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3/28/2010 10:58:53 PM

I'm not going to lie. I normally don't like this shit... okay, sometimes, but this movie was definitely worth seeing. Sure, it wasn't the Hangover, but it was pretty damn funny and the cast was amazing.

It's definitely worth seeing, that's all I'm saying. Compared to some of the other more immediate letdowns in hyped humor I've seen in the last couple years, mostly Tropic Thunder, it was very refreshing and... well, Mission Valley cheap son.

3/28/2010 11:34:13 PM

^ how am i supposed to take your advice seriously when you didn't like tropic thunder?

3/29/2010 12:06:34 AM

Many Roger Ebert reviews these days go something like "if you like this in a movie, then you'll like it."

Fine with me.

Roger Ebert is awesome.

Ability to speak or no.

3/29/2010 3:10:44 AM

You know a movie is going to be good when the title of the movie is also a line of dialogue.

3/29/2010 3:35:36 AM

As long as you go into this movie understanding that it's called "Hot Tub Time Machine" you should be ok. I enjoyed it. I thought it was going to be terrible based on the trailers, but was pleasantly surprised.

DO NOT go into this movie ready to point out every continuity/time-travel error. It's a comedy, not science fiction.

3/29/2010 10:48:00 AM

^^^ he actually can speak, using recordings of his voice with the help of a computer

its pretty fucking incredible & kind of a fluke for him since there were so many existing voice recordings of his available for content

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/roger-eberts-voice-restored-experimental-technology/story?id=9987141

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"Experimental Tech Restores Roger Ebert's Voice Voice Synthesis Company Reconstructs Ebert's Voice From Hours of Movie Commentary After a more than three-year journey to find his voice, new technology is helping Roger Ebert sound like himself again. The critic discusses what his life is like in the wake of cancer surgery.On "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today, the celebrated film critic, who lost his voice after complications from thyroid cancer, demonstrated new voice cloning technology that will let him communicate in his old voice. Using hours of archived recordings of Ebert's "At the Movies" commentary, the Scotland-based company CereProc reconstructed the sound of the critic's voice. Ebert himself found the company while searching the Internet and reached out to them last year. CereProc, an advanced voice synthesis company in Edinburgh, creates customized text-to-speech software. Instead of producing flat computerized voices, the company says its voices include realistic, animated and emotional dimensions. After demonstrating the technology on Oprah, Ebert gave his new voice the thumbs up. "You'll know it's a computer, but one that sounds like me," he said. "It still needs improvement but at least it sounds like me. In first grade they said I talked too much, and now I still can." Moved by the sound of a voice she said she had not heard since July 1, 2006, Ebert's wife Chaz said, "I actually think it's incredible. It's incredible that that's your voice." Ebert used a prototype for Winfrey's show and expects to receive a final version of the technology in the next few months. Ebert said the new voice is "uncanny, a good feeling." Ebert's New Voice Replaces 'Alex' Ebert was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, but at the time neither he nor his doctors expected him to lose his voice. The cancer spread to his throat, and attempts to treat the spreading cancer with radiation led to more complications. Several subsequent surgeries meant to restore his voice failed. In the effort to communicate again through speech, his new "voice" went through several incarnations before settling on the CereProc technology. In a piece published last August on his journal on the Chicago Sun-Times' Web site, Ebert wrote about his experiments with text-to-speech technology. On his Mac, he said he found a speech program that reads aloud messages typed on his laptop. Though he called it a "godsend," he said it still left much to be desired. He tested out different voices and, after using a British accented voice called "Lawrence" for a year, he ultimately settled on "Alex." "Amazingly Alex, is the first voice I have yet heard that understands and reflects question marks and exclamation points!?! This prevents every sentence from being spoken in a monotone," Ebert wrote. Ebert Found CereProc on His Own Still, Ebert said he wished for his own voice again. "On those occasions I've appeared in public or on TV with a computer voice, I nevertheless sound like Robby the Robot. Eloquence and intonation are impossible. I dream of hearing a voice something like my own," he wrote. "We put men on the Moon, people like to say about such desires: Why can't I have a voice of my own?" In that same piece, he wrote about reaching out to CereProc. "I have my fingers crossed. I have launched an e-mail to Edinburgh with my appeal. I can see my own voice hosting online or telecast video essays," he wrote. "I am greatly cheered. I will keep you informed." Matthew Aylett, CereProc's chief technical officer, said the company started working on the voice Ebert has affectionately called "Roger, Jr." soon after receiving his request. "We typically use synthesis in all sorts of environments, but this is the first time we've used it in a way that really helps someone who needs it in this way," he said. Usually, the company's text-to-speech technology is used by companies that need a synthesized voice for call centers or in-car communication, he said. Academics also work with CereProc on voices for more human-sounding, cutting-edge robots. But Aylett said that as the technology advances, the applications are endless. In all cases, Aylett said, CereProc engineers and speech experts work to "infuse character in our voices." In addition to creating regional-sounding voices, the company produces voices with variation and emotions. Though CereProc can't yet recreate the full range of emotions,it's possible to construct voices that sound more snippy, cheerful or sad, he said. Voice-Building Process Complicated by Ebert's Off-the-Cuff Commentary The work on "Roger, Jr." builds on efforts to clone speech. "When you clone a voice, what you're trying to do is represent a character and get that personality out," he said. Using recorded audio of George W. Bush, for example, the company recreated the voice of the former president. The prototype voice that Ebert demonstrated for Winfrey was constructed from about three hours of the critic's commentary on movies such as "Citizen Kane" and "Valley of the Dolls." After transcribing the commentary, Aylett said the company broke down the words into the roughly 45 speech sounds that comprise the English language. Those sounds are also affected by Ebert's intonation patterns and the ways he expresses feeling in a sentence, he added. The task was made more difficult because Ebert's commentary was recorded over different years, in different audio environments and with different equipment. Aylett said the transcription process was complicated by the fact that Ebert frequently spoke off the cuff. Still, he said the company continues to add data to build Ebert's voice and expects to have a completed voice in the next few months. "The voice communicates an awful lot about you," he said. "Your history, where you're from, what sort of person you are in many ways. It's also part of our soul. To create that, for example, for people who have lost it is a really exciting thing to do." "

3/29/2010 11:04:23 AM

I know.

