The Pineapple Express

[Ravi]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_en_tv/mtv_movie_awards_fake_marijuana

Franco: MTV gave us the bag of 'fake weed'
Sun Jun 1, 11:00 PM ET



UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Like the stoners they play in the upcoming "Pineapple Express," Seth Rogen and James Franco stumbled unkowingly into trouble Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards.

And of course, the weed was someone else's.

Early on in the show, Rogen and Franco took the podium to present the award for best summer movie so far, joking that MTV chose them because only "two potheads like us" would be willing to announce such a strange category. Then they pulled out a bag of "fake weed" and a "huge fatty joint" — and proceeded to light it.

"Kids, don't really smoke fake weed like this," Rogen told the crowd at the Gibson Amphitheatre, with a degree of sarcasm to suggest that the only fake thing was the idea that it was fake.

But before TV audiences could see the "contraband," the cameras pulled to an extremely wide angle, and stayed that way until Rogen and Franco left the stage. The awkward moment made some in the audience laugh, but left Robert Downey Jr. — who accepted the award on behalf of "Iron Man" alongside director John Favreau — with a puzzled look.

Backstage, Franco told The Associated Press that MTV put them up to the joke, even supplying the script, the fake marijuana and the fake joint — then had a last-second change of heart about the bit.

"MTV wrote it! ... Then backstage there was this big commotion: 'You guys can't say that,'" Franco said. "It says right in the script: 'Lights fake joint.'"

He liked the bit, saying: "that was the joke, because the No. 1 question we get about 'Pineapple Express' is, 'What kind of research did you guys do?'"

Franco said he was disappointed that the cameras went wide.

"I think they killed the joke," he said.

So what was really in the bag?

"I don't know! MTV gave it to us."

[hedwig]

i'm trying to ignore it but the fans are preemptively killing this movie for me.

that's usually the case with stoner comedies.

[MacGuffin]

[Stefen]

I'm getting tired of this crew.

[Sleepless]

I wish I could be the designer for Apatow's posters. That must be the easiest job in the world.

[Alexandro]

I like Seth Rogen usually but the guy puts me off because he seems unwilling to change one bit of his average appearance for anything. I mean dude, you look the same, talk the same, dress the same, and say the same jokes in every fucking movie. His "screen persona" is not that interesting and he obviously is capable of more but seems as if no one cares to tell him. Maybe I'm exaggerating but it would be cool if he shaved his head or grows a beard or comes out with long hair or something different for once.

[Pozer]

I'm getting tired of this crew.

me too.. after this one.

[modage]

Maybe I'm exaggerating but it would be cool if he shaved his head or grows a beard or comes out with long hair or something different for once.

plus he's really only starred in 2 films.  Knocked Up and Pineapple Express. 
pineapple express is an action comedy and knocked up was nothing like that.

[hedwig]

i want to punch these posters.

[cinemanarchist]

http://www.myspace.com/pineappleexpresssoundtrack

Huey Lewis theme song up and functional for your listening "pleasure."

[Alexandro]

Maybe I'm exaggerating but it would be cool if he shaved his head or grows a beard or comes out with long hair or something different for once.

plus he's really only starred in 2 films.  Knocked Up and Pineapple Express. 
pineapple express is an action comedy and knocked up was nothing like that.

Yeah, with the exception of the one in which he's dressed as a cop, he still looks like the same guy in a different time of the year.

[Tictacbk]

sorry, i'm having trouble deciding if this ridicule of Seth Rogen's appearance is meant to be sarcastic or not?

[Alexandro]

No, it's not sarcastic. And it's not to ridicule his looks. It's not like I'm dismissing everything he has done because of that. Maybe I'm wrong in that it's not his looks any less than the fact that he plays mstly the same kind of character, or maybe a version of himself, in most movies and his choice of wardrobe and hair style doesn't help to create discernible differences in each character. Usually, from film to film, actors change the way they look, if not physically, in the way they are dressed o the haircut they have. Even stars whose "screen persona" is stronger then the performances themselves do this.

I mean look at James Franco there.

[cinemanarchist]

I don't know what you guys are talking about...dude's got range.

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:


Exhibit C:

I think someone owes someone else an apology.

[pete]

I think the marketing tries to make the movie as familiar as possible because it wants to remind everyone that 2007 was rogen's year.  but I think alexandro is a little too quick to judge based on the posters.  I've never seen him in an action movie, and I think that is him trying something new.  it's only been like a year too, since his rise.