Paul Movie Blurb by Shale March 18, 2011 Paul is the latest in the stranded alien trying to get home movie and rather clumsily refs every such movie made from Starman, E.T., Close Encounters and likely many more that the nerds will be seeing from the first to 20th time sitting thru this movie. It is actually a road trip of a couple of British comic nerds, Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost) attending a Comic Con in San Diego, with the intent to travel in a rented RV to all the alien sightings in the such as Roswell and Area 51 (Yeah they used an alien joke with the room service guy named Jorge). Brit Nerds at Comic Con On their way they encounter a real space alien, who introduces himself as Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) and is a rather free spirited, fowl (a pun) mouthed party kinda guy. After the initial freekout and some standard references to the usual alien abducted being subjected to 'probing,' the guys agree to help Paul escape to his pickup point. Paul Probe Finger This is a road trip movie with the usual mishaps, threats and dilemmas, including our two Brits being often perceived as gay. In a trailer park they meet Ruth (Kristen Wiig) an uptight daughter of a Christian fundamentalist who needs a mind meld from Paul to show her the light, whereupon she cuts loose with cursing, pot smoking and a desire to fornicate. Paul Lounges in RV And, as with all the other such movies there are the men in black trying to subdue the extraterrestrial, most notably Zoil (Jason Bateman) with assist from Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio. Man In Black I rather liked this movie, tho it wasn't the best made nor the funniest. It is what it is, a stumbling amusing movie and a CGI generated central character that would be fun to hang out with. Being R-Rated due to bad language, sexual ref (but no actual sex), violence, drug use and Paul mooning people with his alien ass, it misses the perfect audience, all those 13-year-old boys. But, it should get by with the 17-year-old boys (and older).
I figured there would be an identifiable affinity with the nerd characters in this movie. Tho I have never travelled across country to attend a comic con, if one came to the Miami Beach Convention Center you better believe I will be there. However, I was surprised to see a little commonality I had with Paul, the hip E.T. I cropped this pic so it would show up more on his skinny ALF arm but seems we have the same tat on the same deltoid. (And he prefers not to wear a shirt) Paul Peace Tat
Hmm yeah its pretty good. I got what I paid for. Not much else to say really! Um, not as many jokes as their previous films, doesn't top Hot Fuzz. Liked it though.
I just saw the DVD this week myself. Watched the unrated version which had more lines that tied in the story better than the R-rated theater version. A really enjoyable movie.
I liked. It made me laugh and entertained me for and hour or two. Pegg has it sussed as far as don't think too hard comedies go. Shaun of the Dead was also funny, I liked that one more. Talking about conventions et al you seem like a bit film fan Shale and you come from Miama. I was in Ft Lauderdale in 1997 for my stepbrothers wedding. I was pretty bored for three weeks but I did have a slightly interesting adventure gatecrashing a film awards ceremony on the beach by accident on my last weekend there. I went into a shop on the beachfront in ft L and this American chick started chatting me up, which I was kind of taken aback by a little. A girl chatting ME up in a shop in the middle of the day! She told me there was some party going a mile south, then her boss came along and told her to stop chatting up the customers, and she had to go but she said to come back later when she finished her shift. So I head along to find this party and I come along a tent on the beach with some kind of partying going on inside. I just casually walked inside not realising I wasn't supposed to be in there, and no-one questioned me or why I was there. I went to the bar and got free drinks and then stood and watched Fairuza Balk, Nick Nolte and Robert Wise getting a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to cinema (I'm sure you remember The Sound of Music?) I got there near the end, and I stood at the back watching in the corner looking inconspicuous. People sitting at tables were telling me to dim the lights or something, which I just tried to ignore and hoped it didn't blow my cover. Then people were dancing after it all finished. I picked up a programme from a table and discretely stuffed it in the back of my jeans. It all kind of wrapped up fairly quickly after that and I went outside. All the celebs left (there weren't that many big celebs there it was more of a B list really, hence the fact I got in so easy probably) anyway they all left together in one big procession and they all walked past me. I remember Nick Nolte looking at me and me standing there thinking, look- there's Nick Nolte walking past me. I kind of tailed out behind them because I wanted to go and meet shop girl when she finished and there were camera flashing as I walked out behind Robert Wise so who knows I might have gotten in the background of a paparazzi photograph in some magazine that month... So that's my kind of bizarre the film Paul-like experience of my travels in America. I tell that story to people and I don't think they believe me, it does sound a bit made up like the story of a delusional schitzophrenic I'd love to end it by saying I got laid but I went back to the shop and it was closed. She and her boss were just closing and he wouldn't let me in, I kind of waved my hands like hey I came back for you... but she looked at me like I had just insulted her mother really badly, so I didn't hang about, I'll never know what that was all about.. Banana banshees on the beach, Cape Kennedy and the 3-d T2 experience at orlando were the only three other interesting things that happened to me, so I am never going back there ever again.
You have to enjoy life's simple pleasures here. We are a backdrop locale. Always running into fashion shoots or film productions. I was in Miami when Miami Vice was running on television and you never knew when you would come across a location shot. Seldom saw the real actors, just their look-alikes. Watched Loretta Swit filming Oops Apocolypse in downtown Miami. The flip side is when they block traffic. We are a real city with commuters not just a big back lot.
Apparently they are filming a new Brad Pitt zombie film in George Square in Glasgow over the next days I'm in Edinburgh, but if I head over there I might make a good extra today on account of my latest 2 bottles of wine last night hangover. :ack2:
