"Knocked Up"

Has Anybody seen the new movie Knocked Up?

I Might go see it,but i want to know was it any good? 

It's got a helluva good score on IMDB* already, LINK

*note - not the most credible source for movie ratings

It's actually pretty funny, worth the $8.00 in my opinion.  I think it's better than most of the other comedies coming out this summer.

I refuse to pay money to see a product of copyright infringement. I read that article, written by the woman who wrote the book it was clearly based on, and i fully believe that Judd Apatow, the director, ripped it off of her.bluezy

There are literally thousands of complaints about copyright infringement every single year, and most of them are bullcrap. The issue of the cover does sound a little sketchy, but an idea is not copyrightable, and neither is a title.

She mentions reading about the fight between Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill, but if she had actually finished reading that article she would have realized that Mark Brazill was a complete lunactic. Brazill accused Apatow of using one of his TV show ideas in a sketch comedy show, but it turned out that Brazill had told Apatow the idea after that episode of the show had all ready been filmed.

It is disturbingly easy for two people to have the same idea at the same time as one another. Some cases are stronger than others, but very few are succesful. The case of Amistad is probably one of the only really succesful ones, because the writer admitted that he had read the other work.

There are literally thousands of complaints about copyright infringement every single year, and most of them are bullcrap. The issue of the cover does sound a little sketchy, but an idea is not copyrightable, and neither is a title.

She mentions reading about the fight between Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill, but if she had actually finished reading that article she would have realized that Mark Brazill was a complete lunactic. Brazill accused Apatow of using one of his TV show ideas in a sketch comedy show, but it turned out that Brazill had told Apatow the idea after that episode of the show had all ready been filmed.

It is disturbingly easy for two people to have the same idea at the same time as one another. Some cases are stronger than others, but very few are succesful. The case of Amistad is probably one of the only really succesful ones, because the writer admitted that he had read the other work.swamprat_basic

[QUOTE="swamprat_basic"]There are literally thousands of complaints about copyright infringement every single year, and most of them are bullcrap. The issue of the cover does sound a little sketchy, but an idea is not copyrightable, and neither is a title.

She mentions reading about the fight between Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill, but if she had actually finished reading that article she would have realized that Mark Brazill was a complete lunactic. Brazill accused Apatow of using one of his TV show ideas in a sketch comedy show, but it turned out that Brazill had told Apatow the idea after that episode of the show had all ready been filmed.

It is disturbingly easy for two people to have the same idea at the same time as one another. Some cases are stronger than others, but very few are succesful. The case of Amistad is probably one of the only really succesful ones, because the writer admitted that he had read the other work.bluezy

And what? I all ready said that it seems a little sketchy, but I give very little support for most of these so called "writers" that sue because they feel their stories were stolen. And I'm a writer. They're not suing about the story; they're suing about the idea. A good idea does not make a good movie. Good writing makes a good movie. Do you think that any of the things that the woman is talking about have contributed to making "Knocked Up" a successful movie? No. It's successful, because of the comedy. Who gives a @&#% if Heigl plays a reporter, or Rogen's character comes from Canada?

Ideas are not copyrightable. And the whole thing about Apatow selling his script 5 months after the woman published her book in the US, seems like its cutting a little bit close. He didn't finish his script the day he sold it, and it most certainly took him longer than 5 months to write it. I've been working on my latest screenplay for 2 years.

It was good for some laughs, but it's incredibly crude. Elraptor

It was hilarious. You should go see it.

Weren't you expecting it to be crude? Anyways, I'd like to go see it, but I doubt I'll have the time.metallica_fan42

[QUOTE="metallica_fan42"]Weren't you expecting it to be crude? Anyways, I'd like to go see it, but I doubt I'll have the time.double_decker