Apatow '08

head says pineapple express, heart says sarah marshall

out of these I plan only to see Zohan

(only if library gets it, obv)

you are amazing.

FSM was the most apatow-y.

out of these I plan only to see Zohan

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you should, it's basically sandler's munich.

step brotherzzzzz

i didn't realize dude produced step brothers... jesus, he's got a finger in every freakin pie doesn't he... not that i'm complaining really.

anyway even tho step brothers was great it's forgetting sarah marshall by a country mile, easy.

step bros all the way

any1 seen the "unrated version"?

i really wanna see Step Bros

but then i also wanna see Drillbit Taylor, does someone need to talk me out of that?

not yet. getting it though: also for the jon brion-scored musical commentary or whateverthefuck.

step brothers > talladega

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drillbit is pretty wack

so s1ocki, that logic must make FSM the greatest film comedy since Annie Hall amirite

probably, that one sounded pretty bad.

im trying to figure out if step bros really was all that or whether it was just nice to see dudes back on form after semi-pro and walk hard, so dire

so s1ocki, that logic must make FSM the greatest film comedy since Annie Hall amirite

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:36 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because it's better than "step brothers"?

im all about mila so i had to go FSM

yes, bcz Stepbrothers "was GREAT"

say what you mean eh

step brothers is genuinely awesome. the guy playing ferrell's actual brother destroys. also their parents.

it was great! does all my language have to be on some absolute historical, objective scale? cuz if so we're either going to need some new words or i'm going to have to get a lot more long-winded

be nabisco, mark

was that "eh" a dig at slocki being canadian

oh snap real names time

yes, "max"

i mean Ethelbert

the unready

i mean i had a really fun time at step brothers—a "great" time, if you will—laughed all the way through, really enjoyed it. doesn't mean i'm saying it's as good as annie hall, which is in my top 25 or 10 GOATs, but why should i have to pretend i didn't enjoy it just because there are better movies out there?

seen all but drillbit...zohan easily

some of zohan was really, really bad.

yea but i thot most of step bros was bad & FSM/Pineapple had more bad than good

me at the drunken Oscar party after the lame Apatow "film":

"Fuckin' straightboy stoner SHIT! dhgvbghs@#!...."

who cares

how did you pronounce "@#"

that was the best part of the night after steve martin and tina fey

Almost voted Zohan for the bit where John Turturro does the advert for the machentachen (definite SP) restaurant but FSM was probably the one I lol'd at most plus was somewhat emotionally involved in the storyline. Step-brothers was awesome the first time I saw it but didn't really much rewatchability.

another devastating bon mot from the 09 dorothy parker mr dorbius

who cares about anything, n/a

geez all of these are terrible :-/

I have seen the unrated Step Brothers, it mainly consists of slightly extended versions of existing bits and a cringe inducing scene where John C. Reilly and the brother's wife hold a conversation with the rest of the family while having sex. You can see why they cut it out.

step brothers ruled really. i think i liked pineapple express a lot more than most but i have a big soft spot for rogen & franco. maybe it's just that i thought apatow & co had completely exhausted their schtick after forgetting sarah marshall

yeah im gonna go with Pineapple Express because at least the casual misogyny is in the service of a pretty funny joke.

where's the misogyny in pineapple express?

where are the chicks in pineapple express

where are teh PINEAPPLES

straightboy stoner @#!

oh I forgot I saw Drillbit Taylor. don't rush

i voted step brothers. yes it's a goofy film, but it's a darn sight better than pineapple express.

FSM, but I need to see Step Bros.

Write-in for Role Models - Rudd, McLovin, generally Apatowy even ifhe wasn't involved.

(role models) > FSM > step bros > pineapple express/drillbit taylor (havent seen either) >>>>> zohan

Role Models probably benefitted from now having Apatow in the editing room saying "I know this is a comedy but guys, don't worry about making this a tight hour and a half, leave in everything you like"

were there any other off-brand Apatow-ish movies besides RM last year? I guess Tropic Thunder and Zack & Miri? maybe Semi-Pro too but ugh.

now=not

foot fist way was another.

also i guess the worst film of 2008, 'strange wilderness'.

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wrong answer imo!!!

and i don't think tropic thunder counts as off-brand apatow other than being a comedy...there's no crossover players besides danny mcbride and the production values are too high

stiller and apatow go way back though. and that one guy who played a soldier was in undeclared, and that other guy was in FSM, knocked up, superbad. bill hader.

dude who was in undeclared is also in Knocked Up!

