thanks for the laffs
― Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)
what a funny people
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)
?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)
yep, just showed on cnn right now
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)
I've always felt sorry for him and hoped he'd get himself together. What a sad life.
― Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)
I dug some of his polaroids
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)
Putting on Knocked Up in tribute. I'm pretty sure the man was a child molester, but he enriched my life. RIP.
― Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)
if deaths come in threes, who will be the third child molester to die?
― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:48 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/i%20see%20dead%20people.jpg
I see Funny People...
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
Gary Glitter is taking long staircases one step at a time I bet.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)
So, where was Morbius when Apatow croaked?
― c-pwny (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 01:56 (sixteen years ago)
WTF?
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 02:07 (sixteen years ago)
gotta say, i feel a lot more for the poor comedy producers and directors who probably die anonymously in the mission every day.
― 1p3 freely (s1ocki), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 02:09 (sixteen years ago)
This is some kinda chain-letter bullshit, right?
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:03 (sixteen years ago)
what a disaster for seth rogen
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:05 (sixteen years ago)
stop guys
― ehhh p. diddy miss (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:06 (sixteen years ago)
hopefully he can find the peace that eluded him here on earth
― igloo-fifty-four-quart-sports-ice-chest.jpg (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:09 (sixteen years ago)
you know what they say, make sure to die young and leave a good-looking corpse
― enough (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:16 (sixteen years ago)
u guys should be using this time to mourn the passing of greater comedy professionals like charlie chaplin and sacha baron cohen - its this exact lack of moral priorities that caused me to stop posting to ilx
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:17 (sixteen years ago)
rip ice cr?m
― velko, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:18 (sixteen years ago)
passed at the peak of his game imho.
― ian, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:33 (sixteen years ago)
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/081203/Jennifer-Aniston-Cry/the-champ_l.jpg
― dice in my pockets (csa), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:07 (sixteen years ago)
I haven't been this upset since Lisa Kudrow died.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:15 (sixteen years ago)
"jennifer-aniston-cry"?
― 1p3 freely (s1ocki), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:18 (sixteen years ago)
I KNOW!!!! I didn't get it.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:22 (sixteen years ago)
i think it's because jennifer aniston took the pic
― Attack Attack! and Philosophy (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:31 (sixteen years ago)
Apatow, Can I has screentime?
― dice in my pockets (csa), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:43 (sixteen years ago)
just an fyi hes not really dead u guyz
― (Σx)² (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 05:49 (sixteen years ago)
We out here don't want him to.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:17 (sixteen years ago)
i don't get these fake RIP threads. What if he really did die you guys? Who'd be laughing then? What if he gets shot in the passenger seat of a car in Vegas and then everyone on this thread gets taken downtown for questioning?
― "A Night As Fine As Jewelry" (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:23 (sixteen years ago)
"too worldly to compete on /b/"
― brash trash talker (dan m), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:24 (sixteen years ago)
oh mmy god
― wilter, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:28 (sixteen years ago)
Saddest celebrity death since Kid Rock.
― challop matters (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:49 (sixteen years ago)
What if he gets shot in the passenger seat of a car in Vegas and then everyone on this thread gets taken downtown for questioning?
We all get taken to downtown Las Vegas?
― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:56 (sixteen years ago)
free trip!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:56 (sixteen years ago)
plus free booze ... and apparently some of the casinos have free sushi.
― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:58 (sixteen years ago)
i have never been to vegas
― tehresa, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:59 (sixteen years ago)
I've only been once ... and that was to go to a wedding. A friend of mine went and said she got free sushi at some casino.
― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 09:01 (sixteen years ago)
RIP big man. Sometimes god loves a purveyor of stoner wanking scenes so much he has to take him back into his arms.
― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 09:01 (sixteen years ago)
Is it true that he's not dead?
― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 09:03 (sixteen years ago)
ˆˆˆ I hired a New Mexico shaman to help us all figure this out.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 09:35 (sixteen years ago)
its all over my new yahoo startpage
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 14:55 (sixteen years ago)
not funny
― Aqua Teen Cunga Force (blueski), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 14:56 (sixteen years ago)
jeez this is sad
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 14:58 (sixteen years ago)
RIP. Shitty week, first Paul Simon and now Apatow.
