Best Comedy Tournament: Round 1 - Group E (Tiebreaker)

[mae]

For the tiebreaker poll, please vote for one title to move on to the next round. The poll will be open for four days.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Meet_The_Fockers.jpg/220px-Meet_The_Fockers.jpg
Meet the Fockers (2004) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Fockers)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66AcFhmGso

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/This-is-the-End-Film-Poster.jpg/220px-This-is-the-End-Film-Poster.jpg
This Is the End (2013) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_End)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kliQSsD_npo

[mae]

This is surprisingly close so far and it shouldn't be. Watch that trailer again for TITE.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I will abstain, as I have not seen This is the End.

[Theli]

This Is The End FTW! Just brought it back to a tie!

[Still Servant]

I'm shocked there are 6 people on the planet that think Meet the Fockers was good. I'm going to justify it by saying 6 people thought they were voting for Meet the Parents. Judging by the success of the far inferior sequel, Meet the Parents is going to go a long way.

Exhibit A why Fockers should go. Just dreadful.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7r0T_7H6Ko

[RUBE]

I was going to vote for Meet the Fockers just because of how little I liked This is the End but you have now convinced me neither deserves my vote.

[pathoftheturtle]

I didn't hate it totally, but I'm still not convinced I should try to see This Is the End.

Abstaining.

[Still Servant]

I know I've posted it before, but desperate times and all. If it pleases the court, I'd like to call my client to the stand:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ2BXqST758

[mae]

This Is the End is hilarious throughout and insanely meta. It's awesome.

[mosheprigan]

I vote for Meet the Fockers! Dustin Hoffman is my fav.

[mae]

Those voting against TITE, I would love to hear their view on why Fockers is better. I understand that humor is very subjective, but still. TITE is a much funnier and better made film. Fockers has a lowly 38% on RT, while TITE is a whopping 88%.

[divemaster]

I didn't see either one, so am not voting. But I must say, the trailers for Fockers looked so bad that I can't imagine having to sit through it. I though the first movie was passable at best.

This Is The End at least looked funny enough for me to put it in my Netflix queue.

[mae]

You still have time to watch it and vote. The poll will close in three days.

[frik]

I vote for Meet the Fockers! Dustin Hoffman is my fav.

Streisand + Hoffman are pure magic!

sk

[Still Servant]

I vote for Meet the Fockers! Dustin Hoffman is my fav.

Streisand + Hoffman are pure magic!

sk

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.

By the logic you guys are using, you would consider Little Fockers a good film as well. If that's the case, I just don't know what to say.

EDIT: Then again it seems like I'm preaching to the choir since you have Streisand as your profile pic.

[RUBE]

FYI, preaching to the choir doesn't fit since you don't hold the same opinion. It would be more like preaching to an atheist.

Anyway, Fockers isn't good but neither is TITE. I had high expectations for TITE and was let down when I watched it. I was actually kind of disgusted by the movie.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.



Okay, let's analyse that.... :orely:

First of all, Dustin Hoffman's role in Meet The Fockers won him the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in 2005. So it's hardly one of the worst performances of his career.

Secondly, since the release of Meet The Fockers in December 2004, Dustin Hoffman has gained further critical acclaim with the following film roles:

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.

2009 - Last Chance Harvey - Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

2010 - Barney's Version - won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.


It's therefore quite apparent that Dustin Hoffman is still getting good movie roles. :cool:

[Iwritecode]

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.



Okay, let's analyse that.... :orely:

First of all, Dustin Hoffman's role in Meet The Fockers won him the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in 2005. So it's hardly one of the worst performances of his career.

Secondly, since the release of Meet The Fockers in December 2004, Dustin Hoffman has gained further critical acclaim with the following film roles:

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.

2009 - Last Chance Harvey - Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

2010 - Barney's Version - won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.


It's therefore quite apparent that Dustin Hoffman is still getting good movie roles. :cool:

I didn't know Hoffman did a voice in Kung Fu Panda. :eek: Never heard of those other two movies.

Never heard of the Annie or Genie awards either... :(

[Still Servant]

Pure magic in Fockers? Wow.

It's easily one of Hoffman's worst performances of his career. Some truly cringe-worthy scenes.

