Really wonderful movie. Smart sci-fi with metaphors, parables and satires about our modern life but which is, at it's heart, just a simple story about the human condition. Spike Jonze displays his mastery here. Joaquin Phoenix paints such a human picture in his portrayal, easily drawing the viewer in and gently guiding them through the picture. One of my favorites of the year.

not even close to a vonnegut: http://www.biography.com/imported/images…

Not sure how your comment is even relevant @3 since this movie wasn't trying to be a Vonnegut....

Paul said that Phoenix had a "Vonnegut-like mustache". That's how the comment 3 is relevant.

Only the most cynical viewers will fight how like Vonnegut the mustache is.

One photograph does not a moustache make.

Though that one is a little more 'Walter White' the more I look at it...

@5 I mustache you to please focus on the film

mustache is only there to cover the hairlip

I was concerned that the ideas to be discussed would get destroyed by poor storytelling.
The social debates about cellphones in restaurants were quaint. There have been excuses for the intrusion of technology into the public sphere, often that some-body was on the other end of that unknowingly interruptive telephone call. The consuming of time on social media (as if there is a different kind) is often moderated by who and when you are socializing with.

Remove the somebody, and the questions come back to who we are.

I look forward to seeing it.

I got burned by this retelling of Pygmalion when it was titled "S1m0ne", so maybe I'll skip this one.

Hilariously, the Times called this a "rom-com" which it is not. It has humor, oddly high-waisted, high-water pants for men, and people who write letters for other people get paid a lot and live in great apartments.

There were some moments of greatness (and Joaquim can't turn a bad performance if he tried) but it just didn't hang together for me until the very end.

"can't turn a bad performance if he tried"

the ghost of johnny cash would like to have a word with you.

#5 I have a brother in law with a mustache like that one and every time I see him I want to take my bic lighter to it.

i love his hairlip.

This is probably the best film of the year, and that's saying something. Interesting that Paul thought the blind date sequence with Olivia Wilde was it's weak spot. The only thing I'd have changed was the casting of Rooney Mara as the ex-wife. Part of the story is that Theodore and his ex are the same age and have supposedly grown up together. Mara could pass for Phoenix's daughter.

"Her" is what you would call cinematic alchemy: making something from nothing. An extremely slight, whimsical story about (spoiler alert!! << 2 exclamation points) an operating system that grows up and leaves her high school boy friend at home. Perfectly realized as a big-budget Hollywood vehicle (high powered commercial cast, global location shooting, meticulous digital integration of all the elements) this movie is a glimpse of the future. Make of that what you will. I found it soporific in parts but couldn't help admire, upon reflection, the conceptual magic that made it seem real.

I was reluctantly expecting a rom-com but was so totally delighted when the sci-fi elements turned the story into something smart. Loved it. But hated his mustache.