But it still sounds pretty robotic from what I've heard.

3/29/2010 11:54:53 AM

you should find the oprah interview. i was pretty impressed. as the article says, the 'voice' he used on oprah was a prototype.. it was still amazing

3/29/2010 1:54:41 PM

seen

3/29/2010 2:15:34 PM

I keep hearing good things about this movie...which is very surprising to me. Might have to go check it out now.

3/29/2010 2:54:40 PM

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"^ how am i supposed to take your advice seriously when you didn't like tropic thunder?"

It was the single most overhyped comedy movie I've ever been to, and one of the overall biggest letdowns for me. What was foreseen to be a movie full of black humor and subtle satire ended up being the biggest joke I've seen in a long time. There were some one-liners, and one or two cast members made it worth watching, but on the whole it was disappointing.

3/29/2010 6:43:16 PM

Two thumbs up

4/3/2010 6:06:37 PM

My parents, esp my dad, loved it.

4/3/2010 8:37:19 PM

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"Mordecai Veteran 143 Posts user info edit post this is a joke right ? i mean i like craig robinson and 20 year old mj jokes as much as the next guy but fuck does this look atrocious 2/24/2010 8:23:29 PM Azaka mp0w3r!!1 4192 Posts user info edit post I thought it was a joke trailer/commercial when I first saw it. 2/24/2010 8:51:43 PM Mordecai Veteran 143 Posts user info edit post exactly. this trailer should be a warning on how you dont want your movie to be 2/24/2010 8:58:45 PM vinylbandit i play bass now 36862 Posts user info edit post whoever got this made must have gay sex tapes of everyone in hollywood especially chevy chase and john cusack jesus christ with that said, i scraped this off of an AICN advance screening report: Quote : "Hot Tub Time Machine is totally fucking retarded and I mean that as a total thumbs up. " 2/24/2010 9:04:46 PM"

FFFFUUUUUU haters

4/3/2010 11:40:26 PM

I thought it was funny but I guess I had low expectations going in

4/3/2010 11:41:11 PM

Pretty fucking funny.

John Cusack was great.

4/7/2010 11:00:40 PM

IS IT A FETUS????

4/8/2010 5:42:22 PM

I was high as a kite and it was the funniest movie i have ever seended


lol.............seended...............lol

Im easily amused. =)

4/8/2010 6:15:34 PM

If you see it just make sure that you don't think about the time travel logistics.

You will bleed from your eyes and ears.

4/8/2010 6:40:23 PM

hahaha just got back, thought it was hilarious

4/10/2010 12:13:53 AM

i thought it was great... the arm jokes with Glover had me rolling

4/11/2010 2:09:18 PM

great white buffalo

4/11/2010 5:55:09 PM

Great White Buffalo.

4/11/2010 8:23:19 PM

Why is this not at Mission Valley? Wanted to watch it this weekend but it's not listed in the showtimes.

4/15/2010 10:46:31 AM

Loved it!

Also, I saw it at Mission Valley so ^ I dunno.

4/15/2010 12:41:50 PM

^^They made room for other stuff.

4/16/2010 3:04:06 AM

it was pretty funny...is it wrong that I wanted it to be MORE over the top than it already was?


I was admittedly in a bad mood last night, so I know that played a role in how I felt about it & how much I laughed...last movie I watched when I was in that bad of a mood was Hot Rod, which I know people LOVE, but I only laughed during the forest dance scene

4/17/2010 10:29:16 AM

Well, punch dance was pretty goddamn awesome.

4/17/2010 12:51:40 PM

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"i bet all you fuckers hate Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure too"

that movie was fucking awesome

so was the second one

4/17/2010 12:56:26 PM

Liked how they never explained the Cincinnati thing, haha.

4/18/2010 12:15:46 AM

Shit was funny.

Thumbs up. And I fucking love Lizzy Caplan. Big crush.

4/18/2010 10:48:04 AM

Just saw this last night at the $1.50 theatre. Good movie, definitely worth a bone and a half.

6/16/2010 1:51:30 PM

Eh.. I saw it about a week ago at the $1.50 - worth it, maybe.... but barely.

6/16/2010 1:56:06 PM

just watched it tonight thought it was funny. Hell anything is better than baseball

7/13/2010 9:46:59 PM

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"Hell anything is better than baseball"

7/14/2010 12:28:11 PM

I did hate on the trailer when I first saw it but I watched it last night and thought it was pretty funny.

7/14/2010 8:41:06 PM

awesome movie, hilarious.

*whisper*Great White Buffalo*whisper*

plus, damn those chicks were hot, and that one girl in the hot tub, HOLY BOOBIES!! I'd be a motorboatin' mofo on those boobies!!

7/15/2010 10:57:05 AM

^what a post

7/15/2010 12:19:24 PM

funny shit

9/18/2010 10:32:46 PM

This don't concern you, Jerry!

9/18/2010 10:59:11 PM

just watched it...would recommend

12/26/2010 7:40:59 PM