Okay, Now I’m Sold

It was the Dean Jones “Disney-ass name” line that did it. Warner Bros. has been screening it here and there but I won’t see it until 7.5 because I’m special. (It opens three days later and can’t be reviewed until 7.6) Directed by Seth Gordon, written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein with a story by Michael Markowitz, etc.

31 thoughts on “Okay, Now I’m Sold

  1. “The King of Kong” was brilliant. So was aleady pulling for Seth Gordon to score again. And you’re right, the trailer is terrific.

  2. I have to say, I get an erection every time I see Aniston. She’s a living goddess. I interviewed several times on junkets – still do – imagine I will again for this one, and can barely get through the sessions. She si the one and only person I go all LexG for.

  3. There is a little cognitive dissonance going on there. Tell me again why that guy has a problem with Jennifer Aniston raping him. It’s not like she put a dildo up his ass.

  4. drbob: Yeah, but I think the entire film requires a massive suspension of disbelief. Anyone in real life would just quit. I think it’s just going to be something you have to accept early on and then go with it.

  5. Weird shot at 1:53. Is Colin’s bald head supposed to be fake? Is he “breaking” as if it’s a live comedy skit?

  6. Looks alright, but I’m gonna get all LexG with my theatregoing quirks here – I can’t stand seeing stuff like this at the movies, because I’m not really a LAUGH OUT LOUD kind of guy, at most I’ll titter or smile heartily, but anytime I see a comedy, everyone surrounding me is usually laughing like hyenas at every joke (and there’s always one guy, who will inevitably sit within three feet of me who laughs at Every Single Thing in the movie, even stuff that isn’t funny), and just the fact that I’m not laughing as loudly as everyone else will, in my mind, make me think I’m not really enjoying it, even though I am. I dunno, depending on how hot it gets and how desperate I am for two hours of air conditioning…

  7. OK and how does Ioan Gruffudd go from starring in a Fantastic Four summer blockbuster a couple of years ago to…this? Is he looking at Chris Evans’ trajectory and thinking WTF?

  8. You see, I don’t want to be known as a “documentary” filmmaker. What I really want to do is direct big-budget Hollywood shitcoms.

    Way to cast Kevin Spacey against type. That schtick wore out it’s welcome around The Big Kahuna, I think. Or maybe it was Hurlyburly.

    Agree with Dr Bob. The could be no logical reason why the midget would turn down sex with a woman who looked like Aniston. Unless the character is gay. And even then I wouldn’t believe it. Because even gay men know a good thing when they see it, cf. Autumn Briggs.

    20 years ago a steaming pile like this would have been greeted with all of the enthusiasm of a Moving Violations, but some people seem genuinely excited about this movie. Because they’re tired of watching Satantango all the time.

  9. Has nobody ever heard of having a fucking girlfriend/fiancee that you’re in love with? For a guy that is devoted to a woman, having another woman sexually assault him and try to destroy his relationship would be a VERY BAD THING, no matter how hot the sexual aggressor was. Is…is LexG rubbing off on you guys?

  10. HEY, what the fuck?!?!?

    Don’t hate on Moving Violations.

    I *still* get mileage out of that Fred Willard “lube job” routine.

  11. Midgets don’t have morals, Mechanical Shark. They’ll fuck anything that moves, given the opportunity. And midgets with paycheck beards who slickstyle their hair into a Jamie Walters? You have no idea. They’ll fuck a vending machine as long as it’s wearing heels. This is common knowledge.

  12. You are going to be Sourcecoded into the body of a Celebrity Brother. Your choices are:

    1) Don Swayze

    2) Michael Bacon

    3) John Murray

    4) Kevin Farley

    5) Ramon Estevez

  13. “Has nobody ever heard of having a fucking girlfriend/fiancee that you’re in love with?”

    I think it’s more that single, attractive, 40ish sexual female predators are the most frightening fragment of people on the planet. There’s a reason that the best horror movie ever is Fatal Attraction.

    Seriously, it is not like CougarTown at all. That show is bullshit. If you all love Aniston so much, go to the nearest high-end hotel bar at 7 this Friday, and within 15 minutes, she will approach you, and within 1 minute every subconscious fiber will scream out for you to immediately get the hell away from her.

  14. It is completely believable that a guy like Charlie Day would not cheat on his fiance to have a short term affair with a crazy older women, even if she looks like Jennifer Aniston. She is really attractive but she comes off like she’s batshit in the trailer. Now if it was a younger girl who looked like Natalie Portman and he could see a future with her, then he would probably cheat.

    A lot of dorkier guys tend to be ridiculously loyal to their spouses because with no game they go through massive sex droughts. So when they find a someone cool and cute who gets them, they lock it down.

  15. Looks real dumb

    Only part I laughed at was when they all tried to pull their cars out in parking lot and got all mixed up.

  16. It should be mentioned that co-writer John Francis Daley is yet another Apatow alumni, he was the main character on Freaks and Geeks.

    The empire grows…

    Major props to Farrell here for pulling a “Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder”-type thing.

  17. I must say that the urine situation seems really shoehorned into this movie if judged by the trailer. However, Aniston looks HOT here, and the other trailer had that terrific Bateman joke about his Prius. It’ll be a hit.

  18. The general trailer had me wary of this film. Looked alright, might have some good laughs, but now I’m definitely seeing it. The “wet work” bit is comedy gold – if this was in a Monty Python skit 30 years ago, you’d all be laughing your asses off. Stop hating.

  19. If Jason Bateman has a family, he must not be able to STAND hanging out with them for more than five minutes. At what point can we safely transfer all those stale “Nic Cage works too much” jokes over to “27 movies a year” Bateman?

  20. What the fuck does the Freaks and Geeks kid know about having a “horrible boss” or Mike Judge-style office satire? This kid’s like 19 and he’s been acting since he was in diapers and never worked a day in his life; It’d be like Kirsten Dunst writing a tone poem about the rights of female factory workers.

    But, Christ, being tangentially associated with Judd Apatow is officially the best work in Hollywood if you can get it. Having been on Freaks and Geeks is apparently like having been in one of the SAW movies…. eventually they’ll work their way down to putting you in charge, even if you were just an under-5.

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