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Do Four Fascinating Nerds Make This The Funniest Weekend Of The Year? Moriarty Believes In SUPERBAD And KING OF KONG!

They're from BRAZIL by Daddylonghead	Aug 17th, 2007 06:25:59 AM
oops, wrong ta1kback
unh god that fee1s good. by Daddylonghead	Aug 17th, 2007 06:27:56 AM
even after so many years, there's nothin' quite 1ike it.
Okay, Superbad is now officially overhyped... by tonagan	Aug 17th, 2007 07:06:26 AM
Everything I've seen looks hysterical, but we're into overkill now.
Superbad was overhyped from the minute it left the gate by Yeti	Aug 17th, 2007 07:27:17 AM
Although I guess if the subject matter floats your boat it can't be hyped enough....
whats superbad? by jimjom	Aug 17th, 2007 08:12:57 AM
whats superbad?
Not saying anything about the subject matter by mayorofsimpleton	Aug 17th, 2007 08:13:58 AM
of these 2 films, or their quality or anything...let me just say that that was a very well written review. For some reason I can't put my finger on, it seems to really stand out over the other things I've been reading on this site lately. Specific, interesting, just really well written.
true. by jimjom	Aug 17th, 2007 08:15:42 AM
true.
It lives up to the hype dudes. by AaronJoseph	Aug 17th, 2007 08:52:21 AM
Its a comedy, hard pressed to find a comedy like this that won't please. Just hope that all the jokes haven't been explained in detail to you, and even then thats only like 10% of the comedy.
Mori, gotta agree by Bloo	Aug 17th, 2007 09:34:03 AM
with the poster above, that was a fine piece of writing
Do we REALLY need FOUR Superbad reviews!? by SydBarretsMyDad	Aug 17th, 2007 01:29:59 PM
Who gives these guys their assignments?!?!
King of Donky Kong (or Kong Jr.???) by Samuel Fulmer	Aug 17th, 2007 02:02:01 PM
What's with the King of Kong? Every publicity still I've seen has shown some guy in his garage playing Donkey Kong Jr. I thought this flick was going to be about somebody trying to get the high score on Donkey Kong???
WHAT DID HARRY THINK OF SUPERBAD????? by Daddylonghead	Aug 17th, 2007 02:09:40 PM
COME ON, WHAT DID MR. BEAKS, JOHNNY WADD, LAUTURO, NEIL CUMPSTON, ROBOGEEK, MONKEE, JUNIOR MINTZ, ALLESANDRA DUPONT, ELSTON GUNN, ELAINE, DARIUS25 AND MEAN MR. MUSTARD THINK ABOUT *SUPERBAD* ?!?!?!?!?! STOP KEEPING SECRETS, LET'S HAVE SOME COVERAGE!!!
Must be outta the loop . . . by Toulon	Aug 17th, 2007 02:27:52 PM
what's the big controversy over King of Kong? Are people saying it's not accurate, or fake or something? What's the story, Mori? Anyone?
Billy Mitchell is a pompous asshat by zerogundamx	Aug 17th, 2007 02:43:56 PM
He also reclaimed the high score on DK last month. What a whiny bitch.
Hi by BringingSexyBack	Aug 17th, 2007 03:15:06 PM
Bye
The Apatow Gang needs to hire a better editor by Garbageman33	Aug 17th, 2007 03:43:10 PM
One with the intestinal fortitude to tell them that not every scene they shoot needs to make the final cut. Superbad was 15 minutes from being absolutely classic. But those 15 minutes really dragged it down.
