March 20, 2011
— Ace Paul. I'll give it two stars -- not worth seeing in theaters and only barely worth renting.
They always say you should review the movie they actually made, rather than postulating a different movie they could have made in your own head and comparing it to that. There's probably something to that advice, but I can't help it: I could not watch this movie without thinking UR DOING IT WRONG almost the whole time. I kept thinking that almost every major choice they made was wrong and a different, more obvious choice was much, much closer to right.
Maybe that's unfair -- but I can't help but thinking there was a much better movie here that never made it on to film.
First up, given that this is a conservative blog -- if you're a Christian who doesn't believe in evolution, observe the warning that in this film's 100 minutes running time a good 10 minutes are spent on making fun of those who don't believe in evolution and the Christian worldview generally.
Even if you get past that (I could, mostly, though I was sitting there wondering, 'What is so much of this one off-message joke doing in an ET/Close Encounters parody?"), the rest of the film just isn't very good, and I say that as a fan of the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost collaborations. Because I like those guys, I don't really want to pan them. But this movie just isn't very good at all.
I didn't think the movie had much promise from the trailer, which isn't all that funny, and seems to be going for cuteness more than comedy. I didn't like that the trailer seemed to dwell on the film's One Big Joke -- wouldn't it be funny if an extraterrestrial had Seth Rogan's voice and stoner personality?" Well, it might be funny for a ten minute SNL sketch, but for a 100 minute movie? What else you got?
Well, not much, which is what I'd feared.
As the film opened I actually grew more optimistic. It starts with Pegg & Frost as a pair of sci-fi geeks (shocking, I know) getting their nerd on at Comic-Con in San Diego, and it's always fun to see geeks just enjoying their geekiness.
Pegg's a comic-book type illustrator, Frost is a sci-fi novelist. That seems a little reversed to me, as I'd expect Pegg to play the more-centered, more normal writer and Frost the wildman, kind-of crazy illustrator, but they seem to want to play slightly against type.
I don't know if that was a good choice. Nick Frost had a strong personality in Shaun of the Dead, the juvenile, dopey, thunder-farting pub-crawling miscreant; he didn't want to play that One Typecast Role again, I guess, which is fair enough, but so here he instead plays... a kind of normal, centered likable-but-not-really-remarkable-or-interesting guy.
Meanwhile Pegg plays... well, he also plays the normal, centered, likable-but-not-really-remarkable-or-interesting guy.
This is a mistake, I think, right from the jump, because road movies are usually notable for the tension between the main characters more than tension between them and external forces. (Or its the external forces that cook up the tension between the main characters, which is the real payoff.) Lost in America -- that wonderful sequence of Julie Haggerty losing the "nest-egg." Planes, Trains, & Automobiles and its inferior but still watchable ripoff Due Date -- obviously there we had two characters in strong opposition.
Hell, even Road Trip understood this.
Instead, here, we have two basically average and psychologically stable (read: boring) mates who like and respect each other. Not exactly a scenario bubbling with comedic agitation.
Maybe they thought they didn't need that, because they had an alien who was going to intrude and provide all that bubbly, manic tension... but it turns out not so much, because the alien ("Paul"), while sort of annoying (I got tired of Seth Rogan's voice three minutes in), is also sort of... centered and likable and not particularly interesting. Or vexing to Pegg & Frost.
Basically he's kind of an extraterrestrial riff on "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski, offering half-baked hippy wisdom and calmness. He's not notably mischievous, selfish, sex-obsessed, thieving, deceiving, or any of the other classic character traits that would make for good bicker-and-argue type road comedy.
Anyway, at the hotel room back at Comic-Con, the friendly, likable, get-along-just-fine-thank-you friends lay out their plan: They've rented an RV and plan to drive the "Extraterrestrial Highway" through the American Southwest, hitting all the central places of alien-visitation lore: "The Black Mailbox," Area 51, Roswell. (No, I didn't know what "The Black Mailbox" was either, and it wasn't really explained in the movie, but here you go.)
When I first saw the trailer, I thought that basic plot outline was kind of dumb and lame. But as I watched the movie, I sort of got interested in it -- what a fun, kitschy, silly sort of road trip. I got interested in the friends' travels, and thought about the cool plot they could develop around it: a great opportunity to have the alien explain the real story behind the alien mythology (and of course the real story would be more ludicrous and convoluted than even the UFO speculations we're familiar with).
No such luck. They actually depart completely from their scheduled itinerary after only seeing the Black Mailbox; after that they pick up Paul, the alien, who insists they drive due north instead, where he's arranged a pick-up from other aliens. From there it's a series of stops at trailer-parks and desert-country dive bars you never heard of (exception: there is a payoff at the end.)
There are two related, minor stabs at attempting an alien counter-mythology, and while neither is bad or anything, neither is exactly riveting or novel.
As they make their way due north, well away from the promise of Roswell and Area 51, they're pursued by three Men In Black types working for an unnamed agency -- Jason Bateman, a professional, smart, diligent and menacing corporate-looking operative, who clashes with the duo assigned to work under him, Bill Hader and Jo LoTruglio (from The State, Role Models), who are incompetent, childish idiots who like trying to drop Cop Action Movie Tough-Guy lines and engage in games designed for babies when they're bored. These three are actually fairly funny -- funnier than the trio of heroes -- but they're not on screen all that much and, while funny, aren't so funny they save the movie.
I guess it should be noted from those three that when you invest a trio of characters with comedic flaws and stupidities and tensions between them, you have the makings of comedy. I don't know why this basic insight wasn't extended to the heroes.
