Anyone see Funny People this weekend? One of the best movies I’ve seen this year, despite the 10 minute MySpace commercial in the middle of it.
The two main characters, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, visit MySpace for a $300,000 paid comedy gig. Among a variety of “f**ck Facebook, In the Face” jokes (said two or three times. really) was some really good material, including Rogen asking “I wonder if Tom and Craig from Craigslist would ever get in a fight….Who’s tougher? Tom has more friends…Craig has weirder friends though. Craig has friends that are willing to do a lot more for cash, I’ll say that.”
Sandler also says “They say the more friends you have on MySpace the less friends you have in real life.”
MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson was also on set and part of the movie, and has now officially been mixed up with another Tom Anderson on IMDB. Overall it was an amazing commercial for MySpace. The company says they did not pay for the placement.
It really was an excellent movie, and it was no. 1 in the U.S. over the weekend with $23.4 million gross. At 140 minutes long, though, you need to be prepared for a long one.
For some reason, I didn’t find it funny at all. Maybe I had a wrong date or I was not in the mood… but the movie was lacking.
some of the reviews are saying it wasn’t funny, so you aren’t alone. I thought it was amazing.
I don’t expect it to be too funny sense it is a drama.
I laughed more during (500) Days of Summer on Saturday night than I did during Funny People on Friday night. And (500) isn’t a comedy.
Saw it this weekend and thought it was good. The first half had most of the laughs while the story developed better the second half. I wasn’t expecting much going into it so I was pleasantly surprised.
Who’s tougher? HouseTrip or Homeaway?
Anyway, going to see that movie now…
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Just because I hate myspace, I’m going with Craig Newmark as the tougher dude.
I’m going to go with Craig. He puts up with a lot more shit. Tom’s calling it in from the beach.
I don’t like craiglist so I’m going to go with Tom. Myspace is more popular than craiglist in our country, Turkey
Ya pretty sure Tom could take him.
No way!
Hard to believe that MySpace found its way freely into a Universal/Sony picture…
Rarely agree with @arrington but FP is a simply outstanding film…
As if MySpace could afford to spend $300,000.00 on a paid comedy Gig.
get real. it’s fox. they have more money than the pentagon, if rupert sees value in it.
I thought Tom was trying to be popular again by showing up in movies… But I have my money on Cragi, he can hire people quick to do the job.
As for the movie… I think it was good. Its half comedy half drama, so don’t expect it to be SuperBad.
As if any advertisements will work for MySpace at this point.
I think I laugh for 4 minutes straight when the singer said “And F… Facebook”. That was way too hilarious. Nailed it.
The singer was James Taylor.
i’ll see it because sandler is solid in some drama forms, though the all slacker cast is a tough one to swallow, coupled with (now new) knowledge of the myspace ad – what’s the point?
That was by far the un-funniest movie starring Adam Sandler.
so the social network wars comes to movies..
I just snagged moviecrunch.com Mr. Arrington and I will give it to you if you promise to stop spoiling funny jokes from movies
Considering how deeply social networking has become entrenched in our society, its a wonder we don’t see more references to it on the screen.
i guess i would choose tom from myspace only because i dont care much for craigslist or care to know for now de*PENDING* on if craiglist will support what i represent and if craigslist does then craig would win and then ill chat it up with craigslist and not myspace but for now i TWITTER and it works best for me so WHOEVER CREATED TWITTER would win in a TRIPLE THREAT FIGHT MATCH vs. TOM vs. CRAIG