why on EARTH are people complaining?? SHUT UP!! by BadMrWonka	Aug 17th, 2007 03:44:53 PM
too many Superbad reviews? every person I know is excited for it, and looking forward to seeing it this weekend. and if for some reason you are irked by too MANY reviews on AICN, guess what? the mouse moves both ways! don't read them! fuck, the guys at AICN can never win with you whiny doofuses! review's too long! review's too short! too many reviews! where the ____ review? this scoop was on my sister's boyfriend's D&D partner's vetrinarian's dentist's blog like 2 hours ago! AIN'T IT OLD NEWS! SHUT UP!!! Superbad is EXACTLY the kind of movie that the majority of the people who founded this site, and the majority of people who READ this site, are excited about. I would be happy if they gave it a Transformers' (shudder) welcome, and put 30 geek reviews out there! mostly I just can't stand people whining about AICN. SUPERBAD OVERHYPED! SHUT. THE FUCK. UP. we should be doing everything we can to support movies like this, especially if we want to see more of them. and this incessant whining is not only annoying, it's so pathetically misguided! AICN is not meant to cater specifically to YOU. you are NOT sending back your own personal steak in a restaurant. millions of people come here, and if you, personally, have a problem with one thing, whining about it in the talkbacks does no good. unless you are speaking for a large segment of the readership (and guys, you gotta trust me, here....you're NOT), AICN owes you nothing. you're just a solo whiner. the rest of us get the big, sloppy sundae we want, every day we come here.
I don't think it'll do huge box office by Garbageman33	Aug 17th, 2007 03:54:09 PM
It just doesn't have that blockbuster mentality. It's not like the Heartbreak Kid preview where a woman runs into a telephone pole. Or Good Luck Chuck where a woman walks into a telephone pole. It's more honest and real than that. And I'm not sure people want that. Not in the summer, anyway. Honestly, there are moments in Superbad that are downright uncomfortable. Just like we all remember high school being. But how many people want to be reminded of that?
Great reviews by hallmitchell	Aug 17th, 2007 04:31:26 PM
I was sold before now I'm even more sold. I'm going with my friends and having a blast. Can't wait until it opens in Australia. The other one I'm looking forward to is Monster Camp.
Just checking in by Kentucky Colonel	Aug 17th, 2007 04:32:22 PM
OK Haters...there's a little movie musical titled "Once" if you simply must skip "Superbad". Most worthy of your $9.50.
Garbageman33 by BadMrWonka	Aug 17th, 2007 04:35:47 PM
it will do really well. it has no competition this weekend, and it's got buzz everywhere. trust me. not Knocked Up numbers, perhaps, but it's gonna be big.
Superbad deserves every bit of hype it fucking gets. by polyh3dron	Aug 17th, 2007 04:44:20 PM
You philistines need to shut the fuck up. Seriously.
BadMrWonka by Toulon	Aug 17th, 2007 04:44:59 PM
Amen!!
good review by CherryValance	Aug 17th, 2007 05:29:06 PM
and the movie isn't overhyped. I laughed through the whole thing.
eh, not angry, just annoyed... by BadMrWonka	Aug 17th, 2007 06:45:05 PM
perhaps "righteously pissed"... if whiners and naysayers didn't infest every TB, I could gladly be as gidy in the talkbacks as I am in real life. superbad coming out...just had the best screening of my life at visionfest at the DGA, good stuff. I suppose your right. whiners in the AICN talkbacks really shouldn't get me so riled up. I've just been coming here for 7 years listening to the same rubbish. it's tiresome.
Neither of these will beat Good Luck Chuck! by The Dum Guy	Aug 17th, 2007 06:48:36 PM
I'm not serious....
Echelon? Pantheon? by bunkerman	Aug 17th, 2007 07:06:52 PM
It's that good?
KING OF KONG Premiere in LA by Mr. Winston	Aug 17th, 2007 08:17:07 PM
First of all, this was great. Just great. The first thing I saw walking in was Steve, KOK's "hero", getting his picture taken with Tony Hawk and Vince Vaughn. They did a quick little Q&A after the movie, and director Seth Gordon dropped a few interesting bits of news on the crowd. First of all, he had a telling comment about Billy Mitchell. Throughout the filming of the doc, he explained, Billy would make these grandiose, smarmy statements (most of them end up in the film). In the movie they're funny enough, but apparently he would flub them constantly and ask for numerous retakes to get them right. I'm guessing most of these will end up in the DVD extras. He then mentioned that, at 2AM that morning, Steve had received an email from Twin Galaxies. It said that they were revamping their policy for authenticating record scores. If you want to set a record in most classic arcade games now, it has to be done in a live venue with a Twin Galaxies referee present, and immediately after the circuit board for the game has to be sent away to a lab for verification. It's a strange announcement, considering that Billy Mitchell claims to have set another world record (accepted by Twin Galaxies) at some convention a few weeks ago...with no video evidence and no TG Ref present. Of course, the announcement is not retroactive to Billy's "record". And it's especially strange considering that Steve was going to break his own record at the film's afterparty. But the afterparty was the highlight of the night. First of all, here's a barometer for how well-liked a guy Steve Weibe is and is going to become on a larger scale: Vince Vaughn was there hanging around, and aside from a few ladies that encircled him, EVERYONE was focused on Steve. He sat down to take on DONKEY KONG once again. In the movie, there's a clip of Billy telling the director that he always enters his scores on Donkey Kong with the initials "USA" because he's patriotic. Steve, drinking pretty much the whole game, ended up with a score of over 861,000 which, I believe, is one of the top five scores of all time. What at first were groans of anguish that we didn't witness a world record quickly turned to a standing ovation. Steve, quickly waiving to the crowd, promptly signed off on his game as "USA". If you live in LA, NYC, Seattle or Austin, get out and see this movie this weekend - it's one of the five best films you'll see all year.
