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Semi-Pro Meets The Eye

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DVD Releases | June 3, 2008 | Comments (51)


The Eye: Of one of the many forgettable Jessica Alba films to hit the big screen of late, Agent Bedhead writes of The Eye: “Aside from that wee bit of romantic tension, The Eye is an overly long snoozer. Horror films aren’t supposed to be monotonous and dull, but somehow, this film manages to do just that. Each scene is drawn out to extraordinary length, which doesn’t add to the suspense as much as it does the yawn factor (or what the filmmakers might call “atmospherics”). Alba’s portrayal of fear is limited to countless shots of her peering around corners and into ovens.” AB ultimately concludes, “Unfortunately, with a lackluster script and tedious pacing, The Eye can’t even redeem itself with a healthy amount of Alba ass (body doubles are used, and it’s obvious).”?

Meet the Spartans: You probably don’t need a summation of our opinion on Spartans, so I’ll just offer you my favorite paragraph from Phillip’s review; it pretty much says it all: “If I could retroactively participate in our second annual (Sh)it List, I would, because Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (a pseudonym) belong on it. This debauched pair of fuck-knuckles have somehow taken the laziest genre of comedy and become the Beavis and Butthead of it, having co-directed, co-produced, and co-written a host of films that aren’t worth their weight in liquid feces: Date Movie, Epic Movie, and now Meet the Spartans. Needless to say, I hope both of them die from some form of nutsack-cancer.”

Semi-Pro: Dustin got a little weird with the opening paragraph to his Semi-Pro review, but there’s nothing like bringing back an embarrassing moment to rub in his face:

“Pointless. Stupid. Motherfucking Bullshittery. Crabapple lobotomy ho-dickey loogey tickle fuckfuck rabbit-out-of-my ass cocksucker DO ME! Crystal gravy horn-rimmed ASS CRACK! Dingleberry, orange -chicken dandelion rape ANAL FACTORY! Squeeze my TESTICLES! Drink my EJACULATE! Father my ASS GERBIL! Brain Shart. Jesus Christ ate my NUTSACK!

Slam dunk.

Cue disco music.

… and that, folks, is a pretty decent summary of Semi-Pro, the latest in Ferrell porn, a subgenre that keeps pump, pump, pumping out the jokes, nevermind that there hasn’t been an erection in the house since halfway through Talladega Nights, and even then, it was a softie, a comedic limp dick that’s been shooting blanks for a couple of years now.

Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: The documentary, which follows Vince Vaughn and four up-and-coming stand-up comedians and they cross the country, doing 30 shows in 30 nights, got a so-so review from Dustin. He writes, “Wild West works best as a snapshot in life of a stand-up comedian. The director, Ari Sandel, does a decent job of capturing the neurosis, the depression, and the despair of, at least, these four comedians, and how their own insecurities inform their routines. For the sake of the comedy, however, I just wish they had had more unpleasant personal experiences to pull from besides fast food jobs, adolescent roller-skating rink humiliations, and typical dating angst.”

Also out this week: “Weeds” Season Three, “Rescue Me,” Season Four, “Mannix,” Season One, and “The Incredible Hulk,” Season Three.


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WHY IS SHE SCREAMING AT THE OVEN??!!!
(...crickets chirping...)
I'm...so...alone...

Posted by: Skittimus Recyclemus at June 3, 2008 12:20 PM

I scream at my oven all the time! Granted, every time I open it, there's an angry badger inside. Maybe she has a badger? Or a mongoose?

Posted by: Sharon at June 3, 2008 12:26 PM

WHY IS SHE SCREAMING AT THE OVEN??!!!

It's playing Awake.

Posted by: jM at June 3, 2008 12:29 PM

Referencing the idiots behind Spartans is an insult to Mike Judge's fine work on Beavis and Butthead. Beavis and Butthead were much smarter than that movie.

Maybe there are gremlins living in her oven. Do you really think Alba knows how to work an oven?

