macgruber movie

then again the movie has a 44 on metacritic so maybe our boy slock is more of an outlier than i assumed

im pretty sure i am :(

glenn kenny liked it tho

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

okay then how does it compare to Step Brothers?

Step Bros is way more quotable but this was really funny/retarded.

i've seen the trailers and this Forte character seems too whiny to handle a whole movie.

the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

otm, i don't know how it managed to be both simultaneously but it did.

forte's whininess led to the best parts of the movie imo.

he admirably doesn't try to make his character all that likable

the scene where you find out why him and val kilmer are enemies

OMG yes megalols

does everyone who likes this movie think that step brothers is a classic?

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

^ this.

does everyone who likes this movie think that step brothers is a classic?

― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, May 24, 2010 3:43 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i do

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, May 23, 2010 4:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i kind of agree with this, i mean it's not like a "great movie," but i feel like thats kind of besides the point you know? it's meant to be, like, a bad action movie. not saying that being bad is the point, but like, not sure how this movie could have been "better" on those terms yknow?

No, I mean as far as filmmaking goes, like maintaining a linear narrative and changing locations with some purpose... this movie fails in about every area. What it is is just a freeform vehicle for fantastically funny gags strung together clumsily.

yeah i mean... it's just so ridiculous i would never even think to hold it to that kind of standard u know? just keep shooting the lols @ me, nonsequitur style if u must

i'm a little more interested in this now that you are saying it's incoherent and doesn't hang together. fuck a plot!

val kilmer pretty amusing in this too

sounds like we have a new pootie tang

croup why have u not seen this yet

stuffed up enough this weekend I just stuck around the house. If it's still at my nearby 14plex for a second week, I'll strike.

though i might have gone anyway if i'd remembered val kilmer was in it

i wouldnt count on it still being there :(

so funny. fat kilmer forever.

but then i think step brothers is a classic

so do i

Coincidentally, I only saw Step Brothers for the first time when I was watching tv after getting home from MacGruber last Friday night. They were both funny, but Step Brothers is probably the better movie and MacGruber is the funnier movie.

Swift bombing out in theaters will probably only hasten its cult status.

If it's still at my nearby 14plex for a second week, I'll strike.

I doubt it will still be there, but definitely go if it is -- I know you'd like it.

kinda can't wait to see it again tbh

seeing this tonight since it's cheap day - hoping everyone else will be at shrek instead.

just chiming in to say Step Bros is ALL TIME AWESOME

"the clown has no penis"

this was awesome

this anecdote from the director's interview with ny mag gets at one the aspects I really liked, how it was basically a regular action movie world with this great, pathetic character in the middle of it (I guess I can never say I hate Will Forte again).

We wanted to plug this comedy character into a world he really shouldn’t be in. I had a conversation with Powers Boothe, where he said, “What is this? Is this Hot Shots?” And I’d say, “No. You’re dead serious.” He’d say, “So in the scene where he’s offering to fellate me, how should I play that?” And I’d say, “It’s heartbreaking. It’s genuinely heartbreaking.”

went into it hoping it'd live up to, like, pootie tang and it definitely blasted past that marker. Don't really agree with the "TERRIBLE but HILARIOUS" sentiment upthread. Movie's a lot more thought out and consistent than most (was based around a character rather than the sketch, didn't throw in off-game jokes just cause there was space, jorma taccone has some visual sense, characters actually react to MacGruber's awfulness, rather than it being like Fletch where Chevy's riffing into a void of folks who never seem to notice the crazy shit he's saying).

wasn't transcendent but I thought it was a pretty solid example of people who probably know their zucker bros and snl comedies by heart and thinking out ways to improve on their weak points. not just screaming and clumsily winging random bullshit in a creaky premise like Hot Rod (which I still enjoyed).

also the female lead was actually a funny, entertaining person rather than just an object to quest for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBsiPSUlPVQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGwl2iKotgM&feature=related

We wanted to plug this comedy character into a world he really shouldn’t be in. I had a conversation with Powers Boothe, where he said, “What is this? Is this Hot Shots?” And I’d say, “No. You’re dead serious.” He’d say, “So in the scene where he’s offering to fellate me, how should I play that?” And I’d say, “It’s heartbreaking. It’s genuinely heartbreaking.”

― da croupier, Friday, May 28, 2010 8:15 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

awesome

I really love the use of "Hot Shots" as shorthand

also want to believe boothe really used the term "fellate"

glad u liked it croup.

powers boothe. i am so there.

why isn't this nestled between mystery team and something starring luke wilson in the redbox machine already. can't wait

this was AMAZING

the way val kilmer says "WEEEEEEEAK"

also macgruber porks his wife's ghost in a cemetery

ehhhh really guys? this had a couple of huge laughs (the note) but I thought it was pretty lacking overall.