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Eric Roberts Plays a Cookie Thief

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (53)



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I don’t know how many of you saw the trailer I posted last night for Tommy and the Cool Mule (and if so, sorry about the brain damage), but this trailer — for The Cookie Thief — is similarly perplexing, in that it looks like a bad comedy short or a terrible commercial for Mrs. Fields cookies. But it’s not. It’s a trailer for a real movie. A real movie starring Eric Roberts. Who plays a cookie thief. He steals cookies. And that seems to be the movie’s entire premise: Woman loves cookies. Man steals cookies. Woman sad. Man forced to live out the rest of his life as Eric Roberts.

It’s a comedy.

Seriously, though. I can’t believe this is an actual movie:










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Comments

... the fuck?

Posted by: Withnail at April 24, 2009 9:53 AM

...THE FUCK?

Posted by: Withnail at April 24, 2009 9:54 AM

the IMDB page says this is a short. still, that's no excuse.

Posted by: Withnail at April 24, 2009 9:57 AM

Is there some contest between studios to see who can make the dumbest movie?

Posted by: henchman for hire at April 24, 2009 9:58 AM

Hey, Eric Roberts movie! You know what you just stole from me? An anger-free weekend!
A cookie thief!? Goddamnit!!!

Posted by: Kballs at April 24, 2009 9:59 AM

excuse me, WHAT is happening here?

Posted by: gp at April 24, 2009 9:59 AM

I haven't had enough coffee today to deal with this fuckery AND the Cool Mule.
All I can think about is Mickey Rourke using his acceptance speech at the Independent Spirit awards to beg hollywood to give Eric Roberts another chance....and Roberts eye rapes me on a Friday morning instead.

*sigh*

Posted by: tammy faye breakher at April 24, 2009 10:02 AM

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

I just dreamed I was hanging out a Paris Hilton's house. Seriously.

Ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick

And some skanky blonde friend of hers was hitting on me. Seriously.

Sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob

In a minute I'll be setting myself on fire. Been nice knowing y'all.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 10:05 AM

Christ, is it April Fools AGAIN?

Posted by: annoyingmouse at April 24, 2009 10:05 AM

It's totally unbelievable. Who would bother stealing someone else's white chocolate cookies? Those are gross, and not at all worth the trouble.

Chocolate chunk, on the other hand....

Posted by: Kolby at April 24, 2009 10:05 AM

I'm not watching it. I just watched the mule one, I'm done with crazy for the day.

Posted by: Carrie at April 24, 2009 10:08 AM

You know how in some episodesof South Park, one kid, usually Clyde, when faced with the overwhelming awfulness of their situation, just up and starts bawling out of nowhere?

That's what just happened to me, watching this trailer.

What.
The.
FUCK.
I dont care if it's a short.
I dont care if it's got some funny or quirky message (not that one is apparent from the ad) I dont care.
I want it to END. I want it not to have BEEN.
For starters, he appears to take her cookies more than once. Why in the fuck doesn't she MOVE, or even better, slap that dork in the face, then move? She appears to sit their and let him eat her cookies while making no effort to move the bag.
I'm supposed to care about such a complete and total wet blanket?!

Also, is like, THE ENTIRE THING green screened? Is she wearing a wig? Why is their still a stupid belief that all a woman needs to feel better is chocolate?
Why are we expected to believe the skinny bitch eats a ag of cookies every month!?
to repeat earlier comments

.....the FUCK?!

Posted by: nadine at April 24, 2009 10:09 AM

I've come up with a little test to determine the quality of an Eric Roberts picture.

Does he get shot in the face by Aaron Eckhart, or taunt Brandon Flowers by banging his girlfriend?

If the answer is yes, it might possibly be awesome. If not, then it's shit.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at April 24, 2009 10:14 AM

Question! When he eats the cookie, does he actually consume it, or is it like The Cookie Monster where cookie crumbles fall out of his mouth and he ends up chewing on his own hand?

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at April 24, 2009 10:18 AM

Good question, Jeremy.

Posted by: Kolby at April 24, 2009 10:20 AM

I just . . . what is . . . who . . . how the . . .
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT?!

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 24, 2009 10:23 AM

It's 20 minutes long. That's what it is. (No, seriously)

Posted by: branded at April 24, 2009 10:26 AM

I like the redhead. I've never had a redhead.

