Role Models

Good times. Very funny. So, I'd say there were two Hollywood comedies this year, Role Models and Tropic Thunder, both of which were vastly better (and more enjoyable) films than Slumdog Millionaire, the crown jewel of crap.

lol

Is this out on DVD? I kinda wanted to see it.

I didn't think Tropic Thunder was that funny, though. There was like 15 minutes of combined "omg hilarious" and the rest was blank stare "meh".

I actually thought this was considerably funnier than the entire movie:

I just watched Tropic Thunder and thought it had an interesting storyline and was fairly consistently funny throughout the movie

  Capsaicin said:

I just watched Tropic Thunder and thought it had an interesting storyline and was fairly consistently funny throughout the movie

Yeh, I definitely wanted to keep watching it to see where it was going, but it probably won't be something I'll return to a dozen times like Zoolander (Stiller's best, imo).

Role Models? Come on, that one was really really bad.

  autopilot said:

  Capsaicin said:

I just watched Tropic Thunder and thought it had an interesting storyline and was fairly consistently funny throughout the movie

 

Yeh, I definitely wanted to keep watching it to see where it was going, but it probably won't be something I'll return to a dozen times like Zoolander (Stiller's best, imo).

I'll have to see zoolander now, as I agree that Tropic Thunder (what I saw of it, switched it off around 2/3 of the way through) was pretty bland.

i hate stiller. and adam sandler. both are kind of the same league of assholes.

yeah, tropic thunder definitely wasn't anything great to me, a few reasonably funny moments and steve coogan was good. i actually found watching the making-of mock-documentary thing hungover one afternoon was funnier than watching the real film stoned. not a good sign.

also the older i get the more i just find ben stiller really fucking annoying. so uh yeah, might give this one a miss

  Godwin Austen said:

i hate stiller. and adam sandler. both are kind of the same league of assholes.

and by assholes you mean jews.

stiller will always get a pass from me for being in "Flirting with Disaster", though I agree he's pretty much the definition of "not funny" now. I suffered through part of Night at the Museum on an in-flight movie...

  lumpenprol said:

  Godwin Austen said:

i hate stiller. and adam sandler. both are kind of the same league of assholes.

 

and by assholes you mean jews.

 

stiller will always get a pass from me for being in "Flirting with Disaster", though I agree he's pretty much the definition of "not funny" now. I suffered through part of Night at the Museum on an in-flight movie...

they are jews? i don't mind jews. much.

actually it's their weird persona. don't know, something about their presence and expression that makes me nervous. they're like those pretentious wannabe-charismatic characters, who want to be sincere and funny and dumb and likewise... that just annoys me when i see them on screen. probably just my own caprice that renders all their movies unwatchable.

not a movie i would recommend, just a comedy that was okay to pass the time. i really like the red haired guy, although he probably just plays the same character in everything he's in. his roles are always small so he hasn't worn on me yet. i remember him from that news team show with zach galifikaifkaifkaalokjnuss and that guy from upright citizens brigrade, on comedy central

imdb says A.D. Miles is his name

didnt catch this one but recently saw 'i love you man' which was pretty funny.

gonna see adventureland tonight i think

tropic thunder i kinda watch as if it were a serious film . . . ya kind of have to when a film isn't really funny

Also, I think it's a bit unneccessary to imply there's something inherently wrong with "Hollywood" comedies. Some of the funniest films I've seen are huge mainstream hits. Stuff like Zoolander, Old School, or Anchorman will have the lot of us in tears after a few beers, while indie comedies like Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers films, while exceptionally good films, are more a subtle, contemplative funny, not laugh-out-loud Lizzing funny. The former is usually something we prefer when we pop a comedy into the DVD player.

  autopilot said:

Also, I think it's a bit unneccessary to imply there's something inherently wrong with "Hollywood" comedies. Some of the funniest films I've seen are huge mainstream hits. Stuff like Zoolander, Old School, or Anchorman will have the lot of us in tears after a few beers, while indie comedies like Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers films, while exceptionally good films, are more a subtle, contemplative funny, not laugh-out-loud Lizzing funny. The former is usually something we prefer when we pop a comedy into the DVD player.

agreed. dodgeball is a classic example... even starksy and hutch had its moments. i know a shitload of film snobs who wouldnt give it the time of day (one guy i knew refused to watch any film not french and black-and-white, wtf?) but there's no point being snobbish; if something makes you laugh its all good, right?