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Two winters ago (TWO WINTERS AGO!) Joaquin Phoenix was having that public meltdown. Remember? When he claimed that he was retiring from acting, Amanda Bynes-style, and insisted that he was going to start a rap career. Meanwhile, the whole time, Casey Affleck was following him around with cameras, “documenting” the whole thing. Sure. There were questions at the time about the authenticity of the whole thing, as if this could ever have been real. As if two showbiz egomaniacs, both of whom slithered their way into Hollywood on the broad backs of their more famous siblings, were going to fart it all away for a low-rent “documentary” that is of interest to, like, three grad students with terrible taste. No. It’s a goof! We all know that. We all BEEN knowing that. But now the movie is actually set to come out in actual movie theaters! I would have thought this one to be a direct-to-Microsoft-KIN-release, but you’re actually going to be able to buy a ticket and sit in a room with strangers and watch whatever the hell this is on the same screen as real movies! (Meanwhile, Casey Affleck faces TWO charges of sexual harassment from female crew members on the set of this film. Cool dude! Mr. Cool Guy. “That’s my awesome brother!” — Bennifer.) Fart! Barf! And yet, this poster is very tasteful. It looks like a book cover from KNOOMPF! It looks like a flyer for an art gallery show! It looks like a Werewolf Weekend album! Very refined and tasteful, which suggests to me that the movie is also going to be refined and tasteful. Definitely.
Other refined and tasteful movies that have featured similarly stylized and artful posters: Good Luck Chuck and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
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Based on the poster, Pitchfork would give the movie an 8.6.
“The quasi-Rick Rubinesque of the poster transcends the film’s mediation on the zeitgeist of blah blah blah blah blah Animal Collective side-project blah blah blah blah 8.6.” – Pitchfork
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First Johnny Cash, now the Unibomber? He’s gotta’ stop with this Oscar-bait biopics.
*these
“I’m Still Here” – Joaquin “Grizzly” Phoenix
And I Ain’t Care – Everyone
In Belgium that publisher is called “Knurf”.
It always bothers me when I can hear the pitch to a project just from hearing about it. Like that “Outsourced” show that’s coming to NBC: “A lot of people get outsourced these days! Here people lose their jobs, but what happens on the other end of that process? We’ll seem super-progressive for having a multinational cast, plus INDIAN ACCENTS!” But I would really enjoy hearing the pitch to this one: “See, he’s gonna quit acting… and have like a big meltdown… But we’ll be filming that! and none of it’s real so… He’s just kinda acting the whole time… Everyone will know its not real? This will work.”
cool website
They need an Oscar for that.
Sorry, Joaquin, James Franco is winning this contest.
At first I was all like
But then I was like
Good work, son, I like the cut of your jib. Take a shower, we don’t want to wear you out.
what’s a jib?
Then I was like:
I hate myself for liking terrible people because they were in good movies. Yes, Joaquin Phoenix is horrible for this, but damnit, “Buffalo Soldiers” was SO GOOD!
I don’t think he’s a terrible person, more emotionally disturbed which is sad since he’s talented
Yeah – It’s a shame that I can’t like Casey Affleck anymore because of this.
C’mon, “Parenthood” was by far his best work, you guys!
I quite liked “Quills.” Kate Winslet’s zombie breasts deserved at least an acknowledgement from the Academy.
well we own the night was great wasn’t it?
I guess I see the similarity
Featuring their hit single, “NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! friend”.
I love you people.
b/w “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! friend” (PSYCHE! remix by ptsmith_vt)
Follow up single – ‘She’s pretty’
Pass.
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I can’t tell if you’re getting downvoted for making a tired Brokeback reference or because you called a reacharound a “wrap around.”
When you go with SCDP you only get the best
Due to developments in the state of celebrities and facial hair since Joaquin’s ‘disappearance’, Zach Galifianakis is going to get all the credit for this movie.
Better luck next time, Joaquin.
