From SlashFilm:
Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) joined The Swell Season — Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová (you know, the musical artists from the indie musical Once) — on stage at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 18th, 2009. Segel joked that the movie Once beat out the Dracula Love song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the Academy Awards due to Hollywood “politics.”
I tried to watch Once once after everyone said it was good, but I couldn’t stomach all the emotional balladry. But then I treat earnestness the way cockroaches treat sunlight, probably because I’m so well adjusted. Anyway, I’m including an excerpt of the lyrics below. The phone number in the chorus is real, and goes to a recording with Segel’s email address. I called it myself to confirm. I’ll let you guys know if we end up frotting.
(Update: I put the trailer after the jump to make the page load faster)
Pixar consistently blows my mind with their stories and melts my face off with their animation, while the rest of the animation world does 15 variations on chihuahuas eating tacos and kangaroos that box. But this trailer for Despicable Me (from Universal and Illumination Entertainment) looks promising. If only because it kept making me go “Wha?” and I still don’t know what it’s about. Here’s the official rundown:
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon, yes, the moon. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. [Yahoo]
Aw, how cute, it’s a metaphor for dating a stripper. I stuff my dollars inside the hole in their heart.
FilmDrunkard Chodin was able to catch an early screening of I Love You, Man a while back, and was kind enough to write a review. Why am I posting his and not that thing you emailed me from three months ago? Probably because he’s funnier than you. Sorry, I know the truth hurts, fattie. Again, to reiterate, I, Vince FilmDrunk, did not write the review below.
Really!? A Funny Movie Without Dane Cook In It: A Film Drunkard Review
Remember the last time you watched a decent movie? I know bro, Tootsie was soooo f–king long ago! Really though, right when I’m up on a stool in my closet, getting ready to hang myself using an Old Navy, khaki belt, I get invited to a screening of a movie that doesn’t leave you feeling as if a feral ostrich just sucked your dick [Editor’s Note: I don’t necessarily see why that would be a negative]. The oasis in this desert of Hollywood sh-ttiness I speak of is I Love You, Man , from writer/director John Hamburg.
I Love You, Man stars Paul Rudd in a “romantic comedy” about a soon-to-be married guy who comes to realize that he doesn’t have any male friends. To save further explanation, he’s “that guy”, the dude always hanging out with his girlfriend and her friends; friends who are always wondering when the f-ck the girls can have a night alone to talk about deep-dick pizzas and cervix douching.
As the wedding draws nearer, Rudd’s character becomes more and more desperate to find a decent best man, all while attempting to sell the estate of Lou “The Incredible Hulk” Ferrigno. Rudd attends a series of man-dates, eventually finding an accidental friend in a stranger (Jason Segel) who attends an open house at the Ferrigno estate. It’s at this point in the movie that an invisible hose extends from your theater seat and milks the funny from your anus. The moment Jason Segel’s character comes into play, it’s literally two hours of nothing but pure entertainment.
Despite those kinda lame posters from the other day, I have it on pretty good authority (okay, Chodin’s authority) that I Love You, Man is indeed funny. Most recently, word got out that Paul Rudd and Jason Segel’s rendition of “Limelight” by Rush will be on the soundtrack, and the track has now made it online. You can listen to it over at ThePlaylist. It’s a pretty sweet song. But unfortunately, you can also hear the lyrics better in this version. “Beyond the gilded cage”? Canadians are weird.
It’s contemporary, it’s Rush; hey, I guess you could call this a “topical rush”! …Whatever, I was planning on sitting in the corner anyway.
I Love You, Man comes out March 20th, and the guys behind it want to make sure you’re hip to the “lingo” before you go into the theater and make an ass of yourself by assuming it was gonna be in your “grandma’s English.” So they released these new posters, Pop a Squiznot, Totes Magotes, Dude Von Dudenstein, and Sweet Sweet Hangin. Still the big question is: what the f-ck is up with Jason Segel’s hair? He looks like… well, everyone I hung out with in eighth grade, actually.
[via IMPA, thanks to Guy Who Looks Like Thumb for the tip]
