The Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen directed End of the World stars a bunch of famous people as themselves. I will anticipate it with morbid curiousity, join me.

End of the World is an upcoming American action comedy film directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, written by Rogen, Goldberg and Jason Stone.

Cast
James Franco as himself
Jason Segel as himself
Seth Rogen as himself
Emma Watson as herself
Rihanna as herself
Paul Rudd as himself
Jonah Hill as himself
Aziz Ansari as himself
Mindy Kaling as herself
Jay Baruchel as himself
Martin Starr as himself
Danny McBride as himself
Kevin Hart as himself
Michael Cera as himself
Craig Robinson as himself
David Krumholtz as himself
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as himself

There's a good chance this will be terrible, but I am anxious to see this.

There's a good chance absolute assurance this will be terrible, but I am anxious to see this ready to observe short YouTube clips after the fact.

I think I saw an ad for this the other night. I was confused.

I think this is still filming, are you thinking of that Carrell one, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World?

ah yes

There's absolute assurance this will be terrible, but I am ready to observe short YouTube clips after the fact.

If you only watched short clips of Superbad and Pineapple Express I think it's fair to say you wouldn't have got an accurate view of those films, Ned.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad End of The World

xpost -- I am biased and I am right.

names that make me hopeful

Mindy Kaling as herself
Martin Starr as himself
Danny McBride as himself

ok also a little bit
Jason Segel as himself

i'm just going to assume the movie is exactly like this:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/309562

Another vote for: Martin Starr as himself

Also apparently featuring Matt Walsh as himself, which I'd add to the positives.

i love matt walsh. he's hilarious on veep these days.

there's no one in this movie i'm not sick of tbqf but maybe it'll be a good time.

im not sick of craig robinson... yet

having to live through the end of the world with seth rogen and jonah hill would make me wish i'd died like other ppl

(This Is)

Felt like being in Kevin Smith's head when he dreams up a movie but before he fucks it up by writing it down and then directing it. Good summer fun.

― lols lane (Eazy), Saturday, June 15, 2013 6:56 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does seem a little wasteful to have Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill in a movie.

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, June 15, 2013 9:48 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thought there was another thread about this movie? Anyway, I thought it was hilarious, definitely the hardest I've laughed at a theater since, I don't even know. Helped that the crowd was great and well into it.

― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, June 15, 2013 6:09 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely was fun to watch this in a college-town movie theater on a Friday night (maybe you were at the same screening, j/v/c).

I might be tempted if they all die

overall p stupid, but i laughed a bunch. FrAnco and McBride (naturally) owned this.

this movie was def one of the funniest of the last 5 years

I keep hearing that it's funny but the trailers make it look like a nauseating celebrity circle jerk :(

yeah this might be funny but I feel like you have to seriously love all these overexposed dudes already to enjoy it maybe? Maybe not. Maybe it's funny anyway. I'm sort of holding out for the pegg/frost/white end times movie, even if it looks like SOTD redux.

mostly I'm still moderately disgusted that this collective turned David Gordon Green into Tom Shadyac

lol

watched the 2nd half this when i snuck into the theater after watching another movie -- was OK, felt like the longest most expensive Funny Or Die sketch ever. Jonah Hill was def the funniest in this movie and i don't even usually like him much.

I am going to go see this. No idea when, but I will. mark my words

Saw this last night. These guys sure think penises are funny, huh?

david gordon green is remaking suspiria?

geez, talk about a mismatch.

FYI: "a coke-snorting, pussy-hounding Michael Cera"

the trailers make it look like a nauseating celebrity circle jerk

go with your first impression. they're usually correct.

this was hilarious

This was s'OK, loved how Franco kept changing his shirt. Prolly too long, or at least it felt too long, and it would have made a better episodic web series, but I'm appreciated its utter indulgence.

it's pretty sick that a 106-minute running time is probably the most restraint these guys will ever have in a final cut of a comedy

how long is Franco in an Italian-American undershirt?

this was fun but not as hilarious as the reviews made it sound. I wish they'd spent like 5 more minutes at the party before shit went down, so many wasted cameos. but sure I laughed a lot.

how long is Franco in an Italian-American undershirt?

I don't get it. But he's the only character whose t-shirt changes from scene to scene, which I thought was funny.

I love that Franco's actorly choice to differentiate the TIEE version of himself from the real one was to be too straight; as opposed to the too gay real-life version.

yeah this might be funny but I feel like you have to seriously love all these overexposed dudes already to enjoy it maybe?

Arguably it plays even better if you have a certain amount of bad faith attached to them -- i.e. they seriously know nothing about anything that isn't in their own world.

felt like the longest most expensive Funny Or Die sketch ever

OTM.

well it was based on a short movie that seth rogan made with a buddy

I like that they didn't overexplain Franco's Rogen obsession (cf. paintings, etc.).

I like that they got rid of Michael Cera so early on (damn shame they couldn't have done the same with McBride).

dude danny mcbride was the best!

yeah mcbride was great

He got the best line of the whole flick: "You haven't got enough bullets!" (Context, et al.)

That line might've been funnier if it weren't like the 200th dick joke in the film at that point.

