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Applescruff Wants To Lay Some Love On PINEAPPLE EXPRESS!
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I met Applescruff on Saturday night in a parking lot in Reseda, where all of us were gathered for the Alamo Drafthouse/Rolling Roadshow presentation of BOOGIE NIGHTS. Tim League is, without question, my favorite showman. He puts on a great party every single place he goes, and if you’re ever, ever, ever in a position to see something that Tim’s presenting, go. If you’re any sort of film fan, you’ll appreciate the experience.
Applescruff came out dressed in full-on BOOGIE NIGHTS ‘70s gear, but before the movie, all he wanted to talk about was PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. He was one of the readers who made it into that Burbank screening a week ago, and he was practically evangelical about what he saw. I’m hearing this same reaction from a lot of the people who saw it. I’m glad he wrote in to share that enthusiasm with you... check it out:
Hey Harry,
AppleScruff at your service. What a great night that Boogie Nights thing was. Nothing beats having Eli Roth pour you a Dewar’s and Coke and telling jokes with Ron Jeremy. Everyone involved in putting last night’s event together deserves a hundred nights like that. And congrats once again on the nuptials! Really happy for you guys.
Just wanted to drop in and give my take on “Pineapple Express”, a movie that defies conventional genres and manages to be both dark and light, dead serious and friggin hilarious. It’s “Harold And Kumar” meets “Reservoir Dogs”. I seriously think that the filmmaker’s goal is to make you piss and crap your pants at the same time. I don’t want to speak on the plot very much as I was told that we were the first group of people ever to see it (I thought it had just wrapped like last month! It’s crazy how quick the turnaround can be.) But I will say that it involves two stoners who are living meaningless lives; one a pot dealer, the other a process server. One of them witnesses a very bad thing and the two are suddenly forced to wake up and focus or die. It actually sounds incredibly serious when you say it like that, and I would stress that in many ways it is, but at the core of this movie is a love letter to weed, growing it, smoking it, selling it and basically anything else you can do with it (I’m pretty sure there is no way to have sex with a plant, but I think if there was someone in this movie would have done it.) As I mentioned earlier, this was the very first draft of the film, so I’m sure a few things will be trimmed. It stands at just about 2 hrs right now, but honestly I wouldn’t cut much, save maybe the very first thing we saw. There’s a prologue which I felt had absolutely NOTHING to do with the rest of the movie and served only to allow a shot of the old school Columbia logo in black and white. Almost everything else I saw was gold though. Seth Rogen is as funny as usual, and they give him yet another gorgeous love interest, only this time it’s a high school chick ala “Manhattan”. But the real star of this show is James Franco as the pot dealer Saul. He is funnier than he has any right to be, and I couldn’t breathe a few times he was on screen.
Obviously if you did not like movies like “Half Baked” or are completely against marijuana you probably won’t think some of the bits in this movie are very funny, but this is a movie from the same people that made the great series “Freaks & Geeks” along with “Knocked Up”, “Superbad” and “40 Year Old Virgin”. So rest assured that this is no mindless pot fest. This movie has it’s brain and heart firmly in tact. I’d like to mention however that I found this to be this team’s loosest picture. It’s like the “Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy” of their catalog. I’m thinking these guys are very comfortable now and they’re able to effortlessly coast through each film. And the quick turnaround from filming to test screening supports this theory. All in all I’d have to say this is one of my favorite comedies, period. It’s a movie I think I could watch over and over again. And I would advise you all to get ready to quote this movie ad infinitum, as the one-liners are piled on generously (two words: Daewoo Lanos). Unfortunately I was told this movie won’t be out till August ’08. Can’t wait to hear about another screening so I can see it again!
AppleScruff
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Oh, sorry. I'll just read that again...
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you had me at 'pot'..
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and the only thing I have ever liked James Franco in was Freaks and Geeks. This movie will be awesome.
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Haven't been raped and don't like sex.I only hope this is funny when I'm not sober, wait I meant the opposite.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910936/
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Forgot about Undeclared
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. . . but am already sick of Rogen. He's going to be way too overexposed. I'm judging too soon, but I wish Apatow had directed someone else in Rogen's place in this.
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HELLS YEAH
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although i bought a dvd of cheech and chong - still smokin! and it was pretty shit, what are the good cheech and chong movies?
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...if this isnt out til aug 08?
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Cheech and Chong are pretty hit and miss but their "Up in Smoke" is one of the funniest movies ever let alone being the one of the best stoner movies. Fucking classic. Try watching "Electroma", Daft Punk's latest movie too. Its weird but strangely cool when youre binned.
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one in my opinion. Cheech is cool. Cheech & Chong made pot cool like Bud Spencer & Terence Hill made beans cool.
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And I've come to the shocking realization that Seth Rogen has been playing the same character for 7 years now. And when is Judd planning to bring Perry back? That kid needs a comeback. He's funnier than a lot of the other people Judd keeps using.
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his taste seemed legit.
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they are screening and have been for a while it seems like why the hell is this coming out in over a year?
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though, I still think the released cut feels like a director's cut or an early test screening cut. It's so fatty, and I aint talking about the oft' shirtless Seth Rogen.
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And that's where I stopped reading this article. If someone put Dane Cook, Eli Roth, Paris Hilton, and Brittany Spears on an island off the continental U.S. America would be a much better place.
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Why the Hell would you let Eli Roth pour Coke into Dewar's Scotch? Dewar's is best served straight or simply on the rocks. Where are you from, Arkansas?
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Enough with this fat slob already. He's a glorified side-kick character actor at best. Isn't this the type of bum you wouldn't eat lunch next to in high school?
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Dewars and ... coke?!? Which sorority are you in?
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Somekinda reverse Atlas Shrugged thing with the wastes of space on strike. I like it.
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This site is SO fucked up right now.
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