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THE FOOT FIST WAY Website Goes Online! And Fred Simmons Dropped By CONAN Last Night?
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Fred Simmons is the King of the Demo, and now America finally has had a taste of just what that means.
I included THE FOOT FIST WAY on my Best of 2007 list, but for most of you, it’s going to be a 2008 release. I’m so happy to see the publicity machine on this one start to kick into gear. I love the notion of having “Fred Simmons” make appearances on talk shows. We’re going to have plenty of time to get to know Danny McBride in the next few years... right now, selling the character is more important. It’s not unlike the way Pixar keeps selling the character of WALL·E more than any one particular plot element of the film itself.
There’s a lot of really subtle stuff in what McBride does during the CONAN appearance, and the same is true of the movie. I love that he brought Julio with him for the TV appearance, and the eagle-eyed among you will spot writer/director Jody Hill onstage as well.
April 11th is when Paramount Vantage begins to roll this one out, and when they do, I am personally asking you to give it a shot. I don’t often get as evangelical about a film as I am about this one, but I think this is a great, special film, and if you want to understand the inevitable hype over McBride in the next few years, this is Ground Zero.
Thanks to everyone who sent us heads up on the website and on the CONAN appearance as well.
Did you know they put up the official site for THE FOOT FIST WAY?
It rules - even got a soundboard. Which is actually not rules because now this thing we all love is gonna be big and everyone gonna like it. Which i have a feeling won't happen, actually -- he's too fucking weird for most. But my God do I love him.
Fred Simmons was also on Conan last night and was very, very, very funny. The clip is floating around youtube but nbc keeps putting the kibosh on it. The entire Conan show should pop up on the NBC website sometime today so you can see it there.
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Blech.
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McBride is definitely the highlight of the upcoming Pineapple Express. Which, by the way, I don't know how got such huge buzz. It's a solid, funny movie but the action just didn't work for me. McBride and Franco are unbelievable though.
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They will continue to push this brand of comedy ala, Jude and co. By the way, this dude was not funny.
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was it very very funny???
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I kept asking myself, "This is what he's been going apeshit for?" I knew immediately what what happening when Danny McBride walked out, but the audience clearly didn't. I don't think many realized that he wasn't a real karate instructor, even by the end. Granted, I chuckled a few times but that was it. Perhaps they should have made it more clear by the end, but Conan continued to play along. And I saw McBride in Hot Rod. He was just as terrible as the rest of the film. I hope I eat my words when this comes out, but I just don't understand the hype.
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when i saw him last night on Conan... i was like What In The Fucking hell is going on with this dude?! i knew it was an act.. but at the same time i couldn't tell. very very funny.
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i had never seen this dude before so i had no idea who in the hell he was.
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Saw this at the Sundance (was that 3 years ago?- man, time flies), and I laughed my ass off all the way through it. In some ways it seems like a spin off of the Napoleon Dynamite- the karate dojo scene near the beginning of the film. The lead actor does a great job playing the incompetent, over-confident instructor with the big ego. I'm hoping they've tightened it up a bit (kind of meandered a bit towards the end. Even in the form I saw it, though, I think it would be successful. Funny as hell.
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I thought this was great when I saw it last night, but I knew what was going on. I remember reading about the making of this movie a couple of years ago on a David Gordon Green website, and I'm happy it's getting a release.
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Hot Rod? There wasn't much in that flick that made me laugh out loud, but that dude wrecking that guy for no reason and taking his hat was fucking hilarious, tears flowed. Is this the same dude?
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IMDB solved the mystery...This gets a maybe from me!
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And I believe Ferrell does as well, hence McBride's appearance after Ferrell. Ferrell is also producing a show for HBO with McBride made by the same guys who made "Foot Fist Way." Fun fact: The writer and director of "Foot Fist Way" are the guys in "Superbad" who tell Jonah Hill he's got period blood on his leg.
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But at least he wasn't a writer on this one. All 3 of them seem pretty cool, BTW.
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Feb 27, 2008 7:27:56 PM CST
For a second I thought this was a thread about CONAN THE BARBARI
by -888
...and JAVIER BARDEM is the only man alive who can play Conan on film! The character could totally give a rel actor plenty of interesting shit to do, if he's written properly as he appears in the Howard stories. See The Whole Wide World if you don't believe me! That's my story and I'll only change it if you confuse me a whole bunch!
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...and dig Conan's style of awkward humor, but goddamn, this was painfully unfunny. I "get it", but wow. I'd rather watch Kevin Smith run the F'in Matt D. joke into the ground 20 more times (and *that* was weak).
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Simmons did that shit with his mind.