The first 199 were just background shots of Franco's spanish tile-encrusted monster dong.

I take back everything I said. This movie was funny as hell,

<3 danny mcbride

i loved this movie a lot, had so much fun seeing this in a sold-out showing late on a Friday night. mcbride killed it, especially his first scene with the cypress hill song.

it was funny how they introduced mcbride, twice, the same way he's always introduced in eastbound & down: slo-mo, strutting to some awesome song

p sure my dad says the same about us tho tbf

The ending is really great

The ending is what reminded me exactly of how much I hate these ppl and their frame of reference.

<3 danny mcbride

I was thinking throughout "Am I sposed to know who this dick is?"

The ending is what reminded me exactly of how much I hate these ppl and their frame of reference.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:45 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly. And the rest of the movie, too.

I do wonder what This Is The End is like for someone who doesn't really give a fuck about the current crop of comedy stars - they still establish the story and character for the most part, but there are still a lot of in-jokes and I dunno if "Danny McBride bein' Danny McBride" is as funny if you aren't already familiar with that persona

This is me and I liked this movie a lot. I mean, I have seen most of these people in a movie or two but have never heard of Danny McBride or Craig Robinson and have never seen Emma Watson in anything and the movie still totally works on the level of "semi-famous Hollywood people respond comically to apocalypse"

ke1th uhl1ch's Letterboxd review -- "You straight boys and your pot" -- would be perfect with one more word up front.

Yoo-hoo you straight boys and your pot.

ugh

also if you're rich atheist movie stars, no heaven please. especially with some lame faggoty boyband joke.

the original ending they wrote was a reference to Bruce Almighty so, y'know, it could've been worse

Not that I think you should change your stripes, but the movie's final joke does seem to be that none of them deserve heaven any more than they deserve stardom.

meh, but then why did they literally send Franco and Hill to damnation? (a bright spot)

I did think Jay Baruchel and Craig Robinson were mostly tolerable.

I thought this would be garbage but I ended up really, really enjoying it.

yea i thought this was hilarious. morbs i would never have expected you to like this movie, kind of surprised you were willing to see it

it was way more intense than I thought it would be. loved how subtly (and obviously) scummy they made every character sans maybe Craig Robinson. I didnt like the ending much either but when they finally made it out of the house and made it clear that they weren't pulling back at all on their premise I wondered what kind of ending would actually be satisfying for a movie like this

yeah, once they leave the house, it's gets quite bad and I find the ending ridiculous (in a bad way !).
the rest is pretty good and fun. I'm familiar with most of the main actors but my gf didn't know most of them and still enjoyed it.

Robinson blinded a man ffs

my wife was really disturbed by the channing tatum scene, haha

but otherwise she enjoyed it

This might be the only Apatow movie I'll like in three years.

It's no Pineapple Express, although Pineapple Express 2 was pretty amazing

i assume so by being 2 hrs shorter

then again in three years the polar ice caps will have melted so it will likely be the end

Robinson blinded a man ffs

oh yeah forgot about that

And we'll all be worshiping Chasing Ice.

loved how subtly (and obviously) scummy they made every character

i don't get it, we saw them all smoking pot

say it ain't so

Morbs' aversion to people enjoying pot is one of the most endearing things about him.

I don't mind them enjoying it, I mind them expecting me to enjoy them.

the whole Apatow Gang reminds one of how there are hardly any MEN in Hollywood movies anymore.

Bring back Franklin Pangborn!

these sissies are much less funny

Exponentially more smashable tho.

ewwww, and i thought you were a monk? they all look like they smell.

Lemme aks you a hypothermical question.

I wouldn't touch Pangborn with a stick.

A bat, maybe ...

Monty Clift is closer to my kind of swish.

Eric gets Edward Everett Horton.

Everything predating George Nader is sexual archaeology so far as I'm concerned.

we should do a 'swede' version w/ gayLXors

I vote for Eric to be possessed (like he'd object)

sick reference there bro your references are out of control everyone knows it

I liked Superbad and Pineapple Express and even kinda liked Your Highness, but this thing was so boring.

Pineapple Express was surprisingly entertaining, sure, but I'm definitely excited for these guys to all go away.

Read today that Franco's newest "book" sold under 5000 copies, which pleased me

this was overall p bad; 1st 15 mins are funny-ish but the concept is only like worth a youtube or college humor vid

yeah it almost feels like a problem that they got to release this in multiplexes instead of just tossing it out in a few installments on Adult Swim or Funny Or Die

lot more money to be made when you can actually charge ppl money to watch it

but yeah as someone who's just 'eh, it was alright, funny enough' and was truly befuddled to see this thing pop up on year end lists i might feel alot more fondness toward it if they'd just released it online or adult swim/comedy central/ifc, if they'd done what the south park guys did w/ imaginationland basically.

Don't get me wrong, this is both funnier and more significant than The Wolf of Wall Street.

btwn only doing the best bit of this, along with the Silva flicks and the Kaufman pilot, Cera's been making some smart moves lately.

seen this like four times now (watched it over the weekend w a friend who'd been in Japan and never seen it) and this really holds up. The Franco/McBride argument still elicits tears of laughter