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:00 (sixteen years ago)
America's bromance is over
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:26 (sixteen years ago)
first margaret thatcher, then fidel castro, then gwyneth paltrow and lisa kudrow, then paul simon, and now this
― blobfish russian (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)
honestly my head is spinning
oh god not gwyneth.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)
God is the cruelst puppetmaster
just heard the news, everyone at my office is talking about this, quoting movies etc
someone just put 40 y/o virgin on the tv in the conference room
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)
'Paper Planes' already back in the top 5 on downloads
― Aqua Teen Cunga Force (blueski), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)
Gonna go out and impregnate a considerably-more-attractive-than-myself woman tonight in tribute.
― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)
srsly everyone should go to Vegas, it's amazing
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)
yeah - last nite i checked cnn.com and nytimes.com and there was no mention and i even gchatted w/ a friend that works in la in "the biz"
me: is judd apatow ded???????friend: lol me: no jk srsme: read it on internet!friend: guess hes kind of playedfriend: commercially or cuturallyme: no like dead in his heart me: u r on the sceneme: im worried! need 2 no friend: hes fine
― (Σx)² (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)
oh fyi by "the biz" i meant tht shes a spy
― (Σx)² (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 15:58 (sixteen years ago)
it's funny cos it's (not) true?
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)
Hmmmm, should have read the thread before calling a friend to tell him about it.
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:37 (sixteen years ago)
you mean your friend PAUL RUDD?
― Aqua Teen Cunga Force (blueski), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:49 (sixteen years ago)
i can only imagine how his stable of otherwise unemployable actors is taking this
― wax onleck, wax affleck (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)
like his wife!
― (Σx)² (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
i have a job for his wife
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:53 (sixteen years ago)
You know what's great about Vegas? Cirque de Solei on shrooms.
― http://tinyurl.com/mykb7s (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)
ebay sellers are totally price gouging for freaks&geeks / undeclared dvd's wtf
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)
Cool gif, btw, PP.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 17:04 (sixteen years ago)
i guess they did this interview from Heaven?
On the original script for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy:Basically, it was about anchormen flying to an anchorman convention. Mid-flight, they hit some sort of UPS plane and they crash into a mountain and it becomes like the movie Alive. All the anchormen start dying, they start eating each other. And occasionally, the contents of the UPS plane — which was monkeys and throwing stars — start attacking their base camp. And we sent that around, and it was SO funny, but we couldn't get anyone to make it.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)
A few papers are reporting "suspicious" circumstances surrounding his death... founded or just scurrilous rumour? Apparently he had three hookers and a large amount of cocaine delivered to his house in the hours before his death.
― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)
I would have watched that movie.
Vegas is already so much sensory overload I can't even begin to fathom wandering through any of the hotels on shrooms, let alone going to a Cirque show.
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)
Lead guy from the Crash Test Dummies is evidently on hunger strike until the police begin investigating this as a homicide.
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)
reallly bummed we won't get to see his Robin Williams WWII comedy
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
Not the done thing to ply hookers with Sunny D, eh?
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 23 July 2009 16:29 (sixteen years ago)
I find it suspicious that Shakey Mo Collier, recently deceased, started this thread.
― Aimless, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:54 (sixteen years ago)
good, dude bros are dumbasses, so I'll shed no tears if their artistic leader has died. judd apatow wants to bring back the man but without the class or responsibility; at least racism and domination fantasies came with a nice suit and a hat.
His movies show us the neutered, powerless version of contemporary manhood put up on a pedestal for all of us to see its ugliness... you know, maybe Apatow is really a genius, secretly lying among his targets to know the perfect strike ???
