March 21, 2020 – They Came Together (2014) HBO
We wanted to watch a comedy to escape from our painful new reality. It turns out there aren’t many comedies that we haven’t seen that are worth seeing. We settled on this very silly take-off on romantic comedies, directed by David Wain and featuring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, and a ton of great actors. Wain’s very silly sense of humor is an acquired taste. I liked this movie better than Wendey, but neither of us loved it. It is hard to believe The Came Together and Force Majeure — two movies of such varying intention and quality — came out the same year (the first time these two movies have ever been mentioned in the same sentence).