Jay Baruchel.

WHATEVER

ZOOLANDER LEGACY CLEARLY A SEPARATE STRAIN OF MOVIE COMEDY FROM APATOW CLAN. EVEN IF THE CABLE GUY IS A COMMON PROGENITOR THE RIVER HAS SPLIT

yeah im gonna go with Pineapple Express because at least the casual misogyny is in the service of a pretty funny joke.

where was joek

missed this thread but these two were so hilarious

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Pineapple Express

step bros was fucking awful imo - john c reilly is sooo unfunny and yeah will ferrell's improv was great but its ALWAYS great. doesn't mean shit for step brothers

step bros was great retarded fun you mad

I laughed plenty @ Step Brothers.

Mostly the first 45 minutes though. It kind of ran out of steam.

"you and your mom are hillbillies. this is a house of learn-ed doctors."

granted i dont remember any of it at all but i remember hating it when i saw it - didnt think it was funny at all and by the standards of will ferrell it was crazy disappointing

hmm I've been kinda wondering about Step Bros, seems like it came and went without leaving a ripple.

that happened because it's awful

Step Bros actually did pretty well, which honestly shocked me given the performance of Semi-Pro and Walk Hard

"I am a fucking medical doctor!"

by the standards of will ferrell it was crazy disappointing

what standards are these now

The high standards of Stranger Than Fiction.

if you don't like will ferrell you shouldn't be reading a step brothers thread

I've seen part of Step Bros but I was on a long-haul flight and decided to watch some of it to see how cut it was. Will Ferrell rubs his "but-tocks" on the drum set. Also the song that John C Reilly sings at the dinner table is totally different and rubbish.

well i meant to say I've seen Step Bros but was on a long haul and decided to watch part but somehow I'm crazy retarded.

I liked "Stranger Than Fiction" right up until the end, where the movie seemed to try to undercut my disappointment with the ending by literally having the characters go "it's too bad the ending is disappointing, huh" which made me actively hate it.

I've seen part of Step Bros but I was on a long-haul flight and decided to watch some of it to see how cut it was

It's pretty ripped

STF was great but definitey not the standard for ferrell

lol i thought this thread was about step brothers

i haven't seen stranger than fiction - basically im talking anchorman, old school, blades of glory (<- hilarious), zoolander, wedding crashers cameo, etc etc

I think Step Bros is pretty on par with most of those (much funnier than Anchorman anyway) but I'm not going to argue with what other people find funny.

don't get me wrong i like ferrell, but in a different type of role?? he maybe the best SNL straight-man since hartman, i just don't understand why everyone likes him playing a shouty man-child at all times

Cuz it's funny?

up until 5 years ago, sure

i just don't understand why everyone likes him playing a shouty man-child at all times

step brothers was jump the shark moment in this regard i think

Mostly the first 45 minutes though. It kind of ran out of steam.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, March 4, 2009 12:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

come on the acting like a grown man stuff at the end was hilarious

Ferrell was never funny. Not like McLovin'.

Step Brothers was kind of surprisingly hysterical. I do agree it gets flat somewhere in the middle but I think it rebounds sufficiently towards the end. Altogether more laughs than any other Ferrell vehicle that comes to mind and John C. Reilly was funnier than he's probably ever been.

Haters = RONG

"come on the acting like a grown man stuff at the end was hilarious"

I didn't say there were no funny bits at all.

Outtakes for this movie were brilliant (as with most Ferrell movies).

all of these movies except drillbit are on the comcast on demand thingy at the mo

i watched stepbrothers for the first time the other day and the sleepwalking xmas tree scene actually had me laughing and i never laugh out loud at movies

gotta rescreen step brothers but there was amazing stuff, especially from ferrell's brother and his family and his horrible friends. they nail the 'dbags quoting scarface' phenomenon, fer example.

ZOOLANDER LEGACY CLEARLY A SEPARATE STRAIN OF MOVIE COMEDY FROM APATOW CLAN. EVEN IF THE CABLE GUY IS A COMMON PROGENITOR THE RIVER HAS SPLIT

― A B C, Wednesday, March 4, 2009 1:18 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I DISAGREE.