As the heroes travel, they pick up Kristin Wiig, a fundamentalist Christian woman with one eye. She's convinced that there can't be aliens because God only made one world, and she wears a t-shirt depicting Jesus putting a gun to Darwin's head and blowing a bullet through it. She therefore thinks the sweet, tender, annoying Paul is a demon.
This would be something like the comedic tension I keep talking about, but it last for five minutes, because Paul gets sick of arguing with her and does a Spock mind-meld sort of memory transfer and fills her with all of his knowledge and experience. So he carries around a magic I Win the Argument button. Maybe it's supposed to recall Woody Allen's pulling out Rod McCuen Marshall McLuhan to win an argument in Annie Hall. I don't know.
From that point on, Wiig realizes there is no God and therefore no sin and decides to live a sinful, pot-smoking, fornicating life. The major comedy premise they push here is that she wants to curse -- having spent her whole life not cursing -- but isn't good at it yet due to lack of experience, so she keeps stuffing clumsy mix-metaphor curses into virtually everything she says, no matter how mundane.
Funny? Well, I think they hit this joke (estimated) about 20 times. Maybe three of these were funny; the rest were greeted by me with the psychic command "Let's move into some new territory here, huh, guys?"
If you were looking for some hilarious cameos from Jane Lynch, David Koechner, and __________ (I leave that blank, because a pair of cameos weren't shown in the trailer), prepare for disappointment; Lynch is only on screen as a waitress for literally five minutes and has about ten lines, six of which are just about the guys ordering food from her. She has one actual scripted joke (which isn't funny). They don't do anything with Koechner, or the other big on-sceen cameo.
My last complaint is about Paul, namely everything about him. In terms of visual design, he's a Disneyesque CGI confection of creature cuteness, constantly batting the lashes over his huge blue doe-eyes (with side-swiping nicitating membrane, a design element lifted straight from Men in Black), which would work well for a movie aimed at children, but this one is R-rated for drugs and language, so why is this alien so kid-friendly Happy Meal cute? I really think that the movie would have been funnier if Paul's main characteristics weren't "sweet, wise, and lovable" but "a mischievous scoundrel and a selfish dick," and the character design should match that.
Most alien-visitor movies posit that their ETs have some strong innate, Christ-like magical abilities. (Oh, it's "science" so it's not magic, it's psychic something or other.) This movie follows that tradition, giving Paul the powers of invisibility, memory transfer, and of course healing and resurrection. (No spoiler there -- you see it in the trailer. He brings a bird back to life.)
This is of the general motif of seriously-intended alien-visitor movies where the visitor is clearly a Christ analogue; but does it make much sense in a send-up? Wouldn't it make more sense, comedically, if Paul had no powers and indeed was a screw-up? (In fairness, that last point is touched but rather too lightly, I think. He's much closer to the Christ-analogue ET than Zaphod Beeblebrox.)
Finally, and I already mentioned this, but Seth Rogan's voice was just unwelcome here. I'm not a Rogan-hater, but the man is over-exposed as it is, and there's just so many times I can take the standard-issue bearishly-sweet rumbly stoner voice from Rogan. Rogan is not really a natural actor -- he doesn't have some Big Presence that lights up the screen, but rather makes himself into an actor through force of will and some smart low-key choices in his career.
I really think Paul needed, in order to work, a much Bigger Voice, something more absurdly incongruous, like, I don't know, Russel Brand or somebody. (I only think of him because the Arthur remake's trailer screened before this.)
Or Jonah Hill, if you're going with a Superbad choice. (The director here directed Superbad.) Jonah Hill might have worked better.
Or, seriously -- Charlie Sheen. Someone who, as they say, walks on to the stage with their character already in place.
Or... anyone. I think the missing ingredient here is just that someone has to bring the chaos for this sort of movie to work. If everyone brings order and peace, well... order and peace is a lovely place to live but I wouldn't want to see a movie about it.
It may be funny that an alien is a chill hippie who smokes cigarettes and pot and drinks for about ten minutes, and not really any longer than that. But that, and Wiig's inept attempts at cursing, are the major go-to jokes here, thrown in when they've got nothing else, and they generally do have nothing else, because they just didn't stack up a bunch of potential comedy plot points early on to exploit them later. The trip they're on is a rambling, shambling improvised make-it-up-as-we-go affair, and damn if the script isn't too.
Pegg's and Frost's usual partner in crime is writer-director Edgar Wright, absent here, who just recently did Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World without Pegg or Frost, which I also thought was pretty useless. These three need to reunite and make another big crowd-pleasing splash; they can't live forever off the substantial geek-goodwill of Shaun of the Dead.
Oh: There is another cameo I forgot that works better (but still not great; no cameo is going to save a movie). And they do get a few chuckles from borrowing famous lines from sci-fi moves, putting them into a different context, so they work as lines in the moment but also reference the movies they come from.
That's cute, but there are like eight such lines, and they're more smiles than laughs.
Oh: Road movies usually have decent Radio Hit soundtracks. This one does. It has, if I remember right, several 70s rock songs I liked hearing again, one by the James Gang, and a great one by Marvin Gaye.
Not really like inspired choices, but listenable.
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At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 09:48 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at March 20, 2011 09:53 AM (G8NKv)
Posted by: laceyMcunderalls at March 20, 2011 09:53 AM (0FHKI)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 01:48 PM (M9Ie6)
Battle: Los Angeles.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 09:55 AM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 09:56 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 09:57 AM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2011 09:57 AM (4ZxEW)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 01:48 PM (M9Ie6)
District 9
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at March 20, 2011 09:58 AM (eCAn3)
Posted by: AE at March 20, 2011 09:58 AM (YYjeh)
Taken, Drag Me to Hell, (will probably concur with Battle: Los Angeles).
