Post by Dracula on Feb 8, 2021 20:43:06 GMT -5
The Climb(2/5/2021)
The Climb is an indie comedy which harkens back to something of an earlier era of “Sundance success” stories where an unknown person kind of comes out of nowhere and writes, directs, and stars in a dialogue driven comedy that ends up hitting above its weight class… except the market is so saturated now that very few movies can really get that much attention and really build into a mainstream success anymore. Anyway, this movie looks at a fraught friendship between a couple of guys over the course of several years where they end up fighting over a couple of women they get into love triangles with. You kind of feel like you’ve got the movie pegged because of its visual style but it ends up throwing some real narrative curveballs, in part because it’s set over the course of years instead of days. On a narrative level it’s almost like they took the entire run of a sitcom and cut all the day to day jokes and will-they/won’t-they delaying and just went straight through the plot points of one of those series all in one 95 minute film. That’s interesting and there are a handful of scenes here that I quite admired, but I don’t think I ever quite came to care about many of these characters more deeply and I also never quite found the movie to be laugh out loud hilarious either.
*** out of Five
The Climb is an indie comedy which harkens back to something of an earlier era of “Sundance success” stories where an unknown person kind of comes out of nowhere and writes, directs, and stars in a dialogue driven comedy that ends up hitting above its weight class… except the market is so saturated now that very few movies can really get that much attention and really build into a mainstream success anymore. Anyway, this movie looks at a fraught friendship between a couple of guys over the course of several years where they end up fighting over a couple of women they get into love triangles with. You kind of feel like you’ve got the movie pegged because of its visual style but it ends up throwing some real narrative curveballs, in part because it’s set over the course of years instead of days. On a narrative level it’s almost like they took the entire run of a sitcom and cut all the day to day jokes and will-they/won’t-they delaying and just went straight through the plot points of one of those series all in one 95 minute film. That’s interesting and there are a handful of scenes here that I quite admired, but I don’t think I ever quite came to care about many of these characters more deeply and I also never quite found the movie to be laugh out loud hilarious either.
*** out of Five
