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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Is 'a waste of time, and great entertainment' Says One Reader, And 'fucking funny' Says Another!!
Merrick here...
FilmSavior and Boondocks OUT got an early look at HOT TUB TIME MACHINE & sent in their thoughts.
Just got out of an advanced screening of Hot Tub Time Machine in Long Beach. After seeing the two redband trailers released over the past few weeks, I had restrained expectations. You see, the number one problem this film is going to have is the comparison to The Hangover.
John Cusack character = Bradley Cooper character (the normal, "cool" guy)
Craig Robinson character = Ed Helms character (a slave to their wife)
Rob Corddry character = Zak Galifianakis character (steals every scene)
Clarke Duke character - Justin Bartha character (reacts to the other characters only; forgettable)
This is no Hangover. But it has some hilarious moments that would be worth the price of matinee. I'm not going to spoil anything since it doesn't come out until March. So I'll just give you the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The Good:
*Rob Corddry finally gets his time to really shine and man does he take it by the balls. Much like Zack G., he steals every scene that he's in. Wait until you see what happens when he loses a bet. Wow.
*Crispin Glover as the Doorman. The running joke with Glover is hilarious and never gets old. He's always fantastic and seems to be having a great time with this.
*The title. Best title of any film in years. Gets straight to the retarded point.
The Bad:
*Chevy Chase tried but did not get one laugh from the audience. He was painful to watch. If he wasn't such an essential character (well, kind of essential), I'd recommend cutting him out of the film outright. R.I.P. Chevy.
*The story. It's a comedy, so no reason to get into time travel logistics. We'll leave that for Lost final season. But they really could have built on more of the 80's vs. present day time travel a bit more. The 80's are great to make fun of. It wasn't done enough.
The Ugly:
*Don't expect too much from this film, but there are some really hilarious moments. The middle loses a bit of steam, but really picks up towards a rewarding ending. This is definitely a guy movie, even more so than The Hangover. Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, and Crispin Glover were amazing. Cusack had his moments and Clarke Duke wasn't given much to work with.
When you see this movie, you'll realize why this quick review is all over the place. It's hilarious, retarded, nonsensical, thoughtful, a waste of time, and great entertainment all at the same time. Chew on that.
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eEre's anopther look at HTTM from Boondocks OUT...
We were at the LB26 and had to wait for almost 2 hours but it was totally worth it.
MAJOR SPOILERS
Hot Tub Time Machine is totally fucking retarded and I mean that as a total thumbs up. The title is the plot and all the set up you need. Cusack, Corrdry (don't watch the daily show but like him), Craig Robinson (LOVE the office) and Clark Duke (my girlfriend likes greek) have shitty lives so after Corrdry accidentally almost kills himself they go back to the hotel where they had the best times to make him feel better. The town and hotel suck now so they end up getting trashed in the hot tub and wake up in the 80s. Really, that's the plot and somehow it works. The movie starts off pretty funny but once they go back in time it goes fraking crazy.
Back in the 80s they all start off trying to do the same things from before but realize what's the point so Cusack gets high and hooks up with the hot girl from true blood, Robinson becomes a rockstar and Corrdry kills it by drinking, fighting and trying to screw every hot girl he meets. Clark Duke is trying to get them back to now but Chevy Chase who plays the repair man keeps fucking with him and confusing him for a chick (my girlfriend's favorite running joke).
I don't want to blow the whole movie but there are great moments with Crispin Glover (he has no arm in our time so they keep waiting for him to lose it in the 80s) and a bet Corrdry loses (the biggest laugh from the audience) and Robinson calling his wife (who is only 9 back then) and talking dirty to her for cheating on him in the future.
The ending is awesome (Lougle!) and there was a funny music video at the end. The only thing I didn't like is that the guy who plays the younger cusack doesn't look like young cusack but it didn't ruin the movie or anything.
My VERDICT is that this is a fucking funny check your brain at the door movie and see it with friends, it might be the first movie since avatar I see twice.
Hope you can use this one.
Boondocks OUT
So there you have it - two unrelated looks at the film, both saying pretty much the same thing. This is directed by the writer of HIGH FIDELITY (who also produced ENTOURAGE on HBO) and co-written by the co-writer/director of SEX DRIVE. Could be fun after all?
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why wouldn't the movie.
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well son of a bitch!
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Jan. 29, 2010, 10:17 a.m. CST
JESSICA PARE'S TITS....THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!FACT!!!
by TehCreepyThinMan
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"Hot Time Waste-of-Time Machine"?