Overall, Hollyweird films are teh suck, but there are the rare exceptions.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 20, 2011 10:00 AM (9hSKh)
Okay, the last third of District 9 is great, when we finally got past the preaching and onto the capabilities of the alien weaponry.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 20, 2011 10:01 AM (9hSKh)
Hell, how about Wilford Brimley as "Paul."
"You got the Diabeetus. I can mind meld with Liberty Medical and Medicare simultaneously to get you your supplies for free."
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 20, 2011 10:01 AM (0IPsJ)
Posted by: Seth Rogan at March 20, 2011 10:03 AM (YVZlY)
Come to think of it. Maybe I don't really like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost so much as I just think Shaun of the Dead was genius. I can't say I've really loved anything else either have done. Liked, but not loved.
As to Seth Rogen. I liked the funny Seth-Rogen-voices-an-alien idea the first time. When it was done in Monsters vs Aliens. Two years ago. And a blob monster is funnier than a generic grey alien.
That was just a dumb casting decision. Monsters and Aliens has been all over cable for the last year. It's a funny joke. Alien with funny Rogen stoner voice, but it's been done. And you don't need to pay $12.50 at theater, you can watch it for free on cable.
That'd be like, two years after Robin Williams voiced a wacky, manic genie in Aladdin, you cast him as a wacky, manic ... magical ghost. The joke has already been done.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 10:06 AM (QcFbt)
I don't get it: Pegg & Frost used to be note-perfect. Shaun of the Dead was great in the way it used the fantastic element (zombies) to comment on the lives of the protagonists (indistinguishable from zombies).
A movie about aliens, with two Englishmen touring America, just frickin' writes itself! The Englishmen are alienated, they're contemptuous and/or bemused by the landscape they're driving through, and then they meet a real alien and discover just how universal human nature really is.
There, I wrote a fucking movie.
The point is, professional movie-writer-guys should be able to do better than I did in a blog post comment.
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 20, 2011 10:06 AM (wMOnz)
That would actually be a funny movie. But given Hollywood, the bad guys would be Republicans cutting off his Medicare.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 20, 2011 10:06 AM (cd11S)
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Posted by: rdbrewer at March 20, 2011 10:12 AM (ZcjZ+)
Maybe it was just me, but I thought the preaching in D9 was kinda refreshing.
It was such a nice change from the usual "Evil White Man Corporate Types oppress Noble Brown Primitive Types." Nope, those primitives were just as greedy for the weapons, loved that.
Posted by: nightwitch at March 20, 2011 10:13 AM (SbaLN)
You guys ever notice Russel Brand could walk onto a Star Trek set and play a Klingon without stopping by makeup? Or wardrobe?
I find this offensive to my peoples.
Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip at March 20, 2011 10:13 AM (uwQO9)
My kids and I saw it a few weeks ago and are still quoting the movie.
Very quick, funny, sweet, good lesson teaching, movie.
Posted by: momma at March 20, 2011 10:18 AM (penCf)
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Posted by: ace at March 20, 2011 10:27 AM (nj1bB)
Posted by: dagny at March 20, 2011 10:28 AM (nTVp/)
I liked District 9 enough to want to see District 10. Chances are they will do the sequel and it will really suck. I don't care. I suffered through so much star wars crap that a District 10 couldn't be that bad.
Posted by: sTevo at March 20, 2011 10:29 AM (VMcEw)
He looks like he has the musty stench of a pile of dirty laundry that's been liberally doused with Patchouli.
Posted by: nightwitch at March 20, 2011 10:33 AM (SbaLN)
Who could possibly thought of this, aside from the writers of My Favorite Martian, ALF, and American Dad.
Actually, it sounds like this movie would have been way better with Roger, the Paul-Lynde channeling alien from American Dad, in the title role.
Posted by: DelD at March 20, 2011 10:36 AM (oAZ1S)
rdbrewer - lol on the russell brand snark.
Posted by: journolist at March 20, 2011 10:38 AM (iHfo1)
If they're reduced to an alien version of Kangaroo Jack, even Pegg & Frost aren't going to make it good material. And anything with a CGI character is pretty much going to push it that way.
Posted by: nickless at March 20, 2011 10:38 AM (MMC8r)
And I think Rogen has lost what little slack I'd cut him too.
Posted by: Iblis at March 20, 2011 10:38 AM (9221z)
"This next band asked me to read this. We've seen a lot of faces, and we've kicked those faces asses. So prepare to get your faces asses kicked. Ladies and gentlemen, Tenacious D"
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 10:40 AM (QcFbt)
We just saw a long trailer for it and it certainly looked interesting. But...the NY Times liked it, so it has a long, steep hill to climb in my book.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 20, 2011 10:41 AM (LH6ir)
I think they made the villains mad slashers in order to make it more similar, in one way, to the horror spoof Shaun of the Dead. I think that was an attempt to get the old audience that resulted in a movie that really wasn't about what it should have been about (spoof-wise).
I think it was their attempt to combine two genres, Agatha Christie-type mystery with silly action spoof.
Posted by: nightwitch at March 20, 2011 10:41 AM (SbaLN)
NCC - I was just going to ask you all about Lincoln Lawyer. It's supposedly getting good reviews.
I may go see it this afternoon.
CDR M, what say you on this flick?
Posted by: journolist at March 20, 2011 10:42 AM (iHfo1)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 10:42 AM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Rodney C. Johnson at March 20, 2011 10:42 AM (G/Eku)
"This next band asked me to read this. We've seen a lot of faces, and we've kicked those faces asses. So prepare to get your faces asses kicked. Ladies and gentlemen, Tenacious D"
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 02:40 PM (QcFbt)
Jack Black is good in doses. I liked him in Tropic Thunder. He's good when the movie does not rely on his comedy to carry it.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 10:44 AM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 02:40 PM (QcFbt)
The 'D' is a great show. If you get a chance to see them live, you should take it.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2011 10:44 AM (uwQO9)
He must have tuned down his meds again.
