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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 6:55:15 AM  
A trailer so annoying it almost makes ads for Fleishman's in Trouble watchable.

Almost
 
Dave and the Mission [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 7:51:33 AM  
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sleze
2023-02-02 8:06:44 AM  
He was OK in Moneyball but I find him annoying in every other role.
 
finnished
2023-02-02 8:13:12 AM  
I saw the movie and all I could think of is how all the cast seemed to have gotten so old all of a sudden.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:15:03 AM  

sleze: He was OK in Moneyball but I find him annoying in every other role.


He was good in Woof of Wall Street but he wasn't acting in that movie.
 
Bslim
2023-02-02 8:16:59 AM  
Dude has been up his own fat ass for about a decade. I can't stand him, and I refuse to watch anything with him in it.
 
mrparks
2023-02-02 8:18:46 AM  
This was a good movie idea when it was called Love, actually.

Which is, actually, an adorable bit of holiday film.
 
Erma Gerdd
2023-02-02 8:21:09 AM  
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H31N0US
2023-02-02 8:21:57 AM  
Dies he think he's Jeff Spicoli or something?
 
EdgeRunner [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:23:07 AM  
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"Now Submitter, it's simply not true that most people dislike my new movie. Most people haven't seen it and don't plan to! So there!"
 
moothemagiccow
2023-02-02 8:24:27 AM  
It's a comedy. The measure isn't whether it's derivative or trite. The measure is whether it made me laugh. And it did. A lot. It's very much a Jonah Hill movie, a throwback to mid-2000s McKay/Apatow comedies. To me, that doesn't make it derivative, it makes it good. Should've come out in theaters.
 
Persnickety [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:26:08 AM  

sleze: He was OK in Moneyball but I find him annoying in every other role.


Superbad remains to this day one of the best teen sex comedies of all time.  Of course, he's mostly just playing himself in that movie, as was Michael Cera,
 
tsjonesosu
2023-02-02 8:37:07 AM  
I liked it. *shrug*
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:39:10 AM  

moothemagiccow: It's a comedy. The measure isn't whether it's derivative or trite. The measure is whether it made me laugh. And it did. A lot. It's very much a Jonah Hill movie, a throwback to mid-2000s McKay/Apatow comedies. To me, that doesn't make it derivative, it makes it good. Should've come out in theaters.


I really liked the supporting performances.  Eddie Murphy was playing it relatively straight but still managed to be funny, and David Duchovny's Xzibit obsession was an amusing running joke.  The only thing I found unbelievable was that Jonah Hill's character was 35 when he looked like a 50-year-old alcoholic.
 
NOLAhd [OhFark]
2023-02-02 8:41:45 AM  

finnished: I saw the movie and all I could think of is how all the cast seemed to have gotten so old all of a sudden.


Counterpoint. Eddie Murphy is 61.

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blackminded
2023-02-02 8:47:19 AM  
I liked it. I can see people hating it by default but if you go into it as just a movie it's a decent romcom. Plus Jonah Hill clearly stands out of the way to let his funnier cast mates work. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is hilarious and Eddie is Eddie. Sam Jay is also farking hysterical and underused.

/Hi my name is Mo and I have titties
 
Magnus Eisengrim
2023-02-02 8:47:55 AM  
I was hating Jonah Hill movies before it became popular to do so.
 
tricycleracer
2023-02-02 8:51:29 AM  
"So a black family and a Jewish family try to out-victim each other for 90 minutes?"

"Pretty much."

"You son of a biatch, I'm in."
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-02-02 8:52:14 AM  
"We follow Minister Louis Farrakhan. Are you familiar with the Minister's work?"
"I'm familiar with what he's said about the Jews..."

// somehow, I think that'll be the funniest joke in the movie
// I REALLY wish they'd stop putting the humor high-water mark in the trailers - I get why they think they should do it, but it makes the actual film a letdown
 
blackminded
2023-02-02 9:03:05 AM  

Dr Dreidel: "We follow Minister Louis Farrakhan. Are you familiar with the Minister's work?"
"I'm familiar with what he's said about the Jews..."

// somehow, I think that'll be the funniest joke in the movie
// I REALLY wish they'd stop putting the humor high-water mark in the trailers - I get why they think they should do it, but it makes the actual film a letdown


Not the funniest joke in the movie but it does remind me that there's a fantastic bit about Sunni vs. Nation of Islam that's going to go flying over the audience's heads which is unfortunate because it's great.

/a pack of pals in Paris?
 
thornhill
2023-02-02 9:24:27 AM  
I watched the trailer. A joke about a white guy with a podcast might have been funny and novel 5 years ago.
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:31:31 AM  

blackminded: /a pack of pals in Paris?


"So that would be, like, 75% of the song."
 
McGrits [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:35:42 AM  
This can't be as bad as the Allen Gregory cartoon. (I had to look up the name since all I remembered about it was ow awful it was)
 
th0th [BareFark]
2023-02-02 9:40:10 AM  

Tr0mBoNe: sleze: He was OK in Moneyball but I find him annoying in every other role.

