daily.greencine.com - 4/14/2009
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[Vadim Rizov, in what he originally pitched as "this week in faux-controversy," calmly opens the ol' worm can just as others approach it with hysteria. Not that it needed to be said, but he clearly does not endorse sexual abuse....
jezebel.com - 4/9/2009
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jezebel.com —
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 & ...
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Is Date Rape Funny? Seth Rogen Explains It All For You
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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Delusions of...
Mostly Movies —
What if Anna Faris's "Why are you stopping..." line in Observe and Report was another character's delusion? (Greencine) Now, why didn't it occur to me this would strike most people as date rape? Mainly because Brandi isn't a real person. Observe and Report is incoherent in a lot of ways—it's fatally unclear on what's funny and what's unsettling, to the point that I suspect not even writer/director Jody Hill knows most of the time—but Ronnie's characterization is clear and psychologically unified: he's violent and bipolar, but he thinks he's a ...
Links for the Day (April 15th, 2009)
The House Next Door —
... 3. I know you're probably sick of it already but here's a couple of late entries in the "nope" category for Observe and Report. First, Vadim over at GreenCine Daily. Second, ...
Say It Loud, Say It Strong!
Ferdy on Films, etc. —
... Greencine Daily tackles what it calls a faux controversy regarding the was-it-or-wasn’t-it-rape sequence in Observe and Report. "Now, why didn't it occur to me this would strike most people as date rape? Mainly because Brandi isn't a real person," says article author Vadim Rizov. I admit I got more than a little hot under the collar about this one. Take a look and decide what you think.
Peter Nellhaus at Coffee, Coffee, and More Coffee takes double entendre to new heights in his keen analysis of love among the brown ...
Post O&R Fall-out?
Row Three —
observe S o, have you been following the observing & the reporting on the latest Jody Hill comedy? The internet has been a clamoring about the movie and where it lies in the fabric of modern society (from date rape questions to the ‘comedification’ Taxi Driver ). Probably the most interesting thing that I read was from Phil Nugent in the comments section of Daily Greencine’s post on the film. Anyone who’s read those interviews in which Jody Hill gives props to “Taxi Driver” knows that he thinks he was trying to challenge heroic-vigilante movie stereotypes, and anyone who’s ...
Jody Hill's Observe and Report is no laughing matter, says Danny Leigh
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk —
... that the whole furore was simply the product of an overaccelerated internet culture desperately trying to keep itself occupied by "gnawing on some chum". Not such a stretch - unless you feel, as I do, that there's actually only so much insight to be had from Kenny, or the similarly inclined Vadim Rizov, or even the holy Wolcott on the issue - because, as with any discussion of rape, the people whose reaction really matters are women. ...
Observe and Report DVD review
Notes from Underdog. —
... A scene where Ronnie finally manages a pseudo-date with Faris' Brandi
is like the knucklehead dining with the bubblehead, but Rogen and Faris
turn it into an inspired, unforgettably pathetic date, even if it ends
in disturbing fashion, an unsettling scene that is the subject of much debate.
While the film doesn't pass judgment on Ronnie's behavior here, it
seemed clear to me the audience isn't meant to support it. Still, it's
discomfiting, and hard to find it all that funny. The film does
occasionally have trouble walking the line between caring about its
characters and ...
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Seth Rogen hasn’t seen Paul Blart: Mall Cop , so when I ask if his new movie was able to reach the same allegorical depths, he doesn’t have an answer. I tell him that the jury’s still out as I’m still trying to process both, and he realizes I’m joking - letting ...
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Observe and Report
Starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and Ray Liotta
Directed by Jody Hill
Rated R
You know what's funny about Taxi Driver ? Nothing. And yet, in very real ways, that film's dark, obsessed DNA comes up as a match in blood tests of Observe and Report, ...
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atomicpopcorn.net 2/9/2009 — Another stupid film with Seth Rogen in it
I will come out and say it right away…I am NOT a Seth Rogen fan. His humor is fatboy humor. It really is all the same with the same drab crap in all of his films. Nothing related to acting has crossed my… Post from:
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filmschoolrejects.com 4/14/2009 —
In our attempt to make sense of the cinematic world, we analyzed the weekend box office numbers. Our findings? We want a mall cop we can see on the TV.
My mother once told me that we were all unique and beautiful snowflakes. Of course she was drunk at the time. Okay, the latter statement ...
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sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com 4/17/2009 — Glenn Kenny, in introducing his consideration of the love it-or-hate-it Seth Rogen comedy Observe and Report , speculated that this is one of those movies that may be less interesting than the general critical reaction to it. I think Kenny may be ...
Review: Observe and Report
cinematical.com 4/12/2009 —
By Scott Weinberg (original publication date: 3/17/09 -- SXSW Film Festival)
I know it may seem sort of strange to get two "mall cop" comedies within two months of each other, but really: Aside from only the most tangential of plot ...
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