― Spectrum, Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)
at least racism and domination fantasies came with a nice suit and a hat.
who doesn't love a sexy Nazi
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)
RIP. first diana, and now this.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Friday, 24 July 2009 00:04 (sixteen years ago)
Chubby Jewish Boy Dreams Of One Day Being Next Apatow Muse
EVANSTON, IL—Sources close to Arthur Meyer reported that the overweight Jewish teen hopes to someday inspire film producer Judd Apatow to create a series of comedic vehicles for him to star in. According to friends and family members, the 14-year-old is working to develop the persona of a foul-mouthed, emotionally stunted young man who seems hopelessly crude and self-indulgent but is ultimately lovable and capable of redemption. "I've been practicing having 'guy moments' with my pals where we call each other gay, but not like in a bad way," said Meyer. "I just want to be a movie star who plays an everyday guy who spends all his time looking at or discussing pornography, and then somehow winds up dating hot chicks." At press time, Apatow had already produced six films slated for a 2010 release with Meyer in the lead role
― velko, Friday, 21 August 2009 02:20 (sixteen years ago)
Onion on a roll lately
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 August 2009 02:24 (sixteen years ago)
Morbs, you can host a Jonah Hill Replacement Contest.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 August 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)
RIP Jonah Hill
― ian, Friday, 21 August 2009 04:24 (sixteen years ago)
He couldn't bare this world without his mentor I guess. RIP, big guy.
― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Friday, 21 August 2009 04:29 (sixteen years ago)
make god laugh!
Watched part of Superbad today but I had to turn it off when I couldn't stop crying.Just to soon.RIP Judd and Jonah
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 1 October 2009 19:33 (sixteen years ago)
The ghost himself just walked into the art gallery I'm babysitting. Didn't get a chance to thank him for the laffs tho.
― Cunga, Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)
miss ya big guy
― Owa Tana Siam (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)
what gallery
― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:51 (sixteen years ago)
one in Bergamot Station.
― Cunga, Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)
jeff u tryna sell some paintings to judd apatow
― max, Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)
yeah hold on i'll be right there
― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
I'll close the gate so no one can leave until then.
― Cunga, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)
i could bike over with my proton pack and pke meter
― omar little, Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)
http://i49.tinypic.com/doryv6.jpg
― Cunga, Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:13 (fifteen years ago)
surely he'll be getting the Mark Twain Prize next year
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)
I hate the title of this thread but I just saw This is 40 and it had its moments
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:39 (twelve years ago)
I really liked the film.
― *tera, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:41 (twelve years ago)
I hope the Rumour is good in it.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:53 (twelve years ago)
In what sense is it the ~sequel~ to knocked up? just same married characters? i tend to see every movie that celery man is in
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:54 (twelve years ago)
yeah it's just 2 major characters reprised (plus at least one minor character) from KO
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 03:27 (twelve years ago)
i'm about 20 mins into this and it is fucking great so far
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 03:35 (twelve years ago)
id fully support his next film being only 20 mins
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 03:40 (twelve years ago)
xxp was charlene yis character the same ?
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 03:43 (twelve years ago)
apparently yes
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 03:52 (twelve years ago)
got bored of this
― just sayin, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 09:39 (twelve years ago)
so much arguing
last 20 minutes completely unnecessary. overall pretty good though
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 14:16 (twelve years ago)
reviews have been toxic, so I didn't go, thinking it must have been some complete dive from his normal level. it isn't? the only film of his I don't find that funny is Funny People (which is overlong).
