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Bosibus
08-02-2007, 04:32 PM
Being that Superbad has been getting some love on the board....I decided to make a thread.
With the R-Rated trailer, hilarious!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aonSHi327wI&NR=1
And the real trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP74GjzgfdM
Mackus
08-02-2007, 04:46 PM
Holy crap that movie looks amazing. The R-rated trailer was hysterical!
frankpembleton
08-02-2007, 06:32 PM
Might as well put the Michael Cera video in this thread as well for maximum exposure....
It's well worth a second viewing. Absolutely hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAV0sxwx9rY
rolliefingers
08-02-2007, 06:52 PM
Being that Superbad has been getting some love on the board....I decided to make a thread.
With the R-Rated trailer, hilarious!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aonSHi327wI&NR=1
And the real trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP74GjzgfdM
It's like having two c***s. If one of your c***s could kill people.
gallden
08-02-2007, 09:51 PM
Looks pretty raunchy.
DuffMan
08-04-2007, 11:47 AM
I saw the theatrical trailer and i thought it looked funny, the R rated trailer made it look even better and is what I was thinking it's going to be like. This movie definitely looks good.
terps/wiz/o's/
08-09-2007, 11:47 PM
I just saw an advanced viewing, amazingly funny. One part had me crying, no lie. You'll know what I'm talking about hen you see it.
Danielos38
08-10-2007, 01:19 PM
I just saw an advanced viewing, amazingly funny. One part had me crying, no lie. You'll know what I'm talking about hen you see it.
Awesome! I've been excite to see this since the first preview. I'm glad that it is living up to its hype.
NewMarketSean
08-10-2007, 01:21 PM
Yeah, I'm going to have to see this. The R-rated trailer looks funny. Glad they started doing those.
DuffMan
08-16-2007, 08:45 AM
It's coming out tommorow, I think I'll see this one opening weekend!
CrimsonTribe
08-18-2007, 09:54 AM
Saw it last night with my 16-year-old step brother who said it was the greatest movie he's ever seen. That said, I really enjoyed it too. It didn't have one of those crazy hilarious moments, but it was solid all the way through. The thing I love about the Apatow/Rogen gang is that their comedy is plausible and a most of it is in the details. It's the funny comments and looks where you really get the good laughs rather than on some absurd dream sequence where the main character is riding a unicorn through some cartoon rainbow world. Not that I don't like Anchorman, but you know what I'm saying. Anyway, it was right up there with Knocked Up for me, which is saying a lot. I'll buy it when it comes out on DVD.
square634
08-18-2007, 10:57 AM
Awesome movie. I don't think it was as good as Knocked Up, but I liked it better anyway because it was targeted more toward my age group.
ledzepp8
08-18-2007, 11:54 AM
I saw it last night and it doesn't disappoint. Hilarious movie.
Lucky Jim
08-18-2007, 03:20 PM
I saw it last night and it doesn't disappoint. Hilarious movie.
Hitting the 5:15 showing here in Chi-town.
frankpembleton
08-18-2007, 04:50 PM
Freaking awesome. Apatow does it again....
Michael Cera is amazing as expected. Go see this movie.
Spectacular! I like this more than Knocked Up, and it's not even close imo.
EddieO's21
08-18-2007, 10:58 PM
this movie was hilarious...i couldn't stop laughing...best of the year
NewMarketSean
08-20-2007, 09:41 AM
Saw it today. Very funny. Not overly funny like 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up, but it was very funny. I found Seth's pent-up frustrated anger to be tiresome, but Evan and McLovin were the highlights.
Lots of subtle funny lines, too many to remember.
rolliefingers
08-20-2007, 10:00 AM
Saw it today. Very funny. Not overly funny like 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up, but it was very funny. I found Seth's pent-up frustrated anger to be tiresome, but Evan and McLovin were the highlights.
Lots of subtle funny lines, too many to remember.
How can something be "overly funny"?
