WARNING: Dewey Cox sucks

[koolmoecraig]

Horrible.

Unless you like penis jokes revolving around his last name.  Ugh.

[tommy]

Wasn't this obvious without even bothering to see it?

[ChadTower]

Even the movie title is a penis pun.  Who didn't see that penis coming? 

[shardian]

Excerpt from the book "Rules to live by"

Rules to live by - #18745 "Movie parodies"
  Do not ever spend your hard earned money on theatre tickets to see a movie parody of any kind - not even as a matinee. These movies are fully intended to be straight to dvd, but sometimes they roll them out in January and February in an effort to part unsuspecting individuals from their hard-earned money. It is , however, fully acceptable to rent said movies.

 

[ChadTower]

These movies will keep being made.  They don't cost much (on a Hollywood scale) and don't need to get much back to be profitable.  Break even on the theaters, make money on the DVDs, there it is.

[koolmoecraig]

Superbad was funny.

[skippy]

I think the honeymoon has kind of ended with that director/writer/producer Judd Apatow.  By now, everyone has been burned at least once by his movies.  Let's run down a selection of his recent list:

# Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (producer)
- good reviews, bad box office performance (see above)

# Superbad (2007) (producer)
- made no sense, couldn't follow the plot, not funny, gave up with 30 minutes left

# Knocked Up (2007) (producer)
- not funny.  flip flopped between tired cliche and depressing.  got to the part with the woman in labor and turned it off.

# Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) (producer)
- I could only stand this one for 15 minutes

# The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) (producer)
- funny, boring, funny, boring.  ending was completely ridiculous and ruined it.

# Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (producer)
- about one joke every 10 minutes was funny, gave up halfway through.


I was listening to NPR last night and they did a long, long interview about Dewey Cox and played several of the songs from the movie.  Not a single one of them was funny.

Obviously you are just too much of an intellectual for these movies.  They have all done well and the average person enjoys them.

[crashwg]

I think the honeymoon has kind of ended with that director/writer/producer Judd Apatow.  By now, everyone has been burned at least once by his movies.  Let's run down a selection of his recent list:

# Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (producer)
- good reviews, bad box office performance (see above)

# Superbad (2007) (producer)
- made no sense, couldn't follow the plot, not funny, gave up with 30 minutes left

# Knocked Up (2007) (producer)
- not funny.  flip flopped between tired cliche and depressing.  got to the part with the woman in labor and turned it off.

# Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) producer)
- I could only stand this one for 15 minutes

# The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) (producer)
- funny, boring, funny, boring.  ending was completely ridiculous and ruined it.

# Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (producer)
- about one joke every 10 minutes was funny, gave up halfway through.


I was listening to NPR last night and they did a long, long interview about Dewey Cox and played several of the songs from the movie.  Not a single one of them was funny.

Oh man, I liked every one of those movies very much with the exception of Dewy Cox which I haven't seen YET.  The only one I'd score less than maybe an 8 (out of 10) is Knocked Up and even that I'd recommend as maybe 6/6.5...  If I were the type who goes to theaters, I'd definitely go see Walk Hard!

[danny_galaga]

I think the honeymoon has kind of ended with that director/writer/producer Judd Apatow.  By now, everyone has been burned at least once by his movies.  Let's run down a selection of his recent list:

# Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (producer)
- good reviews, bad box office performance (see above)

# Superbad (2007) (producer)
- made no sense, couldn't follow the plot, not funny, gave up with 30 minutes left

# Knocked Up (2007) (producer)
- not funny.  flip flopped between tired cliche and depressing.  got to the part with the woman in labor and turned it off.

# Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) (producer)
- I could only stand this one for 15 minutes

# The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) (producer)
- funny, boring, funny, boring.  ending was completely ridiculous and ruined it.

# Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (producer)
- about one joke every 10 minutes was funny, gave up halfway through.


I was listening to NPR last night and they did a long, long interview about Dewey Cox and played several of the songs from the movie.  Not a single one of them was funny.

harsh...

i agree superbad blew chunks though. doubt i will bother seeing dewey cox.

[shardian]

I think the honeymoon has kind of ended with that director/writer/producer Judd Apatow.  By now, everyone has been burned at least once by his movies.  Let's run down a selection of his recent list:

# Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (producer)
- good reviews, bad box office performance (see above)

# Superbad (2007) (producer)
- made no sense, couldn't follow the plot, not funny, gave up with 30 minutes left

# Knocked Up (2007) (producer)
- not funny.  flip flopped between tired cliche and depressing.  got to the part with the woman in labor and turned it off.

# Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) (producer)
- I could only stand this one for 15 minutes

# The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) (producer)
- funny, boring, funny, boring.  ending was completely ridiculous and ruined it.

# Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (producer)
- about one joke every 10 minutes was funny, gave up halfway through.


I was listening to NPR last night and they did a long, long interview about Dewey Cox and played several of the songs from the movie.  Not a single one of them was funny.