She could use a bigger rack, though.

I should tell her that ...

Huh. I've STILL never had a redhead.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 10:36 AM

DAAAAA FFFFFFUCK?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 24, 2009 10:38 AM

i feel that if you notice someone is stealing your cookies, and you do not move said bag of cookies to, say, your lap, where the cookie thief cannot get to them well...
those cookies were just asking for it.

Posted by: roseaepines at April 24, 2009 10:46 AM

This should be run as a double feature along with the Schick commercial that uses topiary to represent women's pikachu grooming. And it should be shown to young boys to help them learn all they need to know about women: we like to eat cookies and shave cute shapes into our pubic hair.

Posted by: puregonzo at April 24, 2009 10:58 AM

If I had a time machine, I would use it right now. Not to go back and unwatch that, or even to go back to before this was made and stop it from ever being produced. I would just go back a few million years and kill a monkey or something, so that mankind never evolves and no humans ever exist to ever possibly think of, create or watch something like that in all of history.

Posted by: Lindsay at April 24, 2009 11:01 AM

Doctor, Eric Roberts wasn't shot in the face.

Posted by: henchman for hire at April 24, 2009 11:04 AM

Thank you, Nadine. This is an abomination. I guess they get points for originality for substituting chocolate with cookies. Because God knows, between the PMSing, shoe shopping and baby-having, a girl needs some yummy, forbidden food to keep up her morale. You ever see that commercial where hordes of crazed women are chasing after a cookie delivery truck? I think it's for Oreos or some shit? Like men don't eat Oreos? It's insulting as hell.

Besides, white chocolate sucks, and that girl has never eaten a cookie IN HER LIFE.

Posted by: DeadBessie at April 24, 2009 11:15 AM

puregonzo, I freaking LOVE that commercial! Every time it comes on, I don't know whether to laugh or shoot my TV.

Posted by: Ariel at April 24, 2009 11:32 AM

1. That trailer has to be a very poor joke.

2. What the fuck hair color is on that chick's head?

3. Eric Roberts is still hot, and I would share my "cookie" with him anytime.

Posted by: Cindy at April 24, 2009 11:40 AM

By "Cookie" you mean the "love slot" right? Right?!

Posted by: admin at April 24, 2009 11:58 AM

You always catch on so quickly admin.

Posted by: Cindy at April 24, 2009 12:06 PM

I had to de-lurk just to comment on this "movie". It's based on a poem with a "twist" at the end which just makes me want to slam my head on my desk. If you thought the trailer was bad and the premise sucked? That's nothing.

Just don't say you weren't warned. Because it is blindingly, painfully dumb and you'll lose the few brain cells left behind after watching the trailer.

Posted by: always a lurker at April 24, 2009 12:15 PM

Carl Orff is going to raise up as a zombie and eat the brains of the motherfuckers who used Fortuna Imperatix Mundi for this piece of shit trailer for an even bigger piece of shit movie. Then he's going to skull fuck their remains, take their cookies and sink back into sweet the embrace of Mother Earth.

Posted by: Reba at April 24, 2009 12:33 PM

No, see, this one is actually clever. The entire point of Eric Roberts' career is to play sly, smug looking guys, so to set him up where all he does is eat cookies and look sideways at some lady while he's being all sly and smug is truly genius.

I've been an Eric Roberts fan since I saw him in The Coca-Cola Kid, by the way. None of this is meant to insult him or belittle him, I think he's great. I just also think he's great at playing smug characters.

Posted by: Lucas at April 24, 2009 12:41 PM

always a lurker, I don't know the poem that you're referring to, but I'm guessing it's similar to the 'biscuit' story that Arthur Dent tells Fenchurch about in So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, in which case this story has been told before, several times, apparently, and in ways a whole lot less shitty.

Posted by: Chupacabra at April 24, 2009 12:49 PM

OK, I read the poem this is based on. Now I really want to see it.

Not really.

Posted by: Kolby at April 24, 2009 12:50 PM

Ya I read the poem too, GROAN!!!

Posted by: Alli at April 24, 2009 1:06 PM

Chupacabra, similar, yes. But where that was witty and well-written? This, not so much. There's a fine line there and it was crossed over, stomped on, pissed on and lit on fire to make this version!

Posted by: always a lurker at April 24, 2009 1:20 PM

Just Googled the poem. GUH. My brain just shat itself.

