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Will Someone Please Criticize this Movie for Me?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (63)

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Here you go, folks. The entire day has been working up toward this final post. If you’re wearing a hat, hang on to it. If you’re wearing a loose-fitting skirt, cinch that bitch up. And if you’re wearing a strap-on device, please step away from the computer. Not cool.

Below is the trailer for Post Grad, a comedy about leaving college and entering the workforce, or rather, failing to enter the workforce. Spectacularly. It stars Alexis Bledel, who I like despite the weird halting pattern in her manner of speech, and Zach Gilford, who is somewhere between 31 and 35 kinds of awesome (if you don’t watch “Friday Night Lights,” he’s just another annoying teenage-looking punk. Trust me, though: He’s one of the good ones). Michael Keaton plays the Dad, the awesome Jane Lynch is involved, and there are small parts of Craig Robinson, Demetri Martin, and Carol Burnett.

And no: It doesn’t look like a great movie. But there’s something weirdly charming about it that makes it difficult for me to criticize. I want to watch it at 2 a.m. on cable after a dispiriting day of life. What’s wrong with me?











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Comments

I can't insult this, mostly because that Alexis Bledel chick is incredibly hot, but I can lie.

"What a fuckload of shit. That movie was ass balls deep fried in piss."

-me, lying

Posted by: George at April 27, 2009 8:36 PM

I have re-titled this film:

Rory Gilmore FAILS!

That might make me want to watch it, if we hadn't had this plotline at least twice during the seasons of which we do not speak.

Posted by: TryScience at April 27, 2009 8:37 PM

Girl graduates college & is unable to find a job? It's like they made a movie of my life! Except, you know, the whole Rodrigo Santoro part.

Posted by: Melissa at April 27, 2009 8:40 PM

I'm not pre-judging, but if you're of my generation and can only see one movie with this premise, it should be Noah Baumbach's Kicking And Screaming.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 27, 2009 8:57 PM

I want to watch it at 2 a.m. on cable after a dispiriting day of life. What’s wrong with me?

You and Seth are on the same menstrual cycle?

I kid! The trailer made me smile a couple of times. I'm sure I'll be renting it when it's available.

Posted by: Lainey at April 27, 2009 9:04 PM

I will go and see this. Alone. Wearing sunglasses and a hat.

Posted by: dk at April 27, 2009 9:08 PM

Hazzah to DarthCorleone for bringing up "Kicking And Screaming". Also, I might add, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" recently released but nobody saw, but still in same Post Grad confusion finding yourself genre but far grander.

I'll probably watch this one becasue...I asllo find Alexis Bladel incredibly hawt. I'm just a sucker for pale skinned women, ok?

Posted by: yocean at April 27, 2009 9:22 PM

Who starts interviewing after graduation?? And only get one interview lined up? Good thing shes pretty cause obviously the girl isn't smart enough to have her shit together.

Posted by: Draya at April 27, 2009 9:25 PM

Well I'm graduating in 19 days, and I'm already aware that this is what we have to look forward to. Except, you know, without the hot foreign neighbor and Matt Saracen.

Posted by: Rachel at April 27, 2009 9:26 PM

Is it wrong for a forty-year-old man to want to be doing the foot massage? Though the movie will be shitty, I envy that dude.

Posted by: richmac at April 27, 2009 9:26 PM

Yeah, this really just looks like what would happen after the season finale of Gilmore Girls if Rory failed a lot and there was no Lorelai, which would basically make it: "Rory Whines for Two Hours, Enjoy!"

And I will. Oh, I will.

Posted by: Marcela at April 27, 2009 9:28 PM

Lil Mattie Saracen? With a Git-tar!? Sold. Chuck Lorre could have written this shit and I'd still be all over it.

Posted by: Beckylooo at April 27, 2009 9:33 PM

Draya>> I didn't do a single interview before graduation. Big surprise - I still don't have my shit together. I lucked into my current job without an interview or a resume.

