Superbad (revisited)

[Bartohlowmeh]

I think superbad took all the good things about passed high school type movies and included them. I've been out of high school for a almost a decade but i could think of how i've been in almost every one of those situations, maybe not to that extreme but something similar when talking with girls, friends, guys, etc. maybe not the cop part though.

 

[uraflit]

the fat guy was hilarious. the other guy was alright.

funny movie indeed. i give 7.2/10

 

[aaron313]

Here is Superbad's script:

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Seth: screw this s***. Let's screwing find some girls to screw. Evan: awkward silence Seth makes erotic hand gesture Repeat X200

Yet somehow it is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

 

[ericj]

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Originally Posted by markl /img/forum/go_quote.gif I just got this from Netflix, and I confess I loved every minute of it. Ate it up just like a classic 80s John Hughes movie. I think this will be seen in years to come as a classic of its genre (teen-sex-comedy). It has it all-- memorable characters, catch-phrases, classic situations/scenes, and like a John Hughes movie, a real meaningful/touching core based on the visisitudes of the American High School experience. The aspect of the future college life-change breaking up high school friendships is an especially moving undercurrent.

But it's more honest than a John Hughes movie.

You can't honestly look back at the conclusion "The Breakfast Club" and believe that it's at all realistic.

Some of the elements of Superbad are way over the top, but the way it ends - with the awkward feeling-out scene at the mall - is far more believable than any john hughes script.

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Originally Posted by kjpmkjp /img/forum/go_quote.gif Am I the only one who thinks Jonah Hill has no future in acting?

You mean, aside from the two movies he's working on right now and the four he's been in since Superbad?

I just hope he expands his range a bit. He and seth rogen are running the risk of being very tightly type cast, and it doesn't have to be that way.

And i defy you to find a filmed rant about homosexuality or pornography more hilarious than his deleted Brokeback scene from Knocked Up.

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Originally Posted by Capital R /img/forum/go_quote.gif Jonah Hill, on the other hand, I cannot stand. He has ruined every movie I have seen him in except for Grandma's Boy, mainly because his character spend the majority of his onscreen time suckling at the breast of a random woman at a party. Sarah Marshall? Killed it. Knocked Up? Killed it. Superbad? Definitely killed it. Walk Hard, Evan Almighty, Accepted? Murdered. Strange Wilderness I walked out of. I don't know what it is, and I have tried to give his work a chance, but no go. I plain and simple cannot stand his acting. His mere presence in a movie, even if only for 2 seconds, is enough for me to remove a star from my rating.

So, basically what you're saying is that you hate the guy.

Your bias against him, ironically, makes your opinion about him less useful. You just can't stand the guy. If you want to criticize precisely what it is that he's doing wrong, I'd like to hear it, but right now you're just slamming him because you don't like him.

I hate Tom Cruise. On a deeply personal level. I can't think of any adjectives to describe him that aren't offensive. I feel the same way about Patrick Swayze.

I used to think that there was nothing these two guys could do that i could find at all acceptable because the second i see them on the screen i want to punch them both in the face - but then Cruise did Magnolia and Swayze did Donnie Darko. I didn't mind them much in these movies because the characters they were playing allowed me to openly loathe them.

As for Christopher "McLovin" Mintz-Plasse, he's currently got two projects in post-production and is voicing in the same animated feature as Jonah Hill. But the question remains as to whether, like John Heder, he'll milk one kind of shtick until we get sick of it or not.

 

[kjpmkjp]

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Originally Posted by ericj /img/forum/go_quote.gif I just hope he expands his range a bit. He and seth rogen are running the risk of being very tightly type cast, and it doesn't have to be that way.

You actually touched upon my personal feeling right there. I don't see him as a good actor mainly because he has one cast type, and it's such an easily, how do you say, replaceable, type. It's not exactly anything complex, just a bunch of pent up anger, swearing, and repulsive insults and gestures. Tease a fanboy, and you'd get the same outcome as many of the roles he plays.

If he broadened his acting range however, he'd stand a good chance.