Was "Harold and Kumar" really as good as it seemed at the time?

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No, I wasn't zonked, but I did see it in a full theater and I was also in need of a good laugh after a stressful few days.

I loved this movie when I saw it, but was it really as good as I remember?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

better. it was better. They rode a cheetah and there was a fat black man with two gay fathers!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. You're right.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

dont forget neil patrick harris, jamie kennedy, the asian party...

― big chaki (chaki), Monday, 27 September 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

its a new jersey film. how can it NOT be good?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the best part was when kumar envisioned his future life married to a bag of weed

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

while drinking this weekend we were trying to remember what type of animal they rode. it all sounds more fucked up when you talk about it than when you watch it.

cutty OTM.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget that the movie's low point -- "battleshits" -- would have been the top moment in any number of other movies, including "attack of the clones," "door in the floor," "casablanca," "intolerance," "l'atlante," "she's gotta have it," "crouching tiger, hidden dragon," and "romi and michelle's high school reunion."

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but you have to admit making them BRITISH was all the more roffleworthy

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

but couldn't they have paid for a dialect coach for those two girls, or at least used real british people?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

fake over-the-top british is funnier than the real deal

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean shit they rode a fuckin cheetah and you want the british accent used by minor characters to be authentic?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, yes. it annoyed me.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Stay away from Mary Poppins then.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the "British" girls were bad. I have to spend all day listening to fake British accents as for some reason people seem happy to mimic the things I am saying in the style of a faux-Dickensian urchin. maybe I should start speaking in a hugely over-pronounced "southern" drawl?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Stay away from Mary Poppins then.

i have no plans to the contrary.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i read this as "harold and maude." which harold film was better?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

they are practically the same film.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but didn't Maude ride a snow leopard?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

GAH WHY DID I NOT SEE THIS MOVIE WHEN IT CAME OUT? AHGHHHHHHHH

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

dude this looks like the ultimate stoner rental, i wouldn't get too upset

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THE CHEETAH WTF WTF OMG I NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE NOW.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

is it out on video yet?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

how about now?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oddly enough I haven't seen Up In Smoke for some reason and had numerous awesome-sounding scenes described to me last night. I suppose I could just rent that instead.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ANTHONY YOU HAVE NOT SEEN UP IN SMOKE WHAT WORLD IS THIS?

i recommend NICE DREAMS as well.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I just keep missing it. I haven't intentionally been avoiding it. But last night was the first time someone actually described a scene to me and, damn, I need to see it.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It was better. Let's not about forget Wilson-Philips.

― Pup. E. Dawg (rocknrolldetox), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i kind of thought half baked was a cop out because he stopped smoking weed at the end... FOR A GIRL.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread title makes it sounds as though the film had come out in 1970 or something

― amateur!!st, Monday, 27 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, you should hear my parents imitate an english accent. It's terrible.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that said MY PANTS!!!!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG WHAT IF PANTS HAD AN ENGLISH ACCENT ROFFLE I ALSO HAVE A JOKE ABOUT SHORTS

― amateur!!st, Monday, 27 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahahaha! That post was the funniest film ever!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

This movie was so, so, so, so, SO GODDAMNED MUCH FUNNIER THAN I WOULD'VE EVER EXPECTED.

When they were in the cornfield and Neil Patrick Harris comes cruising by with the topless byatchiz all like getting thr freak on standing up in the sunroof and nobody was driving, a little part of me that still took anything seriously died a little bit inside.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate laughed a booger ONTO the screen when Kumar went down on the dopesack from like 10 feet away!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"You know the Holocaust? Picture the exact opposite of that."

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My 'settle down beavis' moment:

Kumar: Dad, come on.
Kumar's Father: Daddy is not coming on anything!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah HELLS YEAH

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and when the guy at Burger Shack was going nuts - cracked me the fuck up

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Shameless pervertalism! Well done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on Pookie! Let's BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i like neil patrick harris doing coke off an ass

― chakiii, Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

They rode the cheetah!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Make yourselves at home...kick back, relax, fuck my wife...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Greatest movie ever.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'am I going deaf or did he just say we could fuck his wife?'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the foursome thing made me throw up a little in my mouth, though

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kumar/Ryan Reynolds face-dabbing scene fills me with joy.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

'yeah it was a dick move, okay?'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
but more importantly, they smoked the cheetah up beforehand.

