The Hangover

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I think that Transformers will affect it a little bit.

 

[kedrell]

^True, more because of TH losing screens to TF2 than in actually taking much of it's audience away.

 

[kedrell]

You have to remember that $234,8 million in 1984 which BHC made is equal to making $482,1 million today. So in ticket sales there's no way for The Hangover to catch up with BHC

There is that but math kind of gets fuzzy when transposing money via inflation adjustment from one film era to another. There are many, many, many more variables to consider than mere inflation.

 

[Sparky9292]

I actually thought this was way way way better than 40 Year Old Virgin, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Superbad, Knocked Up, Sarah Marshall, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express etc.

It's = Old School and Anchorman and easily the most consistently hilarious movie I've seen in years. Reminds me that comedy may not be in a black hole after all Todd Phillips really channeled his mentor (Ivan Reitman) with this one. The ending credits were some of the most creatively hilarious things I've seen in a very long time.

Yeah, my wife and I changed our minds from seeing Transformers (when we saw like 200 teenagers running into that theatre) and saw this instead.

1. Anchorman
2. The Hangover
3. Old School

I'll say that the parts that just weren't needed where the old man's backside, and WTF at the end with the porn?

Was Zach Galifianakis really getting a blow job in the elevator? Sure made it look real enough for me to upchuck a little in my mouth.

Still the worst butt scene of all time has to be Terri Bradshaw's 45 second butt-scene in Failure To Launch.

 

[That-Guy]

Finally saw this last night. I really, really liked it. I haven't laughed this hard at a movie in a long time.

The only weak point for me was the revelation of where Doug had been the whole time:

Spoiler

He just sat on the roof for 24 hours? How f**ked up was he that he never thought to leave? Or maybe he simply couldn't get down because the door was locked. Either way, this just felt off to me.

 

[LostSon88]

That's exactly it, he couldn't get off the roof. That's why he threw the mattress off the roof and it got stuck on that thing...he was trying to get someone's attention that he was stuck.

Obviously it was hinted very early on in the movie where he was...

The very first scene when they go on the roof for the toast, there's even this shot where Stu puts a cinderblock on the door to keep it from closing...they linger on that shot for a few seconds.In the movie, I was always wondering why they stayed on that shot for so long...

Then as Stu, Alan and Phil got into the police car and asked about the mattress, the valet said, "yeah some guy went crazy and threw his mattress out the window." Again, I said to myself, "wait, their luxury suite didn't have windows?"

Then as we got to the end, like Stu, I was finally able to put all the pieces together.

In the end, I liked when they revealed where Doug was. In contrast to his friends experience, his experience was was actually pretty mundane by comparison...he was on the roof.

 

[kedrell]

Yeah, but he got the sunburn of a lifetime.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, my wife and I changed our minds from seeing Transformers (when we saw like 200 teenagers running into that theatre) and saw this instead.

1. Anchorman
2. The Hangover
3. Old School

I'll say that the parts that just weren't needed where the old man's backside, and WTF at the end with the porn?

Was Zach Galifianakis really getting a blow job in the elevator? Sure made it look real enough for me to upchuck a little in my mouth.

Still the worst butt scene of all time has to be Terri Bradshaw's 45 second butt-scene in Failure To Launch.

I read on IMDb that if it was for real they would've been stuck with an NC-17 rating. It was just a prop.

 

[kane9321]

I finally saw the movie...funny as hell

 

[matrix_ghost]

A bit late to the party but yeah i saw Hangover last night. Frikkin funny.
IMO i think a true test for a comedy movie is if it can still be as funny when your watching it without an a full theatre. Ever notice that often comedies seem to be funny when your watching them on opening night and then a couple of months later your wondering why the movie really was that funny.

To me at least Tropic Thunder perfectly fit that bill. PRobably great when your watching it with a full theatre wbut by the time i as watching it in the cinema there were probably like 10 or so people.
However Hangover still is funny...with our without a audience.

