Ok, look at the movie poster below. Honestly, would you go see that in the theatre? No, me either and I didn't. The marketing division of whatever fucking corporation that distributed this film must have been on auto pilot from spoon feeding the general public shitty romantic comedies for the last decade. Huge, stupid, fail.
Fast forward to way after this film was out of the theatres and I was googling
Jemaine Clement for some random reason. Oh yeah, he's hilarious in
Gentlemen Broncos, another underrated film that I had never heard and every critic on earth hated. Come to find out that both Jemaine Clement and
Zack Galifinakis are in this film, not just the mediocre Steve Carell and that other dude who is also not funny but gets cast in comedies, Paul Rudd.
Clement plays a totally self obsessed photographer who takes photos of himself as a goat. Galifinakis plays a paranoid IRS case worker who is out to destroy Steve Carell's character. AND Steve Caroll's character who is supposed to be an annoying fuck-up, is actually a kind of charming, lonely dude who makes dioramas of scenes from his past out of cute taxidermied mice. What. That actually sounds like a funny and quirky plot.
Why doesn't the poster advertising this movie have any of those elements? If it did, I would have paid to see this in the actual theatre. But no,
I downloaded it off The Pirate Bay instead. And I actually laughed and said "Awww" at the end.
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