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Monday Night Poll: 'Funny People' Gender Divide?
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Are you a man or a woman? That may be the essential reason why you either loved or hated Judd Apatow's Funny People, starring Adam Sandler as a comedian facing a mid-life crisis. Marketing research firm CinemaScore says that men graded the movie B+ but women only granted it C+. As reported by Los Angeles Times, that translates into: "men generally liked it ... most women did not."
Which is puzzling to me, because, as I was watching it (alone again, naturally), it didn't strike me as the kind of movie that might polarize the sexes. Now, I can understand the overall audience being smaller than something like the latest Harry Potter. Our own Eugene Novikov surmised as much in his box office summary, pointing out that attempting to market the film "as a typical Adam Sandler comedy was quixotic, and as another laugh riot from the Apatow factory only marginally less so." Yet, I would have anticipated that men and women who had seen Apatow's earlier directorial efforts, The 40-Year Old-Virgin and Knocked Up -- or any of the films of Adam Sandler -- would have a good idea what to expect, as far as the level of raunch and a view of women as generally cranky and more than a little scary. Did Funny People go too far?
Enlighten us, please. Take our poll of the sexes and let us know: Why did you like Funny People? Why didn't you like Funny People? And did you fight about it on the way home? Feel free to elaborate in the comments section.
'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Adds Kieran Culkin and Aubrey Plaza
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Edgar Wright's much-anticipated Scott Pilgrim Vs The World fell off the radar a bit over the past few months. Jessica Barnes posted the last update back in August, when they were scouting Toronto locations and hoping to go into production by fall or winter.They haven't started filming, but they have added two new cast members. Hit Fix reports that Kieran Culkin has signed on to play Wallace Wells. Wells is Scott Pilgrim's roommate, the more responsible half of the duo, and arguably the one with the best lines. He's also a rather nice symbol for tolerance -- though Wells is openly gay, Pilgrim willingly shares a bed with him. This will be Culkin's first film since 2002's Igby Goes Down, but he has a bunch of films at Sundance this year, so expect a geek reporter or two to pin him down and get some Pilgrim quotes..
Meanwhile, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Aubrey Plaza has also joined the cast as Julie Powers, obnoxious, on again, off again girlfriend of Stephen Stills. Stills (lead singer of Pilgrim's band, Sex Bob-omb ... I just like typing that) has yet to be cast. Who will Plaza / Powers be tormenting onscreen?
Pilgrim is now set to begin filming in the spring, so we should be drowned in casting announcements soon. Meanwhile, those of us still behind on the series can use the breathing room to catch up.
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