BAD. SANTA.

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Alan

The ending isn't as bad as I'd been led to believe, and for once the really-dark ending wouldn't have satisfied me.

I really, really liked the black comedy aspect. So much so I resented the redemption and rehumanization aspect.

Ok, you stumped me. What is it that you hate about ILE?

not really, btw.

badder santa isnt worth getting - i could only pinpoint about 2 extra scenes, one in a strip club. so if you like to go out of your way to check out some extra titties on a dvd, this ones for you.

-- bill stevens (bscrubbin...), August 9th, 2004 1:18 PM. (bscrubbins)

but why aren't we talking about "mr. 3000"??????

Will await w/interest

am hearing terrible

there's no way this isn't going to be godawful

yeah quite aside from the usual years-later unnecessary sequel concerns the first film was kinda good against the odds, chances of that happening again are slim

i'd weigh in that the original had a lot of weird factors that contributed to its existence

the Coen brothers doing uncredited script doctoring, Zwigoff directing but the editing keeping it light (the director's cut is somehow darker and less funny), Cloris Leachman as the senile grandmother....

yeah, no high hopes here, but i will watch it

Seeing the Welsh talk upthread reminds me that I was recently reminded that there was a movie of Acid House I completely forgot about released in '99, which was made up of the title story and two others from the book.

I think I watched that but I have absolutely no memory of it whatsoever

(the director's cut is somehow darker and less funny)

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

well one thing I can say: if the turnout for this (free!) screening is anything to go by, people do not give a fuck about this film

I get the feeling that despite it's absolute shiteness I'll probably end up liking this. Despite both the actor/character dying I get the feeling Bernie Mac is a big loss for any bullshit sequel, he's at least a quarter of what I liked about the original.

haaaalf

(you walked into that one)

fair enough

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

Re Acid House - I remember seeing "Screenplay by Irvine Welsh" and thinking "Uh-oh"

Rightly, as it turned out. Being a bunch of short stories, some were OK, but when they were bad, they were very bad.

there's only 3 of the short stories from the book in the film, it is a bad film

yyyyeeeahh so

I think we're OK to just use this thread to talk about shitty Irvine Welsh flicks

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:09 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asked and answered

'the best thing about 'bad santa' was the STORY'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:58 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:09 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asked and answered

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:58

I like the film but I would have cut that scene too.

That scene ruled, nut-knock based slapstick is always funny

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:09 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asked and answered

Ha, no. The gag about the safebreaker who could get into anything, even Margaret Thatcher's pussy.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, November 21, 2016 10:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That last resply was from me not caek obv.

reply even.

So, what did wins think?

god, i don't know which version of the original I've seen now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgoSq_2I8aM

Shouldn't have had Marcus respond - just staring at him for an empty 10 seconds would have made this one of the best scenes ever.