Was Your Vagina Drunk?: Judd Apatow's Knocked Up {SPOILERS}

The way I understand it, he was cast for his first role in 'Freaks & Geeks'; he hung around the production all the time picking Apatow and Paul Feig's brain about the business; he tried his hand at writing stuff and was pretty good; Apatow let him write an 'Undeclared' ep; Apatow recommended him to some showbiz pals to help punch up scripts; he got a job with, and ended up writing a huge chunk of, the 2nd HBO series of Ali G; Apatow put him in '40-Year-Old Virgin'; and they came up with the 'Knocked Up' script themselves.

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Me too.

I have such love for Seth Rogan.

Me too.

slocki gives it two thumbs up?

it's great.

i liked it even more than 40 year old virgin (which i liked a lot). but same total likeability & charm, and wall-to-wall roffles.

some of the humour is so filthy, but so good-natured at the same time, it is a really wonderful combination.

Katherine Heigl is a revelation?

she was awesome

oh, good. she's so pretty.

"shimmy shimmy ya" over opening credits

i really loved this movie

You should take it behind the school and get it pregnant.

i can't wait to see this now!

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did i mention this movie is full of freaks & geeks alums (prominent haverchuck role!!) and tons of folks from the office show up too??

Can't he wait until James L. Brooks is dead before becoming James L. Brooks? Hope this new movie isn't 3 hours long and named How About That.

yeah i dont think she's 'bad' as a performer in 'funny people', it's just that that whole thing didn't work for me

i was more disappointed in eric bana tbh -- it would have been more meta-lol if he'd been bana-from-'munich' -- but again, it was all kind of mistaken

none of judd apatow's films are models of structure or economy

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bana was great

maybe the new movie will be a Get Him To The Greek-style wacky spinoff about Rudd A&R guy's misadventures in the music industry

ok don't get this whole "apatow is married to a good actress but he shouldn't give her parts in his movies and she should work with other directors for some reason" deal but whatevs

Well, quite.

Nothing wrong in being together for a movie, they obviously like each other.

And hey, if the movie suffers as a result, they don't get to make another one, those the breaks.

pretty sure no one's in the Telling Judd Apatow What To Do business at the moment.

given that Funny People's weakest parts hinged on a not very compelling love triangle involving her and that he's building his next movie around her supporting character from a previous movie, my criticism is partly that his drive to make her a star seems to be guiding the content of his movies and probably not for the better

pretty sure no one's in the Telling Judd Apatow What To Do business at the moment.

probably Leslie Mann is

touche!

lol

Yeah, it's cute that she shows up, slightly less so that he casts his kids, too, but I really lost patience when he literally played that clip of his kid singing the song from "Cats."

he literally played that clip of his kid singing the song from "Cats."

uhhhh

I think I have to watch this now.

I may have said this in the Funny People thread, but it is weird to have a "if you spend your life making millions off comedies you don't get to have a wife and kids" hook when Adam Sandler has a wife and kids, Judd Apatow has THESE PARTICULAR wife and kids, and just about every major comedian has a wife and kids.

I accept that many of Apatow's problems stem from his generosity towards his wife and kids, but it's not Mann's fault: I like her voice and the way she makes nagging funny.

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I may have said this in the Funny People thread, but it is weird to have a "if you spend your life making millions off comedies you don't get to have a wife and kids" hook when Adam Sandler has a wife and kids, Judd Apatow has THESE PARTICULAR wife and kids, and just about every major comedian has a wife and kids.

― da croupier, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:27 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i dont think that was the message of funny people at all

i think it was more 'if you're a monster it's hard to maintain relationships'

the message of FP: "I can afford to stick Adam Sandler in an unwieldy two-hour-plus comic drama."

