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The Kentucky Colonel Gives a Purple Veined Hummer to SUPERBAD!
Hey folks, Harry here in Hotlanta, Georgia - all set for the Burt Reynolds Triple Feature at the Starlite Drive-In tonight. Can't wait! My DC/Baltimore/Talkback buddy The Kentucky Colonel just saw SUPERBAD and felt the need to share by typing this one handed review. The clean up work I did on it required a wet towelette and some antibacterial goo for my hands. Congrats on the baby pecker, KC - and this is definitely a movie to share with him in 15 or so years.
Harry,
again, wonderful to meet Patricia & yourself up in Baltimore last week. I know you were enamoured of the crab cakes....maybe I'll send you some "Old Bay" seasoning for Xmas?? Also, I'll send you the photo of Patricia & yourself when I upload my camera.
Last night the wonderful Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse had an advance screening of "Superbad" for members of their E-Mail list. When I arrived at 5:15 there were already a good 40 people in line in front of me. Not bad for a movie no one has seen, especially since the doors would not be opening until 6:30 for a 7:30 show. Much time was spent reading the Onion, DC's ON TAP magazine and various other periodicals that were thankfully a-plenty in the theater lobby. Behind me in line was a riduculously hot red head and (shrug) her husband...which only served to remind me that my own supremely hot wife was back at home, with our little fetus safely growing inside her (this morning we found out that my first child WILL BE A MASCULINE CHILD!). By the time 6:30 rolls around the line for admission has stretched around the corner and down the block by half. Even though there are 50 people in line in front of me I still secure a good seat at one of the bar tables and order up a plate of Taco Nachos. Yummy. But $2.40 for a no-refill 16oz Cola is a bit much, so I stuck to the water.
Yeah, but how was the movie, detail-boy?
Well, there are people who will go see every Adam Sandler craptacular. Why? Beats me. Will Ferrell packs them in every time. Why? Because he's funny a lot of the time, but not all of the time. Seth Rogen not only raised the bar with "The 40 Year Old Virgin", but elevated it even further with "Knocked Up" and now at last in the waning days of Summer 2007 he will be beating the living shit out of Hollywood's funnymen with "Superbad". This is a movie that is coming from out of mainstream nowhere and is going to make oil-tanker loads of money.
Simply put, I've never laughed louder, harder or longer than at "Superbad". The three leads (five, if you count Rogen & Bill Hader's insanely wicked Police officers) all shine, and look for Jonah Hill to start turning up everywhere. His character Seth is a lot like many of the guys I came up with, and I'd like to think that I see some of myself in him as well. Michael Cera as Evan is a spot-on lookalike for Beck "Loser" Hanson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse almost steals the show as the geek homeboy "McLovin". To tell any of the jokes would be to disservice the film. The relationship that develops between McLovin and the cops is amazing. These cops love having this kid along for the night, trying to prove that cops can be cool, too. The overall plot centers on McLovins new fake ID and the quest to get the alcohol, and then (if they triumph) to get to the party. Lovely almost-legal girls abound in this film, and though there is no nudity (RATS!) there is plenty of supple young flesh on display. Do the guys get the girls? Do the cops bust the party? Is McLovin lead away by the cops in handcuffs?
I'm not telling. You'll have to see for yourself. And if you're like me, you'll probably end up seeing this 3 or four times, dragging whoever you can with you each time. I'm already salivating for the DVD release date.
Fuck Sandler. Screw Ferrell. Forget Carrey. Seth Rogen is the new master. All kneel before greatness!
And this movie, it should be noted, has the funniest non-full-frontal dick jokes ever. Big old purple veined dick jokes. Everywhere. Stay for the credits, too!
Yours,
The Kentucky Colonel
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Hmmmmm?
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That review was so super useless that I had to register an account and complain about it. Seriously, was anything gained by posting that? I know he stroked your ego Harry, but Jebus, that "review" is entirely useless.
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I live in Atlanta and have gotten laid two or three times in my SUV at that place...fun times.
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...in Baltimore. Wish I had heard about this sneak preview. Glad you enjoyed it!
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This went down at the Arlington C&D?! I need to get on their mailing list because I keep missing their sneek peeks. Well done, The Kentucky Colonel.
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I guess I WON"T be having a hotdog for lunch today. As for SuperBad I'll see it and it will probably be funny, but I'm getting kinda sick of teen-agers. Don't
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amongst the AICN readers. A great town that needs a really mayor who at least has the cognitive capacity to form complete sentences. Anyway i had no problem with the review. Tell me if it's funny or not and I'll go see it. I am not one who wants details on every joke or every plot point before seeing the movie.
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Hader also deserves our worship, btw. Best thing about SNL right now.
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there i go making fun of Shelia Dixon's inability to form complete sentences and i accidentally typed "really" instead of "real". Curse you gods of irony.
