macgruber movie

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

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