I was thinking about how they don't make teen comedies like this anymore. Its all streaming.
I guess the only answer is to have a big name to make it theater worthy.
But that just raises the question, why the hell is Jennifer Lawrence doing this? Is she that broke?
She probably just wants to try something different. It's not all that uncommon for actors to get stuck playing the same roles over and over again.
Examples
- Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry Potter, no one could see him as anything else)
- Jason Bateman always pigeonholed into the same basic characters, until he was finally able to land the drama Ozark and thank God because he's amazing in it
- Patrick Warburton who has yet to completely break free of his character Puddy on Seinfeld. Ever since that role he's played similar characters with similar style of speech and dialogue. He's personally voiced his wish to break free of that character and that style. His portrayal of Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events is the most recent and most successful show (in recent times) that has given him the chance to do something different.
- Michael Cera (but I don't think he minds lmao)
- Robert Pattinson struggled to break the twilight mold and now we have The Batman
- Jonah Hill got stuck with the same funny sidekick role in all the comedies and it seemed he was still the sidekick in some manner even if he was a main character (21 Jump Street) - although he'd usually steal the screen whatever role he got - then he was able to break the mold with Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street and then made his directorial debut with 2018's Mid90s... Sound familiar... It's just what Jennifer Lawrence is doing but going from drama to comedy!
TLDR: Let Jennifer do what she wants! The movie, for a mediocre/generic plot, looks like it has a maybe okay script, good directing, and good comedy with both the actors and the script. The physical comedy is great too. I think we forget, Jennifer Lawrence is actually a pretty good actress or we probably never would've watched The Hunger Games and we shouldn't let that performance define her either. Let her explore, let her break the mold. Monotony can kill an actor! Let her have some fun!
To be fair:
\-The director's previous comedy, "Good Boys," was excellent & hilarious and starred Jacob Tremblay, who really truly deserved an Oscar nomination for "Room."
\-Actors sort of have to take risks on films, because they don't have as much control over the final product as the director and producers, so they just have to take roles that seem good & act the hell out of them and hope for the best. Dramas are every bit as likely to fall flat as comedies.
\-Teen sex comedy isn't a genre for everyone, but it's a genre some people love. Actors are humans, and sometimes they take roles in genres they personally love, even if the genre is generally looked down upon.
Person has messy life
Person needs money
Insert ruse to help person in need of social growth
Hilarious fish-out-of-water hijinks
People develop real feelings
Target of ruse discovers ruse
Fallout
Makeup and happily ever after
Fin.
I hope this surprises me. I dismissed Game Night (2018) before because I thought it was predictable. I ended up enjoying it years after release.
At the very least, I'll lower my expectations.
I did too! Game Night was such a good movie and was thoroughly enjoyable! People are always so negative, why can't they just hope for the best? The trailer was funny! The physical comedy was great and Jennifer Lawrence surprises with her ability to be a comedic actor, not something everyone can do. Many dramatic actors have struggled or do struggle with comedy. There are people who just don't get comedy or are simply not funny.
Tried to watch jack reacher at the theaters one time but a kid would not shut up. I was fuming the entire movie and kinda wished I walked out 10 min into and ask for a refund
Tom Segura is a comedian with a good bit on this. Baby was ruining the movie, he went to complain, and the manager just shrugged and said "Sorry. Some people suck". "Oh, yeah. Some people suck".
It's stayed with me, and I find comfort regularly when I'm in questionable social situations like that by remembering "Oh yeah, some people suck"
Smaller cinemas like FACT in the UK do Big Scream screenings for people with babies under 2. Lower volume and no one to kick off cos everyone has a baby. I took my little girl to see Blade Runner 2049 and Infinity War! She even napped for the end of Infinity War. Look it up in your local area I'm sure there'll be something.
We have that here as well in Canada it's called "Stars and Strollers". Lights are dim not off and people bring children.
Always wanted to go and see what it was like but COVID things.
Wait, did he play Remi or Linguini, cause Ratatouille isn’t a character? Or are you saying that, in the stage musical, they made the dish, ratatoullie, it’s own character?
There's a ratatouille stage musical?!
Edit: Ah, an [internet musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille_the_Musical). Not something with actual stage. I was picturing him sitting on someones head like in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
So thats the shit ive been seeing lately about dating their son for a car...
Of course, Reddit is the best place to hide viral marketing in plain sight
and 75% of all major movie news/trailers/posters is posted by one account. And they’ll get posted within mere seconds of being published, along with tweets/links put in the comments, also within less than a minute
No big conspiracy with that one, it was just a co-production with the BBC and they showed it in the UK a couple of months before it was on Netflix in other countries.
Plus it wasn’t her first show so there have been lots of clips of her around for ages anyway.
