Come anticipate Pineapple Express with me.

i thought the 1st trailer was zzzz but this new one's got me hyped for some lebowski style stoner noir stuff

lol @ m.i.a. but this looks fucking great

lol'd at like 7 rogan lines in there so i'm taking that as a good sign

stoner noir

Yeah, that's the phrase I've been looking for all day!

mixed feelings on this. the m.i.a. works well in the trailer tho.

gary cole!

The fact that David Gordon Green directed this has me excited.

also, Nora Dunn!

x-post

lol'd at like 7 rogan lines in there

Lines?! I thought rogaine was rubbed into the scalp.

I was skeptical but this looks pretty damn awesome.

stoner noir otm

I would pay money to watch this.

IF I WERE STONED

so amped for this

foot in window lol

holy shit this looks incredible

james franco???

also: i predict that i will find this funny

i know, right? i miss james franco playing dudes like this.

oh hey

hi Evan!

i thought the 1st trailer was zzzz but this new one's got me hyped for some lebowski style stoner noir stuff

-- and what, Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

totally agree.

what's his face playing the villain??

lumberg

no gary cole.

i am stoked as fuck for this.

drillbit taylor is kind of not great though :(

Yeah, Drillbit Taylor looks so very terrible.

Great to see Rosie Perez back in a major flick, she was nearly always great in whatever she was in.

it could have been good if it were an actual episode of freaks and geeks. instead it's like an ep of F&G done really badly with second-rate child actors.

there are a few wilson one-liners that aren't in the trailer which are worthwhile.

xpost

foot in window lol

-- jhøshea, Friday, 15 February 2008 01:42 (14 hours ago) Link
^^^^^^^^this

is it just me or is this the first rewatchable trailer in ages?

bill hader is in this. i can't make up my mind about that dude.

Seth Rogen also sat down with 80's musician Huey Lewis, of Huey Lewis & The News, possibly discussing Lewis writing and performing the theme song for the movie.

hader is teh lols from what i've seen (inc. 'hot rod').

i want to give him the benefit of the doubt cause he is good some movies and is from my hometown, but some of the snl shit is unforgivable.

is it just me or is this the first rewatchable trailer in ages?

-- Simon H., Friday, 15 February 2008 16:27 (14 minutes ago) Link

hello my name-a borat

i want to give him the benefit of the doubt cause he is good some movies and is from my hometown, but some of the snl shit is unforgivable.

-- mizzell, Friday, February 15, 2008 11:40 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

the italian talk show host gives me some lolz

countdown to dr m on the "DGG sucked after GW, apatow etc etc" tip

Did Apatow get the idea of this from "I Accidentally Domed Your Son"?

that's not gonna get us a ride, man

fucking awesome

I want to pay extra to see this

like $20. shit, I pay that much for sandwiches.

the italian talk show host gives me some lolz

very true.
it's not a robot horse?

I want to pay extra to see this

like $20.

there's that new theater in SF...

Love the deadpan shit in the promo. Tell the truth, though, it doesn't look much like Lebowski-style "stoner noir". It looks like watching Pulp Fiction while high. Plus, maybe some Superbad in the lolz (not just for Rogan's mug).

it apparently has an insane 'blues brothers' car chase.

so it would seem

i think this is the best movie trailer ever

i want to see that movie TONIGHT. If I saw that trailer before a movie I would no longer want to see whatever I'd just paid for.

this looks like a crappy NYU film school project

actually watching the trailer made me feel like I was cornered at a party and the film student was DESCRIBING it to me

you're nuts

I really should see more crappy NYU film projects.

Here I am watching all this hollywood crap when crappy NYU film projects are WHERE IT'S AT

I don't know, I watched a couple of different trailers and a full-length clip. What I see is Seth Rogen doing pot jokes (surprise) that sound like outtakes from one of his other roles, mediocre sub-Tarantino direction, what looks to be a pretty thin plot (omg casual drug user gets into serious trouble), and stock "wacky" characters (thug with effeminate voice! badass lady cop!). I'm not trying to be *above that sort of thing* because I'm really not, I just didn't once laugh or get excited during the trailers/clip I watched.

I've probably rewatched it 20 times in the last two days, and "flying" Seth Rogen still kills me with its awesomeness.

y u hate fun hurting

LOL times 1500, I will go to this movie with anyone who wants to road trip here to the fucking frozen wasteland I inhabit

mount up!

aw well if you guys really want to see it I guess I'll go...

hi dere

so basically the most central place for us all to meet up would probably be in like western North Carolina. Asheville probably has a movie theater that shows this

This is obviously a very different direction for him, but lololololol @ DGG being "sub-Tarantino" and the idea that a trailer gives you any real indication of how well a movie is directed.

admittedly, I don't think I've ever seen a David Gordon Green film

thug life!

i'm not going to watch the trailer, that's how stoked i am for this.

Flying Rogen v. Flying Dawkins

lololololol @ DGG being "sub-Tarantino"

omar_little_'indeed'.jpeg

i want to see this movie right now

foot in window lol

-- jhøshea, Friday, 15 February 2008 01:42 (Yesterday) Link

Yeah I lolled at this.

flying rogen for the motherfucking win

the cast is classic, i think i see kevin corrigan in the trailer

I am strangely psyched for the prospect of Seth Rogen, action hero.

also daryl from the office

it apparently has an insane 'blues brothers' car chase.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, February 15, 2008 2:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i was siding with Hurting till i read this. sign me up

one is the loneliest number

The rumors are true. Seth Rogen was able to convince Huey Lewis to record a title theme song for the upcoming Judd Apatow stoner comedy Pineapple Express.