― akm, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 16:47 (twelve years ago)
much better than Funny People. not as good as 40 YO Virgin or Knocked Up
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 16:59 (twelve years ago)
there's an interesting movie about people who never should have married in the first place in This Is 40, and an interesting sub-altman wander through upscale LA communities, but apparently no one can tell Apatow to make one or the other, let alone tell him that the couple aren't inherently adorable or likable
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:31 (twelve years ago)
dude has no peers and can't imagine making a better movie than james l bridges ever did, so he's kind of stuck in this gear unless commercial desperation kicks in
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:32 (twelve years ago)
yeah it seems like he's leaving it to his proteges to make broad comedies and genre comedies and action comedies while he drifts into domestic dramedy
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:35 (twelve years ago)
lol James L Brooks, i mean. I always get that wrong.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:38 (twelve years ago)
my favorite characters were easily albert broos, maude apatow and chris o'dowd's, who were the only ones consistently expressing disbelief at the leads.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:40 (twelve years ago)
loved Segal in this. O'Dowd & Segal jockeying for the hottie was A+
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:42 (twelve years ago)
Ryan Adams was F-
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:43 (twelve years ago)
Albert brooks was the standout for me, the segal/odowd scene was hilariousbut kind of a drag overall
― Todd Terragh - "It's the Harps" (m bison), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:54 (twelve years ago)
I thought Maude Apatow was notably terrible. Brooks and Segel gave the only enjoyable performances
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:40 (twelve years ago)
and what was with the Lost subplot
what pct of apatow films have his fams in there now?btw if this movie is in anyway representative of Judd's irl circumstances, have mercy on his family
― Todd Terragh - "It's the Harps" (m bison), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:43 (twelve years ago)
that lost thing was supposed to be like lol lost fans are obsessed! yeah?it was a chore when the show was on and even more so years after the fact
― Todd Terragh - "It's the Harps" (m bison), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:44 (twelve years ago)
Best moments were with Brooks (who killed, but that's what he does), McCarthy, O'Dowd, and Lithgow.
When it wasn't just Rudd and Mann, it was tolerable-to-hilarious; but the scenes with just the two of them (i.e., most of the movie) were borderline excruciating.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:46 (twelve years ago)
what pct of apatow films have his fams in there now?
his wife in all 4, his kids in the last 3
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:46 (twelve years ago)
this was surprisingly good
― max, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 13:28 (twelve years ago)
though it made some weird narrative choices -- like why construct & waste time on the is-megan-fox-stealing subplot but then give the lithgow-mann relationship short shrift. the stuff at the end felt way out of place, lithgow all "you were born on december 2, 1974"
― max, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 13:30 (twelve years ago)
I liked all that messiness: taking on the form of a novel instead of Aristotle's laws of drama and The Hero's Journey.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 07:51 (twelve years ago)
Weirdly, I thought Mann's workout buddy was Lena Dunham made up to look older until Lena Dunham showed up. I also wondered while watching if the guy turns out to be Robert Smiegel (!) was Apatow.
P.S. Only Apatow I've seen is this and Funny People, so wasn't expecting wall-to-wall funny.
P.S.S. Melissa McCarthy kept showing up in all the previews before this, except the one for Amour.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 07:58 (twelve years ago)
Amour was fine, but McCarthy would've added a lot to it.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:46 (twelve years ago)
loved Graham Parker's soundtrack to Amour.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:49 (twelve years ago)
Funny People is the apotheosis of his up-his-own-butt style so far, since not only does it feature his family and showcase his daughter singing a song from "Cats" on tape - that's got to be some sort of meta in-joke, forcing the audience to watch his real life family on screen playing a different family watching a video of his real life daughter singing in the school musical - but it features Sandler, who was Apatow's longtime roommate.
I haven't seen this one, but I have read numerous Apatow profiles where he basically says he had a whole bunch of scenes and more or less just stuck them together. BUt after "Funny People," I have no interest in seeing this.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:54 (twelve years ago)
I didn't either, but it's better than Funny People. Not by a huge margin, but it's worth seeing for Brooks and McCarthy.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:13 (twelve years ago)
apatow's progressively lazy/shy/uninterested/oblique relationship with ~cinema~ is kinda interesting i guess
pineapple express and bridesmaids also both did that "oh yeah right you wanted a film film erm here you go i guess" abrupt wrap up
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)
pineapple express in an overtly meta way
that film is getting better with time imo btw
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)
can't tell which Apatow film you're talking about tbqh
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:23 (twelve years ago)
in general i don't think he'd really unpacked the deal with the leads, and i think the ungainly structure of his recent films stems from the fact that he doesn't really even know what he's trying to say. being an ambitious king with no guidance is a nice problem to have, though!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:25 (twelve years ago)
i'm wary of assigning specific traits of Apatow productions to Apatow himself, he has so many plates spinning at any given time and seems more like a cheerleader for his proteges than a hands-on mentor working at making their screenplays more like his. (xp)
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:29 (twelve years ago)
and while there is stuff that's repugnantly cloistered about funny people and this is 40, there's definitely more entertaining content then in, say, Brooks' How Do You Know.