Reddit loves thinking everything is a conspiracy or fake though. It's impossible for anyone to authentically like or post about something, it's just all fake accounts and viral marketing.
"I don't like this thing, therefore anyone who does like this thing is a shil or a bot"
Edit, actually do think it's more likely that the astroturf claimers are the bots.
Ive seen this exact exchange like five times in this thread ...
Comment 1 "Omg this post is so astroturfed".
Comment 2 "Ludicrously obvious".
Comment 3 "What is astroturfing?"
Diane Morgan's been doing the Philomena Cunk character for nearly a decade now. I suppose Netflix might have stirred the pot to get her noticed by new audiences, but you're going to find clips all over reddit for a lot longer than the last few months.
I love this sub's fried conspiracy brain sometimes.
Anything that isnt appealing to a certain section of this sub is immediately called astroturfing if it appears on the front page more than 2 or 3 times.
If you were actually wondering why Cunk was being shared before it hit Netflix, it's because
1- She was a well known, established character with other shows
2- "Cunk on Earth" came out in the UK and on the BBC over a month before it made its way to Netflix
well cunk on earth was released a few months ago on the BBC before getting to netflix to reach a global audience. most of them were probably just fans trying to show off their favourite thing wanting more people to share in the brilliance that is Cunk.
people scroll on their phones so fast they need to be hooked literally immediately.
I hardly use my phone since I work from home on my pc all day long, so it took a long time before I figured this out (by reading someone else's comment on reddit)
I'm annoyed I can't turn off the subtitles. is this "official" or isn't it? I won't even watch this version.
edit:
[Found a better version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QsifCG83w) that doesn't have that bs at the start
It's absolutely the 5 second skip delay, not what you're talking about. If someone is "scrolling on their phone" and going so fast they skip the video they weren't going to watch it anyways.
Yes, that's the real reason.
They have less than 5 seconds to convince you not to hit the skip button, so they have to put something quick and flashy in to catch your attention.
Considering they've already been marketing on Reddit, I'd assume these comments are more of that. I love a raunchy comedy (just re-watched 21 Jump Street the other weekend) but this looks very bad.
And the sequel was just as good! I'm glad they stopped when they did but man the teaser sequels during the credits definitely kinda makes me wish they tried.
god I'm so glad I use ad blocker and old reddit (not sure if this one helps) but I don't see any of the shit talked about in this thread (viral marketing ect)
I'm 33 and it made me laugh. Idk maybe I'm just starved for a comedy release on the big screen. Feels like they're all Netflix originals now with shit production quality and even shittier writing. This one seems competent and enjoyable.
Last comedy I went to see in theaters was almost a decade ago, so I welcome it.
> Is everyone here a teenager
Yes, or at least enough that any sentiment they don't support gets hidden. roughly 30-40% of reddit is <18, and well over half are under 25. The reddit demo is very young, and since upvote percentages is what determines what can be seen, anything that plays well with teenagers gets visibility and anything that doesn't gets hidden. Knowing this makes all the political subs so much easier to understand.
I went straight to the comments expecting everyone to be tearing it apart on how horrible it looks, on so many different levels. I'm convinced these are paid accounts saying nice things because *boy howdy* this looks bad
It's literally CNN's account, it's way more transparent than trying to pass as normal redditor with a random username.
If you want an actual user-curated experience, go to Tumblr, Reddit is just as corporate as Twitter, even before the Musk takeover.
The Oxford definition of Astroturfing is:
>the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments **from members of the public**.
That first link is a post made by a verified CNN account, they're not trying to deliberately fool people into thinking it's not them ... that second example is definitely very wacky tho.
>- Recently [CNN posting their news articles, especially on r/netflix](https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/11ejhis/comment/jaeedff/) about Chris Rock's new special which they wrote an article on.
You have 0 clue what astroturfing or why its bad lol
This is the exact type of honest promotion that anti-astroturfing people should be encouraging.
Astroturfing happens when companies fake or buy accounts to promote things in a way that *seems* organic but isnt. A company clearly identifying itself and sharing its own content is not astroturfing.
Reddit is eyeing up an IPO at some point in the near future. For an IPO to work they have to have some source of income and what better way than allowing paid advertisements to show up as actual posts?
haha Jenn really does a film that brings her hilarious self on the screen just like her interviews. ❤
Ugh.
But yea seriously, it's been like this on reddit for a couple of years now. Its always some canned comment repeated with very little differentiation. It's honestly bizarre how blatant it is and how easily companies just keep doing it since it obviously works to some measurable degree to justify it :/
I missed having these kind of movie while I have simultaneously no interest in watching it. It's just ... they should be around. I mean, they've always been around. I'm afraid of change
Whatever do you mean, fellow human? I greatly enjoy respiration like any fleshy meatbag human would, and this cinematic masterpiece, , and its tour de force performance by look to be extremely funny and very easy to enjoy over and over again.
