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Trailer here. (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1364619&sdm=web&qtw=480&qth=300)
Release Date: August 19th, 2005 (wide)
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Romany Malco, Elizabeth Banks, Shelley Malil, Loren Berman, Kat Dennings, Leslie Mann, Marika Dominczyk, Jane Lynch, Erica Vittina Phillips, Siena Goines, Suzy Nakamura, Jenna Fischer, Chelsea Smith, Nancy Walls
Screenwriters: Judd Apatow, Steve Carell
Directed by: Judd Apatow (Kicking & Screaming, Fun With Dick and Jane)
Premise: 40-year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has done quite a few things in his life. He's got a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment with a proud collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But there's just one little thing he hasn't quite gotten around to doing yet--something most people have done by his age. Andy's never, ever, ever had sex. His friends at the store consider it their duty to help, but nothing proves effective enough until he meets Trish (Catherine Keener), a 40-year-old mother of three. Andy's friends are psyched by the possibility that "it" may finally happen...until they hear that Andy and Trish have begun their relationship based on a mutual no-sex policy.
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Finally!!! A XIXAX MOVIE!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!
This guy is awsome... I love it
He's lost a lot of weight.
looks good.
That poster is great. The shirt, the gradient, the expression, all great.
I'm there.
Not as in being a 40 year old virgin, but I'm there as in I'll be seeing it.
yay! for seth rogen being in this
:yabbse-cheesy:
haha, yeah, and rocking the chops again.
has there ever been a more appropriate movie for this board? :yabbse-wink:
Quote from: metroshanehas there ever been a more appropriate movie for this board? :yabbse-wink:
Maybe, seeing as how some people seem to want to go out of their way to mention they've had sex and/or a girlfriend.
There's an Indian movie called Mumbai Matinee in which a 30-something guy tries to get laid, and he goes to this phony mystic to help him. It was kind of funny.
Quote from: movie premise40-year-old Andy Stitzer [has] never, ever, ever had sex.
Quote from: Ravia 30-something guy tries to get laid, and he goes to this phony mystic to help him
sigh. it's like prostitutes don't exist or something
i'm anxiously awaiting how they will cover that angle.
Quote from: CecilQuote from: movie premise40-year-old Andy Stitzer [has] never, ever, ever had sex.
Quote from: Ravia 30-something guy tries to get laid, and he goes to this phony mystic to help him
sigh. it's like prostitutes don't exist or something
The guy in the movie I mentioned does go to a brothel, but it gets raided right before he can do it and he gets arrested.
is that how it ends? and then he has sex in jail?
No, that's just the first try.
saw this last night.. must say it was quite good. it IS a movie about a 40 year old virgin so don't expect brilliance.. but its a good, fun movie.. and carell is really funny (no shit). as for pubrick's prostitute question.. they do cover it.. sort of.
saw a sneak preview of this tonite. it was good but nowhere near wedding crashers good. it was a little messy, and i understand not quite done. the story seemed a bit all over the place and the crude humor sometimes played a bit at odds with the sweet story. the problem sometimes with movies like this is trying to combine lots of grossout humor with heart, if you can't strike just the right balance you end up with something offputting. steve carell was great and hilarious. it was good to see him in a full role enabling him to be sympathetic and a full character instead of the sidekick. so i really liked him, plus his apartment reminds me of my dads basement. so it was funny. the sidekick characters were all a bit much especially with the constant graphic sex talk. but overall it was pretty good. and very funny. i had hoped for more from apatow though. C+
I was afraid it would be like that... havent seen it yet but looking forward to it.
The way people laugh in the theatre with this trailer is amazing...
So is this the flick that puts Seth Rogen on top? Last year Colin Farrell, This year Orlando Bloom, Next Year, muthafucking Seth Rogen.
Less sex means more laughs for R-rated `Virgin': Fine line between funny, raunchy
By John Horn
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES --
Making a risque comedy turns out to be a lot harder than it looks. It's more than merely cooking up enough off-color jokes to fill a couple of hours. The real challenge is paring down all that R-rated raunch so that an involving, practically G-rated romance can emerge.
