THIS! IS! A PAYCHECK!
12.18.09By popular demand, here’s the trailer for The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston, from director Andy Tennant, previously of Fool’s Gold, Hitch, and Sweet Home Alabama. The plot is very complicated, so try to keep up: Gerard Butler’s character… is a bounty hunter. He has to track down… are you still with me? …his ex-girlfriend. And get this, his ex-girlfriend is played by… Jennifer Aniston. You catch all that? Phew, I feel like this needs a Cliff’s Notes or something with all those twists and turns.
Side note: Have you noticed a weird trend lately where every rom-com deals with a guy falling back in love with his ex? This one, It’s Complicated, Fool’s Gold, Ghost of Girlfriends Past — I feel like there’s a Slate article or Sociology Thesis here. I’d write a rom-com about rekindling my own past relationships, but I don’t think anyone wants to see a guy fall for a pile of rocks in the desert.
(“Alright, alright, I’ll do it. Just tell me what time to show up and I’ll be there. But I want honey-roasted almonds this time. You catch that? Write it down. If I get there and all there is is trailmix, I’m f-ckin leaving.”)
UPDATE: Somehow I missed this the first time around, but as GlennBeckhasAIDS points out, this falls into that illustrious group of “Films With Nut Shots in the Trailer.” (2:25) Know who loves nutshots in a trailer? You guessed it, your mom.
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I just don’t trust that Gerard Butler. He’s always talking out of the side of his mouth.
I’d write a rom-com like that about my own life, but I don’t think anyone wants to see
a guy fall for a pile of rocks in the deserttwo hours of dogs dressed as humans, saving rec centers to-and-fro./Fixed
I actually like Gerard Butler. Maybe it’s because his standards seem low enough that he’d actually date me.
I mean, he’s made out with Katherine Heigl and Jennifer Aniston. I’m going to look awesome by comparison.
Sorry, Vinnie. I haven’t noticed that trend. Because I have a dick and don’t watch these.
Fifty bucks said the entire concept of this movie came while some chick was wiping drool off her face with a paper towel after fingerblasting herself to the thought of the Brawny guy and just got confused about paper towel brands for long enough for the light bulb to come on.
Side note: Have you noticed a weird trend lately where every rom-com deals with a guy falling back in love with his ex?
Pretty awesome that bat-shit-crazy Aniston is in this movie. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a writing credit on this movie.
I was watching that trailer and thinking “Gee for a comedy there really aren’t any jokes in this…” and then NUT SHOT!
Works every time
“Have you noticed a weird trend lately where every rom-com deals with a guy falling back in love with his ex?”
Plenty of fish in sea, but women not good at removing hooks.
Whenever a guy breaks up with me, I know they will fall for me again.
I hobble them, you see.
[At the 2:25 mark of this 2:30 trailer]
Chareth: “Holy shit, I can’t believe there wasn’t a single nutshot in this entire traile-…oh, well there ya go.”
Damn it, Glen
Given a choice between watching this film and letting a crazed chimpanzee eat my eyeballs, I’d say pass the banana cologne.
I’m just glad there’s a movie out there finally willing to tell the truth about how sexy, well-adjusted, clean, and well-spoken bounty hunters truly are.
Some bounty hunter he is, he doesn’t drop a single N-bomb.
All these horrible movies with nut shots just reinforces how prescient that Simpsons episode with Hans Moleman’s Man Getting Hit By Football film really is
Next thing you know, they’ll be making movies about common streetwalking prostitutes without cigarette burns and c-section scars who only need a rich eunuch to pamper them back to being the princesses they really are…
Hollywood Re-marriage comedies have been around since the 30′s.
Jennifer Aniston has to be the most inexplicably popular actress ever. Good lord, she is terrible. And boring. And one-note.
Just like her movies.
I just realized that I find this movie so uninteresting and utterly forgettable that I’ve rewatched the trailer 3 times because I read the comments, think I’ve skipped reading the actual post, so I go back and watch the trailer.
Bounty Up!
Oh shit, they already made a Little Orphan Annie movie, didn’t they?
Nevermind, ignore my last comment.
Gerard better step up his game or it’ll soon be The Bounty Hunter starring Sam Worthington.
Wasn’t this movie called “Bird on a Wire” 20 years ago?
He’ll drop the N-bomb, as long as there are no gays around.
Why can a white guy throw a woman in his trunk in a crowded parking lot with no trouble, but when one of us Mexicans does it, it’s all high speed chases and tasers.
Dan O’Bannon, screenwriter of ALIEN would rather die than watch a piece of shit like this.
This trailer makes me so effing happy to not have sound on my office ‘puter.
I think that this and 300 have alot in common. They both star Gerard Butler, and Aniston is a no talent big chinned whore.
If Jennifer Aniston doesn’t adopt an African baby within the next year, with God as my witness, I’ll watch this movie on a loop until my eyes vomit.
What’s sad is he can actually be funny. When he’s on Ferguson he’s awesome. What the hell…you have to work to really make a guy that charming this lame.
The only way Aniston can get men into her pit is if Butler yells and kicks them into it.
I just spent ten minutes looking up words which rhyme with ‘sparta’ to try and work a ‘this is xxxxx’ joke in, only to realise that it had been used in the title.
Ho hum…..(flicks through pictures of japanese girls vomiting)
I concur, Jess. I thought he was funny on SNL, too.
Gerry needs a new agent.
Only way I’m watching this is if Butler kicks Aniston down that pit in Sparta. On the bright side, she’d finally have a man that would stay by her side forever- the black dude that got kicked before her. Madness, indeed, sir.
*sidebar: A movie where Gerard Butler plays *record scratch* an actual Butler. If this gets made I want millions to spend in the few remaining years before the apocalypse.