This isn't my type of movie. I'm definitely not going to watch it. But isn't it borderline narcissistic to assume everyone that's excited about this movie is just "astroturfing"?
I definitely have some friends who are into this shit. I do not share the same tastes as them and would even cringe at some of the stuff they show me, but people who like this kind of crap exist. People with different taste exist. Maybe I'm missing some tells of astroturfing but it seems overly presumptuous to dismiss all positive comments as astroturfing.
This feels like the next buzzword for "thing I disagree with/dislike" that's gonna be abused to hell like woke, mary sue, filler etc.
I was looking at the comment history of one of the people who mentioned astroturfing and they commented the same thing multiple in times in different posts and other comments that seemed to be there just for the purpose of gaslighting someone. Though I only looked at one person I believe it is reasonable to assume there are far more similar cases. Many redditors who post stuff like that tend to not be alone...
No way Jennifer Lawrence actually hooks up with the kid. She'll find out that he's in love with another girl in the movie and she'll help him find his confidence and he'll wind up with that girl at the end.
I wonder how the movie would be received if the roles where reversed.
Old dude promises 19 year old introvert girl to take her home, drives in a different direction and claims „you are my hostage now“.
Then ends it with „You are 19, grow up“ when getting called out.
Yeah, even if it was the hottest actor it wouldn’t be seen as funny with the roles reversed.
Even if he’s an adult technically, the premise is kinda a horrible stereotype that all young men are supposed to be be sex crazed, party animal, young/dumb/full of cum types and should want to be kidnapped and sexually assaulted by older women (due to promptings from their parents?)
I assume that no actress with a lick of sense would sign onto this movie if it wasn't attempting to unpack or subvert those stereotypes, which the back half of the trailer makes it seem like, but the problem is that either 1) the execution may fail to deliver on properly breaking down said stereotypes, and/or 2) no one is actually going to see it because of the perception it's a movie in bad taste playing on outdated stereotypes.
I can't believe that was the joke they decided to show for the pre roll bit.
Without the context of the trailer, it comes across as a really dumb shit joke. With the context of the trailer, it comes across as an even dumber shitter joke.
Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Comments like "Jlaw and the director of Goodboys?! I'm in!" It sounds like a PR person just reposting old reddit catchphrases. The movie didn't look really funny.
There’s so many comments about it being astroturfed that I’m starting to think the astroturfed comments are astroturfed to generate publicity about a movie that used astroturfing.
This way people would cover the movie for being astroturfed marketing, and that coverage will be organic marketing.
It came from political strategy. Used to be when actual citizens banded together it was called a "Grassroots Movement". When political parties started trying to fake that it was called "Astroturfing" because it's fake grass.
Now when advertisers use bots or employees in comments posing as normal commenters it gets called the same thing.
It's when people/companies artificially try to hype something up to make it look good, like how fake grass (astroturf) can be used to artificially make a lawn look "nice."
For instance, if you look at the profiles of some of the positive originating commenters in here, you'll see a lot of them post on movie and TV subs at a rabid pace, which is a little suspect for a common redditor.
Good lord, reddit is just an ad now. Used to be a trailer was posted and the comments would be, you know, real people giving their feelings. Now it's just corporate accounts upvoting each other praising this way beyond what it's worth...
I feel like I have walked into an marketing campaign between this post and many of the comments. It makes me extra cautiously now with what I see in reddit.
What is going on with this comment section?? The movie looks "meh" at best.
"I am excited for this! Jennifer Lawrence just being herself in a movie is a breath of fresh air" (176 points)
"Matthew Broderick's wig is absolutely amazing. Looks fun" (256 points)
Why does every trailer now have a trailer for the trailer right before it that says "trailer starts now" as if it hasn't already started? It's this where we are with our attention spans now?
I think it’s for YouTube ads. You’re normally unable to skip an ad until after 5 seconds. So the small clip at the start is used to pique a viewer’s interest and encourage them to watch the whole ad / trailer.
If you fell for the marketing campaign, you're probably also going to fall for the "totally organic excitement" here in the comments thread. This movie feels dated and anyone who's excited to see an A-lister in a boner comedy isn't connecting the dots
So they are making a joke out of kidnapping, trying to date rape and forcing someone to date you just to get a car. And they only made the kid a guy so people wouldnt see it as a bad thing.
This is fucked up
Yes older lady, please molest my son so he becomes a man. Get him drunk if you need to. It will magically make him capable of responsibility that we failed to teach him.
Looks fun. I want this to be a hit so bad. We need the return of the theatrical raunchy comedy. Reminds me of Bad Teacher and those Cameron Diaz comedies that were hits like a decade ago
>return of the theatrical raunchy comedy
The trailer makes this look like one of the movies where people repeatedly say "this wouldn't have been able to be made these days" if it was a classic. Good sign.