I pretty much agree with this. I thought Knocked up was somewhat funny. Unfortunately, the F-bomb was dropped WAY too much and really took away from that movie. If it was PG-13, it would have been much funnier.

40 year old virgin was definitely overrated. There were some funny spots, but it seemed to just drag on forever, and had way to much pointless dialogue.

I wanted Ricky Bobby to be funny, but it just wasn't.

Anchorman. Wow, that movie was a huge turd.

[tommy]

I never bothered to see any of those movies. You can just tell what a pile of crap looks like right off the bat and I never thought twice about them again.

Stop supporting crap movies, people. Make these producers make quality stuff and stop giving your money to them for giving you crap. 

[ChadTower]

Finally saw The Simpsons Movie last night... wow was that disappointing.  There was barely any storyline at all, just random attempts to squeeze in everything they could fit.  Just not something I'll ever want to watch again.  The gold standard for this type of animated sitcom movie for me is Beavis and Butthead Do America.  That movie should have been terrible... taking a 5 minute concept out to 80 minutes... but it is awesome.  I've probably watched it 450 times.

Saw I am Legend last week too... that was really, really good until 3/4 of the way in when it turned into The Mummy.  Then it just got weird.

[tommy]

I think the Simpsons was dead ever since Family Guy started. Family Guy is just so much more original and so much more funny. I think that show is the only show around that gets me laughing every time I watch it.

[CCM]

Saw I am Legend last week too... that was really, really good until 3/4 of the way in when it turned into The Mummy.  Then it just got weird.

The wife and I saw it last week as well.  We were both disappointed that they changed things sooo much from the book.

[AtomSmasher]

I think the Simpsons was dead ever since Family Guy started. Family Guy is just so much more original and so much more funny. I think that show is the only show around that gets me laughing every time I watch it.

In that case, you'll probably love those movies.  Family Guy has never given me more then a slight chuckle, every episode is just a string of disjointed jokes about pop culture in the 80's.

[koolmoecraig]

Did you like The Big Lebowski?   That movies averages 1 F-word every 46 seconds.

The best way to sum up how lame the Family Guy is is to watch the South Park episode where they rip it to shreds.

[RayB]

I justify those movies as being made for 17 years olds (naive, immature, mush for brains...). Knocked Up here was rated 14 and up, fyi. My tastes have less and less in common with teenagers the older I get (which is surely a good thing, as teens don't have very discriminating taste)

I don't expect much from those kinds of comedies, so I rarely waste money on them. Having seen Talledega Nights for free on cable, it had its moments.  Anchorman I couldn't get into so I've only seen 10 minutes of it.

Same applies to most horror and "super natural" movies they pump out. Most are aimed at a rather unsophisticated crowd (which is why Rob Zombie can get away with directing movies and having them actually get distributed to theatres). Me, I'm too jaded now. All those movies are predictable, as I've seen the same plot lines or jokes over and over before.  I Am Legend was good and I would recommend it, but even that one is essentially just a well-polished mash-up of Omega Man + 28 Days Later

[AtomSmasher]

I Am Legend was good and I would recommend it, but even that one is essentially just a well-polished mash-up of Omega Man + 28 Days Later

Well it should be very similar to Omega Man since they are both based off of the same book.

[ChadTower]

Forget all of that.  This is the future of entertainment.   

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SJCQZW_FdLY[/youtube]

[shardian]

Vincent Price's "The last Man on Earth" is frikkin awesome. I highly recommend it over I am Legend. Why in the hell did they go with CGI monster things??

[ChadTower]

Vincent Price's "The last Man on Earth" is frikkin awesome. I highly recommend it over I am Legend. Why in the hell did they go with CGI monster things??

And why were these "mindless zombies" organized with pets and armies?     One minute they're dumb enough to eat each other, the next they are coordinating search parties.

[CCM]

Vincent Price's "The last Man on Earth" is frikkin awesome. I highly recommend it over I am Legend. Why in the hell did they go with CGI monster things??

I highly recommend the book over all 3 movies....

[CCM]

Vincent Price's "The last Man on Earth" is frikkin awesome. I highly recommend it over I am Legend. Why in the hell did they go with CGI monster things??

And why were these "mindless zombies" organized with pets and armies?     One minute they're dumb enough to eat each other, the next they are coordinating search parties.

I read an article in Sci Fi magazine about the movie where the director said that they wanted to stay away from the "mindless zombies" like in 28 Days because it has been done too much.  They wanted to have a different spin on things.

Also, the vampires in the original book weren't mindless.

[ChadTower]

I could go with zombies with some intelligence... but supernaturally strong, climbing up buildings for no reason, running around faster than his Mustang?

[CCM]

I could go with zombies with some intelligence... but supernaturally strong, climbing up buildings for no reason, running around faster than his Mustang?

I agree 100% there.  That is one of the complaints I had about the movie.

[ChadTower]

1 of 2 reasons...

