I think there are some movies for which it is impossible to cut a decent trailer. This appears to be one of them. I agree that ALL of the marketing made this movie look pretty dire, but I have been heartened by the largely positive response it is getting.
Although I do agree with Nathan that I long for the days when Jack Black would perform a role, rather than just being "Jack Black" with no other discernable character traits. I mean he still has his post-COVID ZZ Top beard in this role, are we supposed to think this is anyone other than Jack Black?!
Update: came back from the movie and it was pretty great! Kinda started to drag toward the end, so a little cutting would really make it a tight and entertaining 90-100 minutes. And it was thoroughly a Jared Hess movie, just with a massive budget and established IP, and i think that worked out in the best possible way.
::She assures him that she’s not out to stab him, at which point she very weakly attempts to stab him. The defeated and powerless evil leader keeps trying to stab Steve unsuccessfully. It’s a gag that works splendidly due to repetition.::
"You just tried to stab me!"
"No, I didn't—" (tries to stab him again)
(jumps out of the way) "Yes, you did!"
"No, I didn't—" (tries to stab him again!)
(steps out of the way) "Yes, you did!"
(stab!) "Didn't!"
(step) "Did!"
(stab) "Didn't!"
(step) "Did!"
I now realize that joke should've been done by John Cleese and Sir! Michael Palin.
Sorry, I can't resist—Michael Palin, who did the sleazy guy in the "Blackmail" and "Dead Parrot" sketches, who had Kevin Kline shove french fries up his nose while forcing him to eat his fried goldfish, is a Knight-Commander of the British Commonwealth and Empire.
This piqued my interest! I'm also in the "underwhelmed by Napoleon Dynamite" camp; the only other film I've seen from Hess was "Gentlemen Broncos," which I really wanted to like and which I really, really, really did not enjoy. (I mostly remember a scene in which a very large snake shits all over one of the characters. I'm usually up for a good shit joke, but not in this case.)
I think there are some movies for which it is impossible to cut a decent trailer. This appears to be one of them. I agree that ALL of the marketing made this movie look pretty dire, but I have been heartened by the largely positive response it is getting.
Although I do agree with Nathan that I long for the days when Jack Black would perform a role, rather than just being "Jack Black" with no other discernable character traits. I mean he still has his post-COVID ZZ Top beard in this role, are we supposed to think this is anyone other than Jack Black?!
I'm going tonight. Wish me luck!
Well that's a relief. Nephew wants to see it with me this weekend.
It'll be my first time in the theater since February 2020.
Which, come to think of it, was a video game movie with my nephew.
Update: came back from the movie and it was pretty great! Kinda started to drag toward the end, so a little cutting would really make it a tight and entertaining 90-100 minutes. And it was thoroughly a Jared Hess movie, just with a massive budget and established IP, and i think that worked out in the best possible way.
Yeah, my favorite part was that for half an hour or so it was just a regular Jared Hess movie about eccentric characters in Idaho.
This might be what religious scholars term a cataclysmic sign or a judgement event. I still like you though. I will go see it next week.
::She assures him that she’s not out to stab him, at which point she very weakly attempts to stab him. The defeated and powerless evil leader keeps trying to stab Steve unsuccessfully. It’s a gag that works splendidly due to repetition.::
"You just tried to stab me!"
"No, I didn't—" (tries to stab him again)
(jumps out of the way) "Yes, you did!"
"No, I didn't—" (tries to stab him again!)
(steps out of the way) "Yes, you did!"
(stab!) "Didn't!"
(step) "Did!"
(stab) "Didn't!"
(step) "Did!"
I now realize that joke should've been done by John Cleese and Sir! Michael Palin.
Sorry, I can't resist—Michael Palin, who did the sleazy guy in the "Blackmail" and "Dead Parrot" sketches, who had Kevin Kline shove french fries up his nose while forcing him to eat his fried goldfish, is a Knight-Commander of the British Commonwealth and Empire.
As transcribed here, it sounds like a direct rip of the Black Knight bit in Holy Grail.
This piqued my interest! I'm also in the "underwhelmed by Napoleon Dynamite" camp; the only other film I've seen from Hess was "Gentlemen Broncos," which I really wanted to like and which I really, really, really did not enjoy. (I mostly remember a scene in which a very large snake shits all over one of the characters. I'm usually up for a good shit joke, but not in this case.)