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One year. Three parties. Twelve fools.
A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.
Highball
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02 Apr 2002
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Has there ever been a film by a major filmmaker as poorly lit as this entertaining if sloppy and ephemeral trifle?
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I was pretty into it at first but then the second act devolves into embarrassing nonsense and by the third act you don’t even know what the movie wants to be about anymore. The decision to paint the entire set a shiny dark blue was certainly an... aesthetic choice. Peter Bogdanovich’s presence is so bizarre. It’s remarkable that (granted, after 8 years) Baumbach’s next directorial effort was The Squid and the Whale, which is just so much more mature than his first three films, both in what it has to say and how it says it.
The production of this film intrigues me. I don’t know anything about it, but it seems (as evidenced by the pseudonyms in the credits)…
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A loose-knit friend group comes together for three parties over the course of a few months in a cramped (and very blue) Brooklyn apartment.
It looks like it was lit by a portable work light sitting on a coffee table, but if you can get past that it's a good time. I wasn't a big fan of the first two Baumbach movies, but I did like their little moments -- the acerbic dialogue, awkward social interactions, and bone-dry humor -- and Highball is just 80 minutes of that stuff straight up. There's almost no plot to speak of and no real main character* so this may not be for most but I got a lot of laughs out of it.…
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I think the world needs to know that there's a secret, hidden movie out there in which Noah Baumbach goes to a Halloween party as Adolf Hitler.
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Here’s to movies made because the filmmaker had extra days, stock, rentals and sets from another shoot. Not the greatest but really funny in spots, esp. Jacott and Eigeman, essentially reversing the temperaments of their characters from Kicking and Screaming.
“What are we, drinking in shifts?”
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To call this haphazard would be an understatement, but it makes me laugh my ass off every time I watch it, so I can forgive it much further than most can. Other than the whole it not being finished thing, its biggest problem is that it peaks with the first segment, which might be on par with the second half of Mistress America with a little more care, and each segment is a little less funny than the last one. But how can I quibble about a movie that gives me Carlos Jacott singing "Beautiful Dreamer"?
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Watched for baumbachathon
This movie is a mess, but it's funny and it has some good idea at times. I can see why Baumbach disowned this, it feels so unfinished and it was literally made with leftover money. Although it has good ideas, the lighting and every other technical part seems half-baked and unfinished which makes the movie unwatchable at times.
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I laughed many times at this, but the part that really got me was the following exchange:
Diane [opening door to Trick or Treaters, holding wine class]: Oh, hello! Are you Spiderman? I forgot, who does Spiderman fight again?
Kid dressed as Spiderman [meekly holding up candy bag]: Trick or treat?
Diane [irritated, apathetically throwing candy at them]: Okay, fine, here you go [slams door, collapses behind it, weeps]
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Yet another movie watched in a failed attempt to knock Noah Baumbach off of my stats under top rated directors, with the previous attempts including Mistress America, While We're Young, Kicking and Screaming, Greenberg, and the Meyerowitz Stories, all of which I ended up loving (with Mistress America actually ending up in my all time favorites), so you'd think I'd find luck in watching the movie that Baumbach himself disowned, describing it as an unfinished, failed experiment, one that he made on a whim with some friends after they'd finished up shooting Mr Jealousy (which I have yet to watch as well, so maybe that will be the Baumbach film I finally dislike), and recruiting none other than the legendary…