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Due Date
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Robert Downey, Jr., Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx and Alan Arkin.
Directed by: Todd Phillips.
Galifianakis Trailer Day:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810116445/video/20866668
This looks great. That dog is perfectly cast.
uh-oh, looks like they made a sequel to The Hangover before they made The Hangover 2. Todd Phillips going to be piisssed! and i hope Zach doesn't get Mike Myers'd, he's starting to be the silly hat and glasses guy who says 90's sit-quotes
Quote from: 72teeth on July 14, 2010, 05:35:45 PM
uh-oh, looks like they made a sequel to The Hangover before they made The Hangover 2. Todd Phillips going to be piisssed!
Quote from: modage on July 14, 2010, 02:55:16 PM
Directed by: Todd Phillips.
i know, i was being smartass, making fun of the fact
Awful title. I envisioned a terrible comedy starring Katherine Heigl and/or Jennifer Lopez. For the record, I'm so glad it's not.
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This looks stupid. I guess there were some funny parts, but when I saw the trailer for it the audience laughed hysterically at the dumbest shit. Downey Jr. asks Zach if he used the bathroom before they leave and he says, "Oh, thanks for reminding me! I need to wee-wee" The audience erupted. What's funny about that?
The worst was the check yourself before you wreck yourself part. What's funny about that? There's no punchline. The joke is basically a square ass white dude said something normally reserved for street smart black men. Wut?
This reminds me of a story from my youth...
Summer 2006, I had just gotten back into town and went with a few friends to a local club. My intention was to watch the NBA Finals, but the slutty girls we were with wanted to dance. Whatever. Just get me to a place with TV's. We get there and there's a large posse in this club. Turns out Transformers had just wrapped in Albuquerque and Tyrese Gibson and his entourage were in this particular club getting crunk. The slutty girls we were with went into full-on slut mode and swamped his table. They didn't seem to mind. The dudes including myself were eventually waived over and we took a seat for the festivities. This guy Tyrese was an idiot. A real dumbass. He kept saying stupid catchphrases that were basically all stereotype and these dumb girls were eating it up. Actually, I was really the only one who thought he was an idiot so eventually he turned his wrath to me. He told me, "you better put some sugar on that beer!" I said, "What? What are you talking about? Why?" he got quiet looking for a comeback. Finally after an awkward 4 and a half seconds he said, and I swear to god, "You better drop it like it's hot!" and these girls just thought it was the funniest thing ever. EVERYONE DID. Everyone except me. I thought it was stupid. He went on and on with these stupid catchphrases for about another 15 minutes. That summer I was pretty much at the height of a drinking problem, and unknown at the time, but known now, a pretty bad coke habit, too. I had enough. I got up to leave while saying, "This is stupid. I'm leaving. This isn't even funny. He's the least funniest person in this city and you're all idiots for laughing. Whatever. I'll catch a cab." as I was getting up and making my way towards the exit, Tyrese shouted, "Hey, big guy!" and I looked over and he said, wait for it, he said, "Don't forget to drop it like it's hot!" EVERYONE LAUGHED AT ME. It set me off. I responded back, "THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE! IT MAKES NO SENSE! YOU'RE JUST DROPPING CATCHPHRASES! YOU'RE AN IDIOT! IT'S NOT FUNNY!" and people got mad at me. They told me, get this, "GET A SENSE OF HUMOR, STEFEN! GOD!" I was so mad. Then to top it off I made a fool of myself on my heated exit when I tried to push the door open when it said pull.
Those slutty girls will LOVE this movie. Count me out.
We live in a world where slutty girls think Tyrese Gibson is funny, George Lopez has a late-night talk show, this idiot
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just won Last Comic Standing, and Due Date will make 200 million dollars. Bill Hicks would not approve.
GOD DAMMIT! I hadn't watched LCS yet!
I wanted to be angry later!!!!!
^HILARIOUS.
When I was in Chicago one time (this past weekend) I saw Tyrese on the set of Transformers 3. There was a lamborghini in a car cover and he kept lifting the cover up to look at it with his 2 friends. What an idiot.
Quote from: RegularKarate on August 10, 2010, 05:14:46 PM
GOD DAMMIT! I hadn't watched LCS yet!
I wanted to be angry later!!!!!
Sorry about that...
On the plus side, I saved you two pointless hours that would have ended with you wanting to kill yourself.
Quote from: MacGuffin on August 10, 2010, 03:52:11 PM
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That dog looks more like Zach Galifianakis than Zach Galifianakis looks like Zach Galifianakis in that poster.
New Trailer here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXh9loXsI4)
from my blog (http://modage.tumblr.com/post/1463438884/due-date):
These two deserve better. It's been great to see Downey Jr.'s career explode since Iron Man, (though I really loved his brilliant performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), and Galifianakis has been one of my favorite comedians since his VH1 show Late World with Zach. The idea of teaming these two together in a film from the director of The Hangover seemed like it would be a pretty great idea. But the trailers were worrisome and unfortunately contain pretty much the best moments in the film, which falls flat.
Downey Jr. and Galifianakis are both left out to dry here in a script that just isn't there. You can't watch the film and not think of Planes Trains and Automobiles which eclipses this film in every way. It's not a complete disaster, the film has a handful of laugh out loud moments but also long stretches where indie music plays to simulate emotions that are missing from the film. If you're someone who expects very little out of a film, you might enjoy it, but I know these guys are capable of greatness and this just isn't it.
That's almost a heartbreaking review. Not because I think you may be wrong or I may disagree with you, but I have a feeling you may be right (as far as opinions go).
The only thing in any of the trailers that made me laugh was RDJ spitting on the dog. And let's be honest, that's just not enough to hang an entire movie on.
Todd Phillips just isn't that good at coming up with originial ideas, every movie he's done is just a variation or update of something else. There are always moments in his films when I feel like everything is coming to a crescendo and that's great but then he caps it off with a crappy ending, leaving me wanting more. His movies are definitely funny, I just think he's immature in terms of how he deals with story development. With that said, I liked this waaaayyy better than the Hangover. All I cared about was Zach G. in that movie anyway and this showed that he really had some chops. I can't wait until he gets a crack at writing a movie, I don't want him to have to be under Phillips' wing for too much longer..
This is one of the best beat by beat remakes of the past 10 years. Zach shows that he's more than a pretty face and that he has some real remarkable acting chops. There were more angry scenes than I was expecting and not as much sweet scenes as I wanted. Mod is right. The script wasn't up to par but the experiences and the comedic entanglements were just interesting enough that I pulled through to the end. I know that sounds harsh coming from me but I don't care...