I had a couple hours free time this week for once, so I decided to see
Superbad. Don't know about anyone else, but I thought it was hilarious.
Not as good as Porky's, but probably better than American Pie. Definitely
one of the best sex-comedies of all time (why does Hollywood HATE
sex-comedies so much, they only gross about a bazillion dollars???). It
doesn't have a laugh-yourself-till-you-piss-blood scene like the lassie
scene in Porky's or the black knight scene in MP and the Holy Grail (or the
naked fight scene in Borat for you younger viewers), but it's funny from
start to finish. Much funnier than the typical Hollywood 'comedy'
nowadays... Surprised to see the distributor hasn't ruined it yet...
Cheers,
Bob
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From: "Kirby McDaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:02 PM
Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [MOPO] Superbad OR Supergood?
I haven't seen it, yet, but everyone that I've spoken with who has LOVED
it.
I loved KNOCKED UP and THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN not as much, but I'll
be seeing this one for sure. SUPERBAD is about 10 points below KNOCKED
UP
on metacritic.com, but still logs in a respectable 76.
And who are the critics who give it a 90 or above:?
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
David Ansen, Newsweek
David Denby, The New Yorker
Scott Foundas, The Village Voice
Joanne Kaufman, The Wall Street Fox News Journal
So, I'm going!
Kirby
On Aug 28, 2007, at 11:44 PM, channinglylethomson wrote:
8/28/2007
Tom -- that is a very good question. I saw the film this weekend and it
is my first exposure to the Seth Rogan school of popular filmmaking. I
thought the movie was extremely funny and pretty clever in terms of
writing, acting, and directing. I was disturbed by the level of
extremely crude sexuality in the film. The language is really filthy as
are the dialog scenes and much of the action. While I enjoyed the
movie, on some level I felt a little bad, like I was watching the
decline of Western Civilization on the big screen. There have always
been horny stupid teenagers looking for alcohol and sex in films (at
least since the 70s and PORKY'S) but its never been shown so openly and
extremely.
My brother called and asked if he could take his daughter who is about
13 to SUPERBAD. I said ABSOLUTELY NOT. This film is not for kids and I
would frankly be as embarrassed to see it with people of my parents'
generations as I would those of my niece's. It's a testament to the low
level our culture has sunk to.
I think the film is rated R. Any parent that took a child to this film
would be exposing them to way too much "out there" sexuality. I felt
the same way about HOSTEL (in terms of graphic sadism) which I believe
was also rated R. That film has really sick gratuitous violence and yet
it was ratde for adults to take children to the film. I just don't
understand that.
Anyway, these are my thoughts. Sometimes I long for the days of the
studio system and the production code because filmmakers had to be more
inventive and original working with a broad range of subject matters,
some educational, others just silly, others often powerful art. Today's
commercial film world seems to be primarily nasty comedy, violence, and
super heroes, super heroes, and super heroes.
By the way, does anyone have an explanation why we conceivably need to
be so incredibly bombarded by super heroes? What's in the culture that
makes that the most popular kind of film being shown?
Channing Thomson in San Francisco
On Aug 28, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Tom A. Pennock wrote:
What's your take on this new movie and thought's about it's success?
Thank's!
--Tom Pennock
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