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I just saw the preview last night & I have to say . . . I'm kinda excited about it!!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/the40yearoldvirgin/

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

This movie is really, really funny.

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm so glad to hear it! The premise has so much room to be really, really funny . . . or fall really, really flat.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

i think that having judd apatow as the director made it so that the film is definitely reality-based, if that makes sense - many of the characters have conversations for no other purpose than to convince you that they could be real people living in a real world, the plot doesn't cut too many corners or rely on too many cliches. i left watching it thinking that most of it could actually happen, of course in a less humorous fashion. i'm not sure whether the screening i saw was the actual final cut - if it is, it's too long, but that didn't really matter to me as pretty much the entire movie was consistently hilarious.

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

DEE TO THREAD

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

At this rate, that will be me in 23 years time.

― JTS, Monday, 25 July 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

hmm, i was expecting this to be more absurdist.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

It has Katherine Keener and Paul Rudd!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Also looks good: Flightplan. Man, you gotta love Jodi Foster being hysterical.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

pretty funny trailer for this although the last joke (the box of porn one) is a dud

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/deucebigaloweuropeangigolo/
wtf

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

my local Clear Channel alt-rock station is doing some big contest/promotion for that Deuce Bigalow sequel. It's got juice.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

The original Deuce Bigelow is one of my top 10 movies. This Virgin movie looks funny too. I'd like to play Boggle with Catherine Keener.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Why did I think Deuce Bigelow already had a sequel? I was speculating that it's because he's called Deuce, which almost makes sense, but ultimately I decided that it's just because Lorne Michaels is a whore.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

When are we getting the Ace Ventura/Deuce Bigelow x-over classic Acey Deucey?

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

YES, this cast looks really good, in the Judd Apatow tradition. psyched.

― scout (scout), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

flightplan - post-9/11 flight anxiety + maternal seperation anxiety + flippin script on "terror in the air" = filmmajors get out yr. notebooks = ams get out yr. knives.

haha i totally told a friend i wanted to see this movie for "research"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

is this the steve carrell thing? i liked him in 'the office'.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

I am actually thinking he may be the weakest link in this film... maybe b/c he was under/badly-used in anchorman?

― scout (scout), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

he OWNED 'anchorman'!

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Released August 19th in the US and August 26th in the UK.

It might suck but it also might be the greatest movie of the year.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

steve carell is the only reason i want to see this.

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

he was awesome in the only watchable episode of the dana carvey show, #4 i think

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

from imdb:

The scene where Andy has his chest hair removed, required five cameras set up for the shot. Star Steve Carell's chest hair was actually ripped out in the scene. The actor had told director Judd Apatow just before shooting the scene: "It has to be real. It won't be as funny if it's mocked up or if it's special effect. You have to see that this is really happening."

jackie chan eat your heart out

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me of Gorotica, a Hugh Gallagher movie that Mike McCarthy worked on before starting to make his own movies. Rod Thomas (Compulsive Gamblers drummer) got one of his nipples pierced on camera, which wouldn't be a big deal except his character had been killed at the beginning of the movie, and corpses aren't generally known to jump or grit their teeth when getting piercings.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

When are we getting the Ace Ventura/Deuce Bigelow x-over classic Acey Deucey?

Motion pictures that will probably never be made but would be funny to see.

― The Gospel Comes to New Guinea (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping this thread would be a 40 year old ILXer admitting they are a virgin and urging the board to join in his anticipation of ending that. Let's see someone admit that while logged in...

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 31 July 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Just wait a few years, the problem will crop up.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Sunday, 31 July 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

"That reminds me of Gorotica, a Hugh Gallagher movie that Mike McCarthy worked on before starting to make his own movies. Rod Thomas (Compulsive Gamblers drummer) got one of his nipples pierced on camera, which wouldn't be a big deal except his character had been killed at the beginning of the movie, and corpses aren't generally known to jump or grit their teeth when getting piercings."

That reminds me of "Manon des sources" where a ribbon is torn off the nipple of a corpse. Actually the scene where the ribbon is sewn there in the first place is also pretty gruesome......

― JTS, Sunday, 31 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

this movie kind of made me sad. i mean i know the point is "it's OK, he's OK" etc. but i dunno it seems like just the ad campaign could make a lot of people feel crappy about themselves.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 31 July 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

e.g. you

― zing, Sunday, 31 July 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

e.g. dudes who make anonymous faggish snippy comments on the internet at other anonymous posters cuz theyre so ANGRY INSIDE

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

― zing!!!!, Sunday, 31 July 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

IN YOUR FACE

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 31 July 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I saw I think seventeen billboards for this movie yesterday, while driving maybe four miles through L.A. Every time I turned a corner, BAM, there was Steve Carell's smiling face looking down upon me like a chaste and benevolent god. It made my happy, if not a little guilty and unclean.

