macgruber movie

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not innocuous

I'm opposed to this on principle and will be doing my best to get people who want to see this see it without paying for it,
but I'm opposed to actual 80s revivals even more, and if there were an actual MacGuyver movie coming out, I'd be rooting for MacGruber to outgross it.

xpost if my innocuous desert put on a mustache and starting yelling a song i'd hate it too

whereas I would think it was the most awesome dessert ever, constantly full of surprises, and I would take it on a whirlwind world tour and make $$$$ off of it

ladies man owns

lol... didn't even know this was an snl movie. trailer looked pretty dire but i love forte in his tim and eric sketches.

xpost don't forget the fable of michigan j. frog, dan

i'd rather see date night, but i probably won't see that either. both movies seem like the kind of thing it would be okay for me to miss and then later buy at a tag sale for a dollar on dvd.

the big difference is that I wouldn't eat a frog that wasn't acting right

date night was kind of awesome in parts but the retarded action plot kept getting in the way

i feel like going to the movies and nothing good is playing. don't want to see iron man. last two movies i saw at the theatre: tooth fairy, furry vengeance.

don't want to see robin hood either. or letters to cleo or whatever it is.

kinda want to see Oceans! its only playing on earth day.

oh wait i missed earth day

i never know what time of the year it is.

lol awww

Hot Rod (which had the same director) had a terrible unappealing trailer/premise and turned out to be hilarious and crazy, so I can see this being good.

hot rod didn't have the same director.

my bad -- each was directed by a different non-Samberg Lonely Island dude. i'm sure they make pretty similar movies anyway.

this looks fucking awful

this. the only thing i ever liked from will forte is an snl skit where he plays the dazed, semi-responsive spelling bee contestant. can't find actual video, but here's the audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGZ7rhZNHo

tim calhoun is one of my favorite SNL recurring characters in recent history

I'm holding out for a Greg Stink movie
http://thetwocentscorp.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/snlsports.jpg

SNL alums make plenty of great movies, but I seriously can't remember the last time an SNL CHARACTER made a good movie. when I saw the preview for this I was just surprised that they were already giving a vehicle to Forte. But I guess time flies a the laff factory that is SNL

i know

but it's funny

ngl, I want to see this.

this is definitely more "it'd be fun/ridiculous to do a MacGruber movie" than "Will Forte is such a rising star we have to bottle his lightening while he's still on SNL"

"but I seriously can't remember the last time an SNL CHARACTER made a good movie."

http://www.thefoxnation.com/assets/imagecache/fox-nation-large/fox-nation/415_Stuart_Smalley.jpg

will forte epitomizes what i don't like about snl now. the default emotion underlying the older snl cast members (70s, and to some extent, the early 80s) was flippancy to seething anger. the default emotion underlying the new snl cast members is an eagerness-to-please to total befuddlement.

dane cook is pretty angry

he's not on snl, but it's a sign that the fire still burns

Dane Cook is angry that he has one funny joke.

based on the special i saw part of, he's also angry that he can't be straight without having to spend time near vaginas

i don't hear too much about dane cook anymore. thankfully. is his 15 minutes of dice clay fame up yet?

dude stop trying to goad me into writing libelous shit about Dane Cook

is dane cook angry or funny? doesn't seem so. but he isn't on snl, i don't think.

PLEASE WRITE SOMETHING LIBELOUS ABOUT DANE COOK

i am making a special request

all these current people like forte make chevy chase look like some sort of immortal comedy god, and 75% of chevy's career is complete crap.

yeah, this ^^^^^

he was okay in modern problems imo

dane cook is still probably the single most popular stand-up comedian in america, so I would say that no, his 15 minutes of fame are not over

for me, chevy chase career highlights goes SNL > Spies Like Us > Community

dane's movie career seems kaput thankfully though

well wasn't his gambit to play against type or something? haven't most of his characters been unlike his standup?

i'd see this

So, not that I'm saying all of the following is excellent, but 75% of it is complete crap...?