“It is called Pineapple Express, cleverly,” director David Gordon Green told movieweb. “Our only input was, we told him we wanted it to sound like his 80s work that we loved so much. And we wanted to have the plot in it. And we wanted to have him say the title as many times as he could. There is a lot of alto sax. It is kind of like that ‘other’ Back to the Future Huey Lewis song. Not ‘Power of Love’ but ‘Back in Time’. Yeah.”

Here are the lyrics from the song’s chorus:

We got trouble,
we got to get out of here.
I’ve got you,
you’ve got me.
We are as high as we can be.
That’s all right.
How did we get into this mess?
Pineapple Express!

FUCK YES

OMG best song of the year!

As always, Huey comes in clutch. Those lyrics set the tone for wacky radicalness. I have marked August 8th on my calendar and will be camped out at the theater if anyone needs me before then.

At the risk of putting a damper on things, I hope this really does pay off. I remember walking out of the theater after seeing 'Snakes on a Plane' really angry at how bad it was after being excited about it for 5 months.

I'm thinking that a comedy made by proven comedic talents will be more satisfying than a shitty action movie with a funny title/premise that people erroneously assumed would be hilarious start to finish.

lols at trailer

david gordon green being involved in this is a major wtf factor. i have no idea if he can do comedy.

It looks like watching Pulp Fiction while high.

Yeah but I was almost thinking more True Romance. (Looks great, anyway; want that Huey Lewis song NOW.)

why have I never heard of David Gordon Green or any of his movies until like a month ago, and suddenly people are talking about him like a big name brand director? is it just me?

lots of people liked george washington, i guess.

(otoh i don't know anybody who's seen snow angels.)

uh because the Apatow PR machine has kicked into full gear?

i mean he's one of my all-time favourite ever directors because of the luminous All the Real Girls but i'm under no illusions that his recent attention is due to anything besides the Pineaple PR Express...

it's just you, alex

I realize that he's getting a lot of press right now for the 2 movies he's got out this year, I just thought it was odd that most of that press is treating him like a household name, or even an indie household name (although admittedly, I'm noone's idea of a film buff).

he's def an indie household name, or at least an indie film buffs household name.

iow, its definitely not just you.

he is certainly an indie auteur, very poetic filmmaking. you should see his films.

ive seen a couple, i like them! im just saying its a limited audience.

I've never heard of him before. weird.

pineapple express is going to be huuuuuuge though, i think. amazing trailer.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm923768832/nm0337773

^^ dude looks like pleasant plains!

george washington is really beautiful

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200611/?read=interview_green

"BLVR: You shot it on fifty-five thousand feet of film?

'(...)It was real simple: one take, alright, we got it; one take, alright, we got it.'"

ie what has never yet been disproven as the best method for shooting ever

is that a small amount of film or something?

haha thats a good point, thats like 10 miles

ie what has never yet been disproven as the best method for shooting ever

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/BlackAndWhite.jpg

never seen it but upon review that clearly was totally a shot idea from the premise

i loved black and white!! did they only do one take for all the scenes in that, or something?

the cast is classic, i think i see kevin corrigan in the trailer

I'm guessing the possible Kevin Corrigan sighting (you mean the dude who says "thug life!" while cocking the gun?) is actually Danny R. McBride, who I think is a David Gordon Green buddy (he was in "All the Real Girls"), and who is on the brink of blowing up ("The Foot Fist Way," "Land of the Lost," "Tropic Thunder" aka "Robert Downey Jr. in Blackface"). He's done some weird Andy Kaufman-y talk show appearances in character recently and always manages a few funny lines in stinkers (like "The Heartbreak Kid" and "Hot Rod")

All the Real Girls was my favorite film of 2003.

(otoh i don't know anybody who's seen snow angels.)

It opens here tomorrow; I'm looking forward to it.

The legend is that Kubrick shot 1.5 million feet of film for "Eyes Wide Shot" (i.e. 45 takes of second unit establishing shots and stuff)

"All the Real Girls" is amazing, but so incredibly depressing that I haven't been able to revisit it since I originally saw it in the theater.

Yeah, but people have been pushing that canard since at least Shadows and it's only true if you have extremely limited tastes or an insatiable appetite for awful American 'indie' movies.

x-ps

xxxp Ha, there are some similarities between Danny McBride's Bust-Ass (from ATRG) and Kevin Corrigan's Goon/Rocky (from Buffalo '66).

i loved black and white!! did they only do one take for all the scenes in that, or something?

Haha, I kind of like it too but only on the kind of grounds from which people defend stuff like Southland Tales. I remember reading it was all improvised with one or few takes, but I could be wrong and that kind of shit is always pretty inflated. It was a pretty lazy zing, though.

oh i even thought this guy reminds me of corrigan in ATRG. makes sense. he is funny.

- corrigan was in apatow's 'superbad' so could be in this
- 40 y.o. virgin and knocked up apparently went over 1m ft each

idea that doing everything in one take leads to gold is totally o_O and process-centric. sometimes it works, sometimes not.

I wd probly see this eventually bcz James Franco = Hottest Stoner Ever

I can't watch the trailer on this computer but the website gives off a real "Sean on the Dead" vibe. Am I totally off the mark?

you revived the thread for that?

all that work for THAT?

