Jan 30 2009 'I Love You, Man' Recruitment Poster
First I thought I liked the stylish minimalism of this poster, but now I'm starting to think I just like the familiarity of Jason Segel having my 7th grade haircut. I wonder if his character is also really into Warcraft 2.
I Love You, Man Poster [IMPA]
Jan 19 2009 'I Love You, Man' RED-BAND-DIRTYTIME Trailer
Speaking of J.K. Simmons in things: here's the new trailer for I Love You, Man, this time R-rated--meaning more references to putting mouths in swimsuit sections!
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Dec 17 2008 Nice Try, 'I Love You, Man' Trailer
Be careful watching this trailer: it's deceptive. You see Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Thomas Lennon, and J.K. Simmons reprising his Juno role of "Dad", and you naturally start to believe this should at least be reasonably funny. But once you look back and think about it again, it's just another broad, high concept comedy that's only tolerable because it's somehow not starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the budding friendship. I feel like I'm a dog and this movie is a pill wrapped in cheese the producers are trying to coax down my throat. Luckily I caught that hint of medicine just before I was going to swallow, so they'll be finding this buried in a couch cushion in a few months.
Nov 4 2008 'Monsters vs. Aliens' Trailer: Classic Match-Up
Monsters versus aliens: classic match-up. Brute size and strength versus advanced technology. Unless we're talking about Aliens aliens, then it's brute size and strength versus acid blood and a smaller mouth inside the normal mouth. And sometimes are greatest "monsters" are in fact man (HITLER!). Still though, classic match-up, and it's just the battle you'll find inside DreamWorks' aptly-titled CGI comedy, Monsters vs. Aliens. Here is the trailer:
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Sep 17 2008 'Role Models' Has a Drinking/Urination-Based Poster
An apparent homeless alcoholic is wearing dress pants!? I've got to see how that incongruity could occur! Plus, as a cool, youthful dude, I'm always saying how things are the "worst ____ ever," or that something is an "epic fail," so this poster really speaks to me on multiple levels.
Role Models Poster [Coming Soon]
Sep 16 2008 Red-Band 'Role Models' Trailer Pours Sugar on My D
Here's the red-band, cuss-filled trailer to Role Models, the comedy written, directed, and starring various The State people you're probably better off liking. It earns bonus points for including a child drawing a crude portrayal of Beyonce pouring sugar on his dick, but loses many more for being so overtly uplifting and setting much of the action to the tune of a Matchbox Twenty song. Who knew those guys were still making their idea of music? Regardless, in the end, this still seems alright, but just barely. You won me over again, Paul Rudd.
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Sep 9 2008 Here's Who Will Be 'Howl'-ing
I don't know how anyone would ever top David Cross's portrayal of Allen Ginsberg in I'm Not There--at least in terms of looking exactly like him--but James Franco will soon try his hand at playing a bad-boy heartthrob Ginsberg in Howl, and now five more have joined the cast:
David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and Paul Rudd are attached to join James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in the beatnik biopic "Howl."Telling Pictures documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will make their narrative writing, producing and directing debut with the 1950s-era tale, focusing on the obscenity trial launched to censor Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length poem. The pair were approached by the Allen Ginsberg Trust to make a film commemorating the 50th anniversary of "Howl."
Among the real-life characters featured in the film are prosecuting attorney Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn), Judge Clayton Horn (Alda), prosecution witness Professor David Kirk (Daniels), radio personality and prosecution witness Gail Potter (Parker) and literary critic and defense witness Luther Nichols (Rudd).
I don't know whether this movie will be any good or not, but can we acknowledge that Jeff Daniels and Dave Coulier are now officially the same person? They are.
Aug 6 2008 Help Me Decide if This 'Role Models' Trailer is Good or Not
OK, a high concept comedy where a couple semi-detestable guys reform themselves when they're forced to volunteer at a Big Brothers program should be awful, right? That's what I thought too, but here's the rub: it's written by, directed by, and starring various The State/Wet Hot American Summer guys, so it should be pretty decent, right? But it also stars Stiffler, who I'm at best ambivalent towards, and has a joke about how crazy the cup size names are at Starbucks. But then again, the Reindeer Games joke is pretty good, as is Paul Rudd. But man, this overly-precocious kid is going to get old real quick (both in the movie and real life, when he'll probably turn to drugs). So I don't know what to think. Anyone?
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Feb 5 2008 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Dirty Stuff Trailer
I'm not a Judd-Apatow-as-Possible-Comedy-God believer, but as I've said before, Forgetting Sarah Marshall looks really good, and this R-rated trailer makes it look even better in that special way only athletic intercourse and ass-shots can.
Watch it here, but only away from bosses and the elderly.
Dec 21 2007 'Over Her Dead Body' Poster Seamlessly Blends 'Desperate Housewives' Promo with Serta Ad
Just because your ex-fiance has passed on, doesn't mean her upright head won't be pasted on the body of a mattress model to hover over you for eternity.
Extra points for daringly making the hand come in contact with the disembodied hair (just blur the knuckle, it'll be fine) and for giving Lake Bell what I assume are tarot cards. Even if I hadn't learned she's a psychic from the trailer, I'd definitely have gotten it now that I saw those nondescript slips of paper.
The Over Her Dead Body Poster [Coming Soon]
Dec 18 2007 'Walk Hard' Viral 'Backlash' Video Creates Laughter
Between all the amusing videos about cats doing human things you'll probably watch today, I strongly recommend squeezing in this promo for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. I doubt you'll find a funnier combination of Paul Rudd, Judd Apatow, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, anti-semitism, self-aware viral marking, Garage Rock Band, and obnoxious techno action music this calendar year. Merry Christmas, guy who made the terrible theme to Mortal Kombat; your long-awaited royalty check is on its way.
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Dec 12 2007 See The Beatles in 'Walk Hard'
Regardless of how funny Walk Hard ends up being, this scene with The Beatles, as played by Jack Black, Jason Schwartzman, Justin Long, and Paul Rudd, should go down with I'm Not There as one of worst yet funniest group impressions in history.
Dec 10 2007 'Over Her Dead Body' Trailer Gives Ghost Desperate Housewives Bad Rap
OK, I get that Eva Longoria is the vengeful ghost of an ex-fiance, desperately trying to stop psychic Lake Bell from getting with Paul Rudd. And I get that Ghost meets slapstick romantic-comedy might have been, in theory, a moderately entertaining concept. And I've learned that the only way a woman can be the protagonist in a romantic-comedy is if she shows a complete lack of motor skills, thereby making her charmingly clumsy. But none of this answers why are all of the gags are seemingly pulled from Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
Between Jason Biggs catching his arm on fire and dipping it in boiling water, Eva Longoria falling out of a window, and Lake Bell getting scorched by an enormous fireball, leaving only a comedic black soot on her face, (did the budget not allow for her becoming a pair of blinking eyeballs on a pile of charred ashes?) it's a wonder there aren't any anvils or sticks of dynamite.
At least it's nice to see Paul Rudd in a leading role, however inane it may be.
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