Holy smokes, you guys went to town on this one! Either it was easier this week (I think it was about the same as usual), or we have a lot of new players (welcome!), or a lot of you were just looking for ways to kill time yesterday 'til the short-week holiday whistle blew. Whatever the case, way to go!
And the most wayest-to-goest (and the homemade construction-paper medal) goes to Rebecca, who I'm not sure, but I think in the past has won her share of the Threes, or in this case, Fours. In second and third were Jim and Mike Dolberry. I haven't updated the Big Threes Spreadsheet in a while, so I've lost track for the moment of who's won what lately. I need to huddle with Erika after the holiday and mix in the Freeze Frame winners and see who's at the top of the list for most redblog quiz wins in 2009. Whoever ends up on top at the end of the year might get some sort of very special, extra-large homemade construction-paper medal. Or not.
So anyway, while a ton of you guessed, and most guessed correctly, not everyone was right about what film featured Jason Schwartzman (doing excellent voice work this week in Fantastic Mr. Fox), Paul Rudd, Jack Black, and Justin Long (cameoing in Old Dogs). Nope, it wasn't Year One or Saving Silverman (though I dearly love the latter and it's available in the redboxes!). For the answer just swagger on over to the Inviso-Text! (That is, highlight the area below.)
It sure was Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the 2007 spoof of hard-luck musical biopics like Walk the Line and Ray that was directed by Jake Kasdan and produced by the Judd Apatow Funny-Pictures Factory. As many of you sussed out in your guesses, the quartet of comic actors played the Beatles during a scene in which John C. Reilly's Dewey Cox goes a little psychedelic Maharishi hippie in the '60s. Swartzman played Ringo, Rudd was John, Black was Paul, and Long played George.
Walk Hard has some pretty funny bits–including some blatent, ridiculous male bits that foreshadowed Jason Segal's full-frontal a few months later in the Apatow-produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But coming at the end of a year that saw such big Apatow hits as Knocked Up (directed by), and Superbad (produced by), Walk Hard (produced and co-written by Apatow) was seen at the time as Judd's first major creative and box-office stumble. Of course, the following year, 2008, Apatow and his gang had their fair share of ups and downs, including Drillbit Taylor, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers, and Pineapple Express. (For the record, I like all of them except Drillbit, and even that one I find kinda charming in places.) Apatow slowed down a bit in 2009, releasing only Year One (which I kinda hope gets a little better on a second viewing one of these days) and Funny People (which I liked more than most folks did, especially it's first half).
Posted on November 26, 2009 at 10:00 am
It’s from my favorite holiday movie of all time: Planes Trains and Automobiles-Starring John Candy and Steve Martin!