Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith, 2008)

[Tom Hagen]

Seth Rogen dresses up as Kevin Smith to fulfill the latter's fanboy fantasy of sleeping with a woman who's too good-looking to be in his league. How original.

Isn't he already married to a woman who's too good-looking to be in his league, thus fulfilling his fanboy fantasy on a near nightly basis? (A fact that he reminds us all of endlessly in various interviews, appearances, and "Evenings with Kevin Smith" Q&A sessions. Hell he even casts her in his films and has shot semi nude photos of her for Playboy.)

[swo17]

Just because he keeps saying she is that good looking doesn't mean that she is.

[Tom Hagen]

Haha! The question was not "good looking," however. It was "out of his league." His wife surely is not all that he promotes her to be, but she is, unquestionably, out of his league.

[jbeall]

I guess... Skinny-as-a-rail doesn't necessarily equal good-looking in my book, and I've never found his wife all that attractive. But then he's married to her, so his opinion matters a little more than mine.

I could generalize here about folks whose tastes have been changed, probably for the worse, by spending too much time online and too little time interacting with actual people, but that's old hat. What's amusing/sad here is that Smith tries to make his real-life wife into a fantasy object by exploiting her as if she's a fantasy girl, which clearly nobody's buying except Smith himself. Sometimes these comix geeks are worse than frat boys.

[Antoine Doinel]

You can stop petitioning the MPAA and finally get some sleep tonight - the film has been given an R-rating on appeal.

[swo17]

the rating was revised after the group's appeals board viewed the movie.

So are they rating movies now before viewing them?

[Mr Sausage]

the rating was revised after the group's appeals board viewed the movie.

So are they rating movies now before viewing them?

It was just the Appeals Board that was only now watching it.

[kaujot]

Well, the trailer, for better or worse, looked nothing like a Kevin Smith movie. Except for the familiar faces.

[chaddoli]

Couldn't find this thread last night - here's the trailer.

This is the second Weinstein film this year that was directed by no one.

[Antoine Doinel]

Here's the banned poster (in the US anyway).



And here's a new red band trailer, in which (unsurprisingly) the funniest thing in it is Craig Robinson.

[Tom Hagen]

Wow. That trailer was even less funny than the unfunny teaser a few months back that didn't feature any actual footage from the film. At least Oliver Stone can rest soundly knowing that W. will not be the biggest bomb this fall featuring Elizabeth Banks.

[mfunk9786]

Here's the banned poster (in the US anyway).

Ugh, what a terrible poster, right down to the two separate colors and the stupid look on Elizabeth Banks' face - aside from the obvious idiocy of the thing.

[tavernier]

At least she had to make that face -- Seth Rogen's stupid look comes naturally.

[mfunk9786]

It doesn't look anything like either one of them are receiving oral sex at all, too... they're just standing there with photoshopped heads in front of them. Pretty glad it's been banned.

Who would want to lift an idea from this movie, I have no idea, but it brings back horrible memories of:



Although it is quite odd that the Zack and Miri poster would be banned, when this one, featuring a shirtless person making a face like they're proudly being blown, wasn't banned.

As for the trailer... eh. Here's hoping there's a lot of funny improv and riffing, because the faint stench of Smith's stale dialogue is spattered throughout. I still do like Seth Rogen and [to a lesser extent] Elizabeth Banks enough to see this, though.

[Antoine Doinel]

It doesn't look anything like either one of them are receiving oral sex at all, too... they're just standing there with photoshopped heads in front of them. Pretty glad it's been banned.

Who would want to lift an idea from this movie, I have no idea, but it brings back horrible memories of:

Although, that poster brings back pleasant memories of this one:

[mfunk9786]

Ice cream is delicious.

[Noir of the Night]

Say what you will about Kevin Smith, but this is pretty clever.

[swo17]

Say what you will about Kevin Smith

I'll bite. Put all of his movies together, and you've still only got about 10% of one good film.

[domino harvey]

That poster is an example of a good idea in theory ruined in execution

[Antoine Doinel]

I'm guessing we can say the same about the film.

[dr. calamari]

I'm starting to get the idea that there aren't many Kevin Smith fans on this board, much less in this thread...myself included.

However, I can say that I like Elizabeth Banks without reservation. Too bad she's in this trainwreck, but she's still young enough to recover.

[Antoine Doinel]

Ugh, Kevin Smith can't even make the fake making-of short funny.

[Mr Pixies]

I'm a fan of his, but he's hard to defend, or I'm just embarrassed to? This could be good..I like all his others, but the premise and trailer do not interest me (seems like parody of Be Kind Rewind). I'll be there to see it though, and if it does suck, I will assume it is Smith's unconscious way of sabotaging himself to having to make another Jay and Silent Bob film.

[Grand Illusion]

In fairness to Mr. Smith, if you look at his oeuvre through the looking glass of semiotics and recall what Roland Barthes said about signifiers, then, hey look, Jessica Alba and ice cream. Yum.

[exte]

In fairness to Mr. Smith, if you look at his oeuvre through the looking glass of semiotics and recall what Roland Barthes said about signifiers, then, hey look, Jessica Alba and ice cream. Yum.

lol