Your Highness - Franco, McBride, Deschanel, Portman, Gordon Green

Medieval action stoner sorcerer

Red Band Trailer

Just felt like something ILX would talk about enough over time to warrant it's own thread.

~sold~

oh god my "its" and "it's" thing has reared its ugly head again.

ya looks good

the 'portman' worries me

her comedic chops are earning a lot of leeway with that g-string.

"chops"

NP's ass otm

omg lols @ 'triangle face'.

who do I give my money to

Has potential

bleah

a dirty guy falling down stairs in a suit of armor is the best they could come up with?

nb: this movie is a caucasian remake of martin lawrence's 'black knight'

it might be but franco in blackface will totally be worth it.

trailer site just plays an ad for Predators and then asks you to submit your birthdate, then does nothing

wrong kind of predators?

youtube version

i'd love to see danny mcbride do a fish-out-of-water time traveler thing a la "connecticut yankee in king arthur's court" but i think this movie is going to require a metric tonne of weed

looks funny except all the modern-swearing-for-lols

also gives away too much late-in-the-film fighty action and a good sex joke but ehh

Not exactly looking forward to this, but I laughed at the venom sucking and the shot of Zooey bound and gagged. Their stated intention is to make something that can be enjoyed as a straight fantasy movie that also happens to be funny - I'm skeptical considering how well they pulled that off with 80s action movies in Pineapple Express (ie. not well at all?), but otoh I think there's more to be optimistic about here - like the absence of Rogen, the surplus of McBride and what appears to be some pretty good sets and costumes.

looks funny except all the modern-swearing-for-lols

loved this shtick ever since I saw Blazing Saddles as a kid, personally

Bart: Work here is done. I'm needed elsewhere now. I'm needed wherever outlaws rule the West, wherever innocent women and children are afraid to walk the streets, wherever a man cannot live in simple dignity, wherever a people cry out for justice.
Crowd: [in unison] BULLSHIT!
Bart: All right, you caught me. Speaking the plain truth is getting pretty damn dull around here.

Yeah, like the incongruous cussing as long as long as there's no cussing kids of grannies.

so is this an official sequel to george washington, or just a spiritual follow-up kind of thing?

All The Real Knights

so is this an official sequel to george washington, or just a spiritual follow-up kind of thing?

The whole time I was watching the trailer I was thinking "I can't believe Green went from George Washington to this" but I still lol'ed.

What I love about Green is that he does all these Jody Hill/McBride stoner comedies and stuff, but then also slips in a totally depressing "Snow Angels." Same applies to his awesome DP Tim Orr. It's like setting Malick loose on a Cheech & Ching set.

classic cheech & ching

ha! I'm having typing issues this morning.

It's set in the same universe, and will introduce some of the George Washington characters' forebearers. A special "tie-in" will be included
On the limited edition Blu Ray

"What a tragedy..."

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/11/low_and_lower.php

all that hand-wringing on the back of a trailer? please.

I find it disappointing that Green is moving as consistently in this direction (Pineapple->Eastdown->This) while seemingly abandoning the direction his previous work was taking, but some of it is pretty lol. That said, this is film that, conceptually, annoys me but I know I'll see it and I hope to lol.

What would Jeff Wells do with his life if he couldn't slip a gratuitous slap at fatties into every post?

Yeah, but remember, Gukbe, "Snow Angels" came out right around the same time as "Pineapple" and "Eastbound." The latter two (like "Your HIghness," I imagine) are loose and collaborative. "Snow Angels" and his formative stuff are dark auteur works. I imagine the comedies are easy things to squeeze in (squeeze out?) while one of his more serious works gestates. I wouldn't write that side of him off just yet.

Wells is even crazier than Armond White.

I think Snow Angels was made well before Pineapple though, the close release is just distribution interest. He's essentially spent the last 3 or 4 years doing nothing but the stoner/slacker/fratboy/whatever comedy thing.

xpost

Although speaking of Tim Orr as someone was above, his work on Shotgun Stories was excellent, and that film feels closer in the vein of what Green used to do.

Looks like he's going to continue in that vein too
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1366344/

was his nu-malick early stuff even that great?

It wasn't, but it had a lot of promise.

GW was damn good. You won't be seeing me at any of the stoner-coms.

maybe he ran out of things to say about how shit-tastic (and yet beautiful) small town life is and decided to have some fun for a while

Looks like he's going to continue in that vein too
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1366344/

― Number None, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:29 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

a movie about a babysitter that gets into adventures...wrf is this dude smoking

what rhe fuck!

I seem to recall he was circling around a remake of Suspiria for a while, dunno what happened with that.

Pineapple Express >>> Snow Angels. His first three movies are all great, though.

all the real girls annoyed the shit out of me

Also wrt portman ass, am I the only one who kinda likes the idea of her totally phoning it in and/or trying to do dumbass shit for the rest of her career? I mean, the high intensity dramas have been kinda :\ and she did the precocious tween roles so well that I think she could totally be a madeline kahn kinda actress for all time... She has that all-girl stoner comedy coming out too, right?

