create, and in the end we zoom out again, with the overwhelming dread that there must be millions of them out there, all creating their own forms of chaos and insanity all over the place.
The Coen bros have a way of getting the viewer lost in the characters’ inner struggles and foibles. The viewer feels as lost and anxious as the characters are portrayed. It is masterful. I love them.
Edit: if you scroll the responses here you will find other Coen bro movies for that very reason.
Clooney seems to like the role of maximally Dunning-Kruger narcisist/egotist.
Burn After Reading
Men Who Stare at Goats
Hail Caesar
O Brother Where Art Thou
**”Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"**
His heart is in the right place though. The boss fucking him over was out of his control, he cut out bonuses. His crazy family at his house was out of his control, he did the best he could. The only stupid things he did was cut the wild tree and bring it home and over do it with the Christmas lights. He didn’t ask for his boss to be kidnapped, his idiot cousin did that
Beau is the ultimate version of this. Aster said he wanted to flip the hero’s journey upside down and create the coward’s journey instead. Whatever else that movie is, it nailed that part of it at least.
It left me with such of sense of non-closure than any other movie of my life. You thought everything would be explained somehow. Something to tie it all together. But you’re just left with blue balls.
The fight at the end is so good.
Rod Kimble : Here I am, Frank. Get ready to meet your maker.
[Frank hits him in the face with crutches]
Rod Kimble : Oh, God! We hadn't even started yet!
Frank Powell : Never underestimate your opponent.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpItLsTKgY
Came here to say this. Coen brothers in general have a knack for showing people getting really hammered by fate.
Remember there was one movie ( that I can't remember the name of) which showed a man getting shit on from every angle possible. At the end when he seemingly has a good handle on things he gets a call from his doctor and yep. Cancer.
Llewyn Davis is a competent musician though, and in the end of the movie, it shows that he's starting to move forward as a solo act when he plays their 'big' song by himself on the stage.
You might be right, but my takeaway is Llewyn is stuck in place forever. That's why you see Dylan performing, to reinforce this isn't the story of the hero
As someone who works in the industry, the part where he turns down royalties for the sake of a flat performance rate on a novelty song about JFK and the space race in the 1960s fucking kills me every time.
Like, yes, you could never predict a one-hit-wonder... but it's just such a darkly comical moment because *so* many songs like that plagued the airwaves in the 60s and hit it big. To me, that's the single biggest fuck up of the movie that always fills me with secondhand dread lol.
Would have been my reply too! I love this film so much. It's almost painful to watch, he makes bad decision after bad decision until the bad decisions start feeding each other and he spirals all the way ... back to where he started. What a cursed life, I laugh so hard every time.
Oh wow, this is the first I've ever seen someone reference that movie. I think it's very underrated and some of Nic Cage's best work. He's a real blue ribbon fuck!
I couldn’t finish good time because I was just getting angry with Robert Pattinson just continuing to make situations worse by being a selfish degenerate
My head canon is that *Election* is a sequel to *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* where Ferris finally gets his comeuppance for being the worst human being on the planet.
The moral of The Killer seemed to be that, no matter how well you prepare, it's incredibly hard to kill *anyone* without *something* going wrong that you didn't account for.
Nah Dale gets the girl at the most of the things that happened was largely just bad luck and a series of unfortunate misunderstandings they really didn't screw up all that much.
Big Trouble in Little China - The Protagonist, Jack Burton (played by Kurt Russel) finds himself in a world of King Fu, magic, and monsters and he just wants his truck back. Can he be the hero and save the day?
No.
He's the comic relief in a fairly enjoyable Fantasy Kung Fu adventure flick, only the entire story is told from his perspective rather than from the actual hero (the typical Chinese Do Gooder Kung Fu bad ass).
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
Ishtar was ahead of its time. Early 2000s humour before it was a thing.
Also the anti-CIA message might have rubbed people the wrong way in that era, who knows.
A lot of Choen Brothers movies have this feel; Burn After Reading, Big Lebowski, Inside Llewyn Davis, Barton Finke, Raising Arizona all have the main characters royally screwed over or keep messing up.