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Should be "Hot Tub Waste-of-Time Comedy"...
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Goddamnit! That's it, I'm going back to bed.
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Dumping on this most glorious example of stoopid sinema! This is an 80's style comedy with a dumb concept and TITS!!! How could you NOT love its potential unless you are some PC bitch with a bleeding pussy. Go back to your Grey's Anatomy-watching-soccer-mom-infested-suburban-Hell you joyless cunts!!!
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You should watch it again. This time take your head out of your ass before you do.
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Boondocks OUT...dude, you HAVE to have known what you were doing when you typed the sentence "My GF likes Greek". That is, unless you don't know what saying "My GF likes Greek" means, which means you're secretly 14, gay, and LOVE the TV show 'Greek'.
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Oh, take your meds and stop screaming for fuck sake...
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I'm looking forward to a fucked up funny movie though.
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He stinks like a fetid, rotted year old shit pile covered with mold. He IS NOT FUNNY. Is NOT STAR MATERIAL. Hollywood needs to STOP FORCE-FEEDING US SECOND RATE CRAP acting. I see the guy and there is NO WAY IN THE HELL THAT MOVIE WILL GET A DIME OF MY MONEY.
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I think the dude's alias is just "Boondocks", not "Boondocks OUT". Like the guy who hosts American Idol. His name isn't "Seacrest OUT" it's just "Seacrest" and he says "Seacrest, out" as his sign off. Also, I'm well aware that my comment is absolutely worthless to any discussion, but as this is a talkback for a movie called "Hot Tub Time Machine", what's the harm? PantherMatt OUT
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Rectalscan, have you seen Clark and Michael with Duke and Mike Cera? It's some funny shit. But keep screaming if it makes you feel better, guy.
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A year old pile of shit would be non existent, except for the ones you keep preserved in jars on a shelf in your closet. You know, the rotten, fetid, moldy ones.
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First, the Hangover gets all this kind of attention (usually from 20 year olds who havent seen any better) as some kind of comedy gold, rather then what it is, a mildly amusing middle of the road quasi-funny-in-spots comedy, then we get people actually DEFENDING this piece of shit, are people actually saying that trailer is funny? I was sitting in a packed theater when they rolled that puppy, and you could hear the crickets chirping in that place (and that was in Baltimore, nat exactly the cultural-elite comedy-snob hotbed of the world). Fuck off with this shit.
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Sorry He stinks, no two-ways about it. He's not even worthy of suckass television shows.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 10:51 a.m. CST
Fa_Tass_DinoMolester, GO BUY SOME FUCKING TAMPONS!!!
by TehCreepyThinMan
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If only for modern characters commenting on/making fun-of the 80's. However, I have to agree that our standards have truly fallen, thanks largely to Judd Apatow's retarded stoned frat-boy humor. A few decades ago we were getting new Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Monty Python comedies fairly frequently...now we get this shit.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 10:53 a.m. CST
I didn't think the Hangover was that good
by YoyodynePropulsionSystems
I thought Extract was much better. But the redband trailer for this looks like its worth seeing.
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The level of conversation around here seems to drop exponentially every month. It's like this site is a lunatic/idiot/asshole magnet.
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Hot Tub Time Machine is for the West
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"Paul Blart Mall Cop, YOU SHALL NOT PASS"! I love that scene from LOTR.
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So let me get this right: the two white guys are getting laid, and the black guy is "mistaken for a chick." White guys will insist there is no pattern here. Of course. I'll certainly miss this piece of shit.
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...but there hasn't been a single trailer for this movie that I didn't laugh at. Definitely looking forward to it. <br><br> Also, I can't help but wonder if Cusack's opinion of BETTER OFF DEAD has improved in recent years. Why else would he take on the role of a guy who gets into it with an a-hole blonde skier?
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Now we're talking ! I'm looking forward to this actually.
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Chevy Chase has still got it. He brings it every week on Community.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 11:20 a.m. CST
Fa_Tass_DinoMolester, REALLY? COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LACK OF....
by TehCreepyThinMan
Intellectual conversation on an Ain't It Cool News Talkback thread dedicated to a movie about a Hot Tub Time Machine? Perhaps you would be better off at CHUD where you can pretend to be deep and thoughtful with Devin Faraci and his lemmings.....
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Thanks for putting them in the trailer so I don't have to see this movie.
