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Of Trailer Disappointment / Dustin Rowles

Trailers | October 16, 2009 | Comments (33)


You folks remember Waitress, Adrienne Shelly’s wonderful, magical, heart-flipping ode to pie and female independence? If not, you probably weren’t a reader of this site back in 2007, as it was a film — like (500) Days of Summer — that we (and by “we,” I mean “I”) shoved down your throat for a couple of months. Of course, Adrienne Shelly had been murdered by the time Waitress was released, which also added a certain amount of melancholy to the magical realism.

Turns out, Adrienne Shelly had another script written. Cheryl Hines — a close friend and one of the cast members of Waitress — took directing duties. Judging from the trailer (below), it doesn’t have the jangly fluttery goodness of Waitress; in fact, it looks more like the sort of movie that Meg Ryan has made late in her career. Not coincidentally, I suppose, she stars in Serious Moonlight as a jilted wife who straps her husband (Timothy Hutton) to a chair with duct tape after he confesses that he’s leaving her for a younger woman (Kristen Bell). (And no offense: But Bell > Ryan). She insists on keeping him there until he falls back in love with her. Justin Long also appears, as a burglar who takes advantage of the fact that Hutton is strapped to a chair to rob the house.

Kind of a hinky premise, I suppose. And to be honest, the trailer doesn’t look that great. But, it’s Adrienne Shelly, so I’m hoping there’s at least a few witticisms in the movie to make it worth the effort of watching.

I’ll let y’all make the Meg Ryan blowfish cracks.



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Comments

bah, the only thing good meg ryan's ever been in was dennis quaid, and *that* was just her finger.

Posted by: gp at October 16, 2009 9:50 AM

Great, now I have the mental image of Dennis Quaid getting UFIA. BRAIN BLEACH!

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at October 16, 2009 10:03 AM

Meg Ryan looks like the people on the fringe of a nuclear blast who don't die right away but get tons of radiation and just fall apart over time. It's really a shame because she was crazy cute 10 years ago.
What's wrong with aging gracefully? Or at least getting subtle facial enhancements? Look at Hellen Mirren. She in her 60's and I want to motorboat her until I pass out, especially considering she used to get all kinds of nekkid back in the day and has big-assed tittays.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, Meg looks like chipotle shit.

Posted by: Kballs at October 16, 2009 10:11 AM

Why the hell is Meg Ryan wearing Jack Nicholson's 'Joker' prosthetic from Tim Burton's Batman for a movie directed by Cheryl Hines and written by Adrienne Shelly?

That makes about as much sense as casting Timothy Hutton as the object of Kristen Bell's affection.

Posted by: PissBoy at October 16, 2009 10:12 AM

Wow, Kristen Bell must really need money. I'm sure many of you gentlemen would be happy to help her out in far less degrading and humiliating ways.

Posted by: becks at October 16, 2009 10:13 AM

Kballs...you can always clean Meg Ryan up with a brand new bottle of Chipotlaway.

Posted by: PissBoy at October 16, 2009 10:15 AM

Love the 30 Rock quotes already.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at October 16, 2009 10:21 AM

bah, the only thing good meg ryan's ever been in was dennis quaid, and *that* was just her finger.

Thanks a lot gp. No, really, I mean it. I wasn't feeling all that well, then I read that, went to the bathroom, puked out all the evil stuff, and now I feel better.

Just wish I could find a breath mint.

Posted by: Xtreme at October 16, 2009 10:27 AM

Since everyone else is expounding on Meggy's face, let me throw in one for Tim: What happened? And why do men think haphazardly pulling pieces of hair toward their foreheads will make hair loss less noticeable?

OK, back to Meg. Did she have a boob job?

Posted by: Cindy at October 16, 2009 10:30 AM

Wow, Kristen Bell must really need money. I'm sure many of you gentlemen would be happy to help her out in far less degrading and humiliating ways.

Posted by: becks at October 16, 2009 10:13 AM
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I was thinking of strapping her to a chair ... that would still be less humiliating, right?

