I can just see the hundreds of "McLovin" posters all over frat dorm walls

[thehefner]

Look, I have no doubt SUPERBAD is probably a damn funny movie. And yes, as it's a Judd Apatow film, I feel obligated to support it, since his films are--for one reason or another--inexorably tied to geek culture and cinema. So I gotta show my respect to that. Even if I did kinda hate THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN.

But holy crap, am I sick of hearing about SUPERBAD.

The usual movie sites I got to have been clogged with nothing but SUPERBAD set visits, pop-up talking ads, and rave reviews, calling this the funniest movie of summer, the next DAZED AND CONFUSED or FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (both of which I also hated), or BETTER OFF DEAD (which I still need to see).

To make matters worse, the oversaturating TV ads for SUPERBAD have gone from "wacky dirty teenage comedy" to "generational landmark film that will be treasured for years to come." The nut-shot humor has been replaced by scenes edited to make the film look like frickin' STAND BY ME or something. I mean, fucking seriously, last night a commercial announced, in a tone that sounded like the sort of thing Trey Parker and Matt Stone would parody: "Every once in a while, a film comes along that defines a generation... SUPERBAD is that film."

At this point, this film had better be funnier than PLANET TERROR and HOT FUZZ combined. This should make KISS KISS BANG BANG look like fucking NORBIT. This had better be so goddamn funny, no amount of this kind of rabid marketing overhype should be able to contain the pure white light of cinematic hilarity, and I will come out of the theatre a giggling, sore-from-laughter convert.

There's only one word to describe this, but I'm avoiding using it, because I know it offends some. And as a fan myself, I don't like it when my fandom is turned into a negative buzzword. It's hurtful, I honestly do understand. Still, that word is the only possible one to describe that's going on with SUPERBAD.

Hint: it rhymes with "Frowncoated."

Hell with this. Unless I can go with fishymcb and marred82, I think I'd rather just see KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS instead. It's gonna need my money more than SUPERBAD will at this point.

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

God, I completely agree. I have a couple other reasons beyond that, but man, "discomfort" humor really makes me... uncomfortable. It was like a funnier and less painful and pretentious version of PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE.

It works for my on EXTRAS to a better extent, but that's helped by people like Patrick Stewart.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the best moments on the EXTRAS episode I saw were the interactions with the star (Kate Winslet, in that case). Same joke, actually, but it was funnier coming from her.