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SuZanBare		#21	[-]
Mar 21 11 6:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Am I missing an inside joke concerning "Kevin Nash" ? OH and I am sooooo looking forward to Cowboys vs Aliens.... The trailer looked exciting I am not anti-social; I am just not user friendly
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Bill Warren		#22	[-]
Mar 21 11 7:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	We saw PAUL this afternoon, and liked it very much. The effects are almost flawless; in just a minute or so, you accept Paul as a living being, not an effect. I had to kind of wrench my mind around to perceive him as an effect; near the end, when he's going to use his healing power on a person, he hesitates very very briefly. That they would even DO that with their animation meant a great deal to me. It's like in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Beauty and Beast are excitedly arguing; she makes a telling point--and he hesitates in mid-gesture. Animation is about >movement<, so when thoroughly animated characters STOP moving for a moment, it's often a touch of characterization. Last Edited By: Bill Warren Mar 21 11 7:09 PM. Edited 1 times.
Spoiler II		#23	[-]
Mar 21 11 8:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	SuZanBare wrote: Am I missing an inside joke concerning "Kevin Nash" ? OH and I am sooooo looking forward to Cowboys vs Aliens.... The trailer looked exciting I haven't seen the film but Kevin Nash is a pro wrestler who hits about the 7ft mark.
SuZanBare		#24	[-]
Mar 21 11 9:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Spoiler II wrote: SuZanBare wrote: Am I missing an inside joke concerning "Kevin Nash" ? I haven't seen the film but Kevin Nash is a pro wrestler who hits about the 7ft mark. Might be... Anyone who saw the movie know if there is an inside story or am I just overthinking the role I am not anti-social; I am just not user friendly
ScareBear		#25	[-]
Mar 27 11 10:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My son and I saw this tonight. Hilarious! Haven't laughed this much in a theatre since... well, Hot Fuzz. Nods to ET, Close Encounters, Aliens, Star Wars.... There's even a Wilhelm scream. The "Kevin Nash" thing I don't know. Go see this film!!!! SB
DerGolem		#26	[-]
Mar 31 11 12:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I still can't make myself go watch Battle: LA as I'm still suffering shelf-shock like symptoms from having sat through Skyline, but Tuesday night I did go watch Paul. I think its a very good comedy and I laughed quite a bit. I thought the biggest challenge would be accepting big Seth Rogen as the voice of the diminutive Paul but after a few minuets on screen I totally accepted that voice coming out of that character. The cameos and references to other sci-fi films are great. My favorite reference though wasn't to a sci-fi movie but to Blue Brothers. That had me laughing the hardest. I also enjoyed Paul's argument with Kristen Wiig's creationist character. What Paul did for her needs to done for more people of that persuasion.
Monsterpal		#27	[-]
Apr 1 11 12:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's a lot of fun. I thought Kristen Wiig was great, very sympathetic and appealing.
Rick		#28	[-]
Apr 18 11 6:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Finally saw this today and loved it. Thought it was hilarious, and all the other-movie references were great. The whole Kevin Nash thing meant nothing to me either. My favorite dialogue: Nick Frost: They're gonna rape us and break our arms! Simon Pegg: I don't want my arms broken!
Monsterpal		#29	[-]
Apr 18 11 8:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anyone care for a bagel?
Carl Eyesnheart		#30	[-]
Apr 19 11 4:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw this over the weekend. Ended up loving it. I wasn't laughing my butt off the entire time, but I did love being in the company of the people on screen. My fanzine all about Rock N Roll: www.sonicruin.com
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JamesD		#31	[-]
Apr 20 11 11:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw it a few weeks ago and also loved it. I appreciated that the film was a sweet-natured comedy about a specific subculture, and didn't just rely on dropping pop references as punch lines (though I did laugh out loud and some of those). And yes, the creationist argument was a high point. James
happydude33		#32	[-]
Apr 20 11 11:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thought it was great. It did seriously lack the edge that Edgar Wright would have brought. I understand they're going to do another with him as his schedule was too busy to do this one.
