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William Scott says sorry for 'bad' movie

posted 17 years ago by ClarkF1
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Seann William Scott has apologised for his role in movie Mr Woodcock.

The actor said he was surprised by the poor quality of the film, which starred Billy Bob Thornton and Susan Sarandon.

Scott is quoted as saying: "Man, that movie was so bad. I managed to watch about 15 minutes of it before I gave up.

"Billy Bob Thornton didn't ever watch it. It was really a case of that movie not being what it could have been and I'm sorry."

He added: "You know, my friends back in Minnesota are proud of me, but they're not afraid to tell me when I've done a *beep* film like that one, or The Dukes of Hazzard."

Scott also admitted that he was still struggling to overcome being typecast by his character Scott Stifler in the American Pie franchise.

"On the one hand, [Stifler] created a real career for me," he said. "It gave me the opportunity to take care of my family. But it really is this one-dimensional, over-the-top, silly, stupid character."

From Digitalspy

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[–] Promontorium 16 years ago

This movie was cliche' from minute one. How many god damn movies do they need to make where the uncomfortable and soft spoken protagonist must endure constant humiliation brought on by his own ineptness to articulate that the antagonist is causing all the problems? Seriously, this movie has be done. Nearly every Ben Stiller movie falls into this category, and so many more that sucked so bad I can't remember at this moment.

Every one of these films plays out the same, the socially awkward protagonist is trying to slightly improve their life, they encounter an a$$hole, and then the entire film is their humiliation. It's pretty much its own genre. Sort of a sado-masochist fetish film.

Everyone craps on the protagonist, the protagonist gets frustrated and acts out like an angry chimp. Protagonist hurts the ones he loves, then apologizes, and the movie is over.

Seriously, just insert 100000 different movies into this plot line.

The entire emotional appeal to the film is pent up frustration. There is never a release, the bad guy never gets theirs, the "good guy" just ends up more of a pussy than when they started.

[–] ftlauderdalefilmfan 9 years ago

Promontorium - YOUR comment is SO spot-on in every word and detail that I have to copy and paste it into a Word doc or something so I can read it time and again and share it with others. I haven't seen this particular film, since although the summary sounded interesting and I like the cast, I decided to check out the message boards as I usually do before watching a film I find here to see if it's worth the bother, and also, hopefully, to find insightful, articulate, accurate, and amusing comments such as yours to make my day.

Your comment is way off the original topic as many comments become in these threads, but I cannot tell you how happy I am that I found it here. This story has definitely been done to death. As they say when you ask people how their work day is going, "Same sh*t, different day." With these films, as you say, you've got a million different ones with different characters, settings, and whatnot (different day), but the same "genre" you describe so perfectly (same sh*t). I've seen enough of them myself, but thankfully most of the ones I've seen were actually pretty good. Formulaic maybe, but good dialogue, good performances, good direction, etc. Nothing to piss and moan about. Those movies like the Stiller ones you mention I don't even bother with. And don't get me started on Vince Vaughn. I don't want all the haters to come out of the woodwork just because I mentioned that one-trick-pony in a negative light.

Anyway, thanks for one of the best posts I've ever read, here, or anywhere on the Internet.

[–] rgcustomer 15 years ago

I accept the apology (both for this and Dukes).

Still waiting for Thorton though. Who knows why they cast a musician as a gym teacher. Totally unbelievable.

[–] strangerdave-2 15 years ago

The guy who made "Dude Where's My Car" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" is apologizing for this?

Kinda like Jeffrey Dahmer apologizing for getting a jay-walking ticket.

[–] seinfeldallofan 15 years ago

This is a funny thread.

[–] WarpedRecord 15 years ago

I think it's admirable to a point that Scott is apologizing for this, but did none of this occur to him while he read the script? I'm surprised that Scott and Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and Susan Sarandon took these roles, regardless of how big the paycheck was (and I doubt it was that big anyway).

I don't mind bad movies if they're entertaining, but but was was tedious.

[–] Jess35353 15 years ago

I didn't think it was that bad. It's his opinion tho and he can apologize all he wants. I thought it was funny,but Role models and the Rundown are a lot better. I like the less-serious roles Seann has like "stiffler". The promotion was kinda bad in my opinion.

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[–] I_Like_Turtle_s 10 years ago

That whole article sounds like a load of bollocks that some bored hack writer came up with. For one that's the only website that reported it, and it lists no sources whatsoever. And I hardly think he would be silly enough to publicly slam his movies and characters like that.
I am calling BS.