And so it was with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," a comedy about hooking up -- or, more accurately, not hooking up. At a June research screening of the R-rated movie to which The Los Angeles Times was invited, the sex threatened to eclipse the comedy. The preview in Thousand Oaks had started with laughter so explosive much of the film's dialogue couldn't be heard. But then, as several hundred moviegoers watched one particular scene, the laughs began to evaporate.
For a moment, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," which lands in theaters Friday, was uncomfortably dirty, and not all that funny.
Director and co-writer Judd Apatow assessed the lull from a back row, jotting down a few notes. By the next morning he was back in the editing room reworking the scene in which the film's undersexed lead, played by Steve Carell, settles down to watch, and perhaps enjoy, a pornographic movie.
By the time the next round of moviegoers was recruited for a research screening two weeks later, Apatow had toned down the porno footage, which he'd culled from an adult movie. With that, the scene -- now a shade less bawdy -- was no longer stopping the movie.
Balancing love, sex
Successfully calibrating the balance between love and sex, between story and shock, has made hits of movies such as "Wedding Crashers," "American Pie" and "There's Something About Mary." When they work as blockbusters, these movies invariably surround ribald jokes with sweet boy-gets-girl stories, and the amalgamation of raunch and relationship leaves audiences not only laughing but also rooting for the couple to succeed.
"The very first thing we talked about was tone," says Carell, the "Bruce Almighty" co-star who also co-wrote the "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" screenplay. "Did we want it to feel like a romantic comedy? Or a sex comedy? Or a combination of the two? Would it be broad? Or grounded?
"We decided it needed to be more grounded. If people are not involved with the story, I don't think any of the comedy is going to work. So it's a love story, masquerading as a sex comedy."
Over the course of seven research screenings, Apatow repeatedly fine-tuned his $26-million film, hopeful that the process that had caused him headaches on "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" would provide the feedback necessary to craft the most satisfying comedy possible.
The costs of research screenings -- about $10,000 per test -- are negligible given the stakes. The previews can lead a studio to take actions such as shooting a new ending (which happened as far back as 1939's "Wuthering Heights") or recutting a film for narrative clarity (as with this year's "Monster-In-Law"). Some filmmakers, including Woody Allen, disdain research screenings on principle.
But comedy directors generally love them, as they offer a second-by-second road map of which gags are working and which aren't. Apatow, who is making his feature directorial debut with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," has everything to gain from the process. Although his movie isn't expensive, expectations are high, particularly since "Wedding Crashers" has been an R-rated comic smash.
Apatow has used "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" research screenings to test things as subtle as a five-second song cue. And he also recorded research audience reaction to the film on an audiotape. When he was back in the editing room, he synchronized the audience recording with the film. He thus was able to hear not only what failed to produce laughs, but also to notice laughs where he thought no joke existed.
After so much minor tweaking (Apatow didn't have to reshoot any scenes), "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" is now in the hands of the only audience that matters -- people who actually have to buy tickets.
From the very first shot of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," when Carell's sleepy but aroused character Andy Stitzer shuffles into the bathroom after waking up, there is no question the movie resides at the outer limits of the R rating.
A dirty job
"My first thought when `Wedding Crashers' ended was, `Oh, my God. We are so much dirtier than they are,'" says Apatow, whose best-known writing credits come from the television series "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared."
The genesis for "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was an improvisational comedy skit Carell used to perform, in which he played an adult virgin who tries to bluff his way through the telling of sexual tales. In the movie, Carell's Andy works in the backroom of a San Fernando Valley electronics store. An agreeable, content and preternaturally average adult, Andy on many levels remains stuck in adolescence.
He hoards shelves of collectible action figures as vague as "The Six Million Dollar Man's" Oscar Goldman -- all still in their original, pristine packaging. He owns a bicycle but no car, has wall posters of '80s rockers Asia and magician Doug Henning, and entertains himself by watching "Survivor" with his elderly neighbors. And for reasons both personal and situational, he has never had sex.
During a poker game with three of Andy's co-workers, that secret is revealed, and the colleagues (Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen) scheme to take care of Andy's chaste status.
What follows includes a disastrous ride home with a drunk woman Andy meets in a bar, a not-fast-enough hotel rendezvous with a transvestite prostitute, a series of unsuccessful chats with unsuitable women at a speed-dating event, a colorful (but totally unwelcome) advance from Andy's electronics store boss, and an unsettling bathtub encounter with a randy bookseller.