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Interesting point.
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Fucking amazing. It owned my ass. I laughed all the way through. One of my major complaints of comedy movies is that they take time off of the funny to develop the story. I always wondered...why can't the story development be funny as fuck too? Well it can and was. There are so many little things in movie that are fucking hilarious and not even played up huge. Like the soccer ball. Although that review above was 95% fluff. I can vouch that the movie fucking kills. Oh and I thought Knocked Up was boring in the middle and the shitty romantic comedy in between the funny was annoying. I still liked it though but I am not some Rogen/Apatow dick rider.
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Come to England then mate and rejoice in the ridiculously expensive soft beverages. And they wonder why we're a nation of binge drinkers (hic).
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Just wanted to be the first to say it.
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Give the writers some respect!!!
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Seth Rogen is the writer of Superbad.
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...the movie is good. Enough with the reviews, jeez.
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totally staged but pretty funny
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Aug 14, 2007 10:15:42 AM CDT
they should watch out that this movie doesn't become...
by reynard muldrake
...like Snakes on a (Mothafuckin') Plane or something where all the hype gets used up before anyone actually has to pay. Though I know no one saw SoaP beforehand really, every review of Superbad is like: THIS WILL MAKE BOATLOADS OF MONEY OH WAIT I CRAPPED MYSELF AOIJDLKJ I NEED TO GO TO ANOTHER FREE SCREENING BECAUSE THEY"RE EVERYWHERE:LJKA:LJLOLLOL HARRY I LIKE THE PENIS JOKES!!!
Which is totally cool...but hopefully everyone read the reviews if it's that good and/or you're telling them, because this thing has screened a jillion times a jillion times. -
exactly
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... and may go for another screening tonight. Yes, it's that good.
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There are a lot of Knocked Up haters out there. I, for one, enjoyed the movie. I think a lot of people went for the raw dick joke humor, and Knocked Up actually had some more mature humor to it. Granted, I prefer both dick jokes and mature humor. Not to say that farting on pillows and giving each other pinkeye is mature humor, but arguments about sexual predators and taking a trip to Vegas to escape your problems temporarily, isn't exactly raw humor. Knocked Up just had a more 'adult' theme to it. It wasn't about 2 kids trying to get laid, it was about an accidental pregnancy. It was about the arguments that brew up during relationships, and the effects they have on the people involved. The arguments in Knocked Up between Seth and Katherine, and Paul and Leslie, are some of the most true-to-life petty arguments that you see on the big screen and realize, "I've had that same argument before." I think Judd did a great job directing that aspect. For anyone that's been in a long-term relationship or marriage, that type of humor can ring true, as it did for me. Maybe I'm just the only one that has retarded arguments with my girlfriend. I appreciate both styles of storytelling, but people have to realize when they go into a Judd Apatow movie, that it might not be all dick jokes. Anyway, enjoyed 40 Year Old Virgin, enjoyed Knocked Up, and looking to laugh my ass off at Superbad.
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Why not just say "I liked it a lot" and save us the time?
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Which one were you at the Roadshow? Of the few people there I was the airheaded wife giving disks to Harry. You are so lucky you got in. I tried and didn't make it. I ws amazed at the turn out. Glad you had a good time.
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None of us share your perversion towards underages girls. Way to go champ.
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I was the guy that came up next to Colonel between movie 2 and 3. When Harry found out what I did, he called me the "cell phone guy". Told us about how he FUBARed his phone. I was there when you handed the discs to Harry.
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I think we should start a pledge drive for this guy who can't afford a $2.40 coke. That's just sad.
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But ill still be seeing the movie. I agree Seth isnt that funny but he does have some great lines written for him.
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am I the only one who thought this movie wasn't funny? decent chick flick, great date movie, but it wasn't all that funny. They didn't keep the deleted scenes in the movie (which were hysterical) because the funny scenes didn't integrate well with the not-so-funny movie. Don't know what to make of this one.
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Your subscription to Barely Legal magazine is heading to your doorstep. Your wife is a lucky lucky lady.
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I don't come to AICN for purple veins. That's rottentomatoes
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Where we always say, "Take MARTA, it's SMARTA!" Actually, anyone that says that within earshot gets punched in the back of the head. To echo Rupee88, Starlight is a great place to get the car a-rockin', and if you want to spark one up, I don't think you'll have any trouble - Atlanta's finest have never bothered us once. Enjoy!
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Aug 14, 2007 1:47:25 PM CDT
So, the plot of Superbad revolves around a $2.40 Coke?
by birdys piano teacher
Nice review of going to a movie, but next time, don't mention the film itself; that's just slowing you down.
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cmon aicn. i know superbad will be good but we need some good fuckin stories on here please. screw ice cube.