Superbad had laughs all the way through. by eggbeater	Aug 17th, 2007 09:50:20 PM
It was so damn good. I don't care if we get 10 reviews. It just gives me more reason to rave about it in the talkbacks
yes, tool - let's do all we can to support these movies by cant_stop_yawning	Aug 17th, 2007 10:37:03 PM
what are you talking about? this wasn't some eye opening independant art house flick. it wasn't even solid entertainment. it dragged ass through the last hour and rubbed our collective faces in some of the most worn out cliches of the last 30 years. puke jokes? dick jokes? the leads in this movie are solid - especially cera. they deserved a better script and editing. check out clark and michael's web site - those episodes are worth watching...
With all due respect, MrBadWonka, it's overexposed. by Daddylonghead	Aug 17th, 2007 11:10:18 PM
I'm sorry, this movie is not Lord of the Rings. It's an intelligent throwback buddy comedy. Good! Great! I'll buy a ticket! But the onslaught of hype is wearisome, and that's what I object to. Not the movie itself, but the single preview I've been seeing every single time I go to the theater since... shit, seems like since 2006. Not the movie, but the ads, all over AICN, all over MySpace, all over the internet. Not the movie, but the critics falling all over themselves to see who blow the butt-trumpet loudest. I don't consider myself a stereotypical talkback hater... I'm more like a demented semi-troll with lucid moments... and I'm sorry, but when I find myself LESS inclined to see a movie, solely because of the publicity the movie recieves, isn't that worth noting?
For instance, I found "Knocked Up" greatly disappointin by Daddylonghead	Aug 17th, 2007 11:15:02 PM
g. There was all this hullaballoo, but about 2/3 of the way through the movie, my smile weakened, slowly died, and never came back. The movie ended up being some queer moralistic feel-good Gen-Xer back-patting movie about the beautiful circle of life's continuance. BOOOOOO. Now, King of Kong does look good. And you know, I hope Superbad really does live up to the hype. But I remember seeing Napoleon Dynamite when it first came out, thinking, "huh, that was off-beat and cute, pretty funny stuff." Then the next thing you know, pop culture's trying to center a fucking youth movement around it, like it's Pink Floyd's The Wall or something.
Daddylonghead by BadMrWonka	Aug 18th, 2007 12:01:47 AM
No. comedies that are actually FUNNY, actually R-rated, and actually have a heart to them should be promoted heavily in arenas like this. the better this does, the more likely another similar movie gets greenlit, and Daddy Day Care 2 get dumped. and if seeing 5 reviews on AICN irks you, flip your D&D dice, choose one to read, and move on. I'd rather see 5 reviews for this than Hostel3 any day.
Superbad was FUN! by THE KNIGHT	Aug 18th, 2007 12:26:28 AM
Get over yourselves... Damn!
Why's everyone always gotta drag HOSTEL into things? by Daddylonghead	Aug 18th, 2007 12:36:56 AM
You're a little bit HOSTEL yourself, ohhh punnn. And don't knock HOSTEL 3... that's the one where they torture hermaphrodites!
If you're getting tired of hearing about the film... by brokentusk	Aug 18th, 2007 11:31:12 AM
... and you no longer want to see it because you feel that AICN and other websites have been promoting it so heavily... then don't see it. We'll be the ones killing ourselves laughing at the cinema while you sit on AICN moaning about how the movie's been ruined for you. Bottom line America: if a movie is genuinely funny, no amount of people saying, "Holy shit that's the funniest movie I've ever seen!" can ruin it - if it's funny, it's funny.
