I Love You, Man

[Pop Trash]

I didn't see a thread for this but I found this surprisingly enjoyable. The direction and plot are pretty cookie cutter Hollywood but it's well written and Paul Rudd has some great comedic timing. I think I liked it the most of the Judd Apatow-but-not movies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Role Models. I'd give it a solid 7/10.

[Fezzik]

I liked it quite a bit, too.

Segal and Rudd were so effortless and had such good chemistry that I was easily able to forgive a couple of flat moments.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Pretty solid film. It had some good laughs, and the story was breezy and fun. Gotta say though, I prefer my Rudd snarky and foul. It felt like something was missing to have him so docile and vanilla.

[Pop Trash]

I think the combo platter of Paul Rudd's performance and identifying with the themes of this movie has kept it in my top five of '09 for so long.

[Ezee E]

A soft Rudd? D'oh.

When will this guy have a centerpiece role? Role Models was close, but not enough.

[Sycophant]

I really, really hope Apatow's next film is a Rudd vehicle.

Moved I Love You, Man to the top of my queue.

[Pop Trash]

When will this guy have a centerpiece role? Role Models was close, but not enough.

Ummm...this?

[Dukefrukem]

A soft Rudd? D'oh.

When will this guy have a centerpiece role? Role Models was close, but not enough.

I don't think he's capable yet of archiving this. I don't think he can carry a film on his own.

[number8]

Paul Rudd can carry anything. He can carry a marching band on the end of his dick, as far as I'm concerned.

[Sycophant]

Paul Rudd can carry anything. He can carry a marching band on the end of his dick, as far as I'm concerned.

Would pay to watch.

[Sycophant]

Rudd pretty much had to do the heaviest lifting in Role Models, and though the film wasn't terribly successful, I wouldn't pin the blame for that on Rudd, but rather on Wain's limp direction and other production problems.

Rudd is so ready to carry a film.

[Dukefrukem]

Paul Rudd can carry anything. He can carry a marching band on the end of his dick, as far as I'm concerned.

So where's his movie?

[chrisnu]

So where's his movie?
The Shape of Things? Of course, I would consider him a co-lead in that one.

[Ezee E]

The Shape of Things? Of course, I would consider him a co-lead in that one.
Good one. Although Rachel is essentially the movie. She's pretty incredible in it.

Going to watch this now.

[Ezee E]

Pretty much like The Hangover, this is consistently funny from beginning to end. Paul Rudd is more than capable of holding a movie on his own, and he does it here as well, although it's Jason Segal that is the star of the movie.

While I really liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall (moreso than this movie), I like this version of Segal much more than the pouting one.

Could've used more J.K. Simmons.

[chrisnu]

I agree that this is consistently funny, and both Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are outstanding. In the end, this feels quite slight, and less than the sum of its parts, though. It just kinda ends.

Agreed about needing more J.K. Simmons.

[right_for_the_moment]

Could've used more J.K. Simmons.
What couldn't? :P

[transmogrifier]

Rudd is by far the best interviewee I've ever seen on The Daily Show (I stumbled across his archive). Stewart should just interview him every single day and forget about the other plebs.

[Sycophant]

What couldn't? :P

If "Could use more J.K. Simmons" was an IMDb tag, 90% of movies would have it.

[Sycophant]

Rudd is by far the best interviewee I've ever seen on The Daily Show (I stumbled across his archive). Stewart should just interview him every single day and forget about the other plebs.

Yeah, if every night was either Paul Rudd or Reza Aslan, I'd be pretty happy.

EDIT: With an occasional Richard Lewis appearance.

[transmogrifier]

Even Law and Order fulfilled its JK Simmons quota, so there is no excuse for anyone else.

[Winston*]

Have you seen Oz, trans?

[BuffaloWilder]

Don't mention Oz. I watched the entire first season of that show all in one go, and it gave me a panic attack.

[transmogrifier]

Have you seen Oz, trans?

No, why?

[Sven]

No, why?

Simmons is off the hook in that show. I've seen very little, but he easily stole the whole thing.

[Ezee E]

He more or less made the show for its first season. He loses ground later on to Adebisi (Eko from Lost) and becomes a victim of bad writing.

[eternity]

This movie...doesn't return the favor.

[Sycophant]

Wow. I really, really liked this. I'll ascribe part of that to my attraction to romantic comedy formula, and my desire to see new and intersting things done with it. And this really succeeded in what it was aiming for. The performances were great all around (could've used another scene with J.K. Simmons for sure, though). What I liked most was just how terribly positive the movie was. It just... made me happy.

[Ezee E]

Wow. I really, really liked this. I'll ascribe part of that to my attraction to romantic comedy formula, and my desire to see new and intersting things done with it. And this really succeeded in what it was aiming for. The performances were great all around (could've used another scene with J.K. Simmons for sure, though). What I liked most was just how terribly positive the movie was. It just... made me happy.
Good point about the positivity. I liked that there wasn't the second act "possible affair" that seems to occur in every romantic comedy in which the guy finds out that his original girl is the true love.

It's still done, but differently, and in better taste.

[Sycophant]

Indeed. It didn't have to invent or morph a character for the purpose of shitting on it and making it detestable/detestably slutty. Neither the male or female leads come off ever as being incomprehensibly bitchy or petty. Even Lou Ferrigno and Segel's character make their peace. It's a movie with and about a whole lot of love.

[Rowland]

I caught the first three-quarters of this the other day as well, and liked it more than I expected given the middling buzz. What I found particularly interesting was how the film directly addressed the schism between the "bromance" (which the film seems to cunningly suggest may be the closer relationship) and the romance, which is an angle most Apatow-ian films either ignore or answer definitively. I hope the end of the film maintains this ambiguity.

[Ezee E]

Although I would have liked to see more Rishida Jones. She's actually pretty funny. Her humor is like the female version of Jason Bateman I think.