I'm not really a big Judd Apatow fan, but this movie wasn't bad. I just don't understand why it had to be two and a half hours and why both Seth Rogen's and Adam Sandler's characters were both painfully unlikeable.
I was expecting it to be worse, but I thought it did drag on a little long. I think every movie I've seen this summer has been 2 hours or longer.
I thought it was ok. I like that it was full of dick jokes but then between those they constantly had to remind us that Adam Sandler has some kind of leukemia and it just killed the whole happy effect for me.
Originally Posted by TokiOriginally Posted by TokiOriginally Posted by Pickles
That is incredibly true. Also, why isn't Seth Rogan fat anymore?
Originally Posted by TokiOriginally Posted by TokiOriginally Posted by Pickles
fat transfer array
this movie had no reason to be 136 minutes long
I, for one, loved it. It started out interesting, moved to fascinating, before returning to interesting.
A-/B+
Seth Rogan got skinny so he could be the Green Hornet.
This looks like the type of Adam Sandler film I can enjoy (a la Reign Over Me, Big Daddy, 40 First Dates) . By which I mean he plays a realistic character, not some douchey, gay-voiced retard.
I watched Observe and Report last night, and although there were some funny parts, overall I found it to be one of Seth Rogen's less funny movies. Along with Pineapple Express.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” -Buddha
Identity
Pineapple Express is hilarious, but Observe and Report was not funny at all. It was trying to be something greater than it was, and I feel it failed as a comedy, as a social commentary, and as a movie full of terrible people that ends with all of the terrible people either being unhappy or having returned to their status quo (whatever you call that kind of movie).
I hope funny people is better. I haven't seen it yet, but it is on my to-do list.
I saw Pineapple Express three times in theaters and I have to say it was great the first two times, alright the third time, and then I just got bored when I watched it on TV. The jokes just weren't very funny without the wtf?-ness of seeing them the first time.
Also: GI Joe was ridiculously bad.
That was the point. It wasn't the near death thing that made him change, even though that's what it would have taken for most people. It was him finally seeing the life he gave up because he was a cunt, trying to steal that life, being denied something he couldn't get with his riches, and realizing that maybe Ira was right. I thought it was fantastic, in any case.
I forgot to mention that I enjoyed GI Joe much more than either Transformers films. It wasn't insulting to me or my intelligence. It was a low brow action movie, sure, but I had a lot of fun watching it. It wasn't great at all, but I was able to switch off and get along with it. Plus, the guy that played Cobra Commander was a fucking master-stroke.
I thought this movie was horrible. It shouldn't have been called funny people. It should have been called insufferable douche bags that don't have a single ounce of likeability... people. I don't know how they managed to making a fucking dying man into an unsympathetic character, but they did.
I will admit, it started out decent. But Adam Sandler should have never gotten better. He should have just died. The second half of the movie (which shouldn't have even been part of the movie because it was waaaay too fucking long) was horrific. Did anyone actually root for Sandler's character to break up the marriage? It was just uncomfortable to watch. And the love interest with Seth Rogan was horrible executed and felt tact on.
The best part of the movie was Yo Teach. Seriously.
You weren't supposed to root for the marriage breaking up.
His freak out at Ira showed that he was the same selfish person he was before, looking out for only his best interests. If you were hoping the wife would leave Eric Bana, then you were probably rooting for the wrong team.
I kind of realize all that but it was just painful to watch and I couldn't enjoy it. I didn't really care that the near death experience failed to change Sandler's character. I just didn't want to watch an asshole being an asshole for two and a half god damn hours. There was no strong message. It was just Adam Sandler being a douche bag, almost losing everything, continuing to be a douche bag, really losing everything, and then being slightly less of a douche bag at the movie's end.
Also it was a mental typo Gwahir
More of the way I percieved it:
The opening shots of him on the phone. He was happy. He was making other people laugh, and it was making other people happy. I doubt he got into comedy for the fame. But you saw how he was deriding his fans - smiling, only to make fun of them, pick them up to fuck them, that kind of thing. His life was empty, without joy. I gathered that he slowly turned into a materialistic asshole who surrounded himself with shit he thought was important but didn't even really notice - his frustration at not being able to watch the hockey game on his own TV was very telling that he never really had an appreciation for anything.
At the end of the movie, he turned into the complete opposite. The three minute scene at the mall, when he starts writing jokes for Ira, completely reverses the strange relationship they had - it was a gesture of not only friendship, but respect. George started laughing at Ira's jokes, and for once, looked for a way to improve someone else's life rather than his own. That one scene conveyed so much about how George had changed. I was very impressed that such a short ending to a long movie could have the impact that it did, but it showed such extreme growth on his behalf, and even moved him into, dare I say it, happy territory? He looked fucking ecstatic to be helping Ira out. He souded tired, but he looked happy.
He almost lost his life, but he never really had much of one to begin with. He tried to take someone else's to make him happy, and when that failed, he blew up at the only friend he had.
I dunno, I really liked it.
Uh, Mal, the problem wasn't that no one got the very obvious shift in the character.
The problem was that we didn't want to wait around for 146 minutes for it through a movie that wasn't particularly funny or dramatic.
Needless to say, diffrn't strokes, diffrn't folks.
Bookmarks