'Serenity'
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See I feel like I'm the only one who thinks Shaun of the Dead is funnier. I just thought the humor in Hot Fuzz was too predictable. Not the least because I watched the trailer umpteen times.
When it comes to 40-Year-Old Virgin I agree with Roger Ebert. (And I'm paraphrasing.) The movie had heart. It's not just that the protagonist rides a bike to work every day. It's that he signals all his turns.
The book The Prestige was pretty much the same as far as "Get on with it already, we know how the trick is done!" FWIW.
Knocked Up has a horrible title, and the ads made me cringe and vow to stay away. Of course I haven't seen 40-year-old-virgin, so there's no built-in cred.
40-Year-Old Virgin has a horrible title too and I might not have gone to see it if Mom hadn't raved about it. The best part of her review (she saw it very close to her retirement community) was, "we lost half the audience in the first five minutes." My brother points out that it wouldn't be a horse it would be a donkey but he refuses to elaborate on how he knows this.
Apatow had a lot of cred with me for F&G and Undeclared even before 40YOV came out, and every interview I've read has made him seem like a really terrific person, and yet I still have major reservations about Knocked Up. I still want to see it (at this point, almost definitely on DVD), but there's just so much about the premise that bugs me.
Something about Seth Rogen makes me want to get in a cuddle fight with him. Even in 40-y-o V I found him the most appealing of all those guys.
Rogen reminds me forcibly of my DH. Cuddly, smart-assed Jewish dude with a deeply sweet and generous soul. I pointed out the resemblance to him during F&G days and it still tickles me. DH is 45 and not 25, of course, but Rogen could be him when he grows up.
What bugs you about the premise, Jess?
What bugs you about the premise, Jess?
Plausibility, mostly. I've had the whole setup explained to me in detail, and I just don't like it. I have great faith in Apatow's ability to write characters that will convince me of almost anything, but this is one I really have to see for myself before I'll buy into it.
There were just two (really vital) moments at the start that I had to suspend disbelief on, and then the rest followed. The moments: 1) that she didn't know he didn't have a condom on, and 2) that she ever got in touch with him in the first place.
The first of your objections would have pinged me except that a dopey friend of a friend had the same thing happen for the same reason--too much to drink.
I guess so. But not even after??