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Posted Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 12:03 AM

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As you can see here Barbara Streisand will be starring in "Meet the Fockers." In other news, "Meet the Fockers" will suck.

And it was all so promising.

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Posted Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 9:16 AM

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So is Ben Stiller going to see a shrink this time, only to fall in love with her and in turn find new meaning to his life?

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Posted Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 1:52 PM

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And it was all so promising.

Maybe...

I've got a friend that works at the Tribeca office in New York and he's read all of the versions of a Meet the Fokkers script that they have on file. While he says that all of them suck, he insists that none suck so much as the current frontrunner in what the film will be. He's told me to set very, VERY low expectations. Alas.

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Posted Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 1:54 PM

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i hate it when they make sequels like this. the first one was funny but not that great.

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Posted Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 2:05 PM

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I just found the first one to be boring and depressing.

(Edited by Jakob Dorof at 2:05 pm on Mar. 14, 2004)

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Posted Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 3:38 PM

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I just found the first one to be boring and depressing.

Meet the Parents?!! I thought it was one of the best comedies of the last 10 years.

Sequels almost always suck, though, so I don't expect much from Meet the Fockers.

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Posted Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 9:29 PM

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I absolutely loved Meet The Parents. I just read in my current issue of Entertainment Weekly that Babs is a possibility but a longshot. Hoffman is signed on already, though. I liked the idea that was circulating a while ago that Ben's real parents would be the Fokkers. That would have been good.

I'm still looking forward to this.

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Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 at 1:52 PM

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I think that Peter Jackson should direct Meet The Fockers.

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Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 8:28 PM

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I just found the first one to be boring and depressing.

You know, I did too, the first time I saw it. I have a bit of a problem with what I call "anxiety films"- where things go so wrong & it's supposed to be comical. It just makes me hurt on the inside & feel nervous. But now when I catch parts of the movie on TV or whatever, I think it's hilarious. It's like the total package was a little too much disaster for me, but the scenes on their own are funny. And, as stated before, any movie with Owen in it MUST be good.

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Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 2:19 PM

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I have a bit of a problem with what I call "anxiety films"- where things go so wrong & it's supposed to be comical.

Very Bad Things is a prime example. I HATED that movie. It also suffered from trying to play up the "when bad things happen to good people" sentiment, but you could never accept that these are remotely "good people."

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Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 8:49 PM

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I have a bit of a problem with what I call "anxiety films"- where things go so wrong & it's supposed to be comical.

Very Bad Things is a prime example. I HATED that movie. It also suffered from trying to play up the "when bad things happen to good people" sentiment, but you could never accept that these are remotely "good people."

Will

Yeah, it is, but I strangely enjoyed that movie. I think because of exactly what you said- they were totally NOT good or normal people, so it was more acceptable.

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Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 8:57 PM

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I have a bit of a problem with what I call "anxiety films"- where things go so wrong & it's supposed to be comical. It just makes me hurt on the inside & feel nervous.

That's exactly how I feel with those kind of movies! Couldn't have said it better (or as well) myself.