Zach Galifianakis: he has a beard (talk about "The Hangover" here)

It says so here and so it must be true. (Full beard discussion on page five.)

i read this article

i enjoy the comedic stylings of this gentleman

i watched one of the vodka ads described in that article and it was funn

“I was doing a bit about how much I hate celebrity egos, and that seemed to resonate with Kanye West, for some reason,” said Galifianakis, with a barely perceptible grin. “He asked me to do a video for him, and I said yes, with one condition: I just go off by myself and shoot it, and he doesn’t get to look at it until it’s done.” To everyone’s surprise, West agreed. The resulting video, in which Galifianakis and the indie-folk icon Will Oldham drive a tractor around a cornfield while lip-synching West’s hit single “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” has been viewed nearly half a million times. “I wasn’t sure what Kanye would think of it, to be honest,” Galifianakis said. “But his response was perfect, considering how we’d first met. He said it was the best video he’d ever made.”

i read this article

― ice cr?m, Friday, May 29, 2009 12:55 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i enjoy the comedic stylings of this gentleman

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, May 29, 2009 12:56 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

I was hoping you were referring to jho cuz I can't stand this zach dude

srsly I experience irrational anger

maybe I should talk to somebody about this

maybe I just need a hug

i have a beard

what's her name

katie holmes

I like him as an actor more than as a comedian.

Guy's awesome. Love the Tim & Eric vodka commercials.. Also funny as THE SNUGGLER on T&E: http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39216cdd4f10116d07bd6af0120

Also funny "interview" with Michael Showalter:

fucking love this guy

i remember watching the zach galifinakis show on vh1 in high school and just having tears streaming down my face

i warmed to him through tim and eric; initially irrationally annoyed.
Tairy Green / The Snuggler / Gravy Robber = slow burner

yeah his VH1 show was so awesome in that way that shows that you know are doomed to a swift cancellation give you a giddy "i can't believe they're still getting away with this" kind of thrill. i think he's pretty hit or miss as a comic, though -- i rented the "live at the purple onion" DVD and was kind of appalled at how dull and deeply unfunny it was.

liked him a lot as the superstitious submarine crewman in the film 'below'

tbh I've only seen his standup which struck me as blowhard hipster dreck, sounds like he's better in acting mode?

nyt article didn't make the waters look any more inviting tho

what is "blowhard hipster dreck" pray tell

“Zach has a darkness,” Silverman agrees. “But at the same time he’s mostly silly. We were standing backstage at a club in L.A., U.C.B., that shares a hallway with a restaurant called Birds. On the door that goes into the restaurant, it says ‘Birds employees only,’ and Zach just took his pen and put a comma after ‘Birds,’ so it said, ‘Birds, employees only,’ as if they were telling birds that they are not allowed through this door. He sees every situation as an opportunity.”

yes, an opportunity to be annoying

Sarah Silverman's telling of that story is kind of what's annoying.

she so didn't get the joke. the comma meant "birds AND employees only".

That's what I thought it meant too!

blowhard hipster dreck = smug drama majors who wear scarves and talk loud at parties

(feel free to attack my straw man with rakes and knives)

blowhard hipster dreck is like 'the amazing racist', zach is pretty good imo

if he wanted to direct his message towards the birds, he should have used a colon

Birds: Employees Only

hipsters are generally not blowhards - why because its not cool to talk too much. drama majors on the other hand do not care abt being cool and are for that reason and others generally not hipsters.

"smug drama majors who wear scarves and talk loud at parties"

that's kind of not how i'd peg this dude at all.

god, the tone of this article is so credulous and hyperbolic i almost wish i didn't think he was funny.

hipsters are anything but blowhards typically yes

god, the tone of this article is so credulous and hyperbolic

^^^^ this

E3 why would you post the word hipster in an nyt article thread?

because my comedy is like performance art

sorry guyz I didn't wake up this morning planning to troll a zach galifianakis thread it just kind of happened

you can go back to giving him props now and I will resolve to give him another chance

you love beards

yeah, this article is pretty embarrassing and will not make you want to like the guy. not his fault though. he's not the one proclaiming himself a "performance artist".

<3 katie holmes

xp

performance, artist

nah, i would say the subject is at least partly responsible for my feelings about the article:

“College kids these days have an appreciation for randomness — just completely bizarre stuff,” Galifianakis told me, “and they didn’t get that by going to Uncle Chuckle’s Comedy Hut.”

those two statements i have to say are pretty much undeniably true

It's not that I think he's lying or misunderstanding what he's talking about.

yeah well hearing abt why comedians do what they do is never pleasing - have you ever seen the movie the aristocrats - its the worst

i dunno -- i actually kinda enjoy watching old school comics talk about their craft in a laid back way, the way they get philosophical or mechanical about humor sometimes is really insightful, even if it's kind of pretentious or disillusioning. what Galifianakis and the writer are putting down in that article is the same "this ain't your daddy's standup" crap that alt-comedy's been peddling for what 15 years at the bare minimum? it's like indie rock reviews that still harp about major labels corrupting music or something.

who cares. it's funny.

xp the difference is that most "mainstream" standup is awful.

thing is, what comes across as just a dude talking about shit in a non-douchey manner IRL can be written to make him seem like a smug douche on the page, which is why interviews should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt

some dude going to Uncle Chuckle’s Comedy Hut tonite iirc

xp yah in general you may want to give the interview subject the benefit of the doubt in a nyt piece.

Chuckle Shipley was a saint, and I won't have you disrespecting the hut he put his blood, sweat and tears into.

College kids these days have an appreciation for randomness - and hugs!

tired of all this blowhard hugster dreck

hugs more of a high school thing tbf

they stop hugging once they're old enough to grow beards

and they learn to love randomness

dada hug

uncle huggles

what Galifianakis and the writer are putting down in that article is the same "this ain't your daddy's standup" crap that alt-comedy's been peddling for what 15 years at the bare minimum? it's like indie rock reviews that still harp about major labels corrupting music or something.

^this

much much much better actor than comedian
his standup is so goddamn full of self-referential bullshit and aren't I cleverness
but he works well when he's a character acting that way

speaking of NYT and hugs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/style/28hugs.html

^on the front page yesterday!

"But pro-hugging students say it is not a romantic or sexual gesture, simply the “hello” of their generation. “We like to get cozy,” said Katie Dea, an eighth grader at Claire Lilienthal Alternative School in San Francisco. “The high-five is, like, boring.”"

man this is like when u guys spit blood over that where the wild things are trailer that made the world hold hands & weep

why can't you just let him be great

xp, I didn't start a thread about the NYT piece and was kinda proud i avoided that, but I guess my self-restraint has limits.

forks

bro

somebody needs a late pass

ok the dangerous teenage hug epidemic - another important new york times trend piece

i'm totally confused why people keep saying ZG is a good actor, but perhaps that's because the only things i've seen him act in are brief sketches and the snowboarding comedy Out Cold

xp, whoops, suppose I missed that.
The world moves so fast.

(xp) i'm totally confused why you keep sharing your opinion

man this is like when u guys spit blood over that where the wild things are trailer that made the world hold hands & weep

why can't you just let him be great

are you kidding this is what we do best

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Grayfrt.jpg

fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, ilx gotta snark on nyt entertainment profiles and human interest stories

wow guy named jeff totally sonning me for posting on a message board over here!

whoa i totes missed that excellent post from "jeff"

if it makes you feel any better ABC I got caught out there on the wrong side of the hugs epidemic story yesterday but I feel like history will redeem me

not so much that he's a "good actor" I guess as that the character doesn't piss me off the same way that it does when he's "revolutionary alt-comic ZACH GALIFAKNAKANAK" and things I would've found frustrating are oddly funny when the ego is removed.