Posted by: Melody at June 3, 2008 12:30 PM

"There is no pot roast...only Zuul."

Posted by: brownribbon at June 3, 2008 12:31 PM

Hooray, yelling at the oven is back!


I hadn't realized how much I missed that still.

This of course also makes me think of The Talking Stove and "it feels like someone with a fever is yelling at my pants!", which cheer up the day I was annoyed with.

Posted by: Jay at June 3, 2008 12:31 PM

Yay!! Patton Oswalt's "Rape Stove" finally got made!

Posted by: brownribbon at June 3, 2008 12:33 PM

The oven yelling is one of my favoritest Skitt moments.

Posted by: Julie at June 3, 2008 12:33 PM

Yay!! Patton Oswalt's "Rape Stove" finally got made!

I just referenced 'Death Bed' earlier today. Link for the uniniatiated.

I love him. He's got spot-on delivery.

Posted by: twig at June 3, 2008 12:37 PM

I know why she's screaming at the oven - it's because it's the oven in my kitchen, and my housemate's been cooking again.

Y'see, my housemate only works three nights a week, and doesn't really have the financial acument to manage the meagre amount of money he does earn, which leads to him being too poor to buy real food most of the time. Luckily, though, he was blessed with the gastronomical fortitude of a goat and a bizarre kind of culinary genius when faced with limited ingredients.

There was the one time he made himself a bowl of baked beans and sweetcorn with barbecue sauce. Or the odd concoction of baked beans and mashed potato stirred together into a weird, fluffy, orangey mess. Today it was spaghetti, tomato soup and dry-fried spam.

I'm convinced that one day, his strange kitchen alchemy will result in him accidentally spawning intelligent life - a malevolent entity born of Super Noodles, Pop Tarts and strips of bacon that will shudder moistly to life, oil it's way out of the kitchen and murder us all.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at June 3, 2008 12:43 PM

"...and strips of bacon that will shudder moistly to life, oil it's way out of the kitchen and murder us all."

Thanks Dill, I've always wondered if I could snort-laugh a partially-chewed chunk of bagel into my sinus cavity. Now I know...

And knowing is half the battle... Love is a battlefield. A battle field of dreams. Dream a little dream. God, that movie sucked balls...

Posted by: Skittimus Maximus at June 3, 2008 12:54 PM

Glad I could propel you along that particular voyage of discovery there, SkitMax. *takes a bow*

Posted by: Dill The Devil at June 3, 2008 12:59 PM

"spaghetti, tomato soup and dry-fried spam"

Dear God, no! That's just... I want to come over and buy your roommate groceries or something.

Posted by: TK at June 3, 2008 1:01 PM

Oddly enough, I did see him tentatively scraping about half the bowl into the bin earlier... When questioned, he said that perhaps the sweet-and-sour sauce was a step too far.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at June 3, 2008 1:08 PM

Ew Dill, that is so vomity. And hilarious. Ew.

Posted by: Julie at June 3, 2008 1:11 PM

Dill your roommate's problem is a desire for culinary variety, clearly. I've lived for a whole week eating spaghetti topped with frozen spinach, tomato sauce, and parmesean cheese for a week. Or more. Pasta is a bit component of my diet when I'm buying my own food. I'm very happy to be living at home for the summer and so is my stomach.

Re: screaming at the oven - maybe she has an oven that always smokes up and sets off the fire alarm? Ours does that and it drives me crazy.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at June 3, 2008 1:23 PM

Julie- Me too. As soon as I saw the screaming into the oven frame, I immediately thought of Skitt being "so alone." And I smiled. Not at his loneliness, of course!, but at his wittiness.

TK- If you do that, the bonus to your good Samaritan-ness is a trip across the pond, as I believe that Dill lives somewhere in Britain. Though I could be confusing my Eloquents...

Posted by: tamatha at June 3, 2008 1:24 PM

Proof-reading: I don't has it.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at June 3, 2008 1:24 PM

It's not smart to eat lunch at one's desk whilst reading pajiban comments.
Dill, I now have learned what it is like to breathe watermelon. For the record, it's not as much fun as one might think.

