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  • Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

    Originally posted by Zudnic View Post
    Couples Retreat: You're probably thinking that all the funny parts of the movie are in the preview. You're right.
    There were funny parts in the previews?

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    • Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

      Re: Couples Retreat:

      From all that I've heard, it's your average Saturday Afternoon Killer movie. If you take it as a silly dumbed down comedy, you'll like it. If you expect anything like the Apatow movies etc, you'll be disappointed.

      I'll probably end up watching it, as the previews seem to say that Vaughn just kinda goes off (where I think he's at his best: see Wedding Crashers, Swingers) instead of held back (see: Dodgeball).
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        Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
        Re: Couples Retreat:

        If you expect anything like the Apatow movies etc, you'll be disappointed.
        You say this like it is a bad thing...Apatow is vastly overrated and has been for a while.
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          Originally posted by Handyman View Post
          You say this like it is a bad thing...Apatow is vastly overrated and has been for a while.
          He's no comedic genius, but he's made some dam funny movies (and has succeeded in injecting sentimental stuff/humanity in them, which is tough). Better than a lot of the schlock that passes off as a "great comedy" nowadays. Like Couples Retreat.
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            No his name is attached to a lot of funny movies but most of his stuff stinks. For every 40 Year Old Virgin and Forgetting Sarah Marshall there is a Drillbit Taylor, Funny People, Step Brothers and Year One.

            Put it this way Role Models and I Love You Man >>>>>> anything Apatow has done since 40 Year Old Virgin including Forgetting Sarah Marshall which I loved (which he neither wrote or directed anyways which is probably why it didn't blow goats )
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            "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
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            • Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
              No his name is attached to a lot of funny movies but most of his stuff stinks. For every 40 Year Old Virgin and Forgetting Sarah Marshall there is a Drillbit Taylor, Funny People, Step Brothers and Year One.

              Put it this way Role Models and I Love You Man >>>>>> anything Apatow has done since 40 Year Old Virgin including Forgetting Sarah Marshall which I loved (which he neither wrote or directed anyways which is probably why it didn't blow goats )
              When you have movies like Blart Mall Cop or whatever, 17 again (gee, another Freaky Friday ripoff?), Night At The Museum (or for that matter, most Stiller movies), You Don't Mess With The Zohan, etc being "big" comedies......that's just terrible. That's what I'm saying.
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              • Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                Put it this way Role Models and I Love You Man
                Replace Role Models with Knocked Up. Also Step Brothers was decent in a goofy way.

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                  Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                  Replace Role Models with Knocked Up. Also Step Brothers was decent in a goofy way.
                  I have to admit that Knocked Up was better (in a different way) than I thought it would be. I didn't expect that much sentimentality/humanity/emotion in it. It delivered, that's for sure.
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                    Originally posted by AMC View Post
                    Zombieland is pretty funny.
                    Just saw it....I laughed my *** off.
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                      • Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                        Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                        Replace Role Models with Knocked Up. Also Step Brothers was decent in a goofy way.
                        No I was talking about movies not with Apatow attached...and Knocked up was ok but not nearly as funny as Role Models. Knocked Up let jokes and bits hang too long which killed the momentum pretty much everytime the movie was getting good. If it had been about 20 minutes shorter I would give it better marks. Plus Kathrine Heigl isnt even in the same league as Elizabeth Banks.
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                          Honest question: what did people like about Knocked Up? I thought it was the poster child for unfunny, predictable formula movie.
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                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            Honest question: what did people like about Knocked Up? I thought it was the poster child for unfunny, predictable formula movie.
                            Except for Katherine Heigl, not much.
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                              Originally posted by ScottM View Post
                              Except for Katherine Heigl, not much.
                              OK, I'll buy that.
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                                The impetus for my original comment was that I felt like Couples Retreat was being sold as a a film like Apatow's best. In reality it contained no character development and no real conflict. This is clear from the "I just want to be with my family" message of the movie's finale. Bottom line is that it just didn't work.
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