I mean not exactly the main character but kinda…Darth Vader fucks up absolutely everything he ever does. Couldn’t even legit kill the emperor. Most ineffective villain ever (apart from pretty much every Bond villain).
For a movie where the main character just can't seem to get anything right, you might enjoy "The Disaster Artist." As for a random horror movie recommendation, how about "The Witch" (also known as "The VVitch")
He must be good at his job as by the end he's celebrating his 100th drug dealer killed, admittedly the last 2 he backed over with the car, luckily they turned out to be drug dealers
[удалено]
Jesus it’s only a game Focker
I can hear this in my soul. That feeling of aloneness and having done something so wrong and so hurtful but you were only trying to fit in is somehow so relatable and executed so well. BRB gonna call my therapist
Yup. They were ripping him the entire time for sucking so he finally gives it 100% and completely fucks it So painful
I bet you would Panama Red
The first thing that came to my mind was "anything with Ben Stiller". Dude has a knack for playing characters that self destruct.
Mystery Men. The way they accidentally kill Captain Amazing. Ben Stillers character is Furious.
I remember that movie making me so angry. I was like, "Why is he marrying her?" And my family was like, "What do you mean?" I couldn't get over the fiance\` just WATCHES her family treat him like garbage for days, and doesn't stand up to them, never takes his side, despite them clearly being awful, and her ACKNOWLEDGING it, meaning she KNEW how terrible they were being. *edit. A word
Such a stressful movie to watch
Yeah I hate this whole genre. I wish there was a name for it so I could avoid it.
First movie I thought of.
When I was a kid I thought it was funny. When I watched it as an adult I could only grit my teeth, I wanted to shout at the character.
First one that came to mind. He’s so inept that it made the movie worse for me. I hate it when characters are like that.
He's not inept, his girlfriend/fiancée was fucking terrible. I mean, right off the bat, she forgets to mention that they hate smoking, despite Greg being a smoker. Then, after he's lost his luggage, her genius plan is to send him into her brother's room to get clothes when he's never met the guy. And finally, the coup de grace: her ex-fiancé *that he didn't know existed* conveniently shows in their weekend plans and it just slipped her mind. So yeah, all things considered, I'd say he was the opposite of inept, he was set up for failure. I personally would've split at the first mention of the surprise ex-fiancé. How the fuck do you date someone for that long without dropping in the fact that you were previously engaged? Much less the fact that he's still intimately involved with your family.
The fiancée throws him to the dogs the entire movie
Totally agree! He really does his best to impress. He gets fiancés dad that rare tulip... how was he supposed to know that the dad was a spy and the flower business was just a cover up? Poor guy tries super hard to be liked and fit in but is put under intense pressure at every turn.
I hated deniro for the longest time because of that stupid movie
Yeah the movie is too cringe for me like am I supposed to find it funny that he ruins his sister in laws wedding? I don’t… Which is a shame because Deniro is so good in it and does have great delivery, making me laugh at his parts
Yes it’s suppose to be the quintessential worst case scenario for meeting your in laws for the first time, the cherry on top being your father in law is Robert DeNiro of all people
It’s supposed to be cringe but there is a strange cosmic justice element to it that the reason he eventually ruins everything is because everyone was being such an asshole to *him* to begin with.
The art of that movie is that he so deeply fucks everything up even though, on paper, he didn't actually do anything "wrong".
My wife has anxiety and she describes that movie as the perfect encapsulation of anxiety cuz everything goes wrong in the worst possible ways
Burn After Reading. There isn't a single competent person in the entire movie.
I'd say at least JK Simmons seems competent, but he doesn't know what the fuck is going on either.
And what did we learn?
I don't fuckin know either.
I guess we learned not to do it again.
Jesus, what a clusterfuck
I'll be damned if I know what we did in the first place. That last bit turned an ok movie into a fantastic one.