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I remember talking to you but I am having a hard time remembering your face because of the darkness. One of you was wearing a skeleton T-shirt. I think it was him right or was it you? I would like your URL if you have one. www.myspace.com/liz_gray
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...drinking the $9 Heninken 6-pack, oogling the underage girls, and writing reviews short on detail and mid-sized on observations. Eat one, haters...I've got a kiddo on the way and need to save money for anti-anxiety medications. Geeze Oh Pete!
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East Coast...represent! I didda get to meet the AllPowerfulWizardOfOz, but I did see him chatting up Harry. Yoko & I were comparing wedding rings. I did have the pleasure of meeting Baltimoron & the lovely Liz. What I remember most, though, is the super-scary neighborhood just a few blocks in from the waterfront where the showing was held. Those corner kids make all the hoodies from "The Wire" seem totally PG in comparison.
and typing on Wifey's laptop is indeed the sukc.
Baby names, anybody?
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Hey Colonel, I was in line for Superbad and didn't get in. I knew I had met you before. We do travel in similar circles. I am linking my MySpace blog to your review if that is okay.
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That JUDD APATOW is the one responsible for the amazing new trend in comedies, NOT seth rogen (although im not saying he didnt help, and yes he wrote this one but big pappa judd set the stage for this humor)
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But I really wouldn't call that a review. Just some observations. Great minds, you know. You should have come up and said howdy in the Drafthouse line...everybody was giving their friends "ups"...which is kind of rude to those who had been standing/sitting in the heat for an hour and a half, only to grab up the choice seats. But for you, anything!
And to Dirk over in the UK...I'd gladly pay $2.50 for a soda made with REAL SUGAR like you blokes over there have. Hell, over here FANTA is the worst soda there is...just coloured candy water, while over there the Fanta had actual taste! That Lemon Ice was about the closest to carbonated nirvana that I've known. So I chaeped out on a small soda...I paid $8.75 + tip for some passable nachos. AMC & AFI ate into my soda budget for the week. Sure, they charge $5 for a soda, but it's a BIG FUCKING SODA, which they gladly refill ("day of show only"). I swear I am not making this up. -
I never get the soda. I agree 2:50 with no refills is too much, especially for table service. I always get a beer. If I am going to pay the money I might as well drink. The BBQ pizza is off the hook. Two weeks ago I went to the Stardust sneek peek there. It may not be the Alamo but Arlington does pretty good for this area.
Do you have a URl? If you people seach Cavepearl's Film Blog you should find me. -
all of it
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Colonel, are you referring to the Baltimore showing, cuz if Arlington Drafthouse suddenly has a waterfront close by, things have dramatically changed since I visited home at Christmas. ;) Drafthouse is pretty cool, though.
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Sorry, but "D&D" came out of my DVD after about 1/2 hour. I loved JC in "Truman" and "Eternal Sunshine" but his comedy leaves me very meh. Rumor around 96 WQMF, the old radio station I used to intern at, was that JC had picked up his "Fireman Bill" routine from a character that used to appear on "The Show With No Name" (RIP Uncle Ron Clay) named Fireman Ed. And seeing as how the whole "Fireman Bill" thing started to show up on "In Living Color" after JC & the Wayans Bros. did a live stage show in Louisville...it's eerily similar for my tastes. I think the guys on the show even wrote to the producers, but all they may have gotten back (if anything) were some stupid hats & T-shirts.
I guess you're right about "40 Y.O.V" not setting the bar. That honor belongs to "American Pie". No, wait, "Fast Times". No, wait, "Animal House"...(insert your favorites here)...all the way back to "Duck Soup". No, WAIT! "Saftey Last" started it all! That Harold Lloyd...what a fucking cut-up!
For all you barely-legal types out there, may I recommend Most Erotic Teens ( www.met-art.com ) ? They have a bitchin' amount of free nekkid women, primarily of Eastern Europen origin.
I didn't know you were in the neighborhood Mr. Nice Gaius. The Arlington Drafthouse...not near any water, BTW...well, it fucking rocks, dosen't it? I was suprised that they still let people smoke in there, not that it bothers me (5 years, 99.9% smoke free) but I though they passed a smoking ban. Or is it perhaps because of the % of $$$ generated by the alcohol & food sales? This would be a great place for RHPS, you know, with the stage and all that (and the booze...THE BOOZE) but I think the University Mall has that market cornered. Pity.
Maybe some of us East Coast types should have a movie meet & greet. The Drafthouse would be a great place to do it, too, as it seems many of us are familiar. Wouldn't it be cool if we could petition them to show the Galactica Mini this fall? What do y'all think? THE BOOZE!!!
Here are my "reviews" of the other movies I saw this weekend. I hope they are more illuminating than the little missive I fired off to HK this AM...
