Monday
Nov022015
Dirty Grandpa Poster
Monday, November 2, 2015 at 8:49AM Manuel here getting your week started with a poster that is hard to come to terms with.
Everything we know about this upcoming comedy comes courtesy of all the on-set shots of Efron which were deliciously skintastic. (JA has been dutifully (un)covering them at his blog.) There's also a trailer below, but the poster is more fascinating. How well-known is that Hoffman/Graduate shot among the young ones the film's tone is obviously courting.
Or, perhaps it's an attempt at finding a middle ground between the Zefron fans and the De Niro fans? Are you at all excited about this very random pairing of inter-generational leading men?
Reader Comments (13)
That Graduate shot has been near continuously used as a pop culture gag and, even if you haven't seen the movie, you know that playing around with that shot is playing around with that movie.
De Niro is not winning his third Oscar for Joy...
Are you at all excited about this very random pairing of inter-generational leading men?
"Excited" is a good word, if not entirely appropriate. I'm looking forward to finding this on a flight next spring.
Of course, if that poster meant that this was a movie featuring De Niro and Efron in an incestuous relationship, I'd be standing in line opening day...
I hate the title of the film, but the poster is really intriguing.
I agree with Volvagia that the Graduate shot is so iconic that it is recognized even without knowing the movie itself.
And the DeNiro/Efron pairing sounds actually interesting to me, though I can't exactly say why. Maybe because I think they are so different that they might play nicely off each other.
De Niro is not winning his third Oscar for Joy...
Yet you insist Lawrence's is a lock for her second Oscar for Joy.
Remember Dreamgirls: Jennifer Hudson won and Eddie Murphy lost because he had Norbit.
But I never said Lawrence is winning again so soon. I just live her and I am being vocal about it.
People blame Norbit, but many in the business dislike Eddie Murphy for their own reasons. Hence the easy come up of the veteran alternative.
I hate to be the cranky old man who says this, but let's not give our Millennials too much credit and assume they know about the shot from The Graduate. There has been plenty of conversations lately about how, due to being constantly bombarded with current culture (so many TV shows to watch, bands to listen to, etc.), they don't have very much awareness of cultural history. Even fairly recent cultural history.
Utterly embarrassing for DeNiro.
I think it's common now to know the spoof before seeing the original source. The list of things from The Simpsons alone that I only retroactively recognized after seeing the original years after is legion. They've become iconography that is given new definition even when completely divorced from the original context.
What next? Al Pacino and Justin Bieber teaming up for a raunchy rom-com?
I thought the poster was leading to some gender identity issues for DeNiro. That I would have seen. But it's just a raunchy road trip movie with him and Efron in the January dump? Nope, pass.
Is DeNiro struggling to pay his bills? Is Zac Efron the new Matthew Mcconaughey shirtless era now that original one became a serious actor? Why is Julianne Hough still "acting"? Will Aubrey Plaza ever get a good showy comedy movie role worhty of how actually funny she is?