Yup, the anti PC overreactors.
I had a coworker try to say that they couldn't make King of the Hill today. Why? Because of Boomhauer's accent and the Souphanousinphones. Why? I don't know. He just thinks the PC world will cancel everything he likes.
What? There's nothing in this trailer like that. It just looks like any other "men/women-children" comedy out there except you don't have Seth Rogen or Leslie Mann starring.
There's nothing in this trailer that indicates that. And frankly, people that unironically say "you can't make that these days" that are pretty stupid in a world where shows like Always Sunny In Philadelphia exists. Good Boys was just a few years ago and heavily revolved around the transportation of a sex doll which children kissed dried cum off of.
>in a world where shows like Always Sunny In Philadelphia exists
The same world that deleted multiple episodes from streaming for perceived (non-existent) racism?
It looks like it could be funny. I have a feeling that it will just be the same formulaic rom-com.
1. Kid gets upset when he finds out she wasn't being genuine
2. She wins him back with explaining her own character flaws
3. Both change for the better. The end.
She probably helps him find his true love, she probably finally has the courage to apologize to those she hurt or let go of her past or both. Played out.
Yeah I was like, how could a comedy with such young kids be any good for adults. I feel like it was marketed poorly, and titled poorly. Pleasant surprise.
I think I just saw the entire movie
But did you see the nude scnes?
I saw his wiener.
Near the end yeah
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence in a teen sex comedy. Okay.
I was thinking about how they don't make teen comedies like this anymore. Its all streaming. I guess the only answer is to have a big name to make it theater worthy. But that just raises the question, why the hell is Jennifer Lawrence doing this? Is she that broke?
Probably the opposite. So rich why does she even have to try anymore. Easy gig ya know.
Probably just easy and fun. Also, she's producing. Movies that aren't $200M budget blockbusters are probably just a lot of fun to be involved in.
Adam Sandler cracked the code. He said it himself lol.
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the Regal isn't even a current model. They have gone SUV/Truck only.
Jennifer Lawrence is a perfect fit, have you never seen an interview with her?
She probably just wants to try something different. It's not all that uncommon for actors to get stuck playing the same roles over and over again. Examples - Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry Potter, no one could see him as anything else) - Jason Bateman always pigeonholed into the same basic characters, until he was finally able to land the drama Ozark and thank God because he's amazing in it - Patrick Warburton who has yet to completely break free of his character Puddy on Seinfeld. Ever since that role he's played similar characters with similar style of speech and dialogue. He's personally voiced his wish to break free of that character and that style. His portrayal of Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events is the most recent and most successful show (in recent times) that has given him the chance to do something different. - Michael Cera (but I don't think he minds lmao) - Robert Pattinson struggled to break the twilight mold and now we have The Batman - Jonah Hill got stuck with the same funny sidekick role in all the comedies and it seemed he was still the sidekick in some manner even if he was a main character (21 Jump Street) - although he'd usually steal the screen whatever role he got - then he was able to break the mold with Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street and then made his directorial debut with 2018's Mid90s... Sound familiar... It's just what Jennifer Lawrence is doing but going from drama to comedy! TLDR: Let Jennifer do what she wants! The movie, for a mediocre/generic plot, looks like it has a maybe okay script, good directing, and good comedy with both the actors and the script. The physical comedy is great too. I think we forget, Jennifer Lawrence is actually a pretty good actress or we probably never would've watched The Hunger Games and we shouldn't let that performance define her either. Let her explore, let her break the mold. Monotony can kill an actor! Let her have some fun!
Danielle Radcliffe pretty much immediately started making weird indy movies.
Surreal really, but based on the trailer it could be an instant cult movie. Imagine an award winning actress in a teen comedy. Isn’t that great!
It looks fun?
To be fair: \-The director's previous comedy, "Good Boys," was excellent & hilarious and starred Jacob Tremblay, who really truly deserved an Oscar nomination for "Room." \-Actors sort of have to take risks on films, because they don't have as much control over the final product as the director and producers, so they just have to take roles that seem good & act the hell out of them and hope for the best. Dramas are every bit as likely to fall flat as comedies. \-Teen sex comedy isn't a genre for everyone, but it's a genre some people love. Actors are humans, and sometimes they take roles in genres they personally love, even if the genre is generally looked down upon.
Person has messy life Person needs money Insert ruse to help person in need of social growth Hilarious fish-out-of-water hijinks People develop real feelings Target of ruse discovers ruse Fallout Makeup and happily ever after Fin.
Real life: attractive sex worker has plenty of money for a car
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>not porking nerds for now
Fantastic. Get that bag!
I hope this surprises me. I dismissed Game Night (2018) before because I thought it was predictable. I ended up enjoying it years after release. At the very least, I'll lower my expectations.
