TCTTS said:

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This is one of the most weirdly and incompetently paced/structured movies ever, with next to no tangible stakes, which features maybe the worst green screen shot I've ever seen, and for some reason really bad special effects (?), along with so many janky establishing drone shots, not to mention a script that feels like a first and only draft, written and directed by someone who's never done either of those things before.

And yet… I still laughed.

Quite a bit, actually. At least during the first half. I just really like Jonah Hill's sense of humor, and I guess it's been a while since I've seen him in a straight up comedy. Don't get me wrong, it's a truly terrible movie, but one I'm not at all mad I watched.

That said... Ezra WAS a ****ing idiot, and Eddie Murphy's character was 100% right to think he was a piece of **** who didn't deserve his daughter. For some reason, Ezra QUIT HIS JOB at literally the same moment he and his girlfriend decided to BUY A HOUSE together. In LOS ANGELES. Then, when he KNEW his father-in-law-to-be was attending his bachelor party, Ezra STILL decided to go to a strip club??? WITH his cokehead friends??? That might be the dumbest, most unbelievable thing I've seen in a movie in the last ten years. Never mind the fact that I wouldn't trust a single person who did coke or surrounded himself with close, cokehead friends. I was legit mad when Murphy changed his mind about Ezra, simply because the script needed him to. Man, that was bad.

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I agree completely with this take. There could be something to this script if they spent some time working on it. The "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in the climate of the last couple of years could be really interesting/funny if done well. This...was not. But like you said I still laughed at a good number of things.

Side question and not to derail totally, but there's been more movies recently with really bad green screen shots - like a lot of the movie seems like really bad green screen shots. Is that just all because of filming with covid? Trying to lower the budget somehow in ways that you didn't see a couple of years ago? Curious why that seems to be more common here recently. Or maybe it just didn't bother me before and it's always been a thing?

Have you watched "Stutz" on Netflix? I wasn't really a fan of him until that documentary. So candid and open.

aggieactor01 said:

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TCTTS said:

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This is one of the most weirdly and incompetently paced/structured movies ever, with next to no tangible stakes, which features maybe the worst green screen shot I've ever seen, and for some reason really bad special effects (?), along with so many janky establishing drone shots, not to mention a script that feels like a first and only draft, written and directed by someone who's never done either of those things before.

And yet… I still laughed.

Quite a bit, actually. At least during the first half. I just really like Jonah Hill's sense of humor, and I guess it's been a while since I've seen him in a straight up comedy. Don't get me wrong, it's a truly terrible movie, but one I'm not at all mad I watched.

That said... Ezra WAS a ****ing idiot, and Eddie Murphy's character was 100% right to think he was a piece of **** who didn't deserve his daughter. For some reason, Ezra QUIT HIS JOB at literally the same moment he and his girlfriend decided to BUY A HOUSE together. In LOS ANGELES. Then, when he KNEW his father-in-law-to-be was attending his bachelor party, Ezra STILL decided to go to a strip club??? WITH his cokehead friends??? That might be the dumbest, most unbelievable thing I've seen in a movie in the last ten years. Never mind the fact that I wouldn't trust a single person who did coke or surrounded himself with close, cokehead friends. I was legit mad when Murphy changed his mind about Ezra, simply because the script needed him to. Man, that was bad.

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I agree completely with this take. There could be something to this script if they spent some time working on it. The "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in the climate of the last couple of years could be really interesting/funny if done well. This...was not. But like you said I still laughed at a good number of things.

Side question and not to derail totally, but there's been more movies recently with really bad green screen shots - like a lot of the movie seems like really bad green screen shots. Is that just all because of filming with covid? Trying to lower the budget somehow in ways that you didn't see a couple of years ago? Curious why that seems to be more common here recently. Or maybe it just didn't bother me before and it's always been a thing?

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There's always been bad green screen, it's just that it was mostly in situations where we expected bad green screen, or got used to it being there, like for driving scenes and what not. But then yeah, I think due to Covid, and whatever restrictions that brought, I'm guessing they had to do green screen for shots for random locations where they otherwise would have been able to film in person, which stand out way more.

When Eddie Murphy's at the park, though, with Jonah Hill, Murphy's clearly *at* the park for most of the scene, but then at the end of the scene, they cut back to him for a weird reaction shot, and the park behind is the worst green screen I've ever seen in my life. And it makes zero sense to me whey they did it, because Murphy hardly even reacts in that scene. It was so bizarre.

deer corn said:

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Have you watched "Stutz" on Netflix? I wasn't really a fan of him until that documentary. So candid and open.

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I haven't yet, but I keep hearing how good it is. Will definitely give it a shot.

Diggity said:

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seriously...he just eliminated 75% of his peer group

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Ha, I've been to a hundred parties/events in this town, some more private than others, and a number of them with actors, but have never once seen cocaine in real life. Obviously, people do it, but it's not nearly as prevalent out here as you might think.

TCTTS said:

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Diggity said:

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seriously...he just eliminated 75% of his peer group

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Ha, I've been to a hundred parties/events in this town, some more private than others, and a number of them with actors, but have never once seen cocaine in real life. Obviously, people do it, but it's not nearly as prevalent out here as you might think.

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Doing all your blow in the dark

TCTTS said:

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Diggity said:

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seriously...he just eliminated 75% of his peer group

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Ha, I've been to a hundred parties/events in this town, some more private than others, and a number of them with actors, but have never once seen cocaine in real life. Obviously, people do it, but it's not nearly as prevalent out here as you might think.

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Musicians

The first time I ever saw anybody do Coke was after a concert at a club on Santa Monica near Fairfax. It was a singer who had been a one-hit wonder in the dying years of hair metal and his buddy who were in the front seat of a car parked next to the club.

The best part was the fact that they were in about a 1989 Mercedes 190E. I'm sure that guy bought the car with the first check he got from his record label and was still driving it almost 20 years later.
https://jalopnik.com/i-bought-a-1989-mercedes-benz-190e-for-my-first-project-1848249760

A couple years later, I went over to a guitar player's house after a ooncert in Redondo Beach. This guy had spent months telling me he was "sober". DIdn't drink alcohol anymore.

But... back at his girlfriend's apartment, he broke out the credit card and clink-clink-clink on the glass table was him chopping up the Coke.

Later he told me about doing rails with Robin Williams in the 80s, backstage at a Nancy Reagan - Just Say No to Drugs benefit.

Here's the one hit by hair metal guy.