"Y'know, this movie was really funny, but I think I laughed a little too much. Gotta save some for other movies!":D
ChrisAF79
08-20-2007, 10:26 AM
I liked it, but didn't love it. Maybe I had set my expectations too high, but it just didn't click with me on every level. Seth in particular I found to be annoying and tiresome. I enjoyed both 40 Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up more than this.
However, it's definitely still worth checking out. I just expected more.
I thought it was hilarious. I'd put it a notch below Knock Up, but still very funny. Michael Cera is hilarious.
"Thats really messed up.... super-gay."
Does anyone actually think Knocked Up was more funny than Superbad, or just a better movie? I can see the latter, but not the former.
ledzepp8
08-20-2007, 09:02 PM
Does anyone actually think Knocked Up was more funny than Superbad, or just a better movie? I can see the latter, but not the former.
Naw Superbad was way funnier than Knocked Up...and that's saying something because Knocked Up was hilarious.
Lucky Jim
08-20-2007, 09:29 PM
How can something be "overly funny"?
"Y'know, this movie was really funny, but I think I laughed a little too much. Gotta save some for other movies!":D
Like saving runs for the next game when you're in a blowout. My father used to say that all of the time...
"Grrrrr. Wish they'd save some of these runs for tomorrow...grrr."
ChrisAF79
08-21-2007, 08:44 AM
Does anyone actually think Knocked Up was more funny than Superbad, or just a better movie? I can see the latter, but not the former.
I don't know, it's difficult for me to compare the two. I definitely think Knocked Up was a better movie, whether that means "funnier" though I'm not sure.
NewMarketSean
08-21-2007, 09:11 AM
It goes like this (out of ****)...
40 Year Old Virgin ****
Knocked Up ***1/2
Superbad ***
DuffMan
08-21-2007, 12:12 PM
I thought this movie was hysterical!!! What made it even funnier for me is the fact that McLovin looks and acts like one of my old roomates from college!!
Does anyone actually think Knocked Up was more funny than Superbad, or just a better movie? I can see the latter, but not the former.
Thats probably a good way to put it. They're both hilariously good movies nonetheless.
Mackus
08-26-2007, 05:19 PM
Just saw this, thought it was awesome. I went in with really high expectations and it definitely came through.
Not sure if I like this or Knocked Up more, both were terrific.
Pedro Cerrano
08-26-2007, 05:49 PM
Gonna see this tonight. Have heard mixed reviews.
bryanman8
08-26-2007, 06:04 PM
Gonna see this tonight. Have heard mixed reviews.
Mixed reviews? You actually heard one person say they didn't think it was absoultely hilarious? Wow. Your sources lack laugh-buds.
Pedro Cerrano
08-26-2007, 06:09 PM
Mixed reviews? You actually heard one person say they didn't think it was absoultely hilarious? Wow. Your sources lack laugh-buds.
Nah they're actually really into comedy. I was shocked that they weren't in love with the movie simply because of all the reviews people have said on here.
We'll see.
Mu'ayyidSaafir
08-26-2007, 08:54 PM
It goes like this (out of ****)...
40 Year Old Virgin ****
Knocked Up ***1/2
Superbad ***
I finally saw Superbad last night. Using your **** scale, I would say:
40 YOV **1/2
Knocked Up ***
Superbad ***
Any single episode of Freaks and Geeks ****
frankpembleton
08-26-2007, 09:16 PM
I finally saw Superbad last night. Using your **** scale, I would say:
40 YOV **1/2
Knocked Up ***
Superbad ***
Any single episode of Freaks and Geeks ****
Freaks and Geeks is everything a TV show should aspire to be. Just fantastic television.
rolliefingers
08-26-2007, 09:20 PM
I'll re-post this from another board I post on...
There was a lot to like about this film, but a lot that left me cold, too.
I enjoyed the friendship angle, how Evan slowly distances himself from Seth's boorishness and finally berates Seth for holding him back - and in the end they acknowledge their love for each other again. A lot of the little one-liners were great, like Cera's lines about the terrorist video game and wishing that women were turned on by boners in public. The cock drawings, both the actual drawings and the concept itself, were unbelievably hilarious. I was in pain.