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1)  He didn't think they cared about the woman and the kid.  They wanted him.  Plus he killed the leader that wanted him, so yes, they would stop if both Smith and the leader were dead.  All he had to do was get them through to the next day so they could flee in the daylight.

or

2)  He wanted to die anyway because he didn't believe there was anyone else out there.  He had tried to kill himsell the night before.  Finding the cure was a coincedence by then - he had stopped trying.

The thing that made no sense to me is that with a contained explosion like that those two people would have been cooked deader than a burned pot roast if there were any oxygen at all down there after the fire.

[shardian]

Just curious, but in I am Legend, at any point does a zombie knock on Will Smith's door with a club and say, "Come out Morgan!". 

[shmokes]

I thought Anchorman and Taladega Nights were awful.  I thought 40 Year Old Virgin and Superbad were pretty great.  Haven't seen knocked up.  Also, Family Guy is incredibly lame.

[Jdurg]

I thought Anchorman and Taladega Nights were awful.  I thought 40 Year Old Virgin and Superbad were pretty great.  Haven't seen knocked up.  Also, Family Guy is incredibly lame.

Ouch.  I LOVE Family Guy.  Mostly because of the random jokes that play on useless crap that I can still remember.  I guess I'm lucky because a simple fart joke still makes me laugh.  I feel fortunate for that.  I also like how Family Guy mixes some high class social humor with random "WTF?!!!!!" type humor.  That's what I love.

I thought that Taladega Nights was "okay".  I watched it about five times during a business trip I had over to the United Kingdom.  It was the best choice at the time.  It was decent watching it once, but on repeated viewings it just got obnoxious.  Thankfully, the free champagne made it feel less "sucky".  On my last international trip I had choices between The Simpsons Movie, Transformers, Live Free Or Die Hard, and many others.  I thought The Simpsons Movie was okay, and Live Free or Die Hard was complete and utter ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  It ruined the franchise.  1 and 3 were AWESOME, 2 was pretty damned good, but the latest one hurt my brain.  I just wish I had watched Transformers instead.   

[koolmoecraig]

Watch the South Park "Cartoon Wars" Part 1 & 2.  They rip on Family Guy's writing by having the boys discover that Family Guy isn't actually written at all.  It's created by a bunch of sedated manatees who take "idea balls"(which have random pop culture references written on them) and send them down a tube attached to their aquarium.  The balls are then put together like lottery balls to become a Family Guy joke.

Brilliant.

[tommy]

You want to talk about lame, South park is as lame as it gets. Having to hear those annoying retarded voices makes me want to bash my TV in. Worst show ever IMO. The only reason it's so popular is little kids like to hear other little kids say curse words in a voice that sounds like them on TV.

[shardian]

You want to talk about lame, South park is as lame as it gets. Having to hear those annoying retarded voices makes me want to bash my TV in. Worst show ever IMO. The only reason it's so popular is little kids like to hear other little kids say curse words in a voice that sounds like them on TV.

South Park has always been one of the funniest and smartest social commentaries on TV. They really put the outrageous ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in real life into perspective. Ever seen the episode where cartman proves he can eat thru his butt and poop out his mouth, and then it becomes a cultural fad for the world? That was comedy gold I tell you!

It really doesn't surprise me though that YOU don't like South Park. I'm still trying to figure out why you still come here, since you have absolutely nothing in common with anyone here.

[tommy]

I like coming here just do disagree with you. If you were to leave I would have no reason to stay. 

[tommy]

I agree 100% there.  That is one of the complaints I had about the movie.

Well, the ending pissed me off pretty good.... 

*spoilers*


there was no reason he couldn't have set the grenade on the counter and hopped into the hatch with the woman/kid. 

 

Since he lost his dog there was no point in going on.    Who knows, they wanted him to die for the cause after he found the cure since he was responsible for it all (I guess) and felt guilty.

[ChadTower]

The mormonism episode where they "retell" the Mormon theology the whole while the music is saying DUMB DA DUMB DUMB DUMB was pretty funny, though probably not if you're a mormon.

[tommy]

You guys really watch this show and enjoy it, as adults? 

[shmokes]

I hated that episode!   

[Jdurg]

I thought that South Park was pretty good in its first few seasons, but then I think it turned into one of the most overrated, overhyped shows out there.  Frankly, I can't see how handicapped jokes, fat jokes, and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- jokes can be "funny" 8-million times over.  Yes they are trying to be "political", but that's just a spine to throw their fat/cripple/poop jokes onto.

[CCM]

You guys really watch this show and enjoy it, as adults? 

I think South Park is meant for adults.  I know for sure that if I had kids, there is no way in hell they would be allowed to watch it.

[ChadTower]

I don't watch it often at all - mostly in the background while I'm doing something in one specific room of the house - and even then when I'm sick of the more usual stuff I use for that.

The "alien anal probe" episode from season 1 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV, in the movies, in real life, ever.