JONATHAN CHAIT AUGUST 4, 2011
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I don't think I've ever seen a movie star attempting to promote his own film go negative in quite the way Jason Bateman did in his Daily Show interview the other day. Jon Stewart needles him about the premise of the movie, and he replies:
It's crap. It's garbage. But here's what I'm going to promise you. While it is a tired, some would say "pleasantly familiar" premise... our obligation, gang, is to please you post-switch, right?
Having made that very substantial concession, he proceeds to sell the movie in a way that's nearly convincing. I'm not going to see that movie, but it's an awesomely honest piece of spin.
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5 comments
This quote is so anti-Republican, so painfully honest.
- liberalref
August 4, 2011 at 11:43am
It is a hopeless cause, Bateman. The trailer for this movie is wretched in every way. My funny bone may be fickle, but films that feature fecal matter flying into faces unfailingly fail to finagle a laugh from me.
- Konstantin
August 4, 2011 at 11:43am
I love your awesomely alliterative assemblage, K.
- liberalref
August 4, 2011 at 12:02pm
So it's a switch movie with flung poop and wordy dirds? Yee ha.
- cspencef
August 4, 2011 at 12:29pm
I'm seeing Bateman realize the movie sucks and realizing he's got to go for the soft porn crowd or he's got nothing.
- Nusholtz
August 4, 2011 at 2:10pm