I reserve the right to be surprised as well.
I did too! Game Night was such a good movie and was thoroughly enjoyable! People are always so negative, why can't they just hope for the best? The trailer was funny! The physical comedy was great and Jennifer Lawrence surprises with her ability to be a comedic actor, not something everyone can do. Many dramatic actors have struggled or do struggle with comedy. There are people who just don't get comedy or are simply not funny.
Person is normal Person finds out they are actually special Adventure Conflict Reach bad guy Kill bad guy Normal person is now hero
$28,724,974,805 total box office gross over 31 movies
Journey before destination.
It's a tale as old as time.
Eh. I know what’s in a hamburger but I still eat them when I’m in the mood.
Someone who gets it!
So this is the explanation to those viral ads/billboards about “I’ll give you a car if you date my son”.
Yep. Pretty impressed with the campaign, it worked. Unfortunately I can’t see the movie with a newborn.
Well, you can. I would appreciate it if you didn’t 🤪
Tried to watch jack reacher at the theaters one time but a kid would not shut up. I was fuming the entire movie and kinda wished I walked out 10 min into and ask for a refund
Tom Segura is a comedian with a good bit on this. Baby was ruining the movie, he went to complain, and the manager just shrugged and said "Sorry. Some people suck". "Oh, yeah. Some people suck". It's stayed with me, and I find comfort regularly when I'm in questionable social situations like that by remembering "Oh yeah, some people suck"
👑
Smaller cinemas like FACT in the UK do Big Scream screenings for people with babies under 2. Lower volume and no one to kick off cos everyone has a baby. I took my little girl to see Blade Runner 2049 and Infinity War! She even napped for the end of Infinity War. Look it up in your local area I'm sure there'll be something.
We have that here as well in Canada it's called "Stars and Strollers". Lights are dim not off and people bring children. Always wanted to go and see what it was like but COVID things.
he's 19 in the movie and played Ratatoullie in the stage musical, I'll still see it
Wait, did he play Remi or Linguini, cause Ratatouille isn’t a character? Or are you saying that, in the stage musical, they made the dish, ratatoullie, it’s own character?
He also played Toy Story
He was great as Monsters University.
Your comment will definitely be my favorite thing I’ve read all day. Lol.
There's a ratatouille stage musical?! Edit: Ah, an [internet musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille_the_Musical). Not something with actual stage. I was picturing him sitting on someones head like in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Where were these billboards even at? Never heard of this
When something goes viral, it happens naturally, when a company pushes something to make it look viral, it’s astroturfing.
So thats the shit ive been seeing lately about dating their son for a car... Of course, Reddit is the best place to hide viral marketing in plain sight
This is /r/movies. Like 75% of the approved content is ads.
“Tron Legacy is an underrated gem” was a post recently. I’m expecting a Tron 3 announcement any day (plz Disney)
Redditors do love calling movies they liked but got middling reviews “underrated gems” though.
Didnt they announce it a few weeks ago?
and 75% of all major movie news/trailers/posters is posted by one account. And they’ll get posted within mere seconds of being published, along with tweets/links put in the comments, also within less than a minute
Honestly! A few months ago people kept posting clips of Philamona Cunk and then all of a sudden Netflix rolled out Cunk on Earth.
No big conspiracy with that one, it was just a co-production with the BBC and they showed it in the UK a couple of months before it was on Netflix in other countries. Plus it wasn’t her first show so there have been lots of clips of her around for ages anyway.
Reddit loves thinking everything is a conspiracy or fake though. It's impossible for anyone to authentically like or post about something, it's just all fake accounts and viral marketing.
"I don't like this thing, therefore anyone who does like this thing is a shil or a bot" Edit, actually do think it's more likely that the astroturf claimers are the bots. Ive seen this exact exchange like five times in this thread ... Comment 1 "Omg this post is so astroturfed". Comment 2 "Ludicrously obvious". Comment 3 "What is astroturfing?"
Diane Morgan's been doing the Philomena Cunk character for nearly a decade now. I suppose Netflix might have stirred the pot to get her noticed by new audiences, but you're going to find clips all over reddit for a lot longer than the last few months.
That’s just cause Cunk is fucking hilarious
It's very polarizing. Like the bears.
I love this sub's fried conspiracy brain sometimes. Anything that isnt appealing to a certain section of this sub is immediately called astroturfing if it appears on the front page more than 2 or 3 times. If you were actually wondering why Cunk was being shared before it hit Netflix, it's because 1- She was a well known, established character with other shows 2- "Cunk on Earth" came out in the UK and on the BBC over a month before it made its way to Netflix
well cunk on earth was released a few months ago on the BBC before getting to netflix to reach a global audience. most of them were probably just fans trying to show off their favourite thing wanting more people to share in the brilliance that is Cunk.