To prepare Andy for a potential conquest, his three cohorts at one point take him to a salon, where an aesthetician rips rug-size patches of hair from Andy's chest (the waxing was real, and the blood on Andy's shirt is Carell's). But the more his friends try to set him up, the more exasperated Andy grows, until he falls for Trish (Catherine Keener), a single mom who considers Andy genuine and attractive.
When Apatow and Carell finished an early draft of the script early this year, Apatow showed it to longtime collaborators Garry Shandling (Apatow wrote and produced Shandling's "The Larry Sanders Show") and Adam McKay (Apatow produced "Anchorman," which McKay co-wrote and directed). Apatow subsequently showed a very rough cut to about 50 industry friends earlier this summer.
"What became clear very early is that people wanted the story," Apatow says. "They didn't want a joke fest. All the notes were: You can cut the jokes."
Apatow shot a number of sequences that never made the finished film -- many of them self-contained comic bits -- such as Andy's being arrested, that didn't advance the story (they'll of course turn up on the DVD). But audiences would still expect a lot of line-crossing hysterics, so the more delicate issue became delivering on that R-rated promise without going so far that people stopped caring about Andy and Trish.
`Worthy of an R'
"If you're going to be rated R, you want to deliver jokes that are worthy of an R," says Mary Parent, a Universal Pictures producer who as the studio's co-head of worldwide production supervised "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."
Even with a beard, Carell was immediately recognized in the lobby by scores of fans leaving one late-June test screening in Sherman Oaks. People congratulated Carell not only on the movie they had just seen but also on his performances in "Bruce Almighty," "Anchorman" and television's "The Office" and "The Daily Show."
The kudos were nice, but Carell had another reason to be pleased: Thanks to the small tweaks, the movie was playing better than ever, even in a stadium-seating multiplex, which Apatow is convinced hurts comedies because he believes laughter doesn't easily reverberate and spread in a steeply pitched auditorium.
The offending, hip-thrusting porn footage had been excised for some milder action from the same film, and where the audience had been silent, it was now laughing. Oddly enough, in a comedy predicated on someone having sex, moviegoers didn't want to see porn clips of the same thing, even when they were played in the film on fast forward.
"It was tough to find the right tone," Carell says of the porn-movie scene. "The first time, it was way too graphic. It pulled people out of the movie."
Audiences also were uncomfortable with a quick scene in which Andy overhears his elderly neighbors having sex, with the husband yelling, "Don't be lazy, girl!"
Another dilemma: At one stage in the film's evolution, Andy himself proved a distraction. Universal executives had told Apatow that they were afraid Andy might come across at best as a creepy loner and at worst a serial killer.
"There is a fine line," Parent says. "Men and women alike could look at him and if he's too much of a sad sack, they will think, `Dude, get a life.'"
The top Universal executives, who attended the early-June Thousand Oaks screening in force, were pleased that Andy had turned out far more winsome (Apatow added several lines that addressed the serial killer issue head-on). But the executives still had a number of other concerns after that test.
Andy's encounter with the transvestite prostitute was too long, they felt, as was the speed-dating scene. Apatow pared both sequences, and Universal was happy enough with the fixes that it didn't even send a senior executive to the Sherman Oaks preview.
That later preview also proved two other earlier stumbling blocks had been resolved.
Early in the film, Andy meets Beth (Elizabeth Banks), who works at a bookstore. Later she returns in a lustful mood. But before Andy and Beth can do anything, Beth decides to warm up by herself in a bathtub.
"We wanted to show how over his head he is," Apatow says. "We were always terrified of that scene. The audience is so uncomfortable."
Too uncomfortable, in fact.
So just as the filmmakers dialed down the porn-film scene, they had to rework the bathtub sequence. The fix came not so much by trimming Beth's antics, although a few frames were cut, but by inserting a new line of dialogue for Andy. Nonplused by what he's witnessing in the tub, Andy now remarks, "Wow. This is graphic."
Explains Carell: "It was having a character say what the audience might be thinking. For me to actually express it undercuts how graphic it really is." By adding the quick line of dialogue, which was not part of the Thousand Oaks test but was included in the Sherman Oaks preview, complaints about the scene disappeared.
