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MACGRUBER!! He’s In Negotiations With Kilmer and Phillippe For His First Big-Screen Adventure!! MACGRUBER!!!!
I am – Hercules!!
Finally, some great TV-to-movie news!
Will Forte and Kristin Wiig are set to reprise for the big screen their roles from SNL’s “MacGruber” sketches.
SNL writers Forte, Jorma Taccone and John Solomon are at work on the script, with Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe in talks to co-star in the tale of a be-mulleted MacGyver-like superspy who's always a little slow when it comes to bomb deactivation!
Find Variety’s Wednesday-morning story on the matter here!
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And that was a laff riot!!
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They're really going to squeeze a movie out of this? Is this a joke?
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Hi mom.
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Talk about beating a dead horse. Does Lorne Michael really have that much money to waste?
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Good grief. It's incredibly rare when a friggin 5 minute sketch will be able to translate successfully into a feature film. By all means, let's have put upon us a whole new slew of shitty SNL-based movies.
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Herc, you fucking tool. MacGruber isn't even funny in 90 second sketches. A 90 minute movie? Fuck that.
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SNL= (s)hit machine...
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It'll flop but it'll be like watching a bird flying into the window over and over again, until it dies miserably. SNL movies: the ultimate in torture porn!
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Hilarious skits, but will be AWFUL drawn out to any length.
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When those "Wayne's World" residual checks quit clogging his mailbox.
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I'm tired of looking at those blank Hulu screens. If I promise to not illegally copy and distribute the hot content that they're showing can I please see???? Or just give us the UTube version maybe?
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This is one of the most unfunny sketches of all time. Like so many SNL skits of the last 15-20 yrs, I don't see how it even got aired once, much less became a recurring skit. Just shows how horrible that show's gotten. Has anyone here ever laughed at McGruber?
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I just watched to clips of MacGruber that and I am stupider for the experience. May god have mercy on your soul.
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Boy, I can't wait for this. Oh wait, yes I can.
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Thats no excuse to keep clogging the theatres with shit nobody wants to see or likes. As has been the case for most SNL based comedies.
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Which is why it's extraordinary how those checks keep rolling in. If he can score another "Wayne's World" at any point he can buy a fifth, sixth and seventh mansion in the Hamptons. Wouldn't you keep trying?
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But I'm probably one of 3 people in the world who think that.
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I love MacGruber.
And just as easily as anything can make a bad movie, anything can make a good movie. There are a lot of shitty movies that aren't based on "friggin 5 minute sketches".If it's funny, people will see it. -
Then I must be number two. I have it on DVD. It was pretty funny.
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They havent been funny in 30 years
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...every time after that, it was the same damn joke over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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but that wouldn't stop me from being a total fucking moron who deserved ridicule and box office failure.
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This reeks to high fucking heaven. Take something that doesn't work for even a few minutes and then stretch it out to a full film featuring Val "THE SUCKTACULAR" Kilmer. Festuring pile of shit...oh wait, just like your typical Herc post. Should've turned the tb off for this crapfest as well.
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....Herc is the ultimate SNL apologist. It isn't likely that he ever has or ever will post anything critical about the show or the people involved with it.
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Oh, this will be awful. The sketch is woefully unfunny. I'm a regular SNL watcher...but this one is painful.
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it happens in every sketch...the punchline is he gets blown up almost immediately...how do they carry that joke for 90 minutes. BTW let's see how much NBC can destroy one man's career...I'm looking at you Val Kilmer of Knight Rider voice over fame.
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2 minute joke stretched into 90 minutes. Fantastic. Put it up there with the Catholic school girl who smells her pits and the douches at the nightclub who dry hump people. So, it seems that Lorne thinks SNL is out of the shitter enough to start churning out terrible movies based on one-joke, overplayed sketches. Tina Fey acts like Palin and now SNL is 'back'... yawn.
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Based around the "Goodbye Saigon" sketch that closed out the '08-'09 season. Or, better yet (and I'm serious about this), bring back "The Falconer".
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You continuously pay out on Seth macfarlane and his tv shows for their style of humour, but SNL does BS pop culture regurgitating far worse and you love it? Get outta here.
