Hot Trailer: ‘Cedar Rapids’

COMMENTS (28)

• wow that’s a bad trailer.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 6:30pm PST  Reply to this post

  • cool that your insipid comment got to be first

    Comment by Ronnie — Thursday December 30, 2010 @ 12:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• I always love comedy movies. I think I need to get this on my list of my to need to watch movie. Thanks for sharing.

  Comment by Michael Real — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 6:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• why, if the movie takes place in cedar rapids, is the establishing shot of the city philadelphia?

  Comment by kennerster — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 8:16pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I’m gonna take a stab here and say that either both cities look amazingly alike from the air or that the character begins his journey in Philadelphia and somehow magically travels to Cedar Rapids during the course of the movie.

    Comment by amy — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 11:07am PST  Reply to this post

    • Im guessing they look similar enough and they just used stock footage to save the more than 50k for the heli and the film etc

      Comment by and or — Friday December 24, 2010 @ 12:29pm PST  Reply to this post

    • Why do they even show an aerial shot?

      I’m from Philly and I’m 100% positive that the aerial phototage is Philly, not Cedar Rapids. You can see the art musuem, Schuylkill, and the downtown buildings.

      I saw the movie premier last night and thought that philly would be tied in somehow .. but its not. It really bothers me that they use the incorrect skyline.

      Comment by nancyo — Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 8:28am PST  Reply to this post

• official sundance selection? anyone remember when Sundance was ACTUALLY about independent film? Yah, this film has Sundance written ALL over it

  Comment by bsdance — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 8:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• That looks OUTSTANDING>>>>>>

  Comment by Sherry — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 8:30pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Hangover 1.5. We get it. We got it. Let’s move on, yo.

  Comment by D — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 8:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• Well, that looks absolutely awful.

  Comment by Editions — Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 9:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• Kind of surprised (and disappointed) because this script was near the top of the Black List two years ago.

  Comment by Renee — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 5:48am PST  Reply to this post

• If they were going for that “mentally challenged man leaves the state facility for the first time” type of film then they have a winner…..

  Ed Helms what were you thinking. Well at least it will be in the discount bin when the DVD comes out.

  Comment by Doug B — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 7:07am PST  Reply to this post

• A serious question.

  Why is it so hard to make comedies now? Are we so cynical or so ignorant that everything has to be penis or vagina humor?

  Any theory is appreciated.

  Comment by CFX — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 9:00am PST  Reply to this post

  • I think the main reason is that execs are obsessed with only making comedies that are “grounded.” In other words, movies like Caddyshack can’t exist anymore because no one wants to make them.

    Comment by WGA Writer — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 10:06am PST  Reply to this post

    • Twitter was first popular among golfers. If CBS can develop shows from Twitter, maybe Twitter can be the incubator for a Caddyshack 3. Starring Steve Martin.

      Comment by Greg Thomas — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 12:21pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Honestly? People will blame it on the execs, but the writers have absolutely zero talent. That’s all they’re capable of making, because the real writers shine, but everyone else, just benefits from the thin talent pool.

    Comment by dkl — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 11:10am PST  Reply to this post

    • Thanks this sounds the most plausible but what do we do about it?

      Comment by CFX — Saturday December 25, 2010 @ 11:47am PST  Reply to this post

• “I do a pretty convincing Omar from the HBO program, the Wire.” is a legendary movie quotable, especially coming from someone who portrayed a character on that series.

  Looks good!

  Comment by Jordan — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 9:04am PST  Reply to this post

  • That was the lamest part of this god-awful trailer

    Comment by puke — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 10:34am PST  Reply to this post

  • Uh, no, it’s just the writer is incapable of making a joke that has doesn’t have to do with pop culture. See above.

    Comment by uh — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 11:11am PST  Reply to this post

  • “I do a pretty convincing Omar from the HBO program, the Wire.”

    That was the best thing in the trailer!

    Comment by Marc — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 12:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• trailer looks great. I will see anything that Arteta directs, just based on “Chuck and Buck” – one of the best films of the last decade. “Star Maps” also excellent.

  Comment by Randy F. — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 9:08am PST  Reply to this post

• this looks pretty funny.

  Comment by average joe — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 9:21am PST  Reply to this post

• It actually looks funny. The story is somewhat different.

  Comment by Ronald Mexico — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 9:34am PST  Reply to this post

• The Daily Show keeps poppin’ out winning comedy babies like Kate Gosslin’ on speed. Is that a simile or a metaphor?

  Comment by amy — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 11:05am PST  Reply to this post

• Wait… isn’t that just the whole fucking movie cut down to 2:30? You have the set-up in 30 seconds… 90 seconds of Act II… then the resolution scene on the plane home?

  Comment by Greenenvy — Thursday December 23, 2010 @ 11:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• Looks pretty funny I don’t now how a movie with Helms and Reilly could be bad.

  Comment by XtraFlava — Friday December 31, 2010 @ 5:18pm PST  Reply to this post