bipolarber		#33	[-]
Jun 27 11 2:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think Kristin Wiig was the saving grace of the film. Watching her go from being literally "blind in one eye" to someone who actually shakes off her religious upbringing, ans SEES the universe as it really is... was worth the price of admission. Still, I kept hoping that somewhere along the way, amidst the dick, fart and weed jokes, that Paul would have said something... anything... that would have altered the audiance's perception... changed how they saw themselves in relation to the rest of the universe... but I guess Pegg and his co writer weren't really up to that... (It's the sort of thing Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett were/are so good at.) Imagine Paul and Wiig's character sitting by a campfire, and the stars blazing down on them from above... Wiig: I imagine we must seem like primatives to you... Paul: Not really. Wiig: But you have so much: you can do that invisible thing, the guys said you can bring things back to life... your people can travel around all of that! (gestures to stars) Paul: Look, if anything marks you guys out as primative, it's this weird technology fetish you have. You think because we have ships that somehow we're better than others? Puh-lease! Wiig: But... Paul: Stop! Here, let me show you something... (points to horizion) See that haze over there on the horizion? Know what that is? Wiig: A city? Paul: Nope! That, honey, is the galactic core. 50,000 light years away. And at the center of it, is a supermassive black hole. Wiig: Wow. Really? Paul: Yep. It's the engine of the galaxy. Keep everything spinning. You know how long it took my people to understand it to the level you folks do? (Wiig shrugs) Paul: 8,000 years. By comparison, Stephen Hawking had the answer one morning while he was sitting on the toilet. (pause) "Primative" is a relative term... That's why you guys scare us a little bit. Wiig: We scare YOU? Paul: At the rate you guys are advancing, you're going to pass us in nothing flat, in galactic terms... The worry is, will you be ready for it, when it happens? "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Monsterpal		#34	[-]
Jun 28 11 1:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I like the part where evil government agent Bill Hader goes over the cliff and Kristen Wiig anxiously asks, "Is he going to be all right?" "He'll be fine," Paul says, watching Hader's car explode in the rear view mirror.
luluthebeast		#35	[-]
Jun 28 11 1:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just like in GROUNDHOG DAY, I love this movie!
Badfinger		#36	[-]
Aug 5 11 6:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It wasn't nearly as funny as I expected but I still enjoyed this movie very much. Loads of low brow potty humor (much to my 12 year old great nephew's delight), but the film didn't come off as dumb. All of the allusions to other films made it even more fun. My favorites were the canteena music and Reeces pieces. Seth Rogin did a fine job as the voice of Paul, but I did find it somewhat distracting because he sounded just like Seth Rogin (does that make sense?) I think a good test for an entertaining film is when you just don't want it to end and that's how I felt. 8 out of 10
sirharryflashman		#37	[-]
Aug 5 11 11:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Badfinger, I think you just nailed my thoughts about this film too. I went in expecting something Shaun of the Dead-like in terms of cleverness and laughs, which this wasn't, but I was utterly charmed by the film's own unique tone all the same. In a way, it plays like a vaguely smutty ET. Oddly enough, that worked for me. Cheers, Charles Prepolec Gaslight Grimoire Blog: News, Interviews and Updates Sherlock Holmes News: Sherlock Holmes in Films, Books and Media
Monsterpal		#38	[-]
Aug 6 11 8:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I enjoyed spending time with the four main characters, Paul, the trailer park girl, and the two comic book fans. They were lovely people.
MyDarkSide		#39	[-]
Aug 9 11 1:12 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Did this even have a full all-screens release???? Don't think it hit my area, at all. As far as Spaced/Shaun Of The Dead/Hot Fuzz territory goes, is Paul anywhere near the league of those three?
Monsterpal		#40	[-]
Aug 9 11 12:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It did have a full release in these parts, MDS, but I don't know about the rest of the country. It seems that people all over have commented on it here on this thread. It's quite a bit different in tone than the Edgar Wright comedies, as a few people here have mentioned. This one is directed by an American and is about two British comics fans and their adventures in UFO America, so it's got a sort of fish out of water theme. Their situation is mirrored by Paul's. Despite a lot of funky jokes, it's really a rather gentle comedy and it's character oriented, although there's a fair amount of actionand some decent effects, too.
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