Posted by: mpfs, Go Aztecs! at March 20, 2011 10:45 AM (3TjSM)
the old HBO Tenacious D skit show, not the horribly bad movie they made 10 years later.
Agreed, I did enjoy that. And his role in whatever that Vietnam war movie spoof who's name escapes me right now and I'm too lazy to google.
Posted by: nightwitch at March 20, 2011 10:45 AM (SbaLN)
may be you should tune in TCM once and a while instead of wasting $ at the theater.
A classic is on now, The Lavender Hill Mob with Alec Guinness.
Posted by: mpfs, Go Aztecs! at March 20, 2011 10:47 AM (3TjSM)
Also, why didn't you go see "Battle Los Angeles?" It's awesome, and not because it's made lefties wet themselves (although that is a pleasure). It's awesome because it's...well...awesome.
Posted by: Kensington at March 20, 2011 10:48 AM (mEyVv)
Way to be timely, Ace. I've been saying Paul sucked for years.
Posted by: Yoko Ono at March 20, 2011 10:50 AM (nF4Jh)
How about David Spade as the voice of Paul? He probably would have come up better lines than what was in the script.
Posted by: Quicksilver Madness at March 20, 2011 10:50 AM (Txmu4)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2011 02:47 PM (4ZxEW)
None of those sound all that appealing to me.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 10:50 AM (oVQFe)
Posted by: WINNING! at March 20, 2011 10:51 AM (nEa/y)
Watched Nanny McPhee Returns which I liked and thought was just as good as the original. Then watched the first Harry Potter movie cause grandson had never seen it.
And of course the last one which any time daughter and I get together we have to watch is Flash Gordon with the Queen soundtrack. Wifey was gone to bridge club and we cranked it up just below clipping.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 10:52 AM (M9Ie6)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 01:48 PM (M9Ie6)
Yup. "Ip Man"
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/ip-man/trailer
Story of Bruce Lee's real life teacher and his survival of Chinese occupation during WWII. Excellent movie.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 10:52 AM (x3YFz)
Get off your knees and be a man, I used to tell him.
Posted by: Linda McCartney at March 20, 2011 10:54 AM (mEyVv)
Jack Black has played the same character for 15 years now. He's like an old Vaudeville guy. Cocky, delusional, scruffy slacker fat guy. Which has been done. But his twist is he's cocky, scruffy loser fat guy -- who sings really well and has actual musical talent.
In conclusion, with Karate I'll kick your ass. From here to Tiennamen Square. Oh, yeah, mothefucka.
Also, Inspirado.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 10:55 AM (QcFbt)
I found it odd that they had commercials for Paul on Cartoon Network during the kids programming since the movie is rated R. I mean, kids love alien stuff and it looks like a funny alien movie so the kids want to see it, but of course they can't. Why market it that way? It's dumb.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at March 20, 2011 10:56 AM (RZ8pf)
But I've found most of the Pegg/Frost/Wright solo projects to lack a lot. Wright's direction suits the humor, and winds up making a lot more of all of the contributions.
Posted by: nickless at March 20, 2011 10:56 AM (MMC8r)
I found it odd that they had commercials for Paul on Cartoon Network during the kids programming since the movie is rated R. I mean, kids love alien stuff and it looks like a funny alien movie so the kids want to see it, but of course they can't. Why market it that way? It's dumb.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at March 20, 2011 02:56 PM (RZ8pf)
Because stoners also watch cartoon network during the day.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 10:57 AM (oVQFe)
oh yeah, I forgot the unemployed stoners living in their mom's basement demographic. Which is probably the primary audience for the movie anyway.
It's just that, like Ace said, the alien is kind of cute looking and if you couple that with ads on a cartoon network, it makes kids think it is a movie for them. And it's not.
Of course Cartoon Network is slowly moving away from being a network appropriate for kids at any time during the day. They used to have a line of demarcation at a certain time of night, but not so much anymore.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at March 20, 2011 11:00 AM (RZ8pf)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 01:48 PM (M9Ie6)
Yup. "Ip Man"
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/ip-man/trailer
Story of Bruce Lee's real life teacher and his survival of Chinese occupation during WWII. Excellent movie.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 02:52 PM (x3YFz)
That would be "Japanese" occupation. My bad.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 11:01 AM (x3YFz)
Ace, Hot Fuzz couldn't involve drug dealers and let them do the satire on quaint little English villages that really tied the movie together. Scarface-on-Avon would be kind of a hard sell, no?
Posted by: nickless at March 20, 2011 11:01 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2011 11:05 AM (4ZxEW)
And the remake also gives him the important last line about "Beauty" killing the beast! Beauty didn't kill him, you asshole, you did by dragging him away from his home and planting him in the middle of Manhattan!
Posted by: Kensington at March 20, 2011 11:06 AM (mEyVv)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 20, 2011 11:09 AM (4ZxEW)
Yeah nickless, it is weird that Jack Black has become so involved with kids shows. He did a guest role on iCarly, he hosts the Nickolodeon kids choice awards every year, and he's been on the Disney channel too.
I am just going to go with the belief that its because he is about the same age mentally as little kids and not ascribe any creepy pedophileness to him. He strikes me as more the type that would rather hump the Disney characters in costume (like Donald Duck) than the little human Disney stars.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at March 20, 2011 11:09 AM (RZ8pf)
And the star, Donnie Yen, is an American, though he was born in Hong Kong. I think he grew up in Boston.
