Best SNL Movie

guessing Blues Bros wins this, but I voted Wayne's World

I thought this was polled sometime in 2011?

If it was, I couldn't find it. There was a thread for SNL sketches that should be movies.

I'm fucking sick of Blues Brothers to the point of wondering why I ever thought any of it was funny.

This is between og Wayne's World and MacGruber for me.

bob roberts was an SNL movie??

The film is Robbins' directorial debut, and is based on a short segment of the same name and featuring the same character that Robbins did for Saturday Night Live on December 13, 1986.

Stuart Saves His Family is hella underrated

there are like five movies on this list, including ladies man, that are better than blues brothers.

It's Pat to steal this no question.

i have literally never heard of the first movie on this list

its really hard to remember the time that The Ladies Man was like the most popular SNL thing in years. Tim Meadows was already on the show like 8 years on some Darrell Hammond shit and hadn't done like one memorable thing since Def Magic Show Jam, and then he got to be Wayne and Garth for a year

i'm not saying ladies man is great btw, i'm saying blues brothers blows

o_O

Running time 133 minutes

I remember whenever it was on TV, with commercials it was like three hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0maWXkLzIIY

if this thread is going to be filled with challopsy hate for the Blues Brothers then I will take it upon myself to be Carrie Fisher with a flamethrower.

maybe.

or I'll chicken out and just unbookmark the thread :)

anyway BLUES BROTHERS IS THE GREATEST

Wayne's World, no question. Even though one could blame it for turning Mike Myers into a star and thus paving the way for "The Cat in the Hat", which is offensive on a metaphysical level.

Also you're missing the one w Chris Kattan.

I really need to see It's Pat; it's been too long

Corky Romano

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250310/

Corky Romano wasnt an SNL sketch, just part of the mercifully short bubble where people gave Chris Kattan money

fuck Blues Brothers

^

voted Stuart, with Coneheads 2nd

Corky Romano wasn't a character originated on SNL though, was it? That was just a Chris Kattan movie.

I remember whenever it was on TV, with commercials it was like three hours.

You had to rent two tapes from Blockbuster.

THEYRE WHITE GUYS WHO SING THE BLUES BAAAAAUGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WERE GETTING THE BNAD BACK TOGETHER GAHHHHHHHHUUHHHHHHHHH

i understand the backlash against the blues brothers (which in my mind is mostly b/c of how it's been embraced by the same sort of person who thinks that diana krall/elvis costello records ripping off old-school New Orleans music is where it's at maaaaan), but i'm still voting for it. the only other SNL film on this list that comes close is wayne's world.

anxiously awaiting the "What's Up With That?" movie

^ this!

Lol.

Looking over this list, I actually think the maxim of SNL skits being too little material to stretch over a full movie is kinda bunk. SNL isn't really that funny and has never really been that funny. Most of these movies are more successful about entertaining you over an hour and a half.

It's Pat is great, such a wonderfully stupid movie all the way through

"Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
"Nope, it's a banana..."

anxiously awaiting the "What's Up With That?" movie

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, if the movie could be 60 minutes of backstory and then an actual 30 minute episode of What Up With That, it might be the funniest movie ever made

I should see It's Pat. I mean, I watched the fucking Roxbury movie ffs. I should at least see the movie of a character I actually liked.

I'll pay to see the What Up With That? movie five times over if it's 90 minutes of this:

http://www.cigarettesandcoffee.com/storage/WhatUpWithThat_5.gif

when he jumps into frame I lose it every fucking time

There is exactly one amazing line in Roxbury

they never got around to a Sprockets movie, which may be the greatest loss to Western Civilization since they burned down the Library of Alexandria ...

I think the thing with SNL is when it's not funny, there'll be something on in a few minutes that might be? Which is not the case with a lot of these movies.

But I am reasoning straight from "It's a sketch show", I've never actually seen a full episode.

they never got around to a Sprockets movie, which may be the greatest loss to Western Civilization since they burned down the Library of Alexandria ...

Especially given the apocryphal story that the failed struggle of making it caused Mike Myers to say "fuck it" and start making shovels-full of cinematic shit.

SNL is kind of shit tbh

mr... mike's... mondo... video...?

