Greenberg is so utterly unlikeable, vapid, and unredeemable, I didn't finish the movie. Time I'll never get back.

Ben Stiller made it to whole different level. I loved it.

You can see the how the calm and minimal movie it is from the poster. Life is very simple and this movie can illustrated.

The pompous letters of complaint the main character writes to everyone, from Starbucks to a pet taxi company, are amusing. So I kept hoping to feel a growing affection for Greenberg, but ultimately there wasn't a shred of anything to like about his thoroughly unpleasant personality. Nothing made me remotely care what happened to him. Yes I know LA people are a certain way. In which there can be humor. But it gets old quick. At the end I wished I'd checked out after 20 minutes when I first had the urge.

Tag line: A movie about nothing that makes fun of LA people.

Indy Stillmeister. Not bad. It's your typical indie movie with no real plot just a bunch of people with problems communicating to one another. It's ok. The 'Greenberg' character is interesting and his relationship with Florence drives the film, but it is a little boring. It's watchable though. Rating: 6.5/10

Rubbish, do not recommend.

Ben Stiller actually does a great job in this one. Noah Baumbach has such an unusual way of making people's ordinary lives and dynamics interesting. This is no different. Stiller plays the quirky New York brother of an upper middle class LA man. Stiller, fresh from a mental hospital, housesits while his brother is in Vietnam on vacation. He becomes involved with Florence, played by Greta Gerwig, who is his brother's assistant. She is also unusual in her attraction to this odd, relatively unkind man, but she is really, really likable in this. It is, like all Baumbach's movies a look at relationships and people. Stiller is horrible and great in this all at the same time.

Spend 2 hours with a despicable, nihilistic narcissist and watch him be awful to everyone around himself. There is nobody to like in this film. It is a very accurate portrayal of a malignant narcissist underachiever. But that does not make for a good film. Perhaps a director could also do a very accurate portrayal of someone who is cruel to animals. Would you want to watch it? We watched it a little more than halfway through and decided to end the pain by shutting it off.

In this effort from director Noah Baumbach, Ben Stiller plays Roger Greenberg, a repugnant narcissist and nihilist who continually dwells on his messy past, refusing to learn from his errors or take any form of responsibility for what went wrong. It's understandable that many would have a justifiably negative reaction to the film simply due to the fact that the protagonist has no apparent redeeming values. However, Baumbach's witty script keeps things interesting as the audience waits patiently for Greenberg to either have some sort of epiphany regarding his shortcomings or just jump off a bridge and Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig are great in supporting roles.

I really like everybody involved with this movie, but for some reason this is a total dud. I hated the characters, hated the writing, hated every moment of the experience. I have no idea why I sat through it to the end. When I finished, I literally threw away the DVD. Again, I'm usually a big fan of Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, and Noah Baumbach. Tropic Thunder? Incredible. Little Women? Top rate. Meyerowitz Stories & Marriage Story? *So* good. And yet somehow, through some malicious cosmic force, the three of them made this movie. I would rather have fire ants crawl up my urethra while my pets were murdered in front of me then have to sit through this movie again.

I bet a lot people would not like this flick, but to me it shows how even then Greta was already Great-a... she is for sure the strong part of the movie, in this dysfunctional attempt of a relationship of people who have a hard time giving and accepting love, with an ending that reflects how the movie relies on the audience capacity to understand how the characters feel, pretty good.

Horribly boring watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. This is just a lot of nothing happening. Part of the movie is literally just a guy house-sitting, there are literally multiple scenes of characters just being bored. Alternatively it's scenes of a guy having moments of lucidity surrounded by extreme self destruction that doesn't lead anywhere story wise. Unless this is someone's exercise therapy in getting out a experience they had getting sober, I don't really know for whom this movie is made.

Enjoyable dramatic role from Stiller.