I consider myself moderately smart. I just don't care about the rat race.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 27, 2009 9:40 PM

I fucking hate whatever this embedded video app is. I can never grab the pop-up volume slider to lower the volume. It always disappears before I can get hold of it - fucking whack-a-mole horseshit.

Trailer is fine. Loud, but fine.

Posted by: TL at April 27, 2009 9:40 PM

I'm pretty sure I saw Demetri Martin in that trailer. So I'm pretty sure I'll be at least renting this movie.

Posted by: Bequafina at April 27, 2009 9:46 PM

Uhhhh... Way to make me hyperventilate, Dustin. That movie is a way, way, waayyyyy too close to home. I think I may even have the evolving friendlationship going on. Weirdly enough, I couldn't even hate Alexis Bledel in this because I know how she feels.

Someone fucking kick me.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 27, 2009 9:57 PM

Put me down for another "close to home" as well. Fuck.

Posted by: Benny at April 27, 2009 10:38 PM

OK, mini rant ahead. Why all the Duckie impersonators, hmm? What's so attractive about a passive, annoyingly persistent guitar player? Seriously. Even if it is Matt Saracen.

I think my frustration with that character stemming from his juxtaposition with Rodrigo Santoro. How would turn down Santoro in favor of that spinless wimp? Pfft. Screw the sensitive weenie, give me Xerxes in glasses please.

Posted by: Donut Plains at April 27, 2009 10:39 PM

*stemming --> stems
Gah. And I was so proud of myself for using "juxtaposition." Guess that's my due for trying to sound smart.

Posted by: Donut Plains at April 27, 2009 10:41 PM

GAAAAHHH! How --> who. This is what happens when I go out for Long Island Iced Teas on a school night instead of doing my pset.

Posted by: Donut Plains at April 27, 2009 10:42 PM

Donut Plains, it's ok. I was too busy completely agreeing with you about yummy Santoro in glasses being the most obvious choice. *sigh* Every girl needs a neighbor like that.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 27, 2009 10:45 PM

"...survived for years of higher education"? Clearly the person writing that blurb did not.

Grammar nazi out.

Posted by: dsbs at April 27, 2009 10:48 PM

Rodrigo Santoro or Matt Saracen...if I had to choose between the two my head might possibly explode.

Posted by: Austin asking for trouble at April 27, 2009 10:53 PM

Is it just me or does this movie come across as having been done already, like a month ago, in a much more entertaining fashion. Hello? Anybody remember Adventureland? Now that was a fucking movie.

Posted by: the_wakeful at April 27, 2009 10:58 PM

ok, wait. are all of us here post grads without "real" jobs? christ. . . I thought I was watching the female version of my life. I even have the friend with all the sexual tension. . . and where is my life affirming soundtrack? nards.

Posted by: adam at April 27, 2009 10:59 PM

I just graduated on Friday, and while I am going to grad school in the fall, I'm also moving back into my parents basement. And like so many have mentioned, I don't even have a Rodrigo Santoro to look forward to. What I'm trying to say is that I'd totally see this movie despite it's obvious mediocrity.

Posted by: kelsy at April 27, 2009 11:02 PM

CRAIG ROBINSON? He better have more than a bit part. I luv him like pancakes.

And I do like Alexis Bledel, despite the same reason you gave. Honestly she's not that great of an actress. (Says the woman who has all seven freaking seasons of Gilmore Girls on DVD. Sigh.)

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at April 27, 2009 11:04 PM

Ok after watching the trailer, where was my boy CR???

I can't believe Alexis Bledel has a personality. It's amazing. She even screamed once in that trailer. How...weird.

I'm happy to see Demetri Martin in that. But yeah, donut plains good eye, that's totally a Duckie knock off 25 freaking years later. Sheesh. Only Duckie can be the Duck Man, people.

I see this as a rental in my future.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at April 27, 2009 11:09 PM

Nobody's calling Reality Bites on this?

Weird.