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

whoever that was who played Finch as an ultra-jew stoner kinda freaked me out though

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha that other Jewish dude's shirt said ASS...THE OTHER VAGINA

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

all I ever remember about that guy is that he had a dick drawn on his face in 10 things i hate about you

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man that whole MARIJUANA KILLS commercial was amazing too

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha - yeah, the kid has one hit and he's shooting his face off.

IT'S FUNNY CAUSE IT'S TRUE.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"i'm so HIGH! nothing can hurt me!"
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I am actually glad it's out on DVD in that I didn't see it in the theaters and have been duly intrigued. No rush, though, I still haven't touched any of my Xmas DVDs yet (including In the Mood for Love which I thought was Leon's fave film ever, but apparently I'm wrong!).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone has a had a night like this though, right?

The commercial was the best bit. Ok, I can't remember any other bits.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Ned, is that post really necessary? I mean this one I'm writing right now isn't either but seriously, take it to the Wong Kar Wai thread or something. You...you...overposter.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no, I forgot!

I love the Mountain Drinking gang.

"TO THE EXTREEEEEEEEEME"
"EXXXXXTREME KAYAKING!"

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Apologies: They do not drink Mountains. They drink Mountain Dew.

La la la.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You...you...overposter.

Yay! That's a wonderful title!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda don't think I can wait until this is on Comedy Central constantly.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen this yet and I'm also intrigued. I also have the In the Mood for Love DVD, but haven't watched it in a few months. I think I'm going to do that first. < /overpost>

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being Extreme and 1 being not extreme, I give it a 9.5.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

...THEY RODE THE CHEETAH!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I also have the In the Mood for Love DVD, but haven't watched it in a few months. I think I'm going to do that first. < /overpost>

Is that tag a macro yet in most design programs?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

for what basically amounts to an 80 minute commercial for White Castle, this movie simply RULED. i mean, Neil Patrick Harris was trippin balls!

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think what made it rule was that it WAS an 80 minute commercial for White Castle, and entirely unapologetically.

But yeah, Neil Patrick Harris made the movie soar for me. And it's one of the only comedies I can think of where the second half is better than the first (which was a little slow).

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

RODE....THE CHEETAH!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

super 'post' or 'meta' or whatever you wanna call it moment specifically when the EXTREME dudes grab and rip open the EXTREME doritos, a product which actually exists, and presumably was originally intended unironically over in marketing dept., yet must have been agreed to be used in the film by them later on, where its treated in the opposite, totally mocking type of manner. any publicity is good publicity i guess

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There's actually a White Castle?!

It's called something entirely different in England. I think it's "Harold and Kumar get the munchies" or something.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmmmm sliders

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

White Castle is like -- well, I guess from the movie you know what it's like :) What struck me as weird when the movie was announced is that it's not as widespread a chain even in the U.S. as McDonald's, Burger King, etc -- it's only in the last year and a half that I've lived near one, and I've lived in five different states in three very different parts of the country.

Not that you need to be familiar with it, I guess, but it must make for an odd title for people who've never heard of WC.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I just figured it was a fictional chain for the purpose of the movie! They had teeny burgers.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the first place I ever heard of White Castle was in little ads for t-shirts in the back of Rolling Stone in the late 70's/early 80's. I had no idea what it was and suspected it was an allusion to something dirty for years. I think most places in the US now have frozen White Castle microwave burgers in their supermarkets.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but they are only up in the east coast as stand-alone restaurants right? H&K's humor has a lot to do with where its set. or at least theres another level of regional humor there if you have say, gotten high at princeton before...

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME. (x-post)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

They're stand-alone restaurants in Indiana (but I think it's only somewhat recently that they expanded that far; the one here is in a part of town that's all last-ten-years construction). And yeah, looking at the web page, they're still very concentrated regionally -- like they have them in the east, but not New England (when I lived in New England, White Castle was "a Jersey thing").

