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I Have Hair on My Balls and I Sell Cars

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (36)



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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard basically proves what happens when you take damn near every scene-stealing bitch from the last 3 years of comedies (including Jeremy Piven) and combine them with half the correspondents from “The Daily Show.” Unfortunately, putting funny people on the same set and asking them to deliver profanities doesn’t always make for the best viewing. You can’t just combine a series of bit-part comedians into a movie and expect gold. Hell, you can’t steal scenes if you have no one to steal them from.

That’s pretty much what The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard looks like: An incoherent mess of R-rated comedy from actors trying to outdo each other all stuck to the meat of a bad 80s comedy plotline. It makes for a decent trailer, but I have very little hope for the full-length movie:









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Comments

Why has The Piv based his follicular performance on Andrew Dice Clay?

Abandon all hope here.

Posted by: Sarz at July 27, 2009 7:09 PM

Wasn't this movie already made in the '80s - and made much better - when it was called Used Cars? Damn that's a great movie.

Posted by: B-Unit at July 27, 2009 7:13 PM

I laughed at least 3 times in that trailer, but I will NEVER go out of my way to see that movie. Free on cable (in 8 months) maybe.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at July 27, 2009 7:19 PM

Why the fuck are you reviewing movie trailers?

What are you, retarded?

Posted by: Ass at July 27, 2009 7:41 PM

Is...is that Ed Helms? Andy Bernard? But...but...

Oh, Ed. You break my heart.

Posted by: figgy at July 27, 2009 8:14 PM

What are you, retarded?

Ha ha, ha ha ha.

Seriously, though, takes one to know one.

Posted by: MM at July 27, 2009 8:34 PM

Posted by: Jim Bob Cooter at July 27, 2009 9:04 PM

Geez Dusty – a whole commentary and not one “fuck”? Leave it to your bed partner and me to tell you that you’ve gone soft. Why bash Alan Thicke? Because in your hipper than thou fantasy world, Alan Thicke becomes the easy go-to bash target. Dusty to his intern: “Hey just throw in an Alan Thicke picture with this hip caption…my posse will dig it!”

Man, Dusty that is just utter laziness and I’m calling you out on it: FYI – Alan Thicke is likely sitting somewhere a shitload more comfortable than Portland, Maine (Full disclosure: I’ve been to Portland Maine and I’d rather be locked upside down in a porta-potty.) as well as sitting on an absolute mountain of money from a long running hit TV series and is likely boffing a hot chick who thinks the world revolves around him and can likely be expected to give him a hummer while they attend one of his son’s concerts. Jesus Dusty, YOU SHOULD BE HALF THAT LUCKY.

You and your cabal of stooges are exactly what is wrong with the film industry in general: You can always (ALWAYS!) be expected to take the easy way out and deliver some half baked schlock guaranteed to disappoint while you quickly move on to the next half baked thoroughly lazy effort. If you want to know what’s wrong with the crap you’re dissecting you need look no further than your own keyboard for a primer on the lesson of what’s wrong with popular culture these days. If it can be said with certainty that the prime reason for movies these days is to sell a $20 combo of reheated popcorn and a flat soda, then the prime reason for your existence is to sell banner ads while filling up the spaces in between those ads with tripe like the Alan Thicke commentary.

Dusty, you’re probably not old enough to remember this – or if you do, you could obviously care less – there used to be guys like David Lean who took years (YEARS!) to fully conceive of and produce a film. Contrast that with the heady aroma of the stinkage you’ve just treated us with and ask yourself if you’re one bit better than the crap you so gleefully bash…

Posted by: The Real Joe at July 27, 2009 9:25 PM

Joe Joe, is it? New here? A few days, right? Everyone is welcome here, but no one is invited to be a fucking asshole on a daily basis. Take a day off now and the. Oh, and the phrase is "couldn't care less". Make a note.

Posted by: slower lower at July 27, 2009 10:26 PM

(NOTE!)

Posted by: vikky at July 27, 2009 10:33 PM

Joe Joe, is it? New here? A few days, right? Everyone is welcome here, but no one is invited to be a fucking asshole on a daily basis. Take a day off now and the. Oh, and the phrase is "couldn't care less". Make a note.

Ahh... yeah...first we have the name calling/mockery (JoeJoe), then we throw in some more name calling for good measure (fucking asshole) just after the faux gracious host bullshit ("Everyone is welcome here..." WTF Slower? Is this some all inclusive nudist colony with you as the gracious hostess that I've stumbled into...? Please take your welcome mat and shove it up your arse.)

