Adam Bachmaier
After reading into the mans "story" of which this film is based on,i have reached a conclusion. This film is despicable. I cannot stand films like this that have nothing but contempt for women, and men for that matter. I pray to god in heaven that nobody in their right mind sees this movie as light fluffy entertainment,maybe the devil does but i do not. I understand that we have "exploitative" horror films where people watching only see face value violence and totally disregard artistry,patterns performances,etc. I would rather watch an intelligent Korean horror film that makes me think and feel. Maybe that is just what i will do...
Jake Coffey
A couple of friends of mine decided to show me "I Hope they Serve Beer in Hell". We all have never seen it and we were all optimistic about the movie. Although being a movie buff, I never heard of this movie and wanted to check it out. I found that it was a terrible attempt at trying to produce comedy. There was not once when I laughed out loud and I thought the story was atrocious. One of the last scenes includes a guy who has uncontrollable diarrhea, and while it was supposed to be funny, I just found myself cringing at their barely watchable piece of crap. The editing, the acting, the directing, the camera-work is all bad. There was not one good thing that I could find in this movie. I've learned my lesson when it comes to watching movies with my friends as I will never forgive them for showing me this movie. It was beyond awful.
Matthew Wright (thefiresidechronicles)
Post the events of American Pie 4, Jim who has strangely been renamed Dan probably for ease sake, is getting remarried again. There is no reference as to where the one from How I Met Your Mother went, but we can assume divorce or death. At a very short 12 hours long, the plot dragged on and the characters were wrong. Note the rhyme. The three main characters were so unlikeable that I didn't even like them at all in this movie. In fact i definitely didn't like them. The pacing of the movie was SO bad that I didn't like that either. In fact it was even very good. It was SO bad that I thought it was terrible. The scene in the movie in which Tucker (Stifler) has a poo was really funny, especially the part where he poos a lot and some goes on the floor and he has to wipe his bumhole with his t-shirt, and as previously mentioned poo is everywhere. In fact there is so much poo everywhere that there is poo literally everywhere. In conclusion, where was Eugene Levy. That would have made this film a solid (unlike the poo) 10. Unfortunately this film wasn't a 10, however was it a quite low 5, we think it was somewhere in between. We bring the film up from a 5 due to the following reasons: 1) Poo (LOTS) 2) Sex and boobs and strippers and talking about sex 3) Sick in hair 4) Misogyny, sexism and slight racism. (Quite a lot of all)To conclude, where was Eugene Levy. A very very very low 9.0 for us.
Razvan Rogoz
OK, here's my review of this movie.The book is a masterpiece. It's not a masterpiece because it's well to written but because it is a ironic view on our society and reality today. Yes, it's kind of hard to accept everything that Tucker Max writes there but in some circumstances, it's true. A bitter pill to swallow.This is why I've read the book about three years ago. I don't remember the underlying storyline, if any, as I've read about one story at a time but I've enjoyed it. It was a crude "take no prisoner" view on how being a borderline sociopath actually works in a social and economic environment.Tucker in his book is more than a player. He is a very smart individual (yes, after I've read it, I've Googled up "Prisoner's Dilemma" just out of curiosity) with little regard for his safety, the safety of his friends and with about no moral compass. A large section of the book deals with the idea of "I've thought once in love and stuff like that. Now I don't anymore". And as I was saying, the book is great because it's not just funny but it deals with a lot of the social topics not covered by other people.Now the movie
I've started reading the book again and I'm at page ~100. I don't remember the storyline to be in there but I guess there are several stories inspired. The characters are relatively well designed (the frustrated-cheated-computer-genius is especially well done) and they are partially believable. It is NOT the best acting in the world but it's not made out of amateurs either. The story is
kind of stupid. There were so many stories to use, they've picked one which could be made politically correct. This is maybe the biggest flaw with the movie. They made it too politically correct in the line of "bad guy gets good results - bad guy displays sociopathic behaviors (which was not really the case in the book) and loses friends - bad guy scores again but karma pays back - bad guy has a change of heart". Again, I haven't read the book entirely again so this may be accurate to the book but so far, it's not.To sum this up and get to sleep
The good: * Some actually good lessons (If you don't get rid of this self- defeating beliefs, your life will remain the same). * Decent or normal acting. I'm not comparing this with The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm comparing it with most similar flicks. * Based on a brilliant book and it captured some of it's appeal.The bad: * It's not funny. The original stories made you laugh every two paragraphs. I don't know if it's because of the acting but it's simply not funny and I haven't caught myself laughing except the opening scene. * Politically correct. The lesson in the book was in the line of "the social contract is an illusion most of the time and you are free to make your own choices as long as you are ready to pay the price". The lesson here? Don't be egotistical and appreciate your friends. * The nudity was
stupid. A large part of the movie presents nudity but it doesn't attract your attention in any way whatsoever. * This guy was brilliant and this is the way why he got away with most of what he did. But here, with the exception of a 20 sec section, he appears an average joe.The ugly: * The final story, the one in the hotel where he makes a mess is simply gross, even for a guy. There are close shots of his crapping his pants, lacking a better language and even close-ups. I don't want to see such thing and I don't know what it accomplished by it. Final verdict?Lost time. It simply feels like a way to make some money over a very controversial book. However, they failed to capture the entire context and it's not funny nor educative nor thought provoking.