26 posts tagged “comedy”
Not as funny as the first one, but still funny. But that's because I like Taj and Kumar.
I was also waiting for Ryan Reynolds to make an appearance, and was disappointed that he didn't :(
So I know the basic story – guy in his 7th year of college – but I've never actually seen the movie till now and I thought it was funny. Even more so after seeing the article and website about the real life Van Wilder. That was a while ago though, forget his name and school. I wonder if he's graduated since?
Cute date movie. I probably wouldn't like it otherwise, but cute date movie.
I thought the first 20 or so minutes was exactly what should have happened – never trust anyone in prison. And I thought that's all that should have happened but that wouldn't have been a good movie, so I guess I liked the rest of it too.
I didn't think it was as funny as everyone said, but it was funny. And I can definitely see why people are trying to sue; it's amazing the stupid things people will say even though they know they're being recorded, just because they think that no one they know will see. Especially those college kids (the frat boys?). No way that guy will get a girl anytime soon. I'm sure everyone at their school outed them too.
After the movie, we looked up what was real and what was staged. Interesting stuff. Made it even funnier.
Totally cute. Not as cute as Finding Nemo, but still cute. And full of little jokes like the orange fish that asked "have you seen my dad?" Flushed Away was a lot better than I would have guessed from the trailer.
The slugs were ugly little things but you can't help but love them when they're singing!
Warning: This post contains spoilers for School for Scoundrels. Skip if spoilers bother you.
This was great. I *knew* the scene at the airport was Lies, Lies, and More Lies. Otherwise it would be the same movie as Anger Management. If getting to the airport was a test, and "graduation" of the class, why would the guy have been gathering information on him for the past 9 years, and how did he know that the girl was dumped 3 months later? That, and it would have been too cheesy of an ending.
I liked the "where they are now" captions at the end, and that the classmate who's goal was to move out of his parents' basement did – into his grandparents'. Totally true, totally believable.
So awesome.
I was really sucked into the story of this, and loved that the movie was the rewrite of the story.
We saw previews for this long before it came out, and knew then that it'd be funny. Especially since Dane Cook and Dax Shepard were starring. But so was Jessica Simpson, which we were a bit concerned about.
She played her character pretty well though. And the ears were great, though I didn't like how the previews made it seem as if the use of the words "big", "bionic" and "fake" were referring to her boobs.
I liked Dane Cook's character, Zack, and was really hoping that he would realize what a dumb bimbo Jessica Simpson('s character) was, and that he didn't really want to be with her.
(As usual), I've been doing a crappy job at keeping track of the movies I've been watching. Which is what I'm supposed to be using my Vox for. But anyway, here's what I remember from recently (last month – current).
The ones I really recommend seeing are The Illusionist, Little Miss Sunshine, and Pursuit of Happyness.
We watched this on the 11th (or 12th?) of last month. I knew Flint, MI and the whole General Motors thing was bad, but wow. Also didn't know this is where Michael Moore got his start.
Mary Poppins.
Can you believe I've never seen this before? It was on TV twice, on one of the Disney channels around Christmas, but I missed the ending both times. I liked the guy who can't stay on the ground because everything is so funny.
Little Miss Sunshine.
We watched this shortly after Christmas, and it was as great as everyone said it would be. I knew something off was going to happen when it was Olive's turn in the talent portion of the pageant, but wow, totally not what I expected.
The Last Kiss.
We watched this either right before we left for Christmas, or when we got back? I forget the movie was so different from the previews. The story wasn't centered around Zach Braff's character; they were just trying to advertise it that way. I'll have to rewatch this again, maybe I'll like it better the second time.
The Naked Mile.
They need to stop with the American Pie Stifler sequels. It's almost as bad as the Girls Gone Wild commercials. Not to mention completely predictable. Yet, I still watched it. (last weekend of December I think?)
Pursuit of Happyness.
(watched Wednesday night.) Great movie, very touching. Every time something good happened to him, I kept thinking it'd go wrong again right after. The poor guy has such bad luck. I wonder how much of it was true, and what was exaggerated for the movie. The only thing that bothered me were the BART scenes – no BART station or train is that clean, especially the bathrooms. That also goes for the bus terminal benches.
Idiocracy.
(watched Wednesday night.) They made a movie on what I think will happen – stupid people will outbreed smart people and take over the world. The movie is kind of dumb, but it has to be. It was kinda funny too though.
R.V.
(watched on Thursday.) Eh. It was what I expected out of the movie.
The Illusionist.
A long time ago (like in August), we saw previews for this and the other magician movie (The Prestige?). I thought it was odd that they were both out at the same time. The other was more hyped up, but this was really good. We watched it last night and it kept me on the edge of my seat. I thought the magic show parts were great; I'd love to see acts like those in person. The magician ("illusionist") didn't just do tricks, he told stories too. But the biggest story was the story told in the movie, of him and his love. The whole thing was done really well. We guessed most of what really happened, but there were parts where we doubted ourselves too. (And Vienna looked so lovely; it's on my list of places I must see.) I'm disappointed that there were no deleted scenes in the DVD extras though. I want a necklace like the one Edward made Sophie. I wonder if they're selling replicas of it somewhere, or if those sketched plans were real and one could be made out of it.