Now he's a bona-fide star in Asia, but I wonder how many more martial arts flicks he can do. He's in his mid to late 40s already. Part of his schtick, prior to his Ip Man fame, was he incorporated more MMA moves into his on-screen fighting style in his various Hong Kong gangster action films.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 11:09 AM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 20, 2011 11:11 AM (NITzp)
Ace...seriously??? I think you have the godddamned best movie reviews out there.
So you do have screenwriting experience, don't you? I like the insider insights.
Shaun of the Dead was cheekily awesome. Lot's more understated humor there than the typical Hollywood production.
I mentioned before that I thought Episodes on Showtime was funny as hell. The premise of the show is that one of the Big Three networks decides to take a British comedy series and produce it here (The Office, anyone?). The show is about the "transmutations" the network puts it through to make it more acceptable here, and the "culture clashes" the imported Brit creators/writers experience.
...and like I said..Matt LeBlanc is great in it (who knew?)
I can't explain it any more without giving too much away, so you're going to have to find a friend who has Showtime on demand to check it out.
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 11:14 AM (AnTyA)
Because stoners also watch cartoon network during the day.
Posted by: buzzion
That's a very insightful and revealing comment. Is there anything you would like to add to your testimony? 
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 20, 2011 11:14 AM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 20, 2011 11:15 AM (NITzp)
Saw Kick-Ass from Netflix last night. Thought it was great. Hit Girl was awesome. And the ending rocked.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 20, 2011 03:11 PM (NITzp)
Kick Ass was a pretty good movie. Very entertaining.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 11:15 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 20, 2011 11:17 AM (NITzp)
I thought Simon Pegg was pretty good in that movie about the guy who runs a marathon to try to get his wife back.
Hank Azaria can turn in some pretty good character performances.
The movie was cute..not great.
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 11:19 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 11:19 AM (QcFbt)
That's a very insightful and revealing comment. Is there anything you would like to add to your testimony?
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 20, 2011 03:14 PM (sJTmU)
Yes. I'd rather be in a bar where I am the only person not smoking, than outside around one person smoking pot. That shit smells horrible
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 11:22 AM (oVQFe)
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 20, 2011 11:23 AM (gJNMj)
Posted by: plaidunicorn at March 20, 2011 11:23 AM (Hy+/8)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 20, 2011 11:24 AM (NITzp)
Posted by: al at March 20, 2011 11:26 AM (4nxhP)
Posted by: USA at March 20, 2011 11:27 AM (YZISw)
Colonel Gaddafi has recommended the armed forces call an immediate ceasefire,shortly after anti-aircraft fire was seen in the sky over Tripoli.
Video of gov't. spokesman reading the announcement in English at link.
http://tinyurl.com/4aemv6l
Posted by: Tami at March 20, 2011 11:33 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: nickless at March 20, 2011 11:33 AM (MMC8r)
If Ace ever starts complaining that a movie like Paul sagged cause it lacked a 2nd act pinch point then we'll know he's blowing his entire life savings on $5,000 weekend screenwriting seminars.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 11:34 AM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Anachronda at March 20, 2011 11:36 AM (6fER6)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 20, 2011 11:37 AM (SfIsP)
I'd be sad, but that would be awesome.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 20, 2011 11:38 AM (SfIsP)
Ceasefire = we need time to reload.
Or he's content to control most of the Libya now, wait until we leave, and then take over the de-facto rebel capital later.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 20, 2011 11:43 AM (9hSKh)
I assume the day after Ace makes his first million dollar spec script sale we'll get a flaming skill with dollar signs in its eyes saying, "So long morons."
It'll have characters like The Chicken, Paul Anka, Johnny Coldcuts, Charlie Gibson, Honey Badger, Brian Denehy, Jeff Goldblum...just to name a few
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 11:45 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Anachronda at March 20, 2011 11:46 AM (6fER6)
we'll get a flaming skill with dollar signs in its eyes saying, "So long morons."
It'd be like the ending of that fomulaic piece of crap movie written by MATT DAMON and Ben Affleck, the name of which is escaping me now
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 11:47 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Sunday Soothslasher at March 20, 2011 11:49 AM (1nSAM)
Posted by: bob loblaw at March 20, 2011 11:49 AM (vPYFi)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at March 20, 2011 12:07 PM (qvify)
Your cultural tastes are adolescent.
Posted by: leonard maltin at March 20, 2011 12:14 PM (JaL+E)
Posted by: Delta Smelt at March 20, 2011 12:15 PM (dWPyO)
Posted by: I keeed, I keeed at March 20, 2011 12:22 PM (QcFbt)
This happened today to make that point.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 20, 2011 12:25 PM (/wCSE)
And a cute, talking alien named "Sockpuppet" that imitates famous people and trolls to mock leftist pretensions.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 20, 2011 12:32 PM (/wCSE)
What I think this means is of the same dimension as "willing suspension of disbelief." That is, you give them the starting point. It doesn't mean you can't condemn execution--including subsequent choices.
So you don't, for example, say "Why does Dorothy have to go to Oz? Wouldn't the movie be better if she stayed the whole time in Kansas? Auntie Em is a really interesting character, and you already have the Kansas equivalent of Dorothy's three sidekicks in the hired hands. It just seems redundant to reproduce everyone like the Witch and Wizard when they're perfectly good Kansas versions of them too. Set the whole thing in Kansas, and just have it be about Miss Gulch trying to have Toto killed."
It's okay, though, to say "It was pretty stupid how the witch got killed.A villain who's always throwing fire on everyone ought to expect some water might eventually splash on her. She also shouldn't have buckets of the stuff setting around her castle where any rebellious soldiers could take a break from Oh-ee-oh-ing and do her in."
