Apatow Gang + Sandler = Funny People

looks sufficiently unfunny

i like the idea of casting sandler as the 'aging famous guy who needs help from the young comic' on a meta level but beyond that...

looks sufficiently unfunny

FOR WHAT

uh u crazy i counted at least 7 lols in that trailer

im already stanning for this.

to the extent of saying 'how is adam sandler not already apatow gang?'

its a good idea to prepare defense in advance, good on you

but for real i lold several times, at sandler and at rogen, and at king bo bana

predicted the Bruce Willis gag.

deserve each other

i think im into it

im psyched for dr morbius to see this

sad thing is he never will - maybe we should pay him to review it for us

he just saw 'superbad'!

Trailer's not that funny, imo, and makes it seem like it'll be a pretty long movie (which, I know, I know, Knocked Up was too), but I'm obvs still excited, will see right when it comes out, will probably defend against haters, etc.

p.s. why isn't Jonah Hill starring in more movies yet?

ok maybe I'll look forward to this.

Gervais bad, but Guest, Fey, Hill, Bateman, Tambor, Louis C.K. good. And Rob Corddry's brother?

Anyway, I'm glad someone started this thread, I look forward to a long and funny journey, punctuated by many critical twists and turns. And I'm heartened by Dr Morbius's early appearance, which can only bode well.

yay, the Apatow daughters are back!

hopefully there's a red-band coming.

i'll probably see this but it looks like some emo bullshit

seeing as the trailer has him getting better from his illness, and that that would be too much of a spoiler if that's how it ended, he's going to get the girl then get sick again and die surely?

hey america. gervais is your problem now.

thanks a lot jim now you've ruined this for everyone!

i was just talking out loud sort of thing. My main consideration is that what if it comes out and I use it as a date movie and then I'm blubbing like a baby over Adam Sandler's death in front of some girl I'm trying to impress. Do not want.

this looks awfully good

well jim that means u have 5 months to find a steady girlfriend who wont judge u for crying

not going to happen!

leslie mann=oompapapa oompapapa oompapapa mow mow

ok so can apataow's wife pls not be in this? i wld pay to replace her with someone less annoying and then go see the movie.

^ this, i find her very annoying too, in Knocked Up I felt myself siding with Paul Rudd even though he's being kind of an immature douche. She's just obnoxious.

she's awesome and funny you guys are insane

altho it's weird his kids are in it again or so it looks like

it's good that they've cast a woman in this

in Knocked Up I felt myself siding with Paul Rudd
YESSSSSS

rogan lookin mad hot imo btw

<3

yay, the Apatow daughters are back!

hopefully there's a red-band coming.

― Simon H., Monday, February 23, 2009 9:10 AM (1 hour ago)

i assume this didnt come out the way you'd planned

btw i will stan for sandler for all times

^ this, i find her very annoying too, in Knocked Up I felt myself siding with Paul Rudd even though he's being kind of an immature douche.

isn't that kind of the point?

this movie is like spanglish + knocked up but maybe a teensy bit funnier but then not because apatow's wife makes me want to cut people with knives.

yeah i think she was supposed to be obnoxious in knocked up.

kind of o_O that j-schwartz has gone from 'omg special guest stars jason schwartzman' in F&G, and is now one of rogen's posse next to jonah hill.

xpost

knocked up is SUBTLE and it's not like OMG WHAT A DICK vs SHE IS FAULTLESS... OR vice versa.

yeah i know but now we're supposed to be all 'ooh towga' and i ain't feelin' it

katherine heigl complained abt how the women were humorless bores and the guys were fun in knocked up - she was all i can be fun too

xxp, yes, my "isn't that kind of the point" is like "yes, this is a screenplay about adults"

i would just like to say "lol heigl 1994-1996": http://images.google.co.uk/images?oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&q=heigl+source:life&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=nr6iSYy0E6KHjAfw8tntCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

katherine heigl complained abt how the women were humorless bores and the guys were fun in knocked up - she was all i can be fun too

― ice cr?m, Monday, February 23, 2009 4:19 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

she did have a bit of a point but imo she herself was a++ funny in that film, and often the dudes were only funny in a 'what a bunch of dicks' way.

I'm looking forward to this! I mean, it's not supposed to be a comedy, is it?

this movie is like spanglish
― class act, thanks bro (tehresa), Monday, February 23, 2009 10:14 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

spanglish is one of the most awfullest movies ever like on an this movie insults me level and i hope its nothing like that although i did totally think of it as soon as the preview started - could be just sandler in quasi serious mode i guess but something abt the overall tone seemed similar too

"this is what pussy felt like in the '70s" and etc.

*FSM

i thought get him to the greek was solid but weirdly long and definitely a step down from FMS, diddy killed in it though

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

109 minutes is actually short for an Apatow production! but yeah Diddy singlehandedly justified the movie's existence for me

yeah i just think it outstayed its welcome faster than the others. also most apatow movies do a good job of getting you to care about the characters, but i had no goodwill for aldous huxley or w/e by the end of this shit and wasnt dying to see the end of his character arc

Fuck you guys - Get Him to the Greek is now in my queue.

http://data.whicdn.com/images/5862821/tumblr_le3n9fRtyt1qfr8mlo1_500_thumb.png?1293593319

YES

That was an expression of my approval of that image. Not in answer to the question btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMbqoI2rs-4

i can't believe there are no animated gifs out there of diddy's heads floating around jonah hill

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

haha i think it was on the audio commentary that jonah talks abt seeing the trailer 2 that art house movie "babies" or w/e & thinking he was seeing the african child video

That was an expression of my approval of that image. Not in answer to the question btw.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:45 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

now that's a mindfuck

only thing really wrong with GHTTG is brand (especially the songs) but he's ok in bits

i was just thinking earlier about how lolsome the 'looks like she could take a dick' exchange is in 'superbad'

rescreened this... jonah hill is definitely one of the better things about it. sandler is great.

i really couldn't stand rogen in it, though. it's partly the character he's playing, but not entirely. he's never funny, or even likeable. has his face weirdly screwed up.

it's kind of meta that aubrey plaza has gone on to be in a really hacky nbc sitcom huh.

yo teach >>>>

yeah, this is the first movie which made me realize how limited Rogen's appeal is.

like, he's not a strong comic actor to get you past dead scenes by force of charisma.

