Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Mashiro on August 18, 2007, 09:03:08 PM
Title: Superbad
Post by: Mashiro on August 18, 2007, 09:03:08 PM
So I saw Superbad the other night, overall it was good and I certainly found myself laughing out loud at some moments in the film but it wasn't as good as Rolling Stone Magazine made it out to be.
It certainly didn't live up to the hype but that didn't prevent me from enjoying the film. If you like movies like the 40 year old virgin and Knocked Up you'll enjoy Superbad. Though, to be honest, I enjoyed the overall pacing and story of the other two films over Superbad.
There is one element of Superbad that was lacking and it really was the story. The ending in particular was severely lacking.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 18, 2007, 09:10:32 PM
Ehhe, I don't have much interest in seeing Superbad but I did see Stardust which I was really surprised by, I wasn't expecting much and came away really impressed, it could be one of my favorites. In a lot of ways it reminded me of the Princess Bride.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Kairon on August 18, 2007, 09:19:04 PM
Screw your modern day American Hollywood movies. I'm watching BBC miniseries baby! Oh yeah! North & South! Wives & Daughters! The Forsyte Saga! Horatio Hornblower! *dies of happiness*
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 18, 2007, 09:19:48 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Kairon Screw your modern day American Hollywood movies. I'm watching BBC miniseries baby! Oh yeah! North & South! Wives & Daughters! The Forsyte Saga! Horatio Hornblower! *dies of happiness*
I think Kairon is jealous.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: that Baby guy on August 18, 2007, 09:26:14 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Kairon Screw your modern day American Hollywood movies. I'm watching BBC miniseries baby! Oh yeah! North & South! Wives & Daughters! The Forsyte Saga! Horatio Hornblower! *dies of happiness*
You sound like my roommate. Oddly enough, he hadn't played games in years, but now his Wii Tennis rank is literally off the charts. Where's yours?
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Kairon on August 18, 2007, 09:26:54 PM
I could've gone to see a movie tomorrow, but had to decline since there's a family picnic I need to attend...
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: Kairon on August 18, 2007, 09:27:44 PM
Quote Originally posted by: thatguy
Quote Originally posted by: Kairon Screw your modern day American Hollywood movies. I'm watching BBC miniseries baby! Oh yeah! North & South! Wives & Daughters! The Forsyte Saga! Horatio Hornblower! *dies of happiness*
You sound like my roommate. Oddly enough, he hadn't played games in years, but now his Wii Tennis rank is literally off the charts. Where's yours?
... no comment.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: that Baby guy on August 18, 2007, 09:38:17 PM
I'm not even a pro in it. That's the sad part. I guess, in a way, you could say that I'm superbad
But seriously, most of what he watches is BBC, and most of his movies are foreign films. I don't really like those things, but I try to be open minded.
However, SuperBad is not a movie I plan to open my mind to.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 18, 2007, 09:40:34 PM
Quote Originally posted by: thatguy I'm not even a pro in it. That's the sad part. I guess, in a way, you could say that I'm superbad
But seriously, most of what he watches is BBC, and most of his movies are foreign films. I don't really like those things, but I try to be open minded.
However, SuperBad is not a movie I plan to open my mind to.
Since you have been assimilated you have no choice but to close your mind to Superbad.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: bustin98 on August 19, 2007, 06:19:49 PM
I, on the other hand, would love to see Superbad. I also want to see Stardust as I am a big Neil Gaiman fan. I even had a drink with the man in Detroit (years ago). Cool dude.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: that Baby guy on August 19, 2007, 06:23:06 PM
Well, believe it or not, I was talking to my roommate, and he said he thought it looked like a good movie, much to my surprise. His birthday is a little over a week from now, so me and a friend of his will probably treat him to the movie this weekend or something.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on August 20, 2007, 09:38:09 PM
I thought the movie was really good but i can see where some people might not like or not get the humour. Only recently turning 21 and still having alot of the same friends from high school (some of which i've known since 1st grade) it was easy to relate to the type of angst the two main characters dealt with and the how it felt having your best friend go to a different school, as well as the type of humour that went with it. The way they portrayed high school seniors came off as very real to me, the situations, the dialogue, everything. When compared to the almost realistic group of horny guys from a movie like American Pie, or to the never realistic portrayals of teens in movies like She's All That, Superbad is one of the realist movies i've ever seen. The humour comes with being able to relate, so if you think you're to old to sit around with your best friend and just curse for the hell of it and yell at each other for no reason then no, this movie isn't going to be funny to you. Yes it is sophomoric but its not like its nothing but fart jokes, it's just angry/bored teens saying and doing really dumb and messed up things. I think anyone that had a normal childhood can relate. Of course if you were a bit of an outcast you'll relate with the characters a little better but you don't have to be cuz even the popular kids had that one guy in the group that would mention how a girl looked in a really funny way (in most of the adds one of the characters brags about how he saw some girls g-string thru her pants, who hasn't had a friend like that?)