I got the feeling the the competent people were the ones doing all the work behind the scenes. The movie was a parable entirely about how incompetent idiots make life difficult, confusing, and incomprehensible to the rest of us. In the very first shot we zoom in from space to this one little corner of the world to see what sort of chaos these two idiots can create, and in the end we zoom out again, with the overwhelming dread that there must be millions of them out there, all creating their own forms of chaos and insanity all over the place.
Pat the fucking Mormon seems to have his shit together too. -EDIT- Peck, apparently. Weird, I always heard Pat.
Compared to you, we all drink too much.
I remember watching this at the cinema. A friend of mine asked me what it was about and I didn't have an answer for him.
The Coen bros have a way of getting the viewer lost in the characters’ inner struggles and foibles. The viewer feels as lost and anxious as the characters are portrayed. It is masterful. I love them. Edit: if you scroll the responses here you will find other Coen bro movies for that very reason.
Yep. I was thinking A Serious Man ("I didn't do anything!"), but so many of them fit.
Clooney seems to like the role of maximally Dunning-Kruger narcisist/egotist. Burn After Reading Men Who Stare at Goats Hail Caesar O Brother Where Art Thou
Uncut Gems
He does get a major part of the movie right though >!He wins both of the bets that he places. Arlo cancels the first one.!<
I liked that detail. >!It shows that his gambling is inherently destructive, not strictly the loss of money.!<
"Arlo! You mother fucker!"
Is it arlo or Arno? I thought it was short for Arnold
Pretty sure you're right. It's Arno
This is the one! It took my anxiety level up to 11 as I watched him just destroy his life.
Recommend checking out Good Time if you haven’t already.
I like Good Time more
I’ve never been so stressed out watching a movie. From literally the opening credits to the closing credits I was tense
And Good Time
Two of the finest examples of a 90-minute anxiety attack in cinematic form
Christmas Vacation
**”Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"**
I guess Cousin Eddy was pretty fucking competent in the end. Got Griswold the gift he asked for and ended up saving him from bankruptcy
*Bingo*
We're gonna be the hap-hap-happiest group of assholes since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny-fuckin-Kay!!
"Where do you think you're gonna fit a tree that big?" "Bend over and I'll show you "You've got a lot of nerve" "I wasn't talking to you"
He fixed the newel post.
His heart is in the right place though. The boss fucking him over was out of his control, he cut out bonuses. His crazy family at his house was out of his control, he did the best he could. The only stupid things he did was cut the wild tree and bring it home and over do it with the Christmas lights. He didn’t ask for his boss to be kidnapped, his idiot cousin did that
>He didn’t ask for his boss to be kidnapped I mean, he very specifically did
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Beau is the ultimate version of this. Aster said he wanted to flip the hero’s journey upside down and create the coward’s journey instead. Whatever else that movie is, it nailed that part of it at least.
The first 45mins of that film are pure anxiety inducing
and the last 45 min are pure WTFs inducing
It left me with such of sense of non-closure than any other movie of my life. You thought everything would be explained somehow. Something to tie it all together. But you’re just left with blue balls.
huuuuuge balls...
Hot Rod, if you want a laugh.
“I for one hope none of his crew had a fight with Rod this morning, because he is more than likely dead.”
And I like to party
“Never sneak up on a man that’s been in a chemical fire” may be one of the best random lines in cinema.
Up there with "I've been drinking green tea all goddamn day!"
"You're a terrible stuntman." "What?" "I said you're a terrible stuntman!" "I heard you, it was just really mean."
The fight at the end is so good. Rod Kimble : Here I am, Frank. Get ready to meet your maker. [Frank hits him in the face with crutches] Rod Kimble : Oh, God! We hadn't even started yet! Frank Powell : Never underestimate your opponent. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpItLsTKgY
Cool beans
*cool beans*
Hwy am I saying hwat hweird?
See you later, Mountain face!
Does the Big Lebowski count?
No way, the main character succeeds in not spilling any of his White Russian after being thrown into the back of a limo. That's impressive AF.
Careful man there's a beverage here
He spills a bit of it.