I love Hoffman too, but this isn't Kramer vs. Kramer or Rain Man. You have to vote for the film, not the actor in the film. I could make the case that after Meet the Fockers, Hoffman stopped getting good movie roles.



Okay, let's analyse that.... :orely:

First of all, Dustin Hoffman's role in Meet The Fockers won him the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in 2005. So it's hardly one of the worst performances of his career.

Secondly, since the release of Meet The Fockers in December 2004, Dustin Hoffman has gained further critical acclaim with the following film roles:

2008 - Kung Fu Panda - won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.

2009 - Last Chance Harvey - Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

2010 - Barney's Version - won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film.


It's therefore quite apparent that Dustin Hoffman is still getting good movie roles. :cool:

I didn't know Hoffman did a voice in Kung Fu Panda. :eek: Never heard of those other two movies.

Never heard of the Annie or Genie awards either... :(

You've never heard of those two films? Exactly.

The defense rests.

As for Kung Fu Panda, the success of that movie had nothing to do with Hoffman's performance. It's an animated film. Maybe I should have been more clear, Hoffman has failed to get larger roles in bigger films since Fockers. Hell, he had like 5 lines in the Indie film Chef this past year.

I have no idea how Hoffman got nominated for a Globe for Last Chance Harvey, the film opened on like 5 screens. Probably because it's in the category of Musical/Comedy and there's usually not a whole lot else to nominate. Barney's Version is another film without a wide release. All I'm saying is that he hasn't been in a ton of major films since Fockers. Maybe it's unfair to blame that on Fockers. This tends to happen to older actors. I'm sure some would blame I Heart Huckabees, which also came out the year he released Fockers.

Also, you didn't just seriously use a win for an MTV Movie Award to prove a point did you? :scared:

[T-Dogz_AK47]

For any fence sitters out there wondering which film to vote for, please read the following newspaper review for TITE...

300 F-words, zero laughs: Foul-mouthed, crude and conceited, Seth Rogen's latest attempt at comedy is a new low...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2350175/This-Is-The-End-review-Seth-Rogens-latest-attempt-comedy-new-low.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2350175/This-Is-The-End-review-Seth-Rogens-latest-attempt-comedy-new-low.html)

There is also a whole bunch of reviews for TITE that were posted on the IMDB website, with titles such as:

"This Is The End - THE END didn't come quick enough for me"

"This movie was awful, self indulgent and funny maybe twice in two hours."

"This is the End of me ever attending a Seth Rogen creation."

"So so so so very disappointed."

"This is a Big Let Down"

"Had potential but failed miserably"

"Just bad"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/reviews (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/reviews)

Some real stellar reviews there!!! :rolleyes: :evil:

Meet The Fockers may have some minor flaws, but next to TITE it's an absolute masterpiece!!! :doh:

I think TITE should be renamed as SHITE!!! :lol:

[Still Servant]

If you want to throw numbers out there then look no further than Rotten Tomatoes. Meet the Fockers has a 38% fresh rating and End has 83%. You can cherry pick all the bad reviews you want, but facts are facts. More critics enjoyed End over Fockers. Actually, End is higher rated among audiences as well.

There are 97 rotten reviews for Fockers, so I don't want to dig through them all to find the worst ones. Also, I'm not sure it makes sense to reference user reviews on IMDB. Have you been on an IMDB message board in the last 10 years? In order to take those reviews seriously, I would have to take into account how much the reviewers know about the actors in the movie. I have a friend that hated End too, but he had never heard of most of the actors in the film. I feel that it's the kind of movie you have to be in on the inside joke. You have to know the actors and the movie business. My friend knows neither and so he hated it. I'm sure you're down on all that stuff and still hated it, so I know that's possible too.

It doesn't matter what I say, Fockers is going to win. It will quickly get destroyed in the next round. I haven't seen every film in the tournament, but of the ones I have seen, Fockers is the worst.

[mae]

Gotta get three more votes at least for This Is the End :panic:

[Still Servant]

Not gonna happen, Pablo. All we have is Barbara Streisand giving a massage to Robert DeNiro because that's just hilarious.

[divemaster]

T-Dogz_AK47's post inspired me. I voted for This Is the End, just on general principle. MTV awards? Really?

[Still Servant]

:lol:

I thought I was fighting too hard for This is the End and was going to cost it votes, which I probably already did, at least we got one back.

