Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have written some great films together, including Superbad and Pineapple Express. My favorite aside from Superbad is probably 2013’s This Is the End, a hilarious film about Rogen and his actor friends – James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, and Jay Baruchel (playing hyper versions of themselves) – as they are barricaded in Franco’s house during the apocalypse.
I only recently discovered that the concept was originally utilized as a short nine minute film written solely by Goldberg titled Jay and Seth Versus The Apocalypse. It employs the same idea, but on a smaller scale – Rogen and Baruchel arguing while locked in their apartment during the rapture. For a short, the production values are pretty damn good. The basic idea is the same, but the feature film is quite different, which, according to Wikipedia, “frustrated many fans, who expected to see a feature closer to the 2007 release of the trailer online.”
I’m sure the rest of the Internet has known about it since it was made in 2007 (and was included on the Blu-Ray of This Is the End), but I just found out about it so it’s new to me, dammit. Carve out nine minutes and watch it now:
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