The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker threats
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He's not, he's really, really not. And I say this as someone who mostly likes Ferrel. When he's kept under a degree of control. In this movie his broad antics just don't jive with everything else. It's hard to buy him as this highly-respected player and kind of "wedding crashing" given how we see him behave in the movie compared to how Vaughn and Owen behave.
Eh, I guess he's sort of funny. The "meatloaf" scene is sort of funny; but, still, he's too broad for everything else happening in the movie.
He's not, he's really, really not. And I say this as someone who mostly likes Ferrel. When he's kept under a degree of control. In this movie his broad antics just don't jive with everything else. It's hard to buy him as this highly-respected player and kind of "wedding crashing" given how we see him behave in the movie compared to how Vaughn and Owen behave.
Eh, I guess he's sort of funny. The "meatloaf" scene is sort of funny; but, still, he's too broad for everything else happening in the movie.
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Actually haven't seen Pineapple Express (or many others he's done), but I did like it more than This Is The End.
Actually haven't seen Pineapple Express (or many others he's done), but I did like it more than This Is The End.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
Despite my better judgment, I watched the movie. I think it had potential for good satire like the joke towards the end where the North Korean lady agent says that America can't make the mistake of killing Kim Jon Un and Franco says America will keep making the same mistake however many times it takes. Also the scenes where Franco and Kim Jon Un play basketball and he thinks Kim is really a cool guy who is simply misunderstood only to discover the fake store, was a good commentary on how Dennis Rodman thought that Kim Jon Un was a cool guy. And there were some jokes that worked pretty well. But sadly, the good parts or potential good parts of the movie are masked by too many crappy, unfunny, sophomoric, and repetitive fart and sex jokes. I did think that some of the sex jokes were a bit over the top like the "money shot" scene in the CIA. Just Franco wanting to go all James Bond was funny enough, I don't think we needed Franco simulating porn acts for 30 seconds to make the joke. I think the constant gay and sex jokes were too much and ended up being a distraction.
Despite my better judgment, I watched the movie. I think it had potential for good satire like the joke towards the end where the North Korean lady agent says that America can't make the mistake of killing Kim Jon Un and Franco says America will keep making the same mistake however many times it takes. Also the scenes where Franco and Kim Jon Un play basketball and he thinks Kim is really a cool guy who is simply misunderstood only to discover the fake store, was a good commentary on how Dennis Rodman thought that Kim Jon Un was a cool guy. And there were some jokes that worked pretty well. But sadly, the good parts or potential good parts of the movie are masked by too many crappy, unfunny, sophomoric, and repetitive fart and sex jokes. I did think that some of the sex jokes were a bit over the top like the "money shot" scene in the CIA. Just Franco wanting to go all James Bond was funny enough, I don't think we needed Franco simulating porn acts for 30 seconds to make the joke. I think the constant gay and sex jokes were too much and ended up being a distraction.
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True. I just think the movie would have been better if they had made it a true satire.
True. I just think the movie would have been better if they had made it a true satire.
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Yeah, again, a lot of the stuff with Franco's character was just too much. Again, I'm no prude but the gay-porno/money shot thing was just too much. Same with his stink-crotch ranting the morning the CIA agents visited. The only "saving" part of it all was Rogen's "straight man" act.
Like, during an early CIA scene, I think after the money-shot stuff, they're talking about how the CIA chick played Franco to get him to go on the mission. Seth Rogen says something like, "He's said a lot of stupid things in the last ten-minutes, but you did honey-pot him. You even came with him (points to male CIA agent) to honey-dick me in case I'm gay."
A lot of the sexual and low-brow humor I can deal with, I found the way the phallus-shaped drone was played was sort-of funny, esp. with Agent Honey-pot trying to talk Rogen through it, "Trust me, I know. The tip is the worst part." (Or something to that effect.)
But Franco's antics during any of the lower-brow stuff just didn't 100% work for me. He was playing it too broadly against Rogen and everyone else playing it straight. Everyone in this movie is more-or-less playing a straight character. Even freaking Kim Jong-un is played straight and not as some broad, offensive, stereotype and is actually made complex and deep between his man-child likes/antics, his daddy-issues and so forth. Next to all of these people operating in a fairly normal world we've got Franco acting like he's in a completely different movie. Risking the entire mission over a new bag, or making not-too-subtle hints towards the media about the mission he's on.
You're working for the CIA, dude! You're going to kill a world-leader! Do you REALLY think it's a good idea to hint towards the media that you're going off to KILL THIS MAN?!
I get he was supposed to be an idiot, shallow, TV personality but it was too much. During the interview itself Rogen indicates how Franco is doing his thing with the scripted interview before diving into the questions to provoke Kim. And he does it well. Then Kim challenges Franco with questions of his own re: America's own behavior and sanctions on North Korea and then Franco turns into that shell again unable to counter. It would've been great to see him as a character grow or show more and be able to take Kim's challenges and counter them with reasonable answers.
