I actually saw this movie because of the hype on the BBS. Couple of parts were hilarious but nothing spectacular. Knocked up and Superbad were so much better. Im glad it was a Matinee showing. Popcorn was good too, or maybe I was hungry......
REALLY late to the party, but I finally saw this over the weekend. I thought it was great. One of those movies you don’t really laugh hysterically at the entire time, but then you laugh to yourself later on when you remember certain lines or scenes. I thought the whole movie was almost a spoof of Pulp Fiction. The fight scenes were so incredibly stupid that you couldn’t help but laugh. I loved it when Rogan and Gary Cole were sword fighting – with florescent light bulbs. I mean, did they think anything would happen besides both bulbs immediately breaking? When Rogan's broke, he looked surprised and said "oh, ****!!" Little subtle things like that really cracked me up. I also liked when that hit-man was forcing the Rogan’s stoner friend down that tunnel and telling how he’s going to “kill the **** out of you!!!” ...then says “watch your head” as he’s pushing him down the tunnel. Again, very subtle but very funny. For some reason, the part when Red tells Rogan he doesn’t have any hair in his armpits and Rogan says “ok....what’s the significance of that?” That part made me laugh so hard I had to rewind it. Great movie.
Pretty much agree with your assessment. Its the subtle things that make me laugh more than the gross-out gags or punch lines.
This movie still comes to my mind when I think of movies that made me laugh the hardest. Usually I really like a movie but the affinity kind of fades, this one is classic to me. "The car probably committed suicide." I need to watch it again.
best part is when gary cole picks up the joint from the ground and smokes it "....pineapple express.."
Another example of the subtle humor is when they are trying to force them to gown that hole in the barn and Rogan yells "Ah! Rancor!" That really cracked me up.
One of my favorite scenes is when the guys have Red taped down and he tells them that he's going to "flex his way out." Classic.
"No, I see. The monkey's out of the bottle now! What? That's not even a figure of speech." "Even if he found that roach, how could he find us? Um... heat-seeking missiles... bloodhounds... and foxes... barracudas... I'm just - I'm kind of flabbergasted when you say things like that. It's weird. Thank you. Not a compliment. " I may watch it one more time before I send it back to Netflix.
i happened to watch it again last night. i thought it was much better that i had remembered it. i agree. it's the subtle nonchalant lines that make the movie.
The last scene of the movie at the diner is awesome. It seems like the just ad-libbed about the last 10 minutes.
From IMDb trivia section: The diner scene near the end of the film was not in the script. It was improvised on the spot by Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride.
the movie was meh i guess- danny mcbride rules though. his parts were all hilarious. why couldnt this go this the 'rate the last movie you saw' thread?
The scene at Franco's apt, where he hides the PE and the multi-cherry J from his jorts wearing customer, reeks of authenticity.
The scene where Saul barges in the back kitchen area of Dales' gf parents' house to get away from the bad guys starts off some funny lines. "I'm the good drugdealer!" "No don't do that! Don't **** us anywhere!" Car chase scene where Saul stops the car suddenly "**** I'm sorry, I thought she'd go past!"
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That's far and away my favorite part of the movie. The only part that actually had me rolling. I liked the movie overall though due to the already mentioned subtle humor throughout.
as much as I am going to get flammed for this I was one of the few that watched "Land of the Lost" and Danny McBride made that movie his cameo in "Observe and Report" was pretty hilarious also
