Setzer

For a movie featuring two well known, funny actors(Ben Stiller & Jack Black) there sure isn't much being done to promote this film. I think it comes out on Friday but I have yet to see one trailer for the film on TV. What's the deal? Is it a limited release on Friday?

Drop

Well I've certainly seen a few trailers for it on TV. I definitly plan to see it, but my hopes aren't high. I know it's been through a bit of hell, delays and whatnot, but I still want to see it. I mean it should atleast be watchable with Jack Black and Ben Stiller in it, I like them both. Plus Walken has a role in it too.

Geofferson

Most definitely not a limited release. I've seen a fair amount of commercials for this one. Maybe they're targeting more markets than others?

scott shelton

Positive: http://www.filmblather.com/2004/envy.html

Neg: http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/article903.html

MasterCXtreme

They've only been promoting it for about 2 years.

Hendrik

...fwiw: ...negative...

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drjay

Yah I remember seeing a trailer for it over last summer I believe, but that's the last I've seen of any promotion for it...although I don't watch too much TV.

Seantn

I saw the trailer on opening day of Terminator 3.

Setzer

Huh? Maybe just where you live. I've been to at least 50+ movies over the past 2 years and have not seen any trailers whatsoever. I don't watch much TV so it's possible I have missed the trailer spots.

Drop

Now that you mention it, I remember seeing it before T3 also.

I hope it's good. In Berardinelli's review he compared it to Cable Guy, which he also didn't care for, and I like Cable Guy, so that gives me a little more hope.

Wazootyman

I have a chance to go to a free screening tomorrow, but I'm thinking this is one that's to be avoided, definitely avoided.

The Antipodean

This one just looks weak, weak, weak. A Stiller/Black combo would get me excited but the trailers, ads are just awful.

Check out this line from the AP review:
The characters in this movie about backstabbing and friendship repeat the word “flan” endlessly and act orgasmic at the very thought of it — the equivalent of watching two 6-year-old’s giggle themselves into a fit over some inexplicable joke. Sure, they’re having a good time — but what about the onlookers, in this case the audience?
Anyone buying a ticket to this debacle may find themselves turning to some other unlucky soul in the theater and asking: “Are they really making joke after joke after joke about flan?”

paradicelost

i built it and watched it last nite. It wasn't fantastic but it was funny and entertaining. Jack Black usually doesn't disappoint. I rank it right up there with Starksy and Hutch. But than again I really liked movies like Cable Guy and dirty work, so my opinions on comedies might not mean much to most.

Catch 21

I had a few chuckles. This movie mostly had Stiller and Walken tho.

jhansla

Thought it was quite funny. Walken is pure talent

Brain Stew

How'd you build a movie?

scott shelton

Film prints are shipped to theaters in metal cans that hold, on average, 4-6 small film reels- typically 15-20 minutes long a piece.

Attaching each reel together to form one big print is traditionally called "building" a print.

Matthew Chmiel

I remember seeing the trailer to at Terminator 3 along with The Whole Ten Yards which at the time both were supposed to come out in October.

I saw the film today (paid $6.00 and then snuck into Mean Girls) and I hated every minute of it. Easily as bad as Stiller's other 2004 flick Along Came Polly (Starsky and Hutch is *slightly* better). Stiller brings, yet again, not a single goddamn thing to the film. Again he plays the "I'm gonna play this role straight!" guy who has no balls, but does have a vagina and a stick shoved up his ass for the course of the film. Jack Black, who I'm usually a fan of, didn't amuse me once. Everyone else, including Walken, was just wasted talent. Poor Barry Levinson, I expect more from him. Now there is no wonder why the film was delayed, and from the sounds of the audience (total silence), this film looks like it'll tank. Good riddance.

Ben Stiller is easily making his way from one of my favorite comedic actors to "celebrity I most want to punch in the face." If Dodgeball sucks, I will cry.

I did like Mean Girls through.

paradicelost

yep, one of the tedious parts of my job.

Charlie Goose

Note to Chris Walken: You do know that you're allowed to turn down a movie, don't you?

Ben Stiller + Jack Black = Reason Enough to Keep Me Away

Matthew Chmiel

But he's Christopher Walken! He's supposed to make everything better. What he needed to do was bring some cowbell to Envy for it to be slightly watchable!