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24) The Interview D+

I feel like I hated this more than I shouldve, and I put that solely on the shoulders of Seth Rogen. I have an irrational dislike of Seth Rogen and I have no idea how he became a big comedic actor for like a whole decade. I feel like he makes every movie hes in worse, and that includes this one. I have a lot of other issues with the movie, but honestly my main one is that Seth Rogen hasnt been good in anything since Pineapple Express and hes not even well cast for the character in this one. I was going to make a joke about how he must have dirt on whoever directed this, but a quick Google search shows it was Seth Rogen himself. I guess my point still stands. No one has more dirt on you than you, I suppose.

I actually think both Franco and Park are pretty good in this. Franco is almost impossibly stupid, but he always did that well and it was enjoyable enough seeing him buffoon himself through the movie. And, honestly, I feel like a movie with just Franco probably works better. Do you need Rogen to be the straight man for all of this when there are a half dozen other characters filling that role? Do you need a five minute scene of him shoving a capsule up his butt? Or a completely unnecessary sex scene which almost feel gross now that I know Rogen himself directed this? There is a lot of painful padding here, including a full romance subplot I could not have possibly cared any less about. Shes the propagandist for this horrible regime and Im still like hey, you can do better, lady.

I also think I was just sort of exhausted by the Rogen style comedy when this launched. This very much feels like Pineapple Express but worse in every single way and I didnt really need to see another one of these with worse jokes. I was doing laundry while I was watching this and I finished up about halfway through and found myself really wishing I had more laundry to help me get through this. Man, I wish I had more laundry is a thought Ive never had before, but thanks to The Interview I now am going to make sure I have an emergency pile of dirty clothes at all times just in case I run into another bland movie Im struggling to get through.