Collider just debuted the new poster for Paul, and while I think the shelf life on Social Network parodies expired a couple months ago, I’m intrigued by how totally f*cking bizarre this movie looks. Two comic book dorks, played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, happen upon a slacker alien, voiced by Seth Rogen, during a cross-country road trip. Hijinks, presumably, ensue.
It sounds like an homage to Mac & Me and the kind of high-concept, family movies from the 80s that seem like they could only have been cooked up under the influence of a loooot of cocaine (Harry And the Hendersons, anyone?). But this one comes from Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland) who, aside from being one of my favorite directors currently working, is really, really good at making movies that feel like all the best parts of 80s movies — which is hard to do, because for the most part, the 80s sucked. Just try to think of a decade more creatively bankrupt than the 80s. Anyway, the fact that this looks so totally weird makes me strangely excited. Seriously, get over here and feel this boner.
[opens March 11 -- trailer here]
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“Just try to think of a decade more creatively bankrupt than the 80s.”
The 00′s?
“Just try to think of a decade more creatively bankrupt than the 80′s.”
2000-2010 would like to have a word with you Vince.
FUCK YOU VAN!
Slacker aliens just hang out in the Home Depot parking lot for the scene.
I think Vince is right, despite all of the unfathomable crap that’s come out this decade there’s no doubt there was some fantastic shit as well. Nothing from the 80s compares to Inception, Eternal Sunshine, There Will Be Blood, etc.
Uh…so a movie about Filmdrunk’s Pauly D???
Ok, so I missed the last thread about this movie but here’s my thing.
The f*ck is Pegg doing working a Joe Pantoliano impression into this flick?
My professor in college made us all write an essay on how aliens are just human’s psychological manifestation of a childhood fear of being probed in the anus by a thermometer which dates back to the stone age where cave men would probe their young with sticks and the further the stick traveled into the butt without blood the healthier the child. This was a common theme in the paleolithic age (documented with paintings) ending when only a finger was inserted and then held to the temple to predict the anal health of the offspring in the neolithic age. He was taken off campus the next class period when it was revealed he was acting out because his tenure and benefits were being unjustly taken away and no one got credit for their essays.
Because of how it looks I’m a little skeptical. But I was the same way with “The Other Guys” so I’m willing to give it a chance. Pegg and Frost haven’t failed me yet.
How is it that Seth Rogen looks more human in this than Katherine Heigel looked in Knocked Up?
Obviously, it’s because Katherine Heigl has Admiral Ackbar eyes.
And his strange fishy smell
Simple ricMay, it’s b/c The Heiglbeast is not human. Tolkien himself wrote of the nature of sexuality among Orcs as…
There must have been orc-women. But in stories that seldom if ever see the Orcs except as soldiers of armies in the service of the evil lords we naturally would not learn much about their lives. Not much was known.
They were also “bred from the heats and slimes of the earth” . . . so that explains much.
Predator.
Die Hard.
Lethal Weapon.
Fletch.
Aliens.
…I could go on.
This Is Spinal Tap
Heathers
The Princess Bride
Gremlins
Full Metal Jacket
Mad Max 2
Rocky motherfucking III
Amadeus, Platoon, Rain Man, The Thing, Das Boot, The Shining, Ghostbusters, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raising Arizona, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Salvador, The Year of Living Dangerously, Caddyshack, Glory, The Road Warrior, Stand by Me…
Bladerunner for fuck sake!
However, by my math Vince was an infant for most of the 80s, so I think we can all overlook his blaspheming of the finest decade of music, movies and general awesomeness that ever existed. But just this once!
Lots of awesome things came out during the 80s, I don’t deny it. But the cars sucked, the fashion sucked, and the vast majority of the popular music sucked. Yeah, I guess that could be said of most decades, but I’m really bitter about seeing every asshole wearing those stupid fluorescent ray bans again.
Fair enough. The mainstream pop culture sucks for every decade, though. The only people having fun are on the fringes.
DREAMWORKS FACE!!!!! AIIIIIUGGHH?!??@!