Romantic pairing appealed charismatically with one challenged by obstacles to the self and the other finding agreeable acceptance while on a friendly basis. Not quite far from the genre's ordinariness in romantic pairs with true art avoiding the branch's sappy parts either by subtle ambiguity or/and silent spark of mutual rejuvenated affection. The truly distinctive definition of the love and spiced drama is the energetically devoted performances of the cast and how well they work off of each other with charm and occasional rounded relations. Stiller and Gerwig helped bolster what this little packaged film is all about. (B)

For me it was Gerwig's odd but endearing performance that made the film work. A bit slow but rewarding.

It's a portrayal of mental illness and how broken people can feel.

Pretentious. Try hardy. LA centric.

It’s a hard to watch when you don’t like the lead character. Ben Stiller does good job playing Roger Greenberg. Roger can be described as self-absorbed, narcissistic and selfish twit. I hoped by the end of the movie he’d get it, but...let’s just say I just gave up. I really liked Greta Gerwig, who played a character who has issues of her own. There’s a scene where Roger met up with old girlfriend (maybe?) played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. It’s very painful to watch as a guy who’s trying spark a romance with an old flame, who wants nothing to do with him. I thought Miss Leigh and Mark Duplassis were wasted in this movie. The best way to describe this movie is a hot mess. I will say I was entertained, but came away frustrated. I’m not sure what the hell director Noah Baumbach was trying to say.

I felt terrible watching this film as I related to the main character so much as he was constantly inconsiderate and unable to let go of his own neuroses. That is Noah Baumbach's great talent as he, like Woody Allen before him, writes films from the perspective of difficult, often unlikable people who we can't help but feel for even as they treat those around them awfully. I was expecting to like this film because I love The Squid and the Whale (2005) and I really enjoyed Frances Ha (2012) but I can't help but feel ever so slightly disappointed as the film has it's moments but drags for long periods of time. Seeing Greta Gerwig and Ben Stiller together is delightful as they show that they have both comedic and dramatic talents and that's definitely the reason to watch this film. Roger Greenberg, Ben Stiller, is staying at the home of his wealthy brother for six weeks as his brother and his family holiday in Vietnam having recently suffered a nervous breakdown. He begins a sexual relationship with the family's personal assistant Florence Marr, Greta Gerwig, which doesn't progress further due to his fear of commitment and criticism of her. He struggles to reconcile who he is with what he wanted to be when he was an aspiring rock star in his youth and his reconciliation with ex band mate Ivan Schrank, Rhys Ifans, is strained due to conflict over a record deal when they were young. He eventually decides to make a compassionate decision when he chooses to help an ailing Florence instead of impulsively pursuing his own selfish needs. We see Greenberg being positively insufferable as he assumes that those who barely know him are interested in his criticisms of American Airlines and the music at Starbucks amongst other frustrating behaviors but we can identify some of his awfulness in ourselves. We can see those around him realize what a loser he is five minutes before he does and it is saddening but it also feels eerily similar to moments in our own lives. His desire to look back instead of living in the present and insistence that he listens to Duran Duran ironically all add to the sense that this a man in arrested development. Although I am much younger than him I worry and highly suspect that I will end up like him at that age without having the success he had when he was young. His relationship with Florence is depressing as we see an older, immature man take advantage of a young, bright woman with low self confidence who doesn't see how brilliant she is. It eventually dawns on her that he is a loser not deserving of her affection or tireless support but like most abusers when she eventually stops tending to his every need he decides he wants her back and cryptically tries to tell her that he is sorry. It was a relief to watch this cycle end but we still worry about Florence as it seems like she could fall prey to another version of Greenberg if she doesn't keep her wits about her. I felt happy that these two would part because I wanted to see her find someone who could appreciate her and him learn something from this failed relationship and adjust his approach to romancing women. This relationship felt realistic though, as much of the film does, which made it melancholy but worth watching. I would call Ben Stiller's performance as Greenberg one of the best of 2010 as he completely inhabits his character as he feels like he isn't really playing a part. He appears to have no self awareness but no fear of appearing like an inconsiderate asshole and although he incorporates elements of Woody Allen and other comedic performers into his performance it feels original enough to be authentic. He should have won Best Actor over Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010) in my opinion but he was unlikely to be rewarded for a film like this. This is a film that I would definitely recommend because I like this type of film and this is a good example of the genre but it's not one of Baumbach's best films.