BadMrWonka, I just read your first post. by brokentusk	Aug 18th, 2007 11:35:07 AM
You shall be my new God. Seriously dude, well said and damn straight.
I agree with DaddyLongHead by Vamp-AICNchat	Aug 18th, 2007 04:01:54 PM
KNOCKED UP is by far the most overrated movie this year in my opinion.
I'm gonna be the bastard & say it wasnt as funny as KU by reflecto	Aug 19th, 2007 05:51:18 PM
Knocked Up, IMHO, was a funnier film. I choked laughing in that. With Superbad I had a good time but was left a bit wanting - I don't know why, maybe because I felt I saw a lot of the funniest shit in the trailers and promos and online clips a number of times before. Also, this dumbass little kid behind me kept shrieking laughter with his helium voice during some of the probably quieter, wittier moments. I loved all the actors, think they're great, just preferred Knocked Up. And I feel bad!
Reflecto... by TheRealMoriarty	Aug 19th, 2007 06:19:04 PM
... I think KNOCKED UP is a richer film, and it says more, but I think SUPERBAD is more lunatic funny.
i disagree brokentusk by slappy jones	Aug 19th, 2007 11:42:25 PM
expectations can have an effect on how any film is perceived comedy or not. but if you keep reading about something and everytime you read about it it was being called the funniest film of the year and as good as "animal house/revenge of the nerds/insert your classic comedy name here" that sets a pretty high standard to live up to. I imagine I would have found borat much funnier than I did if I walked into with the baggage of over the top praise and hype leading up to it. Ilove the Borat character always have since back in his t.v. days but that film was so built up by nearly everyone by the time I saw it was impossible for it to live up to what had been built in my mind.expectations can be a killer to a point that I am only reading the bad reviews of superbad from now on as this is the film I have been most excited about all year due to the fact that I think jonah hill is going to be a fucking comedy legend if he is used correctly and I don't want to be let down by it.
SuperAverage by SutterCane	Aug 20th, 2007 12:08:30 AM
Boy, if only Superbad was everything it was hyped as. For the first half hour or so, it's achingly funny with some of the best filthly banter spoken on screen in ages - perfectly on track to be that great unvarnished, true-to-life teen flick that I was hoping for. But then the cops take Fogel under their wings and the movie just loses its nerve. Sure, it's still entertaining in its own way, but it becomes a much more artificial film that it promised to be. It becomes over-the-top and unrealistic in ways that would be fitting for an Adam Sandler comedy - which doesn't make it bad, per se, but it should exclude it from the kind of effusive critical praise it's gotten. I also thought it fatally punked out in hooking up the main characters with the girls of their dreams. Come on, now. Does that really reflect the true teen experience? Again, it doesn't make the movie bad, just mediocre. The Last American Virgin (1982) was a teen movie that had real balls and the ending to prove it. Superbad, on the other hand, is merely a lightweight piece of fluff that likes to talk with a dirty mouth.
Ben Stiller as Billy Mitchell in the film adaption!!! by Orionsangels	Aug 21st, 2007 02:08:10 AM
http://tinyurl.com/3xusbe
AS PROMISED by cornponious	Aug 21st, 2007 04:02:29 AM
Well, Superbad made a BIT more than, ahem, 4 mil this weekend. So, "I'm a man of my word". Here's my high school graduation picture: http://tinyurl.com/38pulv Please, be kind.
BTW by cornponious	Aug 21st, 2007 04:03:52 AM
That's 1989, and every parted-in-the-middle feathered bit of it.
I applaud you, cornponious. by i kick tits	Aug 22nd, 2007 02:21:31 PM
I didn't expect you to actually go through with it. You really are a man of your word. It would have been nicer if that was a more embarrassing photo, but I appreciate the gesture anyhow.
was really funny by Geek Sodomizer	Aug 23rd, 2007 04:13:15 AM
I loved it. But. There was virually no story... Which was it's only weakness I guess. I'm going to have to say Knocked Up was better because of this. Superbad is just as funny as Knocked Up tho.

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