[mae]

We're at 19 votes. The most so far we've had was 32, so this is far from over.

[Mattrick]

How is this EVEN tied at 10? Feet The Fockers was terrible. This Is The End is funny, with good comedic performances all without the uniqueness of seeing hollywood celebrities play themselves while also making fun of their own image. This Is The End is great. Meet The Fockers is not.

[mae]

This is closing tomorrow and we're tied at 11. This is closer than I thought it would ever be. Need more votes to break the tie!

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Originally Posted by Still Servant
If you want to throw numbers out there then look no further than Rotten Tomatoes. Meet the Fockers has a 38% fresh rating and End has 83%. You can cherry pick all the bad reviews you want, but facts are facts. More critics enjoyed End over Fockers. Actually, End is higher rated among audiences as well.

I haven't thrown any numbers into this discussion. However if you want to include Rotten Tomatoes into the equation, let's get to it! Everyone knows the ratings on that site are an absolute joke. Rotten Tomatoes scores the movie Rogue with a 100% "Fresh" rating (best movie ever? Really???) whilst, Out of Africa a movie that won 7 Academy Awards including Best Film and Best Director and was nominated for a further 4, gets a "Rotten" rating of 53%!!! Like seriously??? WTF!!!

If you are going to solely rely on skewed binary for you argument and present them as "facts", be aware that your "facts" are somewhat shaky...


Originally Posted by Still Servant
Also, I'm not sure it makes sense to reference user reviews on IMDB. Have you been on an IMDB message board in the last 10 years? In order to take those reviews seriously, I would have to take into account how much the reviewers know about the actors in the movie.

I like the way you attack the IMDB message boards and validity of the reviews posted, when Rotten Tomatoes itself is guilty of far worse. When reviews were posted on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie,The Dark Knight Rises - so many users posted hateful remarks and even death threats on the comments feature, that the entire message board for the site had to be temporarily disabled after the sheer amount of hateful rhetoric got out of hand.


Originally Posted by Still Servant
It doesn't matter what I say, Fockers is going to win. It will quickly get destroyed in the next round. I haven't seen every film in the tournament, but of the ones I have seen, Fockers is the worst.

Let's be clear on something. I am not voting for Meet The Fockers as much as I am voting against TITE! Like I said in a previous post, Meet The Fockers certainly has some flaws, but next to TITE it's an absolute masterpiece!!!

If you check the nominations thread, you will see that I did not nominate Meet The Fockers for this tournament. I nominated Meet The Parents. I personally do not care if Meet The Fockers gets destroyed in the next round, I just think it's the more deserving film to go through when being placed in a tiebreaker with TITE.

[mae]

Why do you so adamantly dislike TITE?

[skyofcrack]

Why are any of you even looking at RT or IMDB? Shouldn't we be just listening to each other in this friendly competition?

Seriously. I just checked the ratings for Real Life and Lost in America which are being virtually ignored here despite my comments and videos posted. RL is at 88% and LiA is at 96%.

[fernandito]

Do we have a tiebreaker in place for the, er... tiebreaker?

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Why are any of you even looking at RT or IMDB? Shouldn't we be just listening to each other in this friendly competition?

Seriously. I just checked the ratings for Real Life and Lost in America which are being virtually ignored here despite my comments and videos posted. RL is at 88% and LiA is at 96%.

As I posted in my comments above, the percentages on these sites are worthless and mean nothing. Unfortunately, so many people now that think that scores posted on sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are a replacement for actual critical assessment.

[mae]

RT and MC percentages are an average of critic scores, not random numbers.

As far as ties in a tiebreaker, I think before in these situations I asked Jerome to weigh in, I don't think he's been participating.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

RT and MC percentages are an average of critic scores, not random numbers.



I would question the veracity of "critic scores" on these sites when Rogue is effectively rated as the best film ever made at 100% and films like Out of Africa are rated as being shit with a score of only 53%!! :nope:

You cannot honestly tell me that you think Rogue is the best film ever made, whilst the movie with 7 Academy Awards including Best Film and Best Director is utter shit. It's total bullshit and I don't know why these scores are even given the time of day... :doh:

[fernandito]

RT and MC percentages are an average of critic scores, not random numbers.