Another scene causing worry was a fight between Andy and Trish, who couldn't understand why he didn't want to sleep with her (his virginity was unknown to her). The wounded Trish finally makes fun of Andy's riding a bike. Einstein rode a bike, Andy says defensively. Einstein had a wife too, Trish responds angrily, and to paraphrase the rest of her dialogue, Einstein also had sex with her.
Some young men thought Trish was too shrewish, Carell says, and he and Apatow worried the Einstein line would turn women against her too. So the line about Einstein's wife was taken out. And then it was put back in.
"We thought it would make her less endearing, but it did exactly the opposite," Carell says of the test screening reaction. "The women in the audience loved [the line], and I would have thought the reverse."
For Apatow and Carell, the research screenings have been an eye-opening process, giving them tools they had never fully used.
Having worked mostly in television, Apatow had neither the time nor the inclination to test much of his earlier work, and even if he did, he wasn't always interested in the results. The characters in "Freaks and Geeks," research screenings suggested, would be more likable if they weren't such losers -- which would have negated the whole point of the show.
Research screenings for Will Ferrell's "Anchorman" were divisive and not always clarifying. "The audiences were split, because of Will's particular brand of humor," Apatow says.
"For the people who liked it, it was their favorite movie. And the people who didn't like it were annoyed. I always start testing terrified it will be in total disagreement with my gut instincts. I started out being scared that the audience would say, `I hate this nerd.' And then I wouldn't know what to do."
But audiences seemed to like Andy from the beginning. "I'm so happy we didn't have to sell out" and reshoot the movie, Apatow says. "They didn't tell me anything I disagreed with."
There even were tests for a song cue that leads into Andy's porn film scene, with Lionel Richie's "Hello" proving funnier to moviegoers than Lou Rawls' "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
Apatow kept in one joke spoken by his wife, Leslie Mann, that never got great laughs (after drunkenly vomiting all over Andy, she takes solace that she at least won't have to exercise the next morning). "There were jokes in there I thought were funny that I left in for myself," he says.
Carell says that at a certain point he just had to choose what felt right.
"If you changed just one line," Carell says, "one [test] number would go up and another number might go down. You can't ever satisfy every want or need. It's all so new to me, and I don't know how much stock to put in it."
perhaps the movie has been improved from the version i saw?
Two Big Thumbs Up from Ebert & Roeper....wooow
Funnier than Wedding Crashers. Just as overlong but the lulls are more evenly distributed so it's okay.
Seth Rogen is god.
Quote from: modagesaw a sneak preview of this tonite. it was good but nowhere near wedding crashers good. it was a little messy, and i understand not quite done. the story seemed a bit all over the place and the crude humor sometimes played a bit at odds with the sweet story. the problem sometimes with movies like this is trying to combine lots of grossout humor with heart, if you can't strike just the right balance you end up with something offputting. steve carell was great and hilarious. it was good to see him in a full role enabling him to be sympathetic and a full character instead of the sidekick. so i really liked him, plus his apartment reminds me of my dads basement. so it was funny. the sidekick characters were all a bit much especially with the constant graphic sex talk. but overall it was pretty good. and very funny. i had hoped for more from apatow though. C+
I wasn't troubled by the grossout humor. I haven't laughed this hard at a movie in a long time, and I thought the balance between sexual humor and sweetness was acceptable. Carell is a unique talent, and even better here than in his rather limited Anchorman role. Catherine Keener's earnestness doesn't match the film but fits in (if that makes any sense).
Did anyone notice that this was a giant ad for Universal films? Dawn of the Dead, Bourne Identity (or Supremacy, I forget), the Universal horror figures in Andy's apartment.
It was a tad too long, but the lulls aren't exactly boring.
This movie was so fucking hilarious. I've never been so attracted to Catherine Keener...as has been said, she's very frank and aggressive, which is always hot. Jane Lynch is fucking hilarious, as always, and she's especially creepy in this movie. Who was Leslie Mann in this movie, I didn't recognize her at all.
Seth Rogen is indeed the funniest minor character. It's weird when my age starts creeping up on these talented people, i start feeling like i'm missing out on opportunities or something.
Quote from: GamblourWho was Leslie Mann in this movie, I didn't recognize her at all.
I haven't seen the movie but she has a big part in the trailer where she's driving in her PT Cruiser and demands that he tell her if he thinks she's pretty or not and then I guess crashes the car. She's pretty recognizable there.
