Date Night: A movie starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey

http://www.datenight-movie.com/

hmmm

steve carell and tiny fey get chased around by common and thom yorke

Preview looks pretty funny, albeit with that 80s mix of comedy and violence.

I don't know if I am looking forward to this or not. Both of them are reliably hilarious but the movie looks like it might suck...?

"tiny fey" LOL

I actually lolled at the "he's turning it sideways... KILLSHOT, thats a killshot".

I chuckled at "we're going to get whacked off"

also James Franco and Mila Kunis seem to be poised on awesomeness

but the whole thing comes across like the Jimmy Fallon/Queen Latifah taxi movie

steve carell and tiny fey get chased around by common and thom yorke MacPoyle bro!

Could work but -- remove Carell's TV work, Anchorman and The 40-Year-Virgin from his IMDB resume and it gets grim pretty quick:

Actor:

1. Dinner for Schmucks (2010) (filming) .... Barry
2. Despicable Me (2010) (post-production) (voice) .... Gru
3. Date Night (2010) (post-production) .... Phil Foster
5. Get Smart (2008) .... Maxwell Smart / Agent 86
6. Horton Hears a Who! (2008) (voice) .... The Mayor of Whoville
7. Dan in Real Life (2007) .... Dan
9. Evan Almighty (2007) .... Evan Baxter
13. Over the Hedge (2006) (voice) .... Hammy
14. American Storage (2006) .... Rich
15. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) .... Frank Ginsberg
17. Bewitched (2005) .... Uncle Arthur
19. Melinda and Melinda (2004) .... Walt
21. Sleepover (2004) .... Sherman
24. Bruce Almighty (2003) (as Steven Carell) .... Evan Baxter
26. Street of Pain (2003) .... Mark
27. Outlaw Golf (2002) (VG) (voice) (as Steven Carell) .... Commentator
30. Suits (1999) (as Steven Carell) .... United Standards 2
32. Tomorrow Night (1998) .... Mail Room Guy Without Glasses
35. Curly Sue (1991) (as Steven Carell) .... Tesio

I thought you loved "Curly Sue"

Director's recent credits:
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
... aka Night at the Museum 2 (Australia) (Singapore: English title) (UK) (USA: working title)
... aka Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
Night at the Museum (2006)
... aka Night at the Museum: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
"Pepper Dennis" (1 episode, 2006)
- Pilot (2006) TV episode
The Pink Panther (2006)
Joint Custody (2005) (TV)
The Deerings (2004) (TV)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Just Married (2003)
... aka Voll verheiratet (Germany)
"Birds of Prey" (1 episode, 2002)
... aka BOP (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Nature of the Beast (2002) TV episode
"Do Over" (1 episode, 2002)
- The Block Party (2002) TV episode
Big Fat Liar (2002)
... aka Lügen haben kurze Beine (Germany)

he was awesome in outlaw golf iirc

I thought you loved "Curly Sue"

It brought America together.

Tina Fey, queen of occasional mild chuckle-inducement

Big Fat Liar (2002)
... aka Lügen haben kurze Beine (Germany)

I love Germany

I actually lolled at the "he's turning it sideways... KILLSHOT, thats a killshot".

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 11, 2010 3:24 PM Bookmark

I lol'd at "I don't want the kids to live with your mother she's awful!" - maybe an easy line but good delivery.

Whole thing looks like a dumb idea for a movie but maybe salvageable by the stars.

screwball romance is dead, long live screwball romance

this is not a screwball romance

This is a buddy action film with a comedic couple as the leads.

The Lethal Weapon fonts in the preview tell you so.

Carrell and Fey are fairly hot commodities, so pairing them makes good hollywood $en$e. Whether it makes for a good movie, who the hell knows?

the trailer didn't play it up but obv there's the inference that their marriage is -struggling- somehow. and that they find renewed love through thrilling shared action scenario. like rear window meets speed. on acid.

I think this movie'll do well at the box office, in part because of the meta element of couples who normally stay in watching The Office and 30 Rock making time to see this.

the trailer didn't play it up but obv there's the inference that their marriage is -struggling- somehow. and that they find renewed love through thrilling shared action scenario. like rear window meets speed. on acid.

― Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11 attacks (acoleuthic), Monday, January 11, 2010 3:38 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stagnant, not necc struggling, and the trailer plays it up hugely!

nah trailer's still too cutesy to really force home the ennui of the american family as told to filmmakers everywhere

congratulations, you do not understand America

Blimey, this pair in a movie together shows the Sheinhardt Wig Company really knows how to exploit its two core assets.

nah trailer's still too cutesy to really force home the ennui of the american family as told to filmmakers everywhere

― Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11 attacks (acoleuthic), Monday, January 11, 2010 3:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what part of "our love life is boring and so we are going on a date to spice it up" do u not understand

louis is there anything that you dont make needlessly complicated

Seriously, the first 30 seconds beat you on the fucking head with the "stagnant marriage" signifiers!

so far we know he does it with pizza and movies

oh I should have reworded that

ok some filmmakers upon whom it would be expedient to portray suburban american family life as a vice-like asphyxiation rather than a many-headed beast full of reward (n.b. i have not seen Parenthood nor will i)

the way the trailer presented their love life was goofy and not convincingly stagnant. if they had no love-life they'd not be in the same bed. but fine, it's a silly movie n/m

jon i am saying that i do not like or believe in those signifiers! to me they come off as cutesy!

if they had no love-life they'd not be in the same bed.

god do you know anything about anything

I think you are conflating "love-life" with "sex-life".

look i said that as lazy shorthand for 'they are still fucking and having fun with each other but sometimes mouthguards are gross LOL they need their love-life spiced up LOL kid with sticking plaster LOL HOW UNPLEASANT'

what?

holy shit

the kid even says 'i love you'!! it's not like they're at others' throats, is all. can't believe a minor semantic misunderstanding has resulted in this

holy shit stop using the word signifiers

yeah i can't either

xp

can't believe a minor semantic misunderstanding has resulted in this

ilx epitaphs

i need to go on a date with ilx, rekindle the flame

calling mulligans (that's a thing right?) on this thread

Oh come on, we need some fun since that hillbilly thread seemed to die all too quickly!

excuse me sir, my laptop and i have a reservation for two. oh no, just a bit of wi-fi for my other half

wtf did you do to my lovely thread

u just got signified

it was jon who used 'signifier' first and i used it myself once, in the same context

I think this movie'll do well at the box office, in part because of the meta element of couples who normally stay in watching The Office and 30 Rock making time to see this.

― hardly a giant f-off pickup (Eazy), Monday, January 11, 2010 2:55 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hi!

http://www.netweed.com/prohiphop/graf/signifying-rappers-small.jpg

Sorry guys will try to dumb it down in future, okay?

why do we need to know about this movie four months in advance?

Four months is actually pretty short lead time for most movies these days.

yeah come on fantasy, it was a completely valid use of 'signifiers' and you're kinda offending your own intelligence

but anyway what i *said* is that yes they have their problems but it is not a movie that makes a great or convincing deal of those problems - it's a silly action movie predicated on zaniness and star chemistry - it won't be great at those either but it will get money which i guess is enough for these savages

no you said it was a screwball romance

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r238/JackKrabitz/slap.gif

I feel like this is what has happened here

l-r: LJ, sense

i said that screwball romance was dead (because hollywood scriptwriters/directors don't know the composition of chemistry or the thrill of love any more) but that long live screwball romance because this souped-up action-packed cliche-ridden star vehicle is what they're giving us instead

smack that sense like it owes you money

ew, not on this thread please

I mean, if it wasn't obvious, the reason why ppl are giving you shit is because there is exactly NOTHING in this trailer that would make anyone with familiarity with the concept of "screwball" apply it to this movie; in fact, if anything it's an inversion of screwball since the adventure is happening because the couple is desperately trying to expose a secret rather than cover one up.

i was using the term loosely to cover 'a caper where fast-talking witty dialogue, a dose of danger, a task to be performed and a romantic couple are intricately involved' but come on the direction of the secret (which may be reversed during the film!) isn't that integral is it? besides they are covering up their identity for quite a bit of that trailer.

signify my balls

\m/

stop defending yourself louis

the only way to win is not to play

i can't believe i bookmarked this thread's first post then went to the beach. LJ, never change.

anyone for a potato farl at all at all?

i was reading that daily mail thread this morning and i thought they were talking about a food called "potato farts"

they come after

I read about that in the daily mail

I have no interest in seeing this, even though I like both actors.

looks like a solid dvd rental. beats the shit outta mcconaughey/hawn spawn in this demographic

what the hell is wrong w/ you ppl...

I actually lolled at the "he's turning it sideways... KILLSHOT, thats a killshot".

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 11, 2010 3:24 PM (4 hours ago)

god this is what facepalms were invented for, but at least it appears carell isn't playing a retard for the first time in his career. i'll probably see this just because tina fey's in it. did she write it?

so i guess no one saw it

it was terrible btw

movies dont know how to get started these days. it takes like 25 minutes before they're actually out on the date.

it takes like 25 minutes before they're actually out on the date

this was surprising, but didn't think it was really a problem. marky mark was funny and james franco had one funny line too.

there were a couple chuckles but there were so many long stretches of jokelessness

^yeah, basically what i was expecting and i watched it illegally on the internet, so i'm not complaining.