OWEN WILSON WAS IN DRILLBIT.
WILL FERRELL HAS BEEN IN A BUNCH OF APATOW FILMS POST-ZOOLANDER
DITTO VINCE VAUGHN

step brothers was sort of blah but it definitely had its moments

i mean i had a really fun time at step brothers—a "great" time, if you will—laughed all the way through, really enjoyed it. doesn't mean i'm saying it's as good as annie hall, which is in my top 25 or 10 GOATs, but why should i have to pretend i didn't enjoy it just because there are better movies out there?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:42 (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is basically how I break it down

can't believe FSM won this poll tho. did the ppl who voted for it actually see it? pineapple4life

can't believe FSM won this poll tho. did the ppl who voted for it actually see it? pineapple4life

― noby noby king boy pato (cozwn), Wednesday, March 4, 2009 7:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was the funniest one

"I am a fucking medical doctor!"

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Was this line even in the actual movie? the montage of jenkins repeating it in the extra scenes is hilarious.

it was the funniest one

Yes, it was. I haven't seen Zohan, but the others I'd rank in the same order as the poll results.

Drillbit Taylor came from a story written by John Hughes under a pseudonym. It's not a bad story, actually, and Owen Wilson is sweet in it, but the laughs are pretty thin on the ground.

both FSM and PE get better the more you watch them, however, I have seen FSM more because we have the DVD of that (3 times in xmas weekend while entertaining siblings/boyfriend!!) so I voted for FSM. It has a DRACULA MUSICAL in it. Also, my brother learned to play the Russell Brand song on guitar.. I forget exactly how it goes right now but it's the one where he basically wants to be in Sarah?

yeah I definitely watched both movies thinking "I like this now, but I'm going to love it once I start watching 10 minutes of it every other day on cable." I thought that about Knocked Up, too, though, and it definitely hasn't had the same replay value for me as, say, 40 Year Old Virgin.

fsm didnt star anyone recognizable so i assumed it wasnt worth seeing

inside of you.... inside of youuuuuu

i am going to check out this sarah marshall ish right now and get back to you re: the hype

cankles if you don't recognize Jason Segal why even click on an Apatow thread?

sorry came out way bitchier than expected, I'll go suggest ban meself..

canks u see mila kuniss boobs

i didn't really think much of Mila Kunis before I saw this then I saw it and wanted her to be my girlfriend.

segal's cock gets a surprising amount of screentime in the unrated version, jesus

It was pretty exposed in the theatrical version.

not complaining btw

finally saw fsm and as someone who has known to have very little shame when it comes to being a rubbish ex, it seemed a bit too close to home. loved it.

poorly directed tho

I may be writing about the upcoming Rudd-Segel potboiler, i'll keep you abreast!

yea, pineapple express by a long shot the best film in that way. i voted step bros though.

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I may be writing about the upcoming Rudd-Segel potboiler, i'll keep you abreast!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:27 PM

this?

jeez, I hope there aren't two.

oh how i look forward to that review

schef I will pretend I am writing it for you personally

include some butt shots of rudd then, thx in advance

and rate each star's performance on the usability of their mouths

morbs how would you rate the usability of the mouth of ronaldinho

oh what the fuck did i miss this time

just saw stepbrothers and it is amazing

step bros made me sad even when i was laughing. i just felt really bad 4 everyone even tho they werent even real movie ppl

role models was incredible tho

In the movie Role Models, Danny (Paul Rudd) paraphrases the lyrics, stating that he likes to "rock and roll all night and *part* of everyday", as he has errands during the day and can only rock between 1:00 and 3:00.

step bros made me sad even when i was laughing. i just felt really bad 4 everyone even tho they werent even real movie ppl

waht?

need to get the dvd of this stat.

naw once was enough. oh maybe u need 2?

m.bronson i remembered u repping this b4 i even posted here but idk i mean obv no1 in step bros. the movie was supposed to be "a real person" but i guess i still watched that way like these men are mentally retarded they need real help. which i guess was what the psychiatrist thing was about? watching those dudes discomfited me.

In the movie Role Models, Danny (Paul Rudd) paraphrases the lyrics, stating that he likes to "rock and roll all night and *part* of everyday", as he has errands during the day and can only rock between 1:00 and 3:00.

^this is not clever and is cribbed from the simpsons, right?

its hilarious and your dum