xpost totally, my lil apatow auteur theories solely relates to his self-written/self-directed shit
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)
Knocked Up plays all the time on one of the cables channels, and I usually watch a ten or fifteen-minute snippet. All his flaws are there, more obvious now, of course, but it still works, and contra much of the criticism at the time I thought the post-hookup state of affairs between Heigl-Rogen was plausible. At the time he reminded me of Mazursky than Brooks, but as his tics become frozen in time and place his work takes on that tick-tock sitcom quality.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:37 (twelve years ago)
i still love knocked up and yeah, whenever i flip by it on E! i wind up watching a scene
"tighten. tighten."
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:40 (twelve years ago)
It's all pretty carefully strctured, though, just in a novelistic way (where it's possible to hang out in a plotline for as little or as long as possible) rather than a McKee/Aristotle way.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:56 (twelve years ago)
wtf are you talking about
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:58 (twelve years ago)
if you want to say it's novelistic great, but "carefully structured"?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:59 (twelve years ago)
apatow movies all have the classic 10 act structure, man
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)
Seth Rogen's performances inspire pity and terror.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:01 (twelve years ago)
last 20 minutes completely unnecessary
I can see this, especially since this had the same "bike accident = reconciliation" ending as the 40-Year-Old Virgin.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:03 (twelve years ago)
"last 20 minutes completely unnecessary" should be a keystroke on movie critic's iPads when watching his movies
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:05 (twelve years ago)
i totally understand if people would like to see apatow get more novelistic and if he went altman instead of aristotle that would be cool beans. i just don't know how you could think he's there.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:05 (twelve years ago)
its really poorly told just from a narrative point of view. they dont set up the lithgow-apatow relationship at all so the dramatic payoff thats supposed to come is stilted and wasted -- meanwhile they spend 15 dicking around with charlene yi and megan fox for no reason
― max, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:08 (twelve years ago)
also funny that we move to this dad-heavy climax and their moms never even get mentioned - even the one we met in knocked up!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:10 (twelve years ago)
Joanna Kerns filming "Growing Pains" reunion movie?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:11 (twelve years ago)
wife says rudd credited "ben" with the drugs they take during the totally adorbz slo-mo "we're broke and hate each other so let's hit a resort and harass the staff" hotel sequence, but was there any other reference to mann's sister and her babydaddy?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)
i wouldn't be opposed to Rudd legally changing his name to Tayne and re-booting his career. now Tayne, I can get into.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:18 (twelve years ago)
Chekhov's plays are nothing but fragments of scenes and seemingly meandering storylines and secondary characters whose plotlines are unresolved but resonate with the themes as a whole. He's the king of "lol white people problems" drama, and this and The Descendants are very much in that vein.
I mean, you gotta give this some credit at least (on,y minor spoiler) for not having Graham Parker play more than a half-crowded room in the last hour, let alone a triumphant set on Jimmy Kimmel.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:22 (twelve years ago)
i think you're giving him enough credit for all of us
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:24 (twelve years ago)
Chekhov's plays meander? Really?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:24 (twelve years ago)
Sure, let the butler or a visiting dignitary tell a long story that has everything to do with the themes of the play but little to do with the plot.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:26 (twelve years ago)
totally respect people who throw this in their yearly top 10 for being a challenging experience or wtfever, it's definitely an atypical film that touches on topics with a bravery few comedies do, but it's a pretty clueless bravery not some gamemaster shit
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)
I don't think you can quite separate plot from theme in Chekhov but ok. Plus, by the time you finish watching one of his plays you understand that those digressions weren't ancillary at all whereas in Apatow I don't know what the hell Joanna Kerns is doing besides inspiring the audience to go "Hey look it's Maggie Seaver!"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)
meanwhile they spend 15 dicking around with... megan fox for no reason
something something metaphor for america etc
― goole, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:31 (twelve years ago)
"perfect...ryan adams has agreed to be the final bit of pathetic lol white people at the end of my wry mockery of privilege. how can i top it? ah! maybe some gratuitous melissa mccarthy freakout over the credits to further taunt those who just wish i'd produced bridesmaids 2 instead."
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)
Nah, the Megan Fox thing is about self-image and projection and all that.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)
"and all that" is exactly the problem with Apatow
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)
With "and all that" = Apatow. Without = Alan Ball.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:34 (twelve years ago)
perfect...ryan adams has agreed to be the final bit of pathetic lol white people at the end of my wry mockery of privilege.
Well, it gives the audience an ending at a crowded concert without it having to be Graham Parker giving the crowded concert.
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 17:07 (twelve years ago)
adult alternative radio as chekhov's gun, so novelistic
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 17:16 (twelve years ago)
I see parallels between Apatow and Tarantino, actually, as screenwriters. Tarantino's films, post "Jackie Brown," have been a similar thematic/narrative mess, with all sorts of indulgences and pacing issues and overlong running times stuffed with cheerleading nods to crew and things he's a fan of. But I guess fundamentally Tarantino's payoff scenes (violence) still work, whereas Apatow's driving force - comedy - is pretty inconsistently funny. If anything, Tarantino is often funnier than Apatow.
I suppose Pineapple Express (which admittedly is only tangentially of the Apatow canon) is the closest fusion of Apatow and Tarantino.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:48 (twelve years ago)
i support this line of reasoning only because i want morbius to be forced to talk about apatow and tarantino at the same time
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:49 (twelve years ago)
Scanners exploding head gif
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:50 (twelve years ago)
I see parallels between Apatow and Tarantino, actually, as screenwriters...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:48 (3 hours ago) Permalink
They're both San Fernando Valley showbiz kid types -- they had fathers or grandfathers in showbusiness (Tarantino's dad was a character actor in Westerns or something, Apatow's grandfather a music producer and record label owner). Paul Thomas Anderson is another one.
I think that gives them that sensibility or dynamic (to use a weasel word) of not being Hollywood insiders, or Hollywood rich kids, but they're the first people just on the outside with their noses pressed to the windows. They also grew up saturated in the entertainment business, hence how studious they all are about being film buffs or comedy nerds.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 22:28 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dwBGvn23zg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)
http://www.fastcompany.com/3004360/judd-apatow-and-lena-dunham-writing-real-life-and-comedy
http://www.fastcompany.com/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/640/poster/2013/01/3004360-poster-1280-172-feature-judd-apatow-lena-dunham-talk-about-stuff.jpg
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:34 (twelve years ago)
A Message from Paul:DECEMBER 21, 2012, 11:15 pmJust saw "This Is 40". Funny. But joke about Art Garfunkel was not. He was the great singer of S&G and a gifted record producer. Nothing laughable about his talent.
― just sayin, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:04 (twelve years ago)
So that's one person who saw it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:03 (twelve years ago)
Weird thing for Paul Rudd to tweet.
― new hope for orang-utan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:06 (twelve years ago)
You know Paul Rudd hasn't seen it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 20:16 (twelve years ago)
watched "wanderlust" the other day and thought it typified the sort of sour garbage this guy stamps his name on.
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 20:17 (twelve years ago)
could say the same of "funny people"
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:02 (twelve years ago)
aw man i loved wanderlust
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:17 (twelve years ago)
don't mind me!
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:22 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/This-is-the-End-Film-Poster.jpg
this poster by itself represents some kind of nadir
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:28 (twelve years ago)
he is not directly responsible but still
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:29 (twelve years ago)
goofiest looking bandmember of barenaked ladies etc
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:38 (twelve years ago)
i'm looking at jonah hill and i keep thinking of how creepy is it that michael jordan is still wearing that LONE, GOLD HOOP EARRING?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:39 (twelve years ago)
xpost wanderlust was terrible not up for debate
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:41 (twelve years ago)
Wanderlust looks like a copy-paste of Couples Retreat, that only came out three years ago
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:41 (twelve years ago)
i loved it but i am also a big fan of the state
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:45 (twelve years ago)
yeah wanderlust was basically an excuse for the state to do a movie making fun of hippies w/ rudd/aniston as 'star' backing. not great (no role models or whas) but much better than couples retreat or this is 40.
