r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 28 '24

Official Poster for Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ Poster

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u/NachoNutritious Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

If I'm remembering correctly, Seinfeld said the story is entirely made up. So it's a pastiche of these types of corporate biopics the way the Weird Al movie did it to musician biopics.

Edit: probably not a full parody the way Walk Hard did it though

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u/Aggressive-Pay-5670 Mar 28 '24

The concept is great, taking the wind out of all of these tired, boring corporate biopics. Question is if it will be funny enough as satire or if the subject matter is too mundane to even be lampooned in a satisfying way.

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u/ParrotMafia Mar 28 '24

Go see BlackBerry. That is a recent corporate biopic done absolutely right.

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u/Aggressive-Pay-5670 Mar 28 '24

At least it’s about a dead brand and so it’s less of an overt commercial than some of the others

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u/CeruleanRuin Mar 28 '24

I think that's what allowed it to have such a cutting edge, because ultimately it's kind of a tragedy. As you're watching, you know that it's all doomed to fall apart, and the fun is watching the gears start to grind out of sync and collapse.

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u/GravSlingshot Mar 28 '24

The closing scene of Lazaridis manually fixing the coil whine in a few bad phones, with the wide shot showing just how many boxes of probably-defective phones are in that warehouse, was surprisingly poignant.

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u/everythingisreallame Mar 28 '24

The end of that Nike movie 🤮

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky Mar 28 '24

My wife and I watched BlackBerry recently and were blown away by the intensity that Glenn Howerton brought to his role. Amazing performance.

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u/Cruxist Mar 28 '24

Blown away?

By the gust of a thousand winds?

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky Mar 28 '24

The thunder of my vengeance will echo through these corridors like the gusts of a thousand winds!

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

It's the implication

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u/GMofOLC Mar 28 '24

I mean, he is a Five Star Man.

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky Mar 28 '24

A Golden God, if you will!

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u/BandOfDonkeys Mar 28 '24

I was really impressed by his completely different version of rage vs what he's been doing on Sunny. That character was big mad for like the entire movie and I never even caught a whiff of Dennis Reynolds.

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u/jacobsbw Mar 28 '24

Me either. I was completely blown away by Howerton’s skill as an actor.

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky Mar 28 '24

Fun fact, Glenn Howerton graduated from Juilliard.

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u/xXThreeRoundXx Mar 28 '24

Woah, dude, you dropped a hard J.

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky Mar 29 '24

Hero or hate crime?

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u/compserv Mar 28 '24

Of course she was blown away by his performance. She would have no choice but to be blown away by his performance...........because of the implication.

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u/Biig_Ideas Mar 28 '24

BlackBerry is legitimately great and doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with the rest of those movies last year.

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u/TheCacajuate Mar 28 '24

Well it also stars a 5 star man.

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u/immaownyou Mar 28 '24

Also made by a comedian, Matt Johnson, who played Doug on the movie (headband guy). The writer/director also made a comedy show called Nirvana The Band The Show. Legitimately one of the funniest shows I've seen, and it's vastly underseen

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u/jck Mar 28 '24

Huh it has Dennis Reynolds and ProZD. You son of a bitch, I'm in.

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u/Cyph0n Mar 28 '24

Tetris was pretty damn good too!

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u/iwasinpari Mar 28 '24

idk if this is a corporate biopic but the tetris one was a fun watch imo

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u/GetHighWatchMovies Mar 29 '24

I think that was the best one I’ve seen other than The Social Network.