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

they're in missouri too!

― teenyburgers (teeny), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

White Castle's one of those places that seems perfect for mall food courts, but isn't in them.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

they've been in the chicago area for 20 years. i remember it being a big deal when the one in my town opened. well, everything's a big deal when you're 8.

― quasmarlemeu, Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Did they really change the title in the UK? It was still "...Go To White Castle" in Austrlia, which I thought was pretty funny.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

White Castle's one of those places that seems perfect for mall food courts, but isn't in them.

For good reason. A proper White Castle requires the smell of old motor oil in the parking lot, a half-dozen or so NY/NJ heshers milling about, and just an overall hassle in getting there.

Malls are too easy.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Harold And Kumar... is BETTER after repeated viewing.

"Hey, this isn't extreme... those guys are poseurs!"

― Holding On For One More Day (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Even just "hey, this isn't extreme" is a classic line. Or partial line, I guess.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 14 January 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"are you...neil patrick harris?"
*double westside handgesture*

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 14 January 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

cop: "N.P.H. wouldn't do that"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 January 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA

― quasmarlemeu, Friday, 14 January 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

are they going to make a sequel?

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Harold and Kumar Make A Run For The Border" - Taco Bell could use the advertising

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Taco Bell just opened up a spot across from UCI. A few days later the Lee's Sandwiches finally opened. Lee's is kicking Taco Bell's ASS to kingdom come.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

how do you guys feel about the animated "land of burgers" scene?? c or d??

― chaki in charge (chaki), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

From the ending, looks like the sequal will be "Harold and Kumar go to Europe.

― Brad Baker, Friday, 14 January 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

you're not supposed to ruin it dude

― chaki in charge (chaki), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

me and a friend are getting drunk and high and watching this tonight. i have high hopes.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i just watched it! good stoner movie. the cheetah was my favorite. kinda reminded me of the time that dave chappelle and those guys got the dog high.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so bummed I already took this back.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 January 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've enjoyed it more if I'd been high. Sadly, I wasn't.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The bag of weed in a bathrobe was classic.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

how do you guys feel about the animated "land of burgers" scene?? c or d??

T/S: H+K Burger scene vs. Better Off Dead burgers.

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"That wasn't extreme."

"I know, Extreme-Sports Guy Number One."

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Dad, come on...
DADDY ISN'T COMING ON ANYTHING!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

when the EXTREME dudes grab and rip open the EXTREME doritos

oh man. best fucking scene in the movie is in the convenience store with the extreme guys and the canoe...

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

even though upthread i said another scene was the best. good movie!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What is that, a pterodactyl?

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man. You guys have convinced me to convince my parents that they need to get me the DVD of this when they're in LA next week so I can relive watching this when I was in New York.

"I'm so HIGH! Nothing can hurt me!"

"Nooooooooo!"

What amuses me the most is that the fake ad wasn't that different to the DRUGS=BAD ads I saw while I was in America.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

well, that was the joke.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I just meant that normally with this type of comedy it's all way over the top (and a lot of the film is), rather than being able to satirise anything in an accurate way. It surprised me a little, is all.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

no, the american anti-drug commercials ARE that over the top.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the chappelle's show bit where they are stoned out of their gourds, go through the drive thru and run over a little girl, only to warn little girls about the dangers of bike riding, is appropriately over the top as well.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty: No, I know!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Bullets! My only weakness! How did you know?

― t0dd swiss, Friday, 14 January 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Is that all you Jews ever think about? Tits?"

― chaki in charge (chaki), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh guys, it was good, but it wasn't that good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

n/a you are in a shitty misanthropic mood this evening!

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

we totally forgot the Extreme music part! '... hold on for one more day...'

