Hesher (1 Viewer)

[tim]

Yeah it's ok.

A lot of the humour is kind of based in the crudity of it which isn't very funny unless you are a teenager.

Josephy Gordon Levitt is great as always. Kid is good (is he the dude from Where The Wild Things are). Rainn Wilson playing against type doesn't work as well as Jim Carey/Adam Sandler playing against type (Eternal Sunshine/Punch Drunk Love).
Natalie Portman wears annoying Indie glasses and is overly twitchy in that "comes to the door scene".

So yeah it's ok, it has it's moments, but I'm sick of "INDIE" films being based around bereavements. The only thing missing in this one was the main characters weren't intellectuals or authors.

You should check out Brick, that's a cool movie, although yes it is based around a death aswell.

 

[jonah]

Not Max Records from WTWTA, but looks a bit like him alright. Disagree on Rainn Wilson actually, I thought he was fantastic. It was all in the small details with him, he's got a weirdly beautiful-emotive face.
Natalie Portman...agh.

I don't know what I'm missing with Brick though. I just can't stand it at all.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

gonna watch this tonight. brick was muck!

 

[washingcattle]

Brick wasn't muck.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

yeah this was fine. i chuckeld here and there. didn't like the kid though. he was a surly little prick. why would any of these adults give a shit what he thinks?

 

[jonah]

I didn't find it overly funny really, which is why I founds JGL a bit over the top, but I thought the relationship between the dad and kid was what ssparked my interest overall. Really liked the kid, honestly, but then I love a surly teenage boy character.