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Yeah, I saw the trailers and barely laughed. It just seemed really cliche. And I bet they did all of the cliches of "young people don't get old people", like "What's a record?" and what not. It really irritates me when they portray yougn people as never noticing anything made before they were 15.
I still wear a wrist watch as it's a much more efficient process to glance at it for the time rather than dig the phone out of my pocket. The question "Who here still wears a wrist watch?" has come up far more times that I wish it had in my college courses, and every time I get the same reaction that's equivalent to "Well, maybe just that weird guy in the back, but the rest of you all use your phones."MovieBob said:
I just don't get it, using your phone to tell time is akin to keeping a pocket watch on you at all times. "But it's not just a clock!" the people cry. Indeed it isn't, but when it comes to the age old question of "What time is it?" I still beat out everyone in the room by just turning my wrist slightly. I'll use a phone for everything else, but a fast an easy method of telling time is not one of the roles I find it fulfills.
Fair play to them, must be doing something right. The more modern the technology, the more money is trying to be squeezed/saved from the business in my mind. People that don't bother with that stuff are the people concentrating on business itselfKumagawa Misogi said:
The advantage of not having the time easily available is that one is less likely to become an insane clock-watcher. That's why I'm thankful that I don't use a computer in my job. It'd be akin to having a dripping tap. I can't handle the responsibility of knowing the time!KeyMaster45 said:
I would actually like that, it would be a comedy about the generational gap that isn't grossly anachronistic. Make it even more jarring by having various traditional religious groups (i know it's a bit heavy but it works) and have them try to get a job in Google or any tech companyScrumpmonkey said:
I'd have quite liked to hear Bob rant about this one in a video but it's great to have this content nonetheless.
I don't even know what to say about this movie; it sounds truly awful and cringe inducing. When will Hollywood learn that stereotypes aren't funny? Come to think of it, when will Hollywood learn that the vast majority of real people aren't stereotypes.
I don't even know what to say about this movie; it sounds truly awful and cringe inducing. When will Hollywood learn that stereotypes aren't funny? Come to think of it, when will Hollywood learn that the vast majority of real people aren't stereotypes.
Yeah, nothing is so bad that it makes Bing look like a viable option by comparison.NinjaDeathSlap said:
Hoo boy, Bob's in full-on film snob mode here. I read Vince Vaughn co-wrote it, so I didn't expect him to really stretch the material in Internship. But then again, Bob hasn't been a reliable voice of opinion when it comes to comedies.
This reminds me of the excellent video review of this movie on the Onion. "The Internship Poised to be the Biggest Comedy of 2005". Even (or maybe especially?) in the wake of shows like The Big Bang Theory this movie STILL manages to feel like a dinosaur.
Odd, considering Charles Xavier first appeared in September 1963 - fifty years ago. I can see they might not /care/ about X-Men, cause the love of comic books and comic book movies is kind of a niche thing. (Far less so than it used to be, granted) but to think they've never heard of him? I've never been a comic book geek or even seen most comic book based movies and I'd know that. Plus there were enough ads shoved down everyone's throats for the movies.Kumagawa Misogi said:
But it's nice to know that laughing at clueless 'old' people and geeks is still holywood gold. Apparently these people learned nothing from Revenge of the Nerds.
I once got fired from a job because my boss "never reads SMS messages on his phone". That was last year.Makabriel said:
Never underestimate the amount of completely tech-illiterate 40-somethings, just because you don't see them on the internet.
About the same time as they discover you can cash in easily on multi-faceted, well-written and believable characters facing problems both realistic and imaginative.Proverbial Jon said:
I wouldn't hold my breath.
It's funny because this perfectly mirrors my initial thoughts on just seeing the posters from the film. I knew very little about it but this article and the onion's video "The internship is the best movie of 2005" pretty much confirmed every conclusion I had jumped to.
Yeah, this right here pretty much nails it. So-called "nerd culture" is interwoven at many points - how many movies have had tie-in video games, how many comic books have been made into movies, how many sci-fi/fantasy properties have been adapted to TV? Those of us immersed in the culture in one aspect or another (and since we're all here posting on a video gaming forum I'd say that's all of us) will not only end up experiencing adaptations of other supposedly geeky media but will also absorb knowledge and trivia from friends who are interested in other aspects of geekdom. Even those who wouldn't call themselves geeks will have learned something, be it from a casual interest in CoD or enjoying Game of Thrones, or even just being peripherally aware of other things via memes.Kumagawa Misogi said:
It can be easy to forget that older people aren't as mired in the internet culture, and that they don't have the knowledge base to draw on. I wouldn't be entirely surprised to know that a 40 year old man doesn't know who Professor X is, because unless he read the comics growing up then he won't have experienced the franchise through the TV shows, video games or movies because they just aren't aimed at him.
I haven't seen the movie... but it looked to me like there was a role reversal of geek and non-geek culture. That concept was irritating in itself because the idea of "Revenge of the Nerds" where the jocks are laughed at and the Nerds get all the ladies and money and what not was really annoying. So, it's geeks within geeks? That actually makes the prospects of this movie even worse than what I thought previously.