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No way dude, there were some brilliantly funny parts, but then there were a lot of pretty boring or only mildly amusing parts in between those brilliant parts. Kinda patchy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that's fine, n/a, yr opinion is yr opinion, but you were being uncharacteristically snarky on like three different threads at the same time, i got worried about you and/or annoyed. it's a new day now so whatevz

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

chris and i were in cherry hill today! i dunno whether there's really a white castle there but i'm sure PONZIO'S DINER attracts its share of jersey/philly stoners.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, there's no white castle in cherry hill, but what i really wanna know is why H&K would drive such a long-ass distance from hoboken when there's a white castle right in newark.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it is a sub-par white castle. I thought there was no such thing, but our closest one doesn't rate due to being scary the workers needing seriously THIRTY minutes to put together an order.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Kinda patchy.

It is, but so what? Name one comedy that isn't. Basically your critique is that it wasn't a perfect movie. I laughed more than once, and any time that happens at a movie I consider it to be a good comedy. Quit harshin our buzz, brah.

― 00ps, Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Surprised there's no Dude Where's My Car love here, it's far sillier but the absurdist bits were way more otm in "Dude" than H&K. The patchiness really does drag it down a bit: Freakshow, cheetah ride, battleshits, etc., intriguing setups w/ weak/mishandled payoffs, it's just something one notices after awhile, no matter how much good stuff is in there.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

FURBURGERS!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I'm just a curmudgeon.

― EComplex (EComplex), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's just a optimist/pessimist divide. when i leave a movie, i tend to remember the good parts, what i liked about it, rather than focusing on the few parts I didn't think worked.

― ()()ps, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Again, I think it was a good movie! It was a better-than-average comedy, even. It just wasn't as mind-blowingly awesome as everyone's making it out to be. I'm trying to save others from my fate: I think my expectations were raised too high by the initial H&K thread and so the fact that it turned out to be merely good made it slightly disappointing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

If it makes you feel better n/a, the friend I watched it with last night felt that it was simply a good stoner movie (better than he expected) but failed to live up to the glory of Up In Smoke and lacked quotability aside from Neil Patrick Harris.

I laughed all the way through, so I declare it to be awesome.

They've got a Chromeo/Scissor Sisters poster on the wall, sportsfans.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

'... hold on for one more day...'

This was by far the best scene in the entire movie, especially the breakdown, complete with backups.
Someday somebody's gonna make you wanna...!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Dude, Where's My Car? too, actually. "The twins" = Jennifer Garner and Marla Sokoloff = best twins ever. Plus aliens and strippers.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who thought Kal Penn looked a lot like Zach Braff??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with you, Nick, about it being good but not great. I guess I didn't get the impression from this thread (at least the revive portion) that it was a mind-blowing comedy that would make me wet myself.

― ()()os, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I don't understand the concept of the teeny burger.. why are they so small?

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

So you can eat lots of them, of course!

(This makes a lot more sense at 3 am after bar hopping)

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Because if they were any bigger you'd throw them up.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Get some for home and enjoy!

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing more disgusting than fresh White Castle hamburgers is frozen White Castle hamburgers.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

They know their market.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never had White Castle.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Consider it a lucky escape.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, there's a thread about the hamburgers themselves somewhere. They are intensely bad hamburgers.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a hard time conceiving of a fast food that is beneath me.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Here's a hint... it's semen"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been a stoner at all, and while I've enjoyed some stoner buddy comedies, this was far and away the funniest. Probably the funniest movie from last year. Tons of great detail and seemingly throwaway lines that you only catch up with when it's over.

Also, NPH was fantastic. It's like he was reprising his Carl role from Starship Troopers. In person he's much more like a sly Doogie.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 February 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that Burger Hut(or whatever) scene was the best, I've never seen AA be so funny! Reminds me to congratulate him on beating the phony rape charge the other day.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched this with my brother over Christmas. Rarely have we both erupted into such spastic laughter. I think I remember reading that there were going to be sequels (plural!)

p.s. - Kal Penn was in one of these movies from a couple years ago. I think it's the one titled "Regarding Ardy."

― Matt Chesnut, Thursday, 3 February 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Harold and Kumar was better than Dude, Where's my Car?
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I think The secret of a successful film is
a) a drive through scene
and
b) a scene where they all sing along in the car.