Zach Galifianakis really stole the show. He has a innocence about him that that's really funny although he's completely ******ed. Seriously his comments about Halley's comet literally gave me pains from laughing so hard. And the way he names the Baby Carlos :

As for the naked china man....is that really the guy's penis .

8/10


Also with the news that WB is going forward with a Hangover sequel , my guess is that the movie may be centered around Stu's ( ed Helms) wedding with Heather Graham. I hope that they don't rehash the same plot ( groom goes missing) plot from the first movie and this time around focus on Justin Bartha as well.

 

[mclay18]

As for the naked china man....is that really the guy's penis .

Yes, Ken Leong was really nude in that scene where he comes out of the trunk. It was his idea to do it naked (and make it funnier), so the director let him do it that way. I don't find it hysterically funny from start to finish, but I smiled all the way through and laughed heartily half a dozen times.

Move over Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips is back in the game.

 

[Doctor Jones]

When is this coming out of DVD?

 

[mclay18]

Dvdizzy.com originally listed The Hangover as coming out on DVD and Blu-ray on October, but now they've amended it for December.

It could change anytime when Warners actually announces the DVD/Blu release, so never say never. Especially since The Hangover is steadily bringing in the dough week after week, even this month. You don't see films like that hanging on just because of the famous names (like Wedding Crashers, which was terrible).

 

[Sawyer]

6 months seems like a helluva wait for a comedy... October seems a bit more reasonable to me.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Dvdizzy.com originally listed The Hangover as coming out on DVD and Blu-ray on October, but now they've amended it for December.

It could change anytime when Warners actually announces the DVD/Blu release, so never say never. Especially since The Hangover is steadily bringing in the dough week after week, even this month. You don't see films like that hanging on just because of the famous names (like Wedding Crashers, which was terrible).

I thought it was hilarious.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

20 bucks says WB puts no features on the regular dvds and all the features on the blu ray.

Its the same thing their doing with Observe and Report.

 

[Kane52630]

20 bucks says WB puts no features on the regular dvds and all the features on the blu ray.

Its the same thing their doing with Observe and Report.

which is fine by me t:

 

[BatMatt]

Yea me too. I don't consider this as a studio "forcing" people to convert to Blu-ray, but just pushing them in that direction...tops. I mean, if they didn't release the movie at all on DVD, then that'd be a different story

 

[The Apatow Crew]

So no one else sees this as a bad idea for those who don't own a blu ray player?

 

[Doctor Jones]

December? God, no.

 

[CELTICPRED]

So no one else sees this as a bad idea for those who don't own a blu ray player?

It's certainly cost them a bit of money in DVD sales I'm sure.


There's been a few movies I haven't picked up this year because they like to rape us with the 2 disc/digital copy package, and then slapping all the great extra features onto blu-ray leaving us with barebones.

 

[BatMatt]

So no one else sees this as a bad idea for those who don't own a blu ray player?

No, its a natural progression. Studios did the same with DVD, of course it was much easier to put special features on a DVD but still

 

[Kane52630]

yep its a cycle, Betamax, VHS, DVD, ect.
now its Bluray

 

[Infinity9999x]

yep its a cycle, Betamax, VHS, DVD, ect.
now its Bluray

I agree, it's going to happen.

However, I haven't bought a blu-ray player or any blu-ray movies, simply because the quality difference isn't enough to make me want to spend 10 to 20 bucks more on the movie. I'll hold out as long as I can, and most likely, by the time I finally do buy one, Blu-ray's won't be as expensive.

And probably not long after I finally buy a Blu-ray player, the next generation in movie-watching will already be taking it's place.

 

[Sawyer]

So no one else sees this as a bad idea for those who don't own a blu ray player?

I hope they dont **** us over like that, but I wouldnt past Warner Bros. They've basically given a big middle finger to the DVD buyers for TDK and Watchmen, so I wouldnt be too shocked if they did the same here. But I sure hope not.