"BLVR: You shot it on fifty-five thousand feet of film?

'(...)It was real simple: one take, alright, we got it; one take, alright, we got it.'"

ie what has never yet been disproven as the best method for shooting ever

-- deeznuts, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:08 (2 months ago) Link

Regular 35MM film travels at 90 ft/minute @ 24 fps; not counting for any slo mo stuff, that's approx. 611 minutes of film or a ratio of 5:1 for a 2 hr movie. Assume the movie is a bit longer than 2 hrs and some over-cranked camera stuff and suddenly it's not a lot of takes...

This is what I was responding to...

is that a small amount of film or something?

-- Jordan, Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:08 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

also...

http://www.traileraddict.com/content/columbia-pictures/pineapple_express.jpg

has someone already linked to acting with james franco?

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f12ee4dfcf
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d338852866
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f22e3ff675

pretty lulz

those are the best things i've seen on that funnyordie site. good stuff.

Sneak preview at BAM on 7/24 as part of the David Gordon Greene series. I got my tickets.

Huey Lewis & The News, "Pineapple Express"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kdhp9b

Holy Shit. Awesome return to form for Huey and The News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCFmlugICQk

This thread just makes me more and more psyched for this movie.

tbh the calendar makes me more & more psyched for this movie - i cant believe its only a month away now

i remember the beginning of this thread like it was yesterday

lots of good lolz in this movie. james franco is really great, seth rogen doesn't do much for me any more. the huey lewis song sounds exactly like the song he would turn in for a movie in 1989, kinda impressive. david gordon green seems like a total laid back funny bro.

Comic-Con promo funnies

looking forward to this and tropic thunder for late summer lolz!

yeah they both look great

want owen wilson supposed to be in TT? ;_;

saw it at jfl...I probably would have liked it a lot more if I'd ever smoked pot (duh) but overall it was good fun. I could have gone for more action, surprisingly.

Just one more day of waiting! February seems like forever ago.

i stopped at a bar for a drink a a bit ago & im pretty sure i met seth rogan's doppleganger but i was too tired to go barhopping w/ him & his bud :(

so this movie seems to have singlehandedly brought MIA more success in America than ever before... according to Idolator at least.

i.e. "Paper Planes" now being downloaded by many many young stoners.

http://wowchywowch.blogspot.com/2008/08/wowch-demands-satisfaction.html

why is this coming out on a wednesday?

because it's gonna be big Big BIG?!

But yeah, Wednesday opens are usually reserved for things like Harrison Ford and Will Smith movies.

this was overly long but in the end it was about being bros so its cool w/ me

i was sitting 2nd row in a theatre where i was reasonably within the 5 oldest people so im not sure if i got much beyond "this was cool, dunno how cool tho"

all the real funny parts were mostly in the preview though when stretched out a lil and tied together they didn't really lose much, the big action part at the end was def too long and did not bring that many lolz but i guess after a bunch of pretty brilliant and hilarious movies we can't really blame dudes for wanting to indulge and blow a bunch of shit up and fly off balconies and whatever

franco was fantastic esp when him and rogen were just riffing, great chemistry and all etc etc

not sure where this ranks in the pantheon cuz i really wanna see it again

i really wanna need to see it again

this is directed by david gordon green?

Yup.

And he's more than happy to let you know that he's not a sensitive artistic wallflower:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/movies/03harr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Lots of gay notsosubtext, apparently? That'll depress the repeat biz.

i don't know, the lethal weapon movies did pretty well

BDANG CHANG!

I'm seeing this in two hours.

movie was so-so. some pretty funny bits, though nothing profoundly funny. much of it was boring, though not to a particularly objectionable point and not for very long--usually a decent gag would be around eventually.

i got vaguely excited about the idea of a critically respected indie director making this, then i remember that i don't actually like david gordon green's other films very much. this had a lot of the same virtues and failings as that one.

the action scenes were for the most part atrociously staged, but it was almost endearing in this context.

we need a report from someone who saw this stoned

this is probably not the place to get on this particular soapbox but the whole "WHOA WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE TO WATCH THIS STONED!!!!!" meme is idiotic.

if you watched this stoned, you might do one or several of the following
- laugh more and longer than you would not stoned
- talk more in the movie theater, annoying other patrons
- lose your train of thought frequently, with a line or scene perhaps suggesting a long series of fantasies or random associations; consequently you might find it a bit more difficult to follow the narrative

This is more or less true for every movie. if you're the sort who can get paranoid smoking weed, and you're watching a scary movie, it might bug you out to an unpleasant degree.

i mean, what do you think will happen? you think the film has some secret code buried the mise-en-scene that will only appear to those who are high?

huh, i disagree with jordan s. and amateurist. it wasn't perfect, wasn't as funny as superbad or knocked up or 40 year old virgin, but it was good and entertaining throughout. lots of funny lines. franco was great, as was the dude who plays darryl on the office. certainly didn't think it was boring, the first 15 minutes or so are the weakest and then it gets better as it goes.

also the new york times review that basically implied the second half of the movie was straight action was weird, you've got seth rogan and gary cole fighting and james franco beating the crap out of rosie perez, so it's obviously not like lethal weapon or whatever.

david gordon green was a nonfactor, the direction was totally anonymous throughout.

i'd give it like a B, B+ probably

i dunno, i thought some of the sloppiness recalled his other movies -- the same sloppiness that caused a lot of controversy ca. his first two films, where people weren't sure whether he was incompetent or a genius.

i mean, i liked it -- i enjoyed myself, i laughed a lot. (though i laugh at everything, as anyone who has been to a movie with me can attest.) i just wasn't super into it. the first part was dull (and the NYT said that was the best part wtf) and other parts later on. the romance stuff went nowhere, as did the obligatory apatow half-serious nods to bonding, maturing, etc.