Nope nope nope

RT percentages are a very blunt object. The only thing it calculates is whether a critic 'Liked' or 'Disliked' a movie. So you can have critic absolutely rave about a film, give it a 10/10 and an A plus, and then you can have another critic rate that very same film with a "Meh... it was an okay movie, I guess... 6/10" RT will count both of those as Likes, increasing the percentage. Very broad stroke.

There's a small indicator next to the percentage that averages out the numerical scores attributed. I've seen films with an 85%, BUT the average score is something like 6.5/10 or whatever.

[mae]

Re: Rogue, you have to take into account the critics, not just the naked number. The critics RT uses here are all from various b-movie sources. Of course they'll love trash. There's also a Top Critics option. There is no score.

[pathoftheturtle]

In the past, ultimate ties have been broken by counting comments, to encourage people to also participate in articulating their reasons, but I'm not sure that's so wise if no one can be actually reasonable on this one.

It does seem that more than one person here has adamantly dislike for TitE. And MtF appears to have its share of those, too.

As for the rating sites debate, my view is that they can be interesting to look at and into, but they're definitely not the most interesting way to defend one's personal opinions.

[Still Servant]

Originally Posted by Still Servant
If you want to throw numbers out there then look no further than Rotten Tomatoes. Meet the Fockers has a 38% fresh rating and End has 83%. You can cherry pick all the bad reviews you want, but facts are facts. More critics enjoyed End over Fockers. Actually, End is higher rated among audiences as well.

I haven't thrown any numbers into this discussion. However if you want to include Rotten Tomatoes into the equation, let's get to it! Everyone knows the ratings on that site are an absolute joke. Rotten Tomatoes scores the movie Rogue with a 100% "Fresh" rating (best movie ever? Really???) whilst, Out of Africa a movie that won 7 Academy Awards including Best Film and Best Director and was nominated for a further 4, gets a "Rotten" rating of 53%!!! Like seriously??? WTF!!!

If you are going to solely rely on skewed binary for you argument and present them as "facts", be aware that your "facts" are somewhat shaky...


Originally Posted by Still Servant
Also, I'm not sure it makes sense to reference user reviews on IMDB. Have you been on an IMDB message board in the last 10 years? In order to take those reviews seriously, I would have to take into account how much the reviewers know about the actors in the movie.

I like the way you attack the IMDB message boards and validity of the reviews posted, when Rotten Tomatoes itself is guilty of far worse. When reviews were posted on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie,The Dark Knight Rises - so many users posted hateful remarks and even death threats on the comments feature, that the entire message board for the site had to be temporarily disabled after the sheer amount of hateful rhetoric got out of hand.


Originally Posted by Still Servant
It doesn't matter what I say, Fockers is going to win. It will quickly get destroyed in the next round. I haven't seen every film in the tournament, but of the ones I have seen, Fockers is the worst.

Let's be clear on something. I am not voting for Meet The Fockers as much as I am voting against TITE! Like I said in a previous post, Meet The Fockers certainly has some flaws, but next to TITE it's an absolute masterpiece!!!

If you check the nominations thread, you will see that I did not nominate Meet The Fockers for this tournament. I nominated Meet The Parents. I personally do not care if Meet The Fockers gets destroyed in the next round, I just think it's the more deserving film to go through when being placed in a tiebreaker with TITE.

We're not talking about Out of Africa or anything else. We are talking about Fockers and End. I agree that RT percentages are flawed in many ways, especially with older films. These two films are recent and taking the critics scores and audiences scores into account help tell the story. And the story is that on most sites End is the preferred film of the two when it comes to critics and audiences alike.

All I'm saying is you can't take a few bad reviews from users and use that as the end all be all. You don't think there are equally poor reviews on IMDB about Fockers? I can assure you there are.

As for the Dark Knight incident, that was regarding one critic. His name is Armond White (actually, that's where I got my name from on Rotten Tomatoes - Armond White Sucks) he was a troll critic that always gave rotten ratings to films that were doing really well. A bunch of crazy fanboys took it too far and the rest is history.

In the end, everybody has their way of voting, but I personally would not vote for a film just so it can get past a film I hate. I would only vote for a film over another film because I prefer it. Why cost people the chance to watch a film they enjoy move on just because you have a passionate distaste for it? That's just me though.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Originally Posted by Still Servant
In the end, everybody has their way of voting, but I personally would not vote for a film just so it can get past a film I hate. I would only vote for a film over another film because I prefer it. Why cost people the chance to watch a film they enjoy move on just because you have a passionate distaste for it? That's just me though.