Ooohh ok. Wow, she doesn't look the same to me. Fuck she was awesome in this. Everyone was. Go see this movie! It's been a while since I left a movie and said that I wanted to see it again immediately.
yeah this movie was awesome. i will be seeing it again.
yep... and its two hours also but goes fast... very funny and they kept the story from falling apart very well... steve carell is now a big star thanks to this
This movie was crap.
SPOILERS... possibly
The jokes were below even juvenile humor. The actual theme was beaten to death. We understand it's ok to be a virgin and wait for "the right one"... thanks for telling us every other line.
This movie could've ended at least 6 times... at least. Steve Carrel is funny, which works oddly because his lines were crap but the delivery was great.
The ending number could've been funny if the movie hadn't dragged on for so long. Turning into a song became more of a relief that it was over, than a funny good bye.
I liked the premise, but the movie needed a focus. Was it a comedy? A drama? A dramady?
If it was a comedy, the jokes barely scratched the surface of any humor other than an overall "This man has never been laid."
If it was a drama, the situations were hardly believable enough to let you get into them and feel what anyone was feeling.
I like to give movies fair chances, but I found myself asking the person next to me what time it was more often than laughing.
Quote from: Brown WalrusI found myself asking the person next to me what time it was more often than laughing.
I'd glad I wasn't the one who had to sit next to you, then.
I enjoyed it (probably more than Wedding Crashers actually). It's very funny and entertaining, even if the ending is a little cheesy.
Walrus, you're review was like a GT review as written by me. have you seen Undeclared?
I'm NOT sure how funny it will be
BUT!!!
The reason behind this is the 2 episodes of UNDECLARED I watched that just weren't that funny. At all. See, the beauty of FREAKS & GEEKS was that it was funny, yet dramatic, a la The Wonder Years. Yet with an hour-long comedy like that the jokes didn't have to be forced in quick and nobody complained if there wasn't a happy ending.
HOPE BEHIND THIS MOVIE:
Loved Freaks & Geeks, Seth Rogen being everyone's favorite cast member (actually, we loved all the characters, but hold a li'l candle for truth-speaking Ken.) Then there's The Daily Show, where for a period of about a year Steve Carrell was the FUCKING FUNNIEST ANCHOR on the show. I still remember when he had a report on how to beat the heat. He stood there in his suit and said "Maybe try on some lighter clothes" when there appeared a tank top and Short Shorts on the man. "Some ask: how short can I wear my shorts? Not short enough!"
*Sigh* Considering the Hollywood machine, he may never get to be as funny as he was on TDS while getting the attention he deserves. But those are some reasons I am looking forward to this movie.
And...of course....we all Love the concept.
Quote from: modageWalrus, you're review was like a GT review as written by me.
Is that a good thing?
Quotehave you seen Undeclared?
Would that somehow make me like the movie more?
as far as the 'is it a comedy is it a drama' it may have helped to see that Apatow's style is generally trying to ground his comedy in realistic characters. so yeah, it might've. i don't think he quite got the right balance either with the film BUT i still thought it was really funny.
I understand a movie that can bounce back and forth between comedy and drama, but to me the jokes were dry, and the characters were far too static to relate.
wow. this movie is NOT as funny as everyone is making it out to be.
yes, it has some funny parts but it's mostly mediocre curse-comedy.
steve carrell is pretty good in his first movie role and paul rudd is paul rudd and those other dudes were those other dudes. but yeah. it's alright. nothing special. and the ending.. what the fuck was that? it totally killed the whole thing. sorry. i just don't find that dancing, singing shit funny.
you mean leading role? i don't know that anybody raved that it was THAT funny, did they?
David Manning said, "It was looking in to the face of God!"
Quote from: modagei don't know that anybody raved that it was THAT funny, did they?
Quote from: cinephileits a good, fun movie
Quote from: raviI haven't laughed this hard at a movie in a long time
Quote from: gamblorThis movie was so fucking hilarious.
Quote from: slick shoesyeah this movie was awesome. i will be seeing it again.
Quote from: andykvery funny
Quote from: redvineIt's very funny and entertaining
alright 3 raves.
I'll chime in: yes, it's the hardest I've laughed at a comedy in a long, long time. Yeah, the laughs drop off a bit by act 3, but it still sidestepped so many lame pitfalls that it still works. Plus, how could you go wrong with that ending?