So the Rogen-Apatow dynasty overpowers the likes of Greg Mottola and David Gordon Green. Any hack can direct these scripts then?

more movies need to end with the main characters sitting around at a dennys talking about what their favorite parts of the movie were

woaah David Gordon Green please report to Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians blog

This was really funny. Really really funny. We laughed like fucking idiots. And our theater was chatty like anything. It was a real community experience.

dude you guys totally need to read amateurist's posts STONED

ok, i'll grant you that

i was hoping for more response to that cranky post. is anyone else mildly irked by, or just tired of, that meme?

amateruist have you seen super high me?

what is that? is it a film where certain colors or 3-D effects only become evident after you smoke grass?

that would be a real accomplishment.

it's a takeoff on supersize me where doug henson(hilarious) a stand up comic films an experiment of him not smoking for 30 days and then smoking for 30 days straight. what science there is is very lax so you don't feel proselytized to, it's feels just like a standup road trip movie, he's a good improviser.

benson, not henson

yeah

seeing this tonight

loved this.

not that it's the same type of movie, but...to those who saw it, better, or worse than Forgetting Sarah Marshall (which I loved)?

I got super-stoned and went and saw this as the second leg of a double-feature (also watched Wall-E for a second time). I hardly ever smoke these days so, when I do, it effects me profoundly. Suffice it to say that my day was a hazy blur, but I loved every minute of it. As such, I cannot comment with much critical acumen on The Pineapple Express, except to say that it was consistently hilarious and if you think you would typically enjoy such a film, you will almost certainly not be disappointed. The send-up of Seagal/VanDamme late-80s/early-90s action films in PE's final act particularly brings the lols. Also, the film has a lot of over-the-top homoeroticism, which ruffled the feathers of my fellow movie-goers to satisfying effect (a theatre packed almost entirely with teenage males who were not prepared for a simulated anal-sex scene between the two protagonists).

Overall: PE is pretty good, but I highly recommend having a smoke and going to see Wall-E

YOU JUST GOT KILLED BY A DAE WOO MOTHERFUCKER!!!

This movie was funny as shit! Darryl from the Office and Red were fucking hilarious. Is that Ted? Tell him I said hi! Hi Ted!

Was disappointed that the smoke from an entire crop of weed didn't give Saul super powers though.

yeah Red stole the show

THUG LIFE

^^^^ that is my favorite part of the trailer. can't wait to see this.

Franco was watching KRULL!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude!

and...

"ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Franco was watching KRULL!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude!

Hahah, okay, that knowledge alone makes me so happy.

"Garagely"

not as funny as superbad i guess but still a pretty good lol rate

franco was better than anyone else tho

yeah, Franco was amazing. this movie was so weird, though.

yeah i couldnt really figure out what was going on w/ a lot of the filming decisions, like these weird zooms of a little girl w/ glasses in a bathing suit and a dude lifting weights on the lawn

also rosie perez and gary cole were totally bizarre and not very good

when has Rosie Perez ever been good in anything? we guffawed with laughter when she showed up on screen.

i kept waiting for the Stukey brothers and Woody Harrelson to show up

when has Rosie Perez ever been good in anything?

White Man Can't Jump, Untamed Heart, and Fearless (for which she got an Oscar nod).

i repeat my question

bleh

rosie perez and gary cole weren't good because they didn't really have anything to do--not real characters. (re "when has Rosie Perez ever been good in anything?" seriously, i'll kill you.)

eat the shit out of Ron Paul's asshole

you are a weird dude

He must know something about Ron Paul's asshole that we don't.

yeah sorry i phrased that wrong--i meant rosie perez and gary cole's characters i guess

no, you're right; it's one of the things i couldn't figure out about the movie. it made me laugh but i couldn't figure it out--it's not "stoner noir" like big lebowski--it seemed to be a commentary on several movie genres mashed together, but i couldn't recognize all of them, so i didn't fully get it. i also think it was less successful than it could have been--the final scene was funny but also felt like a litte bit of "see, this is meta!" overkill. i need to see it again.

seth rogen cowrote and helped come up with the story, right? i think he's got a really cool, weird, original movie in him. also i am jealous, isn't he 26?

he is not as good an actor as franco, though.

there's a lot of things in this movie that are narratively underdeveloped or superfluous but c'mon, it's a stoner-buddy comedy. it's funny where it counts.

i know; it's just that it sort of seemed to be attempting to say some things about stoner-buddy comedies, and maybe was not totally coherent about those things. i say "maybe" because i need to see it again. i liked it!

We laughed like fucking idiots. And our theater was chatty like anything.