I'm the Snuggler. I Snuggle You.

nothing in the profile gave me the impression that he ever signed up to be that tho....dude seems kinda weird at best but who isn't?

what i've seen of him from the comedians of comedy series, he seems kinda douchey and self-important... trolling for street musicians to come on stage to support his act as SURPRISE GUESTS sounds interesting? but comes off a little skeezily class-conscious. Anybody else seen this bit?

that where the wild things are trailer hurt me real bad

but my kids watched it with great delight 20 times in a row so I can't get too sore about it, they're happy I'm happy etc

yeah i know what you mean...i thought he was pretty funny at times in the Comedians of Comedy things, but based on the DVD i referred to upthread, they were really able to cherrypick good stuff out of a really inconsistent performer.

xpost

i'm probably just defensive b/c the vh1 revolution was the backdrop to my coming-of-age

the between two ferns bits on funnyordie are pretty good imo

nothing in the profile gave me the impression that he ever signed up to be that tho....dude seems kinda weird at best but who isn't?

yeah but it comes off as a preening & self-congratulatory weirdness (at least in his standup)

god bless him

I don't know why I can't stop bagging on this guy

it just feels so right

why can't he be like those other douchey and egoless comedians

non-douchey rather

really, if he was more like bill cosby this thread never would have happened

let that be a lesson to you mr galifianakis

blaming the coz is the last refuge of a scoundrel

cant we please just pick on demetri martin instead

I don't blame the coz I blame the galif

and yeah we can bag on demetri martin too

and that michael ian black, total douchenozzle

Part I of the Tim & Eric & Zach Absolut commercials:

snuggler is hilarious, this is decent too imo

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/snuggler.jpg

ok, these Between Two Ferns bits are killing me:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f0e860bf5e/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-from-between-two-ferns-comedy-deathray-zach-galifianakis-and-jimmy-kimmel#player

yeah well hearing abt why comedians do what they do is never pleasing - have you ever seen the movie the aristocrats - its the worst

― ice cr?m, Friday, May 29, 2009 1:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

thought I was alone in thinking this :`)

oh god no....i had people try to explain to me why it was so great but it srsly looked like one of my nightmare scenarios.

Aristocrats was great, I thought. But I can see how it might not be for everyone.

comedic stylings = good. cute bearded.

i love watching/hearing comedians talk about what they do. comedian was super dope imo.

god, the Two Ferns thing and the Absolute commercial just totally made me weep.

my friend Jake used to have a signed photograph of Zach eating pancakes. i kind of wish i knew what had happened to it.

i keep reading this guy's in Bing Crosby's voice to the tune of Mele Kalikimaka

so funny in the hangover

Fugees & Funyuns

love this dude

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

i dunno -- i actually kinda enjoy watching old school comics talk about their craft in a laid back way, the way they get philosophical or mechanical about humor sometimes is really insightful, even if it's kind of pretentious or disillusioning. what Galifianakis and the writer are putting down in that article is the same "this ain't your daddy's standup" crap that alt-comedy's been peddling for what 15 years at the bare minimum?

^^^this. sometimes i think the only good comedy writers are 90-year-old jews.

"sometimes"

I enjoyed The Hangover kind of in spite of its raging bro-ness. And yeah, Galifianakis was the best part of the film. This thing's making bank so we'll probably be seeing a lot more of the dude.

And in lolHollywood news, a sequel's already in the works. This thing made over twice as much as Land of the Lost this weekend.

^^ that is shocking, had to google to verify you were serious but wow

yeah but hardly anybody outside of a bunch of gen-x stoners has ever heard of LOTL.

(the original, i mean)

well, a will ferrell movie performing below expectations and the hangover doing well aren't in and of themselves big surprises, but to that much of a degree is kinda wild

It serves Will Ferrell right for being so lazy about projects. He didn't learn the lesson from Bewitched.

Land of the Lost was marketed poorly; it's based on a show few people under 30 remember and it was advertised as a family movie, when it's actually a rather ribald and trippy PG-13 comedy.

idk if galifinakis was the "best part" of the movie, it was more of an ensemble effort for me (i liked it). he's at his best when he's being his most absurd; [JOKE SPOILERS] "this is caesar's palace...does caesar live here?" "i know you probably get this a lot, but is this hotel beeper-friendly? i'm not getting a signal" etc. the more tired loner/fat dude stuff didnt work as well for me but it wasnt lame enough to take away from the movie or anything

Land of the Lost was marketed poorly; it's based on a show few people under 30 remember and it was advertised as a family movie, when it's actually a rather ribald and trippy PG-13 comedy.

Oh, so shades of Universal's mistake in marketing Evan Almighty last year, it seems. Their entire marketing team for tent pole comedies should be fired.

Their entire marketing team for tent pole comedies

i really want to switch my login to this phrase.

Well, the three leads were all solid and it's definitely an ensemble piece with these guys working off of each other, but Galifianakis was kind of the standout imo. Seemed to get the most laughs anyway.

xxpost

"i can't read"

is this the Hangover thread?

FUCKING HILARIOUS

but I'm an Ed Helms guy

I immediately and almost inexplicably wanted to see this from the first moment I saw a print ad for it on the subway.

Man, I love Ed Helms

I kind of get the impression that this movie was like completely rancid in embryonic script form though

it was a tim armstrong biopic

Oh like the band.

band?

i was referring to the ceo of AOL

Saw it tonight. Thought this was the funniest thing I've seen since the first Harold & Kumar. All three leads are great.

I kind of get the impression that this movie was like completely rancid in embryonic script form though

^^^^ this. The casting completely made it. If the exact same script was filmed with someone like Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, and Random Nerd Guy it wouldn't be good at all.

I kind of admire how unapologetic todd phillips is about his idiot fratboyness. old school was pretty dumb (and hangover is way way better) but I like how neither movie tries to make its characters learn anything or teach the audience a message beyond, y`know, binge drinking is a blast.

^^^this. sometimes i think the only good comedy writers are 90-year-old jews.

http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/

So it looks like The Hangover ended up ahead of Up this weekend at the box office by about a million dollars. Pretty incredible.

Good things about this movie:

a) Zach Galifianakis
b) Kevin Jeong
c) Heather Graham's boob

Other than that, it was pretty average. Kinda seemed like they forgot to write a script. Bradley Cooper's character was unlikeable (this might have been the point?), Ed Helms was good I guess but they didn't give him much of anything funny to do. Too much of the movie was given away in ads. I dunno, I still laughed a fair amount.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/movies/05hang.html?ex=1260331200&en=82e3a368c512733d&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=MO-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M101-ROS-0609-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click

A.O. Scott on FIRE lately.

this was pretty funny by the way

galifianakis had the best lines by a long shot

i was sort of mildly irritated by how bradley coopers character started off as a total asshole and then was this like sweet father by the end with no explanation but wvs

the caesars palace thing almost had me in tears

Kinda seemed like they forgot to write a script.

Who cares? They wrote a whole lot of jokes, and so many of them work. Some of them -- like the little angry dude leaping out of the trunk and beating them all with a tire iron -- work so well that I swear I almost peed. This is a really fucking funny movie.

It's kinda like Swingers meets After Hours, and then near the end a bit of City Slickers, just for the moral of the story. (Not crazy about that last bit.) But man. I cried, my nose ran, the whole bit.

Meh.

Too much of the movie was given away in ads.

Ah, see -- I never saw a single ad, I don't think. Recommended via Facebook by some old-ass friends. I had only the vaguest idea even of the premise. I guess I'm glad I didn't.

i was sort of mildly irritated by how bradley coopers character started off as a total asshole and then was this like sweet father by the end with no explanation but wvs

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max),

idk i totally bought that as like "man who kinda hates his life and has a lot of self-loathing happening but is also totally in love with his kid and enjoys the company of his wife even if she drives him nuts 5 days out of 7"

the touches of self-hatred cooper gave the dude really sold him for me

I think a lot of it was in the pacing. And Zach Galifianakis deadpanning is worth two movies.

