Jack Black c/d?

dud. I used to like him alot, then i realized he did the same stupid shit in every movie.

DDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

his fucking dance moves, that stupid spin and that fucking lip thing he does. wanna beat him.

lip thing?

that face he makes. its like his version of the eddie vedder singing face.

jack black is a good actor and he's funny

and can't pick a good movie

i liked him on mr. show before i knew who he was. then i knew who he was. and he got kinda toothless in a hurry. can't blame him for taking the payday though. you gotta take your shot when you can take it.

always kinda hated tenacious d.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/91/230x306/91603_jack-black-does-his-best-monster-face-at-the-premiere-of-monsters-vs-aliens.jpg

scott OTM

every movie he has to make that face and perform some stupid "root doot doot".

his bit in the Mr. Show: The Joke: The Musical still cracks me up

don't stick your dick in these holes

i liked him in some movie about rollerblading.

most of the movies he's in rubbish and tenacious d v rubbish yes

he was great in this commercial for one of my fave games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5nJTz9m5I

riveting as the leader of the nasties in the neverending story part 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYH1trB4iE

Jason Segel did a pretty good Jack Black impression on Fallon the other night.

does he improve upon mork from ork's zany guy with a heart of mush persona? there is definitely a thespian yearning to be free in jack black. could get even worse out there.

Didn't know he had been a child actor. Just kinda makes everything even sadder now.

saw him recently as a guest on an episode of icarly, of all things. my daughter thought he was funny. he was, kinda (his song, not his incessent mugging for the camera).

Yeah, he's definitely more in his element as a children's show actor. My kid saw Nacho Libre the other day and thought it was hilarious.

Jack Black appears on kid's show, mugs for camera, sings silly song SHOCKER!

oh i wasn't shocked.

c'mon dudes, granted this guy makes a living being insufferable, but in a world of dane cooks, he doesn't even crack a top 100 most insufferable list.
he's basically on the jimmy fallon/andrew wk axis of benign insufferableness

i don't think i've ever heard dane cook (he's a comedian, right?). also: except for a funny cameo, i don't think i've ever heard ricky gervis, or whateverhisnameis, either.

Ricky Gervais was in the WSJ today promoting atheism. It was very jarring. Does he do that in British newspapers too?

wait what

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/22/does-god-exist-ricky-gervais-takes-your-questions/?KEYWORDS=gervais

Philip Nunez OTM. I mean, in a world where Kevin James continues to make movies and Carlos Mencia continues to have his own show, it seems so ridiculous to waste hatred on poor Jack Black.

ugh smug atheists. I mean this:

Science doesn’t concern itself with the non-existence of something.

is just wrong

I mean come on STRING THEORY

otm

worst part of western scientific paradigm = ridiculous foundationalist belief that certain things have been established and cannot be challenged, especially not by any sort of holistic theories of spirituality which *must* be bunkum oh yes very much so hmm

jack black is kinda funny sometimes

Jack Black's biggest failing is that, although he has talent, he isn't talented enough to justify his level of celebrity, the size of his roles, or the compensation he gets. His shtick is a limited one, so that at first it was fresh, then it was merely comfortable, and now it is stale.

Add: He should have been an SNL star who couldn't quite establish himself in movies.

eagerly awaiting his I AM SERIOUS ACTOR/crying clown phase

Jack Black's biggest failing is that, although he has talent, he isn't talented enough to justify his level of celebrity, the size of his roles, or the compensation he gets. His shtick is a limited one, so that at first it was fresh, then it was merely comfortable, and now it is stale.

― Aimless, Thursday, December 23, 2010 6:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^yeah pretty much the most otm statement in this thread

Can you not apply that critique to every one of Jack Black's celebrity co-stars?

eagerly awaiting his I AM SERIOUS ACTOR/crying clown phase

he would actually make sense starring in an update of shakes the clown.

root doot doot

My favorite JB performance in a film to date is Nacho Libre because most of the acting is actually done with his face rather than doing his metal voice (har har) or a variety of other go-to tics he has. Not that Nacho Libre was very good, but he was excellent in it.

