Raise your hand if you've slept with a midget, a deaf girl and an amputee. Anyone? Oh yes, in the back of the class, Mr. Tucker Max.
Max's movie, "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell," based on the New York Times bestseller, premiered Monday night at Gator Cinemas. Gainesville is one of 31 stops on Max's movie premiere tour before the film opens nationwide on September 25.
But the premiere didn't just include a screening; it also included a question-and-answer session with Max and his co-writer, Nils Parker, and swag bags for all viewers that included a beer glass, movie poster, bumper sticker, bottle opener keychain and wristband.
Max stopped in Gainesville just after premiering the film in Tallahassee.
"Those FSU girls take it out of you," he said sipping out of a red Solo cup. "They steal part of your soul."
Before the movie started, Max asked audience members for their best, most ludicrous sex stories. Though there's no way to tell if they're true or not, there was everything from tag-teaming a girl in the back of a hearse on Valentine's Day to a guy who was caught losing his virginity by his girlfriend's Amish father.
"How do you even spit game to an Amish girl," Max asked. "I'll churn your butter?"
Max's fame stems from his book, a compilation of 27 ridiculous and hilarious stories involving outrageous amounts of alcohol, inappropriate actions and more sex "than is safe or reasonable."
But the book is only a small slice of who Max really is; the movie shows more.
The film follows Tucker (Matt Czuchry, Gilmore Girls), Dan (Geoff Stults, The Break-Up, Wedding Crashers) and Drew (Jesse Bradford, Bring it On, Swimfan) as they venture on an impromptu bachelor party trip. Tucker ends up dragging Dan into a lie with his fiancée and abandons his friends to pursue a - let's just say, unique - sexual interest and is forced to balance his selfish narcissism with what it takes to be a true friend.
"The book is about being funny and entertaining," Max said. "The movie shows a different side of me, how my personality traits impact my friends."
While the movie does tell a great story of three friends, it's jam-packed with nudity, raunchiness, vulgar language, hilarious dialogue and an epic diarrhea scene.
The movie's humor is very similar to that of this summer's highest grossing R-rated comedy,"The Hangover," but viewers on Monday said they thought Max's movie was even funnier. Stults was actually offered Doug Bartha's role in "The Hangover," but turned it down for "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell."
Max thinks a big part of why the movie works so well is because Czuchry really nailed the character. Big names like Wilder Valderrama and Justin Timberlake were thrown around for the part, but Czuchry truly "channeled [Max's] oblique disregard of other people's feelings" to master the role.
In fact, Max said Czuchry created a more likable character out of Tucker Max.
"He made me a better me," he said. "I feel like he can take the character and go places where maybe I'm not going to go in real life."
Although Max is known as a horrible person who's mastered the art of misogyny, he's not as much of a douchebag as everyone thinks. Tucker Max actually has a heart; he just hasn't grown up. Yet.
"No question I want a wife and kids. How [crappy] would it be to go through your whole life single with no one to love who loves you? I absolutely want that, I just don't think today, right now, I'm quite ready," he said.
And he is definitely not ready considering his first blog post after leaving Gainesville was titled "I Scored in the Swamp." The post described how he snuck into Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and had sex with a girl in the south end zone underneath the national championship signs. There are even pictures to prove it.
His actions may seem disrespectful, but Max has nothing but good things to say about the Gators.
"To every other team in the SEC: You are welcome to bask in the glow of this score also, because it will probably be the only one any of us get on UF this year."
Max, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1998 and then went on to get his JD from Duke Law School, is nearly finished with his second book and said he has plans for a sequel, which would be set in law school.
To follow the rest of his tour or for more information on the movie, go to the "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" website.
