some thoughts
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
2) ok there are more jokes than that but that is the main joke
3) i basically cant watch movies like this--i spend the whole time with my fingers in my ears or burying my face in my lap. the minute i realized where segels toast was going i put my head in my sweater and didnt look at the movie again for like 10 minutes. i felt tense the whole movie just waiting for terrible embarrassing things
4) luckily paul rudd kept saying shit like "slap the bass" and i would laugh and release the tensions
5) rashida jones is, like, smoking. and funny. wd marry on the spot.
6) i guess they made andy sambergs character gay just to avoid the is-paul-rudd-gay question but it seemed like sort of a dead end
7) youd think id be tired of these stupid man-child movies but im not, yet. and while on the one had i cd use fewer 'take yr tampax out' jokes i dont think these are as regressive w/r/t gender as movies like this were 10 yrs ago
8) lou ferrigno! jon favreau! jk simmons!
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i agree with all that
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
thought it was weird they cast jane curtin and then didn't give her any jokes
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
also this movie is all about making paul rudd even more adorable by making him awkward and dorky, my wife loves him :/
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
omg that was jane curtin!!!!! shame for not giving her any jokes!!
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree with the above, esp. the noting of Samberg as a token "gay" character. He, Jones, Simmons etc. are totally wasted.
This year we're seeing a slew of pseudo-Apatow movies; this one, Greg Mottola's "Adventureland" and Jody Hill's "Observe and Report," followed by an actual Apatow movie, "Funny People." Interested to see which is best. (Definitely not "I Love You, Man," though.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda want to see this even though i know it's terrible. i keep hoping it's just a poorly cut trailer.
― battlestar elastica (get bent), Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
did anyone else experience an inexplicable urge to rush out and buy an Apple iPhone 3G, a Volkswagen Passat wagon, a variety of dress shirts from The Gap and a 12-pack of Heineken after watching this?
― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
this is also a problem because andy samberg isn't funny
― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
This: 5) rashida jones is, like, smoking. and funny. wd marry on the spot.
and i might check out this movie for her alone. preferred her when she was less skinny though.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
no, but he's cute (xp). Too Jewy to be WASPy Rudd's bro.
Rashida Jones (who I've never seen before) had nothing funny to do here either; see also Larry Wilmore as JoP at the end. I guess you're just sposed to remember when ppl were in other funny things.
see schef & my comments from press screening on RUDD thread. I think I was generous considering that I didn't laugh once.
Max, you can't watch movies like this BUT YOU WENT ON OPENING WEEKEND, huh? Anyway, try the wedding toast in Rachel Getting Married.
Ladies, if your fella relates to any of the guys in this film, listen to Maria Ouspenskaya and BEVARE, BEVARE!
SUPPORT ART, DO NOT SEE THIS THING
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
also yeah, consumerist porn, I wanted an Uzi (since I don't want any of the shit iiijjj listed),
and Lou Ferrigno is a fucking trivia answer, he should lay down & die alongside Rush.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa now suddenly excited about Adventureland, despite presence of Dane Cook in trailer. <3 <3 <3 The Dayrippers and can see myself turning into a Mottola stan.
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
lol well this wasnt advertised as an embarrassment comedy like meet the parents or whatever!! if i had known id have steeled myself. i spent the toast scene of rachel getting married under my girlfriends pillow. if i had been there in real life i probably would have killed myself.
i dont really understand what that means
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Larry Wilmore as JoP at the end
didnt get why he was in the movie and didnt get anything to do--i wonder if he had more scenes that got cut
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
g'morning max!
It means it's bigscreen TV shit, go see a real film. xp
Your hint wd've been that the writer-director co-wrote Meet the Parents/Fockers. (I warned schef of this as we were going in.)
Also if you bolted as soon as the end credits rolled (always I'm thinkin), you missed more HILARITY [sic].
I've seen Adventureland, it's only abour 30% a crude-dude thing (closer to an '80s Cusack film), and that's Ryan Reynolds not Dane Cook.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
nah i saw more of the "hilarity" it was ok--didnt know this dude was a meet the parents creator but it basically makes sense
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 22 March 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
meet the parents 1 was pretty hilare imo
― s1ocki, Sunday, 22 March 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 22, 2009 12:05 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not sure if that's supposed to be a good thing? (reynolds over cook)
also morbs i just realized it was you who webmailed me about c.r.a.z.y. (it only showed your current username and didnt provide an email address to hit u back). if its still playing then ya go see it!
― s1ocki, Sunday, 22 March 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
that one yellow top with the circles rashida jones had was really cute
― A B C, Monday, 23 March 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i also feel like...there are offbeat, heavily flawed characters and then there are people who don't pick up their dog's shit. i think this might have been a major issue if i didnt like jason segel
― A B C, Monday, 23 March 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
this movie was so fucking funny
― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
incredible improv w/ the slap the bass scene, the joe/bro running gag, the scene where segel's taking photos of rudd, so many lols.
bit characters were pretty good too, i enjoyed samberg for the third time in my life, jamie pressley and her husband were reeeeeaally great
also i would do anything to marry either rashida jones or paul rudd or best case scenario be their houseboy
― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
finally caught Chololat on AMC the other day...it was delightful!
― altered prostates (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 March 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
pt 2 of the pseudo-Apatow sweepstakes, "adventureland," is much much better.
― Simon H., Saturday, 28 March 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm watching The 40-Year-Old Virgin right now and it's amazing how more than one of these movies has basically spun a whole subplot out of the Yes poster on Steve Carell's wall
― A B C, Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
did i really see ads w/ this quote?