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about your screaming for no apparent reason about "Homo's and bleeding pussies", ETC. Just once I'd like to post on this fucking website without encountering a totally fucking bizarre response. <p> If you had been funny, that would have been one thing...but no, it was just annoying.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 11:35 a.m. CST
And Jason Bateman was the worst thing about Arrested Development
by Fa_Tass_DinoMolester
Even Michael Cera was more likable than he was...
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That is so completely off the wall and ridiculous that it might just be genious.</p><p>Ultimately I don't really care how outlandish or plausible things are in a broad comedy so long as the gags are funny.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 11:48 a.m. CST
I'm glad this is no Hangover, 'cause The Hangover wasn't funny
by Quin the Eskimo
Overrated.
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Unbelievably overrated imho.<br><br>Carry on.
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Hangover is the most overrated movie of all time. It's a glorified Dude Where's My Car? I chuckled about twice while watching. You want comedy? Watch the Naked Gun series.
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You can download the titty scenes from sites of the internet for a nominal fee and ship watching the boring fucking movie.
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Best comedy of last year was, hands down, Dance Flick. That scene with the preggers girl dancing and having her baby pop out on the dance floor, only to bust a move himself... classic.
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That's right, I said it, it's no crime.
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I've yet to watch lost, now this time travel quip will be floating around my head. Was that really fucking neccesary?
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Inability to enjoy The Hangover. You all have my sympathy.
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Lost is impossible to spoil. Even the writers have no clue what is going on. Just sit back and enjoy the excellence that is John Locke.
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Time Travel, an island, polar bears, a submarine, magnetism, numbers, hot dead chicks. THERE! I "SPOILED" LOST FOR YOU! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Then the valet pulled up with the cruiser...<p>Was fun, looking forward to this.
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Darth Vader is Lukes father, and the demon Bob possesed Laura Palmers dad and killed her. Now we are even.
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Everyone said how totally fuckin' hilarious that movie is so I checked it out. I chuckled a few times. Mostly I was like "what is so goddamned funny about this movie?" They stole Mike Tyson's tiger. HA HA HA A HA! WTF? yeah I just did not "get" what was so great about it.
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it was kind-of funny, but being a joyless cunt is a serious affliction and not to be made fun of! <p> Fortunately, I can't chime in on the conversation on The Hangover because I resisted every attempt by my idiot social circle to get me to go see it.
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Fuck you, Kevin James !!!!
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But I did enjoy the part where they met Mike Tyson.
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Now that's cold.
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I thought for sure there was some over-the-top stuff that was gonna happen.</p><p>Instead we got "Dude, you pulled your tooth out! HA HA HA! And you married a hot stripper! HA HA HA HA! That's the fuinniest fucking thing of AAAAALLL TIIIIIIME!</p><p>.......Yeah.......whatever. Maybe it was just rednecks laughing their asses off at the extremely racist portrayal of the asian guy. Haven't seen that kind of shit since Breakfast at Tiffany's!
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You're right, that was hilarious... but that was the ONLY funny scene in the entire movie. <p>Well, except for the photo montage in the end credits. That practically had people rolling in the aisles.
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Clark Duke isn't black, you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Let BSG go dude. I'm just sayin.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 2:11 p.m. CST
Forgetting Sarah Marshall was waaaaay better than The Hangover
by Sultan_of_San_Diego
Forgetting Sarah Marshall has to be the most underrated comedy of the decade.
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He did a lot of crazy shit for a 'normal' guy...
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Actually, if you are only in this for the tits, there's plently of free sites, high quality/HD even, on the internets. Why we have to sit here and covet Jessica Pare, and throw money at this movie because it (or any other movie actress who gets nekkid) is beyond me.
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God, it's good to see that I am not, as I previously believed, alone in my contempt for The Hangover. Without a doubt, THE most overrated movie of last year. I'm not some kind of "comedy snob" but I literally smiled twice and somehow managed to keep myself from walking out of the theater from sheer boredom. Oh.... and Boondocks is a PLANT! There, I said it.
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as a quirky movie. but i didn't laugh out loud.
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I was about to post that we were several hours into the thread and no idiot douchebag had called "PLANT!" Thanks for saving me the trouble.
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It was pretty funny. Shut the fuck up about it. Jesus Christ. If it hadn't made all that cash people wouldn't be raging it against like it was Hitler II. What is wrong with you people?
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...I didn't hate The Hangover, but I also didn't see it until about three weeks into its run and I did wonder what the big deal was. <p> But the line you wrote..."raging against it like it was Hitler II" was funnier than any single moment in the movie.