Oh, it was at the Fucking Idiot Bijou, then.

http://www.cinepassion.org/Archives/PineappleWinnipegBaghead.html

I know, I know, pot makes everything funny, but if that's the case one might as well save the gas and laugh at the spots in the bathroom sink, no? ...Alas, no Terence Malick's Cheech and Chong here, just the standard ingredients of the Apatow & Co. pie (no-girls-allowed adolescence, cinematic dead-air, suppressed man-love) given by a filmmaker who's obediently wiped his fingerprints off the product. There's got to be a tolerable middle ground between the rampant Greenisms of Snow Angels and this processed, damp joint, man.

like these weird zooms of a little girl w/ glasses in a bathing suit and a dude lifting weights on the lawn

-- max, Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:19 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

don't remember the weightlifter but the bathing suit girl was like the one 5-second section of the movie that seemed like a "david gordon green" touch

This one felt a bit long in much the same way that Running Scared and Beverly Hills Cop II felt long once the comic stars get involved in a lengthy action finale.

Loved the scene transitions (wipes, etc.). Something about the old people in the guy's mother's old-folks home stays with me.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GD8T7G61L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Ur-text for this movie.

some dudes lit up in the restrooms half way through the screening i saw; causing the fire alarm to go off and evacuation of the whole theatre. it at least gave us a chance to go back to the car and finish off a clip before they let everyone back in.

AVC: Would you worry about finding David Gordon Green moments within this?

DGG: The whole movie is my moments. I really just tried to put the movie that was my sense of humor on the screen. I was watching it last night, and there's things like the little girl in the swimsuit at the fence, and it's kind of like some eccentric non-sequitur stuff that's traditional within the films I've worked on.

Pineapple Express star James Franco has revealed that we could be seeing a Pineapple Express-meets-Superbad flick on the big screen!
Franco told MTV:
“Even before ‘Superbad’ came out, I think the studio was trying to get (Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg) to write a sequel, but they really didn’t want to write a sequel. I guess the kids would go to college or something like that [that was the studio's idea]. And so, an answer to that was to do a ‘Superbad’/'Pineapple Express’ crossover, an unprecedented crossover movie with two directors, Greg Motolla and David Gordon Green, each directing half of the movie and somehow these characters get together, which doesn’t make sense at all, but could work.”
Rogen himself has stated that he’d be interested in a “Pineapple” sequel. But how would he combine the two universes? Just ask Franco.
“I could sell them [the characters from 'Superbad'] something, but I think we’d want some action, so you know, somehow the kids get in trouble somehow and we have to get them out of it. And Seth plays characters in both movies, so somehow we’d have to kill one of them off.”

LAAAAAME

SuperApple

With songs by Mr. Paul SuperApple.

shit is reminding me of kevin smith's nerd-ass shared world "view-askewniverse"

so a stoner Hannah-Barbera crossover comedy via FOUR ROOMS

yeah, sign me right up

ethan otm

has it not been said (doesnt need to be?) how much danny mcbride steals every scene he's in? i mostly just want to re-watch only his scenes. def can do w/out ever seeing any of the action sequences or shit w/ his gf again

i laffd and laffd

yeah Red stole the show

-- iiiijjjj, Saturday, 9 August 2008 23:58 (1 week ago) Link

tottallllly.

lol'd heartily at 'i want to be inside you homes'.

Franco was brilliant, he said all that stupid shit so sincerely.

I thought it was better than superbad too

has it not been said (doesnt need to be?) how much danny mcbride steals every scene he's in? i mostly just want to re-watch only his scenes

otm

Craig Robinson caught with E and meth.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hofkmLteXegllaomDg05npAyrTUAD92J2PF00

maybe he has a really good hiding place for his weed.

dudes hitman lold me bigtime

This was pretty hilarious. My girlfriend complained that the scene at the end was too long, and ordinarily I too get bored with long action sequences, but the absolute absurdity of it all made it work.

Also, Danny McBride = A+. What else has he done besides this and All the Real Girls?

it was impressive how well they played graphic violence for laffz

dudes foot getting blown off lololol

Also, Danny McBride = A+. What else has he done besides this and All the Real Girls?

-- jaymc, Monday, August 18, 2008 1:31 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

foot fist way which looks kinda stupid but everyone loves. rogen et al loving that led to him and dgg making pineapple express i think.

i thought he was funny in pineapple express but isnt he just sort of doing will ferrell?

Perhaps.

shit is reminding me of kevin smith's nerd-ass shared world "view-askewniverse"

-- and what

^^^i hate that view askew shit

i thought he was funny in pineapple express but isnt he just sort of doing will ferrell?

-- max, Monday, August 18, 2008 2:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
it should be noted that his movie was the first (i think) one to be distribute by ferrell's and adam mckay's company.

dude is so much weirder than will ferrell - like so strange its kinda shocking to see him in a movie

mcbride was pretty much the only funny thing about hot rod & was decent in tropic thunder

"doing will ferrell" stfu

i dont mean boning will ferrell i mean his schtick is that will ferrell/napoleon dynamite/john c. reilly thing

yeah i dont really get the connection there xp

theres a lot more violence & overcompensating intensity in what mcbride does compared to those guys, it seems like a pretty unique schtick to me

I think I was the only one in theater who laffed at the Godspeed You Black Emperor joke; then I wondered if Rogen only referenced them cuz they're Canadian.

he also said 'the fuckin Shins' too

I think I was the only one in theater who laffed at the Godspeed You Black Emperor joke

Ha! This is what happened when I went too - then again, it was pretty clear this was because I was surrounded by kids generally almost a decade younger... maybe that joke reference just has more relevance to us, from a few years back.

laughing at crossroads and the rancor reference whilst the rest of the younger audience remained silence (one person actually saying "what did he say? rain-core? what is that?") made me feel old. laughing at the godspeed line made me feel old and indie.

