I'm hoping that FSM is a good rom-com, I really do. Every now and then one of Pondscum's stable of biotches will demand that he takes her to the cinema-teque.

The last time that happened, I got stuck watching the Devil Wears Prada - if it wasn't for Ann Hathaway's magnificent chest muffins, I would have gone insane...or grown ovaries...or both.

So here's hoping that FSM is that rarest of things, a rom-com that appeals to both women and men.

AICN - your number one source for chick flicks.

This and 'In Bruges' are the best films I've seen so far this year.

Every time I was getting into the story of an unnattractive teenager who wants to get a hot girl wasted so she'll fuck him (the Pondscum biopic?)...

...I was wrenched right out of the film by the 'hilarious' antics of the Police Academy 7 style, over acting, piece of shit, sub-Reno 911, cop characters.

Next I have the urge to watch a high school, coming of age, need to get laid, comedy, I'll just put Weird Science on.

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Kristen Bell will no doubt join a chorus of young starlets who will make millions, give subpar perfromances, and remain fully clothes while doing it!

Did anyone else have a smarter audience?

Except the time I mistakenly went and saw Superhero Movie. Ehh...

And BTW, I do love CSI Miami. But probably not for the same reasons other people do.

It appears.... *puts sunglasses on* I like to laugh at Caruso. *Cue "Won't Get Fooled Again" scream*

My fave scene was the four leads (Segel, Bell, Kunis, & Brand) together for dinner (in this type of rom-com, a requirement). The two chicks going after each other - right as Sarah realizes she fucked up royally dumping this guy - as only two chicks can. Wow. Kunis held her own with Bell, which is no mean feat. The two dudes agreeing on how idiotic the cell phone horror movie was priceless, as Segel worked in a dig at a less-than-stellar Bell outing called Frequency.

I'm not much for the sausage on-screen either, but the reason it worked in FSM is that Segel's physical nakedness was a metaphor for his unbridled emotional nakedness, which he carried through the entire film. It's how he is with women, which is why he has to be naked when KB dumps him at the beginning AND when MK comes back to him at the end (like that's a spoiler. please, this is a rom-com).

Oh, and as for "Animal Psychic", I think it didn't generate laughs in my theater because it really did look like something NBC would put on their schedule.

Someone told me he was a stand-up comic, but that couldn't be right because he isn't funny.

Shame really, because he looks hilarious...

No, I'm not jealous, not a bit. Jealous? Moi? Pshh...never!

Bastard.

I liked it. I'm not all over it like capone, but it's a good movie. a lot of talk-backers seem to be saying the cameos are the best part, though, and I'm gonna have to say hell no. rudd's appearance was virtually useless, and a lot of hill's stuff was really forced (brand saved a couple of those scenes so they weren't BAD just...pointless).

I'd say it felt like a good (semi) independent movie, not unlike 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN. of course, they're NOT the same movies. segel doesn't play a socially inept romantic lead, but the tone is understated in a way that WEDDING CRASHERS or AMERICAN PIE is all glossy and polished. All are examples of movies that do what they do well, but a lot of people need the gloss and a lot really don't like it. worst case scenario for FSM is that it turns into another MALLRATS except it didn't take critically. now lessee how this thing looks -preview buttons, aicn! c'mmon! ;-)

The premiere was at Graumann's Chinese. I walked the red carpet and took tons of pics which took up two digital one-use cameras. After 1 hour and 52 minutes of one of the funniest and most entertaining movies I've seen in a few years, I saw a group of folks in the center of the theater mobbing someone who I couldn't point out, until I slowly maneuvered toward the scene, and came across a vision in blue and white in a Jenny Kayne dress;

I couldn't even get a word out when Kristen turned around....and her eyes popped out of her head. K-Bell said "Paul?!" and hugged me. I told her there was a story about how I got here, and I'd love to tell her at the afterparty. She said fine, said some other flattering stuff that I don't remember right now, and then this: "You're blushing."

I never blush. Normally. But theni I wasn't just blushing - my knees were doing a texas two-step, it was all I could do to keep them from buckling outright. She remembered me from that sci-fi convention in New York 5 months ago.

The afterparty was at The Annex at Hollywood and Highland, an experience and a half, a once-in-a-lifetime thing I will always treasure. I talked with Jason Segel and Mila Kunis, and Macaulay Culkin, of all people, took a picture of his girlfriend and me. All of them could not have been nicer. could not have been nicer. Kristen's boyfriend was there as well. So my first time meeting her was telling her about how I got here, how I escaped a 6-inch snowstorm 2 hours after I left Denver, and she high-fived me afterward. Her mom and stepdad were there as I spun my tale.

She eventually told me she's going to aim for a Guest Actress, Drama Series Emmy nomination, and that "Cautionary Tales" would be her submission tape. I told her I'm going to donate that labocat to her favorite charity, Invisible Children. It's a cause close to her heart, and she was beside herself happy that I'd do that. I'm waiting on a call from IC's communications director on the particulars of when and where the handover would take place. Unfortunately, she got called over to do an press interview and I said I'd see her a little later. About a half-hour passed, and we met up again, and we hugged againbriefer still as the party revved up. At this point, it was almost 11:45PM (which meant 2:45 East coast time), and we said our goodbyes. She thanked me again for the labcoat gesture and that I was a pretty nice guy. I told her she redefined the word 'FORE!', as "I've seen you in a golf cart", which just cracked her up to no end. (check http://tinyurl.com/66qup3 to see why I brought that up). Then we parted and the longest night I've ever spent vertical, because I'm usually asleep by 11:30 ET was over. And one of the best of my f-in' life.