# I have discovered that I really like Seth Rogen movies. What does this mean?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845 "2011-05-31T13:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/21 "2011-05-31T23:03:51Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > There’s a, uh, poop scene in _Zac and Miri_ make a porno that makes me burst out laughing every time I see it. > > Trust me, nothing involving poop has ever made me laugh like that before or since. “Can you believe this shit?!” “… … Can YOU believe THIS shit!!!”😃 And I rather liked The Green Hornet. Mind you, the fact that the head guy is constantly being saved by his hyper competent sidekick is essentially the _whole point_ of the Green Hornet (whether or not that was the _original_ point of the show is debatable, obviously). ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/22 "2011-05-31T23:12:30Z")
Maybe you just like big fuzzy men? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Cheech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Mister\_Cheech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Cheech)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/23 "2011-06-01T01:02:16Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > _Observe and Report_ is his best movie. This one is hilarious (and it also has a great soundtrack.) While “The 40 Year Old Virgin” has to be his best film for being the most important comedy of the past decade (tell me a dry, loose, improvisation-heavy successful mainstream comedy that came out before it and you’ll prove me wrong), “Observe and Report” is definitely the most ambitious, dark and subversive. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/24 "2011-06-01T02:48:37Z")
Rogen, like Jason Segal and unlike Mike Myers, Jim Carrey or the supremely unfunny Will Ferrell, is able to convey an impression of depth, a sense that there is a complicated being behind all the antics. He is in fact very much like a Judd Apatow movie - all marijuana and masturbation jokes on the surface, but underneath some real complexity and serious emotion. I found _Knocked Up_ one of the best films of that year, and an honest and subtle examination of marriage, pregnancy, and growing up. Rogen showed a real depth in his performance - we saw the emotional process that his character went through, the conflicts and the doubts and the joy, as well. In one of the film’s most tender scenes, he is shown holding his newborn daughter and talking to her, as Katharine Heigl’s character sleeps. I thought he was completely authentic in that scene, which a Carrey-Sandler-Ferrell funnyman would not have been. _The Green Hornet_ and _Pineapple Express_ were two big steaming piles of suck, though. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/25 "2011-06-01T03:19:36Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Rogen, like Jason Segal and unlike Mike Myers, Jim Carrey or the supremely unfunny Will Ferrell, is able to convey an impression of depth, a sense that there is a complicated being behind all the antics. He is in fact very much like a Judd Apatow movie - all marijuana and masturbation jokes on the surface, but underneath some real complexity and serious emotion. I found _Knocked Up_ one of the best films of that year, and an honest and subtle examination of marriage, pregnancy, and growing up. Rogen showed a real depth in his performance - we saw the emotional process that his character went through, the conflicts and the doubts and the joy, as well. In one of the film’s most tender scenes, he is shown holding his newborn daughter and talking to her, as Katharine Heigl’s character sleeps. I thought he was completely authentic in that scene, which a Carrey-Sandler-Ferrell funnyman would not have been. > > _The Green Hornet_ and _Pineapple Express_ were two big steaming piles of suck, though. Carrey can do this. He’s wonderful to watch in his serious roles, and in the Truman Show he definitely showed that he can do absurdity at the same time as profundity. Shame he doesn’t do it more often. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/26 "2011-06-01T03:30:30Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Seriously - two nights ago I watched _Knocked Up_ for the third time despite the fact that I can’t stand Katherine Heigl - laughed my face off. > > I’ve watched _Zac & Miri Make a Porno_ about 15 times (they play it on TV here a lot) and I always bust a gut. ## I don’t know why, but Katherine Heigl repulses me (I guess it’s her egocentric, narcissistic, self-satisfied, “ME ME ME” personality mostly, as she is actually somewhat physically attractive, even if in a generic blonde kind of way) more than any other “new” starlet on the Hollywood scene, and that includes both Whatshername Foxx (Transformers) and the small, spunky Canadian brunette from Juno… I bought a dollar copy of “Zach & Miri” a couple of years ago, and watched it once, while drinking several beers; I haven’t re-watched it since, so maybe I will have to give it a second viewing ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/27 "2011-06-01T03:41:23Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > _Observe and Report_ is his best movie. This one is hilarious (and it also has a great soundtrack.) I laughed probably more than I should have at this film; my little brother is a correctional officer who’s always wanted to be a cop. ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/28 "2011-06-03T02:53:00Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Maybe you just like big fuzzy men? I think Seth is a fairly nice looking guy, even more so with the weight loss 😃 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/29 "2011-06-03T05:33:38Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > I think Seth is a fairly nice looking guy, even more so with the weight loss 😃 I concur. He’s not exactly my type (I prefer tall and lean), but he’s still quite appealing. But I don’t think that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845/30 "2011-06-03T07:03:03Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > _The Green Hornet_ and _Pineapple Express_ were two big steaming piles of suck, though. Huh, I rather liked Green Hornet. Really, if there was a problem with anyone in that movie, it was the main bad guy, mostly in the third act. But really, Green Hornet wasn’t a Seth Rogan movie. It was a Jay Chou movie that Seth Rogan was in. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-discovered-that-i-really-like-seth-rogen-movies-what-does-this-mean/583845.md?page=1)