Just got out of a screening for the new Apatow/Rogan film and it was the funniest film I've seen in years. I wasn't a huge fan of Knocked Up but this movie was hilarious. James Franco and Danny McBride steal the show but this is going to be huge.

It's not coming out for a year but it is absolutely amazing.

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are anymore of the F&G or Undeclared regulars makin an appearance in this one?

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It has Gary Cole, Bill Heder, Craig Robinson (Darryl from the Office), Joe LoTruglio from The State, etc, No Segal, Hill, or the rest of that crew.

EDIT: Also, Rosie Perez.

Still, I haven't walked out of a movie this impressed in a long time. The trailer for Walk Hard also played. It looked funny but I'm not sure if will be at this (or Anchorman's) level.

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i love that guy.

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Especially seeing how the last few years have pretty much sucked.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcANFVcJeOM

i still can't believe that guy directed this shit

The action scenes are great and the pitch is perfect. I'm not a huge fan of Rogen's crude for crude's sake humor but that was toned down. It was a rough cut so some of the stuff will be trimmed but he did a good job. You aren't going to sit there and say "Wow, great direction!" but you never should in a comedy.

It was understated but quality.

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Y'know, normal ass guy(s) unwittingly dragged into the middle of a nightmarish, comedic day of adventure. (Something Wild was over the span of a couple days, but events exploded one right after another, so it seemed like it happened in a real short time span.)

From the multi-character chase premise down to Seth Rogen's suit, I'm (optimistically) thinking it has similarities to those two movies.

Care to validate those suspicions?

I was there. not sure if how Rogen put it together after witnessing the crime would have worked, but pot smoker paranoia might have done it.

Didn't like the girlfriend's scene in the hotel, thought that needed a re-shoot.

I also thought it needed to a bit more violent, maybe it will be after post.

But I enjoyed it. And I got to meet Judd that night too. I've met everyone now except Franco and Rogen from Freaks and geeks.

He's a funny dude; usually, the filmmakers all sneak in after the lights go down, but this cat showed up about 15 minutes before the movie started, found a spot to sit, got up, changed to another spot, then got up again and changed to another spot, then finally settled on a spot once Jake Kasdan arrived.

After reading that NY Times piece before Knocked Up came out, and after seeing the mics at the Walk Hard screening (I'm assuming they were also present for this one), it finally dawned on me that Apatow conducts screenings as if they were sitcom run-throughs, where he gets feedback on jokes then goes back to the lab and makes adjustments.
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I'm not sure how much more violent they can really get. I thought the weak part was Cole and Rosie's characters. The girlfriend couldn't act so her scenes were lame but the phone call he makes to her was one of the highlights of the film.

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If anyone wants to see it, I have the number and confirmation code for one person and a guest. You have to get there around 6:30. Inbox me if you can make it and I'll give you the info.

It's a hilarious flick. I highly recommend it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ojjzAnA38

clip from the movie that will be on the Superbad DVD.

As for the movie itself I remember liking Franco and McBride but just found the premise to be a bit too ludicrous (SPOILER)(the way Rogen's discovered by Gary Cole and Rosie Perez was a problem for me, since it is the "inciting incident" in the film and I just found it to be too convenient)... however, there were a couple of very funny setpieces but the cut I saw ran a bit too long for my taste... I'm sure it's been cut down to size by now...

Also, EW is reporting that Seth Rogen recently broke bread with Huey Lewis to try and get him to do the movie's theme song
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and it's definitely absurd. I just hadn't laughed that much at a movie in a very long time.

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That scene is one of the first in the film and the movie becomes a kind of caper movie a few moments later.

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But I might be able to tolerate him in this

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http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/pineapple-express/red-band-trailer

after seeing this trailer, I think the thread title will end up to be right on.

But, jesus, that looks good.

That trailer alone is more fun than most movies ever even hope to be.

i laughed quite a bit when he tried to kick in the windshield

When I was watching the film, that moment had me dying because I didn't see it coming at all.

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Franco killed it
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is all you need to know. Bitches.

>When I was watching the film, that moment had me dying
>because I didn't see it coming at all.

Ah, yeah that was definitely something I wasn't expecting from the few seconds of the scene in the trailer. I could easily see myself laughing a lot at that even if I knew it was coming, but I guess I'll have to wait until the movie comes out to see.

Anybody want to bet on who the first rapper who references smoking Pineapple Express?

>Anybody want to bet on who the first rapper who references
>smoking Pineapple Express?

Aesop Rock

ghost.

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It better not be MIA because I am sworn to hate her.

"Paper Planes"
There's a great remix with Bun B and Rich Boy.

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He's pretty damn funny, as is Danny McBride

The plot itself is pretty ridiculous, but the laughs are there
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so badass.

I hadn't liked him in any of his previous flicks but he was great in this. Danny McBride hadn't impressed me much before this either but both those guys consistently stole scenes from Rogen. And that's not taking anything away from Rogen either because this might be his best performance to date as well.

