Last night our infrequent deep-throat contributor Mr. Snruff snuck into a screening of the Judd Apatow-produced, David Gordon Green-directed action comedy, “Pineapple Express.”
It’s probably one of our most anticipated films of the summer (where the hell’s the summer preview piece already?), but we wanted to keep our expectations low just so we weren’t disappointed.
But our contributor whole-heatedly loved it and kept pinging us with effusive and glowing emails about it late last night. Some small spoilers ahead, but nothing major.
The Music
– M.I.A.’s Paper Planes (featured in the trailer) was NOT in the movie.
– Eddie Grant – “Electric Avenue” (this is one of the first songs you hear)
– Falco – Der Kommissar
– Bone Thugs & Harmony – 1st of the Month
– Bel Biv Devoe – Poison
– Huey Lewis and the News – Pineapple Express (song is about getting high – pretty amazing)
– Others: Shaq, Bob Marley, Public Enemy (pretty sure it was PE #1, not 100% tho), Mountain (I think it was “Southbound Train,” but not 100% on this)
-Seth Rogan’s character DEFINITELY had a Cypress Hill ringtone [ed. niiice]
One awesome musical reference: Seth Rogen tells his gf that she’s going to go away to college and ‘start listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor or the Shins or something and start hating men and become a lesbian’ (paraphrasing here)
There’s been a few reports out there that ‘Pineapple’ is a lot more violent then people are expecting and Snruff echoed that sentiment. “The movie was bloody and hysterical. It was definitely like no other movie I’ve ever seen,” he/she wrote seemingly out of breath. ” [There’s] lots of killing, at least 12 on camera deaths, and lots of blood. Insane. PS Danny R. McBride is a scene stealer.”
“Did you read the comparison to ‘Tango and Cash’? After I read that I was like ‘EXACTLY!’ Funny and violent.”
Color us psyched.