More Everything!

Mary: Life is complicated. It’s a funny world. People can’t communicate. And you couldn’t keep your erection.

I came away from my viewing of Neil LaBute’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ with a few observations:

1. Ben Stiller looks like David Mamet’s twin (and I really wish he had written this movie).
2. This movie reaffirms my belief that Catherine Keener hates all men.
3. Aaron Eckhart really has range. To go from his character in ‘In the Company of Men’ to this, is such an huge change. It’s hard to believe this is the same guy.
4. Nastassja Kinski was really cute, why hasn’t she been in more movies lately?
5. I am convinced that Amy Brenneman’s Mary is supposed to be the same person as her character in Daylight, so this film is really a prequel to the Stallone Tunnel Collapse movie (which is one of my guilty pleasures!). The actions in YF&N are what drive her to finally try and leave New York in Daylight!
6. Jason Patric was convinced he would get an Oscar nomination for his ‘Steam Room’ speech in the movie (probably why he produced the film, too). The speech is written so well, but his delivery seems so self-aware. Like he knows how crazy it sounds, and is thinking ‘I’ll see you on stage next February!’ Instead, he didn’t work again for 4 years and his most recent film is entitled, ‘The Losers.’
7. The film goes in a circle and by the end, I really didn’t care what just had happened. I really didn’t care what happened to the characters or where they were going. I was just happy it was over.
8. I guess I must have enjoyed this movie more the first few times I watched it, but more likely, I liked saying I had a collection of Neil LaBute films.
9. I am going to DISCARD this DVD.
10. I am going to watch Daylight again (I think it streams instantly on Netflix). That scene where Stallone punches the C-4 into the wall of mud, while holding himself with one arm is sooo cool!