I met David Gordon Green @ a Snow Angels premiere & while I wasn't a huge fan of that flick, he gave off a great vibe that he'd be a good guy to have behind the scenes for a new twist on the stoner flick genre. Wasn't sure how well the action scenes would correlate but he did a great job. You can tell everyone involved had a lot fun making this, but not too much fun that they didn't take it seriously like some of the Ocean flicks.

It's 1 of those movies you'll probably end up seeing twice in the theaters because you'll miss a lot of jokes from the audience laughing the 1st time. Great soundtrack as well. Especially the placement of the PE & Bob Marley tracks. I wish Gary Cole would've had a little more screen time & Rosie Perez seemed to be the only questionable casting choice but other than that it was great & I've got no complaints. It's tops on my list of stoner comedies.

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

and it's pissing me off.

I have a 400 year old chip on my shoulder.

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who woulda thought their faces (or yknow, half their faces) would be up there in 2008. makes me feel proud of em (in some sorta creepy father-figure type way).

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can't wait for this to come out already

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if pineapple express is 2wice as funny as Tropic was, they will have to have paramedics there for my ass. Danny McBride was in Tropic also...

...but I can say that this movie was fucking awesome. I am really surprised critics seem to not be liking this as much as previous Apatow camp efforts. It has heart, it's hilarious, it's shot really well, and the action just ups the ante and makes everything even funnier.

Certainly the best comedy I've seen in '08.

I want to talk about this movie with people. Ask me questions.

So goddamned funny.

than I was Dark Knight

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I caught the midnight showing last night. We got to the theatre blowed, and noticed the amount of people outside and got a bit worried. Got out of the car and were told the film was sold out by some teens in the parking lot.
As we were driving off, I decided to just check anyway. Turns out it was mostly sold out but there were still seats. Just wasn't likely to find groups of seats together.
I was with 4 friends, so I got the 5 tickets and we got in but weren't all able to sit together.

Theatre was wall to wall 16 year olds.
The fuck happened to curfew?

So the movie was cool, I guess.
It was really trying to be a real movie. I wasn't expecting that.
Way too many of the jokes and gags were shown in the trailers and commercials. The parts that would've had me busting up were things I'd already seen.

The other thing that was kinda whatever was that it was so much just based on the interaction of the two main characters. Dale (Rogen) was the same person he's been in every other movie, except this time he had a cool/funny job. Saul (Franco) was just a dumb stoner who said dumb stoner shit.

What I did like was that it seemed pretty realistic in the chase/run/escape aspect. The dealers and cops didn't waste any time trying to catch these two. Lots of movies they spend too much time trying to figure out the identities and things seem to take days and weeks of trying to catch someone they should've been done caught. In this one, the next morning they're at these dudes' throats already which was cool. They didn't waste time explaining and interrogating and all the nonsense. They were on their shit.

I also liked that they didn't explain why things were happening. They just were. We didn't need to know why/how Rosie Perez was wrapped up in this drug war, she just was. Dale and Saul didn't know either. That wasn't the point. She was trying to kill them -- that's all that really mattered.

I feel like I maybe need to see the movie not high. The pacing seemed to lag at some points but it might've just been the weed. I'm pretty sure it was a combination of the weed and the movie's actual pacing.

They should've done more with Dale's job throughout the movie and less with Saul's stonerisms.

My feelings right now are to give it a B, or B-.
It didn't take itself too seriously, but definitely more seriously than I expected.

I need to see it again, sober, but I'm worried it won't be funny at all when I see it again.

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Caught an advanced screening last week. I'm a big fan of Rogen and Apatow, I think Knocked Up and Superbad will be seen as two of the best comedies of the decade, and I was highly looking forward to this.

Problem was, it just wasn't really that funny. I'd describe it more as consistently mildly amusing. Not too much focus on jokes, more focus on humerous characters. The funniest parts were in the previews. The comedy was often reduced to extended scenes of weak/contrived slapstick, and seemed to rest comfortably on the questionable conclusion that it's always funny when old people or asians say "fuck".

Movie has focus problems too. It wasn't quite a comedy, not quite a character study, not quite an action film...the movie swayed and wandered into each of these regions for seemingly random periods of time.

The movie works best when it's a quirky adventure of two interesting and funny characters as they come closer and become friends, and if they stuck with that concept the movie would have been much tighter, almost Wes Anderson-esque. The characters are interesting, sympathetic and likeable. But instead of just using the drug-dealer murder subplot as a catalyst for that human connection, they put so much focus on it that the movie becomes a weak action movie instead of a strong character comedy.

The last scene in particular was at least twenty minutes too long (you'll get what I mean when you watch it) and didn't really add anything to character development or plot at all...it just kept going...it was kind of a send-up of action movie climaxes, but veered into the early Beastie Boys territory of accidentally becoming your subject of parody.

Franco was excellent. Worth seeing simply for his creation of Saul. There are other good characters as well. It's not a bad movie, I recommend you check it out, but I'd put it at the bottom of the Apatow vehicles I've seen:

1. Knocked Up
2. Superbad
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. 40 Year Old Virgin
5. Pineapple Express

I never did see Walk Hard. But that movie looked fucking dumb. Did you see it? Was I wrong?

