thread for i love you man starring paul rudd jason segel rashida jones lou ferrigno

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!

i agree with all that

thought it was weird they cast jane curtin and then didn't give her any jokes

also this movie is all about making paul rudd even more adorable by making him awkward and dorky, my wife loves him :/

omg that was jane curtin!!!!! shame for not giving her any jokes!!

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.)

kinda want to see this even though i know it's terrible. i keep hoping it's just a poorly cut trailer.

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?

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

this is also a problem because andy samberg isn't funny

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.

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

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.

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.

Max, you can't watch movies like this BUT YOU WENT ON OPENING WEEKEND, huh? Anyway, try the wedding toast in Rachel Getting Married.

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.

SUPPORT ART, DO NOT SEE THIS THING

i dont really understand what that means

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

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.

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

meet the parents 1 was pretty hilare imo

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, 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!

that one yellow top with the circles rashida jones had was really cute

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

this movie was so fucking funny

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

finally caught Chololat on AMC the other day...it was delightful!

pt 2 of the pseudo-Apatow sweepstakes, "adventureland," is much much better.

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

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.

<3 Chololat <3

no, CRAZT only ran for a week at MoMA, didnt go. :(

J0rdan you are insane. "improv" my ass.

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

like cancer.

This was pretty great for a cheapo Sunday afternoon matinee. Didn't recognize Thomas Lennon from Reno 911 at all.

I want to see this movie

no you don't

thread for i love you morbs starring max ethan gabbenb enrique

max doesnt belong in that rogues gallery.

(despite his abominable taste in comedy)

paul rudd . . . . my wife loves him :/

Yeah, mine too.

he is a total dreamboat

thread for i love you morbs starring max ethan gabbenb enrique

― ...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.

rashida jones is v lovely. that's all i got.

max's review is more otm than anything i could come up with on my own.

jon favreau was lols in this.

pretty good, but for my money Role Models is the primo rudd vehicle

wow jason segel is one tall motherfucker.

almost distractingly so.

felt the same with FSM though veronica mars is herself disconcertingly tiny. so is the rashida jones up to a point.

morbius why did you go see this, why, you are contributing to the problem

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. /

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!

i am so depressed that i still have not seen this, maybe tomorrow.

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.

I enjoyed it. About halfway through, I was worried that the movie was going to take the position of "Peter needs Sydney to teach him what being a real man is all about" -- but I'm glad that it eventually skirted that notion and made it seem OK for dudes to hang out with their girlfriends and watch Chocolat. (Both my girlfriend and I, weirdly, related to Paul Rudd's character in this movie.) Also Max's #1 point, above, is OTM.

pretty good but role models smokes this movie

i liked that jon favreau's character does not participate in the ending love-up, he just doesn't like paul rudd and he never does. and it even ends with a wedding! this is like rennaissance comedy writing 101, good job

totally unfunny gobbitch of a retarded cultcha

yeah, the people that can spell are the retarded ones

lolz I saw this last night too - it was okay, but definitely had some basic writing 101 problems structurally. nowhere near as good as Role Models (or Step Brothers)

also Jon Favreau has a freakishly large head.

I mean he practically looks like Modoc in this movie

and while on the one hand 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

I was just thinking, I think the main reason I avoid a lot of mainstream Hollywood comedies is precisely b/c I fear that a majority of the humor comes from trafficking in gender stereotypes. So many of these movies seem like they're going to be all "this is what dudes are all about" or "women be shoppin'" or whatever.

yeah this was better than i thought it would be - mostly due to segel imo.

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

rush stuff was TERRIBLE

I don't think he was meant to be generally socially awkward, just when trying to be a "bro," since it's outside his experience.

"this is what dudes are all about" or "women be shoppin'" or whatever.

This is gold, jaymc. Also, the shoes. Ladies love shoes.

Watched this last night too, v funny. The "improvised" bits mentioned above were grebt and I second all the Rashida Jones crush-love.

how many of you were high when you laughed at this?

