macgruber movie

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

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.

because i have notebooks like that.

lol that hit pretty close to home for me also

Super troopers is the movie tho

For the record, I'm no fan of "Observe & Report." But it did deliver something different than what many expected, I think.

I kept laughing at all the removable stereo bits

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).

Removable stereos might be top-of-the-list for "Things that my kids will never believe we put up with."

man i wanna watch this again now

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