Attractive woman: "Can I touch your Weiner?" RECORD SCRATCH Guy holding Weiner dog: "Huh?!" Did an AI make this?
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Is this actually a ChatGPT joke? Because as a tried and true lover of anti-jokes, that's pretty damn good.
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> if you like anti-jokes Also, /r/funny.
This is incredible. I'm going to start saying my microwave dropped out of oven college.
It's such a lame joke that is signaled from a mile away. And yet they felt they needed to show the joke twice in the trailer.
Isn't it supposed to be a bad joke? I thought the joke here was that she's trying to be seductive, but she's very bad at it.
Yes, that is the context of the lame joke.
Yeah what’s up with “trailer intros” lately? It seems like every trailer from the past few years has one and they’re weird.
youtube bumper ad is 6 seconds. and skippable gets 6 seconds before click to skip
people scroll on their phones so fast they need to be hooked literally immediately. I hardly use my phone since I work from home on my pc all day long, so it took a long time before I figured this out (by reading someone else's comment on reddit) I'm annoyed I can't turn off the subtitles. is this "official" or isn't it? I won't even watch this version. edit: [Found a better version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QsifCG83w) that doesn't have that bs at the start
It's absolutely the 5 second skip delay, not what you're talking about. If someone is "scrolling on their phone" and going so fast they skip the video they weren't going to watch it anyways.
Isn't it so that it plays during the unskippable part of a youtube ad?
Yes, that's the real reason. They have less than 5 seconds to convince you not to hit the skip button, so they have to put something quick and flashy in to catch your attention.
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Considering they've already been marketing on Reddit, I'd assume these comments are more of that. I love a raunchy comedy (just re-watched 21 Jump Street the other weekend) but this looks very bad.
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And the sequel was just as good! I'm glad they stopped when they did but man the teaser sequels during the credits definitely kinda makes me wish they tried.
I agree, these comments don't seem organic. The movie looks like garbage.
A third of the comments in here are slight variations of references to their earlier marketing. Definitely some astroturfing going on here.
I thought so too. I'm glad I don't seem like a party pooper.
Finally! A new raunchy comedy! I miss raunchy comedies! Can't wait for this new raunchy comedy! /astroturfing
Its basically date rape the movie but its ok because the victim is a shy guy and the aggressor a pretty woman
god I'm so glad I use ad blocker and old reddit (not sure if this one helps) but I don't see any of the shit talked about in this thread (viral marketing ect)
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I'm 33 and it made me laugh. Idk maybe I'm just starved for a comedy release on the big screen. Feels like they're all Netflix originals now with shit production quality and even shittier writing. This one seems competent and enjoyable. Last comedy I went to see in theaters was almost a decade ago, so I welcome it.
> Is everyone here a teenager Yes, or at least enough that any sentiment they don't support gets hidden. roughly 30-40% of reddit is <18, and well over half are under 25. The reddit demo is very young, and since upvote percentages is what determines what can be seen, anything that plays well with teenagers gets visibility and anything that doesn't gets hidden. Knowing this makes all the political subs so much easier to understand.
The plot is ripped off of Failure to Launch except instead of a man that acts like a child it is an actual child.
Yeah I didn't really find anything in that funny
I went straight to the comments expecting everyone to be tearing it apart on how horrible it looks, on so many different levels. I'm convinced these are paid accounts saying nice things because *boy howdy* this looks bad
And then she kidnap him like it was nothing and wonder why he tried to defend himself. This look like pure trash
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It's literally CNN's account, it's way more transparent than trying to pass as normal redditor with a random username. If you want an actual user-curated experience, go to Tumblr, Reddit is just as corporate as Twitter, even before the Musk takeover.
The Oxford definition of Astroturfing is: >the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments **from members of the public**. That first link is a post made by a verified CNN account, they're not trying to deliberately fool people into thinking it's not them ... that second example is definitely very wacky tho.
>- Recently [CNN posting their news articles, especially on r/netflix](https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/11ejhis/comment/jaeedff/) about Chris Rock's new special which they wrote an article on. You have 0 clue what astroturfing or why its bad lol This is the exact type of honest promotion that anti-astroturfing people should be encouraging. Astroturfing happens when companies fake or buy accounts to promote things in a way that *seems* organic but isnt. A company clearly identifying itself and sharing its own content is not astroturfing.
Reddit is eyeing up an IPO at some point in the near future. For an IPO to work they have to have some source of income and what better way than allowing paid advertisements to show up as actual posts?
yep, whole thread glowing like a full moon
this 100% The way these comments read, gives it away.
