I mostly wanted to watch this again just because everyone on my timeline was talking about and making fun of millennial nostalgia brain rot, and I vividly remember Superbad as like one of those defining movies of that generation so I wanted to look at it with eyes afresh. Who can forget the awkwardness of Michael Cera, the insufferability of Jonah Hill, the ineptitude of McLovin, the comic timing of officer Seth Rogen, the dance where Hill only just then…
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No Hard Feelings 2023
This film is so bad I have to pause practically every time Jennifer Lawrence speaks because her dialogue is soul-piercingly awful here, both because of her character and because of a lousy script. Tailor-made for a discourse that is disturbingly obsessed with young men not having sex, it's not hard to see the grossness of a movie where this socially awkward guy's parents hire a 32-year-old be his pretend girlfriend because they can't stand the idea of their son going…
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Kinda Pregnant 2025
Finally, a movie where Amy Schumer gets to lie about her life with the same enthusiasm she shows for lying on behalf of genocidal war criminals. The one laugh in the whole movie is when one of her students says he's extremely uncomfortable around her. Truly, he spoke for us all.
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Adam Green's Aladdin 2016
This honestly reads more like a play than a movie. The acting feels like they're performing in a stage play, so do the costumes and drawn-on set-pieces, and the walls. The script could have used much more work and the jokes aren't really that good. That said it's hard for me not to appreciate the earnest outsider artistry of the film's overall aesthetic, it's like Adam Green just decided "fuck it, the first thing I draw is in the movie". The film's anti-folk soundtrack is also pretty good, and it's really the highlight of the movie besides the art.
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