I got very little from the whole McLovin + cops storyline. McLovin's faux-cool-black-guy act was really annoying, and I don't think he added much to the story. The cops seemed to be held up as charming Peter Pan-types, but I just felt like they were idiots. I don't know what the filmmakers were trying to tell us there, but what I got from it was "These guys are losers; go to Dartmouth and don't be like them".
The girl storylines didn't do much for me, either. Becca and Evan seemed like a plausible match, but it doesn't ring true when she claims that she's wanted to get with him for a long time. It seems like they just met earlier that day, and that Evan was the one who had a crush on her, but not vice versa. Ditto for Seth and Jules; while, oddly, the match seemed plausible - despite the obvious physical differences, Jules had that serious, sober persona that could attract her to a loud, brash guy like Seth - it's tough to see the transition from initial attraction to actually wanting to be with the person. There's a lot of character and relationship development that goes undone, in favor of the pointless cop subplot. McLovin and Nicola just make no sense whatsoever.
Anyway, it was a decent movie, but I was pretty disappointed because I was expecting so much.
Also, Michael Cera rules. His was by far the most likeable character, and the kid has some serious comic chops. Hill's character got really irritating; as someone else noted, he was just complaining about stuff the entire movie. It got tiresome.
Mu'ayyidSaafir
08-26-2007, 11:10 PM
I'll re-post this from another board I post on...
There was a lot to like about this film, but a lot that left me cold, too.
I enjoyed the friendship angle, how Evan slowly distances himself from Seth's boorishness and finally berates Seth for holding him back - and in the end they acknowledge their love for each other again. A lot of the little one-liners were great, like Cera's lines about the terrorist video game and wishing that women were turned on by boners in public. The cock drawings, both the actual drawings and the concept itself, were unbelievably hilarious. I was in pain.
I got very little from the whole McLovin + cops storyline. McLovin's faux-cool-black-guy act was really annoying, and I don't think he added much to the story. The cops seemed to be held up as charming Peter Pan-types, but I just felt like they were idiots. I don't know what the filmmakers were trying to tell us there, but what I got from it was "These guys are losers; go to Dartmouth and don't be like them".
The girl storylines didn't do much for me, either. Becca and Evan seemed like a plausible match, but it doesn't ring true when she claims that she's wanted to get with him for a long time. It seems like they just met earlier that day, and that Evan was the one who had a crush on her, but not vice versa. Ditto for Seth and Jules; while, oddly, the match seemed plausible - despite the obvious physical differences, Jules had that serious, sober persona that could attract her to a loud, brash guy like Seth - it's tough to see the transition from initial attraction to actually wanting to be with the person. There's a lot of character and relationship development that goes undone, in favor of the pointless cop subplot. McLovin and Nicola just make no sense whatsoever.
Anyway, it was a decent movie, but I was pretty disappointed because I was expecting so much.
Also, Michael Cera rules. His was by far the most likeable character, and the kid has some serious comic chops. Hill's character got really irritating; as someone else noted, he was just complaining about stuff the entire movie. It got tiresome.
I can't argue with much of this, but I thought the point of the cops was to show that much of time, the authority figures are even more clueless and immature than the kids. I mean, the whole movie revolves around the fact that the main characters can't buy alcohol, but that brawling old guy, cops on duty, and the various ne'er-do-wells at the other party can drink as much as they want. And Seth Rogen's character supplied the line that made me laugh the hardest (although I think I was the only one in the theater laughing): "You have to go to a spin class, or farmers market, or a pumpkin patch, depending on the time of year."
It might have worked better if the cops hadn't said that they knew all along McLovin wasn't 21. Then they could just have been idiots, rather than being weird guardian angel-types. I also would have preferred if the last scene had been cut, and it had just ended with the guys in their sleeping bags. In such situations, Judd Apatow should just ask himself, "what would we have done on Freaks and Geeks?"