I remember when that came out, played for a week, and disappeared

Stuart Saves His Family is hella underrated

― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 23, 2012 11:46 AM (59 minutes ago)

ha, I was just repping for it in comedy poll thread

Ladies Man and Roxbuy were cool but I voted WWI

Whiney's idea for a WUWT movie is brilliant - maybe like a mockumentury kind of thing

Narrated by Morgan Freeman

I mean, if the movie could be 60 minutes of backstory and then an actual 30 minute episode of What Up With That, it might be the funniest movie ever made

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, March 23, 2012 12:27 PM (18 minutes ago)

I'm picturing the usual group of freaks growing larger and larger until they bust out of the studio and end up at a local stadium with parliament/funkadelic doing backup and 30 foot models of hitler and churchill having a light saber battle overhead also the entire audience is porpoises

FUCK YES

Never seen an episode of SNL. Voting for Wayne's World

Fuck. Everyone.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/carrie.jpg

voted Bob Roberts, wd accept either Wayne's World.

you know Carrie Fisher being all Princess Leia kind of obscured her smashability, but she is v ws in that pic tbh

The amount of wrong itt so far is astounding.

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

i have literally never heard of the first movie on this list

Fucking figures.

It was made as an NBC special, and bcz of Michael O'Donogue's assorted priorities (fetishism, weirdness, throwing cats into a swimming pool) the network refused to air it. MO'D was delighted when there was a report of a riot at the box office for the audience to get their money back.

ian still has my DVD of it.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mr-mikes-mondo-video/3973

Carrie Fisher being all Princess Leia kind of obscured her smashabilit

I thought Leia was like ultimate smash material for megadorks worldwide?

yeah I hated the spiral braid cheese Danish bullshit

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

Yeah, I was surprised by the previously small amount of wrong in this thread, too. Thanks for rectifying that!

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

If ever. I watched 5th season eps with dad recently and he commented on how he remembered it being funnier at the time.

I need to finally watch that boot of Mr Mikes I got last year.

in all honesty Morbs, I would never know who Michael O'Donoghue was if it weren't for you repping for him in some earlier SNL-related thread. Very cool stuff.

Was being mildly facetious, obvs, but truth bomb: SNL has been spotty and occasionally awful right from the start. The writing is still pretty bleh a lot of the time (kinda feel like this is mostly due to Lorne's iron fist), but the current cast is top-notch and this season in particular has been up there with the best (albeit as undeniably spotty as ever).

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

Yeah, I was surprised by the previously small amount of wrong in this thread, too. Thanks for rectifying that!

― Gregor Samsung (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, March 23, 2012 1:47 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nearly every time I've tuned in over the last 15 years or so I could barely watch more than 15 minutes. Unless something major has happened in the last couple years then I'm pretty certain it's still painfully unfunny.

I watched 5th season eps with dad recently and he commented on how he remembered it being funnier at the time.

I challenge anyone hatin' on current SNL to sit through the entire first season.

Nearly every time I've tuned in over the last 15 years or so I could barely watch more than 15 minutes. Unless something major has happened in the last couple years then I'm pretty certain it's still painfully unfunny.

^completely otm

they were TRYING to do DIFFERENT things which involves a lot of failure. I'm p sure the set of cultural references would also be a challenge. The OG cast/writers hit their stride in seasons 2 & 3.

xp

Hint: if you only tune in to SNL occasionally, I'd advise switching over at 5 minutes to 1 AM. That seems to be the time that Lorne's iron grip slackens a bit and the more surprising material sneaks through.

also, the dirty Muppets didn't work at all. xp

Plus, they had to deal with Chevy's ego in S1.

Still, I think the current cast is one of the show's best.

I watched season 3 not too long ago (bought the DVD for the Sun Ra appearance alone, and it was totally worth it); most of it lives up to its reputation, but parts of it really really do not (one episode -- surprisingly, with Madeline Kahn as host -- was among the worst SNL episodes I'd ever seen). The pace was a lot less frenetic then, and that takes a little getting used to.

so glad there's finally a place on the internet where people can say SNL isnt as good as it used to be

Albert Brooks' short films were great, too. Nice little bizarre non-sequiturs.

Whiney, don't you have some fat white men ripping off black rappers to fawn over somewhere

yeah, the whole culture was less Ritalinized. (and more coked) It is, of course, the pace I'm used to. Still, the recent years' sketches have always felt endllllesssss to me. xxxp

I agree that current SNL would greatly benefit from tighter/shorter sketches, leaving room for some of the most oddball ideas to make it to air.

the current cast is top-notch and this season in particular has been up there with the best (albeit as undeniably spotty as ever

This might very well be true. I haven't even attempted it this year.

IMO one of the major problems with SNL in recentish years (even with a lot of the funniER stuff) is that the writers don't seem to know when a skit should end and just keep them going and going and beating a dead horse until what might have been funny becomes the farthest thing from it.

Shut up Whiney.

just kidding!

I wrote that 10 mins ago before it was a x-post but then my computer froze so I guess I should have said x-post.

the first season of SNL was much more of a variety show than a sketch comedy show -- there's a whole episode which basically consists of a simon and garfunkel reunion. i get the sense that a lot of the freshness of the early seasons comes from the fact that they weren't being pressured to be 'funny' every second and come up with a new irritating character/catchphrase every episode.

there's also a pretty funny sketch called 'citizen kane 2' where the original cast do a bang-up job imitating joseph cotten, et al.

IMO one of the major problems with SNL in recentish years (even with a lot of the funniER stuff) is that the writers don't seem to know when a skit should end and just keep them going and going and beating a dead horse until what might have been funny becomes the farthest thing from it.

they kind of parodied this tendency in the '90s with that "you like-a the juice, eh?" sketch. at least, i always assumed it was a parody...

MACGRUBERRRRRRR, though I haven't seen Wayne's World in a long time and I've never seen Stuart

Blues Brothers, not so much for the lol comedy as for the music and the spectacle.

there's a whole episode which basically consists of a simon and garfunkel reunion.

I think that's the third episode? I saw it this past Christmas. S&G's new single was huge at the time, and the cast were still unknowns, so obv they were biding their time in making it a full-bore sketch show for those reasons.

John Landis's framing in Blue Brothers cuts off the dancers' feet. So much for musical spectacle.

I don't think anyone would describe Blues Brothers as "a well-crafted film".

But the competition in this poll is pretty weak, I gotta say, and BB is at least entertaining.

Here's what should happen in an ideal world to tighten up SNL: Lorne Michaels continues to produce, but in a mostly hands-off role. The writers are given more leeway and allowed to generate material outside of the current insane hours they're expected to keep. Hosts (most of them, anyway) are allowed much less input into the creative process. No more rewriting or pulling sketches between dress and air (aside from anything improvisational/somewhat dependent upon surprise rewrites, like Stefon). Intense scrutiny is applied in deciding which bits can legitimately sustain recurrence. A broader range of material is brought into play (like the more dramatic film work they used to do)... And then the ratings plummet after Joe Lunchpail slowly realizes that the fart jokes have gone away.

Lol @ that sketch. Maybe SNL is just good for when you are a teenage kid or in the chemically-altered mindset thereof. I don't think I would want to watch it sober.

'that sketch' being "You like-ah the juice!"

the first season of SNL was much more of a variety show than a sketch comedy show

For real. It's weird looking back to realize that the cast wasn't individually named in the opening credits until about halfway through the season. For a while there, they held roughly the same status as the Fly Girls.

I wish they had done a "Toonces the driving cat" movie!!

also "you like-ah the juice" and "makin' copies" sketches were hilarious!! <3 rob

^^ target demographic

there's a whole episode which basically consists of a simon and garfunkel reunion

I would watch a movie based on this.

Esp. if Art Garf was also the moose he played in this episode of Arhur:

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

WAIT it's THIS EPISODE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXpNzEmNy5I

Blues Brothers in a walk.

kind of genuinely can't understand why anyone would find 'blues brothers' funnier than 'wayne's world,' unless you think car chases are just inherently funny.

I voted for Blues Bros, and basically because of so many scenes without Jake or Elwood.

• John Candy
• The Good Ol' Boys up in the windows at the top of the camper.
• Carrie Fisher
• Ray Charles with a gun
• That lone SWAT team member going hut-hut-hut all by himself.

Yeah, I'm about done with "Your daughters! How much for your daughters!" or the Mission from God lines. But there are too many other silly things that I watch for.

xp They are when you use real cars, and literally pile up dozens of them on real city streets, and completely destroy an actual shopping mall in real life.

Funny? Yeah. Awesome? Even moreso.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/chicago-the-blues-brothers-bridge,57338/

"The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!"

Kinda interesting in sitting back and reading you Chicagoans love/hate with this movie.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/blues-brothers-briefcase-full-of-blues,70668/

In 1980, Aretha Franklin’s career was at its lowest ebb. As late-’60s and early-’70s soul gave way to disco and a new generation of pop stars, Franklin’s declining fortunes on the charts threatened to resign her to permanent has-been status. It seems inconceivable now, as she’s rightfully considered a living legend, a national treasure, and Our Best Living American Pop Singer. But by the end of the ’70s, Franklin’s fan base had eroded so badly that she couldn’t even get a record deal. After 1979’s La Diva failed to remake her image as a disco starlet, Franklin’s long-time label Atlantic—the place where she entered her prime as the defining female singer of her generation with 1967’s I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You—allowed her contract to expire. That same year, her father, C.L. Franklin was shot during an armed robbery of his home, and subsequently spent the next five years in a coma, prompting his daughter to leave L.A. and return home to Detroit. Franklin’s career seemed similarly incapacitated as the new decade dawned.

Given her lack of marquee value, Franklin was especially fortunate to be invited to participate in one of 1980’s biggest movies, the $32 million comedy-action-musical The Blues Brothers. Franklin wasn’t the only soul-music luminary from a bygone era invited to participate in the film—James Brown and Ray Charles also were granted their highest-profile gigs in years, along with even older blues and jazz stars like John Lee Hooker and Cab Calloway. But Franklin ended up stealing the show from all of them, turning in a show-stopping performance of “Think”—from 1968’s Aretha Now, which was out of print when The Blues Brothers was released—and incredibly, reviving her career in the process. Clive Davis signed Franklin to Arista Records in the film’s wake, and with 1982’s Jump To It, she returned to the top of the R&B albums chart, setting the stage for a successful decade that shored up her legacy once and for all. 

In short, fuck Whiney.

My step-dad's from Chicago, and whenever we'd watch this movie, he'd be all "There's no way they could get from Skokie to Forest Park that fast!"

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis

My biggest complaint – and I've mentioned this elsewhere – is classic rock's inclination to play the Blues Bros version of "Soul Man", but not Sam & Dave's.

why would classic rock radio play sam & dave?

Why would they play John Belushi?

It's just weird Boomer nonsense. Someone threw the Blues Bros out there in testing and the damn thing stuck.

The highlights of that film come from Aretha, Cab Calloway (who they KEEP CUTTING AWAY FROM during "Minnie the Moocher") and veteran Jerry Lewis associate Kathleen Freeman as "The Penguin."

Belushi's prime physical tool was his eyes, and they're behind shades for all but one scene.

re Aretha: James Brown's career was also in the crapper at that point. perhaps not as bad as Aretha's, but a far cry from where he was even during the early 1970s.

My biggest complaint – and I've mentioned this elsewhere – is classic rock's inclination to play the Blues Bros version of "Soul Man", but not Sam & Dave's.

OTM ... as o_O as the gray-ponytailed-Boomer-blues lot can be, at least some of them appreciate the real stuff as opposed to the Blues Bros. crap (even if they sound more like the Blues Brothers than Sam & Dave when they try to play r&b in the clubs).

I just did some research and finally figured out that the old Blues Brothers Bar in Chicago turned into the bar (Corcoran's) I used to go to alla the time. I knew it was one of the bars around Piper's Alley. Cool beans. </stuffonlychicagoansarelikelytocareabout>

(Cool because of who used to hang out there, not really because of the Blues Brothers per se.)

I probably drew 500 pages worth of dumb serial comics between 4-7 grades based on goofy shit from the Blues Bros.

Those Good Ol' Boys riding up on top really stuck with me for some reason.

The "I hate Illinois Nazis" scene was based on a rally that happened a block from my house. I stood outside and watched throngs of people (fortunately anti-Nazi demonstrators) walking to the park where the rally took place. I really wanted to go and throw eggs at the Nazis, but my mom would let me (probably a good idea, since I was only seven).

My favorite moment in the "Think" clip the Phil posted is when the cook takes off his hair net and shakes his long jazz hair. "I see I'm needed up front. Hey, a job's a job."

That's "Blue Lou" Marini, btw.

real cars in car chases = YES I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE

I'll accept yr point about Belushi's eyes but, cmon, his other prime physical tool was his BODY, so all is not lost, surely.

real cars in car chases = YES I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE

Almost all of them completely totaled. This was a $30 million movie, in 1980 dollars. That's like Terminator 2 money. And most of it, I'm pretty sure, was spent on destroying Ford Crown Victorias.

I'm pretty sure that level of car destruction was completely unheard of at the time. One of my enduring memories from when I first saw the movie in a theater was the hilariously endless list of stuntpeople in the credits.

and ford crown vics are solid vehicles, they don't destruct easily.

so awesome. it was like watching someone play toy car smashups, but with real cars!

I just like the kind of 'ahh fuckit let's just have fun and make a movie with our friends' vibe

'and do tons of blow'

OMG totally. Apparently the after-parties were almost as destructive as the movie itself.

u voting, Morbs?

plus if you hate the Blues Brothers you hate Blue Lou, Matt Guitar Murphy, Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, Mr Fabulous and all the Stax guys imo

makes u think

you know what makes a hilarious comedy is great music and car crashes

And blow.

I can't tell if you're kidding or not.

I don't see a problem with any of those things unless you hate fun

i like fun but i also like jokes in my comedies.

you are a joke in your comedy

You don't like musicals, do you? This may be the crux of the issue.

tbh i havent seen blues brothers in a long time, i just remember it being kinda long and not being funny and having cool music but feeling weird about it being appropriated by jim belushi and dan ackroyd and having cool car crashes, it just seems like one of those weird 70s/early 80s (not gonna look it up) movies that has aged very poorly.

1980.

rewatch it

While stoned.

and if you mention Jim Belushi and the Blues Brothers in the same sentence again I'll...well...I'll say mean things to you

But I thought the Blues Brothers were John Goodman and Jim Belushi. What's the problem?

Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass "Go". Do not collect $200.

you know what makes a hilarious comedy is great music and car crashes

Question is Best SNL Movie. Bob Roberts is probably up there too, even though it didn't have the belly laughs of MacGruber.

deric you trolling bastard, I'll kill you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oOv3cuP8M4

hee hee

I kind of never need to see the Blues Brothers again but it is funny - there are plenty of jokes in it and the music is great. also agree that it features Carrie Fisher at her most smashable. Belushi's excuse-speech is pure gold.

all time

I'm suddenly realizing that I've only seen three of these. Should probably watch this "Blue Brothers" movie sometime, though, huh? Will I like it if I didn't particularly care for According To Jim?

if I wasn't laughing I'd strangle you

blues brothers over wayne's world, macgruber

I like Wayne's World a lot but I have no idea how it's better than the Blues Brothers.

it's funnier?

Dang, I should've made this a general "Best SNL Spinoff" poll, so I could've included gems like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imvgc8-nRlM

And the Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive A Car special. A half hour of Toonces bits, interspersed with a bunch of new, non-Toonces material written by Jack Handey and starring George Wendt, Randy Quaid, Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall, and Joe Flaherty as a time-traveling Abe Lincoln.

Not to mention MTV's Wayne's World specials. Which might arguably be as good as the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAIh8BpGec

Wall, that wasn't as much help as I'd hoped

And the Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive A Car special. A half hour of Toonces bits, interspersed with a bunch of new, non-Toonces material written by Jack Handey and starring George Wendt, Randy Quaid, Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall, and Joe Flaherty as a time-traveling Abe Lincoln.

Yeah! I bought this at Blockbuster when I was 10 for like two bucks!! I loved the "Scruffy the Rat" bit ("If that's Scruffy, then who's that? Ewwwww!") and Coach Dobbs

I can't stand hearing movie quotes repeated ad infinitum, especially Caddyshack or Fletch.

But danged if I don't sit down for dinner at every company retreat with two unfamiliar co-workers and go "Orange Whip? Orange Whip?"

lol those were my #1 and #2 in the comedy poll and even I hate when ppl quote them too much.

Although I am occasionally guilty of doing so myself but it's not often and only in the presence of a particular friend.

Caddyshack or Fletch.

lol those were my #1 and #2 in the comedy poll

just kill me now

loool

Morbs, I'm sure we'll all do the right thing and run future ballots by a WWII vet before submitting.

apparently CHEVY CHASE IS THE GREATEST FILM COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME

Nobody's saying that, Morbs! We're saying he's the greatest comedian of all time full stop.

This is between og Wayne's World and MacGruber for me.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, March 23, 2012 10:21 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too, tie goes to the movie with ghost porking

current snl is awesome, stefon forever

I would see a stefon movie for real

I think the only one of these I've ever seen straight through is Wayne's World, which was funny but not very funny, and kind of sluggish and forced - for a zany movie based on a sketch comedy show it's not exactly laugh-a-minute. Voting Blues Brothers on the grounds that even if it were less funny than Wayne's World (and from what I've seen of it, it's got some moments?), it has some kick-ass musicians doing pretty decent performances. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Alice Cooper explaining the history of Milwaukee vs Ray Charles shooting a gun over the head of a shoplifter. I understand both sides.

The Milwaukee thing was pretty great, I'll give you that. And the moment when he's like "No, no, stay, guys!" and for a second it seems like Wayne & Garth have been sufficiently turned off by his Milwaukee nerd speech that they actually are going to just politely excuse themselves.

Mr mikes mondo video is fucking a+++++ FYI guys

Wayne's worlds both make me want to die tho so

haha

Caddyshack or Fletch.

lol those were my #1 and #2 in the comedy poll

just kill me now

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WHY I OUTTA

Listen - They're my favorite funniest movies! I have to say though that in the end I found ranking the 50 a lot harder than picking 50. I wasn't really sure about the order at all - even the top 10. 11-50 ranking was pretty much totally arbitrary.

CHEVY CHASE IS THE GREATEST FILM COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME

When he was on and good he was one of the best, yes.

"OUTTA"? I haven't had coffee yet. OUGHTA, obv. I haven't had coffee yet.

Or is it aughta? I think it should be aughta but isn't. OK, coffee. Yes.

wayne's world ahead of ladies man, love blues bros but i dunno is it a very good movie

have always h8d chevy chase's smug smug face

macgruber was pretty awful

yeah, i refuse to believe MacGruber is actually good

It was better than I expected but I wouldn't call it "good".

Voted Bob Roberts, but might have gone with The Coneheads cartoon.

this thread took a rough tumble through the challopian tube. in 9 mos it may give birth to something even more RONG

One can only hope

let's just hope Armond White doesn't finally start posting here, coinciding with Momus' return.

macgruber has more laffs in it than anything in this poll, save the two waynes worlds

Wayne's World II would probably win for me. between the Charlton Heston cameo, the roadie, and the sequence of Wayne pickin the Waynestock bands from conveniently placed visual stimuli...classic.

Anyone who's dismissing MacGruber out of hand is doing themselves a grave disservice.

i'm dismissing it out of having watched it, yerman is painful to the eye/ear

the Church Lady Trilogy is going to own this when it finally comes out

I saw MacGruber, it wasn't really all that funny.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Masterpiece: It's Pat - The Movie
Pretty damn close: Stuart Saves His Family; Superstar
Shame on you for stealing the title of the greatest American film comedy: The Ladies Man

But the real question is: does the Lewis Ladies Man hold a candle to It's Pat?

bozelka back

can we just

That same year, her father, C.L. Franklin was shot during an armed robbery of his home, and subsequently spent the next five years in a coma, prompting his daughter to leave L.A. and return home to Detroit. Franklin’s career seemed similarly incapacitated as the new decade dawned.

Fab factoid: Dixie Square Mall, in which the car-chase scenes from The Blues Brothers were filmed, chosen for filming because it had just closed down in 1978 only 13 years after it was built, still stands today because nobody wanted to pay to tear it down. It has stood as a derelict, vacant building for over twice as long as it was actually open for business!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Dixie_Square_Mall_Block_B_stores.jpg

I kind of loathe Superstar with a gut-wrenching intensity

like KJB repping for it in the same breath as Stuart tempts me to watch it again, but, as it turns out, the thought of ever watching it again is itself a peculiar form of torture

xp A friend of mine grew up near that mall, which was vacant during his whole childhood...except for one night when it was mysteriously, and suddenly, completely lit-up and fully-stocked. A day or two later, it was back to being vacant. He thought he'd dreamed it or was otherwise going nuts until he saw the movie.

Forget the movie, I kind of loathed the Mary Catherine Gallagher sketches.

Like, I might have to do a sequel to this poll: Worst SNL Sketch Upon Which a Movie Was Based. Roxbury would probably win. I honestly don't know what Lorne was smoking there for a while.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I guess not *everyone* hates the Blues Brothers. hmph

I can live with that top three.

Coneheads should have been a great movie but wasn't at all

wayne's world deserves its place, but how many were attributable to "anything but the blues brothers" pseudo-challops?!?

also, i'm both happy and sad that a night at the roxbury got 3 pts.