Last night during Family Guy, a commercial played for a movie supposedly coming in July about a teddy bear coming to life. The movie is called Ted. The ad directed viewers to go to a website entitled “ted is real”. I punched it up, but it wants you to register, and I was suspicious to begin with.
The ad was on April Fool’s Day, and “ted is real”? The movie looks really stupid, but that’s no problem for Hollywood these days.
Is Seth McFarland, who supposedly made the movie, setting up a fake movie as an April Fool’s joke? :dubious:
I’m surprised there’s no other thread on this, unless I missed it.
It wants you to register because they’ve got a naughtier trailer and they want to make sure you’re old enough to see it. It includes footage of Mark and Ted hitting the bong, singing the Thunder Song (with lovely lines like, “Fuck you, Thunder, you can suck my dick.”, and what really grossed out the cashier in the grocery store. I hope to god it’s a fake trailer otherwise I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
(Apropos of nothing, Mila Kunis has some lovely demonstrations of vocal fry in the trailer.)
I would assume this is real. By looking at the credits thingy they show at the end of trailers it was written by Seth and two of the main writing staff of Family Guy, also directed by Seth…so it’s probably filled with swears, pot, sex jokes, and things that aren’t really funny.
By the way, and I realize, if my memory isn’t faulty, that I’m asking the wrong crowd, is it just me or does Wahlberg look absolutely ghastly in this movie?
I was going to say this exact thing, except I would’ve said “a while” as two words, because I’m a pedant.
I also would’ve corrected the OP to spell it “MacFarlane” and then also point out the voice he does is almost exactly Peter Griffin’s, which is disappointing.
I haven’t looked at Ted but am reminded of a previous incident in which I read a list of upcoming movies and was convinced it was a joke list. The list included Striptease (Demi Moore showing off her implants) and Daylight (Stallone escaping from under the Hudson River), both of which sadly turned out to be real.
Poe’s Law has long since spread beyond its original topic of religious fundamentalism. Religion, politics, popular media - in all things the truth has become more ridiculous than fiction.
Academy Award Film? Of course not; it’s not trying to be.
Stupidly Hilarious? Exactly!
I’m sure there’s a word for people who mock something popular; like they’re the cool kids who are above it all. Hipster is it? I think it’ll be a dumb but fun movie.