Posted by: general rhubarb at April 27, 2009 11:12 PM

Probably the only thing about this trailer that sort of throws me off is the fact that, even though I'm one of the kids with "promise" that people expected "great things" from, people are really sympathetic about the job market I'm graduating into. People understand that I'm taking a part-time job because they're friends with 15 years experience are looking for jobs, too.

Of course, most of my friends graduating with a finance/accounting degree have jobs already, but hey I'm not bitter. Damn you Liberal Arts Communication Degree! Ugh, maybe we should start a support group. You know, we could send out memos about where the best soup kitchens are, how to talk to your parents about the fact that "yes, oh my god, i'm looking. if something changes I will tell you. please leave me alone so I can sob into my capt. crunch!" and you know, maybe a cocktail social.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 27, 2009 11:16 PM

Kayanne, between this and the Humpday thread, you rock.

Also, concerning Bledel's weird truncated speaking style...if you hear her in Spanish, it's gone. That happens a lot, actually (see: Penelope Cruz). For those of us who learned English after Spanish, English feels blocky and awkward. I think it's a language thing. Although, I've never seen Gilmore Girls, so she could just be a bad actress besides.

Posted by: Donut Plains at April 27, 2009 11:40 PM

Okay...2009 grad, unable to find a job, boyfriend going to grad school hundreds of miles away? I'm pretty sure someone's been spying on me.

Posted by: Alli at April 27, 2009 11:48 PM

Donut Plains thank God! I was becoming desperate for attention. I do increasingly embarrassing things when I become desperate for attention...

Also, I had no idea Bledel is a native Spanish speaker. Maybe I shouldn't be annoyed at the sight of her. Maybe this movie will turn my loathing into apathy! She can only hope, of course, that a random 21-year-old with internet access will grow to love her as an entertainer. I bet she's desperate for my validation. *rolls eyes*

Anyway, maybe this movie will be good. Doubtful that'll it will be great. I hope greatness comes when I finally get around to seeing Adventureland.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 27, 2009 11:55 PM

Good Lord. I had to go to Wiki to confirm she is half Mexican/half Argentine Roman Catholic who didn't learn English until she started school. Who would thunk it?

Anyway, the over/under on rom-com or coming of age trailers using that Carolina Liar song for the next 6 months is 347,865.50

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at April 28, 2009 12:13 AM

THE CUTE GUY FROM LOVE ACTUALLY!!! i am sold on this movie. also i kind of hate myself.

Posted by: hannah at April 28, 2009 12:18 AM

Michael Keaton?

Carol Burnett?

What ... what year am I?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 28, 2009 12:51 AM

Awww Matty. Fuck, I need to finish watching FNL.

Posted by: SaBrina at April 28, 2009 1:45 AM

Man. It's almost 3am. Downtown Allston only a few min from BU Law. Recently graduated college, recently withdrew from law school. Looking for a job. Contemplating going to the 24hr Supermarket and buying junk food. Looking for a job is a devastatingly disappointing time. And this movie looks like the female version of my life. I WILL be seeing this. And laughing/crying unabashedly with it. Although hopefully I'll have a GD job by then.

Posted by: RyanH at April 28, 2009 2:50 AM

Wow that last post was whiny and overshare. Saracen and Rory Gilmore are definitely reason enough for me to see the film anyway though.

Posted by: RyanH at April 28, 2009 2:51 AM

thanxxx Anyway, the over/under on rom-com or coming of age trailers men!

Posted by: celebrity gossip at April 28, 2009 2:59 AM

Lainey -- Dustin and I are totally on the same cycle. You may want to avoid this site from this Wednesday through Sunday. Could get very hormonal.

RyanH -- dude, get yourself back into BUSL post-haste. Sure, you'll have tons of debt when you graduate and being a lawyer sucks if that's where you go with it, but for the next three years, at least, instead of sweating about looking for a job, you will be gainfully employed in pushing your liver to the absolute brink of failure. ...Man, pour one back at the Common Ground for me, tomorrow, would ya?