Speaking of which, always nice to see Martin Starr pop up again... and the menstruating fiancee was the main girl from Undeclared.
rolliefingers
08-26-2007, 11:40 PM
I can't argue with much of this, but I thought the point of the cops was to show that much of time, the authority figures are even more clueless and immature than the kids. I mean, the whole movie revolves around the fact that the main characters can't buy alcohol, but that brawling old guy, cops on duty, and the various ne'er-do-wells at the other party can drink as much as they want. And Seth Rogen's character supplied the line that made me laugh the hardest (although I think I was the only one in the theater laughing): "You have to go to a spin class, or farmers market, or a pumpkin patch, depending on the time of year."
It might have worked better if the cops hadn't said that they knew all along McLovin wasn't 21. Then they could just have been idiots, rather than being weird guardian angel-types. I also would have preferred if the last scene had been cut, and it had just ended with the guys in their sleeping bags. In such situations, Judd Apatow should just ask himself, "what would we have done on Freaks and Geeks?"
Speaking of which, always nice to see Martin Starr pop up again... and the menstruating fiancee was the main girl from Undeclared.
I didn't think that was really the point, and isn't that a false point anyway? In the real world, cops who drive drunk and incinerate their car will get discovered and fired, right? If they were trying to show that adults aren't always wiser than kids, they could have done a much better job of it (Beavis & Butthead and South Park come to mind).
There was a lot that just didn't work for me and too much suspension of disbelief. I liked Knocked Up because it struck a good balance between reality and slightly fantastical happenings; Superbad just didn't ring as true for me.
Maybe I should just stop thinking and laugh, but Apatow has raised the bar so high for himself with his previous work, it's impossible. I hold him to a higher standard.
I didn't think that was really the point, and isn't that a false point anyway? In the real world, cops who drive drunk and incinerate their car will get discovered and fired, right? If they were trying to show that adults aren't always wiser than kids, they could have done a much better job of it (Beavis & Butthead and South Park come to mind).
There was a lot that just didn't work for me and too much suspension of disbelief. I liked Knocked Up because it struck a good balance between reality and slightly fantastical happenings; Superbad just didn't ring as true for me.
Maybe I should just stop thinking and laugh, but Apatow has raised the bar so high for himself with his previous work, it's impossible. I hold him to a higher standard.
I think this was the type of movie where you should just stop thinking and laugh compared to Knocked Up which was more realistic and plot driven, however not nearly as funny imo.
Mackus
08-26-2007, 11:53 PM
I think this was the type of movie where you should just stop thinking and laugh compared to Knocked Up which was more realistic and plot driven, however not nearly as funny imo.I don't know about the "nearly" but I agree with the rest of this. Superbad isn't supposed to be taken seriously. Obviously cops don't hang out all night with underaged kids and shoot their guns at stop signs. It was just supposed to be funny, which is was in spades.
As a sidenote, I actually know someone from my dorm I think sophomore year of college who had the exact same thing happen to him with the "stain" on the leg of his pants. It was disgusting then and the face and gag/dry-heaving that Seth was doing in that scene was hysterical.
I thought the funniest thing in the entire movie was the face Michael Cera makes after he accidentally punched Becca in the boob.
HoodGuy007
08-27-2007, 12:55 AM
Yeah...
the only thing I remember was the "I've got a boner!" line
That is all I will ever need to remember.
Five stars all the way.
rolliefingers
08-27-2007, 08:43 AM
I think this was the type of movie where you should just stop thinking and laugh compared to Knocked Up which was more realistic and plot driven, however not nearly as funny imo.
I thought the "bro'in out" section of Knocked Up, where Rogen and Rudd eat 'shrooms, was way funnier than anything in Superbad.
That said, again, Cera is a budding genius. He's reached the "I will watch anything he's in, without question" level, for me.
The Wedge
08-27-2007, 08:47 AM
I finally saw Superbad last night. Using your **** scale, I would say:
40 YOV **1/2
Knocked Up ***
Superbad ***
Any single episode of Freaks and Geeks ****
Only 2 1/2 for 40 Year Old Virgin? Boo on you sir, boo. :D
I thought the "bro'in out" section of Knocked Up, where Rogen and Rudd eat 'shrooms, was way funnier than anything in Superbad.
