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Any other nerds who really GOT this movie?

posted 17 years ago by luvslobos
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I'd be curious to know the ages and backgrounds of the people who liked and disliked this movie. I'm a thirty-something year old woman who graduated from MIT. Watching this movie was like watching a documentary that could have been my life immediately after graduating from college. I wasn't exactly Marnie, but I could have been. I didn't have exactly those conversations, but I had ones that were very similar. (I had other ones too, ones about the world, and life, and ones that were less filled with ennui, and I think Marnie and her friends would have too, we just didn't seem them in the movie, and that's okay.)

It's clear that some of the posters who didn't like this movie are in their early 20's now. Maybe this is a movie that takes a little perspective to really appreciate. Maybe you need to realize, either through personal experience or because you are very astute, that this movie captures a stage that these people are in and that they WILL grow out of it.

I LOVED seeing a movie that was about socially awkward engineers that treated them like people. I really liked this movie, but that was primarily because I identified so strongly with the characters, not because I'm like them now, but because I was like them, at times, a decade ago.

[–] kttimlin 16 years ago

I agree completely. I'm a software engineer in my early fifties (wow, it's strange to write that...) and this film just took me straight back into my early-to-mid 20's. The poverty, aimlessness, "hanging out", drinking, social awkwardness, emotional confusion were all spot on in this film. I had a real problem with the sound and I thought the ending was too abrupt, but all in all, I thought it was a good film.

[–] d-stauff 16 years ago

So you were a misdirected nerd like them. Got it, but the movie is still terrible.

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[–] jennifer-494 16 years ago

I'm a 30something nerd who graduated from Northwestern (full of nerds), and I, too, identified with the characters...you spend 4 years engaging your brain, drinking too much, and then you realize you must function in the often boring Real World.

I identified with Marnie and appreciated this film in a way I may not have been able to when I was 21. I loved the movie overall.

However, I can see why some people hated it. If you are at all the well-adjusted, good-looking yuppie-type with little time for neurotic, navel-gazing people, you would probably hate it. Being a neurotic navel-gazer, I adored it!

[–] luvslobos 16 years ago

"If you are at all the well-adjusted, good-looking yuppie-type with little time for neurotic, navel-gazing people, you would probably hate it. Being a neurotic navel-gazer, I adored it!"

Sing it sister! :) (Makes me appreciate the fact that there are places like Northwestern and MIT where we can spend a few brief years thinking that WE'RE the normal ones...)

[–] geosta-1 16 years ago

I'm a thirty-something nerd myself, and although I recognised the characters as being a montage of me and my friends ten years ago, I still slept through most of the film.

I have been wondering all day why a film whose primary characters I identified with so completely bored the crap out of me, and the best I can come up with is that having lived through it myself, I already knew the story (such as there was). There was nothing new in this for me, whereas a story about a militant femo-nazi lesbian who opens a flower shop would be interesting to watch. Well, maybe.

[–] skervich 16 years ago

I'm sure the director is reading these. Do you think he'd be proud to see that the only people who appreciate what he ended up with are awkward, self-professed "nerds"? This is what happens when you hold a casting call at a technical college and then put them in your movie. What the hell does the title mean? Funny ha ha. I didn't laugh once. I squirmed and looked away a lot. Especially when the unibrow guy that can't take a hint keeps trying to pathetically weasel his way in. Did he think that by breaking that beer (terrible waste) he would somehow kickstart his diatribe of how in love he is? Maybe she would have appreciated some balls, but even the other nerdy hipster dude was pretty lame. What did she see in him?

[–] Youcanmakeabettermovie 14 years ago

Here's where the title comes from: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funny_ha-ha

The nerdy guy obviously didn't think before he dropped the bottle. He just did it impulsively.

She liked them both only as friends since she turned down the other guy at the end of the movie.

I went to District 9. Don't tell the MNU.

[–] telekon3 13 years ago

I was the opposite of a nerd. I was a good looking guy that was popular and got laid a lot. During my time in college, I lived near a Science/Medical School. I met this attractive nerdy science girl. Being her boyfriend, I got an inside look at the nerd world. The main character of this movie reminds me of her. The one thing I learned about nerds is most of them have passive aggressive personalities. They act all awkward and shy but they can be vicious too. Now when I watch real nerd movies or documentaries (Nerdcore Raising) Even though I can't relate, I can understand it a bit, because I was privy to that world for a couple of years. I like nerds as people, but most of the time their insecurities overcome them and they become a little arrogant.

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[–] moniwy 14 years ago

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[–] tim180-2 12 years ago

I just saw this after seeing the entire films of Bresson, and loved it. The inability of language to convey our deepest feelings, the spiritual themes centered about abusive situations encountered by the protagonist, the unfathomability of our behavior, the sudden scene changes--all very Bressonian. It was a lot deeper than appears on the surface and a borderline great film.