If i want to see a good parody action movie i can rewatch Hot Shots 1/2.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
"Observe & Report" has the advantage of being totally fucked up in a realistic way.
yeah i don't really see this as an advantage in its case
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
macgruber sold me when dude gets macgruber's notebook and it's just pages and pages of scrawled hate toward that one car who cut him off.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
because i have notebooks like that.
lol that hit pretty close to home for me also
― balls, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
Super troopers is the movie tho
― Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
For the record, I'm no fan of "Observe & Report." But it did deliver something different than what many expected, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I kept laughing at all the removable stereo bits
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Actually, I liked that gag! Of the many jokes that get repeated in this movie, I appreciated that one (which pays off again in the credits when he's gifted a replacement and iirc cries in appreciation or something).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Removable stereos might be top-of-the-list for "Things that my kids will never believe we put up with."
― schwantz, Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
man i wanna watch this again now
― yung humas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
i can say that about like two comedies in the last 10 years
― yung humas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
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!"
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
"man i wanna watch this again now"
yeah, for real.
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:10 (ten years ago) link
just did
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 8 August 2013 02:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Here's to Shooting Up (rip van wanko), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
i have shit taste i admit it and you're welcome!
― Here's to Shooting Up (rip van wanko), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
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
― yung humas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
role models
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
nah
― yung humas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
i hear you butyes
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
borat
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
Macgruber needed another likable character. Something to offset Ryan Phillippe at least.
― Here's to Shooting Up (rip van wanko), Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
even as not a huge fan of the movie, i know that saying that it needs more 'likable characters' misses the point phenomenally
― some dude, Sunday, 11 August 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
I really liked I Love You, Man and Bridesmaids but they aren't classics
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 12 August 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
Powers Boothe is pretty amazing in the scene right after the funerals of MacGruber's first team
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 12 August 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
role models imo
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 August 2013 05:33 (ten years ago) link
macgruber immediately after killing his teammates gets me every time
nonononono tuuuuuuuuuuug
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
tell me what you want me to fuuuuuuuuuck
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
Whiney: Pootie Tang?
― thot police (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
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
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 February 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
YOUR ALL WET
It's been too long, Grubes.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link
this sucked on rewatch
― thots and players (rip van wanko), Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
Ahh, your all wet.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/macgruber-series-will-forte-ordered-peacock-1234730465/amp/
― Ask yoreself: are you're standards too high? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
I like holes
― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
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
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
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!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link