Drake Doremus’ film Like Crazy won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in January and opens in limited release this October. It stars Anton Yelchin (CURLY-HAIRED MEN ARE TAKING OVER!) and Felicity Jones as two college kids who fall in love and then struggle to maintain a relationship. They say it’s a love story, but to me it looks more like a mystery. The main mystery being “WHAT THE F*CK ARE THEY SAYING?” Seriously, I watched that twice and understood maybe 65% of the dialog.
The Grand Jury prize went to Like Crazy, starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as a young couple who fall in love in college and struggle afterward to maintain a long-distance relationship. Directed and co-written by Drake Doremus (Douchebag), the film was largely improvised.
“We had a 50-page outline and rehearsed for two weeks and let things happen organically,” Doremus said. “The key was to do 30-minute takes for the five weeks we shot.”
The story is not clear-cut — intentionally.
“I wanted it to feel gray,” Doremus told a Sundance audience. “I wanted you guys to decide for yourselves.” [USAToday]
Oh boy, I can’t wait to watch a meandering narrative where I get to be the guinea pig who decides whether it’s actually about anything. Like Crazy? More like Like Lazy.
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Drake Doremus wants tell us about a love story between two people we’ve never heard of, make the reasons for the deterioration of the relationship ambiguous and have the audience decide for themselves who was right and who was wrong?
Drake Doremus is every woman I’ve ever met.
NO ONE’S RELATIONSHIP IS THIS SERIOUS AND BROODING! BE TOGETHER OR DON’T! I’VE NEVER HAD TO TAKE A SAD SHOWER WITH MY BOYFRIEND BECAUSE THINGS WERE TOUGH! JENNIFER LAWRENCE IS HOT! BE WITH HER IF SHE’S MORE ACCESSIBLE AND EASIER TO UNDERSTAND!
Can I watch a two-minute loop of Sarah McLaughlin singing over video of abused puppies and kittens instead? I think it would be less depressing (and more comprehensible) than that trailer, plus now I can empathize with that charred one-eyed cat.
With original writing like “I thought I knew… but I didn’t,” how could this not have been a winner?
Do the young attractive kids get keep all of their limbs eat every day? Good, then fuck off. Stop making me try to feel things for people who don’t have real problems. Now if this was about these same young people fending off an alien invasion…
I haven’t got enough initiative to watch this trailer. Just tell me if Chekhov finds the damned newcleer wessels or not.
Dag, that trailer made me feel like a child of a lesser god. I think 1970′s Stevie Nicks dubbed all the dialogue. Of course, it did seem like a real relationship because I had no idea what the fuck the girl was talking about.
Directed and co-written by Drake Doremus (Douchebag)
Is Douchebag his previous film or are you just calling him a douchebag? Or is it both?
I bet it’s both.
I’ve watched many a British film in my time so I’m rather versed in English Mumblespeak so I think I can help you out with what they’re saying.
Girl: Mmmhbmhmmbmhmm
Translates to: Oi bloody hell!
Guy: Mmubmbmmbhhmm
Translates to: Spot a cup of tea?
Girl: Mmmbhmmmbmmm
Translates to: Oi this is my impression of me wif your cock in me mouf.
A ST: IV ref, swi? Isn’t that your second ST ref today?
Are you making fuck with Fek?
Can we discuss the size of Anton Yelchin’s forehead? Did he get infected with yellow jizz-fog from space?
I must have super hearing because I could hear every single word.
In the first scene she was saying, “do you think this piece of crap will kill our careers?” He said “probbly”.
In the shower scene he said ” I have a boner, sorry”. She said, “really, I can’t feel it”.
The other scenes are a little too personal to discuss on a blog.
In what world does Anton Yelchin the non-actor get into the pants of Jennifer Lawrence and Felicity Jones? I don’t even think Anton Yelchin the actor can do that. Colin “the shark from Jaws” Farrell could though. Maybe Anton can ask him for advice.
This sounds like the first film to based on a phonetic dictionary.
Enunciation: The Movie
Wow…and I thought Tom Arnold’s “The Stupids” was stupid.
I haven’t got enough initiative to watch this trailer. Just tell me if Chekhov finds the damned newcleer wessels or not.
I am a 28 years old doctor, mature and beautiful.and now I am seeking a good man who can give me real love , so i got a username Lindasunny2002 on–a’ge’l'es’s'da’te.c óm–.it is the first and best club for y’ounger women and old’er men, or older women and y’ounger men,to int’eract with each other. Maybe you wanna ch’eck ‘it out or tell your friends!
That’s RACIST!
It’s movies like this and Blue Valentine that make me ashamed to be a pasty, middle-income suburban whitey. These Uncle Prescott motherfuckers are setting us back a hundred years!
(puts on whiteface) I’d love some glazed ham with mayonnaise, massa!
The only way this could be good is if at the very end he goes off to talk to his dad on a Norwegian island that is hosting a liberal party youth camp.