macgruber movie

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

Still one of the funniest movies of the last 10 years.

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?

way to throw your wife under the bus there pal

ALL OF A SUDDEN ITS HIS WIFE'S FAULT.

Well, it was? I didn't want to see the fucking movie. Not least because I knew it was an SNL skit.

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.

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.

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...

if u love step brothers, and i mean love w ur dumb sweet heart, then u will love macgruber
fairweather stepbros need not apply

do I love Step Brothers?
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/2268060/yup-o.gif

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.

My wife and I both cackled like fiends at MacGruber

the double sex scene made me laugh so hard i think i lost a year of my life

but you GAINED another year of wisdom
think about it

Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude?

what the fuc

I totally liked "Step Brothers," but not this, because ...

Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude?

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.

oh man I love Brain Candy. Run Ronnie Run not so much

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.

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.

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.

how can anyone not love a movie with the crayon-scribbled "THE PENTAGON" note joke in it

or even assume that it's some kind of oblique anti-humour?

fits of laughter just reading that

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.

your time is not very valuable, please watch this again

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.

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.

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.

The sleepwalking scene? That was great. They were like two bears rummaging through a campsite.

fwiw as much as i love pootie tang and macgruber, neither come close to step brothers for me

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.

stepbrothers might be a perfect movie

I love this Scott Aukerman take:

10:30 a.m.: Step Brothers (2008)
SA: This is one that I’ve only seen once—which is crazy—but I laughed so hard when I saw this movie. I was literally in tears during the sleepwalking section. I think that’s the hardest I’ve laughed at a movie in the movie theater. There’s something so strange about the choices that this movie makes. The mere fact that both of the main characters act exactly like each other—as a person who has made a living as a Hollywood screenwriter over the years, that is not a popular choice among executives. You’re constantly encouraged to find the differences in characters. “Why is one of them Eddie Murphy and why is one of the Nick Nolte?” They’re acting exactly the same in this one, and it’s so funny and it shouldn’t work, but it does.
So I laughed so hard at this movie that I’m scared to watch it again, and I’m scared I won’t think it’s as funny, but that’s why I closed it out with this. I’d love to re-watch it, laugh as hard as I did that first time again.

AVC: And hopefully if you’ve got 22 hours of enjoyment built behind it—

SA: You’ll be delirious at this point! After 22 and a half hours of watching movies and laughing so much, if I laughed as hard as I did the first time through Step Brothers, I might literally die. That’s why it has to be the last thing, because I’ll be dead at the end of this festival.

AVC: It’s perfect for that delirious state, because this movie operates by a strange internal logic.

SA: It stops being the movie it started as and it makes this abrupt right turn in the middle. Most movies—War Of The Roses, for instance—would base a whole movie on these two characters hating each other. Well, all of a sudden, in this movie they’re best friends. It’s insane. And Adam Scott gives such a really funny performance in it—as far as I remember.

the part where they become best friends is so perfect

I don't like the Pootie Tang comparison because while there's great bits in that, the execution is really shoddy and random, where MacGruber is pretty clear about what it's going for and succeeds. It's just a matter of whether "lol what if rambo was this whiny baby and everyone was like omg why is rambo a whiny baby was he always a whiny baby jesus christ" holds any water for you.

like, nothing about macgruber suggests anyone kept jorma taccone doing exactly what he wanted to do with macgruber

from doing exactly what he wanted to do, i mean

if there's any movie i'd associate it with it's Observe & Report, cuz both are films that take an action template, make the lead a total spazz, but then actually let that affect the story and supporting cast, rather than just ignoring it. That kind of conceptual follow-through in comedy feels really fresh to me.

the coffee shop scene in Macgruber is probably the funniest scene I've seen in a movie in the past decade

Wow. I admit I'm pretty hard to amuse, I guess,

"Observe & Report" has the advantage of being totally fucked up in a realistic way. There's no ghost sex scene, or prolonged rule of infinities desecration of a corpse in that one.

or maybe you just have shitty taste

"Observe & Report" makes you think you're going to get a comedy, then gives you a mall cop "Taxi Driver." Just like "MacGruber" lures you in thinking it will be just a dumb SNL comedy, but then goes all out with gun battles and exploding quibs in addition to the usual absurdities and almost pathological refusal to offer anything more than the most deadpan of jokes. Even the celery stick up the butt gag is played pretty straight. Which is what makes it funny. Or not funny, depending on your take.

xp If liking or not liking "MacGruber" is a sign of shitty taste, I'm pretty comfortable on my side of the line. Like, you can have it, dude.

ok cool thanks for admitting you have shitty taste

O&R was terrible and unfunny and has a rape scene played 4 yucks

If i want to see a good parody action movie i can rewatch Hot Shots 1/2.

"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