new stoner comedy, featuring "the asian guy from _American Pie_" and "the indian guy from _Van Wilder_", and directed by "the white guy who did _Dude, Where's My Car?)_"
and they actually call them that in the trailer.
oh yeah, and it features Neil Patrick Harris....as "Neil Patrick Harris".
― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Saturday, 22 May 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 22 May 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 22 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.tryfoneblog.com/fb/photos/5b/91/c6b69db7af1e.bmp?_rh=2994uz1ysglpewp1b9zoymcym
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I., Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)
The title of the movie really offends me, the White Castle bit. More than anything because people don't actually crave White Castle.
And if you call this movie "subersive" I will rotate your tires without telling you.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)
I thought of Celine and Julie Go Boating, but that's probably closer to the mark.
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)
" Its director is Danny Leiner, who made "Dude, Where's My Car?," and he seems at first to pick up more or less where that movie, or any of its illustrious predecessors going back to "Porky's," left off. An ex-frat boy type, with a roomy office in a New York high-rise, is finishing up his work week. His pal, immediately recognizable as the wilder half of a classic buddy-movie pair, shows up proposing a fun-filled weekend of babes, booze and bong hits. But what about that big report due on Monday? No problem: just dump it on the Korean guy in the far cubicle. Our hero is free to pursue the carefree debauchery that is his birthright.
Except, of course, that the pale-skinned frat boy type is not the hero at all. He and his friend (who happen to be played by the screenwriters, Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz) are walk-on doofuses who pretty much walk out of the movie, leaving it in the hands of that unassuming Korean guy, Harold."
It seems as if I am going to be eating crow as that actually sounds pretty witty.
I'm still hoping people get passed the race thing and judge the movie on it's merits -- if it turns out to be a big retarded gross out comedy I don't care who's being gross and stupid and forcing jokes. Still don't like the White Castle in the title.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Have you even read the White Castle thread?
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)
I think he is the guy from Scrubs.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)
http://groups.myspace.com/HaroldAndKumar
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam west (adamwest), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)
At least McDonald's makes good burgers. Addicting, terrible for you, make you shit right when you're done eating... but good tasting.
Each White Castle burger is like a tiny kick in the groin. Besides, they should keep their name out of my entertainment plz. k thnx.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)
I am also quite excited to see this. It's not to be sneezed at that the leads are both non-white... that's pretty significant. I hope it's a hit, even if it is a dumb gross-out comedy.
I'm not sure I buy Dan Savage's claim that "Road Trip" was progressive, though...
― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, seriously: Are there any other major-studio narrative films* with a Korean or Indian actor in the lead role?
*i.e., Margaret Cho's concert films don't count
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Here's Dan's actual quote:
Speaking of TAs fucking their students, has everyone seen the new Tom Green flick Road Trip? By way of an awkward segue, one of the characters in Road Trip is a TA who wants to fuck a student. (He comes to a bad end, which should please those who disapprove.) For a gross-out teen sex comedy, this movie is remarkably sex-positive. Unattractive people are shown having sex--fat black girl on top of skinny white guy--and while the shock of seeing the two of them rolling around plays as something of a sight gag, they're not held up to ridicule by other characters in the film. Indeed, no one questions their right to be sexual, or their attraction to each other. It's really heartwarming. As if that weren't revolutionary enough, Road Trip also features a girl who initiates kinky sex (videotaping what could be a one-night stand), and not only is she not punished or humiliated or dead (or all three) as is customary in teen sex comedies, but she winds up getting the guy in the end. And to top it all off, a studly straight boy gets finger-fucked and no fag jokes are cracked, and he's not made out to be any less studly or straight for enjoying it. In Road Trip, people aren't worried about what normal, good girls do, and ugly people get laid--it's like sex in real life. It's mind-blowing.
As if that weren't revolutionary enough, Road Trip also features a girl who initiates kinky sex (videotaping what could be a one-night stand), and not only is she not punished or humiliated or dead (or all three) as is customary in teen sex comedies, but she winds up getting the guy in the end. And to top it all off, a studly straight boy gets finger-fucked and no fag jokes are cracked, and he's not made out to be any less studly or straight for enjoying it. In Road Trip, people aren't worried about what normal, good girls do, and ugly people get laid--it's like sex in real life. It's mind-blowing.
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)
I recall Sterling, who lived in Irvine for a bit, saying that it was actually pretty spot on in many ways. Then again, perhaps the OC factor reduces us all here to empty, posing caricatures. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)
HAHAHA i like this guy.
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Vollmann has a nice piece on the cambodian population in SoCal and this phenom in Rising Up, Rising Down. Its really sorta depressing.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 31 July 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 31 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 31 July 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)
so? surely you know all the words to pop songs that came out when you were 7.
also, am i imagining things or did i see a scissor sisters flyer on their wall?
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I., Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)
yes, that was a scissor sisters poster on their wall.
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 1 August 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)
that's. not. the. point. or maybe it is.
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)
I have the same experience, but for the sake of charity to all mankind, I prefer to think of this as a food issue rather than a class issue. Because if I think of it as a class issue, I'll only get depressed about class in America and maybe capitalism in general. No one could ever argue that White Castle food should really be *eaten*.
― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tark Vanderglue, Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Luckily there was an In-N-Out Burger just down PCH from where I saw it.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)
My sister is 22, and she LOVED Wilson Phillips when they were popular.
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)
not a very nice thing to say about ddb's neighborhood!
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)
but yeah, i live in the ghetto, hstencil you are only sticking up for me because you were very close to living up in that hood.
you did the right thing by not.
― ddb (ddb), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― ddb (ddb), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― ddb (ddb), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)
This was really funny, way better than Dude, Where's My. Less repetitive crap masquerading as comedy. The only thing that fell flat was the EXTREME ATHLETES gang. Doogie's strippers routine played better in the commercial, but it was still funny.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)
'Harold And Kumar Go To Amsterdam' NEEDS to happen. Apparently Hurwitz and Schlossberg are already working on it, and John Cho and Kal Penn are signed up to make a further two movies.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)
James M.: YESSSS
Just saw this with my bud Cacaman Flores. Judgement: From where I was sitting...THE ultimate stoner comedy. Gives the Cheech and Chong franchise a run for their money. For the record, I saw it stone-cold sober and thought it brilliant, so take that as you will...Best comedy of the year.
― Franco Wanko, Monday, 9 August 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.cinematical.com/2007/01/31/lots-more-hit-the-road-for-harold-and-kumar-2/
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)
― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)
Now even one further nudge toward gay classic-ish: https://www.out.com/celebs/2021/10/31/kal-penn-comes-out-gay-josh-fiance-boyfriend-photo
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:49 (four years ago)