Quote from: modagealright 3 raves.
and 87% on the tomato meter :yabbse-grin:
the best movie so far this year
(AND YOU THINK I'M JOKING)
Quote from: Weak2ndActPlus, how could you go wrong with that ending?
I think that's what they told each other to justify the lack of everything else throughout the movie.
Quote from: ewardthe best movie so far this year
(AND YOU THINK I'M JOKING)
no but i'm hoping.
100% serious. i dont even give a shit either. say whatever you want, i have not laughed harder at a movie than this one in a long long time. and i was honestly moved at the end when
SPOILERS
he finally tells her he is a virgin. the way he just spills it was absolutely perfect. i'd put steve carrell in anything...
the way he explained his weekend and the egg salad he wanted to eat was just priceless.
yes, jimmy gator, yes!!!
Judd Apatow Goes Romantic AgainUniversal has acquired an romantic comedy pitch that "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" Director Judd Apatow is writing and will direct reports Variety.
Planned for a start next spring, the film will be populated by many of Apatow's "Virgin" collaborators. That includes Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Apatow describes his untitled project as "an offbeat romantic comedy" but wouldn't divulge more other than to say its cost will be comparable to the $26 million "Virgin" budget.
Having worked as a writer or producer on films with Carell, Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell, Apatow said he thinks it's high time the 23-year-old Rogen (who co-produced "Virgin") got a break. Apatow will cast the female lead while he is writing and fill the supporting roles with actors he's worked with on various TV shows.
edited: for P's approval. :yabbse-grin:
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i still can't believe that apatow has a big hit on his hands. and this is how quickly that translates to power in hollywood. movie is out 2 weeks at #1, "alright what else do you got?!"
Quote from: Walrus Deluxe
Quotehave you seen Undeclared?
Would that somehow make me like the movie more?
hey Walrus, SEE UNDECLARED. i just re-watched the first two episodes for the first time since they aired. its good. its really good. very accurate portrayal of college...
u might want to start sticking them lines in to separate the articles and ur comments again, mod, that is if u want anyone to read them. cos honestly that's the selling point to me: read the article to get to mod's comments. :yabbse-thumbup:
Quote from: modage
Quote from: Walrus Deluxe
Quotehave you seen Undeclared?
Would that somehow make me like the movie more?
hey Walrus, SEE UNDECLARED. i just re-watched the first two episodes for the first time since they aired. its good. its really good. very accurate portrayal of college...
and you should see freaks and geeks. and the larry sanders show. and the ben stiller show. and the critic.
I just had to see this movie again. Very funny even on the second time. One of the funniest scenes was when that woman is talking to Andy in the store:
"I'm very discreet, but I'll haunt your dreams....."
Quote from: GaramI saw it last night. I expected a frat pack shitfest a la Old School, Starsky and Hutch etc.
DUDE!?? does anybody know Apatow's pedigree!?
that'd be like me renting PDL and being like i expected another Adam Sandler shitfest a la Waterboy and 50 First Dates, but i was pleasantly surprised that it was a neat little film.
Quote from: modageQuote from: GaramI saw it last night. I expected a frat pack shitfest a la Old School, Starsky and Hutch etc.
DUDE!?? does anybody know Apatow's pedigree!?
haha, well it's garam. he's seen enough Old vs School vs Starsky vs Hutch movies in his time that he can be sure a comedic film won't hold anything new for him. u know, especially when the creative team involved collectively have um let's see: The Daily Show, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Dana Carvey Show, The Critic, The Ben Stiller Show, and The Larry Sanders Show under their belt.. so what if he was only 9 when some of those were around?
never forget,
he's seen it all.
Quote from: GaramRead the post above, smart ass.
ok, now what?
Quote from: GaramI love how you always bring age into things like it matters at all.
like that one other time i brought it up? just that once? 1, now 2. always you say, i guess they haven't taught you complex numbers like 3, or 4 yet. so it's understandable you're confusing 2 with infinity.
Quote from: GaramVery clever, jackass,
thank you
Quote from: Garamand that sarcasm is just hilarious, let me tell you.
thank you
Quote from: GaramApatow isn't a household name in the UK.
that's interesting, he's not a household name anywhere else either.