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http://tinyurl.com/3co2ka
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At first I thought it was real, till he snaped at Ferrell. Then i thought. This has to be a conan skit or something, but its a movie?
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What are you fucking stupid? Just because someone does a character you instantly compare him to another recently popular character? Please die in a fucking fire for not observing the countless characters throughout the history of mankind that preceded Borat. Idiot.
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A bit humourous perhaps, but not really funny.
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FUCK YOU! NOT EVEN CONAN SAVED IT
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was any sign of things to come. I think Mori was wrong. No one on Conan was laughing, and laughing was an uncomfortable what the fuck is this laugh. If William Ferrell seemed embarrassed to be there.
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I need to learn to proof my post, sorry I was trying to write that and watch I am Beowulf for the first time.
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...Sell the fictional character. Which is good, if you have enough material to go around. This was kind of flat, but late show formats, what with their painfully unfunny and dead eyed mannequin hosts, aren't the best format to do funny on. Still looking forward to it, because I like that whole North Carolina/David Gordon Green thing. Which is why I'm looking forward to Pineapple Express and not the other Apatow Marshall flick thats coming. Plus he was funny in Hot Rod, which was the hardest working, but least funny comedy I've seen in yonks.
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...But I don't meet the age requirements for the site. Suck my cock. I'll download this then, since I'm too old to want to go see it anyway.
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In Hot Rod, he was vastly better than anything else in that film.
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about their products...NBC pulls the conan clip and paramount make it impossible to enter their website. I am 33 yet cannot enter the site. when are these fucking studios going to realise by pissing people off they are driving people away from their products rather than building any awareness or hype. fuck them then...
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I got a DVD screener a while back and I have to say that McBride's character is an absolute classic. The actress that plays his wife really sucks, but some of their scenes together are dynamite.
This movie has one of the best comedy scenes of the year when McBride and one of his students are staking out his wife... great lines.
And by the way, Apatow had nothing to do with the production of this movie, but after watching FFW, Apatow and Ferrell both saw that this guy is gonna be huge in comedy.
fwiw McBride's got some old vids on his youtube profile oldboymcbride. He's just a normal guy that's finally getting a break, so don't hate. -
And I even laughed more at Farell's bit, and Farell was FUCKING TERRIBLE! Seriously, this shit will bomb and a bunch of upity douchebags will have something they can say was funny but everyone else "was too dumb to get it". So then you can feel smart. There you go. Enjoy it and the move onto the next flavour of the month after this goes.
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Sorry if you're reading this simmons and I know you are, awww don't cry simmons. it was just a promo on a talk show. lets see how the final product turns out. I
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Fucking Lame.
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The clips already gone.
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So when i read the name "Conan" in AICN i think is news about a movie about the cimmerian.
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decked him out to get my interest on this. Or the other way around, no way I am seeing this crap.
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Feb 28, 2008 7:12:29 AM CST
Fuck all these 'enter your zip code' age verification sites.
by henrydalton
Fuck them right in the ass. Not everyone lives in America, jackasses. And no, I can't be bothered to scout around the net finding a fake Zip code, THEY SHOULDN'T BE ON THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Fucking cuntthrush labia.
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and use "90210"
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than funny har de har har. Did appreciate the "mecca" line.
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my proper credentials do not work, why is this necessary really? What kind of database are they running of names, are they checking some US database of residents? Lame.
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So i checked out the site because everyone was saying that they could not get in. At first it wouldn't let me, and I thought it was just a joke. But then I realized that I had moved, put in my old ZIP and got in. Does anyone else find it creepy that a retarded MOVIE site can gain that sort of personal information about you? That is of course that there are certain ristrictions to getting in. It wouldn't bother me so much if say it was like a .gov site or something, but a movie site? Underage kids you better look out it may start to get a lot harder to get into over 18 sites then Click here if you are over 18.
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And totally fuckin' ridiculous. I've entered my real info on a couple of occasions and STILL DIDN'T GET IN! I will not participate in one of those again. EVER.
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...Andy Kaufman. This is exactly the type of comedy he did. You know, be a total ass when 95 percent of the audience didn't have a clue. Only, this guy isn't as good. I'll probably see it anyway, but I know I'll be imagining Andy doing the gags.
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He definitely takes from Kaufman in that he pretends to act like a complete asshole. Honestly when I saw it on conan a few days back I loved it. But I don't think this style translates to youtube when you go to watch it fully knowing you are being duped. It's different with the characters by Sasha Baron Cohen because his characters are so cartoonish and over the top. The reason I liked it is because you could really imagine there is some douche bag tae kwon do instructor out there who thinks hes better then he is.
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