If there is no other movie left you have never seen, then maybe it's worth a watch.

The critic/user rating discrepancy suggests that the former saw this mumblecore relationship drama (the sheen of irony that tinges the dialogue doesn’t qualify this movie as a dramedy) as realistic and subtle whereas the latter saw it as meandering, vague, and unsatisfying. I side with the users on this one. The ending isn’t so much anticlimactic as it is lacking any resolution whatsoever.

It is sooo lame! I should have expected it, everything Olivia Wilde touches sucks so much.

classic mumblecore unlikeable character bull

2 co workers work at a beer factory in Chicago They hang out with two other people outside socializing and enjoying time at the bar Yet complications ensue as well as romantic encounters Anna Kendrick and Olivia Wilde are the only stand outs of the picture It's kinda hard to find these people likable The film is okay overall but director Joe Swanberg has some good actors

happened across this while watching 온라인카지노추천 with my wife and we said "oh look at that great cast". short little vignettes that kinda kept you interested waiting for something to eventually come to a head...and it doesnt, it just ends abruptly like a hard reset button. I actually cant explain why I kept watching--tbh prob because nothing else was on...this ranks as one of THE worst movies I have ever seen.

i couldn't finish it; it was SO boring. slow & monotonous, lacking substance. despite a pretty stacked cast, it just wasn't entertaining.

My only theory for why this movie scores so low with the audience is that it suffers from the same problem as The Break-Up. It's too real. Admittedly, it is too real. It's, also, really good.

Very slow moving. The acting was good and they did the best they could with a weak script. Wouldn't recommend.

The plot was too simple I almost got drunk while watching

What was the point of this movie? Nothing but a cringe fest

Unwatchable mumbling

Drinking Buddies is a wonderful example of a hidden gem that people are still discovering. I describe it as a gem because it is hard to call this a "movie", at least in the traditional sense of the word. When we typically think of a movie, we think of a plot with a beginning, middle, and end; characters that we (hopefully) build a relationship with; some quality writing (again, hopefully) to move the story along; and good directing that lets us explore the world. Drinking Buddies has two of those things in spades: excellent characters and good directing. They sacrifice a conventional plot and writing, but not in a way that seems unintelligent. On the contrary, this is done deliberately to give us one of the best character studies I've personally seen in a comedy. To start with character work, all of the actors were allowed to improvise their dialogue, and the result is an incredibly genuine movie that I think anyone can enjoy. Jake Johnson and Olivia Wilde give great performances as two flirtatious friends that care for their significant others, but are obviously a better match for each other. We watch this dynamic play out for an hour and a half, building tension and expectation, and right as we reach the resolution phase of a typical movie structure, it ends. This is the sticking point for many viewers, where they feel robbed of the "expected" outcome. We, just like Johnson and Wilde, want what is easy and familiar. But Drinking Buddies is not a normal movie, and dismissing the entire experience based on not getting the ending you wanted is unfair in my opinion. These characters are funny, grounded and above all else, real, and I loved watching them interact. As for directing, Drinking Buddies places you in the world of the characters better than many films I've seen. Joe Swanberg incorporates background noise and lots of moving camera shots to make you feel as though you were standing in the room, watching two friends struggle to move a couch. This method of filmmaking help to create the most important element in an adult romantic comedy: sexual tension. We, as an audience, feel as though we're next to these characters and just want to reach out and shake them until they admit their feelings. Because that's what we expect, for the characters to end up together. But, like I said at the start, this is a hidden gem, and only seeking to meet expectations would have removed a lot of its shine.

The stars are for the actors who must've been blackmailed into doing this movie. This cast is incredible, but wasted on such a horrible script and dialogue. What exactly was the plot? Throughout the entire movie I kept waiting for something, anything to happen. It doesn't. Such a bummer of a movie filled with so much talent. The critics are idiots.

This movie was bad. I kept waiting for something to happen and it was just two people getting smashed while everyone around them lives their life. Terrible, bad, and should have been better. How did this get green lighted?!

Irresistibly amusing, attention-sucking and funny. The leads and direction are really strong here.

A movie about a woman - Olivia Wilde - who's basically just a functioning alcoholic.

Spoilers: This takes off on the old saw: Men and women can't be friends (either they become lovers or go kaput). And also, there are hazards of just living together (the house is built on sand, not rock, if, indeed, marriage is rock). The premise is interesting, co-workers at a brewery with food and party service, men and a woman, are buddies in and after work, with truly funny dialog, kibitzing, laughing it up at work, a bar and in houses. The fundament is that Olivia and boyfriend Ron are friends of Jake and girlfriend Anna. Olivia is the fun-loving worker everyone likes, as she likes them all. While Jake is the same, he and Olivia are on the same wavelength, more than the others, it seems, also eating lunch together regularly and cracking up each other. When the two couples spend a weekend in a cabin by the beach, who's with whom gets shook up a bit, and the relationships both seem to be headed for rough water and maybe the rocks. Are Olivia and Jake just friends or more? Jake with ball cap and beard has Anna, who at first seems quiet and a little mousey, if funny, but shows us later that women are not just determined, but also so magnetic that they are the ones with the power, despite the bluster and testosterone of males. The flaw of this piece is that with a face like Olivia's -- truly one of the most attractive in film history in my book -- she seems to be somewhat at loose ends, somewhat unconfident, as when Ron ends the relationship and she later begs him to come back to her. You'd think the slobbering male masses would be lined up outside her door pounding away, and one of her co-workers actually was. But this piece is modern, accepting the idea that a woman is way more than how she looks, is very deep and complicated, and like Olivia here, despite her cloying bid to get back with boyfriend, finally makes it clear that she now likes her freedom, power, decision-making and ability to sleep with whomever, more than some need to glom onto some guy romantically. Despite the rough relationship spots, this had a funny and soft, considerate, civilized, polite feel in young people who liked to keep everything light and enjoyed one another (I bet some was ad-libbed). An example was that once Olivia and Jake figured out that they really shouldn't be together after a defining fight, they patched up things at lunch at work without a word in a funny way, making clear their relationship was still good despite rough spots, and though Anna and Jake had patched up their relationship. Nobody had marriage or kids yet, so a whole other adult undertaking was in the future -- or not. Olivia is a standout movie gem, in front of or behind the camera.

Sometimes you want a happy ending in a movie, sometimes you want a little ambiguity, and other times you want to feel miserable. Drinking Buddies does a little of all of this. There were parts of this movie I couldn't physically watch having been in friendships like Luke and Kate's before. They are the most painful and self-toxic relationships to engage in but I think we all tend to get into them at one point or another. This is all to say the flirty yet platonic relationship on display here feels authentic for better and for worse. As a beer person, the brewery setting was fun and relatable. This is a good movie with good acting that doesn't try to be more than it is.

This is like half a movie. It had a lot of promise but nothing really happened...the entire climax of the movie is missing.