Meet The Fockers has some flaws granted, but it does actually have some funny scenes too and a fine stellar cast to boot. Certainly not the greatest comedy film ever made, but at least it was enjoyable.

TITE has no laughs, a poor script, bad acting and shoddy directing. It has no redeemable features whatsoever and was 106 minutes of my life I will never get back.

Between the two, I DO prefer Meet The Fockers!

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Do we have a tiebreaker in place for the, er... tiebreaker?

That would be me, as I have not voted yet. Awe the power to crush one, while allowing the other to live on. Mwuaahh hahahaha. *rubs hands together with maniacle malfeasance*

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

If This is the End is on Netflix, I will try to watch it tonight in order to cast my vote, propelling one onto future ballots and casting the other onto the pile of disgrace.

[Mattrick]

TITE has no laughs, a poor script, bad acting and shoddy directing. It has no redeemable features whatsoever and was 106 minutes of my life I will never get back.



It has plenty of laughs, a very clever script, solid acting (especially Baruchel and Hill) and it's competently directed by Rogen and Goldberg. All your points are moot, though I will agree you will never get those 106 minutes back...you wouldn't get them back if you'd have watched the greatest film of all time either, since time slips through our fingers like sands through the hourglass.

These are the five critic reviews for This Is The End at the top of the list on IMBD

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/this-is-the-end-2013
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2629
http://www.examiner.com/review/this-is-the-end-2013-movie-review-i-welcome-the-rapture
http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-06-12/film/seth-rogen-s-this-is-the-end-could-kill-redemption-cold/
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/this-is-the-end-20130612

4/5 very positive reviews.

Here are the top five reviews listed on IMBD for Meet The Fockers (a lot of the links are broken now, so the top five that work)

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/meet-the-fockers-2004
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=109
http://www.imdb.com/reviews/0290002
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/01/12/meet_the_fockers_2005_review.shtml
http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/That-s-nothing-you-should-see-my-parents-2662387.php

5 reviews, all in the end stating Meet The Fockers is slightly better than average or just average.

Meet The Fockers has nothing on This Is The End. Nothing. I don't know anyone who didn't enjoy This Is The End while I know plenty who didn't like Meet The Fockers at all. This should be a clear cut case...an average, unnecessary sequel or a daring film full of actors who have to make their own names look bad? I'll take the later. Any day.

[pathoftheturtle]

If This is the End is on Netflix, I will try to watch it tonight in order to cast my vote, propelling one onto future ballots and casting the other onto the pile of disgrace.

It's not. For sale but not rent at On Demand and the same at Amazon Instant. Just how maniacal is your malfeasance? I know I don't want to pay $12 to have to watch a movie with a clip like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ2BXqST758

[T-Dogz_AK47]

If This is the End is on Netflix, I will try to watch it tonight in order to cast my vote, propelling one onto future ballots and casting the other onto the pile of disgrace.

It's not. For sale but not rent at On Demand and the same at Amazon Instant. Just how maniacal is your malfeasance? I know I don't want to pay $12 to have to watch a movie with a clip like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ2BXqST758

Yeah, for god's sake don't waste paying $12 to watch that garbage, just watch the clip that's been posted here instead. It's a 2 minute tirade about jacking off and 'cumming all over the place'. Like I said before, no laughs and shit acting! :doh:

I think watching that scene does a far better job of demonstrating how truly shit this film really is, than anything I can possibly say in words...

In fact, has anybody got any more clips of TITE that they can post here? :lol:

[mae]

If you generally don't find that group of actors funny, you won't like TITE. I've been a fan of theirs since Freaks and Geeks, so all these guys and others from their posse crack me up no matter what.

[skyofcrack]

That clip is funny and so is this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDlz2hdxVzU

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Yeah, hilarious. I nearly pissed myself laughing with that one. Rape is always subject matter for comedy gold. :rolleyes:

Keep 'em coming guys. These clips are just getting better and better! LOL! :thumbsup: :lol:

[skyofcrack]

Clearly, your limitations are showing.

[fernandito]

As for the rating sites debate, my view is that they can be interesting to look at and into, but they're definitely not the most interesting way to defend one's personal opinions.

