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So Paul is critically loved + this gets panned

posted 13 years ago by stevenmcpunisher
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I thought Paul was laughless and I found this to be really enjoyable.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 13 years ago

They both were funny, only difference is that Pegg is the main character so to speak in this movie while in Paul, he had to share the screen with Seth Rogan's character, Paul. I agree with you though, I DID enjoyed this moreso than I did Paul.

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.

[–] CromeRose 8 years ago

They both were funny, only difference is that Pegg is the main character so to speak in this movie while in Paul, he had to share the screen with Seth Rogan's character, Paul. I agree with you though, I DID enjoyed this moreso than I did Paul.

You're forgetting that he also shared the screen with the very talented and very funny Nick Frost. IMHO Paul is a Simon Pegg/Nick Frost film with an alien voiced by Seth Rogen.

[–] knitv 12 years ago

Paul was just okay. This was a horrendous failure. Poor writing and/or casting.

The reason Paul was more popular was the SciFi theme, which draws a different crowd and there aren't as many competing movies to detract from it's popularity. If How to Lose Friends ... is a "rom com" it is the worst of the bunch. And I didn't see Simon Pegg as a romantic lead at all, if that was his goal.

[–] jpowers4667 10 years ago

The "goal" was for the lead to be awkward...which, Pegg is. A little more realistic than the cliche "the nerd is suddenly hot when the glasses come off" angle.

[–] activista 9 years ago

Just saw this film, and actually, it's not even a rom-com in the traditional sense of the word----in fact, the film dosen't really focus that much on the romance until about halfway through the film. I wouldn't even call the film a rom-com at all, because the romance is not even the main focus of the film---the main focus is on Sidney Young's adjusting to New York and his trying to make it at his new position on his new job, and dealing with the craziness of celebrities as we know them. I really don't get some of the hate for this flick, because I had a good time watching it. The opening with Sidney Young trying to sneak into the star-studded event with a pig, and then that same pig trashing the hotel room/crashing the party was just too crazy--that alone convinced me to watch the rest of the film, and I can say it was well worth my time.

[–] ianberg 8 years ago

I usually like Simon Pegg's work but didn't laugh once in the first 15 minutes of How To Lose Friends and Alienate People. So I bailed.