Once again: Allow me to point out that this is a site that is fueled by criticism - whether you feel it is deserved or not...I believe the Title tag here is: "Scathing reviews for bitchy people" Slower: Either grow a thicker skin or bite me. Or occupy your time following Dan Carlson around with a backup hair net...

Posted by: The Real Joe at July 27, 2009 10:47 PM

Oh yay we have another fucktard of a troll to keep as a pet! Huzzah!

Posted by: figgy at July 27, 2009 10:52 PM

I'm feelin' ya, Joe. It's a rather tight knit group that stalks these pages, and if you piss one off, usually the others quickly join in defending the first. It's cool to be bitchy, as long as it's their kind of bitchy it seems.

But I'm not quite sure of the reasoning behind the rant you posted above. Got an axe to grind?

Posted by: B-Unit at July 27, 2009 11:14 PM

Once again: Allow me to point out that this is a site that is fueled by criticism - whether you feel it is deserved or not...I believe the Title tag here is: "Scathing reviews for bitchy people"

Um, yeah, that seems to be a bit of a flawed statement there. The reviews are for the movies/books/music/whatever, not for the reviewers.

Even if general consensus went with that really tortured logic to consider that tagline to apply to yourself, that still doesn't mean people can't be mean and/or bitchy to you. In fact, by your own logic, they have as much reason to "review" your comments and you have to "review" the posts.

Or occupy your time following Dan Carlson around with a backup hair net...

And seriously dude, this Dan hair thing is getting ridiculous. I get the whole "want to bang Heigl -> Seth Rogen got to pretend-bang her, so hate him -> Dan looks like Rogen, so hate him -> Dan has a blog with bald jokes, so focus on that" line of thinking, but still, it is kinda creepy.

Posted by: Vermillion at July 27, 2009 11:17 PM

Individuals such as Joe and Mothy (who issued a rather vile personal attack on our beloved Prisco in another thread) are actually kind of entertaining.
I mean, they have no clue what this site or its followers are all about and rather than move on to something they might like better, they take the time to compose lengthy diatribes which criticize the site and those who enjoy being here.
Their pompous, arrogant posturing is actually funny... it also makes me wonder just who The Real Joe is and which competing website he might be working with/for.

Posted by: Spender at July 27, 2009 11:19 PM

You and your cabal of stooges are exactly what is wrong with the film industry in general...

Cabal of Stooges?

I wanna be Larry!

Posted by: Spender at July 27, 2009 11:28 PM

I'm with ya, Spender. There's something very "watching the 3 year old pick his nose and eat his findings" vibe about reading the delusional rantings of these dudes. You feel like you should really tell the kid to stop, and explain patiently why what they're doing is stupid and pointless and disgusting, but you know it's not worth the trouble. And watching them eat their boogers is way more entertaining and worthwhile.

I bet Harry Knowles sent him. DUM DUM DUUUUUM....Or maybe Rape Van Guy, who's still sore that he couldn't get Nicole and that we made so much fun of him.

Posted by: figgy at July 27, 2009 11:31 PM

{Snort} As If Dustin has an intern.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at July 27, 2009 11:40 PM

True, figgy. I know that responding to his rant only serves to fire his jets but... sometimes, I actually like a little jet engine rumble.
Besides I'm waiting for the headline (sure to come, someday) "Man's Head Explodes While Writing Anti-Pajiba Rant".

Posted by: Spender at July 27, 2009 11:41 PM

"...Dies With Hard-On"

Posted by: figgy at July 27, 2009 11:47 PM

Shut up, you mooks.
*Slaps Spender and Figgy*
Now pick two. *Holds out hand*

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at July 28, 2009 12:13 AM

"Vanessa is DEAD"

That actually really cracked me up. . .

Posted by: adam at July 28, 2009 12:15 AM

I've never been part of a cabal before. Do we get robes?

Posted by: PaleoLithchick at July 28, 2009 9:15 AM

As part of the full Cabal package you do get robes as well as a silver candelabra and a copy of the full tome " Why we want to secretly rule the world". But, join using the "starter" Cabal of Stooges package and you get a can of pomade (Dapper Dan of course), a stick for poking and an audio file containing the proper "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk". Oh, and the pamphlet "Stooges and Youse" in which we discuss proper protocol and the heresy of Shemp. Damn you Shemp! Damn you!

Posted by: Mrcreosote at July 28, 2009 9:53 AM

"Cabal of Stooges"? Why I oughta ...
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Wasn't this movie already made in the '80s - and made much better - when it was called Used Cars? Damn that's a great movie.

