We've been ready to write off Dane Cook for a long time (we're still bitter about those "There's Only One October" commercials last year). Arlington's finest most famous export has been raking in the cash and selling out (large venues, that is) with essentially the same comedy material and frat guy schtick for years, while his movies have been much less commercially or critically successful. Seriously, did anyone actually see Good Luck Chuck?
But who knew of Dane Cook, the artist? Cook unleashed a new side on Tuesday when he ripped apart the preview poster for the Boston-filmed My Best Friend's Girl, which we all knew during last year's filming as Bachelor No. 2. Apparently Cook doesn't like the poster now circulating, and we agree with him: it's an awkward, uninspired poster that features co-stars Kate Hudson and Jason Biggs smiling and looking stupid, respectively, while Cook looks like a tool, smirking from his spot between the pair.
We'll let you read the list of Cook's grievances (don't worry, by the way, he's as Dane Cook-ish as ever as he describes to what he takes offense). Sure, it's kind of lame to preemptively blame a poster for poor ticket sales down the line. And we're sure that this isn't exactly going to be groundbreaking cinema.
But we have to admit that we dig the manner in which he showers praise on co-star Alec Baldwin, and we like seeing an actor go out of his way to tell an audience that he's proud of a movie he's made and is psyched to share it.
Especially when those words aren't just being spoken during a press junket.
Image of the offending poster from Dane Cook's MySpace
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