The other day I somehow stumbled on this video on youtube and I was surprised that Daniel Radcliffe and Adam Driver played friends in a movie! I was so intrigued that I watched the trailer and while it seemed a little by the books, it had a charm to it. It's streaming on Amazon Prime so I watched it that same night and I was very pleasantly surprised. The movie wasn't re-inventing the wheel or anything, but it was very funny, the cast had great chemistry, and it actually felt pretty fresh as far as romcoms go. But the aforementioned chemistry is what made it for me. Adam Driver and Radcliffe are a funny duo and really compliment each other (their heights made them an interesting duo visually too). And then Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan had a great rapport that really sells the movie. (Off topic, but while I've heard about Zoe Kazan and I'm very familiar with the stuff she's done, I've never actually seen her in a movie and she's awesome! I'm probably going to finally watch the Big Sick later this week).
I said this on my letterboxd review, but I have even more respect for Mr. Radcliffe because he might've had a career on the indie romcom route! He's an absolute natural at it! But instead, he's constantly challenged himself with other offbeat indie movies. Which is cool. But...I do think it would be cool to see him in more straight up comedies. I can see him knocking it out of the park in a sharply written comedic film. I don't know why Knives Out immediately comes to mind, but maybe something like that.
Anyhow, I was curious to see what everyone else thought of this.