# "Community" .... Pierce Hawthorne (48 episodes, 2009-2011)
# Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) .... Repair Man
# Presidential Reunion (2010) (V) .... Gerald Ford
# Hotel Hell Vacation (2010) (V) .... Clark W. Griswold
# Jack and the Beanstalk (2010) (V) .... Antipode
# "Chuck" .... Ted Roark (3 episodes, 2009)
# Stay Cool (2009) .... Principal Marshall
# "Hjälp!" .... Dan Carter (8 episodes, 2009)
# "Brothers & Sisters" .... Stan Harris (2 episodes, 2007)
# Cutlass (2007) .... Stan
# "Saturday Night Live" .... Various / ... (35 episodes, 1975-2007)
# "Family Guy" .... Clark Griswold (1 episode, 2007)
# "Law & Order" .... Mitch Carroll (1 episode, 2006)
# The Secret Policeman's Ball (2006) (TV) .... General Nuisance
# Zoom (2006) .... Dr. Grant
# Funny Money (2006) .... Henry
# Doogal (2006) (voice) .... Train
# Goose on the Loose (2006) .... Congreve Maddox
# Ellie Parker (2005) .... Dennis Swartzbaum
# Bad Meat (2004) .... Congressman Bernard P. Greely
# The Karate Dog (2004) (TV) (voice) .... Cho-Cho
# Mariti in affitto (2004) .... Paul Parmesan
# "Freedom: A History of Us" .... Captain John Parker / ... (5 episodes, 2003)
# Orange County (2002) .... Principal Harbert
# Vacuums (2002) .... Mr. Punch
# America's Most Terrible Things (2002) (TV) .... Andy Potts
# Ellie Parker (2001) .... Dennis
# Snow Day (2000) .... Tom Brandston
# Pete's a Pizza (2000) (voice) .... Narrator
# The One Arm Bandit (2000) .... Cop/Second Man With Briefcase
# Dirty Work (1998) .... Dr. Farthing
# Vegas Vacation (1997) .... Clark Griswold
# Man of the House (1995) .... Jack Sturgess (Squatting Dog)
# Cops and Robbersons (1994) .... Norman Robberson
# Last Action Hero (1993) .... Cameo Appearance
# Hero (1992/I) (uncredited) .... Deke - Channel 4 News Director
# Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) .... Nick Halloway
# Nothing But Trouble (1991) .... Chris Thorne
# L.A. Story (1991) (uncredited) .... Carlo Christopher
# Christmas Vacation (1989) .... Clark Griswold
# Fletch Lives (1989) .... Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
# That's What Friends Are for: Arista's 15th Anniversary Concert (1989) (TV)
# Caddyshack II (1988) .... Ty Webb
# Funny Farm (1988) .... Andy Farmer
# The Couch Trip (1988) .... Condom Father
# ¡Three Amigos! (1986) .... Dusty Bottoms
# Spies Like Us (1985) .... Emmett Fitz-Hume
# Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (1985) .... Newscaster
# European Vacation (1985) .... Clark Griswold
# Fletch (1985) .... Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
# Deal of the Century (1983) .... Eddie Muntz
# Vacation (1983) .... Clark Griswold
# Modern Problems (1981) .... Max Fielder
# Under the Rainbow (1981) .... Bruce Thorpe
# Seems Like Old Times (1980) .... Nicholas Gardenia
# Caddyshack (1980) .... Ty Webb
# Oh Heavenly Dog (1980) .... Browning
# Foul Play (1978) .... Tony Carlson
# The Groove Tube (1974) .... The Fingers/Geritan/Four Leaf Clover
# Lemmings (1973) (V) (as Chevey Chase) .... Various
# "The Great American Dream Machine" (1971) TV series
# Walk... Don't Walk (1968) .... Pedestrian

dane cook is still probably the single most popular stand-up comedian in america

O RLY?

http://www.paunchstevenson.com/photos/gallagher-250x333.jpg

SNL is unbearable at present. Dane Cook has been and always will be unbearable.

xp

# "Hjälp!" .... Dan Carter (8 episodes, 2009)

well wasn't his gambit to play against type or something? haven't most of his characters been unlike his standup?

nah he's played a grabass jerk in every comedy i've seen part of and in the renowed costner thriller mr. brooks he kept acting like he was supposed to riff but had no material ("man i hate when people drive slowly on the highway...it's like...DRIVE FASTER!!!" that kind of shit)

lol at Gallagher

i can say that about like two comedies in the last 10 years

We watched most of the Dictator last night on Netflix and I would have seen that a lot sooner if I knew all the improv/comic cameos in that movie. "Oh look, Seth Morris!"

"man i wanna watch this again now"

yeah, for real.

just did

finally watched this and found it a bit tepid. i'm usually totally down for snl silliness on the big screen. LOL'd about a dozen times only (thought the Pentagon note was the funniest) and imo Val Kilmer was excellent.

i have shit taste i admit it and you're welcome!

yeah this should be right in my lane but the one time i watched it i didn't really laugh at all. am hoping it grows on me in the future though.

I like this, Wet Hot and Step Brothers and I can't think of any other comedies since the turn of the millennium that I would ride for

role models

nah

i hear you but
yes

borat

Macgruber needed another likable character. Something to offset Ryan Phillippe at least.

even as not a huge fan of the movie, i know that saying that it needs more 'likable characters' misses the point phenomenally

I really liked I Love You, Man and Bridesmaids but they aren't classics

Powers Boothe is pretty amazing in the scene right after the funerals of MacGruber's first team

role models imo

macgruber immediately after killing his teammates gets me every time

nonononono tuuuuuuuuuuug

tell me what you want me to fuuuuuuuuuck

Whiney: Pootie Tang?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraq-militants-set-off-own-car-bomb-21-dead/2014/02/10/eb2810ee-925c-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html

YOUR ALL WET

It's been too long, Grubes.

this sucked on rewatch

Ahh, your all wet.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/macgruber-series-will-forte-ordered-peacock-1234730465/amp/

Forte was pretty engaging as the wastrel wannabe Satanist rock star in Extra Ordinary -- last film I saw in a theater before All This -- so the moment could just be right.

We liked that movie because it was so dumb and unambitious, but not in a typically American dumb and unambitious way. Now, the MacGruber movie, I know it's got its fans, but I remember that being dumb and unambitious in a distinctly American way. And a silly TV skit turned into a silly movie belatedly spun off into a no doubt silly TV show? That seems as American as it gets.

On the other hand, Forte is pretty funny.

I like holes

This and Observe & Report live in a similar place in my heart, since both take a standard action hero plot and amp the lead's cluelessness to hysterical degrees, while keeping the supporting characters' intelligence at standard levels and forcing them to deal with this lunatic.

hits different now

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that the Macgruber show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!