Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz
R | 25 May 2012 (USA)
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Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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sashaovek

First, the technical problems with this stinker: The sound is so poor that you can't understand the actors half the time. The colorist decided to turn the saturation up to 11 so that the entire film looks like it was put through a Photoshop filter from 1999. Finally the story is about children trapped in adult bodies who do the equivalent of fart jokes as their only means of communication. I guess they are transchildren.The Canadian content is stuffed down every opening of the human head non-stop. First we get tourism, then we get the Beaches in Toronto, then we get a bunch of Toronto only Canadian bands throughout, Leonard Cohen is thrown in to class up the joint, and in the final alcoholic crisis scene we are forced to listen to Burton Cummings on the car radio.The threadbare story is a woman that is bored with her life and latches on to the first good looking sarcastic pauper she finds. Only this pauper (a rickshaw driver) has oodles of money and lives in Toronto's toniest areas and can afford about $15,000 a month in rent.It is so boring that you'll probably decide to mop the floor or clean the toilet while its playing. But your patience will be rewarded. At the end there is one of the most unintentionally hilarious sex scenes to ever hit the silver screen. Our amoral heroine who emotes constantly from every pore finally bags her Adonis (with her cuck of a husband's permission) and as the camera whirls around their lovemaking it gets funnier and funnier. At first its the Kama Sutra 101 then with each circle more people join in, threesomes with girls, threesomes with guys.... I fully expected a goat and some chickens to join in the fun. This is a chick film that was left in the nuclear reactor and came out mangled and unable to walk or talk.The author's message is clear. Men should just get out of the way while women explore their sexual fantasies while they laugh and cry A lot.This is truly Mystery Science Theatre 3000 material.

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danismatt

Where do I begin... I don't want to waste my time on this movie so I'll try and keep things short: Don't see this movie. The main cast is more than capable of pulling off a good performance so I'm not sure why they were so horrible in this. Seth Rogan's performance was OK I guess but literally everyone in this movie was so awkward and flat it was actually pretty astounding. Almost everything in this movie was cliché to the point where you know exactly what's about to happen even when at a few points you're not entirely sure because of how awkward the characters are being to the point where you can't help but feel "What the f*ck is going on right now?". I've wasted enough time on this movie, I'm not going to waste any more time fixing that run on sentence. It's corny as all h*ll, there are more than a handful of cringy moments. There's one nude scene where you can tell the director just put it there to check off some feminist checklist (and I have absolutely NOTHING wrong with feminism, I do however have something wrong scenes so forced I can't help but feel the need to cement up my *sshole). I would only watch this movie if you have some sort of fetish to not finish a movie. I have NO idea how this movie got so many good reviews. Perhapse they're from fans of the director? I've never seen any of the director's other work, but I've heard she's very good. This movie IS NOT an example of this.

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lorne_a_20014

After watching this film, I felt physically sick. It's the kind of film where the only satisfying ending would be the main character being hit by a bus.The film resolves around Margot, an impossible to please head-case who seems the result of watching too much daytime female-oriented TV (except in the film, she's not doing this). In a nut shell, one day, seemingly out of nowhere, a greasy stranger flashes her with his smile and she decides to leave her 5 year marriage and run off with him instead. This is why a lot of men are turning off marriage. You can be 5, 10 years in and one day, your wife just takes up and can't stand to look at you anymore. You don't have to do anything wrong, but the courts will help her crush you anyway.You cannot just "be" seduced. You have to be open to it. You usually have a million chances to stop it. And it's clear Margot understands wrong, and feels bad about doing wrong - but like so many women, she does them anyway. There's a selfish compulsion there.All the men in this film are losers, cucked by women to the extreme. Lou, obviously - a perfectly good husband who looks after his wife, does most of the cooking, plays a typical Rogen "good natured douchebag" but she seems to enjoy it most of the time. The alcoholic Geraldine's husband who is way too good for her but nevertheless tolerates her ugly personality and drinking. And yes, this even goes for the greasy hipster who sweeps the main character off her feet. Think about it for a moment. There are plenty of other women he can get, with his brooding, aloof fake artist act - but instead we're to believe he pines and waits around for someone who should already be off the market. In reality, he'd only do this to convince himself he was an alpha - then leave the after about a week to chase the next tail. He "loves" her? After talking to her for what, an hour total? Cucked loser.Yes, in reality more and more seemingly sensible women are throwing away good relationships for some flashy layabout who captures their attention for 10 minutes with their smarmy good looks. That part at least is realistic. What is not realistic is these guys sticking around for longer than 5 minutes. Sure, it's hinted at that he loses interest in her after more and more depraved and risky sex acts, but ultimately the film still ends with her with him - albeit in the same "rut" she began in.I've read some saying that the film is about Margot learning to be happy alone. If that were true, she wouldn't be so clingy and needy and then go leave her husband because some guy with blue eyes showed her a little attention. And she wouldn't be about to burst into tears at the end after laughing. She also doesn't have any "mental disorder" that I can see - she's just a selfish loser who has been over-programmed with expectations and thus can't be happy for more than 10 minutes without a mood swing.If they wanted to make a film to assuage your average woman's guilt about cheating or wanting to cheat, they should have just done that. The fact she's conflicted, but does it anyway, doesn't redeem the film in any way. It just makes you feel violated.

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bjarias

At first when I watched this film I thought it too slow. Since then, after watching it again, and thinking more on it, it's now become a favorite film. Each time I see Michelle Williams on screen, I gain more respect for her, and realize just how great an actor she is. Enthralled by her outrageously outstanding performance in 'Incendiary' made me come back to TTW again. She is hands down one of the finest performers of her generation. And IMHO this movie shows the wide range of Seth Rogen's talent, he should do many more films like it. One reviewer wrote of the film.. "Lou was willing to go through the trenches because he's sharing his life with Margot.. while she's just an activity for Daniel." Definitely watch it, and if you've already seen it... watch it again.

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