Are people finally tired of Apatow styled comedies?

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Permalink Reply by Harms on April 5, 2009 at 6:03pm

I thought they were called Indie comedies.

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Permalink Reply by UltraKid-SoulChild#1 on April 5, 2009 at 6:07pm

People rather see another parody movie plus Adventureland probably didn't do good because Fast & Furious was release the same day.

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Permalink Reply by MadDecent on April 5, 2009 at 9:04pm

Considering the last parody movie bombed, I doubt this very much.

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Permalink Reply by Tommy on April 5, 2009 at 6:23pm

From what I've heard, Adventureland isn't an Apatow style comedy, though it has been advertised as such. We'll have to wait until after Observe and Report, The Year One and Funny People come out to truely see if they're tired.

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Permalink Reply by Jon, Chicago's Mindfreak on April 5, 2009 at 6:52pm

Year One looks really funny.

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Permalink Reply by the_eccentric on April 5, 2009 at 9:40pm

Meh, the thought of Cera and Black's personalities clashing kind of scares me. Those are two types of people that should never be back to each other. Separately, annoying. Together?....dear god.

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Permalink Reply by MadDecent on April 6, 2009 at 12:31pm

I agree, let's see how Observe and Report does this weekend.

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Permalink Reply by TrixRabbit on April 6, 2009 at 9:02pm

"Observe and Report" is going to clean up this weekend - it'll certainly beat "Adventureland", and I'm anticipating it'll actually make quite a bit more than people expect over the long run, maybe becoming a surprise "Superbad"-style hit. It's getting very, very strong buzz - even David Letterman was raving about it on the Seth Rogen interview last week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdTTP9hCEhk

That kind of early hype can help carry a good comedy a long ways - I'm betting this might be one.

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Permalink Reply by khuff92 on April 5, 2009 at 7:13pm

I know I am.

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Permalink Reply by B Random on April 6, 2009 at 12:38pm

i thought i love you man was hilarious..... but that kinda had a seth rogen feel to it, like pineapple express and knocked up. So i think if he sticks w/ his seth rogen crew he'll be fine.........but when he uses the will ferrell crew, the films seem a little weaker. Love will ferrell though!

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Permalink Reply by Luke on May 17, 2009 at 4:26pm

I'm not tried of Apatow styled comedies I still find them funny.

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Permalink Reply by Rawshark on May 17, 2009 at 5:42pm

I absolutely loved Adventureland but I wasn't surprised it tanked.

I do think Apatow and gang are being over exposed. Every comedy seems to be coming from them. Now that we are so used to their comedy style, audiences can practically predict the punch lines of most of their jokes.

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