It's my birthday week and I get to watch whatever I want to watch. Well, not that I don't, anyway, but yesterday, I plunked down $6.50 to see "This Is The End".
This must be the most expensive home movie ever made.
And I confess that half the in-jokes and references flew right over my boomer head, even though I like and watch Seth Rogen movies.
I wanted to watch something that would make me laugh and this fit the bill.
The premise is that Seth Rogen's best pal (from Canada?) comes to visit him in L.A. Jay, the pal, is greeted with all sorts of drugs and video games but Seth wants to go to James Franco's housewarming party. Yes, everyone's real name is used, not that it matters. Jay doesn't like Seth's "new friends" and feels uncomfortable around them. He gets dragged to the party where I saw a number of things that were, um, new to me (it was "R" rated).
Franco's house is built like a bunker out of concrete and steel. When a slight earthquake is felt, people exclaim but the party continues. Then what feels like The Big One hits and the partiers rapidly flee the building, falling into enormous crevices and sinkholes in the earth just outside the house.
It's only because I listen to a comedy station that I recognized Aziz Ansari and Russell Walker (?) begging for help while clinging to the edge of the sinkholes. They fall into the fiery abyss anyway.
In the end, all that are left are six guys, including James Franco, Seth, Jay, and a guy named Josh. They hole up in the bunker/house and do an inventory of what foodstuffs, drugs, and alcohol they have.
Jay figures out pretty quickly what's going on, although Seth and Josh venture opinions that this is like the Mayan end of the world and there are always sinkholes opening up in South America, so this must be, like, Sinkhole de Maya. Jay tells them no, that this is the full-on Biblical Apocalypse and that the people they saw get sucked up into the sky by columns of blue light are good people who have ascended into Heaven - the Rapture, no less.
Demons ascend from Hell and various Fiery Pits. The guys start running for their lives and their immortality and try to out-do-good the other so they, too, can get drawn up into Heaven.
It may not sound like much and really, it isn't much, but it was definitely good for a couple of laughs.
3 comments:
Happy Birthday week. I'll look for that one when it comes out on video.
I read the details on why it got an "R" rating, and, uh, no thanks.
One of my secrets is that I'm a fan of gross-out humor and this definitely qualifies.
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