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Live In L.A.? Wanna See Jody Hill's OBSERVE AND REPORT Early W/ Hill And Seth Rogen In Attendance? Beaks Has The Details!!!
Beaks here...
Why let Capone and those Chicago ruffians have all the fun?
On Tuesday April 7th - in conjunction with the American Cinematheque - AICN will be hosting a sneak preview of Jody Hill's OBSERVE AND REPORT at the Aero Theatre in lovely Santa Monica, CA. Start time is 7:30 PM. General admission is $10 ($8 for students/seniors, $7 for Cinematheque members). And while I'd love to give away a whole bundle of tickets, we're expecting a very large turnout, so I can only spare two (2) seats for two (2) lucky AICN readers. If you want a crack at 'em, shoot me an email with the subject header "Love Will Turn You Around", and tell me the name of your favorite fictional seafood restaurant. Since that'll eliminate, like, four of you, know that I'll pick the winner randomly from there.
The movie itself should be reason enough to get you out on a Tuesday night, but, for added incentive, we'll have the great Jody Hill and the ineffable Seth Rogen in attendance for a post-film Q&A. Tickets will be available shortly at Fandango.
I shouldn't have to do a sell job on this movie. Hill broke through last year with THE FOOT FIST WAY (the most painfully awkward portrait of misplaced confidence run amok since Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY), and followed that up with the caustic (and, sadly, just-concluded) EASTBOUND AND DOWN for HBO. For whatever reason, Hill is completely dialed in to the deepest, darkest, most self-destructive recesses of the American male psyche - and he is mining this acute understanding not for nourishing drama, but for laughs. There's something utterly wrong about this, but, thus far, I'm laughing way too hard to care.
For those of you worried that Hill is going to pull his punches with his first studio film, fucking forget it: OBSERVE AND REPORT earns its R-rating in viciously creative ways. I can't wait to see how audiences respond to sweet-natured Seth Rogen playing a socially maladjusted mall cop who uses what little power he has to bully minorities, intimidate a makeup counter floozy with whom he's disconcertingly smitten, and muck up a police investigation. It's gloriously twisted.
I could go on, but I want to save the superlatives for my review. And, again, I don't think you need much convincing.
Tickets are available at Fandango right fucking now. Buy them, and I'll see you on April 7th for what will be, at the very least, one of 2009's funniest films.
Here's the program info from the American Cinematheque:
Tuesday, April 7 – 7:30 PM
Sneak Preview! OBSERVE AND REPORT, 2009, Warner Bros., 106 min. Dir. Jody Hill.
At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist. The master of his domain, he combats skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when he can swap his flashlight for a badge and a gun. Ronnie's delusions of grandeur are put to the test when the mall is struck by a flasher. Driven by his personal duty to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, Ronnie seizes the opportunity to showcase his underappreciated law enforcement talents on a grand scale, hoping his solution of this crime will earn him a coveted spot at the police academy and the heart of his elusive dream girl Brandi (Anna Faris), the hot make-up counter clerk who won't give him the time of day. But his single-minded pursuit of glory launches a turf war with the equally competitive Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta) of the Conway Police, and Ronnie is confronted with the challenge of not only catching the flasher, but getting him before the real cops. Discussion following with director Jody Hill and actor Seth Rogen.
Sneak Preview! OBSERVE AND REPORT, 2009, Warner Bros., 106 min. Dir. Jody Hill.
At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist. The master of his domain, he combats skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when he can swap his flashlight for a badge and a gun. Ronnie's delusions of grandeur are put to the test when the mall is struck by a flasher. Driven by his personal duty to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, Ronnie seizes the opportunity to showcase his underappreciated law enforcement talents on a grand scale, hoping his solution of this crime will earn him a coveted spot at the police academy and the heart of his elusive dream girl Brandi (Anna Faris), the hot make-up counter clerk who won't give him the time of day. But his single-minded pursuit of glory launches a turf war with the equally competitive Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta) of the Conway Police, and Ronnie is confronted with the challenge of not only catching the flasher, but getting him before the real cops. Discussion following with director Jody Hill and actor Seth Rogen.
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His stuff is getting a bit tired. That is all.
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Come back when you can play a different character.
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Which you haven't seen?
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then the trailers sure haven't shown it. I've seen the TV spot about 150 times b/c of March Madness.
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by flushing my eyeballs out with sulphuric acid and then setting myself on fire..
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Mar 25, 2009 1:08:19 AM CDT
Awww Beaks. Don't defend him. You're better than that.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I literally knew nothing about this movie until the same commercial randomly started popping up 75,000 times a day.
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Mar 25, 2009 1:21:45 AM CDT
I guess you are more defending the director.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....but FUCK. He should have cast a real actor in the role. Someone like Kenneth Branagh.
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Seth Rogen improvises more than half of his scenes! How can you not like him!
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have such an impact on your lifes that you become obsessed with them 24/7. i'd advise getting some sort of hobby (apart from moaning about them on a dated talkback function) it will benefit you in the long run.
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You turds that are sick of Rogen could (a) avoid articles with his name in the fucking title, and (b) choose not to watch the film itself. If you need a (c), it could be 'kill yourself'
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Not wanting to be a teacher's pet, but why hasn't 'iamalice1' (above) been banned yet? You can spam on this site but you get booted for insulting scriptgirl?
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Was the funniest, darkest and most entertaining 6 episodes I have seen from comedy in a long time. Danny McBride should have been cast in the lead. He is truly a comedic genius. I will see this to wash the awful stupidity of Paul Blart Mall Cop out of my mouth and because of the association to Eastbound & Down which is my favorite HBO show ever (and likely still available on HBO on demand (I wondered why this site didn't promote Eastbound & Down more...)
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He's not funny, but some of his movies are. It's like if I was a really bad employee, but my company is fine so that makes me a good professional.
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Seth is an unusually fun, kind dude who is creative and ballsy. I think this particular flick will show he's not a one-trick pony... he's actually pretty much an unlikable asshole.
And he wrote the funniest comedy of 2007. Lay off the guy. -
panic dawg
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Okay, you caught me. *bows*
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all right panic dawg you have a sense of brevity...look I liked rogan when his presence in the media wasn't to the oversaturated
point it is now.. fer christ sakes
this guy is everywhere and involved in way to many similar roles.. also I expect to see Seth Rogans Breakfast Sausages on the market soon.' and if weed becomes legal I'm sure he will have his own line of cannibis shops..This guys agent (if you could be so lucky) will own a small country when Seth has come and gone in Hollywood.. -
...is one of us! Shouldn't movie fans, geeks, etc be happy that a guy like this is out there making interesting comedies with a little edge?
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anyone else going? I didn't know there Aero did these screenings. Tickets are still available on Fandango. See you fools there!
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Mar 26, 2009 6:47:06 AM CDT
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by iamalice1
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disposable Anna Farris vehicle a la House Bunny. However, now that I realize Jody Hill is directing this after the genius of Eastbound and Down, I'm in. Must have more Kenny Powers, April's big tits and Clegg. HBO- make it so!!!
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ugh...
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Mar 26, 2009 11:54:38 PM CDT
is this the "valmont" to paul blart's "dangerous liasons" ?
by bewareofaholywhore
or is it the other way around?
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paragraph break motherfucking paragraph break cocksucking paragraph break right?
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durr... durrrrrrr... italicize!
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