"is this the real ceasar's palace"

nah i mean dont get me wrong i thought cooper did a good job, i guess maybe i was annoyed cuz hes a good enough actor to pull off the whole early-midlife-crisis-charismatic-asshole-but-ultimately-a-pretty-good-guy thing but the script doesnt really do any work at all for him

oh my god that ao scott review

i haven't seen this yet but i hope it's at least as lols-worthy as that.

The best argument against growing a beard ever may be the line where Ed Helms is trying to explain Zach's behavior -- "Don't let the beard fool you. He's a child." Maybe I'm way off, but isn't that kind of one of the things a beard says?

that wolfpack/blood brothers thing slayed me

i died when he sang the best friends song

yeah this was v v funny. but galifinakis (whom i've always thought of as so-so) pretty much carried it. take him out and put some other "wacky" dude in and it probably would've been a real pos.

FOTY contender imho

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/hangover-helms-tooth.jpg

Maybe this movie needs its own thread

(I downloaded a cam just to go through the photos at the end more slowly.)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/hangover-strip.jpg

Love that Carrot Top and Wayne Newton are in the photos, but not the movie.

This was really terrible. Ed Helms song completely took me out of the movie too, like the guy is freaking out cos he's lost the groom etc. and then he pauses to sing a little song about it? I even like Galifianakis normally but he just wasn't funny here. Needed more actual jokes.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/hangover-helms-tooth.jpg

I honest to God thought this was Ally and Dr. Morbius at first.

this isnt the real caesars palace is it?

loooooooooooooool

at jaymc

definitely NOT max

ouch

is it meta or just kinda sad that heather graham basically reprises her 'swingers' role in this?

pretty sure shes a LAWYER in swingers. here she's a STRIPPER

but i get ur point, though dont think its meta or sad really

o rly? i had forgotten that.

o rite rite rite. they condescend to a waitresss but she turns out to be smarter than them. and that's her trailer-mate? or something. this film >>> swingers though.

ur confusing scenes. HG is the chick favreau meets at the end

red faces all round here

anyway, some of the stuff i liked best abt this that no one else has brought up is the dark/ominous tone set in the beginning esp the title card sequence over the fountains in vegas & then transitioning into the getting ready 2 party vibe w/ good soundtrack choices, montages, etc..

did think it dragged some about where tyson is introduced and there werent really enough joeks from there on...

they should have got an actor to play tyson or something coz he suuuuucked. i feared for its momentum but idk, they just about pulled it off with the rainman sequence.

otm about the ominosity and the transition & shit.

I honest to God thought this was Ally and Dr. Morbius at first.

I honest to God just laughed out loud.

I honest to God thought this was Ally and Dr. Morbius at first.

lol

This film kinda bored me, but my fellow crowd-members seemed very impressed.

I liked Ed Helms' song. Couldn't believe how many jokes they cribbed from Zach G's stand-up.

Kind of a waste of Mike Epps imo

"No, tigers like pepper. They don't like cinnamon."

Don't ask me why, but this totally cracked me up.

While I didn't think this movie was a earth-shatteringly hilarious as the frat boys sitting in the row ahead of me, the blood brothers part of the film brought tears to my eyes, and this is the first movie to do that to me in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZiEK0fD_I

just figured it out guys

alan is deeznuts, right?

hangover was hilarious.

alan is deeznuts, right?

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, July 6, 2009 1:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i take this back, alan is CAPTAINLORAX

it kept up a really high joke rate and was generally unsentimental, which i enjoyed

http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/07/after-the-hangover-what-zach-galiafianakis-may-do-next.html

http://reporter.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451d69069e2011571cffb1c970b-800wi

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i lolllll'ed all the way through this. it probably does not stand up to close scrutiny but honestly does anyone give a fuck?

i keep thinking about zach g's pronunciation of "retard" and cracking up.

^^^ yes!

idk, fuck a close scrutiny, i rarely watch movies twice.

so is this guy responsible for the amorphous mountain man beard trend? because if so he has so much to answer for.

He isn't responsible for it, imo

nah, bonnie prince billy at the very least came first

zach is a symptom

it probably does not stand up to close scrutiny but honestly does anyone give a fuck?

loved it on first viewing and raved about it to everyone. saw it a second time, and while it was still funny, definitely stopped raving. kinda cooled off...

Yet another reason not to ever have to go to Las Vegas.

line that made me laugh the most - "not you, fat jesus"

ppl are dissing the script but i thought it was pretty clever - how at the end of the movie you still don't really know the structure/full story (the stuff w/ the camera spoils this a bit)

Nah, it explains it. You can't spoil a movie that's already over.

I thought the camera photos were genius.

the camera/credits thing is kinda brilliant

xp

loved it on first viewing and raved about it to everyone. saw it a second time, and while it was still funny, definitely stopped raving. kinda cooled off...

Yeah I don't want or need to see it again. Part of the joke is that the audience is as lost as the characters are.

seeing this soon. stoked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2IdG3u9EOw

That looks like a hilarious "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?"

Hopefully without him killing his family.

haha wtf

You know, Fassbinder also had a beard.

it kept up a really high joke rate and was generally unsentimental, which i enjoyed

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
^^

I was anticipating the usual 'now's when this comedy gets serious/touching' thing that most comedies do toward their ends and this one wisely avoided it. Hoorah.

Really liked this movie. "He bet you you weren't a good enough dentist to pull your own tooth, so you did!"

I didn't like the asian villain dude though. I didn't get him.

this movie is an american classic imo - it's like the grown up superbad except 100x less mature?

they really casted it so well - i mean for a movie that obv was not hyped and probably didn't have that huge of a budget (?) they got everyone in their perfect roles - cooper as the super slick/cool dude, zack g as the aloof dumb guy and helms as nerd guy suppressing his partyman side but who turns out to be "the craziest" one - so many hilarious lines too - "i can't lose someone close to me again. it was really hard when my grandpa died." "oh when did he die?" "world war II"

probably didn't have that huge of a budget (?)

$35 million! downright reasonable imo.

yeah true, not exactly sure why i said that tbh

no dude that's pretty good for anything out of hollywood.

put it this way--morbs basically convinced me that $60 mil wasn't that bad for a movie about billy beane pacing around an office.

it must've been so fun to film too. just kickin it in a hueg suite at the palms

btw it was the second time i saw it and thought it was just as funny

There were many v brief moments of Galifianakis being ridiculous which were hilarious like his child-like oblivious enthusiasm when the chapel celebrant/owner guy started palling around with them when they rocked up the next day and the other two were totally O_o at him.

I didn't like the asian villain dude though. I didn't get him.

Just saw Pineapple Express last night (not terrible, three stars, etc etc), and he was the Asian villian in that, too. Or one of them, anyway.

Looks like he has a good-sized role in Funny People too. Dude's getting work.

hes a medical doctor

he was a medical doctor in "Knocked Up"

thought he was one of the best parts of The Hangover

yeah his VH1 show was so awesome in that way that shows that you know are doomed to a swift cancellation give you a giddy "i can't believe they're still getting away with this" kind of thrill. i think he's pretty hit or miss as a comic, though -- i rented the "live at the purple onion" DVD and was kind of appalled at how dull and deeply unfunny it was.

I loved Live at the Purple Onion. IHOCCOC, 5 year old with a beard, pretentious illiterate, Seth talking about catching Zach making homemade ecstasy etc.

IHOCCOC?

international house of...CCOC?

IHOCOC even sorry,

international house of corn on the cob

The whole thing is on YouTube, btw. Worth an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spzlPbu3JTQ

pretentious illiterate and others:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/29cdcf5a64/new-characters-from-zach-galifianakis-from-zach-galifianakis

i got 'visioneers' from netflix, won't have a chance to watch it until next weekend tho.

