does anybody else find this shit hilarious? my apologies if this belongs in the bands forum, i was torn.

Don't think so, it is a movie.

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jack black is one of my favorite human beings....ever. i've got the first cd memorized, and bought the dvd of all the HBO episodes....


can't wait to see the movie.

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i hate jack black more than i hate tom hanks and thats saying something. the other fat bald guy is depression in human form

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jack black is okay not my favorite

Tenacious D.... Tenacious Rubbish if you ask me!

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Geeze, I'm not a fanboy like moeblunts but I don't know why you would feel that negative about him.

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I'm not a fan of Jack Black...but how can you hate Tom Hanks? Seriously, he's a godsend.

Except I fucking hated "The Terminal"..I saw that bullshit in theatres.

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HAHA! same!

I think Jack Black is badass, but i have no interest in Tenacious D, i hate joke/funny "music"... i just dont think music should be a joke. at all.

Jack Black has got to be the most unfunny, annoying human alive today.

EU AMO-TE

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I think it's hilarious that the people my age calling to win stuff on the morning news coffee quiz are getting ticket s to this movie. They really sound like they'd be interested in seeing it. Now if I was called I'd probably be cool about it, but I'm not registered for it.

wally and his buddy did every single thing they played along with TD when they played it between bands at the Satriani concert a few years ago. I was dying.

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That movie rocked you ass. That shit actually happened somewhat recently too haha. I think it was in europe maybe africa i can't remember. but there was like this african guy who was stuck at the airport for similar reasons. He didn't stay there nearly as long as tom hanks did but long enough.

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I liked the concept...but the love story was horrible and predictable.

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honestly i wasn't a fan of jack black at all but i actually sat down and watched some dvds over at steves house and it was pretty funny. he is in some movies that i have no interest in seeing, and i can see what people are getting at. the stuff i watched had me laughing pretty hard. though i was drinking and smoking..which usually helps haha.

i agree, jack black is a funny dude, but his music is pathetic...

tenacious d is the probably the second best band in the world. solid music, hilariouss lyrics and Jables is an amazing vocalist (no denying here guys). I also have the DVD which is awesome, and i preordered the soundtrack to the ick of destiny

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They try way too hard. I don't find them funny.

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I'm not a fan, but there is some good songwriting and humour in that band.
I don't like Jack Black as an actor though..

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I don't like funny songs either. They piss me off. There's no room for them in the world of music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (<---sarcasm)

Another reason why I like here as opposed to other lyric forums. A rule against fun lyrics is a BIG BLACK MARK in my book.

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Well if you had your way all of us would look like those pandas from Norway who never stop frowning.

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At least their music is a joke intentionally. Most bands' music is a joke the band doesn't get.

Tom Hanks is a shitty, lazy actor who peaked in his early comedies and just goes through the motions anymore (in The Terminal, they're Chaplin's motions). Spielberg is a similar case, but wants to avoid being remembered as being dumb and insignificant, so he keeps trying on the modes that have been tagged as intelligent (Kubrick, 'big' national issues, PK Dick, etc); however, being who he is, they always come out as inferior copies. The Terminal is just another of these. But let's keep this discussion to the movie thread.

Jack Black's funny, but I doubt he can sustain a film by himself. I've seen him try and it's yet to work. And I doubt he's in a supporting role here. I don't hold out much hope for it. I'm vaguely interested in The Holiday, though, but not because of him.

quite the opposite, if i had my way there would be no such thing as "corpse paint" or anything similar, and there would be no raw black metal either, which is usually the kind that wears it

many people have the wrong idea about my interests. meh.

How come?

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heh, just because i care about it so much and ive had to defend it to people who talk crap ,and dont understand, for so long. and then, a few years ago, when i started making my own, it just made me more serious about it. people say not to take it so serious, by why not? i mean, wouldnt you think that the most important thing in your life should be taken serious?

he had a cool and small part in dead man walking.


anyway, king kong and nacho libre are two of his best pieces of acting

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Just because something's comedic doesn't mean it isn't done seriously. There's a huge difference between doing something seriously (as in putting in the effort to do it well) and doing it humorlessly. You seem to be confusing the two.

Generally speaking, it takes a lot more talent and effort to make something that's funny than something that isn't. Committing yourself to music shouldn't be committing yourself to being a humorless cunt in music.

that isnt really "generally speaking" though. because thats like saying that it is harder to make a funny joke than it is to build a house. your point works better when exclusive to comedy. even though me singling this out isnt important in the least.

anway, i feel that comedy doesnt belong in music. doesnt exactly make me a cunt. its just yet another preference one has that another may or may not share.

jesus christ, no!!!!!! you couldn't be more wrong.


the tenacious d series on HBO? that jack black's best work, along with his stuff on mr. show. i also love him in saving silverman

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i don't think he meant quite that general. i think he meant general things a band can do while writing a song.

Your example makes no sense, and comedy can flow quite well with music as long as it isn't black metal.

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I agree with the other dude on Nacho Libre and King Kong, even though I didn't like Nacho that much.

Hey, the last three posts are .01 from each other

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I just want to say: King Kong was absolutely ABYSMAL. My sister and i walked out of the movie before they even got to the island. Despite the characters being original for he time that LOTR director made them seem like boring copies. And cliched lines permeated the sludge that was that movie. So cheesy, so unoriginal, so plastic, bright-pink candy-ass stuff. the emotions displayed by jack black were always the same ones. the same deep intense look. hah. If anyone says it was good please tell me why, except for the amazing fight scenes. (i watched it on an airplane (not such a good dea to walk out on THAT movie ))

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ofcourse its cheesy numbnut, it's a remake of a movie from the thirties!

