STEALING HARVARD: Tom Green TRIES to make a comeback?

[Chris K.]

OK, I haven't seen STEALING HARVARD yet. Apparently, Tom Green is in this comedy and thank God that he has not directed or wrote the film after the tragic FREDDY GOT FINGERED.

But what do you all think? Is STEALING HARVARD going to be Tom Green's better features. Or, do you think it will be worse than FREDDY GOT FINGERED? I think it will be worse. I mean, this is Tom Green we are talkin' about here?

What do you think?

[XxSilverHxX]

I think its going to be better, he seems more serious in his acting in this movie then his Finger movie.

[Offthewall]

I have faith in this because of one man. JASON LEE! is there any movie he can't save?

[J.R.]

Ah, Jason Lee, who knew someone who can't act worth a crap and speaks very slowly in a phonetic manner could actually make it in Hollywood? He was a very popular pro skateboarder in the '80s. He shouldn't have given that  up.

I think maybe Tom Green's films have been a big joke. Freddy Got Fingered was so unbelievably childish and simplistic it had to be so on purpose. It's like he's saying, "Look, they gave me millions of dollars and complete control, so I'll make something incredibly stupid for fun!".

[Foywonder]

This defies logic.

[Chris K.]

Tom Green must have thought he would recieve noteriety for making FREDDY GOT FINGERED if it was intended to suck or not. Of course, it really sucked and therefore the "fame" Green thought he was going to get pretty much put him downhill (i.e. Drew Barrymore leaving his pathetic ass, the cancelation of his Canabian TV program, etc.). But then, the consequeces were great for Green which made him "Public Enemy No. 1" to both audiences and critics when FREDDY GOT FINGERED was unleashed upon the world.

And indeed, Green was at one point a star (not a big one, but a star nonetheless). He had a racy Canadian TV show, MTV sponsoring, and a supporting performace in ROAD TRIP (which, I might add, wasn't too good of a movie anyway).

As for Green intending to make a film "crap" to show the people that Hollywood will make anything, I somewhat applaud Green for doing so. The fact that some big company had the guts to finance a piece of garbage and think it would be a success just shows that Tom Green is not the only idiot living in this world (or in this country for that matter). So, Green did prove something. Yet, that doesn't mean that he did a good job. He still stinks and as much as Green proved Hollywood's inept sense of green-lighting projects, he has proved nothing new since Hollywood has already produced crap that we are aware of (i.e. SCARY MOVIE, DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR?, PEARL HARBOR, THE PATRIOT, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, and so on). One must also wonder why is Green in STEALING HARVARD even though FREDDY GOT FINGERED failed worse than PEARL HARBOR at the box office? Maybe this is another example of Hollywood will make anything with an actor who is eqivilant to box office poison. If so, Green is on a roll!

One thing, just because in the trailers Green looks restraint doesn't exactly mean he will be in the entire film. Because of that, I have little fath in STEALING HARVARD. Also, this is Tom Green we are talking about.

[Steven Millan]

                       Very well put,Chris.
                 Tom Green is better off having a steel cage match against Jack Black at the next WWF/WWE pay-per-view,which would be the next logical step for him(fighting Jack Black,not becoming a wrestler,which is what the very last thing that the WWF/WWE needs to kills itself,with all of the bad ratings it's had this year).
                 Otherwise,Tom Green Still Sucks!!!

[Brock]

The difference between "Stealing Harvard" and "Freddy Got Fingered" is that Mr. Green wrtoe and directed the latter himself.  "Stealing Harvard" is a movie that he just happened to get cast in.  Plus, Jason Lee is the star, not Tom Green.  My bet is that it'll be like "Orange County"....the trailers really hyped up Jack Black for that one, and then he turned out just to have a supporting role.  There is still hope for "Stealing Harvard," because it's not like Tom Green had much creative control over the movie, allthough there was undoubtedly some improvisation, knowing him.

