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As Good As It Gets

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

You would think this movie was a early comedy in all these actors careers. Nope, caught me by surprise when I saw 2016. Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick and Brian Cranston come on now you know this was just a paycheck for them. Straight up paint by numbers story. I gave it a 4 because there were some funny moments in it and Allison Brie is hilarious as the HR we would all love to have.

In the reality of the finished product it is DOA! If you care to read how truly bad this flick is just scan through the other reviews here. The word FLOP is being kind to this movie. I watched it for Anna Kendrick and to see if Miles Teller could save himself from that gawd awful drummer boy movie. He falls another notch here.But I got a message from this story. Here is the millennials facing a global job market for which they are ill prepared due to the pressures of getting a college education and discovering a job market already over flowing with applicants. And then actually getting a job is no guarantee a career will follow. The 21st Century simply does not offer the opportunities the boomer generation took for granite.Why the writers and director pushed this story into the 'comedy' realm, I don't know. The message could really have been worthy of notice had the story taken a more serious path. But as it is we have a goof-ball flick of lackluster acting and goofy aimless editing. And somewhere a message is thrown in as with the basketball coach telling his class that awards are vacuous and worthless if you didn't actually earn it.

Miles Teller is once again playing the same character he always plays; I'm starting to question whether his role in Whiplash was a one time thing. He was fine in this role, I think he's mastered this character, but his character in this film was uninteresting. The cast (Bryan Cranston, Ana Kendrick, Alison Brie, etc.) is surprisingly very talented, but it seems that they were wasted in this movie because their characters are indistinguishable from one another. The movie is about people losing their jobs and eventually getting a job, and yet does not succeed in demonstrating why they deserve their job or would realistically even get that job. For example, Miles Teller's character gets his dream job by making a "viral video" (I doubt the movie knows what viral means, because he only get 100 000 views on only one video) and gets a straight pass to job offers and a start at his own company. I don't think that that's how life works, but apparently this movie thinks so. Other than the plot, it's supposed to be a comedy, and it's not actually funny - I mean it's not unfunny but when there is jokes, they kind of fall flat (like its characters).

A university graduate has to find a job to pay the rent and get his girlfriend of his back.The premise is simple enough and all the characters are set up to make this an entertaining movie. The film boasts an excellent line up. All lights are green.I cannot give this movie a full review as I could not bare to sit through the whole thing. It is just not funny. I cannot even tell you why? But it is like watching a stand-up comedian die on stage, for over an hour.All the ingredients for a comedy are here, they just don't work. The scenes with the stoners are boring and flat, their hapless attempts at getting a career are just stupid - yet not funny. The stripper scene, even with perky boobs on display, is tedious and dull.Alison Bree's character is bland and caustic, and only there so we can hear awkward, sexual references come from the mouth of a pretty woman - what a waste. I have never seen a film with so much talent be so painfully bland. As we watched - in stony silence - I actually started to feel embarrassed for the actors and just had to switch off. I have not had to do this for some time.