Couple other things I thought while watching that:

1. Why can't moviemakers just show a car going around a curve? Why does it have to be a sequence of three cuts?

2. Why don't movie characters who get strapped to chairs ever have to take a dump? I'd think that would get you unstrapped in a hurry.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 16, 2009 10:31 AM

ha! when i wrote that, i didn't realize anyone would read it.

it's a meg ryan post, for oct's sake.

who knew?


*sniff*

Posted by: gp at October 16, 2009 10:32 AM

Good Morning, Dustin:

All I need to know is this - at any point during the film, does Kristen Bell remove her top and just kind of... like, sway in place? I'm only asking because you used the word "jangly" in the second paragraph, three lines down, fourth word in.

I appreciate your willingness in answering this question, as it directly relates to whether or not I will bring my fanny pack to the theater with me. Not the fanny pack I bought at Sea World with the dolphin-shaped zipper pull, but the one with the heating element and satin-lined bottom compartment.

Again, thank you for your help,
Skittimus Maximus Esquire, III

Posted by: Skitz at October 16, 2009 10:32 AM

3. Why do movie characters just stand there and let flying objects hit them in the head?

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 16, 2009 10:33 AM

Meg Ryan is the poor man's Amanda Tapping (who is coincidently a study in aging gracefully).

I can kind of see how the guy in this managed to catch Ryan, but Bell? Does he have a golden penis or something?

Posted by: Chugga at October 16, 2009 10:33 AM

Bucdaddy, he's strapped to the toilet.

Posted by: Cindy at October 16, 2009 10:34 AM

I haven't actually watched the trailer yet, but it sort of looks like the scene in Red Dragon where Frances Dolarhyde glues the reporter to the chair and makes him watch videos of his murders. Perhaps ol' Meg is subjecting him to You've Got Mail or City of Angels.

Posted by: Cat at October 16, 2009 10:41 AM

Great, now I have the mental image of Dennis Quaid getting UFIA. BRAIN BLEACH!

Why do I google terms like "UFIA" that I find on Pajiba? I should've learned my lesson after the murkin incident.

Posted by: branded at October 16, 2009 10:43 AM

Kballs! How could you insult Chipotle like that? Chipotle is very tasty, with its smoked accents and its pretty easy to handle spiciness. I'd venture a guess as to say she looks more like habanero shit. Seriously, habaneros are obnoxiously hot. Not flavorfully hot, obnoxious and blaring. And the shit?! It's the type that burns coming out and looks just as painful. Something you would kill with fire, if it wasn't already burning with Satan's special brand of fuckery.

Now take all of that imagery and tell me it's not symbolic of a Meg Ryan double feature of In The Cut and The Women. You can't can you? Why? Because Meg Ryan is an obnoxious Ewok! I've had hot sauce in my eyes before, and watching the trailers to those two movies felt EXACTLY like that did!

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at October 16, 2009 10:54 AM

Okay:

1. Yeah Meg Ryan has had tons of injections and whatever, but despite my love for Veronica Mars, are you all oblivious to the fact that Kristen bell also looks incredibly plastic? She has the same generic nose job I see on almost every 16-year old, the same LA blonde dye-job: she is pretty standard starlet surgery looking all round.

2. When will Hollywood stop portraying scary psychotic acts as cute and adorable and "the way to win a man?" I enjoyed Waitress, but here (especially ironic given that Shelley was killed by a guy with problems), she has lost the plot on cute versus troubling.

Posted by: PaddyDog at October 16, 2009 11:01 AM

Hmmm... you know, if you shoved you hand up Meg's ass and sat her on your knee, she'd make an excellent ventriloquist dummy. I mean really, blank expression, wooden acting and only her bottom lip moves. Plus you could tell people you were elbow deep in Meg Ryan.

Posted by: admin at October 16, 2009 11:05 AM

Kristen Bell is actually much older than she appears, like Rachel McAdams.I was surprised when I learned her age.

Posted by: becks at October 16, 2009 11:26 AM

Is it just me or does it seem like Meg Ryan is trying to act like Jennifer Anniston in this movie? Some of the gesturing seems familiar..