18th century comedian nathaniel buckner:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4b51eb0201/zach-galifianakis-as-nathaniel-buckner-from-zach-galifianakis

wow, this sucked a lot more than i expected. what a ho-hum average comedy. doesn't hold a candle to Superbad.

the only laughs for me were "fat jesus", when zach (not baby) got hit by a door, and one of the over-exuberant "HOly shIT" yells. many of the yukyuk moments mentioned upthread (retard, grandpa) were just not my speed. blech. basically it was a movie about three douchebags (+ a guy with a beard).

There is a lot of Internet speculation on what you’re doing next.
Oh, I know. How can people get through their day without knowing? Isn’t there a war still going on? I don’t know what I’m going to do. I think I know what I’m doing, but these things get jinxed. I’m doing a kind of Planes, Trains & Automobiles movie with another actor, whoever that is. Kadeem Hardison.

He was awesome in The Sixth Man.
It’d be great to bring him back.

Is The Hangover 2 a done deal?
No one has signed on. I mean, we’d love to work together and make that happen, but there’s no script yet. I’m sure they will bring it together, but it’s hard to top that first movie.

You can cash in, though—that movie made bajillions.
Yeah, but to what end? What am I going to buy? Some new shoes? What do people buy?

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:BEaNwN1Wqj0J:newyork.timeout.com/articles/hot-seat/76553/zach-galifianakis-interview-on-g-force-and-the-hangover+galifanakis+time+out+new+york&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

little disingenuous there with the "oh, money's nothing to me" schtick

I would indeed buy new shoes.

little disingenuous there with the "oh, money's nothing to me" schtick

― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, July 27, 2009 12:17 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or maybe, as a "comedian," he is making a "joke" ... just a thought ;)

are we being ironic? I can't even tell anymore.

I saw Visioneers, and liked it. There are a lot of flaws (heavyhanded, leaden), and I can understand why it apparently went straight to video, but it was genuinely thought provoking & at the very least wasn't another Garden State romantic comedy. Kind of a Brazil ripoff!

Soderbergh was an extra in one of the scenes

this movie was great, they certainly shouldn't ruin it by doing a lame sequel

Uh I guess visioneers does get a little Garden Statey sometimes but not all the time xpost

This was pretty amusing and all but with a premise that awesome it could have been so much funnier.

I thought the premise seemed a little weak before going into it, like just some brotastic wild-and-zany weekend kind of flick; it was only the casting of Galifianakis and Helms that generated any interest on my part. I was (almost) surprised by the positive feedback I was hearing before I saw it.

I thought this was great. Galifianakis and Helms basically own the movie (which is a good thing; it isn't that Cooper is overshadowed as much as it is that making him try harder would have ruined the personality balance).

Even tohugh most of it was shown in previews, I'm still cracking up over the tiger.

i feel like it is criminal that no one has mentioned his star making turn in the epic film "Bubble Boy" yet on this thread

"visioneers" is fucking terrible. i watched it with a group of friends and now i'm on movie-selecting probation. ;_;

i avoided this thread cuz i was excited about this movie and i figured ILX would get all ILX-y about it, but yeah fuckin' a super funny movie, well paced, brought the lolz, great ensemble cast, A+, def on par w/superbad

Better than Superbad. Not usually that into the current crop of US ensemble comedies, but this had me laughing a lot.

better than superbad? c'mon....

i just saw this on an airplane... it was entertaining, watchable, but i didnt really think it was that funny.

also... bradley cooper? i dont know about this dude. if you're not like, bill murray or chevy chase and you play that kind of lovable rascal type, you just come across as a straight asshole

I thought the point wasn't that his character was a lovable rascal, it was that he was a straight asshole who was fun to party with.

I didn't even get the "who was fun to party with" vibe

I did, based on his determination to spend lots and lots of someone else's money ^_^

I dunno, his character was def the aspect of this movie that bothered me most. not funny, not likeable, dude should be a villain who loses the girl or something...

oh well, I thought he was funny; not as funny as Zack or Ed Helms but still funny

slocki otm, I did not laugh very much at this

I dislike people like him so much in real life that he'd have to be pretty damn funny to be appealing in any sense

if you're not like, bill murray or chevy chase and you play that kind of lovable rascal type, you just come across as a straight asshole

I believe that there's enough anecdotal evidence to indicate that they all are assholes but I have been told by several ladies that Mr Cooper is hot. Go figure.

nothing's funny on an airplane

I didn't think this movie was funny, but I was never bored.

i was sort of mildly irritated by how bradley coopers character started off as a total asshole and then was this like sweet father by the end with no explanation but wvs

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, June 15, 2009 2:19 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i stand by this statement

i dont mean in real life! i mean that someone like murray can play a character who is on the face of it, kind of an asshole, but u love him anyway. not so messieur cooper. xxxp

would verily smash?? xp

yeah I remember being bothered by that too

xp to max

hmm i remember him being a total asshole the whole time

xp

but ya max that's what im saying... he was obv written as a delightful scoundrel that u cant help but lovin'

oh ~brother~

um yeah if Cooper's character is supposed to be a "lovable scoundrel" that is actually a total failure on the part of the movie because he's pretty much an irredeemable dick the entire time outside of taking pity on Zack's character by the end of the whole clusterfuck trip

I mean I seriously can't see how you can watch the movie as presented and think that Cooper's character is supposed to be likable without bringing some hardcore prejudgment to the table.

Completely agree that Cooper doesn't pull of the lovable scoundrel AT ALL, but there are plenty of real life dudes who are total assholes most of the time but really "sweet" and "loving" around their wives and kids. I don't think this "transformation" is all that big of a stretch.

"pull off"

It seemed like he was playing Craig Kilborn.

^^^^ HAHAHAHA YES

yeah but the movie is a buddy comedy thing and so having non-lovable characters just makes it sorta awkward. I don't care about the crazy hijinks of someone I dislike. xp to dan

See I didn't think of it as a "buddy comedy" at all. I mean really Cooper's character was really only friends with the groom. He hated Helms' character and obvs they were all new to Galifianakis. It was more just crazy hijinks from people stuck together in a weird situation.

Well the whole thing is that Ed Helms's character is clearly a glutton for punishment, and Justin Bartha's character is kind of milquetoasty himself, so a guy like Cooper's character can totally dominate a group of guys like that, especially if they've all known each other for a long time. It's the "you don't know him like I know him"/Stockholm Syndrome approach to male bonding.

I don't think buddy comedies all nec have people who are friends at the start! they just end up friends. like in this movie.

Yeah, I see your point with that. I just thought the set-up explained how Cooper could be such an asshole and still be a part of this group.

he clearly didnt hate helms! dude just wanted the best for him!

i think the only preconception i brought to the movie was that the "bad boy" character in a buddy movie was someone i was supposed to want to spend 100 minutes watching

But he wasn't a "bad boy", is my argument!

dan saw his inner beauty

um yeah if Cooper's character is supposed to be a "lovable scoundrel" that is actually a total failure on the part of the movie because he's pretty much an irredeemable dick the entire time outside of taking pity on Zack's character by the end of the whole clusterfuck trip

― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, October 19, 2009 4:54 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see i agree with you here... but i really DO think it was a failure on the part of the movie

bascially if you subtract zack galifianackis from this you have a real pos. which is weird for me to think about because i am (was?) fairly ambivalent about that dude.

imo he was clearly supposed to be the cool experienced guy who shows the squares and weirdos how to party... but what im saying is if you dont project the right kind of charisma that character just ends up being an asshole

I thought it was apparent that Ed Helms's character was also a partier who had been beaten into submission by his girlfriend.

^^^^ yeah exactly, they wanted a suave jerk but w/ the writing and acting, dialed up the asshole past redeemable level

xp

like they wanted a vince vaughn, basically

I thought it was apparent that Ed Helms's character was also a partier who had been beaten into submission by his girlfriend.

― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, October 19, 2009 5:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not sure if i agree with that, but if even if so, ok, shows him how to get his groove back or whatevs

like they wanted a vince vaughn, basically

― iatee, Monday, October 19, 2009 5:14 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this

OTM

OTM

― rad bandit (gbx), Monday, October 19, 2009 5:16 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

QFT

sorry for being able to laugh at unpleasant ppl

galifianakis was really funny in this

sorry for being able to laugh at unpleasant ppl

― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, October 19, 2009 5:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're welcome

aaaaand... SCENE

imo he was clearly supposed to be the cool experienced guy who shows the squares and weirdos how to party... but what im saying is if you dont project the right kind of charisma that character just ends up being an asshole

"cool experienced guy who shows the squares how to party" is not at all incompatible with being a total asshole!

and "total asshole" isn't incompatible with "likable" - and that's where we're saying they failed

It doesn't matter what he was supposed to be. What matters is that Cooper was the wrong guy for any of it cuz he is just incredibly punchable.

why does he have to be likable? that he was completely unlikable (when he would have been the lovable bad boy in another movie) made the movie way more interesting and believable.

If he'd been beaten to death, yes. He wasn't so, no.

I don't think this movie's strengths were believability and interestingness

Not by a long shot.

That said, I don't see why the movie would have been better with someone likeable or less face-punchworthy.

right exactly, it seems like you guys are arguing for more stock characters in your zany buddy comedies.

That is because that is exactly what they are arguing for.

they're stock characters for a reason!

and it's more that this guy was a failed stock character

stocks are easier for an audience to invest in

Yeah the Hangover was clearly the most daring revolutionary art film since I Am Cuba. Don't straight-jacket it's charms with your tired cliched characters, people!

no one's saying that but:

it kept up a really high joke rate and was generally unsentimental, which i enjoyed

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
^^

I was anticipating the usual 'now's when this comedy gets serious/touching' thing that most comedies do toward their ends and this one wisely avoided it. Hoorah.

― ╓abies, Friday, July 17, 2009 2:36 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but i did think it was refreshingly unsentimental for this kind of movie, and unlikable dude contributed to that.

I want more slock characters ;0)

just because i think the dude failed at pulling of a stock character doesn't mean i like WANT more and only stock characters!

but i am saying its interesting how getting that "type" wrong ends up

The only person who felt like a "stock character" was the groom, who was then vanished for most of the movie to focus on an unsympathetic jerk, a pathetic jerk and a total aspie shut-in jerk confronting the escalating weirdness of their drug-fueled rampage through Las Vegas. The bar was set pretty low for enjoyable movies this year but this is still the second-best comedy I saw in a theater this year.

"I was anticipating the usual 'now's when this comedy gets serious/touching' thing that most comedies do toward their ends and this one wisely avoided it."

Uh did you watch the same movie I did? Cuz the ending I saw was rife with the same pernicious comedy cliches.

is this the real caesar's palace?

loved that line

still think you're misreading what that character was supposed to be, but whatever

xp

yeah, I mean it ends w/ a photo montage

xp to alex

yes, that photo montage was very serious and touching

Bradley Cooper's character needed to be played by Seann William Scott maybe. Although perhaps that would have been cliche overload.

The touchy-feely ending was nowhere NEAR as cloying as it would have been if this was an American Pie movie or part of the Apatow stable.

no, but it was still cheesy and cliche

I was actually talking about everything that preceded the photo montage. But ending with a funny photo montage is pretty comedy cliche.

not only that, it sorta ruined the best thing about the movie - that we weren't gonna get to see that epic night and could only imagine it

You can still imagine all the funnies that Zach Galifianakis' character said though.

Well I'm not going to argue that the ending was void of all cliches but the sentimentality in the end was pretty minimal for this kinda comedy and what was there was distracted by Helms-fiance blow up and stuff.

The photo montage was entertaining.

i'm glad i don't care about movies anymore so i can just enjoy them

whatev.

this is a weird argument. cooper's character was def not "likable" for most of the movie but i kind of figured a lot of people had a friend, particularly a friend from way back, who is not particularly "likable" at times. but he's your friend, you've known him forever, and he's really not a bad guy when it actually matters.

i'm just not sure if "sympathetic" and "unsympathetic" really apply here.

CAD kinda OTM here

was gonna make a bad joke about the ppl not getting this being the unlikable friend in their circle but it wouldn't go over well

dudes - he sucked in this movie, that is basically all i am saying here

Not literally. That was behind the scenes on Alias.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/03b4a86265/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis

I loved this movie, and I have a pretty low tolerance for bro comedies. I'm sure it wouldn't stand up to scrutiny but I had a blast watching it. I'm pretty sure 99% of my laughs came from Alan though.

I agree. I found the movie to be really great. Loved it.

is this the real caesar's palace?

I rarely laugh out loud on my own when watching comedies, but I lolling immensely.

this is a weird argument. cooper's character was def not "likable" for most of the movie but i kind of figured a lot of people had a friend, particularly a friend from way back, who is not particularly "likable" at times. but he's your friend, you've known him forever, and he's really not a bad guy when it actually matters.

Totally otm.

The ending was a bit... off. It was right (in the sense that you/I wanted that cliche ending) but a little off in a way. I can't put my finger on it. But still totally dug this movie.

I saw this with the family on xmas day, it was pretty funny, albeit a bit too laddish at times; the best moments were often the most understated. The fact that the dad wasn't seen reacting to the damaged car = an outtake scene, or is it assumed that the $80,000 was put to good use?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joo4n-J8WXU

I saw this with the family on xmas day, it was pretty funny, albeit a bit too laddish at times; the best moments were often the most understated. The fact that the dad wasn't seen reacting to the damaged car = an outtake scene, or is it assumed that the $80,000 was put to good use?

In the "Unrated" version on the DVD, with about 8 extra minutes of footage, added in a kinda awkward scene during the reception in which the dad called the groom into his office and told him the car was a wedding gift from his new in-laws.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x068o6Wtw4

"at the corner of get a map & fuck off"

watched this again last night

"suck my little chinese nuts, mutha fuckaaaaaa.....pshhhhhhhhhhh"

those were some little chinese nuts too

the "pssssh" with the gesture is what killed me

kinda excited that he's hosting SNL later in the season

as in next weekend?

as in ~vampire~ weekend?

yeah i guess it is next weekend - read that he was doing it a while ago and at the time the date seemed far off

Just saw this:

I thought there were some really funny scenes and the three lead actors were all superb. And I liked the fact that Bradley Cooper was a serious jerk ("he was playing Craig Kilborn" comment was lol), it made the scenes where he's interacting w/ Galifianakis or getting involved in loony situations much funnier because he was playing things straight. You have all these actors in the movie w/ obvious improv comedy backgrounds but they were nicely off-set by the way Cooper and Galifianakis act. You replace those two people with more improv actors and this whole movie would feel like one long-form improv sketch.

They shouldn't have shown the photos at the end, I agree. The movie was better when it left more to the imagination.

Groom dude was miscast, or just bad.

My cousin is the guy who gives them the squad car.

This reminds me a bit of Anchorman in that, as funny as it was, I wouldn't want to see it again by myself ever. comedies like this can leave a bad taste in the mouth, as funny or enjoyable as originally were.

nah this bears repeated viewing. or at least a second viewing anyway.

if I'd cut anything it would be the Tyson stuff, just feels unnecessary

yes, it also doesn't work as an "lol random & weird cameo" like neil patrick harris in harold & kumar because they showed the beginning of the scene in the preview

"lol random & weird cameo" is a pretty played out device, imo, and it's never as much of a surprise as it's supposed to be in the internet era, like i already know who shows up in Zombieland and haven't seen it, etc.

Well, to be fair, 'Bill Murray shows up in an lol random and weird cameo' is almost a played out genre itself (he's the best thing going in Space Jam).

With the exception of the scenes with the Chinese badass (the guy from Knocked Up, yes?), this sucked.