Two weird "Repo Man" references in this movie -- the scene where Rogen pulls up beside the two Hispanic playboys in the convertible is I think a copy of the scene where Otto pulls up beside the two Hispanic repo brothers -- and I'm pretty sure Red refers to the Jones gang as "melon farmers" while showing Rogen and Franco his gun collection.

i think the robert palmer song at the end of the movie "i woke up laughing" was really a reference to the fact that the whole movie was a dream. they took too big of a fucking bong hit and passed out

I think I was the only one in theater who laffed at the Godspeed You Black Emperor joke

-- jaymc, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

yep

"why is no one else....oh."

really funny but coming after tropic thunder the ratio of lolz to LOOOOLZ was kinda low

yeah, that sounds about right.

funny that hader and mcbride show up in both.

gybe joke not funny

both daewoo punchlines = funniest joke in any apatow production

had to remind myself so many times franco wasn't actually stoned

superbad >> pineapple express >>> knocked up >>>>>>>>>>>>>> sarah marshall

YOU JUST GOT KILLED BY A DAE WOO MOTHERFUCKER!!!

― and what, Saturday, 9 August 2008 19:28 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

suggest hero

more movies need to end with the main characters sitting around at a dennys talking about what their favorite parts of the movie were

― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:21 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also suggest hero

(even tho it was YOU JUST GOT KILLED BY A DAEWOO LANOS, BITCH)

never mind, ethan still otm

I think I had a lot more lolz watching this than tropic thunder, but I appreciated the effort put into the latter~

poor jason segel, forgetting sarah marshall is the last stop on the apatow empire before the no mans land of drillbit taylor

that metaphor did not make sense, but then what do i know i kinda liked drillbit taylor

okay, this is the first film i've ever walked out of, and i loved superbad and knocked up. how did they get this so wrong?

okay, this is the first film i've ever walked out of, and i loved superbad and knocked up. how did they i get this so wrong?

― the next grozart, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:49 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This was shit.

but HOW was it shit? these guys have made some of the hysterical films i've seen in the last couple of years but this... i kind of laughed at some points, but i was expecting to be choking on my Fanta really. Hard to please perhaps, but that's what Superbad made me do.

it was alright, i guess, for what it was. i laughed most at all the subtle little stoner bits, particularly the scene where rogen first visits franco "get me the fuck outta here" vs "i need a friend". these things weren't really explored much- except on a very superficial level. i guess its way more difficult to make a classic film about stoners than it is to make one about getting up the duff / growing up. this film didn't really work for me. played everything too safe.

but HOW was it shit?

It was not funny. It felt rather unoriginal. It was too long. It was boring.

That's true. I'm disappointed. I even went into the cinema half-baked and it didn't help at all. Why have this when Harold and Kumar managed to do this (and a bit of Superbad) much better?

Just got in from seeing this. It had a few moments bordering on funny, but the scenes all ran on too long and everything became laboured. In need of some judicious editing is all. ie the trailer was really funny: helped by being snappy and pacey.

Like people say, this film was terrible (and I liked Knocked Up and Superbad).

Man I thought it was way better than Knocked Up, maybe better than Superbad too! I hope I didn't make this exact post earlier in the thread!

this film is dope, f the haters.

in order to invert the last revive, i watched this the other day, only to find that though it was dope, it did not make me laff. it mostly made me bored, except mostly for the awesome conversation at the very end plus basically everything involving dmcb basically

it did not make me laff

I do not understand how that is possible.

Must watch again soon.

i liked this soo much more the second time - james franco is perfect

finally saw it on dvd a few weeks ago. i was really looking forward to it and while i appreciate things about it (like the choices they made, what they were going for, stoner franco), in practice it was so much more lame than i hoped. :(

i have been completely unable to obtain this from netflix since it was released, I haven't seen a new release hold a "very long wait" status ever.

Much too long, but James Franco out-cutes Jeff Spiccoli.

too much of seth rogen is a thing, unfortunately

I got some good laughs from this movie, but found some of the graphic violence a bit jarring and... well... the opposite of funny. I also got a real dorky AICN fanboy vibe about the filmmakers by all the action stuff. Not really crazy about homage stuff; hated the same thing about the conclusion of Hot Fuzz.

Another thing about this movie is that I really felt an almost anti-drug, pandering, morality-message undercurrent to it - same way I felt about 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up having a strong pro-marriage and/or family values thing going on underneath all the crass humor. I am not offended by these messages or anything, they just seem discordant enough to me to mention. I'm not really sure if there's a meaning or if these guys feel like they can get away with more or appeal to a broader audience by having them.

It's like the movie saw the violence in "48 Hours" as some kind of Peckinpah-esque touchstone.

. I am not offended by these messages or anything, they just seem discordant enough to me to mention. I'm not really sure if there's a meaning or if these guys feel like they can get away with more or appeal to a broader audience by having them.

― rockapads

i feel that apatow & co are making christian movies for people who don't like christian movies

intentionally

Yeah, there are definitely these oddly conservative messages underneath these movies. It's not THAT weird I guess, considering the sorts of stories that came out of Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared, but the movies are much raunchier and "edgier". But this formula is working really well for him in terms of box office and getting a much broader audience than Kevin Smith's movies or your typical lame college sex comedy, so I'm guessing he's gonna keep going with it...

