“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).
Maybe you just like big fuzzy men?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.