Quote from: GaramAnd, have you ever heard of reruns?
yes, but i fail to see what track & field has to do with this.
Quote from: GaramOr dvds?
uh..
Quote from: GaramIt's not really hard to catch up on past seasons of tv shows in this new world of fabtactular technology, you know.
and yet u remained oblivious to the talent in this movie.
Quote from: GaramI forfeit as it's not really worth it. Have fun feeling superior or something.
Pubrick might be a dick...but that girl in his avatar is hot
Quote from: RedVinesPubrick might be a dick...but that girl in his avatar is hot
Who is that anyway?
We don't get reruns or dvds here so I remain oblivious to the talent in his avatar.
Saw this on Tuesday night. It was built up way too much for me. I enjoyed it, but was expecting a different comedy. In my opinion, the whole "gets the girl in the end" thing is really boring now. I loved the Indian guys working at Smart Tech though. :lol:
"What are we, Al-Qaeda or something? Fuck you!"
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Pubrick might be a dick...but that girl in his avatar is hot
You are correct, but do you seriously not know who Bjork is?
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Pubrick might be a dick...but that girl in his avatar is hot
You are correct, but do you seriously not know who Bjork is?
frankly, i don't think he seriously knows who
he is.
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Pubrick might be a dick...but that girl in his avatar is hot
You are correct, but do you seriously not know who Bjork is?
Dancer in the Dark
I heard she released an album too.
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Pubrick might be a dick...but that girl in his avatar is hot
You are correct, but do you seriously not know who Bjork is?
I'll be honest, I didn't even recognize her in that av, but yup it's her.
'Virgin' star Carell is man for 'Dan'
Riding the success of his star turn in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," Steve Carell is set to play a widower in the romantic comedy "Dan in Real Life."
The Disney project centers on the father of three daughters, ages 10-17, who writes a parenting column for a local paper. While on a family reunion on the Jersey shore, he meets a woman he takes a liking to, but upon returning home, he finds out the woman is his brother's girlfriend. He then tries desperately not to fall in love with her while not breaking rules he has set up for himself and his daughters.
"It's about how hard it is to do the right thing but how you have to try anyway," producer Jon Shestack said. "We're very lucky to have Steve in it. We went to him two months ago, and since then his world has changed. Luckily, Peter and he formed a strong bond. Steve is a wonderful actor and a funny man."
The film will be directed by Peter Hedges, who last shot 2003's "Pieces of April."
Sounds like crap.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40770
Fox Cancels Apatow's 40-Year-Old Virgin
September 21, 2005 | Issue 41•38
LOS ANGELES—Executives at Fox TV canceled Judd Apatow's box-office hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin Monday. "We love Judd's work, but aging virgins aren't a demographic we're looking to target," Fox Entertainment President Peter Liguori said. "Maybe it will be a cult hit on DVD." Virgin joins Undeclared, Freaks And Geeks, The Ben Stiller Show, and several unaired TV pilots on the list of critically acclaimed but canceled Apatow projects. Fox TV executives said the cancellation will allow them to focus their efforts on Stacked, starring Pamela Anderson.
:yabbse-grin: :bravo:
I feel compelled to comment. Having not read any argument previous to the few posts before mine, I happily loved this movie. Not a film worthy of an all and out appraisal, the movie is better rendered to comment amongst peers. A gut reaction of laughs as valuable as reading A Confederacy of Dunces. (though I hope 40 Year Old doesn't win the equivalent of Pulitzer)
Universal has announced the DVD release of Steve Carrell's The 40-Year-Old Virgin, for 12/13 (SRP $29.98 ). There will be three versions available on DVD - an anamorphic widescreen unrated edition with 17 minutes of additional footage, and full frame versions of the theatrical cut and the unrated version (as with Romero's Land of the Dead, the theatrical cut will not be available in widescreen). Extras will include a gag reel, additional footage from the You Know How I Know You're Gay? scene, Line-o-Rama (featuring a look at the cast saying their lines in different ways) and more. The unrated edition will add additional deleted footage (under the label Andy's Fantasies) and My Dinner with Stormy (a featurette in which actor/co-producer Seth Rogen has dinner with porn star Stormy Daniels).
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Awesome! More Tits!
More virginity!
I thought it was already a little too long. Seventeen more minutes may not be the best idea.
