Friday, December 26, 2025

I'm orgasming just fine.

Friendship — 3/5

Stuck somewhere between Tim Robinson in 'Detroiters' and Tim Robinson in 'I Think You Should Leave.' Guess which one of these I'm more a fan of. The first twenty minutes of this movie, I was surprised at how well it was pulling itself off. Tim Robinson was playing what he tends to play, and Paul Rudd was playing a spiritual successor to Brian Fantana, a mixture of A24's seriousness and Adult Swim's who-knows-what, creating a really lovely feeling. (Is Adult Swim just a pipeline to A24? Both have mastered a certain aesthetic, clearly skilled hands behind the wheel, but also the laziness of 'hey, it's not for everyone' which is just an intellectual disguise for 'maybe someone else will pour more meaning into this than we are capable.') But from there, I thought it would take me down a path of 'the awkwardness of ending a friendship', and the hallucinations of what a friendship actually might look like, and instead takes me to the inevitable end result of Tim Robinson's narcissistic manchild who is only a few degrees away from being an actual psychopath. I didn't like that following that journey as much. 

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