― reddening (reddening), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

i don't know, i just don't like it when a movie stigmatizes something like this. i mean i'm sure the movie itself (ahem) bends over backwards to have an inclusive/upbeat moral but the ad campaign and many of the jokes will surely work the other way.

i mean i don't expect entertainment to be righteous all the time, and this looks like it could be really promising (though the trailer was kind of, ehhh), but i just thought i'd comment on that one aspect of it that sort of creeped me out.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

ts:

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/news/images/102004_virgin.jpg
the 40-year-old virgin

vs.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/ShootingGallery/harasetsuko.jpg
the eternal virgin

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

vs.

http://www.historyguide.org/images/elizabeth.jpg
the virgin queene

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

vs.

http://www.homegrocer.com/images/products/bert%20x-virgin.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

every time i think a movie like this looks awful it turns out to be very very funny, so i have high hopes. i'm also glad i waited until anchorman was on cable.

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/news/050213.jpg

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

vs.

http://www.cinemamontreal.com/images/people-509-virginieledoyen.jpg
virginie ledoyen

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

THAT is how you start a monday morning, thanks amst.

― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

vs.

http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/richard-branson.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

top ten 40 yr old virgins-

1) borges (miraculously virgin again by the absolving virtue of sleep)
2) carroll
3) descartes
4) erdos (also on 40 yr old communists list)
5) emerson
6) hitler* (maybe?)
7) newton
8) kant (possibly because he looked weird)
9) ruskin
10) mary mother of god

honorary mention to goethe- so close at 39!!

*("with satanic joy in his face, the black-haired jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people" - mein kampf)

― 3, Monday, 1 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Basically looks like hilarity for jock thugs.

Steve Carell starring in a big-studio comedy SHOULD BE a mismatch, but things have gotten so desperate.... in the '30s or 40s he would've had bit character parts with two funny scenes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

y'all got the completely wrong idea about this movie. the trailers don't quite get it right.

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

in the thirties and forties they couldn't show two people in the same bed.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

...unless there was one foot on the floor at all times, or something.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Yep. And there was actual WIT that appeared in MAINSTREAM Hollywood comedies out of necessity; isn't that right, Seann William Scott?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

fewer black comedians, or, indeed, characters, in mainstream movies back then, wouldn't you say?

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

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this was the funniest thing i've seen in a long time (bar the Aristrocrats, which doesn't really count. Uneven tone? Well it has a tender side to it certainly, it's a Judd Apatow production (that may not mean anything to some people I guess). Lately comedies have been so much all about the joke (Anchorman, I'm looking at you) that when one comes along that has a real plot and actual characters and a good story, I suppose it's easy to think the tone is uneven when all it really is is a good movie with a lot of funny stuff in it (I'd put Elf and Bad Santa in there as well).

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 18 September 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

the guy who couldn't get over the girl TOTALLY had his plot thread resolved! he was the dude later on who vowed celibacy, right? then he ended up macking on the new hire girl at the store.

anyway, yeah, supercute movie. the awkward moments were perfectly squirmy.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

After reading through this entire thread, I leave it convinced that Amateur(ist) is a virgin.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

plz amster fucked eight women in ten minutes once, dude's no virgin trust me

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

titties like a bag of sand!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

also i ws totally suprised that the daughter never told the mother.

and also that we NEVER met the grandkid!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Dave Kehr finds it curiously similar to the typical Harold Lloyd comedy plot, cept for the lack of substance and implicit homophobia:

http://davekehr.com/?p=41

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

(a motif regrettably reinforced by the film’s superabundance of the fag-bashing humor that has recently and mysteriously become hip, or at least strongly endorsed by “The Daily Show”).

oh jesus christ

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Y'know, Jon Stewart has used "AIDS" in a punchline at least 3 times in the last 2 weeks. I don't nec find that homophobic (the way Letterman is in a total gay panic over Brokeback Mt), but I don't think it would've been done 5 years ago.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I thought the use of the two Indian guys was a little more questionable - the "swearing immigrant" routine is kinda lazy.