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:06 (twelve years ago)
Love WHAS, liked Role Models, did not like Wanderlust.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:07 (twelve years ago)
― balls, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they were also making fun of yuppies via rudd/aniston, too
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:11 (twelve years ago)
Rudd's "Our Idiot Brother" covered a lot of similar ground and was way funnier imo
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:12 (twelve years ago)
Besides not really being very funny (to me) it just felt really mean spirited. I think in comparison to, say, Our Idiot Brother, it just seemed interested in scoring cheap smugness points against both hippies and yuppies.
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:13 (twelve years ago)
xpost!
what's WHAS? i'm blanking
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:14 (twelve years ago)
i kinda dug wanderlust
i shamefully sort of like couple retreat now that i've seen it in bits at pieces like 8 million times on hbo and showtime :/
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)
wet hot american summer
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)
lol why did i force that post through
xp ryan i think most of the hippies were very sympathetically portrayed. i also remember laughing really hard at the stuff with rudd's brother
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:16 (twelve years ago)
you're right there is a little more nuance than I am giving it credit for
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:18 (twelve years ago)
o yeah, the most biting comedy in the whole thing was the brother w/ the mcmansion in the atlanta suburbs. our idiot brother is probably better but the only part in it that really made me laugh was thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduZLSyCU6s
but wanderlust had thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8dR2Xs7ZBI
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:20 (twelve years ago)
going to check out our idiot brother
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:21 (twelve years ago)
of course i had expectations w/ our idiot brother (rashida jones!) whereas all i knew of wanderlust was poorly reviewed flop so that could be a factor. this is 40 otoh was stunningly stunningly bad.
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:22 (twelve years ago)
jennifer aniston's husband is p funny in wanderlust
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)
yeah ngl i watched wanderlust while visiting my grandmother in florida, it was probably the highpoint of my week
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:27 (twelve years ago)
i just thought the underlying sweetness and generosity of Our Idiot Brother was really refreshing. Obviously it's just the "holy fool" scenario but I dug it.
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:27 (twelve years ago)
enjoyed Wanderlust plenty, it's sloppy plotwise but has lots of funny people being funny in it
Our Idiot Brother is not very good
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:29 (twelve years ago)
Wanderlust rules!
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:32 (twelve years ago)
yeah of the paul rudd starring vehicles those two are definitely my fave after role models (not the heaviest competition admittedly). weird that he seems to work better as a supporting player, i don't think if you lined up him, rogen, and jonah hill it would be obv that he's the one who needs to be second banana.
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:33 (twelve years ago)
yeah the main problem with Our Idiot Brother is that it isn't funny at all
― Number None, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:46 (twelve years ago)
see I like it when a comedy doesn't desperately strain for laughs. Something old fashioned and confident about it.
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:49 (twelve years ago)
all the "wacky" stuff in wanderlust was grating
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:50 (twelve years ago)
old comedies strain for laffs like there ain't no tomorrow
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:51 (twelve years ago)
http://amazingribs.com/images/blog/cary_grant.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:53 (twelve years ago)
I cannot recall a single funny sequence from My Idiot Brother. mostly all I remember is that naked british guy
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:56 (twelve years ago)
when did Cary Grant wake up to a penis in his face (don't answer that)
― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:57 (twelve years ago)
one thing that really annoyed is that nobody in that family looked like they could be related to anyone else in that family
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:58 (twelve years ago)
I wonder if the Our Idiot Brother/Wanderlust divide falls along the same line as the Bob's Burgers/Archer divide or the Parks & Rec/etc. divide, aka people who like stuff that has "heart" and people who hate twee "cloying" stuff.
I am very twee and emotional I guess.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:59 (twelve years ago)
anyway while there may be digs at the yuppies in wanderlust it's essentially about the horrors of hippies and suburbia and going for cheap scatological gags. (Boobs and dicks lol.) it's simply not funny either
― ryan, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)
what r u a hippie or something
― flopson, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 15:21 (twelve years ago)
wow This is 40 was really ... unpleasant. just completely unsympathetic characters, with no conflict driving any kind of plot. every scene not featuring Albert Brooks was just kind of sad.