"The Bourne Ultimatium" at the AMC Hoffman 22: Man has flashbacks, gets chased around the globe by average looking people in a scary looking room in downtown NYC. Insert several shots of building exterior, CIA HQ, Langley, VA. Man gets help from hottie CIA insider and eventually from CIA MILF. Lots of cars go BOOM, bad guys are exposed, Man falls into East River. Sequel? You Betcha! Bucky Sez "Check It Out!"
"Lawrence of Arabia" in glorious 70mm at AFI Silver: Man dislikes job painting maps, asks for assignment to Arab Bureau. Rides a camel from left to right a lot. Meets Omar "the Sherrif" and is refered to as "English" or "Awrence" for the next three hours. Overthrows the Turks in Akaba. Obi Wan Kenobi says "I was wrong". Louis from Casablanca has a hidden agenda. Intermission. Lawrence goes back to blow up some trains. He is responsible for many deaths of those around him, including two young man-servants. Eventually goes native. Gets tortured by the Turks, so he then has to go all mideval on them. Takes no prisoners. Loses his marbles. Obi Wan knew all along "Awrence" would end up trout fishing in Surrey. Dies in a motorcycle crash at the begining of the movie. The End. Bucky sez "Only three more chances to see this sucker...Every Sunday at 7:15 till Sept. 2nd! DO IT! DO IT!!"
Still wish they could have shown "Pink Flamingos" up in Baltimore. I so missed seeing a man fuck a chicken on the big screen.
Hey Bats...was the fellow you were with the chap who works in the (real) Archives building? If so, I'd love to hook up with you both and chew the fat, maybe take the tour, etc. My wife, she's not the movie nerd I am so she usually lets me run wild with my film friends (bless her...and almost ten years my junior, too!).
And never, ever ever would I set loose a drunken friend in those West Baltimore hoods. Odds are you'd run into Candyman before you'd run into the Wire's Bodie...the corner kind with the heart of gold. Just getting that Heineken from the liquor store was eye opening enough. I was offered (no shit) $20 sacks of coke, heroin and weed...while waiting online to buy beer. I guess a white face in that neighborhood brings only one assumption...that you are there to cop. On the upside, I know where to score if ever I need to.
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Hee Hee
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hatespeach, you sir are an idiot - Seth Rogan wrote superbad!! I suppose you also hate reading and hate research. If you are going to be a smart ass at least be informed.
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This movie was screened at least 3 other times that I am aware of, and I saw this back on July 24th in a different part of Arlington than you did.
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That's what I'm hoping for...
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And until he does another Ace Ventura, I'll keep forgetting about him! The Number 23--BAH!
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Now Canton you'll be fine. Federal Hill you'll be fine as long as you don't go too far south.
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Seriously. Ugh...
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No dicked little boys don't excite her. I don't mean small dicks, I'm telling you she told me you had NO DICK, like a Ken doll, only with less of a bulge. Go back to your mama's teat, fanboy.
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rogan co-wrote it dumbass
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uhhh what?
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Aug 16, 2007 12:30:01 AM CDT
Micheal Cera Looks Like A Deer Caught In The Headlights
by red dawn don
Not hating, just an observation. Now all you Micheal Cera bath-water drinkers attack me.
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Aug 16, 2007 3:11:49 AM CDT
the actors expressions on the superbad poster
by calstatelongbeachfilmmaker1
Why do the actors have that stupid expression on their face on the superbad poster? I mean they look like a pair of fucking idiots. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER THIS TALKBACK QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 16, 2007 3:18:16 AM CDT
seth rogen, evan goldberg = Apatow's bitches
by calstatelongbeachfilmmaker1
Alright, I'm sorry here, but I've got to rant about these three so-called "writers". Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are only there writing scripts and working because they know Apatow and Apatow is the Bruckheimer of Comedy right now. They are riding Apatow's cotails all the way to the Green Hornet movie. I mean come on there has got to be a ton of more talented writers out there who can't get a break and here come these two guys and just because they know Apatow they are getting writing assignments here and there. Come on, can anyone see how these two guys are just Apatow's bitches. I challenge anybody to respond to that.....
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Are you seriously telling me you wouldn't help your friends make a film if you were a successful producer/writer/director of your own? Bullsheeet.
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My point is that it's unfair that he helps out these two obviously mediocre, young writers when there are a bunch of incredibly talented writers out there with scripts that are probably a thousand times funnier than Superbad or whatever the fuck Rogen/Goldberg are writing now and they can't get into the industry because they are not friends with Apatow.
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Again, they are pals and you help pals. I happen to think there's a lot of people out there who should be writing professionally (I'm a contracted writer, just not a well-known one, and there's better out there then me who aren't), but getting it big in writing is all about luck and grabbing chances. Rogen grabbed his, and props to him. If anyone wants to strike it big, or even get paid, I say they should stop griping via the net and go for it.
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