He was good in Woof of Wall Street but he wasn't acting in that movie.


He was good, but Di Caprio's performance was way better.  Donnie almost seemed like one of those composite characters that were bits and pieces of 4-5 actual people involved in the scam.

I don't see the appeal of Hill, either.  It seems that anyone (cough Michael Cera cough) that hung around Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow suddenly failed upwards in the acting biz.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 9:56:53 AM  

Tr0mBoNe: sleze: He was OK in Moneyball but I find him annoying in every other role.

He was good in Woof of Wall Street but he wasn't acting in that movie.


He's also good in Get Him To the Greek, The Watch, War Dogs and Wolf of Wall Street. 

The rest you have to be either a fan of that style of comedy or the others in the movie. I have a big soft spot for 21/22 Jump Street as well.
 
HeFixesTheCable
2023-02-02 10:10:37 AM  

phimuskapsi: Tr0mBoNe: sleze: He was OK in Moneyball but I find him annoying in every other role.

He was good in Woof of Wall Street but he wasn't acting in that movie.

He's also good in Get Him To the Greek, The Watch, War Dogs and Wolf of Wall Street. 

The rest you have to be either a fan of that style of comedy or the others in the movie. I have a big soft spot for 21/22 Jump Street as well.


The first Jump Street made me laugh out loud, which is rare. I also liked the social "pushback" on how things have changed since I was in HS, e.g. the bit where Tatum or Hill calls someone gay, and asks if he and some other guy are dating (cant recall exact lines), and the character says "no, they dated last year," implying that the two male characters were bisexual, and the "oldies" Tatum and Hill were out of touch.

There was a good deal of that, and I see the same beliefs ("you think being gay is bad? You're weird") in my kids' schools. Being homophobic or racist around here makes you stand out like a purple llama wearing a sombrero, kids think you're weird.

You get made fun of for being LGBT-phobic in their schools.

The movie captured that.
 
Lsherm [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 10:13:36 AM  
I watched it. It wasn't particularly funny, but it wasn't awful. It's a good background movie to watch while you're doing something else. It's a 3/10 at best.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 10:17:50 AM  

HeFixesTheCable: The first Jump Street made me laugh out loud, which is rare. I also liked the social "pushback" on how things have changed since I was in HS, e.g. the bit where Tatum or Hill calls someone gay, and asks if he and some other guy are dating (cant recall exact lines), and the character says "no, they dated last year," implying that the two male characters were bisexual, and the "oldies" Tatum and Hill were out of touch.

There was a good deal of that, and I see the same beliefs ("you think being gay is bad? You're weird") in my kids' schools. Being homophobic or racist around here makes you stand out like a purple llama wearing a sombrero, kids think you're weird.

You get made fun of for being LGBT-phobic in their schools.

The movie captured that.


Yeah 21 Jump in particular is pretty slick with the social commentary in what is a dumb comedy at it's most basic. I also could watch Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill do buddy comedies in pretty much anything, they play off of each other very well.
 
DecemberNitro
2023-02-02 10:18:39 AM  
With those awful tats and that ratty long dyed blonde hair Jonah Hill looks like an out of work wrestler.
 
Slypork
2023-02-02 10:20:46 AM  
So it was an opposite of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Actors of limited talent in a forced script with no hope of any kinds of awards?
 
You Are All Sheep
2023-02-02 10:22:09 AM  
I kind of like jonah hill.  I hated him initially thinking he had to be someones kid to get work in hollywood but he was pretty good in money ball and then he was great in Maniac and was pretty fun in don't look up.  he's good at playing the character as written.
 
mrmaster
2023-02-02 10:26:48 AM  
My wife and I loved it and this post counts for 10 of the haters that just wasted their time telling Fark how much they hated it even if they never saw it.
 
Uncle Pooky
2023-02-02 10:43:27 AM  
I'm just glad that people on the internet have been given another reason to tell other people on the internet how they felt about a movie.
 
Marcos P
2023-02-02 10:48:34 AM  

Tr0mBoNe: Woof of Wall Street


Ah yes Air Bud 5, "The Woof of Wallstreet" my favorite entry
 
deadsanta
2023-02-02 10:51:36 AM  

NOLAhd: finnished: I saw the movie and all I could think of is how all the cast seemed to have gotten so old all of a sudden.

Counterpoint. Eddie Murphy is 61.


Black don't crack.

/I've been told
 
Glenford
2023-02-02 10:51:36 AM  
shrug.

Not going to win any awards but I enjoyed it. I do think it was a missed opportunity with the barber scene. Every other character should have been Eddie Murphy and/or Arsenio Hall.
 
sniderman
2023-02-02 10:52:33 AM  

McGrits: This can't be as bad as the Allen Gregory cartoon. (I had to look up the name since all I remembered about it was ow awful it was)


Holy fark. I had purged that piece of shiat from my mind until you mentioned it. What an awful, unfunny, piece of drek that was. God, I saw one episode and was raging for a week.
 