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 20, 2011 12:32 PM (KktlX)
I thought Rogan was misscast, and not sure what voice would have been better, except for maybe a real voice over artist like Harry Sheer. I think w/o that, it he should have been voiced by a nobody, or some geek hero so at the end only they would go "Ah, I KNEW I heard that voice before!" while watching the credits.
I rolled my eyes when they started the christian bashing, but when she wouldn't listen to them, I thought, heh, she sounds like a liberal!
I also thought the Men in Black duo were idiotic. I can't stand that kind of humor, especially in supposably menicing roles. (maily talking about the hide and seek, not so much about the cop movies)
All in all, not a bad film, but not the film that could have been, (and I think Ace lets that filter thru his review
)I thought it was better than Hot Fuzz, as I didn't think Pegg fit into his character there, and it certainly was no Shawn, well, neither was...Anyway, long time lurker, occasionally vocal when I disagree with Ace, or when im on the VuR... I occasionally help make low budget films (our next one is a comedy in fact) and I fully plan on pimping projects when they release..
Films for Morons, By Moron..(S?)
Later!
Posted by: JarvisW at March 20, 2011 12:35 PM (8yPsP)
Well, our comedy does.. Our subplots involve a pair of young white kids (ones possibly from Degrassi High) who decide to become famous by joining Jihad from the clues they get from a pamphlet ("How to Jihad") and youtube. Think "Pretty Fly for a white guy" wannabes.
Anyway, I'll post more once we get funding finalized.
Posted by: JarvisW at March 20, 2011 12:41 PM (8yPsP)
If haven't felt as non-stop tense during a movie since Saving Pvt. Ryan.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2011 12:46 PM (UOM48)
The sitcom that is being referenced in 'Episodes' is primarily 'Coupling.' Huge hit in the UK but the US version was killed after three episodes were show, although ten were produced. The US version can be found in torrents and is interesting to compare to the original to see how they got it wrong. The show is actually pretty decent and the failings more subtle than one might expect. The biggest problem was that the producers didn't understand the characters and made some ill-conceived changes or just didn't see what the original was trying to portray. Compared to the truly wretched attempts to bring Red Dwarf to the US, this was a decent try.
Anyway, Coupling was the product of a husband and wife team, as in 'Episodes' and largely based on their own lives. Steven Moffat runs Dr. Who these days, which should come as no surprise to any Coupling fan.
Posted by: epobirs at March 20, 2011 12:49 PM (cSH12)
I enjoyed Star Trek. I hadn't been to a movie in a theater in quite a while (probably not since the late 90s), but a friend dragged us to Star Trek and I enjoyed it. I would see it again.
Posted by: Y-not hasn't read the thread at March 20, 2011 12:54 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: curious at March 20, 2011 12:55 PM (k1rwm)
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 12:56 PM (M9Ie6)
But I tend to be overly influenced by a good sound track, which I think IM had. Hence my love of the first Conan. And Grosse Pointe Blank. And the Fifth Element.
Posted by: Y-not hasn't read the thread at March 20, 2011 12:59 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 20, 2011 01:00 PM (wMOnz)
Posted by: Sunday Soothslasher at March 20, 2011 01:00 PM (1nSAM)
Most of these CG animated movies turn out to be pretty good, sometimes great, and at least reasonably entertaining.
Posted by: I keeed, I keeed at March 20, 2011 01:02 PM (QcFbt)
“The President is the commander-in-chief, but the Administration has a responsibility to define for the American people, the Congress, and our troops what the mission in Libya is, better explain what America’s role is in achieving that mission, and make clear how it will be accomplished. Before any further military commitments are made, the Administration must do a better job of communicating to the American people and to Congress about our mission in Libya and how it will be achieved.”
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 01:02 PM (UO6+e)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 20, 2011 01:04 PM (c0A3e)
But going past one of the local theaters today and watching the very sparse crowd headed into the movie theater on a Sunday (Utah, baby!) I'm thinking we can give it a go. Of course the ticket prices will probably make me faint.
Posted by: Y-not has skimmed most of the comments at March 20, 2011 01:04 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: CAC at March 20, 2011 01:06 PM (lV4Fs)
Posted by: "Raging" Boehner at March 20, 2011 01:08 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Mohammed al Bigboypants at March 20, 2011 01:11 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 01:11 PM (UO6+e)
Posted by: Y-not hasn't read the thread at March 20, 2011 04:59 PM (pW2o
Those were a couple I saw just before I gave up on Hollywood. Good flicks!
I'm not a sci-fi fan at all but The Fifth Element was pretty badass because it was long on viusal effects and blowin' shit up and short on the philosophical aspect of aliens meeting humans and the repercussions that follow. That's just fucking annoying to me and mostly why I hate sci-fi.
Grosse Pointe Blank was cool for the soundtrack because I grew up in the 80's and remember the music well. And Dan Ackroyd as an assassin cracked me up.
Posted by: ErikW at March 20, 2011 01:13 PM (lEJgQ)
Y-not, you'll enjoy it. Plus, it's great exercise for the glutes. I kept my butt clinched the whole time. And the actors who portrayed the young Marines reminded me of my son and his friends, the way they banter back and forth.
Today was the first time in probably three years I've set foot in a theatre.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 20, 2011 01:13 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 01:14 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Xoxotl at March 20, 2011 01:15 PM (CbVPH)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 20, 2011 01:17 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 04:56 PM (M9Ie6)
Star Trek is good. The lens flares can be a bit annoying though. Loved that they included the Red Shirt death in the movie though.
