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A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life on the outside is not like he had imagined it.
Gregory Go Boom
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22 May 2013
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im showing this film to all my friends and saying do you LIKE IT? they say jo its very sad sad and weird this isn't a fun thing to watch at a sleepover
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Michael Cera's character seemed pretty horrible. He dropped homophobic slurs and was drawn to acting in the most chaotic matter. In any case, the ending is one for the ages.
Vegan alert:
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Gregory go bleh.
Michael Cera was typecasted to offbeat, weird and soft boy roles that he does really well. But hanging nor cheering for his homophobic, racist, ableist, sexist asshat of a character in Gregory Go Boom can only be achieved by utilizing disability and deformity - which this short film abused. Ain't that a cheap, see-through tactic to gain pats of support for sympathy? Inexcusable and a creepy creative decision, come on. Only incels like the main character himself would find the story thought provoking. Newsflash: Its not.
Though the camera shots and wide framings are artistic, and the final scene offered a shocking conclusion, Gregory Go Boom is just an overall manipulative, faux-emotional understanding of true misery.
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Objectively problematic and bad, but also “wanna sit on my face babe” is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at michael cera before
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A pretty offensive and ableist take in which Michael Cera, his star persona known for placing him in some kind of quirky or comedic setting, finds himself in a wheelchair as a disabled, racist, sexist, homophobic, low-income incel, dramatizing certain difficulties that come from his disability in order to elicit comedy/horror or alienating us to his character in deep space static wides as he moves across the screen. The result is much worse than the sum of its parts, where Cera’s quirky image flipped into incel pathology would be quite entertaining if it weren’t for the morally reprehensible conflation of that with his disability. It is not insightful about whiteness or misogyny or disability because it links the former two to the latter issue and objectifies and aestheticizes the latter for cheap reactionary laughs or scares.
Irresponsible in its conception and execution and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
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Comic, but so darkly comic that there isn't much to laugh about. Gregory (Michael Cera) is an asshole in a wheelchair, and that may be one of the points being made. Just because you have to deal with people being patronizing or downright unfriendly doesn't make you a sympathetic character, and Michael is not a sympathetic character; he's an asshole. I knew how it was going to end five minutes in, but while the film attempts to soften him up with some pity mechanisms that seemed pretty contrived to me, the ending just left me cold. You have to work a lot harder to stick a landing like that.
Directed well by Janicza Bravo, and the actors all do a nice job, but to what end? There are a couple of funny, quotable lines, and I'd imagine that this is some people's idea of badass, just not mine. -
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- "I'll take a can of gas"
- "What's it for?"
- "GAS!!!"
I love how nutso this is. I yelped in laughter a couple of times. It's a superb showing of Janicza Bravo's off-beat sense of humor.
Gregory (indeed did) Go Boom.
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