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Suprak_the_Stud posted...

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.

You and a couple others brought up Rogen's character being unnecessary, and I'm on board with that. He really doesn't impact the plot enough, and perhaps they would've done better to introduce Kim as soon as Skylark arrives in North Korea. Then just focus on the relationship between those two and expand the relationship and the movie's themes.