Jack Black c/d?

dud. I used to like him alot, then i realized he did the same stupid shit in every movie.

DDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

his fucking dance moves, that stupid spin and that fucking lip thing he does. wanna beat him.

lip thing?

that face he makes. its like his version of the eddie vedder singing face.

jack black is a good actor and he's funny

and can't pick a good movie

i liked him on mr. show before i knew who he was. then i knew who he was. and he got kinda toothless in a hurry. can't blame him for taking the payday though. you gotta take your shot when you can take it.

always kinda hated tenacious d.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/91/230x306/91603_jack-black-does-his-best-monster-face-at-the-premiere-of-monsters-vs-aliens.jpg

scott OTM

every movie he has to make that face and perform some stupid "root doot doot".

his bit in the Mr. Show: The Joke: The Musical still cracks me up

don't stick your dick in these holes

i liked him in some movie about rollerblading.

most of the movies he's in rubbish and tenacious d v rubbish yes

he was great in this commercial for one of my fave games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5nJTz9m5I

riveting as the leader of the nasties in the neverending story part 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYH1trB4iE

Jason Segel did a pretty good Jack Black impression on Fallon the other night.

does he improve upon mork from ork's zany guy with a heart of mush persona? there is definitely a thespian yearning to be free in jack black. could get even worse out there.

Didn't know he had been a child actor. Just kinda makes everything even sadder now.

saw him recently as a guest on an episode of icarly, of all things. my daughter thought he was funny. he was, kinda (his song, not his incessent mugging for the camera).

Yeah, he's definitely more in his element as a children's show actor. My kid saw Nacho Libre the other day and thought it was hilarious.

Jack Black appears on kid's show, mugs for camera, sings silly song SHOCKER!

oh i wasn't shocked.

c'mon dudes, granted this guy makes a living being insufferable, but in a world of dane cooks, he doesn't even crack a top 100 most insufferable list.
he's basically on the jimmy fallon/andrew wk axis of benign insufferableness

i don't think i've ever heard dane cook (he's a comedian, right?). also: except for a funny cameo, i don't think i've ever heard ricky gervis, or whateverhisnameis, either.

Ricky Gervais was in the WSJ today promoting atheism. It was very jarring. Does he do that in British newspapers too?

wait what

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/22/does-god-exist-ricky-gervais-takes-your-questions/?KEYWORDS=gervais

Philip Nunez OTM. I mean, in a world where Kevin James continues to make movies and Carlos Mencia continues to have his own show, it seems so ridiculous to waste hatred on poor Jack Black.

ugh smug atheists. I mean this:

Science doesn’t concern itself with the non-existence of something.

is just wrong

I mean come on STRING THEORY

otm

worst part of western scientific paradigm = ridiculous foundationalist belief that certain things have been established and cannot be challenged, especially not by any sort of holistic theories of spirituality which *must* be bunkum oh yes very much so hmm

jack black is kinda funny sometimes

Jack Black's biggest failing is that, although he has talent, he isn't talented enough to justify his level of celebrity, the size of his roles, or the compensation he gets. His shtick is a limited one, so that at first it was fresh, then it was merely comfortable, and now it is stale.

Add: He should have been an SNL star who couldn't quite establish himself in movies.

eagerly awaiting his I AM SERIOUS ACTOR/crying clown phase

Jack Black's biggest failing is that, although he has talent, he isn't talented enough to justify his level of celebrity, the size of his roles, or the compensation he gets. His shtick is a limited one, so that at first it was fresh, then it was merely comfortable, and now it is stale.

― Aimless, Thursday, December 23, 2010 6:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^yeah pretty much the most otm statement in this thread

Can you not apply that critique to every one of Jack Black's celebrity co-stars?

eagerly awaiting his I AM SERIOUS ACTOR/crying clown phase

he would actually make sense starring in an update of shakes the clown.

root doot doot

My favorite JB performance in a film to date is Nacho Libre because most of the acting is actually done with his face rather than doing his metal voice (har har) or a variety of other go-to tics he has. Not that Nacho Libre was very good, but he was excellent in it.

I'm still fond of the Tenacious D tv show. Honestly, I think that's his best shit right there and he never topped it.

i think he was in that susan sarandon death row movie, and was appropriately muted, and therefore invisible, which doesn't bode well for a catastrophic serious actor phase.

i mean i sense about as much "non-schticky" ambition from this guy as i do from weird al yankovic.

ive never liked him and im glad everyone's just catching up with me now

its funny how gulliver's travels looks exactly like his fake movies in Tropic Thunder

he's done "muted" before - see that Tim Robbins right-wing folk singer movie

is brendan frasier the only guy that went in the opposite direction? (serious actor dude rededicating his life to making non-stop schlock?)

can't believe some fucker thought of Gulliver pissing out a fire

Glad to know PG-rated films are still a wasteland.

can't believe some fucker executive producer didn't think to hire a good scriptwriter.

it's about time Holywood gave props to Englightingment-era satire

Candide with Michael Cera

CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

REMEMBER THAT TIME WE ALL THOUGHT DON QUIXOTE FEATURING SETH ROGEN WAS A FUNNY IDEA?

i'm still lol'ing at seth rogan as the green hornet.