as for the ending... I'll be honest, at first i didn't like it but the more i thought about it the more it grew on me. Normally i watch this type movie and like to have everything wrapped up at the end but with this one they didn't do that. I won't give it away here, not that it matters its not like i'll be spoiling plot twist, i'd just rather anyone who might see it themselves experience it and make their own conclusions.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on August 20, 2007, 09:56:51 PM
(double posting cuz of wii's character limit)
i realized why i didn't like the ending at first, and its because it didn't tell you what happens but i really wanted to know. By the end of it i related so much with the characters that i wanted to see them have a happy ending. I saw so much of me and my friends in that movie that i really wanted to know what happened next, and its rare for me to feel that way with a movie.
I was fortunate enough to see the movie with my best friend sitting next to me. I've known this guy since we were 4 and like i said i've just turned 21. I say fortunate because he happened to be back in town from college and it was the last day i'd see him before going back to upstate new york. We had a similar situation as the two main characters in the movie where he was going off to college and i wasn't, and had to deal with the fact that the guy who i've done every thing with since i can remember wasn't going to be there anymore.
By the end of the movie i saw us in it and liked how the ending was left pretty open. You never know whats going to happen and this movie had plenty of moments where life takes a crazy turn for better or worse. I'd like to think the two friends end up like joe and i, after 17 years we can still hang out and be as close as we always were even though we're completely different people with our own lives now. But it can also go the other way and be like another friend of mine who i knew for almost as long, we had a falling out and don't speak to each other at all any more.
Thats the beauty of this movie and its story, and how real its portrayed, that you just don't know whats going to happen next but like life and the relationships you build in it, you can make of them what you will.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Kairon on August 20, 2007, 11:02:05 PM
I cannot believe you typed all of that on the wii softwasre keyboard. Your hand/arm/wrist must be aching so much now.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on August 21, 2007, 04:58:44 PM
no, its fairly simple actually, especially when using the cell phone style input method with the auto-complete on. i do like 90% of my posting from my wii now since i have easier access to this then the family computer.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Ian Sane on August 25, 2007, 06:09:32 PM
Saw this last night. Lately there have been a lot of comedies being made that just nail it for me. They're just funny in exactly the way I want them to be. Superbad is such a film. It's like the type of film my friends and I would probably make only we didn't so all the jokes are fresh! Just hilarious.
One thing that added to the experience is that due to it all being a last minute outing, my brother and I went to a later show than we usually do. And I just moved to Abbotsford which is the only municipality in the area that doesn't have some big Famous Players Silver City type theatre. Going to the old type of theatre that was the only type of theatre there was when I was a teen, late at night, to see a teen comedy just made me feel young(er). It was great. In fact the only thing that didn't really fit my high school life was that everyone had a cellphone when back in the late 90s only drug dealers had cellphones and Evan wasn't playing an N64/Playstation era game. Other than that this could have been June 1999 all over again (though as is typical my real life wasn't nearly as interesting as the ones in a movie).
It helps that my best friends are all old high school buddies and when we get together we pretty much act like the same bastards we were in high school (we were mature for our age then and immature for our age now) so a film like this still relates to me. If you're someone who refuses to let adulthood mold you into a boring person you'll probaby like this movie. And considering we all still play videogames I imagine almost everyone here fits that description.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: matt oz on August 25, 2007, 07:33:21 PM
hey easy cure, how's your vagina?
anyway, even though i didn't see this movie, i'll still complain about it (Super Paper Mario reference!):
it doesn't look funny. i saw the 40 year old virgin, and wanted to turn it off halfway through. it was excruciatingly unfunny. knowing that this movie came from the same guy(s) makes me want to completely avoid it. I liked Michael Cera in 'Arrested Development' but he's certainly not enough to make me spend $10.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Mashiro on August 25, 2007, 08:01:05 PM
Quote i saw the 40 year old virgin, and wanted to turn it off halfway through. it was excruciatingly unfunny.
That's a shame, someday I hope you find a sense of humor.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: matt oz on August 26, 2007, 04:29:58 AM
Quote Originally posted by: Mashiro
Quote i saw the 40 year old virgin, and wanted to turn it off halfway through. it was excruciatingly unfunny.
That's a shame, someday I hope you find a sense of humor.
I have a sense of humor, of course. It usually needs to be stimulated by intelligent humor that takes some thought to create. I enjoy satires and farces, not some guy getting his chest waxed and screaming.
