the audience applauded

A different way of telling a story

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

By all accounts, most reviewers liked this film. I did not find the male characters likable. I did not find the story likable. I did not find the production likable. I did find this film a total waste of time.

The Puffy Chair (2005) The Duplass Brothers: Always quirkily funny, Low-budget but real. An insightful road trip with People I feel like I know. Tanka (tan-kah) poems are unrhymed short poems that are five lines long, with the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable format.#Tanka #PoemReview

After reading a lot of hype, I finally got around to watching the Duplass Brothers' The Puffy Chair. It would be easy to dismiss this movie as, yet another indy DV feature, but it isn't for one simple reason: it doesn't suck.The movie opens with a scene that establishes cracks in the foundation of a shaky relationship between Josh (Mark Duplass) and Emily (Kathryn Aselton). When Josh's beloved band breaks up he tries to salvage things with Emily by inviting her on a road trip to retrieve a puffy chair bought off of eBay. The problem is, Josh doesn't love her but he's too much of a "guy" to do anything about it...other than coast (one of many signs is his annoying habit of calling her "Dude"). By the journey's end, Josh is forced to man up, but in many ways (as the opening scene foreshadows) his and Emily's fate has already been decided.TPC's strength is in its simplicity - simply put, it is a road movie about a break-up. The story is presented in a straightforward way, but it does so with surprising honesty and depth. The script is peppered with realistic and funny moments and the actors effortlessly pull off everything asked of them. Anyone with any life experience has been through a messy breakup and the Duplass' do a great job at getting across how difficult it can be to read the writing on the wall.Nothing about the way TPC was put together is going to give film students hard ons. The camera work is amateur and overall there is no attempt to hide the budgetary restraints. But, unlike so many failed DV features before it, TPC works because the story is as believable as it is ably written, directed and acted.http://eattheblinds.blogspot.com/

it's a beautiful thing to see over-privileged d-bags making it in film. If you can make it, the ending is a huge payoff - emily drops the MEGA-TON on Dupl-Ass! although, it would have made more sense to do what she did at the beginning when she threw all of Dupl-Ass's plates on the floor.Additionally, i found some critical shortcomings in Chair's attempt at realism.....1. chameleons certainly don't live wherever it was that they met up with the American taliban 2. first priority overnight upholstery is not as expensive as people think. 3. people are normally killed in motel parking lot recliner fires but this dude escaped with only a broken arm (unfortunately) 4. in the end, his parents didn't even seem like the sort of people who would want that kind of chair 5. there was a writing credit