Posted by: seth at April 28, 2009 3:09 AM

I find this movie quite endearing actually. I'm in the midst of having the same crisis, sans hot looking male neighbor and best friend. I might check this out and see how her life changes and forget about how my life seems to be stuck in a muddy rut.

Posted by: carrie at April 28, 2009 3:24 AM

does anyone get the job they want right out of graduating?
I left university in may, my graduation was in july, i didnt have a job until late august. And that was in a bar. Then I left that after four months to work in the shit hole I'm in now, a shoddily run printing company where I'm left completely alone to run an office/shop dealing with imbecilic students all day. And I might be getting fired at the end of May.
And I still live with my parents.
I want to be a writer, I want an agent, I dont want to be HERE...this film...I dont know, to me it's a problem basically every student has barring the few who's final year involves some sort of internship/employment scheme any way.
I am glad Bledel finally got herself some nice bangs cut in though, she has far too much forehead for her own good. But why does she seem to clench her teeth when she talks?

Posted by: nadine at April 28, 2009 3:56 AM

I know Zach Gilford! I really do. I've said it several times in comments trying to attract attention to myself, but it's always failed. He went to my high school a couple years before me, and then he came back as the assistant director of a play I was in. Nice guy.

Posted by: Lucas at April 28, 2009 4:04 AM

Funny story:

This is pretty much the plot of the TV series I am creating for my master's dissertation.

Except it's on a spaceship.

I thought people wouldn't enjoy the navel-gazing if it was toooo close to home.


Also, Kayanne: *hug*

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at April 28, 2009 5:00 AM

Ugh. The whole way through that trailer I was thinking 'SACK UP BITCH' - I'll be in the same position come September (will have my Masters and be looking for the same low paid, long hours but incredible rewarding job in youth arts education in a dodgy area of London as a million other people) but going home and whining about how hard my life is seems kinda lame.

Posted by: queenorangina at April 28, 2009 6:57 AM

I will probably love this movie right up until the point where she gets her miraculous happy ending. Just like Waitress.

Yes, Orangina, congratulations, you are better than everyone else.

Posted by: twig at April 28, 2009 7:21 AM

Probably.

Posted by: queenorangina at April 28, 2009 8:51 AM

Ok, so the hot guy next door in this movie is the same guy who played the creepy gargantuan in 300?!?! Hmmm, I'll have to re-watch 300 (can't say I have cause to complain, so much eye candy and well, possibly even more!).

Oh, and I will see this. I am a fiend for these movies.

Posted by: Eyvi at April 28, 2009 8:58 AM

Jake *hugs back* Maybe don't judge me if I happen to find a sugar daddy?

Props to orangina for calling out us whiners. Yes you are better than us and yes we should sack up, but if we can't vent in a corner of the internet, where can we? But yea, sacking up is probably the best option.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 28, 2009 9:17 AM

Kayanne, I'd gladly shack up with you.

Oh wait, that says "SACK up." Well, sounds like the same thing to me ...

Lissen ... it's a sad sad thing that a smart, hot, underemployed young woman such as yourself with spectacular legs and a killer rack can't see the true beauty and worth in yourself beyond your "big nose." I mean, have we learned nothing -- NOTHING! -- from Susan Boyle?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 28, 2009 9:48 AM

Well, I'll admit, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for plot lines like this, normally. I didn't have parents to live with when I graduated from college, much less parents with money. I was, however, already married to a GI. Who told me in no uncertain terms to find a job or we'd lose our dinky apartment. He made $900 a month back then, whooo!!! Graduate school was not an option. So I was an assistant manager at a record store for a while (they had RECORDS!) then I got the World's Worst Teaching Job which I amazingly held for two whole years and through the birth of our first and only child. I can't believe I kept that job that long, it was hell on earth.

Anywho. Because of the baby, I put off grad school for a decade, but it all turned out ok in the end.