Cosign. Flat, one-dimensional.

c'mon. has at least as many dimensions as memento!

ddudes the first time i saw it i was like yea it's ok then i watch the extras and fall in loves with kim jeong the leslie chan guy or whatever and 2nd and 3rd viewings extra lol

agree the groom was crap.

not the most valid thing to complain about for this kind of comedy i guess, but the soundtrack was really fucking intrusive on this, like every change of scene in the first half hour or something was telegraphed by big,loud hits of the oughts

Even though it is way less sentimental than an Apatow movie the happy ending is so much more out of place. Round up every focus group audience member who cared whether Bradley Cooper got home to hug his wife & kids or derived emotional catharsis from Ed Helms telling off his shrew gf and jail them all imo

"one dimensonal"... the fuck you expect from this, "last year at marienbad"?

New ILF description

also bang on fucking point, though

Apatow remake of Marienbad might be the most awesome film ever made

always read the cooper ending as showing a guy that's basically as good dad/husband, but likes to bitch and moan about it to his friends as an image.

i went in wanting to hate bradley cooper, and he does exhibit dillwad tendencies, but i ended up not

not that i gives 1x fuck about this film's gd "arc" or whatever

the only thing i'd cut would be tyson

the groom is a nonentity but isn't that the point, kinda? he's deadweight

lightweight/deadweight.

Driving home last night I was thinking about the movie and I realized I was wrong about it leaving a bad taste in the mouth: I think it really deserves a second viewing. Just the "could it be...two new members to my woofpack?" line is worth it.

Bradley Cooper does a great job being the kind of suave, selfish L.A. guy that, even though he probably wouldn't make a great friend, is precisely the type you want in your corner in these situations.

And Zach Galifianakis is like the rich man's Jack Black.

"He seemed like a real straight shooter..."
"Your language is offensive."
that song he sings in the car etc.

What bugged me is that there seemed to be too many Second City-type improv actors doing the same kind of characters and comedy (the actors playing the two cops were the tipping poing). It just started to feel like an episode of the Office at some point.

And why did the bride have to be this trophy wife bitch, too?

All in all a pretty hilarious movie, though

tipping poing

he was great on fallon last night

love zach, hate the hangover.

not the most valid thing to complain about for this kind of comedy i guess, but the soundtrack was really fucking intrusive on this, like every change of scene in the first half hour or something was telegraphed by big,loud hits of the oughts

No, it's perfectly valid -- by weird coincidence I went on a field trip where we met the guy who does the music supervision for Universal, and he would usually pick painfully obvious pop songs when finding music for a scene.

He did tell this one story though, where he was having a hard time scoring a scene where a smoking hot girl languidly walks into the party and catches this dude's eye, and he couldn't find a song that worked, and so he had Trevor Horn come in and play with the synths until he found something they both liked, which ended up being synths playing something that sounded a lot like "There She Goes" by the La's.

At how many other jobs can you say "I suck at this...know what, I'm gonna ask Trevor Horn to come over and goof around on the synths for me."

iirc this is how Modern Warfare 2 was made

as well as the careers of a few lesser-known bands that he worked with.

I didn't think bride was a "bitch" or was meant to be thought as one

she has like 5 lines I dunno how anyone could judge her a bitch based on the miniscule screentime she has

She was whining because they probably killed the groom -- clearly shrewish behavior!

er, find a screencap where she's doesn't look at least partially sullen or grouchy and I'll take that back.

how about you find one instance of her being a bitch and we'll all take what we said back.

shes a girl in a dress i mean cmon

I dunno how anyone could judge her a bitch based on the miniscule screentime she has

Twenty-something with a botoxy face.

Re: the soundtrack, there were a lot of obvious songs, but I fucking loved the use of Danzig for the opening credits.

Or maybe that wasn't the opening credits, but with the shots of Vegas, anyway, didn't think that was obvious at all and a great choice.

how about you find one instance of her being a bitch and we'll all take what we said back.

I already said that there isn't one facial expression or line of dialogue that the actress performs that makes her seem remotely likable, her lips are curled in disgust throughout the entire movie. Half-way through the film I kind of expected the groom to meet somebody else and marry her, based on what they had shown us of the bride.

It probably not the actresses' fault she comes off so crummy. When your director is the same guy who made Road Trip and Old School, and who, when picking camera angles for a scene when a woman is talking on the phone, comes up with something like this:

http://i48.tinypic.com/2u7ngom.png

he's probably not caring about whether or not the actress is conveying the right emotions, and not just coming across as bitchy and horrible.

todd phillips is like a decoy human being judd apatow put out there in hopes people would stop talking about the women in his movies

I think the guys that find her "bitchy" and "horrible" are doing a lot of projecting. I mean, she pretty much had zero personality one way or the other.

Well the original point was that it's a shame almost all the women in these type of movies tend to be so one-dimensional or horrible. Whether they're just uninteresting or bitchy or whatever is starting to become hair-splitting. More should be done with them.

i felt like andy bernard's girlfriend was like burning tina fey in effigy. that actress is an actual comedian

i admit i am doing a lot of projection but what i am projecting is my frustration over the time they cast jane curtin in the smash bromantic comedy i love you, man and gave andy samberg more funny shit to do than her

I didn't see it, but was Baby Mama much better in terms of giving women parts with comedic depth?

the women were really obvious in this - gold-hearted whore, bland mommy-wife, hypocritical psycho bitch. didn't have any expectations for them, but it was pretty blunt

this movie was amusing but didn't think it was anything special. a.o. scott was right, it did lose steam around halfway through. also agree with the comments above about galifianakis - pretty indifferent towards him generally, don't like these web videos/standup at all, but he and helms carried this movie.

i get the idea that i guess we all probably know a jackass friend who would be great for these sorts of situations (and even the pretend-family man who goes nuts in vegas), but for most of the movie i kept seriously wondering how Cooper's character is actually friends with helms and the groom, he was such an unlikeable dick. but i suppose he did help balance out helms/zach.

also, wtf ken jeong please stop doing movies you're a goddamn disgrace

i kept seriously wondering how Cooper's character is actually friends with helms and the groom

just figured they were old college buddies. that shit'll throw some incongruous ppl together iirc

even the pretend-family man who goes nuts in vegas), but for most of the movie i kept seriously wondering how Cooper's character is actually friends with helms and the groom, he was such an unlikeable dick.

from two viewings of this, it's quite clear that cooper's character isn't a 'pretend' family man at all. seems that being a frustrated smart ass dick is the performance he's just used to pulling with his friends. or if not quite that deep, certainly there's not enough credit given- the character has a little more depth than just a 'dick' all the way through, even if he likes to bitch about his boring life when he's on the way to vegas for a piss up.

I love Ken Jeong. :(

Nhex doesn't deserve Role Models

I was pretty lukewarm on this movie right up until the point where they wake up in the hotel room. Then it became very funny. Great premise.

liked the premise better the first time when it was called Dude, Where's My Car?

Never saw DWMC.

it's basically a broader, more cartoony version of the same basic 'bros wake up, can't remember anything, make wacky discoveries about the night before' story.

hard to imagine saying this, but it doesn't play it as straight as the hangover

funnier than DWMC... they're both quite broad iirc

yeah maybe not 'broader' but definitely more cartoony.

ken jeong's tiny penis > andy dick's crossed eyes

he crossed them looking for the tiny penis iirc

tbh i can't remember DWMC

sweet title but was ashton kutcher funny? hard to believe

DWMC is pretty great. I'd rate 'em both about the same tbh

I just watched this for the first time last night and pretty much laughed from the time I first saw the chickens in the hotel room the morning after through to the end. It was hysterical. All day I kept remembering diff bits and just laughing out of nowhere.

i went in wanting to hate bradley cooper, and he does exhibit dillwad tendencies, but i ended up not

not that i gives 1x fuck about this film's gd "arc" or whatever

the only thing i'd cut would be tyson

the groom is a nonentity but isn't that the point, kinda? he's deadweight

― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Friday, March 5, 2010 6:37 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

Totally agree with all that but also thought that the Chinese dude (who I normally like a lot) was sort of annoying in this. He was playing it up a little too much or something idk.

