- I am ashamed to admit I liked this movie. I had very low expectations, so I guess it wasn’t that hard to exceed them, but it was a lot better than I thought it would be.
- Um, Justin Timberlake? Kinda ten shades of awesome in this. No, I’m not kidding. One would [erroneously] assume that he’d only be able to play the whack job asshole best friend role with any sense of realism, but at the end when he’s got to tape the poor kid up, he’s absolutely tragic and morose about it and — get this — didn’t seem like a total idiot while doing it. I was actually convinced that his character had incredibly conflicted feelings about what he was about to do. Not conflicted enough to, you know, stop, but conflicted nonetheless. Oh noez, he can do more than comedy!! I kind of want him to be the male Mandy Moore now where he basically gives up his music career to act exclusively. [Or not, I kind of like his new album a lot.]
- The IMDB forums are an amusing place right now because of all the people going on and on about how awful Justin is in general. Some guy started a thread called “Does anyone else think Justin Timberlake is a douche-bag? Males only…” and then listed all the reasons he think Timbo is a douche bag, requiring that only guys answer since clearly all girls would be blinded by fangirlism. The more amusing bit is the first response to this guy:
sorry dude, I’m a 30-year-old married guy and enjoy the NFL (season ticket holder) Stevie Ray Vaughn and ribeye steaks. But- This guy has talent. I think what bothers a lot of people is that he posesses a lot of enviable qualities: He CAN sing, CAN dance, CAN act, CAN date supermodels. He seems like a regular guy with extraordinary talents. So hate him if that’s what you feel like you need to do, but this MALE is not on board.
He likes rib-eyes and Justin Timberlake!! Oh man, I love his Manly Checklist that proves you can be male and not think JT is a douche bag. Winners all around.
- So… every time that kid Keith came on screen my inner monologue basically went “LOLZ SEVERUS SNAPE” over and over.
- The scene where Jake had to go in to have a word with his boss was absolutely hysterical, as any scene is when someone clearly on speed and doing their best to convince someone otherwise. Bonus points to Paul Johannson (Dan on One Tree Hill) for being a boss with full sleeves of tattooos and the greatest Fu Manchu moustache ever.
- They kind of dropped the ball with Jake’s character because he basically didn’t exist for the second half of the film.
- The kid who played Zack is a real cutie. I love how he and JT were BFF.
- Audrey appreciated that whenever anyone was stoned (and this was often), they were amusing-stoned rather than the obnoxious-stoned people usually are in movies. The scene where Timbo and Snape are playing video games and Snape’s like “Dude, you just died” and Timbo’s like “Oh… I thought I was the other guy!” was pretty priceless. Actually, that happens to me a lot while playing video games, and I don’t even do drugs.
- I don’t know if this was filmed before Lucky Number Slevin or after (since the release of this movie has been delayed for about nine thousand years), but in any case I’m convinced Bruce Willis used the same awful wig for both films.
- That annoying girl Alex from The O.C. was in this and she annoyed the hell out of me.
- I don’t understand how these guys think that killing a kid is better than admitting they kidnapped him. You get 25 years in prison for the kidnapping, possibly less with good behaviour and/or working out a deal of some sort; you get caught for the murder, you could be on death row. WTF, Einstein, this isn’t difficult to figure out.
- The ending was really abrupt. Johnny’s friend drops him off back at home and then the next thing you know, the “Where are they now?” credits start rolling up (i.e. “Random Dude X is now serving 9 years in San Quentin for his role in the kidnapping of Zack Mazursky”, etc.).
- The part where that girl freaked out when she realised they had kidnapped Zack was priceless. “Cool? You think this is cool? This shirt is cool! Bob Marley is cool! Kidnapping is not cool!”
- LMFAO Apparently Janet Jones a.k.a. Mrs Wayne Gretzky is in this movie, as is her daughter Paulina.
Alpha Dog
I kind of love Justin Timberlake.
IMDB Plot Synopsis A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.