Brock

[Fearless Freep]

who knew someone who can't act worth a crap and speaks very slowly in a phonetic manner could actually make it in Hollywood?

You're kidding...right?

[Chadzilla]

The plot for Stealing Harvard really turned me off - typically contemptable balls lacking 'father' (who seems awfully close in age to his 'daughter') is bossed around by spoiled child and forced to 'comic' Robin Hood type criminal behaviour - frankly I'll stick with "Fun with Dick and Jane" for suburban crime.

There was one good joke in the preview though, involving the snarling guard dog's reaction to Green.  But it did not convince me to buy a ticket (I vowed not to see it when the daughter did the Lucille Ball WWWWHHHHAAAAAAA at the very idea that her working class parents just might not be able to pay her pampered ass into Harvard).

Sorry, but I'll buy Pluto Nash before I watch STEALING HARVARD.

[systemcr4sh]

Bruce McCulloch Directed it though. Thats a huge plus. The Kids in the Hall was awesome. And I like Jason Lee as an actor and as a skateboarder, when he was in the Spike Jonze skate video "Blind Video Days". Thats a pretty awesome video. Anyway. I'll go see it anyway.

[mr. henry]

green's performance may be ok. i'd like to see a second directorial debut though.

FGF was a slap in the figurative face of hollywood's idiocy. green picked a title that any rational study exec would shoot down. people that bought into green's movie were so out of touch they didn't know he was trying to be as ludicrous and bad-bad as possible. he can act. he had to to pull off a lot of his stunts we saw through his show.  the fact that it ever got made is as silly as any of his other scams.

he produced the most cringe inducing film i have seen in a long time as well as marrying and divorcing the uber hollywood chick d. barrymore. can you just imagine pitching the "hitting a crippled girl in the shins with a stick" scene to a producer...and it got made!

tom green mooned all of hollywood and everyone that invested in his movie.

my take,
mr. henry

[Chris K.]

Yes, it's true that Hollywood fell for Green's FREDDY GOT FINGERED and that proved Hollywood's idiocy. But then, Hollywood has produced garbage like SCARY MOVIE and DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? before Green stepped in to show his stuff. So basically, Green has proved nothing new.

Another directorial effort? Sorry Mr. Henry, but I don't think so. Looking at FREDDY GOT FINGERED, Green's directorial talent consists of "Aim the camera and shoot" with little enthusiasm whatsoever. I mean, Green felt he could just play around with the camera and feel whatever was on celluliod would work! Also, Green thought it was sheer genius to have a scene of him grabbing a horse's cock.

Also, Green CAN'T ACT. This is just my opinion, but Green looks like that class clown we all had in school in which he acts stupid for attention. (kind of reminds me of Adam Sandler's character in BILLY MADISON, only Green is worse). And Green gets attention alright, but the attention he gets is "Shut up" and a slap in the face. It was also like that on Green's TV show and it was unfunny.

Indeed, Green mooned both Hollywood and everybody who invested in his movie (incuding the audience and critics as well). And because of that, it makes us want kick Tom Green's ass more than ever.

[J.R.]

Yes I believe Jason Lee is a bad actor. Any scene in a film where he has to speak stops said film's momentum dead. I also believe Bruce McCulloch was the least of the Kids In The Hall (Kevin MacDonald and Dave Foley are the only Kids I can stand, though I admit a big part of it is the accent), and he directed the terrible Dog Park, so this one has "crap" written all over it for me.

[Jim]

"even though FREDDY GOT FINGERED failed worse than PEARL HARBOR"

Are you inferring that Pearl Harbor failed at the box office?  Why do so many big budgets movies have this reputation for not making money?  Waterworld, Pearl Harbor..  There's a few other huge budgeted movies that everyone thinks for some reason or other were box office failures but in fact at worst broke even.  Pearl Harbor made around 200 million domestically and even more then that in foreign markets.  It had a budget of 150 million, though the story goes it went over that by about 20 mil.