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I did not laugh once during Dude, Where's My Car?.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

When will they invent a button that can detect 'urgency'.

that whole j-walking scene cracked me up.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched this movie, not high, and laughed my ass off. It is fantastic.

i can't believe anyone who ever listened to the Beastie Boys in the 80s doesn't know what White Castle is. . .White Castle's are nasty. bleh.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this movie ws great you are all RJG!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I just read the thread and you all loved it too! cool.

I wonder wd RJG like it?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I finally watched it this weekend and it is now one of my favorite movies ever. How could it not be? I hope they make that sequel in Amsterdam.

The fat EXTREME GANG kid making dinosaur noises. The cheetah.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

from imdb:

The characters Rosenberg and Goldstein are also a reference to the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the play "Hamlet". The writers hope to create an alternate film with these characters that takes place in the same time period much like the way that the play "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" takes place in the same time period as "Hamlet".

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

BRILLIANT.

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I hope they make events in the two movies "mesh" .... kind of like Back to the Future 2.

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, with Flea.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

similarly, i hope they show that jewish potheads invented rock & roll, instead of chuck berry copping from a middle-class white conversative pin-up kid

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

just a couple, for the memories...

Harold: I want that.
Kumar: What? A Hot Dog Heaven super chili cheese dog?
Harold: No. I want that feeling. The feeling that comes over a man when he gets exactly what he desires.

Harold: Dude, what is the deal with Neil Patrick Harris? Why is he so horny?

ps. jewish potheads totally did invent rock and roll.

― scout (scout), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I finally watched this last night and... ummm... it was very average. I was beginning to think maybe the John Hughes love in it was deliberate, in that it's done very much to a formula with a couple of high spots but an awful lot of tedium, much like the majority of John Hughes' work. Then I thought maybe I was crediting the makers with too much intelligence.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

I had some teenage cousins in from TN the other day, who went with my sister & her fiance to a frat party, after which they shoutingly made their cab driver stop at White Castle, which they had never actually seen one of, but, this being one of their favorite movies, felt it was in their best interest to do so. Those poor boys probably didn't have the kinda morning they were hoping for.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

I got to see this again recently, right after watching Better Luck Tomorrow. Which is one of the first things the extreeeeeme kids yell at Harold! In any case, the unrated-type version of this film is pretty much exactly what the unrated version of any young film has been lately: more boobs. I guess more NPH craziness was too much to hope for.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I just bought the "extreme unrated" version because it was on sale. Haven't watched it yet. My girlfriend saw it and said "uhhhh...."

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

There was a fat black man with two gay fathers!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

They rode the cheetah!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but is it really as good as Ulysses?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Of course.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I think so too. It really is the movie with everything.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

It's made its way to the movie channels now, it was on starz last night.

Harold and Kumar Go To Amsterdam

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 2 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

it was pretty funny the second time I saw it a few weeks ago

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

saw it yesterday. lmao'ed all the way through. the scene with the mental attendant at the burger shack drive in was almost too funny to be true.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

"shotgun anus" STILL makes me die laughing...

― something less threatening (heywood), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

xpost Did you see it on cable? I was at a friend's house (on the Jersey shore, no less) and it came on and we were talking about how stupid and great it is that they drive all the way to New Brunswick and then to Cherry Hill for a White Castle when they live in Hoboken and there's a White Castle in Jersey City (about a 5 minute drive, not to mention accessible by PATH train).

It's also pretty funny that around the "highway" to Cherry Hill there's nothing but woods, and that someone who gives them directions to White Castle says "Just take 33 West to the Turnpike South and you're right there." And also the fact that Maria, from Hoboken, is at a movie theater somewhere in South Central Jersey

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

And did you know that St. Elmo's Fire wasn't really shot in washington DC??? What will these geography hooligans pull next?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Aw, don't be a party pooper.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

The depiction of Hoboken was spot-on though: parking is too hard to find and douchebags are too easy to find.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I couldn't resist. I noticed the geographical disparities on occasion too (like, yeah, wtf are they driving so far to get to a white castle?), but I mean you can't do coke off a stripper's ass in a moving convertible with the top down either, but I went with that so I figured ridiculous nonsense geography is fair game. Sort of like, yeah, the geography of the car chase in No Way Out makes utterly no sense (he leaves the Pentagon, drives all over the fucking place on highways and bridges that are nowhere near one another, dives into a metro station that doesn't exist, and then arrives at his final destination...Pentagon City???), but at the end of the film I'm expected to believe Kevin Fuckin Costner is a Soviet spy, which is really far more egregious a lie.

