Gentlemen Broncos (Jared Hess)

[eternity]

Trailer (http://postavant.com/2009/08/mormon-humor-with-jemaine-clement-and-sam-rockwell/)

It actually looks funny? Wasn't expecting that to happen. Also, Tranny Sam Rockwell.

[Ivan Drago]

I find something very funny about how Jared Hess and Efren Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite) are both getting more work now than the star of ND himself. I know he did The Benchwarmers and Blades of Glory, but is it too early to say Jon Heder's career is over?

[Sycophant]

Heder's in Mark Steven Johnson's new film When in Rome.


A successful but single art curator (Kristen Bell) goes to Rome to attend her younger sister's impulsive marriage. While there, she picks up coins from a reputed “fountain of love,” (probably based on the Trevi Fountain) and when she leaves she is pursued back to New York by a band of aggressive suitors whose coins she took.

From the guy who brought me Ghost Rider? Think I'll pass.

I had a class with Heder as TA at BYU probably shortly before work on ND began. He was actually going to be an animator before this whole acting thing kinda happened. I think he'll be happy with whatever he can get.

[Ivan Drago]

I had a class with Heder as TA at BYU probably shortly before work on ND began. He was actually going to be an animator before this whole acting thing kinda happened. I think he'll be happy with whatever he can get.

Wait...Heder was your TA? :eek:

[Sycophant]

Wait...Heder was your TA? :eek:

Yeah, he told me this short script I wrote when I was 19 sucked. He was right.

[megladon8]

I found that trailer pretty funny.

[Grouchy]

Very good.

[Ezee E]

I wonder if Heder will get any non-ND roles.

[eternity]

Heder has a pilot at Comedy Central that may or may not get picked up.

[Sxottlan]

I laughed.

[B-side]

What is this? I don't even...

[chrisnu]

That actually was funny. I didn't expect that.

Sam Rockwell is the shit!

http://ronaldchevalier.com/

[D_Davis]

I had a class with Heder as TA at BYU probably shortly before work on ND began. He was actually going to be an animator before this whole acting thing kinda happened. I think he'll be happy with whatever he can get.

That's cool.

I actually did a soundtrack for one of Aaron Ruel's (Kip) short films. He and I were friends in high school and worked on some stuff together while he was at BYU.

The ND Connection!

[eternity]

15% on the Tomatometer, one of the fresh reviews being Armond.


This is personal filmmaking, surveying the private emotions that generally embarrass people or make us feel out of step -- a daring proposition in an era that frantically insists upon marketable conformity.

This is probably the disappointment of the year, or maybe just Searchlight in general.

[Henry Gale]

Unless the trailer is completely misleading, I just can't imagine something that heavily features those Sam Rockwell fantasy sequences and Jemaine as this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVoD1804bkc) character being a movie that isn't worthwhile.

But then again, I, along with most of my friends, firmly believe Nacho Libre > Napoleon Dynamite.

[eternity]

Unless the trailer is completely misleading, I just can't imagine something that heavily features those Sam Rockwell fantasy sequences and Jemaine as this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVoD1804bkc) character being a movie that isn't worthwhile.

But then again, I, along with most of my friends, firmly believe Nacho Libre > Napoleon Dynamite.
A movie with a trailer that funny cannot be terrible. It just can't.

[Adam]

I generally find the Hess brand of weirdness off-putting and unsatisfying and while Gentlemen Broncos doesn't really change that, at least it did have Jemaine Clement delivering a minor tour de force and Sam Rockwell riding flying robot deer. Some genuinely inspired soundtrack choices, too. I'd say the closest they've come to fashioning their sensibilities into something somewhat charming is still Nacho Libre, but I'm not totally upset that I spent the last hour and a half watching this nonsense

Also, the structure of this film is very interesting and unique, for whatever that's worth

[Henry Gale]

This is so much better than its reputation.

I'm sort of mad at critics ravaging it when it came out, because there's some moments here that are funnier than anything many comedies stumble upon in their entire runtime, and others that are entirely original and oddly transcendent for the type of deliberately messy film it is. I mean, I get why they might've hated it, but that doesn't mean it's not well made and exactly what it sets out to be. It's just an obviously niche film that managed to get made because the fairly successful work Hess did before it. I'm disappointed he hasn't done anything since.

It's like if Wes Anderson decided to helm something like Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, pairing any discomfort and irony with considerable sincerity. It might not be a perfect analogy, but Gentlemen Broncos doesn't really tick any typical boxes, and that's likely the thing that turned most people off about it.

[Pop Trash]

I don't care what anyone says: Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre are pretty fuckin' funny.