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

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

i want to go see this with Morbs

This is how At the Movies should be re-booted.

morbs is either going to like it or make some comment about how he'd rather watch this than some quentin tarantino movie

so this movie was made for only $6 million apparently, and has already made a tidy profit in Russia. It also opened to a higher per screen average than Zero Dark Thirty in the UK this weekend.

lol Wikipedia:

Movie 43 is a 2013 American "comedy" film [citation needed]

This movie is awful, but I laughed a bunch. People seem apoplectic about this fairly harmless thing (which isn't particularly cynical, and is rarely cruel - just dumb), when surely it's a GOOD thing that a studio threw down for a wide-release film that cost $6m and isn't based on a friggin' videogame/superhero or an '80s reboot. Anyway, yeah - it's worth the price of admission for the Rusty Cundieff skit. Lots of fun.

One of two 0-star reviews on Slant in the last week.

You'd have better luck getting me to watch Les Miz

the more terrible reviews this gets the more i want to defend it. Of course that would require actually watching it, which i'm not yet willing to do

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/29/movie-43-hollywood-humiliation

crazy that this really terrible-looking movie ended up being bad!!!

haha

there's something magical about movies described as the "worst of all time". i'll def be checking this out.

It doesn't seem spectacularly bad to me, just dumb jokes that don't seem to work.

just started reading the AV Club review, poor Anna Faris

Yeah, I feel "worst of all time" fascination would have to be something special, not a collection of unfunny collegehumor skits. I imagine this is just queasily dull like Sex Lives of this Potato Men.

Well, does it feature Adrian Chiles?

This movie has some funny gags in it. People celebrating this as 'the worst movie ever!' don't actually watch or care about movies.

Mostly people seem to be thinking it's horrible and wishing they hadn't seen it tho, not "celebrating" its awfulness exactly

wait so does chris pratt get naked in this? that's the only thing that could motivate me to see this

Tampax
Directed by Patrik Forsberg
Two women use, discuss, favor, and argue about tampax

poor griffin dunne

tampax is the name of their dog.

Weird fact from the Guardian story: it's made back its $6m budget from Russian box office alone.

yeah, I bet the rooskies are just eating this up.

coprophilia is so hot right now

In mother russia, poop eats YOU!

it's funny how they're going out of their way to point out the movie wasn't a money-loser, when what that means is a bunch of successful actors appeared in skits about poopie for no money

poor griffin dunne
― buzza, Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:16 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He seems to be doing alright. It was nice to see him in one of the last Girls episodes.

His skit is by far the weirdest in the movie, and certainly the most tonally different. It looks great (though there is an extended shot of Emma Stone that might be more out of focus than anything I've ever seen in a major movie. Like, maybe she just dropped in for a single take and bailed).

He's a veteran of the sketch anthology movie, too, having appeared in Amazon Women on the Moon (which this movie most closely resembles) in '87.

i'd like to think this movie might have cost that dude who produces farrelly bros movies a little social capital on top of the $6m

https://www.asiabooks.com/images_books/9780977507078_C0_S.jpg

Unrated version on DVD is gonna blow this out of the water

Just waiting on the porn parody Movie 69

Also this film vs

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-surreally-incompetent-not-another-not-another,91699/

On the plus side, I've just found out there's going to be a Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.

now on netflix instant!

Somebody else watch it so we can discuss its glory

This wasn't the worst thing.

Yeah, there's a handful of funny sketches in this.

Seriously all the harry knowles wannabes just raring to try out their best "It was like Princess Di crashing a turd into a wet Hitlerbortion" lines before entering the theater

JB Smoove, Jason Sudekis, and Terrence Howard were downright hilarious in this, fuck the haters

I've got your back on this. I just realized I had previously said:

This movie is awful, but I laughed a bunch. People seem apoplectic about this fairly harmless thing (which isn't particularly cynical, and is rarely cruel - just dumb), when surely it's a GOOD thing that a studio threw down for a wide-release film that cost $6m and isn't based on a friggin' videogame/superhero or an '80s reboot. Anyway, yeah - it's worth the price of admission for the Rusty Cundieff skit. Lots of fun.
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:31 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and

(Griffin Dunne) seems to be doing alright. It was nice to see him in one of the last Girls episodes.

His skit is by far the weirdest in the movie, and certainly the most tonally different. It looks great (though there is an extended shot of Emma Stone that might be more out of focus than anything I've ever seen in a major movie. Like, maybe she just dropped in for a single take and bailed).

He's a veteran of the sketch anthology movie, too, having appeared in Amazon Women on the Moon (which this movie most closely resembles) in '87.
― Walter Galt, Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:56 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was kinda fascinating