"Mountaintop Waterdrop": Watch Joaquin Phoenix's Documentary Trailer, Try Not to Gag

Here is the first trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's college project went-crazy-for-a-year documentary, I'm Still Here. There's a guy with a "the dude abides" voice talking about mountaintop waterdrops and other Zen things while Phoenix does his best Zach Galifianakis impression, including angrily hurtling himself into a crowd at the Fontainebleau's LIV nightclub...

By Gus Garcia-Roberts

August 17, 2010

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Here is the first trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's ~~college project~~ went-crazy-for-a-year documentary, I'm Still Here. There's a guy with a "the dude abides" voice talking about mountaintop waterdrops and other Zen things while Phoenix does his best Zach Galifianakis impression, including angrily hurtling himself into a crowd at the Fontainebleau's LIV nightclub.

Last time we wrote about the documentary, a couple of readers chastised us for mocking the project, so we won't launch into an editorial here.

But still, if we could have one word: dumb.

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