(via FacesofOldDogs)
USA Today recently did a fluff piece on the modern classic Old Dogs, and you just know someone was quoted saying something really stupid because just look at this embarrassment. I’d rather watch a snuff film about a relative. Anyway, the winner of the dipsh-t sweepstakes is John Travolta, who says reading the script was “the hardest I ever laughed.”
Travolta says that one lure of the film was the centerpiece scene, where Travolta and Williams mix up their medications. Travolta’s face turns into a Joker-like smile, while Williams’ tongue grows to the size of a dill pickle.
“That scene, I’ve probably laughed harder than I ever have,” Travolta says. “I knew I wanted to do the movie when I read that part. I’d pay $10 to see that scene.”
Would you? Would you pay $10 to see it when it was in The Game Plan with The Rock, or just the other 30 times it happened in a stupid movie? Don’t answer that, just choke.
Former Human Giant director Jason Woliner recently created a site called Faces of Old Dogs (facesofolddogs.tumblr.com), consisting solely of screencaps from the upcoming Robin Williams/John Travolta film Old Dogs. The site purports to be updated daily, and I assume it’s a sort of homage to those old Faces of Death videos. While it’s usually not my place to plug other websites, after seeing this clip, I realized that Old Dogs is not a movie so much as it’s a conceptual performance art piece, like Borat or Joaquin Phoenix, which intends to derive its humor not from the actual movie (*RECORD SCRATCH*) but from our reactions to it.
(*hits Seth Green in the nuts*)
In this new clip from Old Dogs, Robin Williams and Seth Green go golfing with some Asian businessmen (what an original premise!), and things are going great until (*RECORD SCRATCH*) Seth Green gets hit in the nuts! And then (*RECORD SCRATCH*) someone else gets hit in the nuts!
There are no words to describe how preposterously bad this clip is. After I played it, my dog covered his eyes with his paws and my Dominican maid crossed herself.
[via Filmsnmovies]
When Seth Green’s “on-set freakout video” hit the web the other day, I like many others, dismissed it as fake and promptly ignored it. Then they released “security cam footage” a couple days later supposedly showing the mugging he was pissed about, and the mugging looked a little too clear, and the freakout still seemed a little too cliché, but I wondered if maybe I was just jaded from too many lame viral videos. Turns out, not.
[From YahooFinance via videogum] Nestlé USA today announced the launch of “Dude, Where’s My Bar?” an innovative online narrative game for consumers to help solve the mystery surrounding the October 2 theft of Green’s vintage Butterfinger bar. The “lite” alternate reality game starring Seth Green will call upon the clever, irreverent thinking of Butterfinger fans, as they compete to find and solve clues that could lead to the return of Green’s missing bar and a one-of-a-kind grand prize: a solid-gold Butterfinger bar worth $10,000.
Green collaborated with Butterfinger to produce “Dude, Where’s My Bar?” using comedy and the real world as a platform [comedy and the real world? how innovative!]. Dubbed an “alternate reality game lite” (ARGL) [!!!], DudeWheresMyBar.com propels fans into an entertaining storyline created by the comedic genius of Green and the one-and-only iconic candy bar brand.
Oh man, there’s no surer sign of marketing genius than faking a violent crime to sell candy bars! Hey, did you see Jennifer Love Hewitt getting brutally raped on the set of Ghost Hunter the other day? PSYCHE! Turns out they just wanted her Hot Pocket! So disband your lynch mobs and send them on over to Albertson’s for our new gangrape gruyere, you hungry vigilante you. Seriously though, I wish these people would all die in a car fire. Join me after the jump for an awful PR quote circle jerk party.
This is my last post before Vince gets back and starts tannin’ hides and bustin’ rhymes, so I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from Tracy Jordan: “Live every week like it’s shark week.”