I'm still fond of the Tenacious D tv show. Honestly, I think that's his best shit right there and he never topped it.

i think he was in that susan sarandon death row movie, and was appropriately muted, and therefore invisible, which doesn't bode well for a catastrophic serious actor phase.

i mean i sense about as much "non-schticky" ambition from this guy as i do from weird al yankovic.

ive never liked him and im glad everyone's just catching up with me now

its funny how gulliver's travels looks exactly like his fake movies in Tropic Thunder

he's done "muted" before - see that Tim Robbins right-wing folk singer movie

is brendan frasier the only guy that went in the opposite direction? (serious actor dude rededicating his life to making non-stop schlock?)

nicholas cage. but I think he lost all his money so I give him a pass.

nic cage is a totally different beast

nicolas cage rededicated himself to entertaining billions with brilliant performances in great movies

shoulda got an oscar nom for king kong

i gotta admit, out of the fake movies in thirteen, would rather see The Misadventure of Ezekiel Balls starring Jack Black than Operation: Kandahar starring John Cusack.

Tenacious D, School of Rock, Nacho Libre, Kung Fu Panda, King Kong - classic.

Dud for that awful Gulliver's Travels billboard where he's lying down and it's basically and up-short crotch shot of him? Seriously whoever thought of THAT to advertise the movie should be shot.

OTM the giant billboards of that around here creep me out something fierce

is brendan frasier the only guy that went in the opposite direction? (serious actor dude rededicating his life to making non-stop schlock?)

Been trying to figure out what the hell happened to John C. Reilly myself. Not complaining, tho'.

Oh, and

http://files.myopera.com/BOSOX/albums/36990/jackblack.gifhttp://files.myopera.com/BOSOX/albums/36990/jackblack.gifhttp://files.myopera.com/BOSOX/albums/36990/jackblack.gifhttp://files.myopera.com/BOSOX/albums/36990/jackblack.gifhttp://files.myopera.com/BOSOX/albums/36990/jackblack.gifhttp://files.myopera.com/BOSOX/albums/36990/jackblack.gif

aimless nails it in consecutive posts i think. I dont hate him in everything, but overall he'd put me off a movie more often than not

http://i.picasion.com/pic36/6df4fc7bb569fbe994f108b6cc39f1dc.gif

i wonder what he and charlie haden talk about at thanksgiving dinner

loved him in Tropic Thunder

the only time I've ever found him to be a negative to a movie is probably Margot At The Wedding, where his clowning did seem oversized at points. But usually he's not the reason a movie he's in sucks.

xpost yeah he was great in in Tropic Thunder

"I mean, in a world where Kevin James continues to make movies"

i actually think that kevin james could be good in serious movie roles! for real. maybe some mamet-ish sorta thing. he's got a really good voice and his mock-seriousness could be turned into real seriousness pretty easily. was watching the patton oswalt movie about the pathetic Giants fan and he would have been good in that.

i realize that my opinions are very controversial and somewhat volatile.

Kevin James is a good physical comedian too...I mean, he's not on a Farley level but he's pretty good at it. I find him likeable but yeah, I haven't seen him in a role where I'm like FINALLY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzFnY1c1PQg

usually he's not the reason a movie he's in sucks.

― da croupier, Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yup. and otm to everyone that said hating him is a waste of time. i guess he is/was sorta ubiquitous for a while, but that's different from actually sucking

no he sucks

hes a talentless unfunny cipher and he should be murdered in front of his screaming children

Ugh that Ricky Gervais WSJ Q&A is making it really hard to justify hating on Jack Black, because I can't ever imagine Black writing something so horrid. JB's done some dud things but at least he doesn't take himself seriously, which goes a long way in my book towards reaching for Classic status.

I mean "An atheist however is alone in knowing that there is nothing to know so probably has the edge." Yes, by invalidating all non-atheist conceptions of the universe you truly discover the magical Real Truth and everyone else is an idiot compared to you.

current & recent superhero movies where substituting jack black for the hero is an improvement:
green hornet
green lantern
batman
the social network
hulk

where jack black would ruin the movie:
punisher
spider-man
blade
iron man (iffy -- maybe improved if he was pepper pots)
thor

Every movie has at least one scene where he's making goofy sound effects. Skeedoosh.

He was funny in like Tenacious D and Hi-Fidelity. I liked school of rock. He seems to have turned to self-parody for dollars these days... so DUD.

Also, he was great in Tropical Thunder, but primarily its satire on his own career - he toally does make a bunch of movies like the "Fartzzz" series.

There are times I mind him more than others, but there are times where he's more or less channeling Paul Shore in "weasel" guise.

is brendan frasier the only guy that went in the opposite direction? (serious actor dude rededicating his life to making non-stop schlock?)