Yup.

I'm fine with them as supplemental information, but I dislike debates that boil down to "XYZ has an 70% rating and yours has a 65%, so clearly I'm right." I'm much more interested in personal interpretation.

[mae]

The poll has closed. Meet the Fockers moves on to the next round, while This Is the End is eliminated.

[Mattrick]

This is a travesty to end all travesties. What fresh hell is this?

[fernandito]

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/c5/c54d81e9e54d6d674e48e58a70e0b1152186ac2e8f8f69a02f 8ec013210a6b3e.jpg

[Mattrick]

I guess I have to watch This Is The End yet again to honour this far superior comedy and a far superior film in general that lost to a movie so bad all I remember nothing from it. I met the Fockers and I can't say I cared for them at all, not at all.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

If you generally don't find that group of actors funny, you won't like TITE. I've been a fan of theirs since Freaks and Geeks, so all these guys and others from their posse crack me up no matter what.

Superbad, 40 yo virgin, Pineapple Express and Neighbors are absolutely hilarious (just watched Neighbors again last night as a matter of fact, and laughed my ass off) Still have not seen TITE, but i didnt even giggle at anything in those clips, and I remember seeing the trailers at the movie theater and saying to myself...Yeah, I'll probably skip that one.

[mae]

It's the same type of humor, so I'm not sure what you saw that was so different. If you haven't seen it, check out the red-band trailer in the first post.

[RUBE]

I also liked Superbad and 40-Year-Old Virgin (as well as Knocked-Up, which I think I nominated, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Pineapple Express was OK up until the final act. I still didn't like This Is The End. Just because they had the same actors doesn't mean it is the same humor or the same quality. Most of those other movies were about growing up from man-children to real adults. With its constant penis jokes, actors being assholes (trying to make fun of themselves) and mocking of religion, this movie seems to go the other direction and fully embrace the man-child who thinks the devil getting his penis cut off is the funniest thing ever. Personally I think TITE went too far. If not liking jokes about the devil raping people makes someone "limited" then I am glad to be "limited."


FYI, I still didn't vote for either movie.

[Ben Staad]

I didn't put in a vote here either however I was not a fan of TITE. I enjoy a few of the movies from this group of actors however, for the most part, TITE really fell down on me. I truly enjoyed the Fockers overall if comparing it to TITE.

[Still Servant]

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/c5/c54d81e9e54d6d674e48e58a70e0b1152186ac2e8f8f69a02f 8ec013210a6b3e.jpg

One day, when we are old and gray, you will have to explain to me how you could vote for Fockers.

The funniest part about this poll is it seems like most people are just voting against This is the End because they disliked it, and not voting for Fockers because they actually liked it. I knew it was impossible for there to be 11 people on the planet that liked Meet the Fockers.

[Mattrick]

I also liked Superbad and 40-Year-Old Virgin (as well as Knocked-Up, which I think I nominated, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Pineapple Express was OK up until the final act. I still didn't like This Is The End. Just because they had the same actors doesn't mean it is the same humor or the same quality. Most of those other movies were about growing up from man-children to real adults. With its constant penis jokes, actors being assholes (trying to make fun of themselves) and mocking of religion, this movie seems to go the other direction and fully embrace the man-child who thinks the devil getting his penis cut off is the funniest thing ever. Personally I think TITE went too far. If not liking jokes about the devil raping people makes someone "limited" then I am glad to be "limited."


FYI, I still didn't vote for either movie.

I don't see how this the end has nothing to do with growing up...it's about how all of these guys have changed since becoming celebrities and how it's impacted how they relate to each other. It is also about how these men are all men now yet get paid exorbitant amounts of money to play men struggling with growing up and how it's hindered their growth...really, these are guys who are still behave like they are high school in their clique but are really beyond it, and what happens when new people enter and allegiances are tested. I can't really get enough of Jonah Hill's passive-aggressiveness towards Jay Baruchel either, "Guys, don't talk like that to Jay. He's fragile." *touches his face*. Like a lot of stupid comedies, This Is The End has a lot going on under the surface of juvenile humour than meets the eye. I think it's smarter each time I watch it.

