This Is The End (2013)

nyarlothothep

Excellent film, it was perfect, it might be the best film of the year.

MrStuffins

Really loved this. For those who didn't like it, you obviously weren't meant to.

There were many laugh out loud moments, more than any comedy I've seen recently. Best comedy of the past few years.

nyarlothothep

Just on reflection, it kind of reminded of Ghostbusters a little bit, just this perfect chemistry between the actors, the scenario, the significance of special effects etc. I enjoy their comedic vision/sense of humour, that and the plot line in this film directly appealed to me, I love that kind of stuff and to see it in a film is so cool. I can't believe they slagged off Your Highness though!

Basq

Yeah, think I'm gonna see this tonight actually.

Reviews have me swayed.

Basq

Gotta say.. I loved this!

Since when do we need comedy to be high-brow? This had it's fair share of dick and fart jokes, but the cast delivered in spades and it was a buddy comedy and relationship-study at it's heart.

As mentioned, the cast were all great.. but McBride was superb (as always), but there's wasn't one weak link in there.

I do somewhat hope Jay Baruchel gets a few more leading roles out of this. Remember watching himself and Rogen in Judd Apatow's 'Undeclared' years ago and thinking he was very talented, but apart from a few smallish roles (he did star in 'She's Out My League', but don't know if many have seen it.. and also 'Million Dollar Baby' obviously), he hasn't hit the big time in the same way as the other Apatow alumni's.

It was better than the majority of what the cast has done lately, and I can't wait to see it again.

Definitely one of best comedies of the last few years IMO.

EDIT: This is what inspired it.. filmed about 5 years ago now..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA9g4KWHk84

johnnysmack

I reckon there's an awful lot of improv scenes in this movie. Wouldn't normally be mad about this kind of film but i have to admit there was some really funny parts in it. Michael Cera's cameo was very good.

MrStuffins

johnnysmack wrote: »

I reckon there's an awful lot of improv scenes in this movie. Wouldn't normally be mad about this kind of film but i have to admit there was some really funny parts in it. Michael Cera's cameo was very good.

According to Rogan, 50% of the move was improved!

miralize

MrStuffins wrote: »

According to Rogan, 50% of the move was improved!

Improved? Was it **** before it was improved?

johnnysmack

MrStuffins wrote: »

According to Rogan, 50% of the move was improved!

Haha i rest my case!

MrStuffins

miralize wrote: »

Improved? Was it **** before it was improved?

I meant improvised.

Good joke though!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Hilarious. Its the type of movie I'll watch time and time again.

wantacookie

This movie was brilliant, I had a pain in my side from laughing at it!
And the end of the film was just genius and out of nowhere

DRose1

Thought it was awful tbh. Pure indulgence from Rogan and his buddies. All the funniest parts were in the trailer and I nearly fell asleep about 45 minutes in.

The best cameos were Michael Cera and Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum was brilliant for his two lines!

johnny_ultimate

It was grand. Sporadic as anything, the quality deviating wildly from scene to scene. Most of the effects-heavy scenes were dreadful, especially the first one outside Franco's house (that said, the scene in the grocery store was handled really well). Humour hit and miss as well, but hard to resist chuckling at times - and, honestly, some of the lower brow bits were the funniest (the 'cum' fight between Franco and McBride particularly, which really just should not have been as amusing as it was!). I wouldn't be any big fan of Danny McBride, but he's larger than life here in a good way, and the film certainly suffers when he's not around wisecracking (his final scene felt 'off' though, IMO). The banter is nice & energetic, as you'd expect from putting a load of friends in a room and telling them to just go nuts. Yes, some of it is absolutely dreadful, but it's lively, playful and self-aware enough to be mostly entertaining.

Although this and the various other films from the 'Apatow' ranch hardly warrant any sort of in-depth attention, someone does not need to a proper critical survey of the underlying homophobia and crises of masculinity playing out on-screen :pac:

constitutionus

just back from this myself.

i thought it was brilliant. seriously wasnt expecting that at all as im not a fan of anyone in it. francos probably the one im most familiar with.

the effects are also alot better than i was expecting from something that really hangs on the interactions of the main cast. really liked the designs of the demons and when it has actions scenes theyre actually quite good.

good dumb fun with people ripping the piss out of themselves.

solid 7 out of 10

ricero

Craig robinson is the man !