Ok, maybe, but the scene where the old dude gives him a speech about what love is not about (eg, "butt pleasures") was priceless. And even better in the DVD extra scene, where it just goes on and on and on in a waterfall of nastiness. Well done.

And I didn't find anything homophobic about the gay jokes. "You know how I know you're gay? Because I saw you make spinach dip in a loaf of sourdough bread." Come on, people, that's harmless. And pretty damn funny.

You know how I know I'm gay? Because I have a huge man-crush on Seth Rogan.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 30 December 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

And his opening monologue about the horse -- man, it's all in the delivery. "We all just felt bad for her."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 30 December 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

i need to get the dvd, just for the extra stuff

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 December 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

"She was like, 'Yeah, let's go! I'm so nasty!' And I'd be nailing her and she'd be like, 'Oh, you're nailing me! Cool!'"

Carell has absolutely mastered the awkward moment.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 30 December 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

i need to get the dvd, just for the extra stuff

There's a great bunch of outtakes of the scene between Jay's girlfriend and Andy, where she's reading him the stuff off the cards... the one that got me was "Goony Goo Goo." Did they cut that because Eddie Murphy would sue? Because it can't be because no one would get it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 30 December 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

I watched this again a few days ago with my brother, my mom and her husband. They all loved it. Awesome.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 30 December 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

I would say that I can't imagine watching it with my mom, but the last movie I watched with my Mom was a Robin Williams standup act where he did five minutes about the copious ejaculation that accompanies the use of viagra, with a spewing water bottle as a prop. Talk about sitting horrified with a frozen smile on your face.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 30 December 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

After watching the credits on the DVD, i just realized that the woman who's nipple slips out during the speed dating section is Kimberly Page, former WCW Nitro Girl and DDP's wife.

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 31 December 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

you "just realized" that huh?

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 31 December 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

"realized" as in "actually looked at the credits during the dance sequence," yes

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 31 December 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

best timing:
I'm cool, I got friends who fuck guys.

In jail.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 21 July 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

pretty funny, some suspect race stuff and yeah the last line is awful but i had a great time seeing this

but uhhh wtf??? @:

Yeah, I noticed him too! The black employee of Best Buy also looked a lot like Stringer Bell from the Wire.
-- Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― deej, Monday, 28 January 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

wtf

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

This was on in the gay bar the other night. The 10 minutes I saw was not, not funny.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

(that's emphasis, not a double negative)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

you know how i know you're gay? you're in a gay bar.

(if you'd seen the whole movie, you would get this.)

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

You know how I know that scene ain't funny? I stopped laughing after the first two cracks.

― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

NYC gay bars must be way more boring than I imagined.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

"I watched Matlock in a bar last night. The sound wasn't on, but I think I got the gist of it."

― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:35 (sixteen years ago)

jon, it was early on a Sunday night.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

good thing you took a couple days to process what you saw instead of arriving at a snap judgement about those 10 minutes

― some dude, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

i save my snap judgments for boring ppl on internet

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

congrats on being too boorish to be boring

― some dude, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:54 (sixteen years ago)

amazing that watching 10 minutes of a move in a bar before passing judgment on it is actually a step UP from your usual viewing habits

― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

c'mon guys, it's just a running gag.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

not funny

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

actually, it's a confirmation of my "usual" habits cuz I knew I would hate it!

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

do you ever watch movies or just hold the DVD up to your forehead, Carnac-style?

― some dude, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

would pay one million dollars to watch a TV show where morbs does this

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

^^^yes plz

― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

I'd like to see one where somedude holds a snapping turtle up to his forehead

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:22 (sixteen years ago)

i mean that's cool too

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

c'mon guys, it's just a running gag.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm playing along!!

― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

you're playing with a snapping turtle, am i right? ZING!

― some dude, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

i dont understand the question

― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

some snapping turtle

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/DSCN0833.jpg

LIFT ME UP WHERE I BELONG

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I've never seen this movie, but the actor who stabbed his girlfriend was found guilty.

"There is no excuse for brutally stabbing anyone 23 times," the victim said yesterday outside the courtroom.

― windmeup (kkvgz), Friday, 17 September 2010 11:56 (fifteen years ago)

lol

― sexy mfa (history mayne), Friday, 17 September 2010 12:00 (fifteen years ago)

imdb'd him

did not know kat dennings was in it

― sexy mfa (history mayne), Friday, 17 September 2010 12:01 (fifteen years ago)

misleading headline

40-Year-Old Virgin Stabbing Victim: I'll Be Scarred Forever‎

― mizzell, Friday, 17 September 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

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