Last movie you watched......

Yeah, saw most of FSM tonight. Total dreck.

Segel was too whiny, Bell was too whiny, and it's the same fucking characters as every other recent Apatow-produced movie, with a few tweaks in the plotline. Couple of hilarious scenes, as usual, but mostly it's a bunch of whiny fucks. At least when Kevin Smith used the same characters, he didn't change their names (and gave them better scripts, anyway.)

Change the damn formula, Judd. You're better than that.

 

All true . . . but I'll forgive Bell anything, anytime.

 

Surprised to know that Apatow's third directorial effort is coming out this summer. Don't know what it's about, but I think it's about two guys from the L.A. area who really like each other, one helping the other one out, one of them is married to Leslie Mann, and Seth Rogan and Jonah Goldberg are in it, and yet it is somewhat melancholy and wistful.
Oh yeah, Funny People. It doesn't look too good. Sandler plays a comedian who thinks he's dying, but he gets a "second chance" at turning his life around.

 

An important point, yes.

I'm just getting real sick of the Beauty-falls-for-the-Beast plus a-few-dick-jokes formula (which, to be fair, is not just Apatow.) It's a bunch of stoner nerds writing out their porn fantasies, and casting themselves with hot chicks. After the second one, it just gets boring.

And, y'all know me, I got nothing against nerds. Or stoners.
But how many times can you go to the same well already?

 

High Fidelity, again.

A ton of fun.

If you don't like Cusack, you may find this a tall hill to climb. But if you're no worse than neutral . . .

Best thing Jack Black will EVER do.

Great pacing.

. . . and the world does NOT revolve around New York.

 

It doesn't revolve around New Jersey, either.

If I dislike a character ensemble in one movie I'm sure as hell not going to follow them around in four or five or six.

Kevin Smith hasn't had an original idea in 15 years. The average 8-year-old used to think he could put a new twist on a dick or fart joke. Not happening.

 

I saw Little Children last night. Did a good job of creating an ambience of people trying to forge pathetic moments of happiness within despair. But the ending was so ham-handed, and the castration thing was not the most jaw-dropping part. If you're heading off to run away with another woman, you don't stop to do a stupid skateboard ride.

 

I loved "The Wrestler" but when I first saw it I thought the most outstanding people and the ones who won the awards had to be whoever did Rourke's makeup. Then I saw him at the Oscars or whatever it was and realized -- that is what he really looks like now.

What the fuck happened to him?

On a different note -- and I'll just say, this is a rant coming -- why are athletes who make too much money always in the cross hairs of media but actors and actresses who are way overpaid are not -- particularly the ones who contiunally put out shit.

And I point to exhibit A -- and the poster child for this -- Ashton Kutcher.

Jesus, has this guy ever played something other than (a) a screw up who makes bad jokes and acts in way over the top zany ways and (b) in a movie that is even remotely good?

I think when Cheaper by the Dozen -- a movie you were a secondary character in by the way -- is your best film credit, you shouldn't be considered a superstar - or even a star for that matter.

Christ -- I watched "what happens in vegas" with my wife last night -- and it is fucking awful. It is predictable, just like all of Kutcher's movies, and it was the same damn storyline, with the same damn characters and same stupid situations and dialogue as My bosses daughter, just married, a lot like love, guess who, etc., etc. Hell "dude where's my car" should have been the end of this idiot and if not that, then Punk'd, where he sits with his hat crooked and screams and yells and makes lame jokes in between practical jokes.

This guy has to be the worst investment since the Cavaliers spent $27 million on John "hot plate rod" Williams.......

 

That's not worse than the Hawks giving Jon Koncak $28 million for 4 years.

 

You might have a point

 

I think there is a reason you're not seeing that many Ashton Kutcher movies coming your way. Hollywood is actually a pretty rational market. I realized Reese Witherspoon was going to be big when Sweet Home Alabama opened with a $20 million weekend. Likewise Beyonce's "Obsession" opening weekend beatdown of "State of Play."
Producers will pay for people who deliver an audience. Jim Carrey took his money from "Yes Man", a very mediocre movie, and ended up with something north of $30 million. Ben Affleck, meanwhile, is now playing secondary roles.

 

We live in a society that has laid untold riches at the feet of a lifetime schmuck like Adam Sandler because he can pull off a halfway decent baby voice. There's nothing rational about that. Kutcher makes some of the ladies happy, and practically nobody else. It will be interesting to see what kind of work he'll be doing at 45 years old when his Dude persona can't help him. He's already intolerable now. People can knock McConaughey for the same thing, but at least he's tried his hand at a few serious parts.