I thought there was some other discussion on ILX somewhere but can't find it. Prior to rental I had expressed my hesitation to my wife that I had heard this was bad (from ILX, and NYT and others). afterwards my wife said "I hate it when the internet is right".
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:40 (twelve years ago)
That's such a "This is 40" thing for a wife to say.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:41 (twelve years ago)
and then I played the Jew card
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:43 (twelve years ago)
i was nonplussed to say the least when it dawned on me that the central conflict of the film was probably whether or not they should/would sell their house.
― ryan, Monday, 15 April 2013 17:48 (twelve years ago)
or have a baby
or make up with their parents
or find something their kids do adorable and/or irritating
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)
well that does sound like a neorealist film about bourgeois American parenting
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:52 (twelve years ago)
on the Ap*t*w-produced front, The Five-Year Engagement wasn't half bad!
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:53 (twelve years ago)
This is 40 sucked. I watched it with my dad and it made me so angry. Plus, it had Lithgow in it. Ugh.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:55 (twelve years ago)
The Five-Year Engagement wasn't half bad!
you are insane
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:57 (twelve years ago)
as a guy who liked funny people more than most, This is 40 might not have had a single good scene in it
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:57 (twelve years ago)
more like 'this is farty'
― ienjoyhotdogs, Monday, 15 April 2013 17:58 (twelve years ago)
more like 'the three-hour enragement'
more like dudd apablow
― ienjoyhotdogs, Monday, 15 April 2013 17:59 (twelve years ago)
2 for 2...will he ruin it...
― brony james (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:59 (twelve years ago)
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, April 15, 2013 1:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought it had a handful of good scenes; or rather, the only good scenes were those with Brooks or McCarthy.
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 15 April 2013 18:02 (twelve years ago)
^^^^
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 18:03 (twelve years ago)
The McCarthy scene was awful though. And then they play an extended version over the credits with them all cracking up like she's some genius improviser
― Number None, Monday, 15 April 2013 18:06 (twelve years ago)
Descendents lite. Not bad.
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Monday, 15 April 2013 18:12 (twelve years ago)
engagement was better than this is 40 which just seemed like a lot of random bits thrown together into an apatow movie and wasn't funny enough (except for melissa mccarthy)
― akm, Monday, 15 April 2013 18:29 (twelve years ago)
even the trailers were obnoxiously self-involved and unfunny
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 April 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)
the tagline of the trailer being THIS IS EVERYONE'S STORY cracked me up. they live in a brentwood mansion and both drive luxury cars.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 15 April 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)
40-Year-Old Virgin: A-Knocked Up: B+Funny People: B-This Is 40: F+
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:41 (twelve years ago)
basically
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:43 (twelve years ago)
I'm still reeling from how much I hated it.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:45 (twelve years ago)
nah, i thought this is 40 was great, it was funny people that sucked
― marcos, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:47 (twelve years ago)
Funny People made me wary, so I didn't have high expectations for 40. But damn, I didn't think 40 would be nearly as bad as it was.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:47 (twelve years ago)
adam sandler is beyond terrible, kinda wish that guy would disappear forever from movies
I'm fine with throwing Funny People in the dustbin of history, don't get me wrong.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:49 (twelve years ago)
:( I like this is 40.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:06 (twelve years ago)
Sandler really is an abomination I feel ashamed that I ever enjoyed Billy Madison
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:11 (twelve years ago)
I really believe in an alternate version where his character was more in the background - Rogan's star boss rather than his co-lead - sandler could have gotten a best supporting Oscar nom. Not to say he'd earn it, just that they love that can find of sensitive self-satire (jack in terms of endearment). But then we wouldn't have learned the lesson that one must listen when Maude Apatow is singing.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:40 (twelve years ago)
it didn't bother me the first time he put his kids in a movie, but by the third time it's like c'mon man you aren't even trying
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)
count me in the liked "this is 40" thought "funny people" was poor camp
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, October 1, 2013 6:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still like it, but hate everything else of his, and I have no idea why.
(Well, I have some idea; the Miles Davis line was ace.)
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 00:07 (twelve years ago)