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Funny Ha Ha

Funny Ha Ha

2002
Romance
1h 29m
When you graduate college you easily sashay into the world of adulthood, start a career, and get serious, right? Wrong. Marnie has left college, but not her drinking habits and her bad taste in bad men. What's more, Marnie can't seem to find a permanent job. It would be sad if it weren't so funny. (Goodbye Cruel Releasing)

Funny Ha Ha

2002
Romance
1h 29m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
8
93rd
My favorite "mumblecore" movie. The aimless Marnie is one of my favorite low-concept movie protagonists ever, and when this movie gets awkward, it gets really fucking awkward. You squirm, you avert your eyes from the screen, and you eventually shoot yourself. Kudos to Andrew Bujalski for having the balls to cast himself as Mitchell, the most awkward character in the history of cinema.
Rated 17 Sep 2018
60
20th
Top badass moment? Stopping myself from trying to punch just about every character in the face. They were SO annoying. If I want to experience acutely embarrassing, social awkwardness, I just need to look in a mirror, or try and talk to a stranger. But what really frustrated me most was that I’ve just bought a massive new TV, but this is a mono, 16mm, full-frame ratio film. It felt like I was driving an Aston Martin in the rush hour in London, (I imagine). No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 13 Feb 2010
92
93rd
A fantastic film that gets better on repeated viewings. Bujalski illustrates an understanding for the voices that populate the young, aimless, and college-educated. With so many choices and so little direction, their uncertainty has spread even into their relationships with friends and significant others. Bujalski never condescends in his view of these characters, imbuing them with dignity in spite of their faults. And the editing of that final sequence is simply magnificent.
Rated 16 Jun 2023
75
45th
I like what Bujalski was trying to do here with the intimate low budget DIY Indie filmmaking. Kate Dollenmayer is a surprisingly great lead reminiscent of some of the work Greta Gerwig would go on to do. IMO this could have been a great post college figuring out your life hangout movie a la Kicking and Screaming, but the screenplay is simply too raw and unpolished. There are just one too many pointless conversations that go nowhere, and only serve to make the short runtime feel bloated.
Rated 19 Apr 2023
68
20th
I very much respect its commitment to capital-R Realism, and there is some real good cringe here, but it frequently serves as a good reminder of why dramatisation exists y’know
Rated 23 Aug 2020
85
76th
godDAMN is this movie exasperating. And I love it. All hail mumblecore, or whatever, you know I mean I really think highly of it and all, but yeah. So... ok.
Rated 18 Jun 2020
5
0th
I came upon this movie after being surprised by Results. And unfortunately, nothing interesting to see here. The awful audio quality had me immediately questioning what I got myself in to. But I tried to keep an open mind. After all, I have seen good things from this filmmaker before. And then... nothing happened ever to insufferable characters. The end. I like an independent spirit in movies, and i have even liked some "mumblecore" movies before, but this is a bore with nothing to say.
Rated 31 Dec 2018
85
94th
This one is still stuck in my brain. The way people talk, a sort of infantilized defensive talkiness while things unsaid float around but very much present.
Rated 13 May 2016
70
31st
Probably the best film I fought and struggled to pay attention to.
Rated 06 Apr 2016
20
9th
While the direction has a avant garde, almost improv style to it that I appreciate, it lacks structure. With overall terrible performances, a lack luster plot, and disappointing technical aspects, it's a film trying to be for the art house crowd but not able to get there.
Rated 24 Mar 2014
8
80th
The summary is wrong. It would be funny if it weren't so sad and uncomfortably awkward. Very resonant and authentic. I feel like this would be hard to appreciate if you haven't experienced the 21st century while also in your twenties.
Rated 05 Oct 2013
64
69th
Over-exaggerated, but rings a bell. Usually American youth indies feels outlandish to me, but Bujalski's mumblecore works.
Rated 18 Aug 2013
65
26th
Kate Dollenmayer gives a strong, nuanced performance, and there are a few cute scenes, but Funny Ha Ha takes far too long getting to the punchline. Unlike me...with that punchline.
Rated 14 Feb 2013
37
25th
the characters are completely uninteresting
Rated 25 Sep 2010
65
22nd
Conversations overlap, the way they do in a crowded room where more than one conversation is going on at once. You often don't hear certain words because of the slamming of a door, or the passing of a loud truck outside. You hear what you would be hearing if you were standing right where the camera happens to be, and this seems very deliberate. It takes getting used to, and while I can't say I'd like to see it in every picture I watch, I did like it in this film.
Rated 28 Apr 2010
59
13th
nope. nopely nope. not for paul.
Rated 02 Mar 2010
73
80th
Annie Hall made with nerdy, socially-inept characters. Bujalski really captures and creates this milieu in a way that other directors haven't.
Rated 26 Feb 2010
35
11th
It's um um um well, if you could, uh uh, you know, [nervous laughter], sheesh, yeah, okay, i'm sorry, no, no, no, well sure, sure -- in trying to emulate every-day real life, Bujalski has failed by creating characters who have conversations and live through situations that are, ironically, entirely unrealistic in that they are MUCH more boring and mundane than a typical 23-year old's life. This is not life and it's also not really a movie, either.
Rated 10 Aug 2008
75
84th
Bujalski's second, Mutual Appreciation, is more mature, more refined than this, but Funny Ha Ha is already pretty damn great for an indie debut movie. It's easy to get lost in the muddled first act, especially if you're unprepared for a no-budget, no-fi, naturalistic depiction of incredibly lost twenty-somethings (later to become a trend and be dubbed "mumblecore"), but bear with it. It gradually gets better and clearer. The comparisons to Cassavetes are merited.
Rated 07 May 2007
54
33rd
I wasn't intrigued with much in the film, although movies of this kind aren't really up my alley. It just feels kind of dull, I didn't feel anything towards most of the characters. It was under 90 minutes but felt much longer, there weren't very many memorable moments. Visually it wasn't bad, although not nearly good enough to make it worthwhile.
Rated 28 Feb 2007
46
7th
Oh god, this movie sucked. Incredibly annoying dialogue and unlikeable characters. A poor imitation of Cassavetes.

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