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The Promotion

post #1 of 11
4/5/09 at 7:57pm
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Really liked this one. Sean William Scott tends to be more miss than hit for me but he did the whole "everyman" bit quite well here.

John C. Reilly was funny as usual, though in a more down to Earth way when compared to WALK HARD or STEP BROTHERS.

Would have been easy for this movie to end up with a lot of broad sitcomy humor but it did a good job of keeping things low key, give or take a couple exceptions.
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post #2 of 11
4/6/09 at 5:02am
This looks like all kinds of funny. Surprised the real Chris Gardner lends himself to this movie. Sean is a cool cat. The parking lot bit with the mace is LOL.
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post #3 of 11
4/6/09 at 2:04pm
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Surprised the real Chris Gardner lends himself to this movie.
Didn't know what this meant at first but now that I put 2 and 2 together, you're right. Wonder how that guy ended up in this movie.

Amusing scene though. "Black apples."
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post #4 of 11
4/6/09 at 2:22pm
I've seen this movie three times and I never realized that. Makes sense since it's a Conrad flick.

"Blapples."
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post #5 of 11
4/6/09 at 2:34pm
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Now I get the connection.

Loved the Teddy Graham slapper guy.
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post #6 of 11
2/23/10 at 1:08pm
Watching this in a couple of days. Looking forward to it especially after I laughed my arse off in ROLE MODELS. Sean William Scott was funny in that even though it was, as he admits, a variation on Stifler.
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post #7 of 11
2/23/10 at 1:44pm
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He's way different in this than pretty much all his others movies. Was chuckling yesterday over everyone feeling bad for Scott because he never gets to break away from the Stifler types. He did exactly that in THE PROMOTION and like clockwork nobody sees it.
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post #8 of 11
2/23/10 at 1:50pm
Well it wasn't exactly promoted well. Hardly at all in my neck of the woods. I think it went straight to DVD in the states. Weird, especially considering the success of Role Models.
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post #9 of 11
2/23/10 at 1:54pm
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Nah, it had a limited run in theaters. It was before ROLE MODELS came out but I don't know what difference that would have made. ROLE MODELS was a modest success and nothing more.
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post #10 of 11
9/24/10 at 11:29pm
Just caught this a few nights ago, watched it again with my parents tonight.

Such a nice little modest comedy, albeit nigh-unmarketable. It hits all the right notes, and I thought Scott acquitted himself admirably. The deleted scenes filled in a lot of the gaps in the story, from the edited prominence of the "Big World" magazine Scott's character finds in the hospital cafeteria to the culmination of Reilly's character's "pussy juice" slip. I thought the movie would have been better with those scenes in it (the "Big World" magazine comes out of absolutely nowhere), but I like it as is.

The scene where Reilly's character is explaining the difference between how Americans and Canadians use "cut the cheese" gives anything in either version of The Office a run for its money. Reilly's subtle facial cues were astounding.
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post #11 of 11
10/5/10 at 3:00am
Still love this movie. Part of me wishes it had a wider release, made large sums of money and was critically applauded. The other side of me (the side I listen to) is happy this is such a small and unrecognized movie. None of my friends have ever heard of this movie and I have yet to invite them over to watch it. It's like my own little quiet place I can go where no one can get me.

I love the tone of this movie and the awkward comedy is right up my alley. Sean William Scott nails it and John C. is so hopelessly likable. It's hard to hear Time For Me To Fly and Fly Like an Eagle without also hearing "Richard Wellner" in all of the appropriate spots.

Blapples, cutting the cheese, the reveal at the end, the explanation of why people with down syndrome have powder on their hand, the gay banjo playing neighbors, the guy who keeps denting his car demoing that damn cart stopper invention, the inspirational cassette tape, the ship in a bottle....there's just a lot of stuff for me to laugh about in this movie.
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