She's not much of an actress, so... I guess I don't really care what she does for the rest of her career?

I like that this will be her first post-Oscar movie.

I'm going to go back and take another look. Got to get to the bottom of this.

or maybe i missed something? xpost

your right, they just covered her ass for sensitive american tv tastes. which is really stupid.

i read something about a butt double, not just digital coverage, but it could have been black swan conflation.

hmm yeah it looks like she did admit to a body double for part of that scene? i am kind of indifferent to her ass w/r/t the whole NP package tbh.

it's too bad that you guys aren't getting paid for this type of investigative reporting

nothing compared to your investihative reporting itt

lol

serious lols

veg otm -- anyone who thought this would be even remotely funny after seeing the trailer is an idiot

I saw Pineapple Express, and did not think it was funny, but enjoyed it just the same.

People that want to see this movie are more probably thinking 'I want to get blazed and watch Zooey/Natalie/James doing some silly dungeons & dragon type stuff' rather than 'This looks like a great American comedy!'

I was thinking more "omg James Franco is cute when he smiles, I am so seeing this!"

Flop?

Sidenote: Why are they wrapping up the weekend halfway into Sunday?

Sundays are always estimates. Studios/trade papers declare a winner by Sunday afternoon. If the estimates are close they might change on Monday.

Ah.

Saw this sorta last minute.. not very funny. the dialogue sounds like a rough draft. Sooo many lolgay "jokes"..

^ :(

I like that this will be her first post-Oscar movie.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:05 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

assuming she gets one for black swan?

― google street jew (s1ocki), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:06 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes (unless there's some other, more obvious winner I forgot about)

― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:08 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

white swan

― google street jew (s1ocki), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:18 (4 months ago) Bookmark

a+

ha

I think I'll wait for DVD on this after all, since both crits and ILXors weren't impressed.

where has s1ock been lately anyway?

man this sucked

Really? That's too bad. I want a movie that provides the things this one promises but does not deliver. Any suggestions?

what things are promised, specifically> stoner lols or medieval lols? or portman ass?

Lols of a Kenny Powers/Harold & Kumar/Dude Where's My Car persuasion

get thee to a pineapple express

I've seen it. Any more?

the goods, step brothers, meeks cutoff?

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard will only be referred to as The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard and not by any other abbreviated form

David Gordon Green has really confounded my expectations for how his career would go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8OQPNwfYck

did the goods get a theatrical release? i've never heard of it until now

the sitter looks like balls. i saw the new ape movie at a hood theater and after the sitter trailer some dude yelled out EVERYBODY'S GOTTA SEE THAT!!!!

TG:LHSH definitely didn't get a cinema release outside the US

"hey, i'm jonah hill, and no 'the sitter' isn't one of those movies where the actor wears a fat suit"

Is that an "Adventures in Babysitting" remake?

no dude it is going places where no babysitting movie has ever gone before

Straight to on demand? Pretty sure there have been ... specialty babysitter movies that have made it their first.

got this in from Netflix. It has been several days. I don't think I'm going to be able to do it.

TG:LHSH definitely didn't get a cinema release outside the US

― caek, Sunday, August 7, 2011 4:32 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

oh, 'the goods: live hard, sell hard' very much did get a cinema release in the uk. muggins 'ere reviewed it. it's shit. but maybe not as bad as 'your highness'.

features kanye's favourite ever actress

wound up watching this (YH). pretty bad but not as dreadful as i'd imagined. just bad. tim orr saved it, probably.

kind of found justin theroux's bits ok

i've taken on an extreme dislike for the lazy and overrated james franco

It feels like it takes for-fucking-ever for Portman to show up.

Also, Note To Universal: dropping the extras while retaining the menus containing buttons for said dropped extras on rental discs is a supreme dick move. Fox at least authors new menus for their stripp-o rental discs.

Hah. They must've used Handbrake.

i didn't anticipate this being so shitty. accents, swearing and mcbride in general just made for unfunny

wonder how much of the box office receipts can be attributed to the three seconds of Portman's ass in the trailer

At first I enjoyed it on a nostalgic level - despite the R it felt very Spaceballs, full of jokes kids could love despite only half understanding - but it got old FAST and by the end holy shit did I not care.

I'm not bothered at all that David Gordon Green has been focusing on studio chuckles - can't blame the guy if he's not jonesing to make another sad portrait of small town life - but the climax of this film was so lifeless it totally shattered my hope that he was doing to film cuz it let him play with effects he'd never get for a sam rockwell dramedy. Or maybe the novelty of CGI spectacle wore off fast.

At this point I've given up on his film career and just enjoy his work on Eastbound and Down.

This had one joke - Danny McBride swearing in a prithee-maiden accent. I liked this joke very much but I kept wondering what they might have done with two or more.

'the sitter' was surprisingly good & funny
rip fat jonah hill

http://www.movie-censorship.com/pics/SBs/200/701009/0040.jpg