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, December 23, 2010 7:27 PM (Yesterday)

I was going to say Thomas Haden Church but... nah. Except for Broken Trail, Tombstone, One Night Stand and Mr. Murder, he's always played the intolerable douche with a coastal accent acting as himself in every role. Church is more like Matthew McConaughey 2.0 and totally undeserving of the praise he gets. The Oscar nom still confuses me, he wasn't that good, Paul Giamatti was more talented. I used to be a fan of Church pre-Sideways during my High School days but thankfully I outgrew him, the only things I liked him in were Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight and The Specials.

Anyway, enough thread derailment, back to Jack.

When I was single I would develop crushes on basically everyone* and also on celebrities, but like really shitty and schlubby ones for the most part. I would then rent all their movies and watch them, wishing I wasn't lonely. Jack Black was #1 for me in 2003. Did you know: this man has not been in a single high quality movie (I did like School of Rock at the time). I could not sit through even the first 30 minutes of Saving Silverman.

What actually killed my lust for this dude was the Tenacious D DVD. There is this extra of them masturbating which isn't like actual dick shots but just ridiculously long shots of fake jizz cannon, just gallons and gallons of streaming fake jizz for minutes on end. And, at that moment, and thinking about Saving Silverman, I realized I had been acting like a very foolish young lady.

*tbh this hasn't changed too much

Thomas Haden Church

love this guy 4eva for ned & stacey tbqh

This is the best Jack Black moment, one I still like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxfxfh9w44g

I used to think he was OK but I've realized over the last couple years that he's one of the most annoying people ever. I can't even stand the look of him these days.

hes a talentless unfunny cipher and he should be murdered in front of his screaming children

this is so true and, in some ways, too charitable to jblack.

i really like saving silverman tbqh

i can't stand jack black, but there is a role -- one key role -- he was born to play:

http://www.theentrepreneursblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jack_black.jpeg

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/meatloaf-431.jpg

I'm still fond of the Tenacious D tv show. Honestly, I think that's his best shit right there and he never topped it.

^^

Seriously, if you've never seen it and like Mr. Show - it was written by Bob and David - it's fucking great, weird and funny. But if you've seen anything he or they have done since then it's probably polluted your mind to the point that you couldn't get into it. I understand. High Fidelity was ok though.

Jack Black is best with Kyle. Like peas and carrots.

he was in Dead Man Walking playing a serious character (Sean Penn's brother). He was okay; it was before he was famous for everything else.

(that was in response to "Did you know: this man has not been in a single high quality movie (I did like School of Rock at the time)."). Also, I think HIgh Fidelity is high enough quality.

i just watched the gulliver's travels preview and it looks insanely bad

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/gullivers-travels-predictions.php

I'm still fond of the Tenacious D tv show. Honestly, I think that's his best shit right there and he never topped it.

^^

Seriously, if you've never seen it and like Mr. Show - it was written by Bob and David - it's fucking great, weird and funny. But if you've seen anything he or they have done since then it's probably polluted your mind to the point that you couldn't get into it. I understand. High Fidelity was ok though.

― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, December 24, 2010 1:16 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So there was a time many years ago when I thought the Tenacious D show was just about the funniest thing ever. I watched a couple episodes last year and was blown away by how unfunny it seemed to me now. I think maybe I just liked it so much because I smoked tons of weed back then and was probably baked while watching.

http://www.shortsshortsshorts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/marijuana-evil-weed.jpg

Swift was unable to depict a Lilliputian soldier getting assaulted by Jack Black’s giant anus in even a single dimension, let alone an extremely fuzzy three. With such wonders of technology at their disposal, can anyone blame the filmmakers for gutting the material of social commentary?

http://www.avclub.com/articles/gullivers-travels,49429/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=avclub_rss_daily

The PG-rated "Gulliver's" cost 20th Century Fox and its co-financiers Dune Entertainment and Ingenious Film Partners about $112 million to make and likely will be a major money loser unless it performs significantly better overseas. It's the second underperformer in a row for Black, who last year starred in the flop "Year One."

looking to find something to entertain my near 10-year old daughter and her 8-year old cousin, and having seen the other children's films out at the moment, we went to gulliver's travels.

about 40 minutes into it, with the clear support of my daughter, we walked out. it's not just that it was age-inappropriate for them (blame for which falls on my shoulders), it was horribly underwritten and unfunny, and everything seemed tossed-off and offhanded, like they filmed it with a skeleton script over a weekend.

my wife was itching to leave, too. horrible.

Given how Hollywood works, Mr. Black likely will not be starring in any more movies for quite some time to come. It's back to the minor comic sidekick roles for him until he's learned his lesson.