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This will probably be the World's Greatest Movie. I also think that would've been a better title than "The Pick of Destiny", which sounds more like there's a magic booger in KG's nose or something. I'm definitely watching this movie out of my <3 for Tenacious D, but I have to say, the commercials already have me doubting it fufilled it's potential.

On an loosely related note, Nacho Libre could have been so much more. Cheesy Mexican wrestling (which I love) + one of the guys who wrote Napoleon Dynamite (which I loved) + Jack Black (who I love) should = better than the mediocre movie we got.

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yeah you're right, but i was talking about his movies, the HBO's are fucking awesome.

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Tripple-X, you gave me quite a start with that first post, before the sarcasm broke through. My poor old heart. And lawks too.

No comdey in music? I gotta hand it to you, seeing someone denouncing Tenacious D, Tom Lehrer, Stefan Demert (wot you haven't heard of, your loss) Monty Python, Hasse & Tage (dito) Magnus Uggla, partways Green Day, Povel Ramel, Pistvakt, a bit of Webber and, dont'yerknow, me, with a single sentence was a fascinating experience.

I find Tenacious quite amusing, at least in some songs. Tribute still ranks high in my mind, it's just so completely lost in the woods. And School of Rock is pretty fun.

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Explosivo is my favorite one.

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this is pretty awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2MmqbAaoZA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rCvDe0LOc


i cant wait for the movie. GOD DAMN!!

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timedragon: It's harder to build a house that's funny and yet still functions as a house than one that's just a house, or a somewhat somber house, or a romantic house, and so on. Now, keeping that sentence in mind, go back and re-read my 'generally speaking' and understand it. It's not 'arbitrarily choose two incomparable things to compare.' It's 'Generally speaking, something [specific] that's funny is harder to make than something [also specific and of the same type] that isn't.' Dig?

And saying that humor has no place in anything makes you a humorless cunt, and one I doubt understands the field in question very well. It doesn't make you just a cunt, though, and to that extent you're right. But I didn't just say that, now did I?

Teaching myself how to play Double Team was one of the high points of my life.

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thats because you dont know what i was getting at. simple as that. if you still smoke weed, i'll take that as your excuse.

haha, a house thats funny!!!?? nah man, i get your point, i always do, i just dont always agree.

hey! im not entirely humorless! i make wise cracks all the time, in person. blah bleh, i just realized its 2 AM, and i just finished a beer. thats 12 fuckin hours of drinking. i'll probably go slip into bed now, or crash uncomfortably onto it and pass out, either way, im calling it a night.

Tenacious D is cool.

I got the DVD with the live concert, hbo episodes and the short films.

All hail for "butt baby!!!"

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jesus ranch is a fantastic song to learn for the ladies. is double team the song where they bust out bach?

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If you got it your counterexample and sophistry with the 'generally speaking' bit didn't show it. But fair enough.

And I do consider somebody who makes jokes but doesn't believe that joking is serious to be humorless. I consider somebody who believes that laughs belong in boxes to be humorless, even if he has a lot of those boxes himself.

No, it's a song where JB tries to pick up any random girl in the audience for a threesome with him and KG. It fucking RULES. One time I was out on my porch playing it at 3AM and some people walk by my house, recognize it, laugh, and threw change at me. I kept the change and a phone number from one of the girls. I didn't call because she was probably drunk when she gave it to me, but a notch nonetheless.

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"man i'd like to place my hand upon yo sexy ass.......and squeeze"

that song is great. all d is perfect for interprative dance

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nonono... "and squuuueeeaaaeeeese!!!"

Dunno what it's called, but everyone familiar with TD knows which song I mean by "Fuck her hard". Me and two friends sang it at a party - seriously and in key - to a generally cheering audience. There we have the general again. It's haunting us.

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fuck her gently

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goddamnit, i just recieved the special edition of 'the pick of destiny'. Its the most awesome package ever. A big bookshaped box with golden letters. Filled with a mini gatefold sleeve with a hologram cover, the album and a mini poster.

Then there are 8 special (goddamn funny) tenacious d tarotcards and to top things off; a original, green, wooden PICK OF DESTINY!!

i'm gonna cream

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Jesus dudes, all of us must listen to the last track on "the pick of destiny". It is named, "The Metal" and reminds us of why this style of music is so great. ::stands up while waving american, swedish, british, norweigian, brazillian, and canadian flag::.

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yeah check them lyrics

You can't kill the metal
The metal will live on

Punk rock tried to kill the metal
But they failed as they were smited to the ground

New wave tried to kill the metal
But they failed as they were stricken down to the ground

Grunge tried to kill the metal
Hahahahaha they failed as they were thrown to the ground

No one can destroy the metal
The metal will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the metal
We tried to win for why we do not know

New wave tried to destroy the metal
But the metal had its way
Grunge then tried to dethrone the metal
But the metal was in the way
Punk rock tried to destroy the metal
But the metal was in the way
Punk rock tried to destroy the metal
But metal was much too strong
Techno tried to defile the metal
But techno was proven wrong
Yeah!

Metal!
It comes from hell

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AMEN

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the album is fucking awesome, id say my favorite song is classico, that and the metal.

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Been getting into Tenacious D these past two days, and I have to say that they're fucking awesome.

Mate, you disappoint me- i thought you listened to good music

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Eh, screw you guy!

im getting more and more stoked on the pick of destiny. I must have spinned the record a thousand times. Anyone knew there's a double vinyl picture disc out? fucking awesome!

oh and check this bluegrass band out preforming tribute and jesus ranch; the latter proves the d's quality in writing beautiful music
http://www.myspace.com/thedustbowlcavaliers

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I saw a clip on tv today with Jack Black, Tom Hanks, and Will Ferrell. I think it was from the oscars, but not positive. It sure sounded like it from what I caught of the song. Fun stuff.

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