Watch: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men..
Plot: After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara Quinn is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
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5.4/10 Votes: 3,531 | |
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44/100 | MetaCritic | |
N/A Votes: 54 Popularity: 3.679 | TMDB |
interesting but not engaging
This movie may make you want to discuss it afterward with whoever you viewed it with but it never did move me emotionally. A woman interviews a series of men for her academic research and, in between interviews, interacts awkwardly with men in her life. I enjoyed the mystery of it, as I’d not read the book, and that mystery was (for me) what the heck is this woman researcher’s field and what’s her thesis topic? A number of the men she interviews are a bit hideous but many are not. The most common neurotic symptom the men display is projection, and I grew a bit tired of it, feeling that yes, I’d gotten that, and you can pull out a new device now. At different times in the movie I thought perhaps she was interviewing convicted rapists at a prison (and seeing their attitudes spookily reflected in the men in her quotidian life), or men who had answered an ad regarding sexual dysfunction, or men culled from a dating service or … well, I wasn’t sure, and it was a vaguely pleasant experience puzzling about it. The answer to that mystery is disappointing and bland, by the way, so my musings probably could serve as something of a Rorschach test for me…but as a technique driving the movie (in lieu of narrative drive) it didn’t work very well because the payoff was absent.I appreciate a movie that is thoughtful and isn’t yet another stupid Hollywood film about crap blowing up and running gun battles, and I’ll give it some stars for trying…but in the end, I found it sterile and without significant effect. In a week, I strongly suspect I’ll have forgotten it. But thank you, filmmakers, for making something aimed at thinking adults rather than the adolescent/sociopath who loves watching crap blow up for the zillionth time.
Interesting, Incoherent, Infuriating…
I could give it a much lower score had it not been for some great performances and dialogue by the African Americans in the movie: subject 42(Frankie Faison) and his father(Malcolm Goodwin) and the funny interview of subject that talks about the types of “fella”. But as a whole, this movie was just all over the place…it was very much a chore to make things fit and make sense and the last monologue by John Krasinski didn’t make sense, i mean, if he was the one who cheated, why would he be the one that’s mad and overflowing with anger in the scene? although the story he was telling was very interesting… and the lead character lacks so much character that its very difficult to empathize with her..and the editing…oh my, it didn’t help to make this story less convoluted didn’t it? So, i did like the film, i thought there were very powerful scenes in it, around 5 to 6 scenes that were very redeeming..but for the most part, the film was boring or would easily get you to lose taste in it because of the editing (timeline? what timeline?–No, not Memento-jumbled-time-interesting type of interesting, just plain jumbled mess). Would i recommend it? yes, if only for the few scenes that i really liked…
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 20 min (80 min), 1 hr 20 min (80 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director John Krasinski
Writer John Krasinski, David Foster Wallace
Actors Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton
Country N/A
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Cameras, Panavision Primo, C-Series, ATZ and AWZ2 Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA, Village Nega Playground (video dailies by)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 50D 5201, Vision2 250D 5205, Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm