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James L. Brooks is back with How Do You Know, a relationship comedy from Sony Pictures that reunites Brooks with Jack Nicholson. Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson also star. The film opens December 17.
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rudd’s shtick is charming as usual but something feels awkward about this in general, starting with the opening scene sans score. quiet and uncomfortable. doesn’t feel like it was cut with comedic timing in mind. either it was just a poorly edited trailer or it’s a bad omen
It just doesn’t fit neatly into the rom-com box…but hey, it’s James L Brooks, and his stuff is delightfully outside the box, and this trailer reflects that. Here’s guessing it’s a decidedly better than average film.
Very cynical and negative comment. Your just to quick to pull the trigger on this. I cannot agree. Give the wine that you just opened, “time to breath”
completely agree. there’s something really OFF about this trailer. I’m a huge James Brooks fan, and this looks like it was either edited by a fourth grader or it has major issues as a film.
I DO agree with you. This is not a well edited trailer. Granted, the is some clout with all the names attached, and a trailer isn’t the actual movie…but this is NOT a well cut trailer.
BTW, anyone who thinks Brooks can do no wrong need be reminded of “I’ll Do Anything”…
Definitely sloppy cutting in that first scene, and elsewhere
You’re right. Something’s off.
Felt leaden, flat. Like an awkward first rehearsal.
How Do You Know . . . when you have a flop?
I gotta say (and like many others here am a huge Brooks fan) this looks awful. Hope I’m wrong.
It has GOT to be better than this trailer… Right?
Mediocre script, figured he’d save it but the acting in this is lousy. Some of the best talents in the business. Who knows. The soundstagy look of it is troubling also, too many scenes in the apt building.
That’s Columbia’s go-to Xmas release date, usually cleans up at the b.o.
I respectfully disagree. I think the movie looks charming and funny. James L. Brooks rocks!
I completely disagree. Reese Witherspoon in comedy? I’m there and it feels like it’s been too long and she looks great. Paul Rudd with the actual comedic material he deserves? About time. Owen Wilson playing himself? Good idea. Jack Nicholson and Jim Brooks? Where’s the flaw? With Brooks it will be smart, sharp, perceptive because he knows how to not resort to Apatow dick/pot jokes to try to get a laugh. It looks like he’s hitting the sweet spot of adolescent adults grappling. And I personally love how the trailer starts. A sensitive rom-com from a guy’s perspective that isn’t just a slacker’s apologia. I sincerely hope the movie sparkles as much as the trailer. Meaning I hope it avoids the one serious and persistent Brooks problem : Going on too long.
If you saw a sparkle in this trailer, then you obviously had your hayday in the 90′s.
I think Reese Witherspoon’s schtick is getting OLD, just like her. Honestly, her movies are so bad now that I think she should have to give back her Oscar.
The script to this was horrible and NOT FUNNY. This trailer looks stupid and NOT FUNNY. I’m passing here.
This movie will be destroyed by TRON: LEGACY and then slip away against the other holiday films.
I smell big time BOMB.
This looks great! I particularly love the bit where Brooks is clearly riffing on –and denying– Nicholson’s typical bombastic delivery. Just when you expect Nicholson to launch into ‘A Few Good Men’ tirade, he gets cut off!: “Son, you don’t have the LUXURY –” and Rudd runs away… Great stuff.
While I like the rest of the trailer the beginning is awfully cut. Excalibur is right. There’s a major continuity error. Watch how Owen picks up Reese, puts her down. The next cut she’s suddenly moved away. Furthermore, the sound design is really poor – the ambient noises switch from the shots of Owen to the cuts of Reese. Suddenly you hear cars in the background, then you don’t. Also it feels like the edits are now too long.
But how do make a continuity slip like that in the beginning of the trailer? Inexcusable. Otherwise though I actually liked the rest of the trailer.
Looks absolutely retarded and sleep inducing. When will the studios stop putting out this crap?
I like everyone in the cast but can’t imagine a scenario where I go see that in a theater. That’s got Netflix written all over it.
no getting around it: this is one awkward, stilted, meandering, unfocused trailer. if i wasn’t a HUGE brooks fan to begin with (which I am), trailer could send me in the opposite direction.
This movie is about 15 years too late. And even then, it wouldn’t be funny. None of those people have opened a movie in the last decade.
right because I LOVE YOU MAN and NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM were sooooo long ago!!!
Moronic!!
P.U. what’s that stench? Wait a minute, that smells like… Oscars! It’s not enough that the sickly sweet romance is already sending me into a diabetic coma, but the Academy will likely reward the keen insights into love and relationships. In the words of Daffy Duck, “Shoot me now!”
When Brooks is good he’s great. As for the awkward start of the trailer (sans soundtrack) that might just be us, as an audience, not being “used” to it for so long.
If Brooks had his hand in the re-writes (IF needed) and if his direction is clear, Rudd is ALWAYS solid.
With the dreck that’s been this year so far?…
I look forward to the possibilities.
This whole trailer is awkward and weird. It made me rethink what I used to think about James L. Brooks movies pre-Spanglish
Looks like a winner. I actually laughed a couple times at this – which almost NEVER happens when I know I’m being ‘sold’.
Nice! Now that the shill’s have weighed in let me agree with The Right Coast. This looks bad!
I hear the real breakout in this movie is Kathryn Hahn. I’ve always thought she was a genius comidian and
I wouldn’t be surprised if she walks away with the whole thing. Have no idea if the movie will work. Script was shaky.
It will probably do well as it will be the only “adult” comedy over Xmas. That said, fire the trailer-maker.
This feels like a winner for James L. Brooks. Finally, a new romantic comedy that’s not dumber than a box of chocolates.
Jesus Christ, aren’t all the film schools in session? Stop posting and get back to class, you fucktards. “Continuity…”blah blah blah…”ambient sound…” blah blah blah…the fact is, people WANT to see a cleaned up Owen Wilson, people LOVE Reese Witherspoon, people WANT to see Paul Rudd and they sure as shit want to see Jack in anything! No, I’m not a “shill”, just somebody who knows even Brooks’ foul balls carry a lot more weight then most of the pictures out there today. Get a life!
Appears to have a bunch of contrived crap, as befits the genre – but overall looks like an above average rom com. I would love to see someone write a role for Witherspoon that’s out there, like her character in Freeway. But at least here she seems to be playing a different shade of herself. Not the chirpy generic character with the ultra-femme, perky hair and wardrobe.
This character seems to be in the world, trying to figure things out as opposed to the typical rom com female lead, i.e.: “I’m an idiot with a flaw so basic it’s implausible and insulting to my gender. Watch as fate has its way with me, because clearly I’m too incompetent to make decisions for myself…”
Looks like Brooks has a lot of fans (employees?) on this site.
i think the hate here is overdone. the trailer interested me… and reese w comes off great.
Obviously there are many differing point of views on the potential of this movie. That’s all people should be talking about though. Unless you have seen the final cut then no one should be speaking factually about the movie. It’s just a trailer.
And for my two cents I don’t think this is a great trailer. It doesn’t make me want to see the movie.