Speaking of... what do you bet that Jen A watches this movie, does a face slap and says "Why didn't I think of that?"

Posted by: Hairypie Thundercunt at October 16, 2009 11:30 AM

There seems to be an awful lot of things in asses in this thread.

Even for this site.

Posted by: Drake at October 16, 2009 11:31 AM

Bucdaddy, he's strapped to the toilet.

Posted by: Cindy at October 16, 2009 10:34 AM
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He is?

*watches trailer 4-5 more times*

Well, in one shot it looks like he might be, and Ryan closes a door on him that has a hook and what looks like a robe on the back. But it also looks like he maybe still has his pants on. And then another scene it looks like maybe he's in a bedroom or something ... I don't have audio on this PC, did someone flush and I didn't hear it?

I know, I know, I'm trying to make sense out of a ludicrously plotted romcom where someone throws a flower pot (or whatever it is) at a man who makes no effort to duck or deflect it with an arm and it hits him in the head WHY? Because he HAS to be rendered unconscious or there's no movie.

I just can't help myself.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 16, 2009 11:38 AM

Most of the trailer, he's on the pot - but you're right - I watched again and at some point he's strapped to a chair in a bedroom.

Posted by: Cindy at October 16, 2009 11:52 AM

Souds to me like one might be rendered unconscious by this movie.

I used to love Meg Ryan. Jesopus, she has gone an fucked herself up and good.

And, Really?
Duct taped to a toilet until he falls in love with her?
I must be doing this whole relationship thing all wrong.
{gets duct tape}
Anyone want to come over to my place?

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at October 16, 2009 12:07 PM

So ... this is "Misery" but scarier, because under great duress there's an extremely remote but still plausible possibility I'd want to have sex with Kathy Bates.

There's also an extremely remote but still plausible possibility I'd want to see this if while Hutton was unconscious Ryan duct-taped his mouth to his anus. Call it "Pede."

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 16, 2009 12:33 PM

Seriously?? If I wanted to watch a man be strapped down against his will, I'd be watching 9 to 5. You can't beat Lily Tomlin.

Posted by: bonnie at October 16, 2009 12:57 PM

bonnie,
I'd love to beat Lily Tomlin. With a bat. Over her ego-stuffed, bitter, soulless, cryptkeeperesque head. Whatta nasty old bitch.

Posted by: Kballs at October 16, 2009 1:02 PM

What a simplistic piece of crap. I liked Waitress, there was more heart and soul in one line of that movie than I bet there is in this whole abortion. And it had the Fillion in it, so how can you go wrong?

I have an idea, let's go see a "romantic comedy" where not one of the people in the trailer seems likable. Not the "powerful" woman who is being left, not the weak husband doing the leaving or the other characters I can't be bothered to give a steaming bowel movement about. And I bet you three dollars Ryan convinces him to stay. If this was 20 years ago, she had the artillery to do it, but now she looks like a younger version of herself mashed up against some glass.

Damn it, Cheryl Hines, just because you found this lying around after the horrible incident didn't mean you needed to film it. What's next, her grocery list? You should have left well enough alone. Waitress was a cute light movie and would have been enough to remember her with. You suck for doing this to her name.

Posted by: Rubble44 at October 16, 2009 7:54 PM

Rubble, Oh, you KNOW he stays with her. EVERYone knows he stays with her. But first she has to come to the realization that "if you let it go and it comes back to you, it was yours all along" and all that crap. And he realizes that if she's willing to let him go she really DOES love him and he stays. And Kristen Bell gets the blue labia and shows up at ,'s house and begs for a hummer, which , gladly provides, and she fucking LOVES it and decides to move in with , and they have endless 69 sessions and live happily ever after.

You KNOW that's exactly how this is gonna end.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 17, 2009 3:05 AM

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Posted by: nancy at October 18, 2009 10:07 AM

I once appeared in a play where my character spent the majority of the performance time strapped to a chair. It was stupidly difficult and kind of annoying. Hutton has my sympathies.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at October 18, 2009 10:43 PM





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