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See that poster upthread? Stare at it for ten seconds, then decide if you want to see the film. It's a pretty accurate advertisement for the movie.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 30 November 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link

see, it's the kid that worries me

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link

that poster is hilarious, i'm actually incredulous that the movie could possibly live up to it

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link

but the kid

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link

that said, the kid never makes that expression throughout the entire movie. I warmed to the kid, but no, he wasn't initially all that welcome.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link

but stare into that elf's face. Therein lies the key.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link

The kid ruined the trailer for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:07 (twenty years ago) link

how much gilmore girl is in this?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:40 (twenty years ago) link

her not being in the poster is an ominous sign

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 November 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

i mean, they put the kid in and not lauren graham? and they want people to come see this?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 November 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

she was very endearing on conan

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 30 November 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

I took Adam's advice, I wanna see this film!!!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

There's something about a film that goes out of its way to be utterly appalling that makes me want to see it in the worst way. Bad Santa is a demonstration of this. Whoever greenlighted this is a genius, and all I've seen is the trailer.

-
Alan

― Alan Conceicao, Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

fuckmesantafuckmesantafuckmesanta

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link

I saw it at a matinee, and four elderly people walked about halfway through - I guess they were expecting The Santa Clause - missing the redemption. I like how Zwigoff is the anti-Alexander Payne, it would be too easy to be misanthropic with the characters and topics he dealt with.

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.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah I saw this in Chicago, it wasn't as funny as I expected. But it was ok.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

There's something about a film that goes out of its way to be utterly appalling that makes me want to see it in the worst way.

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

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

j. lu OTfookin'M

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

Has anyone seen the DVD release with the x-rated footage they cut out? Is it worth renting? Because I thought it was about the funniest goddamn thing I saw last year. "You're not gonna shit right for a week!"

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

this is what I hate about ILE.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 7 August 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, the beginning of this thread is amazing... i hope the dvd of this has more bernie mac; his brief part was pretty great

― dave k, Saturday, 7 August 2004 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

this is what I hate about ILE.

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

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

whatever it puts in front of me.

not really, btw.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 7 August 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (bscrubbins), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

"are you off yr fuckin meds?"

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

ASSCLOWN!

― who@who.com, Monday, 9 August 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

this movie was really fucking funny!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

100000x better than ghost world

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

billy bob thornton is a national treasure!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

a guy down in front when i went to see it had his very young kids with him! not a christmas movie, dude!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 20 September 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

how much badder is badder santa?

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 20 September 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

that bernie mac speech about billybob thornton's sex drive is classic

― dave k, Monday, 20 September 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

how much badder is badder santa?

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)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 20 September 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Would this have been (even) better without the studio-enforced semi-happy ending?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 20 September 2004 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link

this was way funnier than it should have been.

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

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 20 September 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

ah yes thank you milo. and bill.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

the advent calendar is killing me

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

billy bob's performance in this movie kind of reminds me of jeff bridges in the big lebowski, this sort of don't-blink absurdist deadpan character study. i love that!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

This looks good. Is it getting a UK release?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd never made that connection slocki (JB in lebowski being among my very favorites)

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if I'd call The Dude exactly "dead pan" though, cuz, like, he got EMOTIONAL, man! They pee'd on his rug, man!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I love the movie. I especially like it as a companion piece to Shakes the Clown.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Is your name "Charlie Rose"?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Not really, no.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I personally think advent calendars should have asprin in the little window for some of the days.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I am going to see this today! Hooray! Finally!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I'm not going now :(

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Did you ever see it, jel? I've watched it twice in the last week. Still don't know what the talking walnut might be. The Christmas present the kid gives him is quite insane.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Seen this! We sat back and watched it on Christmas eve, and I nearly wet myself. I wasn't expecting the language to be quite as 'strong' - I'm glad we didn't watch it with Kevs parents as was our original intention.

"Are you fucking with me kid?"

The scene with the draughts was hilarious. No, I didn't get the talking walnut part either, and I didn't get what the guy in the bar/car park was all about. "I am not gay."

― Rumpty Pum pum pum, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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haaaalf

― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link

(you walked into that one)

― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link

fair enough

― calzino, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link

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, 21 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link

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.

― Mark G, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link

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

― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link

yyyyeeeahh so

― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link

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

― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

'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

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 November 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link

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.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link

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

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:46 (seven years ago) link

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

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link

That last resply was from me not caek obv.

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link

reply even.

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link

So, what did wins think?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link

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

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:02 (seven years ago) link

nine months pass...

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

― louie mensch (milo z), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link

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.

― louie mensch (milo z), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link

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