I will say, I'll give Eminem props for his cameo in the movie where he (the fictional him, at least) reveals on Franco's show that he's gay. The way the scene played out was pretty nice and good, the reactions making sense from everyone.
Enter the Rob Lowe interview where Franco, not very well, hides his reaction to Lowe's baldness.
A lot of balance issues with Franco's character compared to the tone of the rest of the movie and even with Franco himself against other scenes.
I did like the subtle commentary on Franco being a lot like Rodman when he visited NK and came-back mostly liking Kim and not seeming to realize everyone was putting on a show for him like an abused child acting happy when company is over for fear of the abuse they'd get when the guests leave.
Where, again, Rogen's straight-man, act worked.
Of all of the "gross-out" humor, the only one I didn't like was Rogen getting fingers bitten off. Mostly because that sort of thing freaks me out and mostly unsettles me.
Yes, a man getting his fingers bitten off is more unsettling then having to stick a phallic-shaped missile up his ass using tiger blood as lubricant.
Yeah, again, a lot of the stuff with Franco's character was just too much. Again, I'm no prude but the gay-porno/money shot thing was just too much. Same with his stink-crotch ranting the morning the CIA agents visited. The only "saving" part of it all was Rogen's "straight man" act.
Like, during an early CIA scene, I think after the money-shot stuff, they're talking about how the CIA chick played Franco to get him to go on the mission. Seth Rogen says something like, "He's said a lot of stupid things in the last ten-minutes, but you did honey-pot him. You even came with him (points to male CIA agent) to honey-dick me in case I'm gay."
A lot of the sexual and low-brow humor I can deal with, I found the way the phallus-shaped drone was played was sort-of funny, esp. with Agent Honey-pot trying to talk Rogen through it, "Trust me, I know. The tip is the worst part." (Or something to that effect.)
But Franco's antics during any of the lower-brow stuff just didn't 100% work for me. He was playing it too broadly against Rogen and everyone else playing it straight. Everyone in this movie is more-or-less playing a straight character. Even freaking Kim Jong-un is played straight and not as some broad, offensive, stereotype and is actually made complex and deep between his man-child likes/antics, his daddy-issues and so forth. Next to all of these people operating in a fairly normal world we've got Franco acting like he's in a completely different movie. Risking the entire mission over a new bag, or making not-too-subtle hints towards the media about the mission he's on.
You're working for the CIA, dude! You're going to kill a world-leader! Do you REALLY think it's a good idea to hint towards the media that you're going off to KILL THIS MAN?!
I get he was supposed to be an idiot, shallow, TV personality but it was too much. During the interview itself Rogen indicates how Franco is doing his thing with the scripted interview before diving into the questions to provoke Kim. And he does it well. Then Kim challenges Franco with questions of his own re: America's own behavior and sanctions on North Korea and then Franco turns into that shell again unable to counter. It would've been great to see him as a character grow or show more and be able to take Kim's challenges and counter them with reasonable answers.
I will say, I'll give Eminem props for his cameo in the movie where he (the fictional him, at least) reveals on Franco's show that he's gay. The way the scene played out was pretty nice and good, the reactions making sense from everyone.
Enter the Rob Lowe interview where Franco, not very well, hides his reaction to Lowe's baldness.
A lot of balance issues with Franco's character compared to the tone of the rest of the movie and even with Franco himself against other scenes.
I did like the subtle commentary on Franco being a lot like Rodman when he visited NK and came-back mostly liking Kim and not seeming to realize everyone was putting on a show for him like an abused child acting happy when company is over for fear of the abuse they'd get when the guests leave.
Where, again, Rogen's straight-man, act worked.
Of all of the "gross-out" humor, the only one I didn't like was Rogen getting fingers bitten off. Mostly because that sort of thing freaks me out and mostly unsettles me.
Yes, a man getting his fingers bitten off is more unsettling then having to stick a phallic-shaped missile up his ass using tiger blood as lubricant.
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Yeah Franco was awfully over the top and ridiculous in the movie, but to me it felt perfectly in keeping with the general tone of the movie. Rogen and the CIA lady might have been playing things a bit more straight, but it was still a pretty far-fetched story and plot they were operating in.
In fact for me most of the laughs came from all the incredibly idiotic things Franco said and did throughout. Hilarious lines like "It's 2014, girls are smart now!!" only would have worked coming out of a character as stupid as that. And I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
Yeah Franco was awfully over the top and ridiculous in the movie, but to me it felt perfectly in keeping with the general tone of the movie. Rogen and the CIA lady might have been playing things a bit more straight, but it was still a pretty far-fetched story and plot they were operating in.
In fact for me most of the laughs came from all the incredibly idiotic things Franco said and did throughout. Hilarious lines like "It's 2014, girls are smart now!!" only would have worked coming out of a character as stupid as that. And I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
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