Posted by: B-Unit at July 27, 2009 7:13 PM
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Damn straight it was great. Kurt fuckin' Russell and a mile of cars.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 28, 2009 9:55 AM

I gotta agree with Joe. It just seems that several of the posts are put up to get more people looking at banner ads. That makes me sad. Well, that and the circle Pajerk...

Posted by: pissant at July 28, 2009 11:17 AM

So, I feel like I've been asking this question for years, but is Alan Thicke famous solely because of Growing Pains?

This seems implausible.

Posted by: buttercup at July 28, 2009 11:18 AM

Nah, I THINK he was also in the Parent Trap sequels that they used to show on The Wonderful World of Walt Disney back on ABC in the day. You know, the one with the triplets? Or maybe he was just in the WWoD movies where the dad was reincarnated into a robot after a tragic accident where he swerved off of a cliff trying not to hit a skunk or a squirrel or something.

Oh! And he used to have some animal zoology trivia show on Saturday mornings where people answered questions to win money for animal charities. It had a puppet. That was the true source of Alan Thicke's fame...

Posted by: PaleoLithchick at July 28, 2009 11:44 AM

also i think thick is famous for writing the theme songs to a lot of 70s & 80s tv shows.

Posted by: JenVegas at July 28, 2009 12:28 PM

whoops, i mean thicke.

Posted by: JenVegas at July 28, 2009 12:29 PM

He got a late-night show out of it for awhile too. I don't think I ever watched it but IIRC "Thicke of the Night" was infamously awful. But that's Canadians for you ...

Shemp? Shemp was fucking Olivier next to Joe DeRita. And Joe DeRita was K. Hepburn next to fucking Joe Besser (not you, Mama, I heart you) ...

Hmmmm ... I'm seeing a trend here in Joes who suck ass ...

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 28, 2009 12:51 PM

Is that Ryan O'Reilly in the picture up top?

Posted by: Cuno at July 28, 2009 12:54 PM

Actually, watching Slower take one up the ass might be entertaining...we could call it a 'Cabal initiation rite!'

Posted by: Dristan at July 28, 2009 7:24 PM

Oh yeah - bring it you lame asses. Nothing more joyful than watching the little sycophants here rally round their boy Dusty when he gets called out on his craptastic writing skills.

Special mention goes to the genius who posted this mess:

Even if general consensus went with that really tortured logic to consider that tagline to apply to yourself, that still doesn't mean people can't be mean and/or bitchy to you. In fact, by your own logic, they have as much reason to "review" your comments and you have to "review" the posts.

As I’m sure we’ll hear in the upcoming Robert Downey Jr film – “No shit Sherlock!” Bring it on all you geniuses – I’ll take you all on with no posse of douche bags to back me a la Dusty and his hairless sidekick Danny.

…and further: Are you absolutely certain that we don’t want to review what passes for writing at this site? To me all great entertainment STARTS with the written word (Unless you’re Michael Bay.) For you folks to so readily give Dusty and the Death Star that is known as Dan Carlson’s bald pate such an easy pass tells me you are all guilty of the same disrespect for words that just about every current studio head is guilty of (And for which you so soundly trash them post in and post out…).

To quote one hell of a writer: “The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves…” And here’s one more quote for you, for I doubt any of you possess the skill set to get the Shakespeare reference so maybe Cher will work : Come on! “Snap out of it!”

Posted by: The Real Joe at July 28, 2009 9:31 PM

A updated old movie called "USED CARS" , these updated classics are made due the fact the younger set was too young to remember the origanal release, seem to be alot of classic's being remade lately, "The Longest Yard" , "Walking Tall" and alots of others, when i seen the movie trailor for "The Goods" the plot was the same as "Used Cars" with small twists, geez , Leave the classic's alone. what's next? "Devil without a cause"?, nothing is sacred anymore, just big company's ripping us off again.

Posted by: Wiley at August 10, 2009 2:00 AM

This movie was awful. Seriously, don't even bother wasting one of your Netflix DVD's on this one. "The Goods" had some funny moment but the laughs were more like self-induced chuckles to pass the time. While the cast ensemble looks good on paper, Piven wasn't nearly as convincing as his Ari Gold character on Entourage which is a pretty similar role. Overall, the writing lacked any comedic substance and some scenes had too much of a Disney feel to them. Will Ferrell's cameo was weak at best and is a far cry from his 5 minutes towards the end of "Wedding Crashers". How this got a pass to achieve a theatrical release is beyond me.

Posted by: Tom at August 12, 2009 1:08 PM


















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