MOVIE 43: this is guaranteed to be hot garbage, right

holy fuck this is the Agassi - Sampras of meta-insult thread derails

haha i still don't know who nino carter is

BJO

Super Troopers has a small core cast and a plot that runs through the whole movie, with lots of comedic tangents. does this look like that to you?

all I was trying to say is that when it comes to movies that are really just a series of sketches, Super Troopers was the only one I can think of right now that really make it work because the plot was in the movie enough to be coherent but didn't require an unfunny 10-15 minute stretch to work things out (even Office Space was guilty of this). I don't think MOVIE 43 will resemble this, at all

by the way, I remember reading that Epic Movie grossed over four times its budget, so expect a lot of these movies in the following decade. at least this one doesn't seem to be stuffed with pop culture references that are dated by the time the thing hits the theatres!

the point some dude was making is that there is no overarching plot to this movie

also I just noticed this: Aasif Mandvi as Asif

lol

also Super Troopers was awesome and I'm betting this one...won't be.

some dude otm as well.

Super Troopers is not "really just a series of sketches," any more than like 80% of comedies released are these days

i mean it's basically Ghostbusters on the plot vs. disconnected tangents scale

yeah I mean it's not like it doesn't have one very clear narrative throughout ("omg our police dept will be shut down, UNLESS....").

it doesn't look anything like stitched together vignettes, so no idea what david frogsby is on about

cuz there's not really a single stretch in that movie that isn't funny, because they have the characters talking about story while other things are happening (like the scene where Mac is wearing the bulletproof cup), a lot of comedies just don't do that

really my point is that I'd rather we talk about super troopers than this "underground comedy movie" wannabe

also as bad as "underground" was it did give us Vince Offer which is a plus

by the way, I remember reading that Epic Movie grossed over four times its budget, so expect a lot of these movies in the following decade. at least this one doesn't seem to be stuffed with pop culture references that are dated by the time the thing hits the theatres!

this already happened and most of the stuff flopped--Friedberg/Seltzer alone had three movies like that after it, and two of em tanked, let alone the "Dance Flick" shit from the Wayans brothers

yeah the "expect a lot of these in the following decade" was a fair statement when epic movie came out almost six years ago

i may have said this elsewhere on ilx but my college girlfriend told me about how she enjoyed super troopers not long after we broke up, and the idea of her watching some silly movie without me got worked up in my head, and i'd get weirdly upset whenever someone would say "hey you wanna check out super troopers?" which happened more than a few times when visiting a video store in around 2003. finally saw it years later and got bored after 30 or so minutes (which is weird since i really like club dread) but anyway NO WE CAN NOT TALK ABOUT SUPER TROOPERS DON'T ASK WHY JUST LET IT GO

hahaha

even Dance Flick turned a profit. it's not like they have even a medium budget.

also holy shit @ epic movie being six years old

lol right after i posted i remembered the Wayans have the Paranormal Activity spoof coming out today, so I guess I can't underestimate how cheap/profitable these things are

i would thiiiink shit becomes less profitable when you pay 12 directors to make 12 short films starring a ton of stars, rather than have one director make one film with zero stars, but it's possible all these celebs worked for scale for the chance to talk about poopie and whatnot

i feel like a cast like this is assembled as a result of increasingly absurd studio demands. "mintz-plasse or the project is dead!"

also this is one of those movies that tends to shock everyone by grossing $120 million. i'm interested though I really do not ever want to see it.

IMO they should have gotten Clooney, Pitt and Damon into the mix and made it Ocean's 43.

Already have a tagline: "Stealing from the Casino is easy... when the whole Casino is in on it!"

has there ever been a hit anthology movie? like actual blockbuster hit?

not some new years eve/mad mad world thing, but a bunch of little short films

I just can't believe that not one, but two fucking Paranormal Activity spoofs are coming out

I don't think Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a blockbuster hit but it received huge critical acclaim and I'm sure turned a profit.

oddly enough that was also the work of one creative team, like the ten and kentucky fried

I wonder how much of the movie is the basketball joke?

has there ever been a hit anthology movie? like actual blockbuster hit?

― da croupier, Friday, January 11, 2013 4:23 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fantasia?

good catch! didn't think of that.

Fantasia was sort of a flop when first released

It didn't make a profit until nearly 30 years after initial release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_%28film%29#Theatrical_runs

The film was shot in 2010 and is set to be released by Relativity Media on January 25, 2013.[2]

Creepshow was a hit, wasn't it? Twilight Zone too, maybe?

It didn't make a profit until nearly 30 years after initial release.

If they manage to squeak out a profit in theaters i hope they put "BIGGER THAN FANTASIA!*" on the blu-ray box

creepshow did indeed turn a profit (though oddly enough one creative team again), twilight zone was a genuine multi-team anthology and turned a profit but apparently underwhelmed considering landis and spielberg were usually doing way bigger numbers

new york stories flopped, though

Paris Je T'aime

Budget $13 million[3]
Box office $17,471,727[4]

Monty python's meaning of life
Budget: $9m
Gross:$18,099,522

hey, the return of rusty cundieff

HEY
GET ON OFF YOUR ASS
IT'S THE "REAGAN WAS A DICKHEAD" TOUR

the homeschooling sketch is the only one in this i'd want to watch

Were Woody's "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex" or Neil Simon's "California Suite" considered anthologies?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_ungodly_gross_out_epic_wood_mfCWrFl3qus9d0e1CRNWZN?fb_action_ids=10151353111904578&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151353111904578%22%3A102814829897884%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151353111904578%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

man i would love it if our generation actually got a 'Kentucky Fried Movie'

So I just discovered that I know two of the screenwriters of this movie.

Others weren’t so affable. In fact, some stars hedged: Gere, a friend of Wessler’s, said yes — though he wouldn’t be available for more than a year.

Wessler waited him out. He thought the idea was too good: Gere plays a Steve Jobs-like character whose company is producing an “iBabe” — a naked woman in a box with a malfunctioning port. “His executive staff is trying to explain to him that this product is cutting off boys’ penises,” Wessler says, “and he just doesn’t get it. He cannot figure out why boys are putting their penises in it.”

this is gonna be ~goooooood~

So I don't want to read this thread; can someone summarize whether it is okay for me to see this movie, and if I do, whether I'm allowed to laugh at it? Thanks in advance.

The Wikipedia page alleges this as a credit:

Michael Wilbon as Human Buttplug

I have doubts.

why didn't they just write "as himself"

I laughed like 6 times at the trailer, don't get the hate