![]() What’s more, unlike their previous films, ‘Pineapple Express’ is packed with well choreographed action. The entire atmosphere morphed from a silly ‘Austin Powers’-esque comedy to more of the grade-A quality instant classic that Apatow and Rogen usually deliver when they collaborate on a project together. I understand it was included to set the stage for what comes later on in the film, but for me it was a fumble that hit all the wrong chords.įollowing the bizarre opener, I was relieved to see that things improved dramatically once Dale made it to Saul’s place. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, I like Bill Hader, but the opener felt like a bad ‘SNL’ sketch that went horribly wrong. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I thought the Item 9 flashback prologue, where the military tested out the effects of marijuana, missed the comedic mark completely. Piecing together that Jones will be able to trace the roach back to them, Dale and Saul take off on a wacky adventure to save their necks, and maybe smoke a little weed, too.Īfter watching the first few minutes of ‘Pineapple Express,’ I couldn’t ignore this sinking feeling in my stomach, kind of like the awkwardness and dread of sitting in the dentist’s office waiting to be called in for a filling. The plot thickens, however, when he learns that Saul’s supplier is Red (Danny McBride), the middle-man connecting Saul to the drug kingpin in town, Ted Jones. Dale flees the scene in a panic and heads to Saul’s to lay low for a while. A few moments afterwards, Dale witnesses a gruesome murder. Later that evening, when Dale is smoking a joint in his car before delivering civil documents to the home of one Ted Jones (Gary Cole), a police cruiser pulls into the driveway causing him to instinctively fire his roach out the window. On one particular afternoon, Saul sells Dale some of his new “exclusive” product that is the cream of the marijuana crop, a rare form of cannabis called Pineapple Express. As soon as his stash is running low, he pays a visit to his dealer-a mild-mannered pothead named Saul (James Franco). ![]() In the movie, Rogen plays Dale Denton, a process server whose daily routine alternates between putting on disguises in order to sneak up on and slap unsuspecting civilians with subpoenas or savoring the buzz of a well-rolled doobie. So much so, he enlisted his longtime friends Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg who wrote ’ Superbad’ to pen the screenplay-which was then snatched up by Sony Pictures after Rogen hit the big-time with ‘ The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ and ’ Knocked Up.’ In the end, what seemed like a thought derived from tapping a bong turned out to be one of the most popular and talked about comedies of 2008-‘Pineapple Express.’ Well, Apatow thought so too at first, but the more he thought about the idea, the more he liked it. Wouldn’t it be cool if a stoner like Floyd (Brad Pitt) from Tony Scott’s film was mixed up with some really bad dudes and had to hightail it out of his apartment? Sounds pretty crazy, huh? One day he’s sitting at home watching 1993’s ‘True Romance’ on the boob tube, and suddenly a light bulb appears in a cartoonlike cloud over his head. Take Hollywood producer Judd Apatow for example. ![]() Inspiration can strike anyone, anywhere, at any time. Server.js: require('greenlock-express').“It’s like killing a unicorn… with like a bomb.” – Saul Var certificate = fs.readFileSync('sslcert/server.crt') Var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('sslcert/server.key') I'm trying to get HTTPS working on express.js for node, and I can't figure it out. ![]()
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