As things usually do. It's just that in the movies, it only takes a bit under two hours. In real life, maybe a decade or more to get your shit straight.

This is my weird way of saying to those here looking for jobs that things WILL work out. Seriously.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at April 28, 2009 10:32 AM

Well, I do think I'm attractive, bucdaddy, but I also recognize that there is popular opinion and that popular opinion generally throws me in the jane category. I'm totally ok with that, I like joes.

But I think I get what you're saying here... I should embrace my hawtness and start prostitutin'? Don't I need a masters for that?

Posted by: Kayanne at April 28, 2009 10:50 AM

in my book anyone who was in Gilmore Girls cant possibly do wrong, wanna become a south american dictator? fine with me. plus, it's been three years and I'm still in the post graduate land of nowhere, which yeah I'm aware makes me gloriously pathetic but the funny thing is, I did go on, and did weird jobs while trying to get on some sort of path and yet again, after a bit I end up getting sucked back in my parents house, there is some sort of mystical vacuum power going on. so yeah I would watch it and no matter how much it will suck I will love it and dream that my 80 years old spitting neighbor turns into a hot brazilian actor and I'll get the courage to once again go out and get loudly fucked again or buy a gun
yay

Posted by: rio at April 28, 2009 10:55 AM

You know what? Why attempt to criticize something that appears to love you so much? It's like a hug. It's like your dog when you come home from work. It's always glad to see you and always unbearably cute.

Posted by: greer at April 28, 2009 11:17 AM

Oh! Oh! I'm getting a master's! I'll start prostitutin'!

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at April 28, 2009 1:27 PM

I've got a master's for you if you can pass my final. It's a little easier than a driver's license test but it's still been known to take dozens of tries. The students keep insisting they need more practice, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes for them to achieve perfection.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 28, 2009 1:53 PM

RyanH -- dude, get yourself back into BUSL post-haste.

Couldn't agree more. Sure, the first year sucked. But then you got two years of drinking 5 nights a week, a schedule where you have no classes on Monday mornings or Fridays, and half the classes are pretty much attendance optional. After your first year its pretty hard to move up in class ranking or change your final GPA, so just get some undergrad tail every chance you get.

Posted by: Beyonce Rowles (L.O.V.E.) at April 28, 2009 2:22 PM

Oh, Rodrigo.
300? Was hot.
This? Oh, dear.
It looks like it would make a great sick-day cable excursion. But only if I came across it by accident, and somehow my flu-addled brain remembered that the beautiful Rodrigo was in it.

Posted by: Chickaboom at April 28, 2009 4:14 PM

RyanH, run from law school if you don't really want to be a lawyer. Sure, it can be fun, but at the end of it you'll have enormous debt. You'll also feel tremendous pressure to get a job in law. When you try interviewing for non-law jobs, you'll have to explain why you aren't being a lawyer. People won't hire you for low-level work because they think you'll leave as soon as you get a law-related job offer.

"But I don't wanna be a lawyer!" Twenty years later, and the memory still makes me cringe.

Posted by: CatBallou at April 28, 2009 7:14 PM

Despite attending only five quarters of community college and thus not really relating to most of the plotline here, I am a sucker for cutesy movies, the prettiness of Alexis Bledel, and MATT SARACEN

I am slightly concerned, though, because Bledel and Gilford can both be awfully mumbly. They're not, like, Scott Speedman level or anything, but close.


*Sorry about the hearts. I just love Matty so much that I can't resist.

Posted by: Mimi at April 28, 2009 8:37 PM

I'm holding out for a rom-com about grad school.

Posted by: NF at April 28, 2009 8:53 PM

I've been rewatching Wonder Falls because I am completely starting to identify with Jayne since I graduate in less than a month and the only job I have waiting for me is as a waitress. So yea, I will probably rent this (not enough money to actually watch movies in the theaters) for rory and Rodrigo (I'm so glad to see him back to his hot self.)

Posted by: dene at April 28, 2009 9:43 PM