xpost haha no comment on Hoboken.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Hahah. My personal favorite geog stunt is in that freestyle/poetry slam movie in which the guy walks out of a slam AT FEZ UNDER TIME CAFE and jogs to the Washington Monument.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

xpost Yeah, I mean we were having a good laugh about it but I wasn't genuinely critical of the film for it -- it was part of the fun.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

whether or not Jewish potheads invented rock and roll would make a good thread.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Gets better every time

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

OK guys watched it again and I repent.

This shit is hilarious.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Wise man.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I just saw this for the first time. No one quoted the best joke from the movie.

"I know, Super-Extreme Punk # 1... I know."

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

don't forget that the movie's low point -- "battleshits" -- would have been the top moment in any number of other movies, including "attack of the clones," "door in the floor," "casablanca," "intolerance," "l'atlante," "she's gotta have it," "crouching tiger, hidden dragon," and "romi and michelle's high school reunion."

Just thought I'd let that stand there by itself.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Still good.

― Jeff, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I just love the idea of Ingrid Bergman in a scene called "Battleshits"!

― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

ZOMFG, me and my girlfriend went to the New Beverly Cinema in HOLLYWOOD last night for the Ingmar Bergman double feature and after the first movie, my girlfriend was freaking out about some celebrity who was two rows in front of us but that I didn't recognize and then some guy said "excuse me ma'am" and walked over us to sit in the middle of the row and it was the guy who plays Harold from that movie. Then some girl came to sit next to him. That's not the good part though. The good part... is that he was dicking around on his iphone before the movie started.

― freewheel, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

So wait, Freewheel -- first, HI DERE, and second, yer an LA sort?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

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― kv_nol, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

thought it was interesting that for the first 50 mins or so everything that happens in this film is actually quite believable (generously including the Princeton scenes) before actually going nutso - can't remember the exact sequence of events but i think up until Kumar does that wizard surgery on the dying guy (this is before they meet Freakshow and his wife right?) who then chirpily tells them where the White Castle is i thought it was gonna be somewhat more grounded in reality at least at the level of Road Trip. after they leave the hospital and Harold sees that girl going to see Sixteen Candles i was convinced this was part of the same extended improbable dream sequence ha.

― blueski, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I used to go to college with Max, Mr. Raggett, sir. But graduated and am jettisoning to San Francisco soooon. xpost

― freewheel, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

DONT TRUST FREEWHEEL

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

oh hey man

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

btw i totally believe that harold is a huge bergman nut

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Max and his Minions

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IT'S IN MY BRANE NOW

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

not that I like do his bidding stuff. I mean kind of. But not really.

― freewheel, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/01/25/News/Prof-Kumar.Calls.Class.Into.Session-3168711.shtml

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

hm never knew that "Kal Penn" was a stage name

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of him, House is back on tonight!

― robertwolf8080, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

he kind of looks like a douche teaching in that backwards cap. but, still, love.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

i watched "the namesake" last night on cable tvs. i thoroughly enjoyed it

― dell, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

penn isnt a great actor but i would kick it with him any day of the week

― max, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, that was a good film and he was adequate for the part. Irfan Khan is awesome though.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 14 July 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

I kinda don't think I can wait until this is on Comedy Central constantly.

this is a beautiful world to live in!!! except that they have to cut out kumar giving xtreme guys the finger and going "thank u come again"

― A B C, Sunday, 21 September 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)

kal penn is a q t too ~

― A B C, Sunday, 21 September 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

Found Harold & Kumar ADR sheets from when we had to dub for the tv version. 108 lines of profanity replaced. The movie is only 88 minutes 😂 pic.twitter.com/CiQ1N6XqEV
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) June 27, 2017

― j., Wednesday, 28 June 2017 03:17 (eight years ago)

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