Fish Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I saw this movie last night....just wondering if anyone else here did? Naturally it was pretty kooky and I normally would wait for it but I wanted to support it for obvious reasons. It did have a few good laughs in it and was worth the time but just barely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Perhaps the movie would have had more appeal if Will Ferrell had been given a role.... lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-D Rider Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I did , funny - a little . My adult kids loved it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 This would have made a nice topic for a poll, kind of a Yes/No snapshot of people who post here. Even before the controversy, my response to the ads for it was "no." It looked stupid, and with a premise of some funny guys going to assassinate the leader of another country, my reaction was "no." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 (edited) The one part I found interesting was Franco became good buds with Kim.He prevented ole boy from shaking his hand with poison. Then he finds out that these dictators do whatever they have to to fool naive people. When I think of Hollywood I think of people with little understanding of the real world. I guess I was surprised these people did. Edited December 28, 2014 by Fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckAb3 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 From what I gather, Will Ferrell probably would have helped the movie, but we're going to support it regardless of how lacking it may be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I will not see the movie because I am not into this type of pic. I hope it does well because we can't let other countries dictate what we show, write, ect in a nation where free speech is cherised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiminSTL Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Perhaps the movie would have had more appeal if Will Ferrell had been given a role.... lol Yup! No doubt about it: idiocy sells (the roles and actors, not the movie). "Normalcy" parading as 40+ year old males with the mental maturity of their 10 year old trapped inside. Sorry. Am old enough to remember when "to aspire" meant an upward vertical hope/expectation/movement, not to delve into idiocy or gang-style behavior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Outside of Super Bad and maybe the 40 Year Old Virgin, I don't think Seth Rogan is funny. I've seen a few other movies he was in and didn't care for them.He gets a few laughs here and there,but not throughout a full movie. His little click of friends and actors are in the same boat to me. I guess I'm not into that "nerdy" humor as much. Movies like American Pie were funny as heck to me, but even they reached out to far once #2 was made. I won't be going to see this movie,even it is to "support" our free speech. I don't think Sony should have done what they did either and should have released it when they said they would. Franco in a movie or two was good outside of comedies in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldenough Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Nope!! Seth Rogan + Funny= oxymoron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Seth was funny in The Neighbors, that was one of the funniest movies I ever saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Outside of Super Bad and maybe the 40 Year Old Virgin, I don't think Seth Rogan is funny. You may also like "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," which stars Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks and is probably more of a poke at the 1970's porn industry (along with the obligatory romance to attract a larger audience); however, Kevin Smith uses much of the same type of "Judd Apatow" humor style in this film as found in the two you list. Some humor inserted in the 'credits' and, in addition to Elizabeth Banks, Katie Morgan and Traci Lords also have roles in the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I saw The Neighbors and Zack and Miri movie. They had a few good laughs in them, but not nearly as many as Super Bad. I also at one time knew Kevin Smith as he grew up in the same neighborhood I did in Jersey City. I do like Elizabeth Banks and Traci Lords and of the 2 films Zack and Miri was definitely the funnier one. But Zack and Miri is a Kevin Smith movie if I'm not mistaken, so the humor is slightly different. I think the others were written by Seth Rogan. I may be wrong, but I thought The Neighbors was written by Rogan.Movies like Pineapple Express did nothing for me. Don't get me wrong, he does have his moments, but few and far in between in my opinion. I just think he "tries" to hard to be funny and it comes across to me as he's saying I'm funny so you have to laugh at my jokes.It's almost like someone put a laugh track in the wrong spot on a show or movie to me.I just think that whole entourage he hangs out with is trying to hard to be the new "Frank Sinatra Crew". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Jim, I never thought Adam Sandler was funny, even though the whole world laughed at him. I will say some of his movies are funny, he seems to surround himself with funny people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 We laughed like Hell at Pinapple Express, Franco and Rogan Have not seen the interview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I saw The Neighbors and Zack and Miri movie. They had a few good laughs in them, but not nearly as many as Super Bad. I also at one time knew Kevin Smith as he grew up in the same neighborhood I did in Jersey City. I do like Elizabeth Banks and Traci Lords and of the 2 films Zack and Miri was definitely the funnier one. But Zack and Miri is a Kevin Smith movie if I'm not mistaken, so the humor is slightly different. I think the others were written by Seth Rogan. I may be wrong, but I thought The Neighbors was written by Rogan.Movies like Pineapple Express did nothing for me. Don't get me wrong, he does have his moments, but few and far in between in my opinion. I just think he "tries" to hard to be funny and it comes across to me as he's saying I'm funny so you have to laugh at my jokes.It's almost like someone put a laugh track in the wrong spot on a show or movie to me.I just think that whole entourage he hangs out with is trying to hard to be the new "Frank Sinatra Crew". Regarding "The Interview" this movie is not a movie that I had planned to see in the theatre; however, I will probably watch it when the DVD or streaming options are available. I suppose it could have been written with 'fictional characters and country;' however, that's Hollywood. I'm just wondering if Dennis Rodman went to the premier or plans to watch the movie..... While I liked the "40 Year-old Virgin" I believe that Super Bad (from a single-day movie structure) may be more of 'generational' type of movie with certain pop-cultural references of that time-period that may resonate with certain people more so than with others. For example, while I found aspects of Super Bad funny and enjoyed the movie with the kids (to me, Rogan's part seemed to be inspired by a Police Academy movie), I found "American Graffiti" (set in the 60s) and "Dazed and Confused" (set in the 70s) to have more deeply nuanced parodies and spoofs of a period that represented my teen years that I found funny. Other movies that are similar to Super Bad that I did not necessarily relate to were "House Party (1990)" and "Can't Hardly Wait (1998)." I believe "generational" humor in some respects because in looking at the generations immediately around me, the oldest daughter loves Dazed and Confused and the youngest is a Super Bad fan (and somewhat of a Dazed and Confused fan); however, neither found much interesting or funny in American Graffiti and both were quickly bored. While I realize slightly different, I was grouping the Kevin Smith movie into a category of "Apatow-esque" type of humor with the Zack and Miri movie in relation to the crass sex-talk in detail and having Rogan star in the movie probably gave the movie more of an "Apatow feel" as opposed to casting someone else. While Rogan doesn't break any new ground as an actor or comedian, his insecurity (a trait he plays from in many of his movies) in his portrayal of a 'wanna-be' porn star seemed to fit the film and the chemistry with Elizabeth Banks seemed to work. Having watched the Linda Lovelace movie 'Deep Throat' in the 70s, among others; burlesque dancers move to porn; and watching a few of the 1970s adult theatre live shows such as adult entertainer Honeysuckle Divine, some of the silliness of the porn during that time-period seemed to come through in this movie as a parody of the porn in the 1970s that I found funny. I found the picking the name of their film "Star Whores" along with the raunchy rejected variations of popular films to be funny. Overall, I thought it was a smart comedy with good insight into certain parodies I saw in the movie; however, I realize I'm in the minority here in this respect as the movie tanked at the box office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldenough Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 If you can get a laugh with a Fart or a F**k, then why bother trying to be clever with your humor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 If you can get a laugh with a Fart or a F**k, then why bother trying to be clever with your humor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldenough Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Sorry Boxx, hope I didn't offend you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 (edited) If you can get a laugh with a Fart or a F**k, then why bother trying to be clever with your humor... Of course, Howard Stern is a great example of someone making a successful and lucrative career out of farts, sex, and sex-farts...... Edited December 28, 2014 by Fjd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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