Shakes999
2023-02-02 11:03:59 AM  

You Are All Sheep: I kind of like jonah hill.  I hated him initially thinking he had to be someones kid to get work in hollywood but he was pretty good in money ball and then he was great in Maniac and was pretty fun in don't look up.  he's good at playing the character as written.


I still haven't seen Moneyball and probably won't but he's a powerhouse in Maniac (Everyone in it killed). Probably the best thing he's done acting wise. Such a weird fun show.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 11:09:20 AM  

Shakes999: You Are All Sheep: I kind of like jonah hill.  I hated him initially thinking he had to be someones kid to get work in hollywood but he was pretty good in money ball and then he was great in Maniac and was pretty fun in don't look up.  he's good at playing the character as written.

I still haven't seen Moneyball and probably won't but he's a powerhouse in Maniac (Everyone in it killed). Probably the best thing he's done acting wise. Such a weird fun show.


Moneyball is excellent, Brad Pitt is really good in it as well, and it doesn't really require a lot of baseball knowledge. Just a well paced, well written movie.
 
muphasta
2023-02-02 11:13:34 AM  
It was a great movie if you like cringe. I have a 15 year old son who says "cringe" about 50 times a day so it may be played out by now, but I did not enjoy it at all.

I found the opening credits to be annoying; black background with flashing white letters was uncomfortable to watch, just like the movie. I guess they were perfect.
 
AtomPeepers
2023-02-02 11:16:46 AM  

CarnySaur: moothemagiccow: It's a comedy. The measure isn't whether it's derivative or trite. The measure is whether it made me laugh. And it did. A lot. It's very much a Jonah Hill movie, a throwback to mid-2000s McKay/Apatow comedies. To me, that doesn't make it derivative, it makes it good. Should've come out in theaters.

I really liked the supporting performances.  Eddie Murphy was playing it relatively straight but still managed to be funny, and David Duchovny's Xzibit obsession was an amusing running joke.  The only thing I found unbelievable was that Jonah Hill's character was 35 when he looked like a 50-year-old alcoholic.


I kept thinking, how in the hell did Jonah Hill suddenly become older than Zach Galifianakis?

This was a decent comedy, that was at least trying to tell a positive story.
 
some_beer_drinker
2023-02-02 11:18:07 AM  
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moothemagiccow
2023-02-02 11:47:23 AM  

CarnySaur: moothemagiccow: It's a comedy. The measure isn't whether it's derivative or trite. The measure is whether it made me laugh. And it did. A lot. It's very much a Jonah Hill movie, a throwback to mid-2000s McKay/Apatow comedies. To me, that doesn't make it derivative, it makes it good. Should've come out in theaters.

I really liked the supporting performances.  Eddie Murphy was playing it relatively straight but still managed to be funny, and David Duchovny's Xzibit obsession was an amusing running joke.  The only thing I found unbelievable was that Jonah Hill's character was 35 when he looked like a 50-year-old alcoholic.


Deon Cole stole the show as the subtly insane wedding planner
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2023-02-02 12:11:39 PM  

NOLAhd: finnished: I saw the movie and all I could think of is how all the cast seemed to have gotten so old all of a sudden.

Counterpoint. Eddie Murphy is 61.

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He only looks like that when he's in Brooklyn
 
Cortez the Killer
2023-02-02 12:19:37 PM  

tricycleracer: "So a black Muslim family and a Jewish family try to out-victim each other for 90 minutes?"

"Pretty much."

"You son of a biatch, I'm in."


Fixed.
 
AteMyBrain
2023-02-02 12:21:50 PM  
Yeah, it's hilarious to hear Eddir Washed Up Murphy saying racist things for a cheap laugh. Tell us more about how White people sound when they talk, Eddie. HAHAHA!!
 
catfish79
2023-02-02 12:33:40 PM  

moothemagiccow: It's a comedy. The measure isn't whether it's derivative or trite. The measure is whether it made me laugh. And it did. A lot. It's very much a Jonah Hill movie, a throwback to mid-2000s McKay/Apatow comedies. To me, that doesn't make it derivative, it makes it good. Should've come out in theaters.


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
 
catfish79
2023-02-02 12:37:30 PM  

AteMyBrain: Yeah, it's hilarious to hear Eddir Washed Up Murphy saying racist things for a cheap laugh. Tell us more about how White people sound when they talk, Eddie. HAHAHA!!


agreed, just an awful movie
 
stoli n coke
2023-02-02 1:24:27 PM  

Slypork: So it was an opposite of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Actors of limited talent in a forced script with no hope of any kinds of awards?


Awwww. You so edgy.
 
Zombie DJ
2023-02-02 1:24:37 PM  
Thank you!
I watched it because I thought "What a great cast."
After 20 minutes I just thought to myself, "Am I even enjoying this?"
I just switched it off and cleaned the house, which I enjoyed more.
 
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