"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"

Yay, a stream-of-consciousness blog posting while watching the movie "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men."

Previews: Flame & Citron. Anyone heard of or seen this movie? I’ll undoubtedly Google it, but I’m hooked by the trailer. A movie on the Danish Resistance movement against the Nazis with such cool nicknames? I’m there! :)

Hmmm, also a preview for a movie featuring familial blowback from the Irish Resistance movement. It looks much more depressing; but now I’m trying to figure out the “demographic” I’m supposed to be matching to have these kinds of previews before the movie “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.”

Wait, corporaphilia? Is that what he said? Is that a real condition?

What’s funny is, this one straight guy’s fantasy just sounded SO delusional and amazingly piggy, until I realized I have had a similar fantasy myself! HA!

OMG, this black guy is an effing hoot. His critique of the different types of male lovers is spot on and delivered in a fabulously fun way.

“Schizophrenic media discourse, personified by Cosmo.” It all makes perfect sense now. Seriously! NOW I understand straight women. Woo-hoo!

Oh god, a guy with a half-arm, “Johnny One,” played by Bobby Cannavale of all people, keeps saying these things that requires you to make quote marks with your fingers and he bobs the half-arm every time he makes the quote marks with the fingers on his good arm (via hand, of course).

But he calls the half arm “the asset” now coz he uses it to get, as he puts it, “More pussy than a toilet seat.” Mmmmmmm....oh wait, I mean, Ewwwwwwwww!

Ha! Best line yet in summing up the way guys think and how they view women: “My leaving is not a confirmation of your fears. It isn’t. It is because of them.” The best part is, these guys could only be so Zen out of blithe cluelessness—never consciously.

Josh Charles! This movie has a TON of random actors! John Krasinksi! Timothy Hutton! (my god, “Ordinary People” seems SO long ago now!), Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella, Will Arnett!

Ding ding ding! The dumped woman has “the” epiphany about men: “Cowards! You’re all cowards!”

Oh wow – a surprisingly powerful biographical/auto-biographical spoken word/poetry exchange between a late-middle-aged Black guy and his “Hotel Bathroom Negro” father. Pretty socko ending from the son.

Wow, What’s-his-face-from-Dawson’s-Creek (or a guy that looks just like him—oh wait, maybe it’s the guy from “Across the Universe”) just blew my mind!

It’s amazing how genuinely shocked so many women are when they “finally” discover that men are pigs. I mean, Duh!

Oh yeah, the book the movie was based on was written by David Foster Wallace!

I like how they tell at the END why she was interviewing them.

Dang. I was hoping for bonus features with deleted scenes/”interviews.”

While the Grade A Trainwreck undoubtedly helped, I highly recommend this movie for anyone in the mood to laugh at men AND women—straight ones, that is—and how they still don’t "get" each other although they all act the same way, on some level, based, obviously, almost entirely, on their sex.

Duh.