*strong ENOUGH

the scene where rogen has made a mixtape for sandler, and it has fucking 'i've had the time of my life' on it... terrible. feels more 'written' than other apatow films.

Apatow should be banned from casting his wife/children in any film again. Of course, he's doing just that for his next one

i thought they were ok. mixed feelings. he shd think about giving leslie mann some kind of negative character trait, maybe. or go a bit deeper. presumably leslie mann is not unlike her character in the film -- i.e. her acting career never took off. she basically only appears in apatow films. they didn't really 'go there' by having bana be mean about her failure to pop; that made her the injured party.

something about the mann/apatow pairings is "interesting" in the same way the coen/mcdormand dynamic in "burn after reading" is interesting, though nowhere near as cruel.

amazingly Leslie Mann is the female lead in a non-Apatow movie now, that terrible-looking Ryan Reynolds/Jason Bateman body swapping thing

comparing her to McDormand seems more cruel to McDormand than anything the Coens have done

lol

i wonder if it's like when David Duchovny basiclaly admitted that Tea Leoni forced him to give her a role in House of D

well i mean comparing apatow to the coens made me dizzy but i fought back the nausea and still clicked submit.

i've never really bought into rogen as a lead, like him best doing supporting bits like 40 y/o or superbad

i thought it was interesting that someone in this thread observed that it seemed like apatow purposefully reigned in the comedic potential of the actors - i recently listened to the apatow episode of WTF, and he confirms that's exactly what he did, using less-funny takes because he was so into the idea of making a movie called Funny People that wasn't particularly funny. he also confirms that it was really just two movie ideas smushed into one flick, which was the other major problem i had with the movie. he also reinforced all of da croupier's digs about Terms of Endearment by confirming that his highest ambition is to make a James L. Brooks movie.

i like when sandler refers to schwartzman as pete rose

also thought this was the first time since Chopper that eric bana's shown some of the energy and charisma that made him seem like a star - that guy really needs to do more offbeat stuff, he's one of those actors whose charisma just evaporates whenever they play a captain squarejaw type

yeah this was one of the few movies i actually paid to see in the theater in '09 and the whole time all i could think was that success had finally allowed him to ditch the lowbrow punchlines and finally get down to the serious business of sentimentality. i avoided watching it again when it was all over the pay channels a while back, then i kinda wished id watched it just to see if i could appreciate it now that i was resigned to the idea of a non-comedic apatow "comedy," but everyone on this thread makes me figure i was right not to bother.

yeah Funny People reveled a bit too much in not being funny or not being likable or whatever, it seemed almost designed to get underwhelmed reviews/box office. i liked that it was willing to let Sandler be a coarse asshole, though, not bending over backwards to make him this sympathetically maladjusted protagonist like in Donkey Punch Love or whatever.

haha i had the same problems w/ pdl that i did with this, really. beaten-down nebbish borderline sociopath redeemed by whimsy and an eight-year-old's vision of true love.

i guess sandler wasnt really a nebbish in this but he was basically the pdl character if he'd had just enough backbone to become successful rather than the owner of a whoopie cushion factory or whateverthefuck that was.

i dunno Sandler was smashing mad groupies in FP, felt like a very different character to the core

maybe funny people = sandler in the real world and pdl = sandler in his cold black heart

i like the guy when he's playing brain-damaged baby hueys though so i dont wanna give the wrong impression

it's kind of meta that aubrey plaza has gone on to be in a really hacky nbc sitcom huh.

No one challenging this particular line?

lol donkey punch love

haha i had the same problems w/ pdl that i did with this, really. beaten-down nebbish borderline sociopath redeemed by whimsy and an eight-year-old's vision of true love.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:44 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

heh this is exactly why i hate pdl, but i dont think there's much redemption here - simmons is still an asshole at the end, and is most assuredly going to continue being an asshole. it just ends with him giving 'being friends with ira' another shot

i actually do love the entire sequence where simmons is at leslie mann's house, its pitch-perfect at capturing what it feels like to be an asshole insinuating yourself back into an old flame's life, and doesn't shy away from observing that 'true love' is nowhere near a powerful enough ~redemptive force~ to combat a lifetime of being a jerkoff

wait isn't it Ira who is the beaten-down nebbish borderline sociopath?

maybe, but he's never redeemed by true love or whimsy

he doesn't go near enough to sociopath, he's just kind of a dick

and yeah his 'love story' w/ aubs just kind of fades out

rogen would play a good sociopath -- he just naturally exudes this amoral lizard essence -- they should redo american psycho with rogen.

there's already a thread for Observe & Report

I loved Eric Bana in this.

yeah i mean this is all based on one viewing two years ago so maybe take my fp theorizing with a grain of salt, whereas somehow i have actually sat through pdl multiple times so i feel more comfortable in my reasons for dislike

like for example it took me a second to even figure out who the fuck you guys were referring to w/ "ira"

i've inexplicably seen FP like 4 times

No one challenging this particular line?

it is a "thing" with nrq