[Still Servant]

I also liked Superbad and 40-Year-Old Virgin (as well as Knocked-Up, which I think I nominated, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Pineapple Express was OK up until the final act. I still didn't like This Is The End. Just because they had the same actors doesn't mean it is the same humor or the same quality. Most of those other movies were about growing up from man-children to real adults. With its constant penis jokes, actors being assholes (trying to make fun of themselves) and mocking of religion, this movie seems to go the other direction and fully embrace the man-child who thinks the devil getting his penis cut off is the funniest thing ever. Personally I think TITE went too far. If not liking jokes about the devil raping people makes someone "limited" then I am glad to be "limited."


FYI, I still didn't vote for either movie.

I don't see how this the end has nothing to do with growing up...it's about how all of these guys have changed since becoming celebrities and how it's impacted how they relate to each other. It is also about how these men are all men now yet get paid exorbitant amounts of money to play men struggling with growing up and how it's hindered their growth...really, these are guys who are still behave like they are high school in their clique but are really beyond it, and what happens when new people enter and allegiances are tested. I can't really get enough of Jonah Hill's passive-aggressiveness towards Jay Baruchel either, "Guys, don't talk like that to Jay. He's fragile." *touches his face*. Like a lot of stupid comedies, This Is The End has a lot going on under the surface of juvenile humour than meets the eye. I think it's smarter each time I watch it.

Yup. What's Meet the Fockers about? I think I missed that message.

People just don't like some of the actors in the This is the End. That's the main reason people don't give it a chance.

[Mattrick]

Meet The Fockers is about how sequels make a lotsa lotsa moneys

[Still Servant]

Meet The Fockers is about how sequels make a lotsa lotsa moneys

That'll be all, your honor.

[RUBE]

I also liked Superbad and 40-Year-Old Virgin (as well as Knocked-Up, which I think I nominated, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Pineapple Express was OK up until the final act. I still didn't like This Is The End. Just because they had the same actors doesn't mean it is the same humor or the same quality. Most of those other movies were about growing up from man-children to real adults. With its constant penis jokes, actors being assholes (trying to make fun of themselves) and mocking of religion, this movie seems to go the other direction and fully embrace the man-child who thinks the devil getting his penis cut off is the funniest thing ever. Personally I think TITE went too far. If not liking jokes about the devil raping people makes someone "limited" then I am glad to be "limited."


FYI, I still didn't vote for either movie.

I don't see how this the end has nothing to do with growing up...it's about how all of these guys have changed since becoming celebrities and how it's impacted how they relate to each other. It is also about how these men are all men now yet get paid exorbitant amounts of money to play men struggling with growing up and how it's hindered their growth...really, these are guys who are still behave like they are high school in their clique but are really beyond it, and what happens when new people enter and allegiances are tested. I can't really get enough of Jonah Hill's passive-aggressiveness towards Jay Baruchel either, "Guys, don't talk like that to Jay. He's fragile." *touches his face*. Like a lot of stupid comedies, This Is The End has a lot going on under the surface of juvenile humour than meets the eye. I think it's smarter each time I watch it.

Yup. What's Meet the Fockers about? I think I missed that message.

People just don't like some of the actors in the This is the End. That's the main reason people don't give it a chance.

I think you missed the part where I said I like most of these guys' movies and the part where I said that I didn't like either of the two movies here. Meet the Fockers' message is stop watching Ben Stiller movies without the words Mary or Dodgeball in the title.


I did forget to mention one thing I liked about TITE. Anytime someone brings up something about Channing Tatum, I like to suggest they look up the scene with him in TITE.

[Theli]

I guess this tie-breaker says a lot about a persons sense of humour. Now I know that just over half the forum's sense of humour is broken :P

[T-Dogz_AK47]

The poll has closed. Meet the Fockers moves on to the next round, while This Is the End is eliminated.

AWESOME!! :thumbsup:

That one sentence has restored my faith in humanity! :D

Somebody call a taxi for Seth Rogen! He's going home! LOL! LOL! :lol:

[George at C-Springs]

I've been recruited to vote here ... and just can't do it. Have seen both and they were both horrible movies. It's like the presidential elections; do you vote for one or the other because you're supposed to, even though they both royally suck, or do you abstain from voting so that you have a clear conscience that the next four years were not your fault?

[Iwritecode]

I've been recruited to vote here ... and just can't do it.

Probably because it's closed. :biggrin: