kinda, but in a scary way
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
the oddness of this video made me wish brak or zorak was macgruber's conversation partner instead.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
quality movie experience
― goole, Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
summer to do list:cheese itwatch this movie again
― eBone eThugs-n-eHarmony (m bison), Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
fuck you dickhead
― boxall, Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
just tell me what you want me to fuuuuck
― boxall, Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
Got my brother to buy a copy of this for himself after only seeing about 2/3rds at Christmastime
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Thursday, 10 May 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
val kilmer and powers boothe are stone pros but man the desperation coming off ryan philippe
― goole, Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://gifsoup.com/view6/2175404/macgruber-o.gif
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, most episodes of "The A-Team" were funnier than this. It's an incredible anti-movie, some sort of weird negative achievement.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
hater
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
kinda want 2 tthrow u thru plate glass rite nowhttp://gifsoup.com/view6/2175404/macgruber-o.gif
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
I thought the one thing in its favor - that it is played totally straight - simultaneously worked against it. A fascinating paradox.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
amazing movie
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
lol forgot about that your all wet gag
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
josh i have no idea what you're talking about
he's confused, he v obviously got blackout drunk and broke into will forte's house
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
Still one of the funniest movies of the last 10 years.
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
I don't know what went wrong. I had alcohol, I had intent ... nothing. It was like an elaborate joke where the joke is that it's not funny. Which is funny, sort of, on paper. But in practice ...
Backstory. Years ago, when my wife and I saw some movie (maybe "Bridesmaids"?), the "MacGruber" trailer came up, and she laughed harder than I've heard her laugh at anything. She didn't even know it was a SNL skit. She just cracked the fuck up. So years later, I surprised her with "MacGruber," which she was totally psyched to see, having recently sat through the weirdly what-the-fuck? "Step Brothers." She made it about an hour into "MacGruber" then basically told me to turn it off it was so not funny. She asked if it was not funny on purpose, and I told her ... maybe?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
way to throw your wife under the bus there pal
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
ALL OF A SUDDEN ITS HIS WIFE'S FAULT.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Well, it was? I didn't want to see the fucking movie. Not least because I knew it was an SNL skit.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
It's not her fault the movie was terrible, though.
i had no idea this movie was so over the top when i watched it. i thought it was crazy. i liked how wrong it was. i always want R rated comedies to go off the deep end and they rarely do. this one did. it had some of that mr. show vibe in its cringeworthy wrongness.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
I watched it a second time when it showed up on ppv, and it was even funnier (and probably a little better narratively, because I knew where everything was leading). That was still a couple years ago, though, so I should watch it at least a third time.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
have idly wondered if this is worth it. Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude? I love Step Brothers so not sure I'm trusting Josh's judgment here...
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
if u love step brothers, and i mean love w ur dumb sweet heart, then u will love macgruberfairweather stepbros need not apply
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
do I love Step Brothers?http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/2268060/yup-o.gif
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
I had almost the exact same experience with my gf. I LOVED MacGruber, and forced her to watch it. About an hour in, she was like "ok, that's enough." Sad moment in our relationship, but we got through it.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
My wife and I both cackled like fiends at MacGruber
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
the double sex scene made me laugh so hard i think i lost a year of my life
― R'LIAH (goole), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
but you GAINED another year of wisdomthink about it
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude?
what the fuc
― Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
I totally liked "Step Brothers," but not this, because ...
And the answer is 'no.' "MacGruber" is massively competent. Actors are fine, direction is fine, writing is fine, etc. I just found it profoundly unfunny. More like "Kids in the Hall Brain Candy?" I barely remember that, but remember not laughing. So maybe "Run, Ronnie, Run?" That's a better totally unfunny "Mr. Show" comparison.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
oh man I love Brain Candy. Run Ronnie Run not so much
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
There is a total WTF level of "Tang"-iness to "MacGruber," I guess, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y587UlBV9jg
Is this scene funny? Not in any conventional sense.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
It's anti-funny.
The film is really one joke ("what if the lead in an 80s action flick was replaced by a vain delusional chickenshit") taken to the limit. If you aren't going to like it you'll know in ten minutes. But I loved it.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
maria and i both were kinda staggered by it. in a good way. when his team just dies i knew i was in for a anything goes kinda treat.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
how can anyone not love a movie with the crayon-scribbled "THE PENTAGON" note joke in it
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
or even assume that it's some kind of oblique anti-humour?
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
fits of laughter just reading that
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Maybe i need to re-watch this. First time I saw it I found it barely funny and somewhat of a waste of my time.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
your time is not very valuable, please watch this again
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
love pootie tang and this is a similar kind of commitment so it may work as a litmus test for how you'll react to macgruber. i caught this opening night, rang up my sister and said 'hey let's go see macgruber' and her reaction was 'wait - what???' and scoffed at the idea. rang me a couple of hours later and said she was in, apparently her husband had (independently) rang her up and said 'hey let's go see macgruber'. not exactly a packed house but we all loved it. fantastic movie.
― balls, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
pootie tang is one of those things that I dug on one, sort of more conceptual level (the basic premise is great, wha da tey indeed) but then you can tell it got REALLY fucked with in execution/editing to make it into something it was not intended to be and that makes it fail at basic moviemaking nuts n bolts stuff. and then there's the fact that everything it tried to do Black Dynamite basically did better.
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
Black Dynamite did not have a gorilla attack or the dj playing Pootie's hot new jam, tho BD was a supreme.
Also, I loved both MacGruber and Pootie Tang and laughed so hard during the christmas tree scene in Stepbrothers that I think I began to disassociate.
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
The sleepwalking scene? That was great. They were like two bears rummaging through a campsite.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
fwiw as much as i love pootie tang and macgruber, neither come close to step brothers for me
― balls, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
dj playing Pootie's hot new jam
that whole bit is pretty awesome, I agree
Step Bros is all-time though. almost every line is a quality joke.
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link