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The Kingdom – EJECTED
Knocked Up – EJECTED (I thought it was going to be funny – twenty-year old stoner jokes)
Roger L. Simon
Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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3 Comments
1. amuro316:Wow, you watched the first 10 minutes of Knocked Up and completely missed the point. There are stoner jokes because we’re supposed to be laughing at them- not with them. And because stoner guys like that shouldn’t be having kids- but one of them does. And has to live with it.
Put it back in again and actually watch the damn thing and not eject it because it comes off initially like a lame American Pie ripoff. It’s not. Watch it.
Dec 29, 2007 - 1:07 pm 2. Sheryl:We got that, amuro316. Actually, stale as they were, the stoner jokes were the only thing that kept me watching. Because the two main characters and the situation they found themselves in, and how they behaved were utterly unbelievable.
Dec 29, 2007 - 1:16 pm 3. Cinabar:Knocked Up is mildly entertaining but can’t hold a candle to Juno which is one of the best films this season. Ellen Page is simply fantastic. She is most notable for the way she dishes out the great lines written for the part but her facial and eye expressions when no dialog is present is nothing short of remarkable. Her performance is certainly worthy of Oscar consideration and she will, I predict, be a major force in the industry.
Dec 29, 2007 - 10:02 pm