Beer Movie" I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell."
Tucker Max, author of the best-selling book and now a movie, "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell," is going to be in College Park Sunday Aug. 30. He and the film's co-writer, Nils Parker, will do a & A after a 7 p.m. screening of the film at Loews Center Park, 4001 Powder Mill Road in College Park.
In this work Max, a graduate of the University of Chicago and Duke University law school, tells tales of his beery adventures and sexual escapades. The New York Times called his writing as "the male equivalent of highly hawkable chick lit."
Reviews of the book on Amazon were not glowing. One reviewer likened him to Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Prozac Nation." They are both products of an Internet/YouTube generation who seek an antidote to meaningless by embracing absolute meaningless ."
Another said of Max, he is as an " alcoholic, sex-crazed, extroverted (expletive-deleted) . But for some reason I am fascinated by him."
I have not read the book nor seen the movie.
But this got me wondering about beer movies.
I found a listing of the five greatest beer movies on the Web site Digital City. Its criteria was that the movie had to either "feature great beer games or that the movie would have no story without beer. "
Their list of five greatest beer movies is: Strange Brew, Artie Lange's Beer League, Beerfest, Revenge of the Nerds and The Saddest Music in the World.
Do you know these films?
What do you think of the list? Any missing?
What are your favorite beer movies?
Comments
I think you have to stick to beer centric films:
1. Strange Brew
2. BeerFest
3. Beer Wars
4. American Beer
I think you have some great documentaries like Beer Wars and American Beer that are a more bit beer centric. Laverne and Shirley work at a Brewery but their show was not about beer.
Posted by: kip | August 24, 2009 10:01 AM
If anyone has ever read his book, this guy is a real scumbag. I am far from being a saint; believe me, but the way Tucker Max portrays the women in his book will make your stomach turn.
Posted by: sturmy | August 24, 2009 10:10 AM
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
http://www.lesblank.com/more/nobeer.html
Posted by: Jim Burch | August 24, 2009 11:02 AM
He doesn't treat women that way. Actually most of his "true stories" are outright lies and fabrications. He got called out on his lies during the Opie & Anthony radio show during an interview. You can watch this loser grow flustered and tear up during the interview on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbreeMofRg
Anyway, don't bother attending the movie. The trailer stank, and a professional Hollywood script reader opined that his script was the worst she had ever been asked to evaluate.
Here's the script to his awful movie:
http://rapidshare.com/files/135879102/IHTSBIH.pdf.html
Posted by: Eric | August 24, 2009 12:36 PM
"If anyone has ever read his book, this guy is a real scumbag. I am far from being a saint; believe me, but the way Tucker Max portrays the women in his book will make your stomach turn."
yes, he is (he openly admits that)....but he's also hysterical.
in other news, and speaking of beer movies...this weekend i was in pittsburgh, where i relived beerfest with my brother by drinking 64 ozs of beer out of Das Boot.
good times. good times.
Posted by: ryan97ou | August 24, 2009 1:01 PM
We'll see if it makes it this far. People are about ready to run him out of town in Raleigh tomorrow and I don't think he can survive this East Coast trip.
I'll be right there with anyone that wants to do the same in Baltimore. He's a bad parody of a bad parody.
Posted by: Deborah C | August 26, 2009 3:05 AM
You're twisting the facts Kasner. IHTSBIH is rated 4 stars on Amazon after 409 reviews. I'd like to see you do better. 257 (more than half) are 5 star, no less.
Posted by: DTchang | August 26, 2009 3:08 AM
This piece of garbage is gonna get what's coming to him. Tucker Max's only interest is self promotion, so he thinks it's funny to exploit women like a pig! We're protesting him at NC State today, he won't know what hit him!
Posted by: LauraF | August 26, 2009 1:23 PM
First of all, I don't care about this cat either way but this protest was of interest to me.
So I stopped by NC State, LauraF, what hit him? I saw protesters that looked like they were there for the free pub and gatorade. Fans were 10 to 1 at least to "protesters". I looked up several reviews of the book and the movie and there's nothing that seems to be about or promoting rape.
This guy seems like a real jerk, but this rape protest stuff seems like a publicity stunt more than informed protesters making a stand. It's not a crime to go against acceptable social preferences withing the law, but slandering someone is and many are leading toward the latter against a guy in the former...
Posted by: Bob Saffronetti | August 27, 2009 9:35 AM