That said, again, Cera is a budding genius. He's reached the "I will watch anything he's in, without question" level, for me.
That was funny, but I feel the exact opposite as you do in terms of what was funniest. There were multiple parts of Superbad that I laughed at harder.
ledzepp8
08-27-2007, 12:46 PM
Michael Cera's character singing "These Eyes" at the party was probably one of the funniest things I've seen in film. Everyone is getting so emotional and crying.
NewMarketSean
08-27-2007, 12:53 PM
"They said that would happen in health."
Best line in the movie.
That said, again, Cera is a budding genius. He's reached the "I will watch anything he's in, without question" level, for me.
I agree with this. I hadn't seen anything on this kid before I saw this movie, but now I think I'm going to have to see anything that hes in from now on. He's absolutely hilarious. Best character of the movie to me.
I thought the McLovin/Cops scenes were funny, but definitely the low point of the movie. I would have rather had more Seth/Evan scenes and just scrap them completely.
rolliefingers
08-27-2007, 06:37 PM
I agree with this. I hadn't seen anything on this kid before I saw this movie, but now I think I'm going to have to see anything that hes in from now on. He's absolutely hilarious. Best character of the movie to me.
I thought the McLovin/Cops scenes were funny, but definitely the low point of the movie. I would have rather had more Seth/Evan scenes and just scrap them completely.
Go rent the entire series of Arrested Development, posthaste. Cera more than holds his own among many outstanding comic actors. He's the real deal. If I could buy stock in him, I would.:D
Go rent the entire series of Arrested Development, posthaste. Cera more than holds his own among many outstanding comic actors. He's the real deal. If I could buy stock in him, I would.:D
I haven't seen that show, but I'm adding it to my Netflix list....now.
frankpembleton
08-27-2007, 10:00 PM
I thought the "bro'in out" section of Knocked Up, where Rogen and Rudd eat 'shrooms, was way funnier than anything in Superbad.
That said, again, Cera is a budding genius. He's reached the "I will watch anything he's in, without question" level, for me.
Well you might want to check this out if you haven't already....
http://www.clarkandmichael.com
The opening of each episode is reason enough to watch.
RVAbird
09-04-2007, 09:43 PM
Go rent the entire series of Arrested Development, posthaste. Cera more than holds his own among many outstanding comic actors. He's the real deal. If I could buy stock in him, I would.:D
I really think Arrested Development is the best comedy TV show I've ever seen. It's freaking brilliant! There is so much subtle humor thrown in underneath obvious humor...it's ridiculous.
I really need to check out Freaks and Geeks. I've heard so many people talk about how great it is.
I really think Arrested Development is the best comedy TV show I've ever seen. It's freaking brilliant! There is so much subtle humor thrown in underneath obvious humor...it's ridiculous.
I really need to check out Freaks and Geeks. I've heard so many people talk about how great it is.
I'm in the middle of Freaks and Geeks, great show so far. I'm McLovin it.
Arrested Development is next on my list!
Mackus
09-04-2007, 09:49 PM
I love Arrested Development. Haven't seen Freaks and Geeks, but I have seen Undeclared and loved that.
Sideburns
09-04-2007, 10:47 PM
do not see this movie with a significant other...
Bosibus
09-04-2007, 11:19 PM
She loved it! I loved it! We loved it!
Mackus
09-05-2007, 12:07 AM
do not see this movie with a significant other...If she's one worth keeping around, she'll love it!
DuffMan
09-05-2007, 07:02 AM
If she's one worth keeping around, she'll love it!
I second that! Took the fiance with me to see it, we both thought it was great!!!
I also agree that Arrested Development is an awesome show. I just wish more people had watched it so the show would still be kicking out new episodes.
If she's one worth keeping around, she'll love it!
Word. My girlfriend saw it with me and we both loved it. Neither one of us could definitively decide between Superbad and Knocked Up.