Posted by: Tammy at April 24, 2009 1:24 PM

If I had a time machine, I would use it right now. Not to go back and unwatch that, or even to go back to before this was made and stop it from ever being produced. I would just go back a few million years and kill a monkey or something, so that mankind never evolves and no humans ever exist to ever possibly think of, create or watch something like that in all of history.

Posted by: Lindsay at April 24, 2009 11:01 AM
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Seems a lot of bother. Just hire a monkey hit man.

No, I don't know how you find one from 1,000,000,000 years in the future, but somebody made a movie about it, so ask him.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 1:25 PM

Read the poem.

Where's o. henry when you need him?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 1:28 PM

I heard Douglas Adams once explain the biscuit story (apparently it really happened to him). He joked that British people didn't know what to do when someone stole their cookies, and that if it had happened in America guns would have been drawn. Too bad the makers of this movie didn't take his words to heart. Cookie Shootout probably would have been more entertaining.

Posted by: Inaras at April 24, 2009 2:02 PM

Man forced to live out the rest of his life as Eric Roberts.

A fate that no man should ever wish upon his enemies.

Posted by: UncivilizedMike at April 24, 2009 3:08 PM

bah, Jack Davenport did a better one.

Posted by: Vi at April 24, 2009 3:23 PM

I laughed. Really. That smug expression on Roberts face, the music, the cut. Epic!

Of course, you can't take it seriously.

Posted by: FabMaxMax at April 24, 2009 4:21 PM

Reba>> You win for making a vengeful zombie of Carl Orff.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 24, 2009 4:44 PM

My favorite Eric Roberts movie: By The Sword. Seriously, if you ever get a chance, check it out. It runs on cable a lot. It has F. Murray Abraham. They play fencers.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 24, 2009 4:45 PM

Mickey Rourke must hold little sway in Hollywood if this is the best he could do for Eric Roberts.

Posted by: Borg at April 24, 2009 5:24 PM

I can see the scenario in the studio exec conference room:

Studio exec enters.

Studio exec trips and bashes head on side of table.

Sycophants fawn all over him, offer to call 911.

Studio exec refuses to go to hospital.

Studio exec unsteadily walks to end of table sits in cushy chair at head of table.

Studio exec proposes this shit idea for a short.

Sycophants fear losing their jobs in this economy, so all nod their heads and praise studio exec for brilliance.

Short is green-lit.

Short is released.

Pajibans throw selves off bridge.

Fin.

Posted by: stardust savant at April 24, 2009 6:10 PM

I'm just going to pretend that did not happen.

Posted by: Katie at April 24, 2009 8:27 PM

All reaction to this trailer can be summed up with the initial comment reaction:

the fuck?!

Posted by: Clifford at April 25, 2009 3:01 AM

I was strangely intrigued by the trailer, then I read the poem and realized this has already been told in a more entertaining fashion as something that actually happened to Douglas Adams which he then used as a story in one of his books. Then I lost interest.

Posted by: NF at April 25, 2009 11:50 PM

I just saw "The Cookie Thief" at a short film festival last night and liked it. It's really funny to read all the ignorant comments posted. If you actually saw the movie you would know what I mean. SPOILER ALERT: For one thing, the Eric Roberts character isn't a cookie thief at all!

Posted by: Thomas Semesky at June 14, 2009 2:07 PM

How cool so much 'interest'. Who woulda guessed a trailer could ignite such a tirade. I am the filmmaker and would be happy to share the film with anyone interested in seeing it. It's a romantic dramedy that doesn't pretend to be anything more. For some it works for others perhaps not. If you want to attack it then watch it and go after the whole shabang!

Adam Davis
Writer-Director, The Cookie Thief

Posted by: Adam Davis at June 16, 2009 4:18 PM

ROFL this movie looks good i dont know why yall are bashing it! i'd love to see it. and the red head is really hot. or orange head im not too sure. but anyways how can you guys be so mean cause u didnt even seee it yet. so anyways, if it were a bad movie then why would eric roberts be it? he was in batman and that was good. so those are my two cents worth.

Posted by: Q at June 16, 2009 5:00 PM

Uh, guys... "Studios" don't "greenlight" shorts. They don't even MAKE shorts.

No offense, but this website is retarded.

Posted by: Greg at June 18, 2009 6:32 PM


















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