The poster hit the other day, and now there’s a full trailer for Jeff Who Lives at Home, a Duplass Brothers comedy (Cyrus, The Puffy Chair) starring Ed Helms and Jason Segel, the two most likable dudes around outside of Paul Rudd and Sam Rockwell. Segel plays the titular Jeff, who lives at home in his mom’s basement like a blogger stereotype (I’ll admit, my hair does look almost exactly like that), and Helms plays his brother, whose wife (Judy Greer) is cheating on him (hence all hedge-hiding).
A few weeks ago, the big controversy was GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, petitioning to have the “electric cars are gay” line removed from The Dilemma. While no one wants to die on the hill of defending a bad joke in an awful-looking Allan Loeb movie, it was a transparently BS publicity movie on GLAAD’s part, since they’d already seen the trailer and said nothing about it, and only decided it was worth their moral outrage after Anderson Cooper brought it up on Ellen (and never said it should be censored, by the way).
Perhaps feeling overconfident after getting the “gay” line pulled from the Dilemma trailer (but not the movie), GLAAD decided to set its sights on Glee for their use of the word “tranny” in their Rocky Horror-themed episode. That’s right, an organization dedicated to preventing discrimination against gays went after GLEE and ROCKY HORROR. The NYDailyNews caught up with original Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon, and even she thinks GLAAD needs a fresh cup of shut the f**k up.
When we caught up with Sarandon, she said the controversy puzzled her. “What should they have said?” she asked, adding that she knew plenty of people who proudly called themselves “trannies.” GLAAD, she said, was “getting like PETA – way out of control.”
GLAAD spokesman Richard Ferraro responded by reiterating his organization’s objections. “The word ‘tra—y’ has become an easy punch line in popular culture,” he wrote in an email, “and many still don’t realize that using the term is hurtful, dehumanizing and associated with violence.” [NYDN]
The Tim Blake Nelson-directed Leaves of Grass has a second trailer. Edward Norton plays identical twins and it premiered to glowing reviews at the Toronto Film Festival last year, but I’m not sure whether to trust those. Lord knows the magic of Toronto could cast a rosy glow on anything.
An Ivy League professor (played by Edward Norton) is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a simple scheme to take down a local drug lord.
I don’t know how I’m supposed to take this. Is that accent supposed to be for real? It seems really campy, but then at times almost like it wants to be taken seriously, like Nicolas Cage. I’m just surprised anyone has the balls to play identical twins after Van Damme did it in Double Impact. You can’t repaint the Sistine Chapel, dude.
According to Flicks.co.NZ, The Lovely Bones has halted filming due to an argument between Peter Jackson and his art director over the best way to depict heaven. Which is important, because Susie Salmon narrates the entire book from there. And it’s not the first fight Jackson’s had.
Meanwhile, at the Speed Racer premiere in London, Empire reports that Bones cast member Susan Sarandon has expressed dissatisfaction with her character. “I play the comic relief, an alcoholic grandmother – my first grandma – but she doesn’t really seem like a real grandmother because she has a lot of hair and jewellery and nails and liquor. I don’t think I ever talk without a cigarette and a drink in my hand.”
“Peter Jackson is really a nice guy and very interesting. It was really a very different way of working. We had a good time, I’m really curious to see what it’s like because he kept pushing me to be more and more extreme and sometimes that’s when you make your big mistakes so I’m not sure how it will come off – it will be interesting to see it from the point of view of the audience.
Ryan Gosling was replaced with Mark Wahlberg just days before filming, also over creative differences. But I think if the movie fails it will be because the book it’s based on is really maudlin and cheesy (I was impressed that the author* had the balls to lift an entire scene from Ghost – you know where Patrick Swayze’s ghost takes over Whoopi Goldberg’s body and bones Demi Moore? Yeah, that totally happens in The Lovely Bones, albeit with different characters) not because the grandma is too alcoholic. Besides, isn’t that what grandma’s are like? I mean, my grandma was always smoking cigars and drinking whiskey. Then one time my P.E. teacher told me that if she had balls she’d be my grandpa. In conclusion, Peter Jackson is really fat.
*Lucky was good though.
[via /Film]
In a recent interview, Susan Sarandon confirmed two rumors about the upcoming Speed Racer movie; that it's going to be rated G, and that it's being shot on some newfangled camera that will use a process that renders everything in the frame in sharp focus. You know, like the opposite of Larry Wachowski's gender.
Evidently, they’re using multiple layers of printed information to guarantee that everything in frame is always in focus. Hyper-clarity. As in a cartoon.
Hmm, a G-rating, I'm not sure how I feel about this. I take dumps that are PG-13. Then again, Finding Nemo was rated G, and I suspect I would've enjoyed that movie even if I hadn't taken mushrooms that day. I've never tested the theory, because what would be the point? If a hotdog tastes good with mustard, why eat it plain, ya know?
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