Anyhow, I might have just gone in with expectations too high. If that's the case, I hope this review helps you not to do the same, and maybe you'll end up enjoying it more. That's be decent.

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Personally, I've always thought that the character development and plots of Knocked Up and Superbad were the weakest parts of the film so I was more than happy that they pushed that aside and went full steam ahead with the comedy. Oddly enough, the one film in which the plot and character development worked best IMO was 40 Year Old Virgin, which you had as the second worst Apatow film.

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Of course not.

>Personally, I've always thought that the character
>development and plots of Knocked Up and Superbad were the
>weakest parts of the film so I was more than happy that they
>pushed that aside and went full steam ahead with the comedy.
>Oddly enough, the one film in which the plot and character
>development worked best IMO was 40 Year Old Virgin, which you
>had as the second worst Apatow film.

While I disagree with you about the character development of Knocked Up and Superbad, all these films are quite different (which I think is a testament to Apatow's achievements), and what works for one doesn't necessarily work in another.

The thing is, they didn't go full steam ahead with the comedy. They went at cruising speed. That was my major complaint. If they kept it as it was but had more actual Knocked Up-level jokes and gags in it I'd be cosigning it like you are.

But...they really didn't. The jokes were much more mild than laugh out loud funny.

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Because I laughed out loud at stuff in Pineapple Express while I just chucked at Knocked Up and Superbad. I thought the foot through the windshield and his 180 when his girlfriend says "I Love You" were funnier than anything in the other two movies.

And yes, I do think sometimes you have to know something about a film to really get it. If I had walked into Live Free or Die Hard without forewarnings about it being over-the-top, I would probably have been groaning the whole time about how ridiculous it was.

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>Because I laughed out loud at stuff in Pineapple Express
>while I just chucked at Knocked Up and Superbad. I thought the
>foot through the windshield and his 180 when his girlfriend
>says "I Love You" were funnier than anything in the other two
>movies.

But they were BOTH in the trailer. All the very funny parts were. Unlike say, Knocked Up, where almost every line was some sort of punchline.

What gags did I like from Knocked Up? Off the top of my head, I liked "I can't let you in this club 'cause you old as fuck. For the club. Not, you know, for the world. Trust me, I would tear. that. ass. up." His whole scene was hilarious. But more than specific scenes, every other line was crafted to make people laugh...having throwaway lines like "see you Scorcese-on-coke" or "you look like a cholo on Easter" in every conversation shows the movie had so much joke-juice you coulnd't possibly show it all in the previews.

>And yes, I do think sometimes you have to know something about
>a film to really get it. If I had walked into Live Free or Die
>Hard without forewarnings about it being over-the-top, I would
>probably have been groaning the whole time about how
>ridiculous it was.

A movie should be able to stand on it's own. I didn't have any problems with the plot being ridiculous, my issue with the plot was that they spent too much time in gunfights and car chases to concentrate on the funny.

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My friend is like you and prefers to throw out as many jokes as possible and keep them going. I prefer fewer jokes, more build-up, and don't mind if we go a bit without a punchline. I think the voids amplify the laughs (although a few of the lulls in Pineapple Express were too long).

I felt like most of Knocked Up was throwaway lines and they didn't get much out of the situations themselves. I prefer the actions scenes then leading into a joke.

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I liked it, but not as much as the theater full of stoned teenagers I was surrounded by.

They didn't try to do too much with it, but it worked. Probably a B- with some good moments.

I must admit, I've only seen Knocked Up and some TV performances but I have no interest in the other movies from what I've seen.
I find nothing funny about this crew of 'funny' actors.
that little fat kid annoys the fuck out me.

-40 YO Virgin was moderately funny the whole way through.
-Knocked Up was laugh out loud constantly the first time, then the second time you just realize that theyre only making fun of each other and that's not really that funny. Won't stand the test of time.
-Superbad was super bad. I guess it was funny that they named the movie Superbad and I still saw it. Joke's on me. You had the penis-drawings and then an hour and a half of absolute shit. Little high school kids are not funny.


The only guy out of the whole clique that I find funny is the fat dude with the curly red hair (main dude in Knocked Up). But he's nothing extraordinary, just the most likeable in the group with occassionally funny things to say.

then headin to the theatre lol.

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but one question, how does it compare to other Stoner movies? is it between Harold & Kumar and Cheech and Chong, or is it a movie by it self? I heard ( and read ) the movie is taking it self too seriously when it comes to the action and plot. Anyways, I doubt I'll be too disappointed, I mean, I liked Walk Hard, so I guess I can like this one too.



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>but one question, how does it compare to other Stoner movies?
>is it between Harold & Kumar and Cheech and Chong, or is it a
>movie by it self? I heard ( and read ) the movie is taking it
>self too seriously when it comes to the action and plot.

not at all - exact opposite in fact. just from the opening scene you will know that it isn't taking itself too seriously at all wrt the action and plot.

and yeah it is very much its own movie. it's pretty much one of those movies that's impossible not to like.

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>it was the funniest film I've seen in years.

yup, me too.

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I saw a screening last week and it was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I had it a little above Superbad and a little below Knocked Up. I'll probably see it again this weekend.

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