Rainn Wilson "Chats" Up 'The Rocker'

After a little release date juggling, The Rocker will finally hit theaters next week. The movie stars Rainn Wilson from The Office as a has-been (or maybe that's a never-was) who sees another shot a rock god status when his nephew's high school garage band finds itself in dire need of a drummer for their gig playing the school prom. It's got quite a few funny moments, and in particular, SNL cast member Jason Sudeikis gets a lot of laughs, and while I liked the movie, I think I like these incredibly bizarre and entirely unrelated promotional videos even more. Wilson plays himself, hosting something called Book Chat. In the first episode, Wilson interviews someone he believes to be Maya Angelou. In fact, it's Slash from Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver. An honest mistake, I guess. And then, over the course of four installments, Wilson and his special guest talk absolute nonsense. I realize that may not sound like a strong sales pitch, but I wouldn't share all four of them with you if I absolutely hated it. Again, having seen The Rocker, these videos are so different from the style of humor in the movie that I'm not sure it accomplishes what it's really setting out to do, but take a look anyway. These remind me of Brule's Rules, the wildly peculiar John C. Reilly shorts from Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, although they're not quite as strange. Very few things are. That's beside the point: Rainn Wilson rocks out with his new movie out Wednesday, August 20th. Gracias to MovieWeb for the vids.