Jew Movie Review: Writer Adam Sztykiel - "The Game of a Secret Society of Pickup Artists"

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Typical Jew "Cultural Debasement" movie released weekend at US box offices... Plays like "The Protocols"...just "trash" entertainment....  -- CSR

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Writer Adam Sztykiel to Explore THE GAME of a Secret Society of Pickup Artists

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted:May 25th, 2010 at 8:46 pm


It used to be the case that Neil Strauss was not so lucky with the females, and wrote of his efforts to rectify this travesty in The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.  As the title suggests, Strauss discovered a community of pickup artists who offer their tips for seduction to schmucks like Neil for a price.  I'm sure their services are completely legitimate and would prove very useful for someone like myself, but the "God of the pickup community" is apparently an aspiring Toronto magician named Mystery.  Just sayin'.

Anyway, Lionsgate thinks Strauss' story has the makings of a movie; Variety reports the studio has hired Adam Sztykiel (Due Date) to script the adaptation, while newcomer Ari Sandel will direct.  It all sounds a bit icky to me, but check out the full literary plot synopsis for yourself after the jump.

Here's the synopsis via Amazon:

Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant–complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss's life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America's most suave gents–including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery.

    Mystery is an aspiring Toronto magician who charges $2,250 for a weekend pickup workshop. He is not much to look at: a cross between a vampire and a computer geek. But by using high-powered marketing techniques he's turned seduction into an effortless craft–even inventing his own vocabulary. His technique sounds like a car salesman's tip sheet: his main rule is FMAC–find, meet, attract, close. He employs the "three-second rule"–always approach a woman within three seconds of first seeing her in order to avoid getting shy. Other tricks: Intrigue a beautiful woman by pretending to be unaffected by her charm; also, never hit on a woman right away. Start with a disarming, innocent remark, like "Do you think magic spells work?" or "Oh my god, did you see those two girls fighting outside?" And finally, the most important characteristic of the pickup artist–   smile.

DUE DATE Press Conference with Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Director Todd Phillips and Michelle Monaghan (With Audio)

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Due Date - Movie Trailer

Due Date is a comedy road movie featuring Zach Galifianakis who is most widely known for his wacky character from Hangover alongside Robert Downey, Jr who has a long list of credentials with mostly out of the ordinary characters. Due Date was directed by Todd Phillips who has a long list of popular comedy films from Road Trip (2000) to The Hangover (2009), co-written by Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel. This is looks like could be one of the best comedy road trip movies ever.

Peter Highman (played by Robert Downey Jr) is going to be a dad for the first time and is extremely nervous about it. While on a business trip his wife Christine Highman (played by Michelle Monaghan) is about to go into labour. For some reason he is unable to board a plane and decides to make the trip by road in desperation not to miss the birth of his child. On his journey he meets Ethan Trembly (played by Zach Galifianakis) who is an aspiring actor that at times seem to have a screw loose. And so the two men goes on a journey to get Ethan to the hospital in time for his child's birth.


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Due Date

November 5, 2010 by Kiko Martinez  
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Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan
Directed by: Todd Phillips ("The Hangover")
Written by: Alan R. Cohen (TV's "King of the Hill"), Alan Freedland (TV's "King of the Hill"), Adam Sztykiel ("Made of Honor"), Todd Phillips ("Old School")

We'll give overrated director Todd Phillips ("The Hangover," "School for Scoundrels") the benefit of the doubt and say his new comedy "Due Date" is a homage to 1987's John Hughes classic "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and not just a raunchy rip-off. With that said, "Due Date" isn't a lot of other things as well, primarily funny.

Yes, there are amusing moments in "Due Date." It would be impossible to go through an entire feature film without laughing at something "Hangover" scene-stealer Zach Galifianakis does or without enjoying the darker comic situations conveyed through yet another of Robert Downey Jr.'s cynical characters.

But overall, the odd pairing of Downey Jr. and Galifianakis is far from enough. "Due Date" is nothing more than a barrel-full of cheap and obvious jokes that will hit with mainstream audiences who think the bearded one can do no wrong.

In "Due Date," Peter Highman (Downey Jr.) is forced to travel cross country with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Galifianakis) when the two are somehow put on the no-fly list after a ridiculous scenario at the airport with Homeland Security.

Although he is worried he won't make it from Atlanta to L.A. to witness the birth of his first child, high-strung Peter takes his chances with Ethan, a slouchy guy with "90 friends on Facebook...12 of them are pending" and a dream to star on a sitcom as beloved as "Two and a Half Men."

What follows is a dim-witted road trip fastened together by scenes of Galifianakis acting as quirky as he can without the slightest bit of common sense. This might work in a movie like "Dumb and Dumber," but not in a comedy that wants to be both stupid and sincere all in the same breath.

Downey Jr. and Galifianakis have some chemistry that keeps "Due Date" from ending up a lost cause, but without a script that really drives the story forward all that' s left are gags featuring masturbating mammals and a jokes where Galifianakis' character mistakes a sign that says "Mexico" with "Texaco." Can we really not get any clever than that?

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Mel Gibson Axed from 'The Hangover 2'

Updated: Thursday, 21 Oct 2010, 7:52 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 21 Oct 2010, 7:52 PM EDT

(NewsCore) - Mel Gibson was dropped from what could have been a career-saving role in "The Hangover 2" after the casting stunt triggered backlash from the film's studio and crew, The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday, citing a statement from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.

"I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and I had the full backing of Jeff Robinov and his team," director Todd Phillips said in the statement. "But I realize film-making is a collaborative effort, and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew."

The sequel to the wildly successful 2009 "The Hangover," will follow the characters played by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha as they take a boys' trip to Thailand with a dangerous stop in Bangkok.

Gibson, who was dropped by the William Morris Endeavor agency in July amid allegations he assaulted and made threats against his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, had signed on to play a Bangkok tattooist in the highly anticipated comedy.

Many are looking to comments made earlier this week by Galifianakis as one of the anonymous dissenters Phillips referred to, the New York Post reported. The actor and comedian gave a podcast interview with Comedy Death-Ray about the difference between being a producer and an actor for hire.

"[In] a movie you're acting in, you don't have a lot of control -- you just show up and vomit your lines out. I'm not the boss," he said. "I'm in a deep protest right now with a movie I'm working on, up in arms about something. But I can't get the guys to [listen] ... I'm not making any leeway."

Meanwhile, Grigorieva was denied a court motion Thursday afternoon to keep the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from examining her computer in connection with an extortion investigation, entertainment website TMZ reported.

Since Gibson and Grigorieva split in April, they have engaged in a tempestuous custody battle over their 11-month-old daughter Lucia -- which has included the public release of a series of explosive recorded phone calls between the two.

The 54-year-old Australian actor claimed his former Russian lover asked for money in exchange for keeping the recordings of their nasty exchanges private, and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has asked for full access to Grigorieva's computer, to determine if there any evidence of extortion.

The decision whether to charge Gibson with assaulting Grigorieva -- as is suggested he did by the tapes -- has been postponed until the extortion investigation is finished.

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