Posted by: buzzion at March 20, 2011 01:18 PM (oVQFe)
Agreed, i thought it was great too.
Posted by: booger at March 20, 2011 01:20 PM (9RFH1)
I love Brian Blessed. He was great in Blackadder and in all of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean adaptions.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 01:21 PM (UO6+e)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic
Hurt Locker
Posted by: Speller at March 20, 2011 01:22 PM (J74Py)
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 01:22 PM (8ay4x)
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2011 01:27 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: wtp at March 20, 2011 01:28 PM (4RFKN)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic
Hurt Locker
Posted by: Speller at March 20, 2011 05:22 PM (J74Py)
Was ok, and I like all the actors. But when they cowboyed up and ran after the suicide bomber the bullshit flag went up so fast it broke the flagpole.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 01:29 PM (x3YFz)
Grosse Pointe Blank was cool for the soundtrack because I grew up in the 80's and remember the music well.
Yeah, fantastic soundtrack there. Good film, too.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 20, 2011 01:32 PM (zgZzy)
"You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not."
-John Lennon
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 05:21 PM (8ay4x)
That's cuz he's dead.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 01:32 PM (x3YFz)
Another good, and extremely low budget, scifi flick was Primer in 2004. That will make your head hurt. Imagine if a couple of young engineers in a faceless silicon valley office park invent a real, honest to god time machine. Primer is all plot, but it's a fun, dizzying plot. The acting ranges from adequate to bad. There are zero special fx. The same guy wrote, directed and acted in it. And it's the only movie he ever made.
Moon has a talented actor and a talented director. Primer has neither, but it has a fun, puzzling plot. It's pretty much a movie for geeky dudes who did logic puzzles for fun as a kid. Which rules out most people, and like 99% of women. It's like a FUBU movie -- except for engineers.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 01:34 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 01:35 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2011 01:35 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 01:36 PM (8ay4x)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 05:34 PM (QcFbt)
I offer you: Battlefield Earth!!ONE11!
Posted by: John Travolta at March 20, 2011 01:36 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Cincinnatus at March 20, 2011 01:37 PM (JbLIn)
Posted by: ace at March 20, 2011 01:38 PM (nj1bB)
Hurt Locker
Posted by: Speller at March 20, 2011 05:22 PM (J74Py)
I didn't like Hurt Locker.
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 05:36 PM (M9Ie6)
Most unbelievable scene (and yet the best scene) of hurt locker was the "ok the SAS guys are dead, we'll take the .50 and clean it up cuz WE'RE EOD MOTHERFUCKERS!"
Yeah.
Posted by: John Travolta at March 20, 2011 01:38 PM (x3YFz)
That's cuz he's dead.
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 05:32 PM (x3YFz)
\The funniest shit sometimes is just flat, deadpan thruth-iism
..well done..I really did LOL
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 01:39 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 01:39 PM (8ay4x)
I don't know about your rating system but any movie I can sit all the way through without either being beat up or off by the guy next to me or being escorted from the movie theater in handcuffs is FOUR stars.
Or, before you butter some guy's popcorn.
Posted by: Pee Wee's Arresting Officer at March 20, 2011 01:40 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: WINNING! at March 20, 2011 01:41 PM (nEa/y)
192 "Yeah, low budget scifi tends to be a very guy genre.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 05:34 PM (QcFbt)"
TITANIC!
Posted by: The Guy Who Likes Kate Winslet's Cans at March 20, 2011 01:42 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Vic at March 20, 2011 05:39 PM (M9Ie6)
I'd forgotten about that... was an exceptional movie. Need more Denzel... has he made a crappy movie?
Hell, I've watched Man on Fire, John Q, Book of Eli more than I've watched most movies.
Posted by: John Travolta at March 20, 2011 01:42 PM (x3YFz)
A classic Tomato in the Mirror bit -- to quote from TVTropes.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 01:43 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 01:44 PM (pW2o8)
A low budget movie that I really enjoyed was 2009's Moon
I've never even heard of it. I'll have to check RedBox down to the Piggly Wiggly to see if'n they have it
..the wife's away so I can actually pick a movie to watch
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 01:45 PM (AnTyA)
I hate to go off-topic with our host here, but I was wondering if anyone here has tried Nature's Domain Grain-Free Salmon Meal & Sweet Potato Dog Food for their pooch.
Can't believe this chick isn't feeding me filet mignon every night.
Posted by: Y-Not's Dog at March 20, 2011 01:45 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 05:39 PM (8ay4x)
Interesting. We watched it because we're big Steve Carell fans, but thought it fell short. Carell was great, but it could have been funnier. It was ok, and we were mildly entertained, but you'll get more out of him from The Office than you will that movie.
Posted by: John Travolta at March 20, 2011 01:45 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at March 20, 2011 01:46 PM (zgZzy)
192 "Yeah, low budget scifi tends to be a very guy genre.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 05:34 PM (QcFbt)"
TITANIC!
Posted by: The Guy Who Likes Kate Winslet's Cans at March 20, 2011 05:42 PM (zgZzy)
um. sure!
Posted by: The Guy Who Thinks the Only Part of Kate Winslet Worth Liking is her Boobs at March 20, 2011 01:47 PM (x3YFz)
I thought Crimson Tide sucked.
He was also pretty bad in Much Ado About Nothing, although it wasn't so obvious because Keeanu is such a lousy actor.
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 01:47 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 01:48 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 20, 2011 01:49 PM (zgZzy)
I hate to go off-topic with our host here, but I was wondering if anyone here has tried Nature's Domain Grain-Free Salmon Meal & Sweet Potato Dog Food for their pooch.