Anyway - so funny. I haven't laughed that hard at a movie in a while tbh.

Jeez, that was terrible.

Mrs D: 'Why are we watching this?'
Me: 'It's supposed to be really funny'
Cue silence for 90 minutes.

The BBC had a late night showing of 'Eastern Promises' and that was funnier than this.

Didn't think "The Hangover" was funny, and its view of women as variations of cliched harridan/whore was ... retrograde '80s. "Dude" ... is better because it's so much more aware of its own dumbness and just goes with it. I thought "The Hangover" was all set-up and no pay-off. And that includes the "hilarious" photo montage at the end. Liked Bradley Cooper on the "ZG Between Two Ferns" ep, though.

not repping every last minute of of it, but how is the 'who let the dogs out' scene not funny?

or the blood brothers scene?

i realize part of the joke of the Who Let The Dogs Out scene is how stale the reference is, but still, it's kind of oh really, we're still trying to milk that for laughs huh

One answer to "how is that not funny" may be that I don't really remember either of those scenes. I generally like the current comedy by committee trend, with movies more or less assembled out of improv outtakes (thank "Anchorman" for this), but the downside is that the products are so hit or miss scattershot. And often nowhere near as fun to watch as I imagine they are to goof around in. Like, that Steve Carrell piece in the New Yorker, that talks a lot about his improv prowess? Good piece, but then you get disposable stuff like "Date Night" and "Despicable Me" and think - really?

(The extreme of the improv indulgence trend is of course Apatow, who sticks to the script *and* allows his actors to improvise, which is how we keep getting his 2.5 hour dramadies).

One answer to "how is that not funny" may be that I don't really remember either of those scenes.

This is so true, I had to youtube that scene as I couldn't remember it and I saw the film less than 18 hours ago. Disclaimer - I'm getting old and forgetful anyway.

If you couldn't laugh even once at this movie I think the problem is in your soul, tbh.

Nah, my soul's pretty good. I'll stick with the movie sucks theory.

Though I did laugh at the trailer when I saw it several months ago, hence my disappointment in this.

ya i dont remember those scenes either!

Didn't think "The Hangover" was funny, and its view of women as variations of cliched harridan/whore was ... retrograde '80s.

i for one can't believe that the bawdy dumbass buddy movie about four guys getting off their faces in vegas didn't have more of a rounded viewpoint wrt to the equal place of women in the modern society. ghastly stuff wot.

cut out Zalinfinakis and this would have basically been unwatchable imo

no wai narddog was hiar

i thought all three of them were funnie

idk why people hate bradley cooper

well i do but

toodaloo muthafuckas

If you couldn't laugh even once at this movie I think the problem is in your soul, tbh.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^^^

sat next to a guy in the cinema who didn't snicker whole way through.

did you tell him he had a problem in his soul?

btw i'm assuming i'm the only person who wants to see Dinner For Schmucks?

the new zach g/robert downey/jamie foxx movie directed by hangover dude looks HORRIBLE

dinner for schmucks also looks ghastly

i don't like steve carrell in movies tho

michael scott was a funnily written character for a few years and he had good characters to bounce off of, and carrell playing an airhead as a parody of himself was funny on the daily show, but his airhead/super naive characters in movies don't make me laugh at all -- 40 yr old virgin is my least favorite apatow and brick tambland is prob my second least favorite movie character of all time (after champ kind)

whoa youre weird. those are the only two good movies hes been in. where hes been funny. i love lamp. hilarious.

well i know they're the only two good movies he's been in, but that doesn't mean he's necessarily that funny in them

http://www.snorgtees.com/images/ILoveLamp_F_Fullpic_3.jpg

I'm the opposite of j0rdan, can't stand U.S. Office but i generally like Carrell in almost anything else

can we all at least agree that the new zack g looks really terrible

due date?

yes

the only funny part of the trailer is that jamie foxx is in like 60% of the scenes but i don't think they say his name

sucks that they have downey playing the straight man to zach, think he could be really good as a funny bro

just watched the trailer (or a trailer, that jamie foxx was barely in)...to be honest i would totally watch that.

Downey is v good at comedy, don't think him being the straight man in a duo doesn't mean he's not still able to funny

yeah you might be right

zach g looks totally canned tho

also rolling my damn eyes at him and the hangover dude doing a movie like this with hangover 2 on the horizon

i like Galifianakis but he's always seemed kind of detached from his career and will just do any old shit, ever since that snowboarding movie back circa his VH1 show. in a way i respect that because he probably realizes that he kind of has a certain kind of schtick that he can just inject into whatever project he can get hired for, but it's also kind of a bummer because he just keeps doing bigger (but not necessarily better) shows/movies without any real creative ambitions beyond the goofy shit he does in his stage show.

I thought the new zach/downey movie trailer was for a remake of Planes, Trains & Automobiles until I saw the title

The problem w/ the hangover is that basically nothing in the last 45 mins is funny.

I would watch Due Date one million times before Dinner For Schumcks. Poor wasted Larry Wilmore cameo.

also rolling my damn eyes at him and the hangover dude doing a movie like this with hangover 2 on the horizon

― de jong and the restless (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 19, 2010 3:48 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

zack geezy ain't allergic to cash money

idk, all of these films appeal to me

the idea of not going to a paul rudd movie... the idea.

"The Tairy Greene Machine" remains one of the funniest pieces of filmed entertainment of all time.

c'mon. has at least as many dimensions as memento!

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:18 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

hah the script kind of annoyed me because it seemed like something delivered straight from a college creative writing class, like "throw as many incongruous elements at the audience as possible, don't worry it will all be explained later"... I kinda cringed when the gangsters rolled up on their cop car ...it was kinda like a "oh great, can't wait to see how they explain this. yawn."

bradley cooper's character did come off as a total dick esp. when they showed him filching from the kids class trip fund but for some reason came off as likable at the end probably cause he ended up being the most "responsible" one as all true bros are. don't really like galifianakis at all except for the blood brothers scene, don't really get why this guy is comedy's new savior. glad I missed the boat on that one.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ed36fa1ab6/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-steve-carell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pq7HKc9z8

ahhhh killing me that I can't remember where that "you should be on Coney Island bird-dogging chicks" line is bit from (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?)

“Billy, what the hell are you doing here man? You’re just a kid, you ought to be out in a convertible, bird dogging chicks and banging beaver.” - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

ah thx

this looks a little too feel-good-y for taste. also looks like it features Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope.

galifianakis appears to be the pixie chick i think, or is he the magical negro?

he's the magical furry white man a la Robin Williams

he was really charming, etc on charlie rose

still no way am i seeing this new movie

CUT TO

johnny crunch watching the movie

Zach sitting down next to him, teaching him a life lesson...

Zach smokes a joint on live TV

grass-roots marketing for Bored To Death

sorry

bradley cooper's character did come off as a total dick esp. when they showed him filching from the kids class trip fund but for some reason came off as likable at the end probably cause he ended up being the most "responsible" one as all true bros are. don't really like galifianakis at all except for the blood brothers scene, don't really get why this guy is comedy's new savior. glad I missed the boat on that one.

― dyao, Monday, August 16, 2010 10:34 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

I agree with this post. I thought Cooper was funny and likable as a certain sort of bro - the outwardly dickish guy who still cares about his friends and is also always on-point when it comes to being the responsible guy who wants to keep everybody's spirits up and shit. I thought he was funnier than Zach G, who didn't do much for me outside of a few choice scenes, but then again I really like straight man reaction shot type stuff. I like Galifianakis' standup (and Between Two Ferns), but in movies like Due Date and Dinner for Schmucks it seems like the comedy is supposed to come from him being weird more than him being funny. Which doesn't really work for me.

Ken Jeong was hilarious. I thought he had the funniest scenes in Knocked Up too.