Quote from: RaviI thought it was already a little too long. Seventeen more minutes may not be the best idea.
yes.
Quote from: Ravi on October 10, 2005, 04:26:12 PM
I thought it was already a little too long. Seventeen more minutes may not be the best idea.
Having not seen the theatrical release I can't say what was added to the DVD, but the "unrated" version felt at least a half hour too long. There were pointless subplots, scenes that went nowhere and more flat jokes than I care to recall. Carrell, Rudd and Rogen were all very funny but their characters didn't develop at all, which is well and good for a 10 minute sketch, and acceptable for a 90 minute popcorn flick. But at two hours and ten minutes I just stopped laughing as the same small pool of jokes were repeated ad nauseum. I don't quite understand the need to include an extended cut beyond the marketing aspect. It's something to flash on the DVD cover, but why do it at the cost of the film?
Overall there were a few big laughs and a slight but persisting charm which prevents me from actively disliking the picture, but it only barely rises above your standard Ben Stiller staring gross out slapstick comedy, which is disappointed considered the talent involved.
Also on the DVD is a 5 minute bit between Rudd and Rogen that is perhaps funnier than anything in the movie itself.
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Also on the DVD is a 5 minute bit between Rudd and Rogen that is perhaps funnier than anything in the movie itself.
This is an extended version of the "Know how I know you are gay?" scene
I just watched this and around the 90 minute mark I glanced at the DVD display and thought it should be wrapping up soon (the film was taking this direction as well). 40 minutes later it ended. Way too long for a comedy. I'll be honest, I wasn't too impressed with the trailer, so I was never very excited about it. Anyways, everyone said it was great, friends loved it, critics loved it, so I rented it today. I enjoyed it for the most part, but I didn't really feel anything. At times the relationship between the friends felt real, but by the end I had loss that connection.
Maybe I'm being too hard on it. It is definitely an above average comedy (although I thought Wedding Crashers was much better), but I just didn't have the same reaction to it as the rest of America.
Note: I thought the Chest waxing scene looked dumb in the trailer, but I was wrong. It was one of my favorite parts of the movie.
i havent seen the longer dvd cut but i had the same reaction as you.
My opinion of this film in theaters was it could do no wrong. No true plot. no true aim. it was really funny. Ended up seeing it many times not caring how long the film was. A series of good jokes I guess could never be too long.
Now I saw the Unrated cut. Maybe it can be too long. The movie doesn't try to interject new scenes really, but just pronouce more on the scenes already there. Watching the movie in theaters i laughed out loud at the obvious jokes and smiled at the ones that were underplayed. Those kept me going because the characters I grew to know them made them funnier. Seeing the scenes fleshed out loses that appeal of nuance the film oddly had going for it. I'll give the unrated cut one more shot but if no go, I'll buy the rated R disc.
funniest line:
"you know what a fun game is? take three excedrin PMs and try to wack off before you fall asleep."
this was the funniest movie i've seen in a while. and yeah it was waaay too long but who cares.
go rent it now.
I resaw this the other night. Right after 'Platoon' of all movies. This is movie that is beyond rediculous in its concept but tries to ground itself in reality. Yeah, its extremely funny but in a old school crass kevin smith way. Carell brillantly brings humanity with may have been a whiny, pity filled character. The end of the film still feels I don't know...more than a little strange and over the top, but I guess it works. But, man does it still make me laugh.
I counted more product placements in FYOV than any film I can imagine. And I'm pretty sure somebody in the petroleum industry paid to get the anti-bicycle jokes thrown in. It's a funny film, but it's only funny the first time around. Upon second viewing it feels predictable and over-planned, save for the improv chest waxing scene. I'm not surprised at all that all of Carell's films after this one have tanked. He's funny, but that's not enough. Robin Williams, Woody Allen, Bill Murry and all the rest learned early on that just being funny isn't enough to have a career as an actor. I don't think Steve Carrell knows how to do anything other than his affable baffoon character. And a few more years of this formula and he'll be another Steve Martin.
Would you say he played an affable buffoon in Little Miss Sunshine?
Yeah, good point. It was a little darker, but I still feel like I'm watching the same guy with each role he plays. And that's not always a bad thing, but it seems to be a limiting factor for him. Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler have made tons of cash by playing the same character over and over and over, so maybe my theory is totally whack.