And of course, don't forget that Adam Sandler (despite being Adam Sandler) happens to fit in the narcissistic scheme of things. Former roommate and all that. Surprised he didn't cast, dunno, Ben Stiller in the Bana role.

i think it was more 'if you're a monster it's hard to maintain relationships'

that's not exactly different from what I said, but the implication was that his "monster"-hood was based on him being some kazillionaire comedian jerkoff in a tower who couldn't commit, then saw his ex's pleasant life with kids, tried to co-opt it and then was found wanting because he couldn't enjoy Judd's daughter singing CATS. I'm saying that just about every kazillionaire comedian jerkoff succeeds in getting married and having kids.

but the implication was that his "monster"-hood was based on him being some kazillionaire comedian jerkoff in a tower who couldn't commit

i didnt get that at all - he would've been the same asshole if he was a janitor

But boy, would that have been a depressing movie!

Seth Rogen learns the valuable lesson that just because your a janitor doesn't mean you get away with being an asshole

ok, you have a point

Mann is awesome in 40 YO Virgin

i didnt get that at all - he would've been the same asshole if he was a janitor

for the record I didn't like this movie (or at least, the second half of it - everything after the Beatles-cover musical montage is excruciating) but TamTam OTM. the message is that Sandler is just a jerk who doesn't like people, he's a complete narcissist, regardless of his profession. His kazillionaire status has just enabled him to indulge this to the fullest. I did appreciate that the movie at least ends with him still basically miserable and alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8x2amoKIWc

will watch

no jokes about excessive ear hair == not talkin' baout my generation

parents regretting their life choices, how innnnnnnteresting

between this and Django Unchained, you must be really excited for Christmas.

don't forget The Baz Gatsby. No year-end completism for me.

btw, from the HE blog on This Is 40:

Absent from the trailer is the sweet subplot (I'm not joking) where Rudd's character stakes his money on resurrecting the career of 70's Brit rocker Graham Parker, and Apatow, a fan, cast Parker to appear in the movie as himself - apparently in a larger than usual role, as the musician was shooting scenes for a couple of weeks - alongside his recently reunited band The Rumour. Parker joked to Rolling Stone magazine that his role served as a useful metaphor for failure, but Parker's small, fervent fan-base has been over the moon about it for several months (with a long delayed Kickstarter documentary on Parker put back to capture him walking the red carpet later this year.) Parker also did some songs for the soundtrack.

Ok that makes me doubly curious if Apatow's James L Brooks phase will ever play in Peoria.

"Oh man, being 40...dealing with kids, creaky bones, trying to resurrect the careers of the people you idolized in your precocious entertainment-industry-minded youth...you feel me, america?"

and really, what G Parker fan is as young as 40?

why i threw "precocious" in there - if anything, I'm proud of the guy for spreading the wealth and not just making it about Loudon Wainwright

I'm guessing Greg Mottola will do the same for Robert Forster.

Albert Brooks is in this, and the trailer is 5x funnier than the dank slog that was Funny People, so yeah, I'll see it.

this movie is not very good.

yeah...not a ton of replay value

I've always said that Ryan Seacrest's freak out is the best thing about this movie

(oh, by this movie i was referring to 'this is 40' which is i guess doubly not good)

i thought i would relate to its lol-growing-old humor but i don't think this is what growing old is like at all?

it is apparently about what being rich is like

it is very long.

it is apparently about what being rich is like

all movies are about this and it pisses me off

ok maybe not PRETTY IN PINK (JOHN HUGES [1986]) but most movies

this movie is actually a fascinating character study of two self-indulgent narcissists who make one another miserable and are on the verge of breaking up but then realize that they've alienated everyone else in their life who could serve as a support network by their shitty self-absorbed behavior and anyway there's no way they'd find anyone else willing to put up with their miserable excuses for personalities.

yeah this is 40 was dire, it was odd to go from knocked up and seeing his associates popping up in small roles and feeling good about apatow for it (when knocked up came out how long had it been since anyone had seen martin starr?) vs this is 40 where ppl from his various productions pop up in small roles and it feels like they couldn't say no to the boss. loved loved loved 40 yr old virgin, loved knocked up though admittedly have felt zero urge to revisit it (would probably be more interested in watching pineapple express or observe and report again), enjoyed much about funny people, this is 40 was horrid.