No Hard Feelings (new Jennifer Lawrence movie)

I’m going to see it later today with a friend. Ngl, the trailer looked so unfunny, but I’m going with an open mind bc I love Jennifer. Your sentiment seems to be common so that makes me hopeful

Anyone could tell if it's related to this anime, Rent a girlfriend? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-A-Girlfriend

I mean, JLaw is officially a MILF now.

Wish this Buick commercial had more meat but its mostly fun thanks to a stellar Jennifer Lawrence and some crude yet funny jokes.

It's a pretty funny movie but what shocked me the most is that I actually responded to non-humorous scenes too although it's usually during them that such comedies start to lose me. To my own surprise, I found myself invested in these two people and whatever "journeys" they had to go through to get to a better place in life. Instead of being a silly setpieces movie with some perfunctory character stuff thrown in to create a phony emotional connection with the audience, this ended up a character movie with a bunch of silly setpieces thrown in to keep up the funny meter going. And to me the filmmakers pulled off both the relationships and the jokes which is something I really didn't expect from this.

Of course whether you end up invested in these people or not largely depends on the two central performances and I thought both of the actors did a fantastic job. Jennifer Lawrence is just utterly fantastic, and it's not just the comedy. Hell, they give her a goddamn Oscar clip in this movie (the "Maneater" reaction) and it's there that you realize that this project isn't just vaudeville or goofing around on camera for her - she treats the performance as seriously as something like Causeway and it just so happens that she's required to be goddamn hilarious in most of it. And I gotta commend her for that nude scene too, and not for "OMG JLaw hot" reasons (although that's what time it is too). I may be mistaken but when I think of these female-led "raunchy" comedies, I can't remember the actresses actually going there (I believe most of them specifically had no-nudity clauses in their contracts) but Lawrence doesn't just go "Fuck it, I'm all in for this movie" but does it in a completely comedic context which I find truly admirable. It's not a "I'll show y'all how great I look" moment, it's a "I'll show y'all how much I can laugh at myself" moment which seems completely free of Hollywood vanity to me. You don't really see a lot of performers doing that and I think it should be acknowledged.

But what really surprised me is that Andrew Barth Feldman managed to totally find his footing too, becoming an equal comedic/dramatic partner to Lawrence. This could've easily been a case of a seasoned actor overpowering a green newcomer but Feldman held his own like a pro. Look, it's not a great movie or anything but these two simply make. it. work.

Lawrence deserved a better script. The dramatic moments almost always work, but the comedy is so telegraphed that not even Lawrence giving it her all - both in desperate (but failed) attempts to get laughs and her excellent dramatic moments - can salvage it. It's raunchy without any actual humor to speak of.

Funniest part was "In three years, we'll both be seniors." An actually clever line that could have been part of a whole conversation of veiled barbs. Instead, we got "Can I touch your weiner?"

Okay, but are there any good directors she has in the pipeline?