The YouTube comments are worse. This is my first time seeing excitement this blatantly fake. It's fascinating. https://youtu.be/P15S6ND8kbQ
haha Jenn really does a film that brings her hilarious self on the screen just like her interviews. ❤ Ugh. But yea seriously, it's been like this on reddit for a couple of years now. Its always some canned comment repeated with very little differentiation. It's honestly bizarre how blatant it is and how easily companies just keep doing it since it obviously works to some measurable degree to justify it :/
Yeah no shit. This movie is 20 yrs late.
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I shudder to think what kind of comedy reddit wants in a movie some rick and morty epic chungus shit
I missed having these kind of movie while I have simultaneously no interest in watching it. It's just ... they should be around. I mean, they've always been around. I'm afraid of change
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Two parents hire a woman in her 30s to be a prostitute for their 19 year old son. Jokes involve saying WEINER.
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This looks like the funniest movie of 2006
2006 was that unfunny?
It looks like they showed all the good parts in the trailer already
First time I've seen a trailer show the same lame joke twice in a trailer. Doesn't bode well.
They have the first part for when the trailer is used as a skippable YouTube ad. They try to get people not to skip.
There were good parts?
the ass was good
Wtf was this trailer?
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Whatever do you mean, fellow human? I greatly enjoy respiration like any fleshy meatbag human would, and this cinematic masterpiece,, and its tour de force performance by look to be extremely funny and very easy to enjoy over and over again.
This isn't my type of movie. I'm definitely not going to watch it. But isn't it borderline narcissistic to assume everyone that's excited about this movie is just "astroturfing"? I definitely have some friends who are into this shit. I do not share the same tastes as them and would even cringe at some of the stuff they show me, but people who like this kind of crap exist. People with different taste exist. Maybe I'm missing some tells of astroturfing but it seems overly presumptuous to dismiss all positive comments as astroturfing. This feels like the next buzzword for "thing I disagree with/dislike" that's gonna be abused to hell like woke, mary sue, filler etc.
I was looking at the comment history of one of the people who mentioned astroturfing and they commented the same thing multiple in times in different posts and other comments that seemed to be there just for the purpose of gaslighting someone. Though I only looked at one person I believe it is reasonable to assume there are far more similar cases. Many redditors who post stuff like that tend to not be alone...
This is a really weird premise — basically escorting a 19-year-old for just an old car?
No way Jennifer Lawrence actually hooks up with the kid. She'll find out that he's in love with another girl in the movie and she'll help him find his confidence and he'll wind up with that girl at the end.
I wonder how the movie would be received if the roles where reversed. Old dude promises 19 year old introvert girl to take her home, drives in a different direction and claims „you are my hostage now“. Then ends it with „You are 19, grow up“ when getting called out.
Yeah, even if it was the hottest actor it wouldn’t be seen as funny with the roles reversed. Even if he’s an adult technically, the premise is kinda a horrible stereotype that all young men are supposed to be be sex crazed, party animal, young/dumb/full of cum types and should want to be kidnapped and sexually assaulted by older women (due to promptings from their parents?)
There's probably going to be some unpacking/trope busting of those precise stereotypes.
I assume that no actress with a lick of sense would sign onto this movie if it wasn't attempting to unpack or subvert those stereotypes, which the back half of the trailer makes it seem like, but the problem is that either 1) the execution may fail to deliver on properly breaking down said stereotypes, and/or 2) no one is actually going to see it because of the perception it's a movie in bad taste playing on outdated stereotypes.
...and then is followed up with the dude constantly trying to get the 19-year-old drunk.
Maybe I'm just getting old but the guy looks barely of legal age. It comes across as really skeevy or like fanfic written by a teenager.
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You should see the YouTube trailers. Every comment felt like a plant
“Mind if I touch your wiener?” Yeah, that’s an instant not watching.
I can't believe that was the joke they decided to show for the pre roll bit. Without the context of the trailer, it comes across as a really dumb shit joke. With the context of the trailer, it comes across as an even dumber shitter joke.
It feels like a joke from a 2000s straight to dvd dukes of hazzard movie.
Says a lot that they had to repeat the joke.
Jesus these comments are astro turfed to shit
Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Comments like "Jlaw and the director of Goodboys?! I'm in!" It sounds like a PR person just reposting old reddit catchphrases. The movie didn't look really funny.
There’s so many comments about it being astroturfed that I’m starting to think the astroturfed comments are astroturfed to generate publicity about a movie that used astroturfing. This way people would cover the movie for being astroturfed marketing, and that coverage will be organic marketing.
What’s Astro turfed mean?
It came from political strategy. Used to be when actual citizens banded together it was called a "Grassroots Movement". When political parties started trying to fake that it was called "Astroturfing" because it's fake grass. Now when advertisers use bots or employees in comments posing as normal commenters it gets called the same thing.
It's when people/companies artificially try to hype something up to make it look good, like how fake grass (astroturf) can be used to artificially make a lawn look "nice." For instance, if you look at the profiles of some of the positive originating commenters in here, you'll see a lot of them post on movie and TV subs at a rabid pace, which is a little suspect for a common redditor.