Posted by: Pea at June 3, 2008 1:26 PM

brownribbon you rock!

My husband's roommate in college ate strange concoctions when no real food was around. He thought of food as fuel and so it didn't matter what the taste was as long as it was fueling his body.

I saw him eat a peanut butter and sardine sandwich. He ate the whole thing and then said it was quite awful.

Posted by: mswas at June 3, 2008 1:30 PM

Tamantha: You're quite right, I am indeed a Brit.

Pea: Sorry you weren't as enamoured with your inhalation of edibles as Skittimus was - I hope your next time is far more enjoyable.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at June 3, 2008 1:37 PM

It's playing Awake

*snortle*

I think it gave her a premonition of what her million-dollar asset is going to look like after she craps out that kid.

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at June 3, 2008 1:37 PM

Actually, I guess she's lucky that way, because godtopus knows she won't have her talent to fall back on.

Get it? She'll have her ass to fall back on. No?

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at June 3, 2008 1:42 PM

I humbly submit to the Pajiba Overlords that the photo of Alba screaming at the oven make it into the title header.

That photo is a thing of inherent stupidity and thus, should be up there as a tribute to our scathing and bitchy-ness.

Posted by: Melody at June 3, 2008 1:43 PM

Oh no - I'm falling into the trap of needing to know why she is screaming into the oven! Google, Themoviespoiler.com, the pajiba review of the movie, to no avail! Can someone help? I might waste my entire afternoon at work trying to figure this out. Though that might not be a bad thing...

Posted by: mswas at June 3, 2008 1:57 PM

The header needs to be reserved for pictures of Robot Cock and the Digital Wangdoodle.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at June 3, 2008 2:02 PM

anyone else notice she does not have a very nice kitchen in that picture?
those cabinets look really cheap

and why does her oven have 6 racks? no oven has 6 racks.

and either she is screaming at the cookies for burning yet again or somebody is in that over shining a flashlight into her face. that thing is brightly lit

Posted by: Bethy at June 3, 2008 2:02 PM

She is screaming at the oven because she just realized she will have a child named Cash Jr. without "Johnny" in front of it, forever dooming him to douchebag status.

That, or because the lasagna got burned. Whatever.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 3, 2008 2:02 PM

Dill. Get out of the house now.

Spam is not food. It should not be eaten and it should certainly not be mixed with anything else and eaten. You are not safe. Your housemate is obviously not human and is engaged in some evil plot to bring on the apocalypse via use if non-food substances.

You have been warned.

Posted by: greer at June 3, 2008 2:06 PM

mswas- Skitt can tell you why. He saw the film, because no one would tell him why she was screaming.

Bethy I think there is actually only one rack in the oven. The other things that look like racks are really the rack supports, so that she can adjust the oven racks to the proper place in the oven for whatever she's baking that day. The question then becomes, "Who only has one oven rack?"

Posted by: tamatha at June 3, 2008 2:08 PM

I have nothing to add because I'm pooped, but I do love you guys.

Posted by: Kolby at June 3, 2008 2:16 PM

thanks tamatha - now how do i get in touch with skitt? do i just loiter here and wait for him to comment?

and trying to think of something pithy to say about jessica alba and her rack, but really don't want to go there.

Posted by: mswas at June 3, 2008 2:23 PM

I hereby nominate "yelling at the oven" as a new euphemism for female masturbation.

Posted by: SugarFree at June 3, 2008 2:23 PM

hmmmm, you may be right tamatha

either way, that is one messed up oven

I would return it if I were her (if it is still under warrenty that is)

Posted by: Bethy at June 3, 2008 2:24 PM

mswas- hmm. Yeah, I think that you're stuck with loitering. You can, of course, check out other threads and see if he's hanging out in one of them, and pester him there. And you can always post the question to him directly in this here thread, as that might get his attention. Of course, you never know when he's stepped away from Pajiba to work on the latest addition to the MurderTank.