Also, people falling down is always funny. Especially when they slip on ice.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on August 26, 2007, 05:44:30 AM
Quote Originally posted by: matt oz hey easy cure, how's your vagina?
Oh yeah, thats real intelligent humour right there.
If i based your personality off that one quote i'd say the type of humour in the movie is something you'd like. Hell it might even be a direct quote!
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Mashiro on August 26, 2007, 06:36:28 AM
Yeah for real . . .
Also: you like farces? Aren't those usually not based on intellectual humor?
Quote Also, people falling down is always funny. Especially when they slip on ice.
You're being sarcastic right?
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Ian Sane on August 26, 2007, 06:23:55 PM
Falling down is at its funniest when something is knocked over in the process, preferably with something being broken.
Though the ultimate humour is when a character swears in a situation where it is incredibly inappropriate like in church or in front of kids. So an adult being asked to speak in front of kids in Sunday school and accidently letting an f-bomb of is the funniest thing in the world. Anyone can say "f*ck". A true comedic genius knows WHEN to say "f*ck" to get the most laughs. My favourite "f*ck" ever was in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry was in a broadway play and accidently gets elbowed in the ribs too hard by a castmate and breaks character on stage by yelling "OH F*CK!"
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 26, 2007, 07:27:41 PM
Yeah cussing loudly in church and in front of kids is freaking hilarious.
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Kairon on August 26, 2007, 07:39:17 PM
Done right it is. It's all in the delivery...
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Adrock on August 26, 2007, 08:13:17 PM
Just saw it a few hours ago. Excellent movie. Jonah Hill is hilarious.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 26, 2007, 08:16:59 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Kairon Done right it is. It's all in the delivery...
Not really. Anyway I put Superbad with movies like American Pie, it is a "cool" teen or early 20s movie, where foul mouthed, over sexualized punks (Not everyone to be clear, but the group of kids I have seen going to that movie tend to be on the obnoxious side and aren't the kind of people I'd want to hang out with) go to see, then cause trouble afterwards. So if I do see it, it will be at home without those kinds of people, then again American Pie was still terrible even doing that.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on August 27, 2007, 06:08:11 AM
Quote Originally posted by: Ian Sane Falling down is at its funniest when something is knocked over in the process, preferably with something being broken.
Though the ultimate humour is when a character swears in a situation where it is incredibly inappropriate like in church or in front of kids. So an adult being asked to speak in front of kids in Sunday school and accidently letting an f-bomb of is the funniest thing in the world. Anyone can say "f*ck". A true comedic genius knows WHEN to say "f*ck" to get the most laughs. My favourite "f*ck" ever was in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry was in a broadway play and accidently gets elbowed in the ribs too hard by a castmate and breaks character on stage by yelling "OH F*CK!"
for some reason that reminded me of a really stupid idea my friend and i had one day that we both thought was histerical..
the idea came up when we were hanging out in my car listening to tunes, and a really funky song came on, and at a red light we started car dancing like morons. i did that stupid arm snake thing.. where you lock your hands to gether and make a ~~ motion, im sure you've seen someone do it and look like a tool... anywho so i did that, seperated the hands and let "the groove travel" from the end of one arm to the other, passed it off to him and he continued...
lol yeah, stupid i know... anyway, with that said.. i came up with a funny idea for the movie we always talk about making but never do. in it we would be doing that on the street and after i pass it off to him and he starts doing the dance, he bumps into an old woman using a walker, knocking the walker a few feet away and her flat on her face..
everything and everyone stops, its quite for 3 seconds and he goes to help her "ma'am are you ok, im so sorry" and he touches her hand to help her up... and thats when she feels the funk! she starts doing the worm on the ground up to her walker, then straddles it and continus dancing. seeing that she's alright everyone around us cheers and boogies down.
its so retarded but it still makes us laugh when we think about it
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: Ian Sane on August 27, 2007, 06:15:13 AM
EasyCure your film idea sounds like it would be good for a Superbowl ad. It doesn't really matter what product it would be for. FUNKY GRANDMA!!... oh by the way buy Castrol GTX.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on August 27, 2007, 06:54:53 AM
nah i see Funky Grandma becoming the new Doritoes chick ;-)
Title: RE: Superbad
Post by: MattVDB on September 03, 2007, 09:40:17 PM
You guys thought Superbad was funny? Wait until Pineapple Express comes out. Sooo freaking funny. It's done by the same people and it apparently comes out 8/8/08 but dang if it isn't funny. Saw an advance screening, and I highly recommend it. Write it down.
Title: RE:Superbad
Post by: EasyCure on September 04, 2007, 07:32:57 AM
pineapple express eh? havent heard of that one. i did hear the same guys were doing a flick called Drillbit Taylor, but the trailer didnt look too funny which is dissapointing.