"I Love You, Man" is the most probing study of the modern American male since "Fight Club" stormed screens 10 years ago.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 Chololat <3
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 March 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
no, CRAZT only ran for a week at MoMA, didnt go. :(
J0rdan you are insane. "improv" my ass.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
was it not improv? segel and rudd going back and forth doing the bond thing? whatever it was— the running nicknames gag incl.— it was really funny
― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 29 March 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
like cancer.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2009 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
This was pretty great for a cheapo Sunday afternoon matinee. Didn't recognize Thomas Lennon from Reno 911 at all.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to see this movie
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 20 April 2009 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
no you don't
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 April 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
thread for i love you morbs starring max ethan gabbenb enrique
― ...and you will know us by the trail of banned (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 April 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link
max doesnt belong in that rogues gallery.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 April 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
(despite his abominable taste in comedy)
paul rudd . . . . my wife loves him :/
Yeah, mine too.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 20 April 2009 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
he is a total dreamboat
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 20 April 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
― ...and you will know us by the trail of banned (J0rdan S.), Monday, April 20, 2009 2:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ugh gabbnebb can gtfo imo
seeing this tonight, solo: kind of meta but mostly sad.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
rashida jones is v lovely. that's all i got.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
max's review is more otm than anything i could come up with on my own.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
jon favreau was lols in this.
pretty good, but for my money Role Models is the primo rudd vehicle
― nashville - spiritual home of the cougar (will), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
wow jason segel is one tall motherfucker.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
almost distractingly so.
felt the same with FSM though veronica mars is herself disconcertingly tiny. so is the rashida jones up to a point.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
morbius why did you go see this, why, you are contributing to the problem
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously. Support art!!! Not things with "trivia answers" in supporting roles and unfunny, "cancer"-esque gags and djkrg g;rj;kgj r ; erkj .g..//// .rg. /
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
this wasn't as funny as I'd hoped, a nice enough distraction but probalby would have worked better on DVD. I actually think Role Models was funnier. It seemed really kind of stilted at times. But parts of it were pretty good. Adventureland is a much, much better movie though. And it had a Rush reference too!
― akm, Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i am so depressed that i still have not seen this, maybe tomorrow.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 1 May 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
sooo disappointing. The first hour was okay, and Segal probably more charming than this second-string Ben Affleck has ever been, but the rest just fizzled.
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 August 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Riiiiight. Because in a discussion you state your points once and then keep quiet even after everyone else has made points and new people have joined in.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
morbs what ARE yr standards in comedy? all I can remember you liking is borat and that horrible simpsons movie (speaking of "widescreen tv")
― 'steen suicide (don't drive it) (s1ocki), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
That's discourse, not trolling. Some people have difficulties with that distinction.
― KEEP CALM+++THRILL FACTOR OVERLOAD+++KEEP CALM (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda think threads about midsized popcorn lightweight comedies aren't really the place for high minded opinions tho.
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Fassbinder was a joke, son.(read that like Foghorn Leghorn)
see, cuz his films are unrelentingly grim.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i have seen some thank u
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't doubt it! c'mon Plax, don't personalize. It's music I really hate.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
don't mind me, first trimester = mood swings + morning sickness
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I love you, man
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
a fine bromance
― velko, Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― jerk store (hmmmm), Saturday, 22 August 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
u misspelled inglourious
― 'steen suicide (don't drive it) (s1ocki), Saturday, 22 August 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
bcz I saw the Chocolat trailer. xp
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
how many marquees have gotten inglourious b-ds wrong? i kno mine did
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 August 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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 $$
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Saturday, 6 March 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
(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)
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Saturday, 6 March 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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!"
― Ballistic, Saturday, 6 March 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ha!
it was a good joke. maybe i'll watch those outtakes.
― oɔsıqɐɔs (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
slappa de bess
― goole, Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
There is also a long sequence of Rudd attempting to say "citttty shlackerrr" without laughing which ends with him in tears.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I was going to ask if this is worth a viewing this afternoon but considering this quote I might not
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"?
― Cunga, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
worse, but i liked fsm
― max, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
It wasn't bad. These Apatow & Friends kind of movies are better seen with a group, and not alone...on a laptop.
― Cunga, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIH1zcm7ws
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 July 2010 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
fsm was great
― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Sunday, 11 July 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Get Him to the Greek any good? figure I'll rent it
― dmr, Sunday, 11 July 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
eh so-so
― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Sunday, 11 July 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i didnt like the bad accents jokes but this was pleasant i guess
def prefer role models & adventureland
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
and fsm
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the point of comparison w/ Adventureland?
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
same reason it was compared numerous times upthread? post freaksngeeks apatow diaspora
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched this a couple weeks ago. It was watchable but Max is right - FSM was much better.
― ENBB, Monday, 17 January 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― five deadly venoms (San Te), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Apatow connection in Adventureland is pretty tenuous, both in terms of cast and tone
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ok. who cares? it was brought up in this thread as a point of comparison
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
before it was released and people had any idea how off the comparison was, yeah. now we know better.
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for wasting both of our time w/ this
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
surely an important & necessary conversation
:)
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"apatow diaspora" lol
― jaymc, Friday, 12 September 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
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.
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
You aren't going to leave us hanging with just one random, context-free Jason Segel pullquote, now, are you?
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
u gonna hav to read the whole thing frend
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link