Not to say LeBron James doesnt enjoy film, were sure hes a fan, but the man doesnt seem like he has the time to obsess over the latest Criterion Collection release on blu-ray while hes training for yet another National Basteball Association championship ring. Yet women too often are relegated to playing cheerful love objects in romantic comedies, which, beneath all the sex and profane hilarity and drinking and drugging, is what “Trainwreck” is.
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Directed by Judd Apatow and written by AMY Schumer, TRAINWRECK follows the story of a commitment-phobic, career-driven woman who may have to face her fear of love when she meets a nice guy. Schumer was also the one who wrote the screenplay for the movie.
In the past year or so, Amy Schumer has blown up in popularity thanks to her sketch comedy series on Comedy Central.
“I’m calling the police”, Nikki says. Amy not only dislikes sports; she mocks their stupidity.
Amy’s subject for the assignment finds himself attracted to her. Because playing by the rules – including journalistic ethics – has never been Amy’s forte, she gets involved with him.
As part of the takeover, you’ll hear comedy sets from Amy Schumer, Colin Quinn, Mike Birbiglia, Keith Robinson, Dave Attell, Robert Kelly, Dan Soder,Jim Florentine, Nikki Glaser, Bridget Everett, Pete Davidson, Leslie Jones and Randall Park all hosted by Ron Bennington and Gail Bennington. (An unrecognizable Tilda Swinton has a blast as Amy’s coldly calculating editor.).
Whether or not Amy is your cup of tea, we think she’s here to stay and she’s just going to become more and more successful as time goes on!
There’s sentiment, even borderline sentimentality, in her performance, but no warmth or generosity. What have I really learned? But once the romance takes off, the journalism realism falls by the wayside. Sadly, laughs took an entire sabatacle! But “Trainwreck” is more than just a bunch of one-liners.
“Don’t worry, I didn’t do anything“, Schumer assures Fallon in the clip above.
Any normal, unfunny person probably would have raced after Couric with the phone in hand. Apatow rivals Steven Spielberg as a devotee of the overabundance of heart.
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The film starts out promising to be something a little different but ends up mostly being a romantic comedy with some crude humor thrown in.
She and Apatow collaborate on this sometimes touching, boisterously amusing upending of rom-com clichés. Yet – and this doubtless has something to do with Apatow – although she’s known for flamethrower truth-telling, here there is an underlying sweetness. There’s nothing wrong with being happy. But she is just enough of a trainwreck to be unpleasant, selfish and obnoxious.
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