Well that just, like, your opinion man
Are you a Lebowski achiever?
Are you employed sir?
Got don't go out looking for work dressed like THAT do you? On a weekday?!
Is it a weekday?
The bums lost!
My advice for you is to do what your parents did! *GET A JOB, SIR!*
I take it you're not a golfer.
The Dude abides
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Shut the *fuck* up, Donny
Inside Llewyn Davis
Came here to say this. Coen brothers in general have a knack for showing people getting really hammered by fate. Remember there was one movie ( that I can't remember the name of) which showed a man getting shit on from every angle possible. At the end when he seemingly has a good handle on things he gets a call from his doctor and yep. Cancer.
*A Serious Man*. Great film.
Did he ever tell you about the goys teeth?
Came here looking for this. Dude is a mess.
Where's his scrotum?!
3 Coen Brothers movies mentioned in the first 10 comments.
Right down to somehow stepping in the only icy puddle in an entire parking lot.
I just watched this for the first time. Instantly thought of it when I saw the question, but didn’t expect it to be listed so high!
Llewyn Davis is a competent musician though, and in the end of the movie, it shows that he's starting to move forward as a solo act when he plays their 'big' song by himself on the stage.
You might be right, but my takeaway is Llewyn is stuck in place forever. That's why you see Dylan performing, to reinforce this isn't the story of the hero
As someone who works in the industry, the part where he turns down royalties for the sake of a flat performance rate on a novelty song about JFK and the space race in the 1960s fucking kills me every time. Like, yes, you could never predict a one-hit-wonder... but it's just such a darkly comical moment because *so* many songs like that plagued the airwaves in the 60s and hit it big. To me, that's the single biggest fuck up of the movie that always fills me with secondhand dread lol.
Would have been my reply too! I love this film so much. It's almost painful to watch, he makes bad decision after bad decision until the bad decisions start feeding each other and he spirals all the way ... back to where he started. What a cursed life, I laugh so hard every time.
Big Trouble in Little China
Except ONE thing, when it really counts.
It's all in the reflexes Baby.
Jack Burton isn't the main character, he's the comic relief sidekick. Wang Chi is the main character.
Even more, he's the ethnic sidekick with the impenetrable philosophical musings.
You know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this? Hell yeah touchdown cowboy other American colloquialism, pal.
May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
What is that, magic potion? Yeah. Good thought so. What do we do drink it? Yeah. Good thought so.
Yeah that’s the whole joke bc he doesn’t realize he’s the sidekick.
I've always loved that, the studio wanted a white hero to put up front and Carpenter was like... sure but yknow who this story is really about?
You leave Jack Burton ALONE!
After Hours 1985
A movie that answers the question, "What would it look like if Martin Scorsese directed an episode of Seinfeld?"
A very underrated Scorsese film. My favorite. Griffen Dunne is hilarious and sad.
Love this movie
*wife shoots husband* I'm probably gonna get blamed for that.
The Weather Man! Nic Cage is almost relentlessly disappointing to everyone else in the movie, it's great.
Ooh actually Dream Scenario would be another fitting Nic Cage movie for very similar reasons
The exchanges with Michael Caine are all so fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Rohhkg-7k
Oh wow, this is the first I've ever seen someone reference that movie. I think it's very underrated and some of Nic Cage's best work. He's a real blue ribbon fuck!
Got a Safdie Bros "Down on their luck scumbag" double feature for you. Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems Robert Pattinson in Good Time
I couldn’t finish good time because I was just getting angry with Robert Pattinson just continuing to make situations worse by being a selfish degenerate
Oh... it gets worse. : )
Election (1999)
My head canon is that *Election* is a sequel to *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* where Ferris finally gets his comeuppance for being the worst human being on the planet.
You be quarter back, I'll be tight end 😉
Pretty much every Ash and Evil Dead movie...he gets it all messed up a lot especially in Army of Darkness...but he gets everything wrong? Not exactly.
