Not like I was planning to see this anyway, but...

Does Seth Rogen Rape Anna Faris in Observe and Report?

Last weekend we were hanging out with a bunch of movie-loving friends who professed no desire to see Observe and Report, Seth Rogen's mall-cop black comedy. "I just don't want to see any movie where the main character's a rapist," one girl said firmly, which caught us by surprise. It's true that the movie's red-band trailer shows him pumping away on an unconscious Anna Faris, but then she stirs and yells, "Did I tell you to stop, motherfucker?" We assumed that once we saw the movie, we'd see some mitigating scenes that, as the Times claims, make it more clear that Brandi, Faris's cosmetics-counter floozy, has given her consent. Surely no studio comedy, no matter how supposedly "dark," would portray its lead character as a rapist, right?

And then we watched it. Spoilers ahead!