The fact that Gulliver has been relegated to children's lit is mainly a testimony to bowdlerization of the original by the Victorians, because they really couldn't get behind the satire of it (the V's were all about PROGRESS!) and that was an easy way to ghettoize it. The original is not kiddie lit in any conceivable way.

Aimless otm

nah but Sam Johnson was on the grumpy bowdlerization tip before el Victorianes on account of how he was trying to get copyright on swearing

and he would've gotten away with it if Cobbett hadn't been a snarky twat

usually he's not the reason a movie he's in sucks.

― da croupier, Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yup. and otm to everyone that said hating him is a waste of time. i guess he is/was sorta ubiquitous for a while, but that's different from actually sucking

― kanellos (gbx), Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:49 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i will go to bat for him a little here. showbiz will always be full of overly energetic fat comedy dynamos and as far as the last 10-20 years go, Black is easily the most talented/tolerable and doesn't have nearly as much desperation and self-loathing oozing out of his performances, so there's that. and while i don't think i'd ever sit through a whole Tenacious D album or show, as far as schtick bands go they're pretty good. and i can't think of anything i've seen him in where he brought the movie down or it would've been substantially better with a different actor.

Matt Armstrong, fuck you.

ah bollocks sorry rong thread you fat useless unfunny cunt cheers for pissing on GT

what's all the "fat" shit lately? am I 300 lbs as well as 89 years old?

and weightist vitriol on the Jack Black thread, tsk tsk

there's a cruel irony in me calling anybody on weight, I wd like to pare back to "useless unfunny cunt".

Britwit^

Matt Armstrong, fuck you.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, January 2, 2011 3:49 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

was I supposed to respond with more respect to your argument that charities aren't ridiculous and therefore zombie space Jesus should not be ridiculed?

"Religion is ridiculous"

"Religious people give money to charity! WHY DO YOU HATE CHARITY!!!!"

God hates lepers

of all the people I expected to rep for brutalist feather-brained fucking of properly good books, you were low on the list Morbs

I can accept that religion is ridiculous, but can Matt Armstrong accept that Matt Armstrong is ridiculous? Enquiring minds and all that.

http://www.intemporality.com/images/misc/damn.jpg

xpost

I was not "repping" for anything such

this thread has taken a turn

see what jack black does to people?

I was not "repping" for anything such

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:07 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

he was talking about religion

can't decide if it's jack black, religion or ilx that does this to people, scott

perfect storm

See what Ricky Gervais does

DO U SEE

Ricky Gervais hates hospitals

God hates charity

i've never met a christian in real life that's as shrill as an athiest is on the internet

http://www.elitistsnob.com/images/god-hates-kent.jpg

Xpost Agreed, but this is not that thread...

low quality of aggro atheists is my favourite proof of god

i've never met a christian in real life that's as shrill as an athiest is on the internet

― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:41 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

good for you!

Exhibit A

Yeah this is gonna end well....

John 1:14

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4636/semttulo2e.jpg

would smote

MA
NA
RA

i've never met a christian in real life that's as shrill as an athiest is on the internet

looks like we have PHD study #3 in the bag

I think the Fleischer Bros version of G's Travels is available on the internets

the JB GT looks terrible, but yeah walking out of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS because Gulliver pisses out the fire is lol@u

― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:41 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's not when we left. we left at some unremarkable moment of lameness.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:42 (4 months ago) Bookmark

Was it the bit where JB quotes Prince? That was where we turned off the DVD. Generic Hollywood yuk yuks, but it'd be ok for a really young kid. Terry Gilliam could do the book justice maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4bP_nVOrds

Or maybe it was this bit (yes, we're trying to watch the rest of it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojNSEwW8s_s&feature=related

On another occasion the Lilliputians discover JB's iPhone (alongside a giant can of Coke), and JB marvels about how durable the iPhone must be to have survived the shipwreck. It's such a bad movie my wife has just started punching me just to relieve the pain. OK, we're not going to make it to the end of this movie.

maybe the CGI was more precise on the big screen, but it looked like JB should have pulled Segel's head off with that beckon at the end

also, ugh

he even does his stupid shit in those panda movies.

Laid up sick over the weekend I came across "The Polka King" on Netflix and had never heard about it although the true story it is based on seemed a bit familiar.

Got to say, just looking for something to watch, I got drawn into the movie and thought it was pretty good. It is both low key and over the top at the same time. Lots of neat details in the sets and backgrounds that seemed pretty apt, even not being from that part of Pennsylvania. I'd put it up with "Bernie" as one of the better movies that Jack Black has done. It has a cast filled with familiar character actors.

Jacki Weaver as the distrustful mother-in-law steals every scene she shows up in the movie. She was fantastic.