I had already seen this poster and instead of reading it, I had just assumed it was Zach Galifianakis. But thanks to Videogum, I read the words. Thanks, Videogum.
I kind of liked that period of time when I forgot that Joaquin Phoenix was here.
That time will come again. Really REALLY soon.
He was good in the first one :
I think things like this have the potential to be interesting. If the movie were to analyze the current state of media in the world by looking at things like facebook/twitter and the celebrity industrial complex and how that all intertwines with this “story” of a successful actor “going off the rails,” then I may check it out. The big thing for me, though, would be acknowledging that A LOT of people knew/assumed this was fake the whole time it was happening. A horrible, embarrassing example would be The Hills; I think that show would have been a lot more interesting if it acknowledged the real-world fame and celebrity that rose up around those people (or their “characters”) instead of presenting them like normal, unassuming California girls.
But whatevs. This will probably just be Joaquin Phoenix flushing glowsticks down a toilet while Casey Affleck giggles like a douche in the background.
P.S. – I dunno about these harassment charges, but I full disclose that I think Casey Affleck is HOT. Especially in The Assassination of Jesse James
*fully disclose
upvote for flushing glowsticks
Of course it’s all a goof. Remember his big line in “Gladiator”?
“Am I not mirth-iful?!”
You will mock Joaquin Phoenix, but you will blow me first because I DESERVE IT!
Oh, come on! You have got to be Joaquin!
The only way this line could be any better is when I use it out loud in conversation with people from now on. Thanks.
That Phoenix kid needs a shave and a haircut. Don’t even get me started on Affleck. Bet you he wouldn’t have time for shenanigans after a hundred laps and a cold shower.
Oh, come on! Really?
I see your gameplan. I see it with my eyes.
#cosplaygum
Tell him to pull his pants up and stop it with the rip-rap-rappity-roo next. I love that part.
why is this happening?!?
Could they really not fit Joaquin’s full name on one line, like they did for Casey Affleck? Or was that one of his diva demands, along with lots of black ties and tinted glasses? Or maybe he demanded it to cover up the one Alfalfa-style hair spurt on the top of his head there. Which, to be honest, is the most interesting part of the poster to me. Get that lock of hair a spin-off show on the CW, stat!
I can see that this will be one of the greatest films of our time. (And by greatest, I mean, not poop. Literally, it is not poop.) The greatest.
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Now, now, his name isn’t his fault.
The hair, the beard, and the trainwreck that his career has become, THOSE are his fault.
However, it’s orders of magnitude better than “Leaf”.
Okay, straight up, i thought that was Zach Galifianakis with shades.
What did I tell ya!?!?!?!?
http://videogum.com/208492/the-poster-for-joaquin-phoenixs-mockumentary-is-surprisingly-tasteful-for-a-movie-that-is-a-fart-prank/movies/movie-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-7662591
we are on the same boat then, friend.
Wait for the twist ending. I don’t to ruin it, but in the end you realize that he was only acting like he was out of his mind, blinded by fame and greed, but really he is just out of his mind, blinded by fame and greed.
Ain’t nothin’ I love more than hipster movies about hipster people made with hipster money.
I think “slithered” into Hollywood is a little harsh, Mr. Gabe. I mean Casey Affleck is certainly no Jim Belushi – who currently LIVES IN HIS DEAD BROTHER’S HOUSE on Martha’s Vineyard. Casey Affleck = Gone Baby Gone, Gerry, and The Killer Inside Me. Jim Belushi = K-911.
AND Blues Brothers 2000.
To be fair to Casey Affleck, he was never associated with this:
But then again, he was also never associated with this:
So I’m not sure who wins here.
All our actors have PTSD now
graphic FAIL.
[IMG]http://i36.tinypic.com/e6rrxh.jpg[/IMG]
graphic FAIL, Part deux.
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I don’t know maybe it’s a dream within a dream thing ripped off from some Mighty Mouse cartoon.