CL7

Maybe I wasn't in the form for this tonight but didn't think it was great. A few laughs here and there but I'm sorry I didn't go to see something else tbh.

Mickeroo

Thought this was hilarious. Went in pretty much blind bar the first teaser and it was great to watch a comedy where i hadn't already seen the best jokes. McBride and Robinson stole the show for me. Thought the effects work was surprisingly good too and even though I was laughing for most of the running time I still felt more of an imminent threat to the characters than I did in World War Z last week :pac:

Basq wrote: »

I do somewhat hope Jay Baruchel gets a few more leading roles out of this. Remember watching himself and Rogen in Judd Apatow's 'Undeclared' years ago and thinking he was very talented, but apart from a few smallish roles (he did star in 'She's Out My League', but don't know if many have seen it.. and also 'Million Dollar Baby' obviously), he hasn't hit the big time in the same way as the other Apatow alumni's.

You should check out out the recent Sean William Scott (hear me out...) ice hockey movie Goon, it's much better than you would expect. Baruchel has a smallish part in it but he also wrote it. he's a talented guy and I would like to see him start landing a few bigger roles.

Basq

Mickeroo wrote: »

You should check out out the recent Sean William Scott (hear me out...) ice hockey movie Goon, it's much better than you would expect. Baruchel has a smallish part in it but he also wrote it. he's a talented guy and I would like to see him start landing a few bigger roles.

Watched 'Goon' last year, and didn't think much of it unfortunately.. although Liev Schreiber was great as always!

Remember reading Baruchel wrote it though alright.

kraggy

A bigger pile of piss I have not seen, not in quite a while anyway. It just wasn't funny in my opinion.

I managed to stay until the end. Just about. Others who were at the same screening as me couldn't. And I don't blame them.

How on earth did this get 83% on Rotten tomatoes?

CastorTroy

That was just a fun movie.

Conifrmed 2 things for me

Emma Watson is hot and Michael Cera is a d!ck when coked up

And don't anyone saw that ending coming.

Liam O

I'm not a fan of Franco's comedy roles but it says a lot about his acting ability that I was

upset when he threw away his salvation.he managed to still garner some sympathy from me with his death even though his characters in these type of roles annoy me.

I'll say it again, anyone who watched the trailer for the film will be disappointed, if you go in reasonably blind you will really like it.

Tar.Aldarion

Brilliant film, one of the best comedies I've seen in years. I generally hate all comedies, hangover etc. I just thought it was low-brow done really well.

Also I want to buy Jay's hoodie

IncognitoMan

This bit is just magic. Don't watch if you haven't seen

Its the argument between Franco and McBride about the porno mag

Mickeroo

I liked

the liitle nod to Freaks & Geeks with the painting in Franco's house.

Essien

I loved this, thought it was hilarious, best comedy in ages for me. I'm genuinely surprised that anybody who had seen the cast or trailer would be disappointed by it.

Chris_Heilong

CL7 wrote: »

Maybe I wasn't in the form for this tonight but didn't think it was great. A few laughs here and there but I'm sorry I didn't go to see something else tbh.

agree completely, not much imagination, all the usual weed, homophobe, friendship jokes we have seen so many times before, was hoping it would be better.

cassid

There are some really good one liners in this, could have been a little shorter, but definitely watchable.

krudler

Way too long, if it had been 90 mins or less it would have been much funnier, but it falls into the same pitfalls as the Judd Apatow camp where they don't know when to edit down scenes that go nowhere. There were some absolutely hilarious jokes in it though, the arguments between Franco and McBride about the porno mag had the entire audience in tears laughing. Depending on your sense of humour it's either an overindulgent backslapping session or a hilarious pisstake of a bunch of people who know they make too much money for what they do. Jay Baruchel is really likeable in it and some of the cameos were great. Michael Cera being the standout.