Posted by: tamatha at June 3, 2008 2:36 PM

The oven yelling is one of my favoritest Skitt moments.

Mine too, Servo. I was also getting an enormous chuckle out of Dill's roomie's kitchen exploits until I stumbled over the WORD. I had to stop reading the entire rest of the comments. In fact, I need to take some Tums.

Posted by: Nicole at June 3, 2008 2:36 PM

If memory serves correct, mswas - Alba gets her sight back and she sees the ghostly image of a factory fire that some friggin' psychic girl failed to prevent...

At least that's how I remember it. But sometimes I like to think it's Sue Storm catching her brother rubbing one out in the oven...

Posted by: Skittimus Maximus at June 3, 2008 3:18 PM

At least that's how I remember it. But sometimes I like to think it's Sue Storm catching her brother rubbing one out in the oven...

Comic book geek sex humor! Love!

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at June 3, 2008 3:22 PM

"I hereby nominate 'yelling at the oven' as a new euphemism for female masturbation"

Actually, SugarFree, I think yelling at the oven is a signal women aren't masturbating enough.

I never yell at my oven.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at June 3, 2008 3:22 PM

I never yell at my oven.

Hee! Three-nineteen, that just cemented my love for you.

My best friend calls it "bathing the kitty."

Posted by: Julie at June 3, 2008 3:26 PM

Wow Julie, your friend must like it really rough. In my experience, bathing a kitty results in a lot of pain and blood.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at June 3, 2008 3:38 PM

Clarification: pain and blood for me, not the cat.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at June 3, 2008 3:39 PM

Heh, he's a dude and gay, so I'm pretty sure he has no idea what it's all about for a girl. Nor does he want to :p

Posted by: Julie at June 3, 2008 3:41 PM

Skittimus - she sees the factory fire in the oven?

I may have to catch this on cable sometime just to satisfy my curiosity.

Love the Sue Storm comment btw, though it did not make me snort a bagel.

Posted by: mswas at June 3, 2008 3:54 PM

This may be one of the funniest threads I've read in months!

Yay! I feel better now. Even at work!

Posted by: Becky Tri-Tip Goddess at June 3, 2008 7:39 PM

"Yelling at the oven" -- I nominate this phrase as a euphemism for the face a girl (or guy) makes when s/he gets it in the pooper without any lube.

Posted by: JP at June 3, 2008 8:22 PM

Speaking of the ass, my wife calls her bung hole her Chauncey Billups. Mine is called my Albert Pujols.

Posted by: JP at June 3, 2008 8:24 PM

My friends and I just called it "riding the faucet." Because, um, that's what we did.

Not as bad as clinging, leech-like, to the side of the pool in order to fully experience the jets. Almost every girl I've ever asked has nodded her head vigorously and then screamed "I thought it was just me!!" And then swapped stories about how horrible it is that lifeguards wear mirrored sunglasses. You can't ever tell if they're staring at you or not. And you're, of course, playing the whole thing off like "Oh, I've been swimming for hours now And I'm so tired so I just want to hang on this ledge right heeeeerrrrrrrree. Mmmmmm. Yeah."

Posted by: Sharon at June 4, 2008 2:13 AM

Personally, I'm going to nominate "Snort a Bagel" as a euphemism for female masturbation. If not for that, I'm for damn well certain going to start using it in regular conversations anyways.

Also, Pickle Tweezer.

Posted by: Tae at June 4, 2008 1:58 PM

The Eye sucked so bad, horrible acting/story. Meet The Spartans,seriously....seriously why would you waste your money on something so retarded? Semi-Pro was funnier than I expected it to be, I really went into watching this movie expecting few laughs, but it was quite enjoyable in the end.

Posted by: Waltz08 at June 7, 2008 2:56 AM

I do not believe this

Posted by: fornetti at August 31, 2008 1:07 PM