Yeah. It's a little gritty, but it will help you make regular stools.
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 01:49 PM (8ay4x)
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 05:44 PM (pW2o
My dog, Gonzo the Ridiculous, gets Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul..(honest to Christ..that's what it's called)
I have no goddamned idea what's in it...the wife buys it. Gonzo got a shit load of pepperoni while watching bassaball with me last night..
...she crapped like hell this morning
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 01:49 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 05:44 PM (pW2o
< Y - The Costco stuff I'd stay away from... even their supposed Nature's Grain stuff. We bought some and did some research and decided to stop buying it for our lab. I don't mean to put down Costco. The pricing is tempting but it doesn't, in our opinion, always square with the advertised quality.
Posted by: journolist at March 20, 2011 01:50 PM (iHfo1)
Great! I'm make sure to send your wife the recipe.
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 01:50 PM (pW2o8)
At least this one is not a sequel or a repop.
Posted by: Vic
The
King's Speech. It will never be a top 250 [of all time] movie but it
had a good script and an excellent cast. Director Tom Hooper also did some great research, though he admittedly took a few liberties where Chamberlain, Churchill, and formalities were concerned*. Overall, though, it's a good film and an adult one at that.
*King George VI would never have called Lionel Logue "Lionel"; he would/did always say "Logue" or "Mr. Logue". Logue also would have been more formal in addressing the King.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 20, 2011 01:51 PM (UO6+e)
I saw Dinner for Schmucks last night. It's nothing like the trailers would have you believe. Far more intelligent than it looked. And it was so funny that I had to stop the movie several times so I could recover my laugh
Really?? I fell asleep watching it
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 01:51 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Truman North at March 20, 2011 01:52 PM (8ay4x)
She's got a pretty sensitive system, but the formulation looks really similar to Pinnacle. I'll keep digging into the manufacturer.
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 01:54 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 01:54 PM (QcFbt)
Thanks for the review. I'll download the movie for free in a couple of weeks and check your work.
The Dirtbombs gave Marvin's song a nice, dirty Detroit rubdown a few years ago: http://tinyurl.com/4ozuzht
Posted by: garycooper at March 20, 2011 01:56 PM (beegY)
I enjoy most of Denzel's movies.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 05:54 PM
He was great in Training Day..but even better, IHMO, in Man on Fire
...he, along with Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins (even though he accidentally killed my sister's dog), and Jeff Bridges are my faves right now
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 02:00 PM (AnTyA)
I thought Crimson Tide sucked.
He was also pretty bad in Much Ado About Nothing, although it wasn't so obvious because Keeanu is such a lousy actor.
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 05:47 PM (pW2o
I thought Crimson Tide was great. /shrug
ROLL TIDE!
Posted by: tangonine at March 20, 2011 02:05 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 20, 2011 02:08 PM (QcFbt)
OK. We need the story on that one, I think.
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 02:08 PM (pW2o8)
Virtuosity is fucking awful.
And I wouldn't watch John Q or The Manchurian Candidate unless you offered me a night with Mila Kunis as compensation.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 20, 2011 02:12 PM (SfIsP)
so, what would you say are the top 10 movies from, say, the past 10 years that I should see?
Posted by: chemjeff at March 20, 2011 02:19 PM (GaLxs)
Posted by: UGAdawg at March 20, 2011 02:21 PM (/VjHB)
Anything with Sarah Palin in it is awesome!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 20, 2011 02:31 PM (LH6ir)
OK, back on the dog food. The boss round here just told me we took our lab off Costco because he "needed" to go on to a special diet.
Now I find out we're buying food at at high end dog specialty store.
Great. Now I'm not only paying 34% in taxes out here in CA but my dog is eating better than me.
I at least drink better, heh. Check mate.
Posted by: journolist at March 20, 2011 02:37 PM (iHfo1)
Posted by: Brevity at March 20, 2011 02:40 PM (xs5wK)
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 06:08 PM (pW2o
Sister in LA didn't even realize the dog was missing. Doorbell rang and Hopkins was there. He told her to come to his car. Her Lab was in the trunk.
He had run over it
Posted by: beedubya at March 20, 2011 02:41 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Corporations at March 20, 2011 02:44 PM (6fER6)
I feel for you, especially after having just escaped California. The stuff we get our collie is about $2/lb and is hard to find. The version I can get at Costco is half that... still more than regular dog food, but so much better. It really looks similar so unless I find a problem with the manufacturer, I'm going to give it a go.
Incidentally, our tax guy is almost done with the mess that is our taxes this year. The CA bill is the biggest of the three (Fed, CA, UT), natch.
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 02:44 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Y-not at March 20, 2011 06:45 PM (pW2o
Nah.it wasn't his fault. I think it was cool of him to do what he did instead of waiting for someone from whoeverdoes that stuff to shovel the dog up and toss it in the back for some truck, though
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Posted by: ParisParamus at March 20, 2011 06:10 PM (bgSjf)
Yes the movie sucked. Both leads were boring and not funny. Screenplay which they wrote was high-schoolish and poorly delivered. SNL "actors" were also boring and not funny. Justin Bateman miscast. Just nothing going on with this movie. A big dud basically. Also............
Seth Rogan as the voice.......Sucked Big Time. SO tired of "stars" as animated voices.
Slamming Christians and the Bible.........Double Sucked
Only positive was music by Jeff Lynne (ELO).
Save your money and see Limitless and Lincoln Lawyer. Both excellent flicks.
Posted by: VinylMan at March 20, 2011 06:47 PM (qRxfv)
Posted by: ParisParamus at March 20, 2011 06:57 PM (bgSjf)
These two guys are better than humor that cheap and easy, or at least they used to be.
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