Man, dying to know how Gullivers Travels was age inappropriate. Can imagine anyone but a 10 year old being interested in that

first, giant black's exposed butt falls directly on a lilliputain, who disappears into it. second, black convinces a lilliputain general that he should refer to himself as "lame ass." third, to put out a fire, black urinates on the building, spraying the king and the general in the process. there's more, but those come to mind.

maybe the key here is that i'm dealing with a 10-year old girl, and we've been really careful about what we let her watch. but today we were caught, and i stupidly didn't check the parent-guide before going into the theatre. i figured gulliver's travels is "pg," and tangled -- which was fine -- was "pg," so it must be okay.

Tangled in ass-hair

sadly, the little lilli didn't survive.

Man i would love that if I was 10. "Whoa-hoooo that's a lotta piss!!!"

you are the film's target audience.

(j/k, dude)

http://sandboxworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Jack-Black%E2%80%99s-Gulliver%E2%80%99s-Travels.jpg

I pass a billboard with this poster on it every day on my way to work, and every day the disturbing phrase "jack black upskirt" pops into my head.

the critics agree!

St. Petersburg Times: This is what the holidays need: a good, Swift kick in the funny bone.

New York Post: Black was already the world's biggest little kid, and he might be the only actor who could have made this movie such nimble fun.

the pissing out the fire is straight outta Swift.

I think maybe I just liked it so much because I smoked tons of weed back then and was probably baked while watching.

One down, a few hundred more to go!

Yeah I heard that the movie stayed relatively true to Swift, for whatever that is worth

Kevin James is a good physical comedian too...I mean, he's not on a Farley level but he's pretty good at it. I find him likeable but yeah, I haven't seen him in a role where I'm like FINALLY.

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:05 (1 week ago)

His standup special (sweat the small stuff) was surprisingly very good.

And King of Queens really wasn't bad. Misunderstood show.

also lol at people being butthurt about Ricky Gervais pointing out that religion is ridiculous.

WHY CAN'T HE LET ME BELIEVE IN UNICORNS IN PEACE

Yeah I heard that the movie stayed relatively true to Swift, for whatever that is worth

it wasn't worth the price of admission.

"And King of Queens really wasn't bad. Misunderstood show."

is it underrated in the way that Just Shoot Me had clever interstitials where the titles of the fake cosmo articles had a hidden significance that related to the plot of the episode?
like if david spade was dating a woman who ate him and he clawed his way out of her belly despite her attempts to push him back in, it would then pan to a cosmo cover with the title "HE'S JUST NOT INTO YOU"

thank fuck peeps are still holding out for quality modern art instead of the usual squeek squeek obviousness

also lol at people being butthurt about Ricky Gervais pointing out that religion is ridiculous.

yes, running charities, hospitals -- all ridiculous, everything to do with all religion. Go blow Bill Maher.

ah bollocks sorry rong thread you fat useless unfunny cunt cheers for pissing on GT

yes, running charities, hospitals -- all ridiculous, everything to do with all religion. Go blow Bill Maher.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, January 2, 2011 1:18 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Charities and hospitals!

is it underrated in the way that Just Shoot Me had clever interstitials where the titles of the fake cosmo articles had a hidden significance that related to the plot of the episode?
like if david spade was dating a woman who ate him and he clawed his way out of her belly despite her attempts to push him back in, it would then pan to a cosmo cover with the title "HE'S JUST NOT INTO YOU"

― Philip Nunez, Sunday, January 2, 2011 1:05 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

mostly Jerry Stiller

the JB GT looks terrible, but yeah walking out of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS because Gulliver pisses out the fire is lol@u

that's not when we left. we left at some unremarkable moment of lameness.

can't believe some fucker thought of Gulliver pissing out a fire

Glad to know PG-rated films are still a wasteland.

can't believe some fucker executive producer didn't think to hire a good scriptwriter.

it's about time Holywood gave props to Englightingment-era satire

Candide with Michael Cera

CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

REMEMBER THAT TIME WE ALL THOUGHT DON QUIXOTE FEATURING SETH ROGEN WAS A FUNNY IDEA?

i'm still lol'ing at seth rogan as the green hornet.

The fact that Gulliver has been relegated to children's lit is mainly a testimony to bowdlerization of the original by the Victorians, because they really couldn't get behind the satire of it (the V's were all about PROGRESS!) and that was an easy way to ghettoize it. The original is not kiddie lit in any conceivable way.

