Friendship

This fuckin shit was wild, and hilarious. It's a dark comedy, reminiscent of Cable Guy, or a more cynical 2020s version of I Love You, Man. Like, if that movie took place in a time when everyone's brains have been fucking melted and nobody knows how to be normal or interact with other people anymore. Films always reflect the anxieties of the times, ya know? I guess every decade gets to have it's sad depressing comedies about men having no friends and feeling like weird outcasts.

It stars Tim Robinson, and shockingly wasn't written by him. The comedy is very much in line with his sketches on I Think You Should Leave. This guy is remarkably gifted at portraying a very specific kind of weird, anxious awkwardness. This movie takes full advantage of that weirdness by having an almost horror tone. It presents it as unsettling, which comes back around and makes it even funnier. Or something.

All i know is that there's a lot of crazy shit in this film. Like, if you think the new Marvel is supposed to be nuts, you don't know shit. This movie is nuts. It also gave me some of the biggest, fattest, heartiest guffaws I've had in a theater in probably a hundred years.

I found Tim Robinson's character very sympathetic and loveable despite being an absolute nightmare freak of a human being. Unlike the Cable Guy, who is pretty much full psycho from the moment you meet him, Robinson is able to play this dude with a real vulnerability. He's just a sad, lonely, awkward, friendless fuck who doesn't quite understand the rules, and isn't smart enough to figure them out.

I can relate to his sense of alienation while at the same time relating to Paul Rudd's character who can't help being a magnet for the weirdest fucking person on Earth and just wants to be left in peace. This is a real man's movie, like the kind women can't be expected to understand. Many times in our stupid lives, most of us have been both of these guys.