Rashida Jones played an airhead w/ no interesting qualities

lol i'm never high!

all of Tarantino's films are funnier than this.

who cares?

yr too good to pull some armond white shit :)

I should've said all of Fassbinder's.

lol now we're talking

Way less funny and more sappy than I hoped but I'm still glad it happened? Also, I kind of liked that the guys bonded over playing music rather than, I dunno, watching sports or drinking beer or something.

The Anwar Sadat thing was kind of funny.

Rashida Jones played an airhead w/ no interesting qualities

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 21, 2009 8:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ u

this was pretty funny, I liked it fine. alfred saying segel is a second rate affleck doesn't really make any sense to me tho

and morbs really is this the movie worth having the stroke about

I mean he practically looks like Modoc in this movie

Cuddling? Crooning? Carousing?

'slapping the bass' thing was super unfunny

agreee^

c.r.a.z.y. is great is there a thread?

morbius why did you go see this, why, you are contributing to the problem

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=4157

If Rudd's character is supposed to be the same age as Segel's character, who was in Gr 9 in 1993, there's no way he saw Rush on the Signals tour. Otherwise, I don't think the Rush thing is anachronistic. AFAICT it's still pretty common for guys who play instruments to bond over Rush, even among my students. The band still packed stadiums whenever they toured this decade.

this thread is sortof a solid gold argument for film guys to all be banned from film threads

"film guys"

you know who you are

lol, ppl w/ standards in comedy apparently

I guess the makers get points for making the gay guy a total bro and not a swish, but his acting and the scenes he got were ridiculous: that dinner table exchange with J.K. Simmons, ugh.

It was a total sop to the straights in the audience: "See? You can work out with gay dudes and they won't grab your ass, and your dad can befriend your gay brother."

this thread is sortof a solid gold argument for film guys to all be banned from film threads

Film guys and (more broadly) those who state their dislike towards a film in a succinct initial post and then endlessly troll the thread to the exhaustion of all.

who did you think I was talking about?

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.

morbs what ARE yr standards in comedy? all I can remember you liking is borat and that horrible simpsons movie (speaking of "widescreen tv")

xpost

That's discourse, not trolling. Some people have difficulties with that distinction.

kinda think threads about midsized popcorn lightweight comedies aren't really the place for high minded opinions tho.

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!

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"

Fassbinder was a joke, son.
(read that like Foghorn Leghorn)

see, cuz his films are unrelentingly grim.

yeah i have seen some thank u

I didn't doubt it! c'mon Plax, don't personalize. It's music I really hate.

<3

don't mind me, first trimester = mood swings + morning sickness

I love you, man

a fine bromance

"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

u misspelled inglourious

haha

bcz I saw the Chocolat trailer. xp

how many marquees have gotten inglourious b-ds wrong? i kno mine did

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 $$

(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)

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!"

"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.

ha!

it was a good joke. maybe i'll watch those outtakes.

slappa de bess

There is also a long sequence of Rudd attempting to say "citttty shlackerrr" without laughing which ends with him in tears.

I was going to ask if this is worth a viewing this afternoon but considering this quote I might not

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.

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"?

worse, but i liked fsm

It wasn't bad. These Apatow & Friends kind of movies are better seen with a group, and not alone...on a laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIH1zcm7ws

fsm was great

Is Get Him to the Greek any good? figure I'll rent it

eh so-so

i didnt like the bad accents jokes but this was pleasant i guess

def prefer role models & adventureland

and fsm

what's the point of comparison w/ Adventureland?

same reason it was compared numerous times upthread? post freaksngeeks apatow diaspora

I watched this a couple weeks ago. It was watchable but Max is right - FSM was much better.

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

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

Apatow connection in Adventureland is pretty tenuous, both in terms of cast and tone

ok. who cares? it was brought up in this thread as a point of comparison

before it was released and people had any idea how off the comparison was, yeah. now we know better.

thanks for wasting both of our time w/ this

surely an important & necessary conversation

:)

lol

"apatow diaspora" lol

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.

You aren't going to leave us hanging with just one random, context-free Jason Segel pullquote, now, are you?

u gonna hav to read the whole thing frend