Just saw Due Date, classic, fuiud.

I thought most of Due Date was kind've hatefully unpleasant. Like watching this asshole Downey Jr character be mean to a borderline-retarded guy ruined a lot of my potential enjoyment. And while tacked on tacky happy endings are par for the course for this genre, the out and out misanthropic hatred of much of this movie sort of emphasized the tackiness of its ending. There were some laughs, nonetheless, but the laughs weren't that big. Just felt like a below average comedy to me.

damn due date sucks hard

the dog was the best part which isn't saying much

how can a movie which is obviously leading toward the birth of a child have a "tacked on" happy ending? were you expecting the baby to die?

monaghan and downey -- right?

and then

oh

well played

fucking thanks

What in the

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/11/bill-clinton-hangover-2.html

^it's hard to know whether this or Obama is the true sequel to his loathsome administration

this guy's beard is more famous than him, yes?

Are we talking about Zach or Bradley Cooper?

i though cooper broke up with renee zellweger?

I have no idea! I guess it ruins the joke if they are though.

oh god you were making the same joke i was

:(

I read 'Zach Galifianakis' with the same cadence as you would say 'have a banana', now I can't get it out of my head every time I see this thread.

"whoops, Galifianakis"

Zach Galifianakis: he has a banana

XP - Dr M, yep exactly that.

this guy's beard is more famous than him, yes?

― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:31 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Are we talking about Zach or Bradley Cooper?

― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:32 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i though cooper broke up with renee zellweger?

― max, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:33 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

I have no idea! I guess it ruins the joke if they are though.

― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:35 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh god you were making the same joke i was

― max, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:36 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

don't worry max, i didn't get it when nicole said it #subtlety

how can a movie which is obviously leading toward the birth of a child have a "tacked on" happy ending? were you expecting the baby to die?

I wasn't talking about the birth of the baby so much as the relationships among the characters. I don't know that predictability = believability. I certainly expected everyone to be happy and friends at the end of the movie, but when it happened, I didn't believe it. I didn't buy it as a resolution of the plot. It did not satisfy me. Though yes it was perfectly predictable, it was also somehow poorly executed, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsusUpC5BKA

i love this bit

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Wbp28ye5MY/TLYwqE-SgfI/AAAAAAAAMgk/_WtHdiVUeA4/s640/zach-galifianakis-Vanity+Fair-1.jpg

The eye-popping grosses for this movie convinced some people that Ed Helms is a movie star. He's not, but John C Reilly is capable of making another slobcom bearable.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/cedar-rapids/5270

yeah the trailer for CR makes it look terrible

It's not quite, but it's depressing to see Miguel Arteta direct one of these and not add much.

agree that the trailer wasn't too hot

did y'all enjoy The Extra Man?

What grosses? It doesn't open until Friday.

"slobcom" = excellent

Oh wait, you mean The Hangover.

TIme to anticipate the sequel . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXBjtAGIzE

Shitty Jay-Z song a taste of whats to come with this? I want it to be funny, but I can't think of a way that this won't at best be a weak imitation of the first and at worst, completely fucking awful.

Billboards for the new ones lookin' like Saw.

At this point "Bridesmiads" seems like it's striking closer to the spirit of the original "Hangover" than the sequel.

how much did they have to pay the critic in the new ad for the "greatest sequel ever!" blurb?

I try not to fill myself with hate for people but goddammit, dude

http://twitter.com/#!/rickflorino

Truly a man of challenging opinions, that one.

best post ever! 5 stars!

careful, Ned, he may be your boss someday at RoviDirect

I used to knwo a girl who chewed tobbacco - she was so beautiful except for that habit

he was really charming, etc on charlie rose

still no way am i seeing this new movie

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:42 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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johnny crunch watching the movie

― Cunga, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:53 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

this still makes me lol btw

this was awful

I just watched his standup vid recently -- pretty solid. A lot of "offbeat standup comic" tropes but some good bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJowXgH3YU

i wish it wasn't the title of a movie and zach was just forever telling interviewers "it's kind of a funny story" in front of a wall that said that exact phrase

hahah galifianakis gets galifianakisd

Which came first, Between Two Ferns or this guy's act?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCKVu6UR-Pg&feature=related

i just came here to say that if zack galifianakis put out a cd of him just doing his free-form piano music, with no standup or jokes or even singing or talking of any kind, i would totally buy one. it's so perdy sounding!

"the campaign" was really really funny

dj assault popping up on the soundtrack was a pleasant surprise.

ass&titties?

ass&titties?

ass ass titties titties

ass & titties.

looking forward to no. 3, The Hangovererer.

Anybody seen 3? Reviews are slaughtering it

haven't seen enough "how to get rid of a hangover" puns this time around

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATKP6Dj9X8

...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATKP6Dj9X8

URL says it all:

http://www.eonline.com/news/422190/the-hangover-3-reviews-are-in-critics-are-drunk-with-scorn-for-sequel

It can't be THAT terrible, can it?

"as a 'very special' ode to Alan's journey to responsibility, it's a miscalculation of what fans want from a series featuring a smoking monkey"

i liked it. way better than 2. lolling at everyone (audience/critics) complaining it was 'so predictable'....wow, big surprise. it is what it is and it is as good as it is supposed to be

"I got a dark side. There's a demon in me."
"It's true. He has semen in him."

So far this is ok, I'm 20 minutes in

"The mcrib is back"

lol "Hurt" karaoke

"I don't feed them anything except cocaine. And chicken"

Yes, critics, this is basically a humorless action movie but Alan Z kills it and, you know, it's got a DANZIG song in it

2>1>3

One or two chuckles in the Obama episode of Between 2 Ferns, but every "Seriously?" is too much "Seriously?"

It's fairly funny, I think it could be a lot shorter though.

Eh, this was clearly the show in PSA mode. The yucks were incidental.

Was expecting it to be even more PSAy, actually. Not saying it wasn't tamer than the other Ferns, but looking Barack Obama in the eye and asking, "What's it like being the last black president?" was a little edgier than I expected.

I can think of some edgy questions

There's a good drone gag in there for you.

would they be funny edgy questions.

they'd be secondhand, you can count on that

I can't come up with anything as brilliant as original as yours obv

*projectile diarrhea*

hey you're stealing my bit

the birth certificate schtick is a little tired

tell it to trump

funny or die #1 referrer to healthcare.gov right now

the birth certificate schtick is a little tired

idk I'm never going to be tired of the prez just goin "hey you dudes who actually believe this birth certificate shit, how's it feel when I just make jokes about your bullshit"

Bill-Maher-style birth certificate schtick is tired. I wasn't bothered by it here.

I'm glad that Galifianakis' audience is getting the care they obviously need

lool at the ppl in my FB timeline who think this was unscripted

Move over pajama boy the GOP has a new hipster enemy number 1

Do Clinton next, Zach! Please!

This is the kind of thing a pol will only try when no longer a candidate

what do we think of Baskets?

show really hit its stride

I think it's kind of brilliant

yeah Louie Anderson is amazing. and the ZG twin brother character is excellently deployed here.

hes in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Fever

Cast

Alicia Vikander as Sophia
Dane DeHaan as Jan Van Loos
Zach Galifianakis
Judi Dench as The Abbess of St. Ursula
Christoph Waltz as Cornelis Sandvoort
Jack O'Connell as William
Holliday Grainger as Maria
Matthew Morrison as Mattheus
Cara Delevingne as Henrietta
Tom Hollander as Dr. Sorgh
Cressida Bonas as Mrs. Steen
Kevin McKidd as Johan De Bye
David Harewood as Prater

I assume that means he's just playing himself in this period piece. I welcome that.

whoah, pretty awesome that Louie Anderson won an Emmy for Baskets

totally deserved

yea that surprised me to see also, tho im happy for him

Louie was incredible in that

goddamn Louie is so good. Denver episode was a heartbreaker