Aimless otm

nah but Sam Johnson was on the grumpy bowdlerization tip before el Victorianes on account of how he was trying to get copyright on swearing

and he would've gotten away with it if Cobbett hadn't been a snarky twat

usually he's not the reason a movie he's in sucks.

― da croupier, Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yup. and otm to everyone that said hating him is a waste of time. i guess he is/was sorta ubiquitous for a while, but that's different from actually sucking

― kanellos (gbx), Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:49 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i will go to bat for him a little here. showbiz will always be full of overly energetic fat comedy dynamos and as far as the last 10-20 years go, Black is easily the most talented/tolerable and doesn't have nearly as much desperation and self-loathing oozing out of his performances, so there's that. and while i don't think i'd ever sit through a whole Tenacious D album or show, as far as schtick bands go they're pretty good. and i can't think of anything i've seen him in where he brought the movie down or it would've been substantially better with a different actor.

Matt Armstrong, fuck you.

ah bollocks sorry rong thread you fat useless unfunny cunt cheers for pissing on GT

what's all the "fat" shit lately? am I 300 lbs as well as 89 years old?

and weightist vitriol on the Jack Black thread, tsk tsk

there's a cruel irony in me calling anybody on weight, I wd like to pare back to "useless unfunny cunt".

Britwit^

Matt Armstrong, fuck you.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, January 2, 2011 3:49 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

was I supposed to respond with more respect to your argument that charities aren't ridiculous and therefore zombie space Jesus should not be ridiculed?

"Religion is ridiculous"

"Religious people give money to charity! WHY DO YOU HATE CHARITY!!!!"

God hates lepers

of all the people I expected to rep for brutalist feather-brained fucking of properly good books, you were low on the list Morbs

I can accept that religion is ridiculous, but can Matt Armstrong accept that Matt Armstrong is ridiculous? Enquiring minds and all that.

http://www.intemporality.com/images/misc/damn.jpg

xpost

I was not "repping" for anything such

this thread has taken a turn

see what jack black does to people?

I was not "repping" for anything such

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:07 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

he was talking about religion

can't decide if it's jack black, religion or ilx that does this to people, scott

perfect storm

See what Ricky Gervais does

DO U SEE

Ricky Gervais hates hospitals

God hates charity

i've never met a christian in real life that's as shrill as an athiest is on the internet

http://www.elitistsnob.com/images/god-hates-kent.jpg

Xpost Agreed, but this is not that thread...

low quality of aggro atheists is my favourite proof of god

i've never met a christian in real life that's as shrill as an athiest is on the internet

― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:41 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

good for you!

Exhibit A

Yeah this is gonna end well....

John 1:14

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4636/semttulo2e.jpg

would smote

MA
NA
RA

i've never met a christian in real life that's as shrill as an athiest is on the internet

looks like we have PHD study #3 in the bag

I think the Fleischer Bros version of G's Travels is available on the internets

the JB GT looks terrible, but yeah walking out of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS because Gulliver pisses out the fire is lol@u

― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:41 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's not when we left. we left at some unremarkable moment of lameness.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:42 (4 months ago) Bookmark

Was it the bit where JB quotes Prince? That was where we turned off the DVD. Generic Hollywood yuk yuks, but it'd be ok for a really young kid. Terry Gilliam could do the book justice maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4bP_nVOrds

Or maybe it was this bit (yes, we're trying to watch the rest of it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojNSEwW8s_s&feature=related

On another occasion the Lilliputians discover JB's iPhone (alongside a giant can of Coke), and JB marvels about how durable the iPhone must be to have survived the shipwreck. It's such a bad movie my wife has just started punching me just to relieve the pain. OK, we're not going to make it to the end of this movie.

maybe the CGI was more precise on the big screen, but it looked like JB should have pulled Segel's head off with that beckon at the end

also, ugh

he even does his stupid shit in those panda movies.

Laid up sick over the weekend I came across "The Polka King" on Netflix and had never heard about it although the true story it is based on seemed a bit familiar.

Got to say, just looking for something to watch, I got drawn into the movie and thought it was pretty good. It is both low key and over the top at the same time. Lots of neat details in the sets and backgrounds that seemed pretty apt, even not being from that part of Pennsylvania. I'd put it up with "Bernie" as one of the better movies that Jack Black has done. It has a cast filled with familiar character actors.

Jacki Weaver as the distrustful mother-in-law steals every scene she shows up in the movie. She was fantastic.