thread for i love you man starring paul rudd jason segel rashida jones lou ferrigno

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That's discourse, not trolling. Some people have difficulties with that distinction.

kinda think threads about midsized popcorn lightweight comedies aren't really the place for high minded opinions tho.

cmon Mark, you know. Keaton Marxes Lubitsch Sturges & pre-decrepitude Woody. The last great Hollywood comedy was Eternal Sunshine.

midsized popcorn lightweight comedies

^^genre condescension ... surely you know these are accused of social significance regularly!

k but ur getting in here being all "its no fassbinder!" and i'm just being "no shit, but thanks for repeatedly calling me a retard for liking it"

Fassbinder was a joke, son.
(read that like Foghorn Leghorn)

see, cuz his films are unrelentingly grim.

yeah i have seen some thank u

I didn't doubt it! c'mon Plax, don't personalize. It's music I really hate.

<3

don't mind me, first trimester = mood swings + morning sickness

I love you, man

a fine bromance

"As for Rudd, his fashioning of a film career now monopolized by the persona of the least threatening bud in the man cave is as inglorious as his character's willingness to coo over Depp and Binoche in Chocolat with his bride-to-be."

why does morbius hate chocolat

u misspelled inglourious

haha

bcz I saw the Chocolat trailer. xp

how many marquees have gotten inglourious b-ds wrong? i kno mine did

rudds character could not be that socially awk and drippy and still land rashida jones and be a generally normal functioning dude but w/e

He's got $$

(saw this last night)

(thought the bro interest was going to be some kind of Diesel-wearing guy; was glad that he was more like Lebowski)

this movie was kind of pointless. the conflict in the story was so minute it looked like it was there just because it had to be.

As far as humor, it was funny as hell for the first half but when they hit the height of the story arc it fell off.

2.5 stars out of 4 at best. Though I LOLed when Jason Segel yelled "Shut YOUR FUCKHOLE!"

"1) there is basically 1 joke in this movie, paul rudd trying to use breezy made-up slang/funny accents, luckily that joke is hilarious and i laughed a lot"

This joke is so good that even after watching the entire movie I laughed at every single one of the 30+ minutes of outtakes which were basically that joke ad infinitum.

ha!

it was a good joke. maybe i'll watch those outtakes.

slappa de bess

There is also a long sequence of Rudd attempting to say "citttty shlackerrr" without laughing which ends with him in tears.

I was going to ask if this is worth a viewing this afternoon but considering this quote I might not

this movie was kind of pointless. the conflict in the story was so minute it looked like it was there just because it had to be.

this was the exact same problem that Forgetting Sarah Marshall movie had. Some alright jokes and moments but it wasn't really building to anything and so it felt very episodic -- it was like watching a tv show on DVD and hitting "play all episodes" for two hours.

This better or worse than "Sarah Marshall"?

worse, but i liked fsm

It wasn't bad. These Apatow & Friends kind of movies are better seen with a group, and not alone...on a laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIH1zcm7ws

fsm was great

Is Get Him to the Greek any good? figure I'll rent it

eh so-so

i didnt like the bad accents jokes but this was pleasant i guess

def prefer role models & adventureland

and fsm

what's the point of comparison w/ Adventureland?

same reason it was compared numerous times upthread? post freaksngeeks apatow diaspora

I watched this a couple weeks ago. It was watchable but Max is right - FSM was much better.

all the slappa-the-bass stuff got on my nerves i guess, but everything else was decently funny, really liked the running jon favreau stuff

This movie was mediocre - Segel was great in individual scenes, but the central story was threadbare and "who cares", which insinuates they wrote the story around the jokes, which is never a good idea.

Also getting tired of films/shows thinks using Lou Ferrigno as himself is the Everest of comedy

Apatow connection in Adventureland is pretty tenuous, both in terms of cast and tone

ok. who cares? it was brought up in this thread as a point of comparison

before it was released and people had any idea how off the comparison was, yeah. now we know better.

thanks for wasting both of our time w/ this

surely an important & necessary conversation

:)

lol

"apatow diaspora" lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/books/review/jason-segel-by-the-book.html

What classic novel did you recently read for the first time?

The last book I read that legitimately qualifies as a classic is “Infinite Jest,” by David Foster Wallace. It is a difficult read, and intentionally so I think. I did it with a book club where we budgeted 100 pages per week over 10 weeks or so. It was truly one of the most gratifying experiences of my life. A group of four grown men sitting around talking about dissatisfaction and loneliness was far more comfortable than I would have imagined. I highly recommend it, with or without a book.

You aren't going to leave us hanging with just one random, context-free Jason Segel pullquote, now, are you?

u gonna hav to read the whole thing frend