Trailer: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Greenberg’
Apple has the trailer for Greenberg, the latest from Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding). Ben Stiller plays a man approaching middle age who is in between jobs and has no clear idea of what he wants to do next. Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Chris Messina also star.
It opens March 12, 2010 and I’m sorry but I have almost no earthly interest in it whatsoever. I feel like I should like Baumbach more than I do. I liked about 75% of The Squid and the Whale but found Margot at the Wedding to be mostly unbearable. I’m a little tired too of stories about 30-40-somethings who don’t know what to do with themselves.
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Tags: Ben Stiller, Chris Messina, Greenberg, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Noah Baumbach, Rhys Ifans
I’m with you – this guy speaks to segment of the population that I just don’t identify with. Lesser filmmakers have made a career out of it, I suppose, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re worthwhile films.
That said, I do like Stiller (especially as a straight comic actor), Messina, and Leigh, so I’ll probably be suckered into it.
I loved Squid and pretty much loathed Margot. Based on the trailer I’m guessing this time I’ll fall somewhere in the middle.
there might have been a time in my life where this appealed to me more. 10 years or so ago. I can identify with a character who doesn’t know what to do with himself, but I’m finding it hard to sympathize. Snap out of it. Grow up.
[in voice of de Niro's Jake La Motta] Get ‘em all in a back room, smack ‘em around, no more don’t know what to do with themselves jerk-offs.
I’m buying it so far, it looks like Baumbach’s most charming picture since Kicking and Screaming, and the Starbucks line is funny. Greta looks free of her “mumblecore” self-consciousness and might actually be appealing.
Giving this a shot. I’m also more sympathetic to Baumbach in general though.
The Starbucks line is way too on the nose. They’re an easy mark and Baumbach’s hipster audience will chuckle knowingly and feel superior. I’m sick to death of that shit.
I go to Starbucks and still found it funny. And the joke seems to be more on Stiller’s sitting down and actually writing that than on Starbucks. But this is a trailer, who knows how the picture plays.
In theory I found it funny, but then I thought about it and it bugged me.
You can ignore me. I’m just cranky.
Meh. I’m not feeling it. I liked Squid & the Whale fairly well. Skipped Margot. I’m not feeling very sympathetic to this character. Too Garden Statey. Been there, done that.