(that said I did enjoy Pineapple Express - the action homage bits far more than the stoner mumbling - but I don't ever feel the need to see it a second time)

I was absolutely astonished at all the explosions and gore! Just their presence and quantity – I never guessed a stoner movie would be half pyrotechnics.

as a stoner action fan i enjoyed this immensely and was ridiculously pleased by the van damme tack this took towards the end

I mean if explosions are what separate a stoner movie from being 'Bongwater' to being a good film, bring on the detonation. (Not that Pineapple Express was 96 lols for me, tho I did enjoy it.)

agree that the level of gore/pain/cruelty was higher than i'd expected, and kinda killed the fun for me - esp in the 1st half, before i got the hang. not bothered by that kinda thing, generally, but it doesn't square with my vision of a good-time stoner flick.

I was absolutely astonished at all the explosions and gore! Just their presence and quantity – I never guessed a stoner movie would be half pyrotechnics.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 04:37 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what were you expecting? Seth rogan spent the whole summer hawking this as some half baked/lethal weapon cut and shut. People seem to forget that these guys have some serious coin behind them now, apatow/rogan etcs genius seems to be that they can give the illusion of being independant films by having a lot of organic feeling pal humour pisstakery. Not a bad thing. Felt the film was a bit messy though.

Saw this last night, thought it was pretty good. Surprisingly, fewer laughs than Forgetting Sarah Marshall for me, but the action scenes were good.

What was I expecting? All I knew is it was a movie called "Pineapple Express" and the only starring lead I'd heard of for the film was 'marijuana.'

Also somehow I thought it was a road movie.

Movies are kind of more fun when you know nothing about them going in except for vague connotations that you mostly imagined.

i laffed, but (here i go again) this could have been pared down a bit. i really didn't get why they felt the need to shoehorn the high school gf in there. i guess the fact that she's in high school is played for lols, but mostly it was a complete waste of time.

i'm not sure why the violence in this bugged me, when the violence in Tropic Thunder made me lol.

I think its the rather jarring shift in tone. the violence in PE isn't particularly funny.

Large chunks of it are!

i don't know where to file this but: i discovered yesterday that a local pizza place has a 4:20 delivery special. order between 410 and 430 and they'll take $4.20 off your order.

thug life!

― gbx, Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:14 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

Everyone Involved In Pizza's Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely High

Abbott last night I had a dream that my favorite cousin gave me a book that you had made that was all like EC Segar-style Popeye cartoons, the main difference being that all your characters were extremely overweight.

what this means I do not know

It means I starred in an AWESOME FUCKING DREAM!

i've been up in here, tryin to get a muthafuckin scholarship!

god that pizza article is LOLOTFM

i laffed, but (here i go again) this could have been pared down a bit. i really didn't get why they felt the need to shoehorn the high school gf in there. i guess the fact that she's in high school is played for lols, but mostly it was a complete waste of time.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:11 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Cos when high school girls date much older guys they tend to be stoners/losers.

on the commentary it seems to have been apatow's idea. it was going to be a 'sorted out' twentysomething, and rogen's character would have 'proved himself' to her, but that would have been too shaun of the dead.

i think him having a high school g/f is hilar -- should have had more of her if anything.

this movie is a distant, distant 2nd to forgetting sarah m

i thought sarah marshall was too long, but perhaps need to rescreen it.

do wonder if non-britishes find russell brand funnier in it than britishes do.

oh man I still need to see FSM

this movie is a distant, distant 2nd to forgetting sarah m

― s1ocki, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:42 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i agree with this but role models is better than both imo

do wonder if non-britishes find russell brand funnier in it than britishes do.

i am britishes and that movie is the only time I've found Brand funny at all.

i agree with this but role models is better than both imo

― max, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm, that movie was seriously slept on.

i think pineapple express is a better piece of filmmaking than forgetting sarah marshall; there were just slightly too few gags is all.

james franco is great but the 1/2 is a snooze - no jokes at all practically

i mean second 1/2

this movie is a distant, distant 2nd to forgetting sarah m

― s1ocki, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:42 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i agree with this but role models is better than both imo

― max, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:53 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i want to see this!!

you know what i really liked this year was step brothers

role models packs a lot of lols and goes pretty easy on the schmaltzy bs

rudd & stiffler are both hilar as usual-- 2 of my favorite comic actors of the last 10 years

while admittedly i prefer pineapple express to role models, i'm willing to respect others' opinions on the matter but the second part of this is rong sorry max:

role models packs a lot of lols and goes pretty easy on the schmaltzy bs

― max, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:15 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there was all kinds of lame life lessons crammed up in the middle of role models. still enjoyed the movie but that aspect seemed pretty forced and snoozy

which parts had the life lessons

the parts where rudd and stifler were all sadface moping around for like 10 minutes of a 90 minute movie

not even

yeah that took about 5 minutes

there were still lols. i think people who front on this OMG EMO stuff are usually secret emos anyway. it can't all be stifler macking on nurses at parties.

there were definitely still lols, and i liked the movie overall

the parallel is that critics of both movies complained that they interrupted the jokes for other stuff (emo in role models, action in pineapple express). for me, the action in pineapple express was better integrated and was still pretty funny, while the life lessons in role models brought everything to a halt for a while and seemed forced

just saw Pineapple Express last night, for a big stretch in the middle I was wondering where the funny went but by the end it got SO over the top that I was laughin my ass off again

car chase where his leg got stuck in the windshield was quality

overall I dug it

wow this movie was terrible. started well and then just tanked.