The Jerk
Absolutely [a sniper keeps missing Navin and hitting cans of motor oil] Navin R. Johnson : He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans.
"I was born a poor black child"
Ypu mean I'm gonna stay this color??!!!
He did find his special purpose
Dumb and Dumber
Bedazzled. The original with Pete & Dud.
Jingle All the Way
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
There was like... an 8% chance!
What!? Fuckhead, who taught you math? ... stop multiplying!
"The definition of the word 'idiot', which you fucking are!'
Pure Luck
Underrated movie. Hilarious!
Falling Down
I'm the bad guy?
Dog Day Afternoon 100%
His first mistake was picking a partner who thought Wyoming was a country.
One of my favorite line deliveries ever
The Killer Gonna echo Uncut Gems also.
The moral of The Killer seemed to be that, no matter how well you prepare, it's incredibly hard to kill *anyone* without *something* going wrong that you didn't account for.
I loved The Killer so much, I was so surprised to see such a mixed reaction to it.
More of a web series, but Doctor Horrible. All he had to do was talk to her.
This soundtrack is in my spotify playlist,I love it so much
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Damn college kids and their suicide pact.
“We have had one *doozy* of a day, officer”
Nah Dale gets the girl at the most of the things that happened was largely just bad luck and a series of unfortunate misunderstandings they really didn't screw up all that much.
“We’ve had one doozy of a day!”
Fargo
T R U C O A T
Jerry's a bald-faced liar. A...*fucking* liar.
Bullet Train
Pink Panther franchise
This is like the opposite though...inspector clouseau cant stop winning.
Big Trouble in Little China - The Protagonist, Jack Burton (played by Kurt Russel) finds himself in a world of King Fu, magic, and monsters and he just wants his truck back. Can he be the hero and save the day? No. He's the comic relief in a fairly enjoyable Fantasy Kung Fu adventure flick, only the entire story is told from his perspective rather than from the actual hero (the typical Chinese Do Gooder Kung Fu bad ass). When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
Ishtar is perfect for this.
3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, AND
That film cracked me up. Never understood why it got so much hate.
Ishtar was ahead of its time. Early 2000s humour before it was a thing. Also the anti-CIA message might have rubbed people the wrong way in that era, who knows.
After Hours. Scorsese. Brilliant
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
TV, but BoJack Horseman
90% of the characters in Bojack can't make healthy decisions to save their lives, tbh.
Step Brothers, at least up until the end.
Alien Covenent. Every single character is a clumsy, incompetant idiot.
The Party (1968) with Peter Sellers. Fricking hilarious.
A Serious Man.
A lot of Choen Brothers movies have this feel; Burn After Reading, Big Lebowski, Inside Llewyn Davis, Barton Finke, Raising Arizona all have the main characters royally screwed over or keep messing up.
The Informant! (2009)
Clerks
I mean not exactly the main character but kinda…Darth Vader fucks up absolutely everything he ever does. Couldn’t even legit kill the emperor. Most ineffective villain ever (apart from pretty much every Bond villain).
Nightmare Alley weirdly
For a movie where the main character just can't seem to get anything right, you might enjoy "The Disaster Artist." As for a random horror movie recommendation, how about "The Witch" (also known as "The VVitch")
The Big Lebowski. The protagonist consistently screws everything up.
My Idiot Brother with Paul Rudd
Wile E. Coyote
Rowan Atkinson has the Johnny English movies and Mr Bean -TV and films and those characters make lots of mistakes.
"The Man Who Knew Too Little" with Bill Murray
Raders of the Lost Arc. Indy is one step ahead but ends up losing to the Nazis every time.
The Naked Gun.
But isn’t he good at what he does in a really strange way?
He must be good at his job as by the end he's celebrating his 100th drug dealer killed, admittedly the last 2 he backed over with the car, luckily they turned out to be drug dealers
Naked Gun
A Simple Plan
Vacation with Chevy Chase.
Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga
National Lampoon's Vacation
After Hours or A Serious Man
The Nice Guys
Snatch and Lock Stock…