I saw the new “comedy” Your Highness a few days ago. I say “comedy” because I’ve been told that the film is supposed to be a “comedy.” Usually, however, a comedy also inspires a certain amount of laughter and I laughed exactly one time while watching Your Highness. I can’t remember what joke it was that made me laugh. Maybe I just couldn’t believe that this film had been made in the first place.
The film is meant to be a satire on all of the fantasy films that have come out in recent years. Danny McBride plays a cowardly prince who goes on a quest to rescue his brother’s fiancée from an evil warlock. (The brother is played by my future lover, James Franco. ) During the quest … oh Hell, who cares? The film’s idea of a joke is to have various character say “shit” and “fuck” while wandering around in a suit of armor. Apparently, this joke is so hilarious that it pops up every 3 minutes or so. This movie is kinda like an annoying 5 year-old who doesn’t understand that we’ve all heard his freaking knock knock joke before.
Definitely, if someone tries to convince you to see this film, run. Personally, I watched it because James Franco is in the film but Franco’s hotness is obscured by a really bad wig. Natalie Portman’s in this film as well, giving a surprisingly good comedic performance, and — check it out, boys! — you get to see her in a thong. That’s right. The boys get one of the best actresses of modern times in a thong while me? I get James Franco with his undeniable sexiness buried underneath a lot of hair. It doesn’t seem quite fair.
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Everything I’ve heard aboutthis flick makes it sound absolutely awful. I almost went to see it last weekend but opted for “Insidious” instead. I’m glad I did.
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I had considered seeing this when the teaser images first came out, but the trailer was a little strange for me. Thing is, I think Danny McBride’s funny, I’m just not sure that this is great for him.
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Why, yes, that’s right. We want to see Natalie Portman in a thong because of her acting skill. Come to think of it, there are certain acts I would like her to perform…
(I was referring, of course, to things like the final act of “Othello”. Of course I was…)
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*sigh* Men! *frustrated eye roll*
Let me just make clear that my willingness to let James Franco do whatever he may want to my mouth, body, and soul is entirely because I believe in him as an actor. Talent deserves to be rewarded. It has absolutely nothing — NOTHING, I say — to do with his body or his bad boy smile or the hint of a sad, aristic soul that I occasionaslly see in his brooding brown eyes.
It has nothiong to with how he looks. I just happen to think his body of work would look good on top of my body of work or, for that matter, underneath my body of work or perhaps even behind my body of work…
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..
I’m sorry, what was I talking about?
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LOL, ok I think that comment alone should bring the Lisa Marie crowd running to see this post.
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Funny how everyone who seems to love this film went into it with the title literally how their state of mind was. LOL
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lol, I know this film is selling itself as a stoner comedy but there’s really only two jokes in the entire film about getting high and both of them came across as if someone said, “Oh, hey, we better throw a hookah in here so we can sell this to all the potheads.” Most of the time, this film had an aggressive cocaine vibe to it.
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