I will see anything with Gob in it. Even this.

I've been seeing commercials for this recently. It definately could go 50/50. I think I'll wait for the DVD.

I will see anything with Gob in it. Even this.

I'll see this because of Bob Odenkirk, Will Arnett and David Koechner.

I have every idea who these people are. That said, this movie looks terrible. & prolly should. Plus, the allusions to Brokeback Mountain in the trailer make me realize that "edgy, lefty, hipster-friendly" comics are just as distrusting of their sexuality as any meathead that you could find at a Limp Bizkit or Earth Crisis show in heady days of late 90s's heavy rock.

I'm all over this.

Of course, I'm often inside the walls of a maximum security prison, and I just don't find many things there funny.

Dax has been in some shitty movies, but I've never felt like they were shitty because of him, more in spite of.

HEY! We did a LIVE EVENT for the prison premiere and it was really fun and you can see it here.
-BOB

LET’S GO TO PRISON! Opens on November 17th, so goddamnit go tell Grandma to quit stuffing the Tofurkey and come to see a movie about love* and laughter! Put simply, Prison is designed to bring out the worst in people, and what’s more fun to watch from the safety of a theatre seat than the worst in people?! Nothing!

*Yes, ladies, there is a love story...

I was given the opportunity to direct this script by Tom Lennon and Ben Garant. You know them from the sketch show The State and moreso from Reno 911. The script was very very loosely based on a book entitled “You Are Going To Prison” written by an ex-inmate expressly for people who are seriously on their way to a prison sentence. It’s unbelievably bleak but somehow funny in how unrelentingly harrowing it all is.

From this, Tom and Ben created an offbeat story of two guys, one who grew up in the penal system and one who grew up privileged, who end up in a cell together. It jumped out of the pile of scripts for the dark pitch of it’s scenario, and some of the funniest lines I have ever read:

* "You're not part coon, are ya? This'd be alot more fun if I thought you was part coon."--"Sorry, no coon. Mostly Dutch."

* "Hello Lyshitzki, how's it hangin'? Little to the right, I see."

* So, what are we supposed to do now"--"We're doin' it. We're right in the thick of the action. We sit here until lunch, then we come back and sit here until dinner. You know how someone might describe an experience that's unpleasant or confining as being like a prison? This is what they were referring to."

* "I apologize for the crassness of my associates. I doubt very much that any of them has even cracked the binding on Emily Post. Would you like some merlot? I make it in the toilet."

* "I go apeshit for Chuck Mangione."

We filmed at a prison near where I grew up; Joliet Correctional Facility in Joliet, Illinois. This stone monster lurked in my nightmares ever since the day my Dad drove my brother and I, (couldn’t have been more than 10), right by the stone wall in front, slowed down, and said “See that boys, that’s the prison”. Only upon going back there to shoot did it become clear that he had gone out of his way to drive us near this behemoth, I guess to leave an impression, which he did.

The actors play it straight and when you’ve got the likes of Dax and Will and Chi it’s mini-Oscar Time! Then there’s Chicago legends Mick Napier, Susan Messing and Joe Nunez who were a blast to work with. I was wildly lucky to get a truly great actor to play, with awesome weight and stone-serious demeanor, the leader of a white supremacist gang. His name is Michael Shannon and if there’s any justice (and there is none in the “justice” system) he’ll be given some roles that make even more out of his outstanding commitment and power.

Did I mention that David Koechner is in it? Koechner usually plays screwy and harmless, but in this he plays a mean-spirited guard and it’s a refreshing blast of kick-ass. I am in it, too, playing a jerk. I can be a jerk. It’s one of the “special skills” on my acting resume.

The soundtrack is better than I could have hoped, put together by Allan Elliott and featuring greats from Motown with Rahzel “the human beatbox” from The Roots laced throughout. And while that is plenty, get this; Queens of the Stone Age. They rocked hard and gave us some great score. I was blown away by their spirit, energy and sound.

-Bob

Overall feeling I was left with: not funny, but the fat hipstress & her rpg-geek boyfriend were laughing uproariously at the end-credit with Che Mc Bride & the doofus from RV duetting on some pop-r&b song that is ironically-loved (apparently), so the movie has that going for it.

This is just further proof, anyway, that hipsters have no better taste than non-hipsters; they like what they like 'cause the person making the work dresses "correctly" or says the "correct" things during interviews. Just like anybody else.