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time travel as a destination is that its just not all that different from now. We can laugh at the fashion but a lot of it is actually back in style especially in Europe. And other than Cell Phones and the internet there isn't a whole lot that we didn't have then than we have now. Its not like Back to the Future when he goes back to the 50s. Compared to the 80s the 50's was like another planet. If you showed an ipod to someone in the 80s they would think it was really cool but we had computers and walkmans so it wouldn't seem like alien technology like a walkman would to someone in the 50s. All the technology we have now exsisted in the 80's just in a more primatve form.
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Jan. 29, 2010, 7:36 p.m. CST
The Hangover may have been overrated...
by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi
...but it wasn't a bad movie. It was actually pretty funny. It just couldn't live up to the ungodly amount of hype it got, but how many movies can? I saw it in the theater and thought I got my $8.50 worth. I think all of the hate comes from heightened expectations. If you saw this movie by yourself at midnight on cable TV, you'd probably recommend it to a friend or two the next day. JMHO.
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Thank you kind sir.
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Ni fucking way is THE HANGOVER the most overrated movie of a year that also brought us ADVENTURELAND. Come on!
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Do you use the same handle on the JD forum? If it's not you disregard.
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And the most overrated movie of the year was Avatar. Good Lord. WTH?
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was sitting in my theater, so packed that literally there wasnt a seat, and listening to the literal absolute dead silence from the moment Tyson appeared on-screen to right around when the Office guy sang that god-awful ode to the tiger, on of the least funny 2 minute sequences of all time. Regardless, that 25 minute sequence of complete and total silence re-affirmed my faith in humanity. Having said that, the first 25 minutes, right up until they take the shot on the roof, is actually mildly amusing. Galifiniakis's wolf pack speech is actually pretty funny.
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...so, chances are, I'm not that guy.
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When The Hangover is a good-natured buddy movie is when it's at its best. I actually wish they would have carried through with that because I would have liked it better. Once it goes batshit insane and throws as much random shit at you as it can, that's when it lost me.
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Old School<p>Road Trip<p>Starsky and Hutch<p>(haven't seen)School for Scoundrels(I bet it is better than....)<p>The Hangover
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I'M GONNA GIT IN THA HOT TUH-HUUUUUB!
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[Horrible "Asian" accent] HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, FAT MAN FALL DOWN!
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The title is pretty neat.
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For me, comedies by and large suck. HANGOVER was an exception, as was that "SARAH MARSHALL". One that was exceptionally sucky and pretencious was ADVENTURELAND. BRUNO had a few moments, but then Rednecks easily make foold of themselves with little help. NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE was funny in a laid back kinda way. Loved that movie FOOT FIST WAY-very stupid in a good way. Hope HTTM is good...
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like Sex Drive? I thought it was hilarious. Clark Duke can do comedy.
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Had a few too many 'what the fuck?!' jokes that came out of nowhere, but it was good. <br><br> James Marsden, in particular, was a howl. I cry laughing everytime I see that scene where he pulls up the garage door, sees his car missing and flips out, karate-kicking the open space where the door was. Fuckin' hilarious.
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Foot Fist Way is fuckin awesome.
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and a creepy one at that.
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The WRITING and setup in this look hilarious. What I'm not looking forward to is all the stupid scenes where they just "let the comedians do their thing" and improvise stupid line after line. Almost every single comedy these days puts in a couple of these scenes. My least favourite of all time is Forty Year old Virgin's chest waxing scene. Unfunniest lame shit of all time... wow I'm five years old I like to laugh when Steve Carrell exaggerates his pain. It gives me DOUCHE CHILLS exactly like when I'd be a little kid and some grown person would do the "Ack! You killed me" pose and tumble routine (likely with another kid, I didn't invite that shit)... the adult is thinking he's Buster Keaton and I am trying to contain my contempt for his patronization.
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Hilarious. And so true. My wife really liked the part where you said that "NOBODY cares."
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I can't believe the number of posts this review has generated (and now I'm adding one of my own). And the vitriol? Does Hot Tub Time Machine really get you that angry? Trailer was kind of funny, but looks like a Netlfix rental at best. As for Chevy, he is actually pretty good on Community, though I have to admit he generates few laughs. What's weird is that his delivery and timing is the same as it ever was, so maybe it is just the audience that's changing. I'd be interested in seeing him in something like Lost in Translation.
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He was always funniest when falling down. And he was funnier, even at that, when he was still snorting coke.
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