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.
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
'War Stories'
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Laga - Jun 02, 2007 7:00:26 am PDT #8916 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Jessica - Jun 02, 2007 7:43:10 am PDT #8917 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Laga - Jun 02, 2007 8:06:29 am PDT #8918 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Scrappy - Jun 02, 2007 8:16:34 am PDT #8919 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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?
Jessica - Jun 02, 2007 8:42:54 am PDT #8920 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2007 2:02:04 pm PDT #8921 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Scrappy - Jun 02, 2007 2:09:32 pm PDT #8922 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2007 2:11:15 pm PDT #8923 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess so. But not even after??
Scrappy - Jun 02, 2007 2:15:25 pm PDT #8924 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
She figured it out the next morning. When she woke up--on the beach where they had done the deed, in full view of the hotel the wedding she was attending was at. Did I mention that this woman was 36 at the time and besides being a PhD, is kind of a dope?
Zenkitty - Jun 02, 2007 2:15:43 pm PDT #8925 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
After = passed out?
signed, Had a Wild Youth