You'll love this Ebert review, then.
― da croupier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
my favorite review of it is from the voice, actually:
"Sometimes being completely unfunny is part of the program. Thus, WHAS is stocked with stereotypes (nerdy Jewish kids, teenybopper make-out sluts, dorky nice guys), but the gags run from cheap shots to interminable laughing scenes to mise-en-scène fuckups (loved Joe Lo Truglio's obvious stuntman) to affected earnestness to full-frontal self-mockery. Inconsistency is the secret m.o., and the film exists in a humid meta-movie ether all its own... It will be loathed, but it might be ahead of its time."
― kenan, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, can we please not reprise the WHAS debate.
(nb it is great and I will watch it always)
― Jordan, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ebert's review is terrible!
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean i don't care what his opinion of the movie is, that shit is just impossible to even try to read.
WHAS is one of the few movies capable of making me turn into Dr Morbius
― kenan, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, ebert's review isn't even a review, he thought so little of the movie he didn't even try
― kenan, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
no he pretty obviously tried quite a bit
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the Voice review too! I'd just put an exclamation point at the end of "all its own."
xpost see a bad critic would just reference "hello mudda" while complaining about the movie being unfunny. a GREAT critic would show up the unfunny movie by writing the entire review as a song parody, revealing that, hey, they know funny.
― da croupier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/misc/yourmoviesucks.jpg
― jhøshea, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
would like to revise this with addition of role models plz
― lady burt stanton (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
smug prig must die
― Ed, Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:33 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
w. t. f.
― horseshoe, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i know right?!
― lady burt stanton (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
to be fair he is kinda smug, but in a totally likeable way
― join together in the ban (some dude), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
needs to be pried away from the Apatholes
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Paul Rudd: So very hot.
― milk plasma (Jesse), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
A friend and I discussed the need for there to be a steamy love scene between him and Mark Ruffalo.
congrats on your most awkward nickname since 'pundneb' xpost
― join together in the ban (some dude), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
is there a Ruffalo poll?
― horseshoe, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know about a love scene between him and ruffalo but at least a buddy movie. or maybe they could be brothers- also they fall for the same woman and hilarity and hijinx ensue.
― LaMonte, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
there is now
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude talked about the wedding incident on a Conan I saw a few weeks ago. He seem genuinely upset about it.
― circa1916, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Buddy move, hell. There needs to be skin on skin.
― milk plasma (Jesse), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Gen-Y Cops is hilarious, and his hair is very funny in this also.
― Event Horizon (Nicole), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
wow hes been a lot of really dope movies. proper order imo:
01 40 y.o. virign02 clueless 03 wet hot american summer
^^^^ all a+++++ g.o.a.t. style comedies
― the British have some odd talents, writing obituaries is one of them (Lamp), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay admittedly this is all I have seen of this movie, but it's probably all you need to see.
― Event Horizon (Nicole), Friday, 6 March 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
he was very funny discussing gen y cops on the daily show
― horseshoe, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
his character name in gen y cops was IAN CURTIS!
― Roz, Friday, 6 March 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Just watched THE TEN off the DVR yesterday. Rudd brings the funny as always. As a straight man, ws Paul Rudd if given the chance.
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 7 March 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
― the British have some odd talents, writing obituaries is one of them (Lamp), Friday, March 6, 2009 3:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
see role models dude a+++ same level as all of those
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Saturday, 7 March 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn’t He Bromantic?
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 March 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
g.o.a.t.?
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 15 March 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
he's really great in R+J actually!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 15 March 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, all time.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 15 March 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I Love You, Man is really really great (well up until the kind of sappy predictable ending, but that's like five minutes and totally perfunctory.) Easily the best thing Rudd has been the lead in.
― Alex in SF, Saturday, 21 March 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Wet Hot American Summer 15Clueless 9The 40 Year Old Virgin 8Knocked Up 7Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
^^this is a career
― the name's ban. suggest ban (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 21 March 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh I did not like I Love You Man. Rudd and Segel = the least convincing "real-estate agent" and "investor," respectively, ever. lazy writing all around.
― Simon H., Saturday, 21 March 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
schef & i agree, makes Apatow look like Lubitsch
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2009 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah it was waaaaaaaaaaaay too cute without enough of any of the wit/dirt that makes a lot of the other movies being discussed on this thread great. it's really, really cutesy, as opposed to the sweet but little bit twisted thing going on in, say, role models or 40 yo virgin. the "paul rudd can't give ppl nicknames" joke was funny.
also, rush? seriously? that is like third-hand lazy bullshit "we have to pick some ridiculous old band to be the thing the dudes obsess over because that's the type of movie this is" crap. kiss worked in role models because A) there are ppl under 57 who like kiss B) it played out into a hilarious thing in the climax of the film. the rush thing was so I GIVE UP when i was watching i love you man.
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i went into it really wanting to like it too, unlike morbs!
also, this is subjective, but the running "jaime pressley is smokin hot" joke in the film, when the female lead is RASHIDA JONES? O_o maybe, if you are racist, jaime pressley is the hotter lady.
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
O SO MAD!!!! >:[
rudd's dude was overly sincere was the problem i think, it robs him of his essence to not be a little cynical/hateful, too many "i love you so much you pretty lady!" kind of romcom lines that i have to wince at as a rule, but segal was great in this and i thought it was cute if a bit cutesy at times.
had read there was not a lot of improvisation here and it shows.
― Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
love the dog named 'anwar sadat'
haha the dog was a funny thing yeah.
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
also i could rly relate to paul rudd's inability to leave a message on voice mail because that is how approximately 96.71% of my messages sound of ppls phones
― Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
schef, I went into it really expecting to laugh at least once. Found nearly all the Rudd stumblebum cutesy stuff way too self consciously look-at-me, not funny.
Some blogger said the writers learned everything they knew about men from beer commercials. Thw women were all cardboard cutouts.
Did none of these folks expect the goodwill gesture of Andy Samberg playing a "regular guy" gay would be wiped out by horrific "eww my mouth tastes like the homo who kissed me, I better use Comet" gag? I gagged.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
thread for i love you man starring paul rudd jason segel rashida jones lou ferrigno
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Role Models was funnier to me than anything up there since Clueless, and he wasn't old enough in that to be as funny as he is now.
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Do not endorse anything that might rescind any win by Wet Hot American Summer.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link