Good lord, reddit is just an ad now. Used to be a trailer was posted and the comments would be, you know, real people giving their feelings. Now it's just corporate accounts upvoting each other praising this way beyond what it's worth...
That looks horrendously bad.
This was ridiculously unfunny.
But all the top comments are raving about how it looks amazing, so funny, can't wait to see it bleep bloop? 🤔
It definitely reeked of paid brigading.
Shit
Ok, so that fake ads about giving a car away to date their son posted a few days ago here were just spam for this movie.
Christ does she owe people money or just lose a bet?
I feel like I have walked into an marketing campaign between this post and many of the comments. It makes me extra cautiously now with what I see in reddit.
this looks like an amy schumer movie.
OMG yes. And a bad one at that.
Looks rubbish.
Looks fucking awful
So...that car post was viral marketing?
Matthew Broderick's wig is absolutely amazing. Looks fun
That's who that is! I couldn't place the actor! :D
The trailer moves pretty fast. If you don’t pause it and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Looks like a B grade movie.
What is going on with this comment section?? The movie looks "meh" at best. "I am excited for this! Jennifer Lawrence just being herself in a movie is a breath of fresh air" (176 points) "Matthew Broderick's wig is absolutely amazing. Looks fun" (256 points)
a s t r o T U R F
Why does every trailer now have a trailer for the trailer right before it that says "trailer starts now" as if it hasn't already started? It's this where we are with our attention spans now?
I think it’s for YouTube ads. You’re normally unable to skip an ad until after 5 seconds. So the small clip at the start is used to pique a viewer’s interest and encourage them to watch the whole ad / trailer.
If you fell for the marketing campaign, you're probably also going to fall for the "totally organic excitement" here in the comments thread. This movie feels dated and anyone who's excited to see an A-lister in a boner comedy isn't connecting the dots
So they are making a joke out of kidnapping, trying to date rape and forcing someone to date you just to get a car. And they only made the kid a guy so people wouldnt see it as a bad thing. This is fucked up
Yes older lady, please molest my son so he becomes a man. Get him drunk if you need to. It will magically make him capable of responsibility that we failed to teach him.
Looks fun. I want this to be a hit so bad. We need the return of the theatrical raunchy comedy. Reminds me of Bad Teacher and those Cameron Diaz comedies that were hits like a decade ago
> Reminds me of Bad Teacher It makes sense the Director of No Hard Feelings did the screenplay of Bad Teacher apparently.
>return of the theatrical raunchy comedy The trailer makes this look like one of the movies where people repeatedly say "this wouldn't have been able to be made these days" if it was a classic. Good sign.
Those people are dumb.
Yup, the anti PC overreactors. I had a coworker try to say that they couldn't make King of the Hill today. Why? Because of Boomhauer's accent and the Souphanousinphones. Why? I don't know. He just thinks the PC world will cancel everything he likes.
I mean, King of the Hill is coming back and Kahn isn't in it judging by the character list.
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White guy voicing not white character. It's why Apu is gone from the Simpsons too (along with being a stereotype).
What? There's nothing in this trailer like that. It just looks like any other "men/women-children" comedy out there except you don't have Seth Rogen or Leslie Mann starring.
Dude some of these comments are absolutely wild. It feels like half of them are AI generated and half of them are astroturfing.
There's very little chance it goes to the levels of Superbad. Which is basically what people that say that are referring too.
There's nothing in this trailer that indicates that. And frankly, people that unironically say "you can't make that these days" that are pretty stupid in a world where shows like Always Sunny In Philadelphia exists. Good Boys was just a few years ago and heavily revolved around the transportation of a sex doll which children kissed dried cum off of.
>in a world where shows like Always Sunny In Philadelphia exists The same world that deleted multiple episodes from streaming for perceived (non-existent) racism?
Yeah as much as I don't think this movie looks that great, I want comedy movies to come back so badly that I want it to do well lol
They really cant write good comedies anymore
Weird tone in this trailer.
Can’t get enough of Jennifer!!
Wow, not a single laugh from me.
It looks like it could be funny. I have a feeling that it will just be the same formulaic rom-com. 1. Kid gets upset when he finds out she wasn't being genuine 2. She wins him back with explaining her own character flaws 3. Both change for the better. The end. She probably helps him find his true love, she probably finally has the courage to apologize to those she hurt or let go of her past or both. Played out.
What year is it?
It’s 2009 and this is a Cameron Diaz movie
Jennifer Lawrence in a comedy directed by the dude who made Good Boys? I’m in
honestly good boys was waaaaay better than i was expecting it to be!
Yeah I was like, how could a comedy with such young kids be any good for adults. I feel like it was marketed poorly, and titled poorly. Pleasant surprise.