LEGENDS NEVER DIE DUDE

Movie bugged me when I saw it, but for some reason every time I see the blu-ray in a video store I have to fight this compulsion to buy it.

I agree with the violence being uncomfortable at times, but I laughed like a mofo during this movie.

the only movie i've liked in 4 years

not even true

its not, im exaggerating!!!!!!!

caught you

basically you only liked this cuz u have a big fat crush on james franco like 100% of all girls

you are correct, but i also love weed and to lol

its a perfect movie imo

ps i never liked franco til i saw him in this!!

not even

nah i mostly like ugly guys for real, surely youve seen my posts on ws

as far as i can tell ur not really into ugly dudes so much as like... stoners + musicians? and anyone on cnn?

stay tuned for more Max & Roxy after the break

lol u know me swell and this thread is here to prove it!

oops i meant well

u know me pretty swell works too i guess

swell = so well

[wacky neighbor arrival cheer]

dude, you puked into my printer

I need to rent this. Hated it when I saw it in the theater (only laffs were already in the trailer), fell asleep during the family dinner scene, but maybe I was just too tired to enjoy it.

http://i48.tinypic.com/rt17dl.jpg

lol

YES

movie was zzzz

movie makes me want to take up getting stoned so i can watch it stoned

I like that the movie is just kind of blatantly retarded in the character actions and dialogue and the plotting seems weak until you realize that the plot is supposed to be weak. When the characters blunder and do something useful, it never seems like they're heroic or that they're somehow accidentally winning, just that it's stupid. It just seems like purposefully bad slapstick. Then you have that expensive-looking grow house set thrown in, and the whole thing with spying on the kingpin's house which seems like a Beverly Hills Cop homage.

I could not put my finger on it, but something kind of works in it being nonsensical but not overly scripted.

yeah i agree w/ ^that^ ~ ive warmed to this somewhat on reviewing though still h8 the subplot w/ seth rogen's gf and just abt need to look away whenever rosie perez is onscreen and talking

Ha! I kicked off this thread almost two years ago and I STILL haven't seen the movie.

I like that the movie is just kind of blatantly retarded in the character actions and dialogue and the plotting seems weak until you realize that the plot is supposed to be weak.

a lot of rogen's stuff is anti-plot or just riffing on plot clichés, i think, similar to will ferrell and co

The movie is a brilliant pastiche of 80s b-grade action flicks but with stoners inserted into the storyline. Rosie Perez is by far the worst thing about the film. I can't enjoy her even ironically.

I can't enjoy 80s z-grade action films ironically.

i guess i liked how this started, but when it stopped being a stoner movie and became about seth rogen shooting people and no longer was very funny, i got bored

needed more franco and less rogen

s1ocki otm

max otm

needed more Danny McBride, tbh.

I liked this movie exactly as it was and kind of wanted more inept action sequences in it.

(contradictory post is contradictory)

THUG LIFE

mh otm i like that their bumbling into victory isn't particularly heroic nor is the friendship stuff/banter absurdly removed a la 'R&G are dead' or whatever; it seems more distinctive than it probably is for not using either devices when it would have been fair play to do so.
if you don't find the stoner stuff funny tho i could see it being pretty worthless obv.

I can't enjoy 80s z-grade action films ironically.
i don't think the movie played it like that tho fwiw, the tone is consistently 'off' enough to feel like its own thing and not a 'riff' by the time the growhouse scenes come up imo (if that's what you mean)

it's just that they turn into confident action star types for that whole last part... the fun of stoner comedies imo is for our heroes to stonedly and freaked-outedly bumble their way through everything, not to come in guns blazin' and kill everyone

The action scenes are sloppy and tone deaf.

I am imagining all David Gordon Green movies ending like Pineapple Express.

all the real guns

George W. Bush

The action scenes are sloppy and tone deaf.

yeah, they remind me of when Terry Zwigoff tries to do violence - it isn't quite clear if its supposed to be funny and ends up just being gruesome and unpleasant.

George W. Bush

― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha

"yeah, they remind me of when Terry Zwigoff tries to do violence - it isn't quite clear if its supposed to be funny and ends up just being gruesome and unpleasant."

Bad Santa violence was gruesomely funny.

ya

Or in the case of him beating the shit out of the kids in the mall parking lot just fucking hilarious.

Actually wait a second most of the violence was pretty hilarious and un-gruesome. The boxing scene is making snicker right.

I beat the shit out of some kids today. But it was for a purpose. It made me feel good about myself. It was like I did something constructive with my life or something, I dunno, like I accomplished something.

You need therapy. Many, many, many years of therapy.

Half.

you just got killed by a daewoo lanos motherfucker

Bad Santa violence was gruesomely funny.

was ref'ing more to the murders in Art School Confidential. (Altho I always thought the murder in Bad Santa is really off in tone as well)

beating up kids/punching midgets in the balls = slapstick, not violence

art school confidential! i had almost forgotten that terrible terrible terrible movie

it really is unbelievably bad

^ if art school confidential could r.i.p. it would be so on (terrible movie)

this was fucking great by the way

yes

yes, just watched this again the other night, seriously James Franco would be my idol if I had such a thing

obv i love it being a huge fan of weed and franco

his performance is so hilariously tender

he is a vulnerable dude

thought this was the worst movie I ever saw when I saw it in the theater but it laughed the whole way thru when I caught it on tv yesterday

this forum is my xanga

"you just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos mothafucka"