An American Pickle (Brandon Trost, August 6, 2020) (HBO Max) Movie

first ever hbo max original film. based on the novel sell out by simon rich, who wrote the movie’s script. trailer this friday

Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer, immigrates to America in 1920 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn’t aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is troubled to learn that his only surviving relative is his great grandson, Ben Greenbaum, a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can’t even begin to understand.

starring seth rogen (dual role), sarah snook, and jorma taccone

 

interested.

 

Love the cast, shot in my city, I'm excited. (still haven't subscribed to HBO max but probably will around this time)

 

I didn’t know it was shot in Pittsburgh. Definitely watching now.

 

looks dumb but I'll probably watch it anyway

 

lol looks very strange, but could be good?

 

looks good

 

Not sure if I’m feeling that, but I love Seth so I’ll definitely give it a shot.

 

suppose i’m the odd man out cause i loved that trailer

 

I liked that trailer too. Looks funny.

 

i didn’t realize sarah snook got sucked into this lol

 

75% on RT off of 20-some reviews

shit

 

It sounds like it's less Pineapple Express and more of a lowkey comedy that celebrates Jewish identity--which is actually kinda exciting for me.

 

Solid enough reviews to make it worth checking out

 

yeah, it sounds like most of the negative reviews are from people complaining that it's not whacky enough. the trailer didn't make it seem like a straight up comedy and I'm totally fine with that

 

It seems like the wacky premise is just there in order to set in motion a thought experiment of how time can change a culture

 

sounds like it'll be good but it'll still be in the lower tier of his films like sausage party/the interview and not mid-tier with both neighbors/night before/etc.

 

um excuse me sausage party is the best film of all time

 

nahhh Sausage Party was... not very good

 

i liked most of that movie but it's not even the best seth rogen film that year/summer. in an alternate universe, that movie still exists but it's rogen and goldberg applying their superbad/pineapple express/this is the end-level a-game to the movie which would've been incredible in all likelihood when combined with all the anti-religious elements. there were moments (middle portion namely) that suggested it was on the shelf for at least a couple years

 

oh, and the animators for that film got dicked over, apparently. fuck that shit

 

Sausage Party was just offensive without being funny

 

I was basically paid to watch movies when sausage party came out and I still couldn’t watch more than 5 mins at a time.

 

The concept of the movie is great on paper, but I don't think the execution went anywhere interesting with it