jezebel.com - 4/9/2009
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If you're thinking about seeing the light-hearted Seth Rogen comedy Observe & Report , you may want to watch this R-rated trailer first...or maybe not. You wouldn't know it from watching the commercials playing constantly on TV, but in Observe & Report Ronnie (Seth Rogen) date rapes Brandi ...
huffingtonpost.com - 4/13/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Seth Rogen's new film Observe and Report is
under fire over a "date rape" scene in which...
Rogen's character has sex with an unconscious female after heavy drug and alcohol use. "The movie doesn't mitigate that sex scene at all," writes New York's Dan ...
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"Observe And Report" Date Rape Scene Sparks Outrage (VIDEO)
ew.com - 4/10/2009
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ew.com —
With the outsize box office success of Paul
Blart: Mall Cop , you can be excused for...
entering Observe and Report expecting sloppy seconds. In this version, a pudgy Seth Rogen wears the tin badge of weaponless courage previously pinned on a pudgy ...
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Observe and Report | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly
nymag.com - 4/8/2009
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Last weekend we were hanging out with a
bunch of movie-loving friends who professed no desire to...
see Observe and Report , Seth Rogen's mall-cop black comedy. "I just don't want to see any movie where the main character's a rapist," one girl said ...
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Does Seth Rogen Rape Anna Faris in Observe and Report? ...
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'Observe and Report' Sparks Date-Rape Debate
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... Over at Jezebel, fans have decided that Rogen and Hill have just gone too far, and that this is another in a long line of examples of the anti-woman stance today's successful comedies seem to be taking. But go for a stroll over passed the New York Times and in ...
"Observe and Report"...
Some Came Running —
... As for the picture's controversial "date rape" scene, which one defends at the peril of being scolded "But it's not informed consent!", well, if one was wondering what could make any given writer at Jezebel drop her insouciance, rev up her outrage meter from -10 to 100 in nothing flat, and come on rather like a potty-mouthed Phyllis Schlafly, well, now you know. Whether that's a useful thing to know, I can't say. This is not to condone date rape jokes, or any kind of rape jokes, by the way; they're not funny. Not in Blazing ...
I Continue To Be A Part Of The Problem
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... Did any of y'all see it? Did the scene everyone's talking about offend you too? I am so curious about this maelstrom of PC-riddled offense the film's riled up. ...
Jody Hill's Observe and Report is no laughing matter, says Danny Leigh
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk —
... to be heard. For all the impeccable professionalism they brought to their reviews, both the New York Times's Manohla Dargis and Salon's Stephanie Zacharek (coincidentally perhaps the two best film critics writing in English today) appeared at the very least discomfited by what they had seen. Lots more, meanwhile, have been scalding in their criticism of a scene that's brought them genuine distress (see, among others, Lindsay Bayerstein, Tiger Beatdown and Jezebel). And it's that gut-authentic response that I'm not sure any male commentator can ...
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Seth Rogen Talks 'Green Hornet'
getthebigpicture.net 4/9/2009 — There's a new interview with Seth Rogen over at The Hollywood
Reporter that might of particular interest if you're keen on Observe and Report ,
which arrives in theaters this Friday.
But we're less interested in that than The Great Unknown: The Green Hornet . Rogen has
been ...
FSR’s Weekly Report Card for 04.10.09
filmschoolrejects.com 4/10/2009 —
OBSERVE AND REPORT
Studio: Warner Bros.
Rated: R for for pervasive language, graphic nudity, drug use, sexual content and violence.
Starring: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Michael Peña, Ray Liotta and Collette Wolfe
Directed by: Jody Hill
What it’s about: Seth Rogen plays a bipolar ...
Seth Rogen Aims High For ‘Pineapple Express’ Sequel
moviesblog.mtv.com 4/11/2009 — Jeff Sneider
Did anyone watch the Oscars this year, or was it just me and a few million other brave souls?
If you did tune in, surely you remember Seth Rogen and James Franco reprising their “Pineapple Express” characters in a ...
Observe & Report 's Seth Rogen and Anna Faris
comingsoon.net 4/13/2009 — Seth Rogen has dominated the big-screen for the last couple of years as the laughable stoned slacker whose smartass comments made us love him, but in Warner Bros.' dark comedy Observe and Report , Rogen takes great delight in playing an unstable mall ...
Observe and Report (Review)
cutprintreview.com 4/14/2009 — The Seth Rogen bandwagon is still rolling well into 2009 as he continues his evident quest to play every guy who wants justice among his peers. Following Paul Blart: Mall Cop in March, we’re served another mall-cop comedy, but while Rogen usually has the backing of either himself or Judd ...
Review: Observe and Report —
Screaming Blue Reviews
Seth Rogen brings his screen charm to an uneven trip through the dark side of comedy.
In the past we’ve criticized Seth Rogen for repeatedly giving the same performance of the same character with little variation. But in his new film Observe and Report , he finally takes a big risk by ...
Movie Review: “Observe and Report” —
The Screening Log
Seen on: April 10, 2009
The players: Director: Jody Hill, Writer: Jody Hill, Cast: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Michael Pena, Ray Liotta, Jesse Plemons
Facts of interest: Jody Hill also directed "The Foot Fist Way."
The plot: Seth Rogen plays a mall security guard who desperately wants to ...
'Observe And Report': Officer Down, By Kurt Loder —
MTV Movies
Seth Rogen's wasted in this comedy of errors.
Michael Pena and Seth Rogen in "Observe and Report"
Photo: Warner Bros.
If the goal of "Observe and Report" is to show us the dark, transgressive side of Seth Rogen , then the movie is a bust. Rogen can no more creep us out ...
Q&A: Seth Rogen —
MovingPictureBlog
“With most of the characters I’ ve played,” Seth Rogen told me a few days ago, “I think people think, ‘Hey, I’d like to hang out with that guy.’ But this isn't one of those characters." Damn right. Rogen was talking about his role as Ronnie Barnhardt , a borderline-psycho who occasionally ...
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