Kyle Mooney taps into something that is 100% my jam. I was a college Freshman in 1999, so I honestly saw myself in the characters. I loved that it was filled with a more broad humor that all the high schoolers in my screening could get and laugh at. But it was the more specific 1999 jokes that I was the only one cackling at that made me feel like this film was made just for me. Just like Brigsby Bear, which I only discovered in 2020 and has become a ritual viewing for me at the end of every year. My last movie to help me rest, because it's just such a kind, loving movie that feels me with joy.
Funny enough I also just read your article on Saturday Morning All-Star Hits as I'm rewatching it again after seeing 'Y2K'. I'm happy that there's others out there like me who are very tied into what Mooney is doing.
Firstly, thank you for the signed Weird Al book! Glad to have purchased.
Secondly, yeah...
I love Kyle Mooney. Loved Saturday Morning All-Star hits, and everything else he's done. And I am also of this era, it reflects my youth in a way.
But this was not good... at all. For all his talents, Mooney is NOT a director, and this is remarkably poorly-edited and paced. Why did he want some of this to be sincere? You never care about the emotional stakes at all. And none of the jokes hit. This does not work, and that breaks my heart. It felt like Mooney kind of selling out and trying to do something more mainstream, but it's an idea for a twenty minute short, not a full movie.
Let's see if her turn as the fairest one of all in Disney's misguided-looking live action reboot of Snow White brings any kind of desire for these pointless legacy cash-ins to a grinding halt. Then we can put the final nail in the glass coffin of her career.
I just saw the trailer for the first time, and found my self impulsively yelling, "NO NO NO NO" once the dwarfs made their appearance.
Kyle Mooney taps into something that is 100% my jam. I was a college Freshman in 1999, so I honestly saw myself in the characters. I loved that it was filled with a more broad humor that all the high schoolers in my screening could get and laugh at. But it was the more specific 1999 jokes that I was the only one cackling at that made me feel like this film was made just for me. Just like Brigsby Bear, which I only discovered in 2020 and has become a ritual viewing for me at the end of every year. My last movie to help me rest, because it's just such a kind, loving movie that feels me with joy.
Funny enough I also just read your article on Saturday Morning All-Star Hits as I'm rewatching it again after seeing 'Y2K'. I'm happy that there's others out there like me who are very tied into what Mooney is doing.
Firstly, thank you for the signed Weird Al book! Glad to have purchased.
Secondly, yeah...
I love Kyle Mooney. Loved Saturday Morning All-Star hits, and everything else he's done. And I am also of this era, it reflects my youth in a way.
But this was not good... at all. For all his talents, Mooney is NOT a director, and this is remarkably poorly-edited and paced. Why did he want some of this to be sincere? You never care about the emotional stakes at all. And none of the jokes hit. This does not work, and that breaks my heart. It felt like Mooney kind of selling out and trying to do something more mainstream, but it's an idea for a twenty minute short, not a full movie.
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Kyle Mooney is one of those creatives whose work makes me go "F**k, I wish I'd done that." Except obviously I couldn't.
Anyway, hope this is playing at the local cineplex because the wife and I need a date night.
what’s the bigger flop, y2k or zeglers acting career?
Let's see if her turn as the fairest one of all in Disney's misguided-looking live action reboot of Snow White brings any kind of desire for these pointless legacy cash-ins to a grinding halt. Then we can put the final nail in the glass coffin of her career.
I just saw the trailer for the first time, and found my self impulsively yelling, "NO NO NO NO" once the dwarfs made their appearance.