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... the thing that makes it funny doesn't translate to a full length movie. The funny is that MacGruber sucks so bad that no episode goes longer than 30 seconds because the "ticking clock" kills him every time. And then like Kenny, he's back alive without explanation for the next one. Three 30 second spots? Funny. Stretching it to 90 minutes? Oy. Besides they ruined the skit when they pimped it out as an ad whithout telling people so they'd think it was a skit and watch a &^%ing ad. AND they blew Richard Dean Anderson making his first appearance on those crap ads.
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And I believe I'm better for it, SNL sucks mighty ass.
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is that it reveals to what depths Ryan Phillippe's career/life have sunk. From making a decent splash in "Cruel Intentions" and spending several years banging Reese Witherspoon to sitting on his sofa in a lonely apartment with his hand, a bottle of lotion, a towel and the treatment and audition notes for a part in "MacGruber."
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I got confused and thought this was going to be a Hans Gruber movie.
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He's now banging Abbie Cornish. That's a step-up.
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"night at the roxbury is my 2nd favorite movie next to waynes world, very underrated & hilarious movie" "
I'm actually excited for this news. I agree with J.Burton. It's actually a funny sketch and I really like when Seth Rogen appeared in SNL." "I'm moderately interested in seeing what they'll do with it. It's an okay sketch, so we'll see." "ok, so snl has had some not so great movies. i.e. superstar and somwehat ladies man. but lets not forget waynes world, waynes world 2, the blues brothers, blues brohters 2000, coneheads, stewart saves his family, and yes, i would say night at the roxbury. i think the macgruber sketchs are hilarious. im excited about this" These people are the reason why Hollywood fucking sucks. Bring on Viewmaster: the Movie, Transformers 8, and the 3-D remake of Chinatown. -
because this bullshit gets greenlit before the real MacGyver movie.
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but a movie? no fucking way.
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If he gets blown up every 30 seconds for 90 minutes, doesn't a film with 180 explosions sound pretty BA?
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The Joe Piscopo years were dogshit.
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I haven't seen either of them since before like 95. I did like the stupid movie by the dick in the box guy, but I was drunk when I watched it.
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Jul 08, 2009 1:55:02 AM CDT
seriously...we dont need a magruber movie
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
shit the sketches are decent but the best thing about them are the songs. MAGRUBER!!!
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It wasn't an SNL project, but STRANGE BREW is proof you can squeeze a hilarious movie out of a recurring sketch. BLUES BROTHERS was just a couple of musical numbers but they turned that into an incredible movie. I thought WAYNE'S WORLD 2 was pretty inspired. The greatest missed opportunity was DIETER, whose thunder is now being stolen by BRUNO!!
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could u put up links that those outside the US can see please? hulu doesnt work outside America. Or is aintitcool now a website only for those who live in the US????
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The premise joke for this sketch is definitely tits. But they didn;t do much of a job of expanding on the "Why is MacGuyver always in these situations (i.e locked in a room with women)" but instead focused on low-brow stuff like alcoholism and what-not when in reality the ultra-jesus-man aspect of MacGuyver (and Walker T.R. as well) is much funnier and leaves much more room to expand, especially movie-wise. The "what if MacGuyver was a drunk that couldn't actually deactivate a bomb" premise, not so much. But, they could pull a Wayne's World and turn a simple minded premise (designed to be an easy sketch to insert guest stars into) into a very funny movie the goes way beyond what it's source sketch was ever capable of (Which is why Wayne's World still bring Lorne royalties... deservedly)
And too further defend Mr. Michaels, any man who allows Brain Candy to be made will receive an indefinite turn of cheek from me for anything else he/she may make. If you want SNL and SNL based movies to stop, stop watching them. -
Jul 08, 2009 2:10:52 AM CDT
Dude, it's not cool to make movies out of 3 minute skits
by lockesbrokenleg
anymore. Haven't we learned?
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Jul 08, 2009 2:12:30 AM CDT
nobody outside america has ever heard of this pile of shit
by ironic_name
ladies man, where's pat, macgruber.
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With all the years it's been on VHS and DVD has it even made it's money back yet?
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It's nice to see a genre movie that's a real fucking movie for a change.And I had popcorn. So it was a popcorn flick. As are all movies.Fuck you, Bay, Orcus, and Colonel Kurtz. Kudos to Bowie for passing along his talent via his genes.
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Sucked. Just wasn't that funny.
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a rather poignant story. I thought it would fizzle out quickly, but was surprised.
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garbage that Apatow excretes.
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but we all know that Mike Meyers is a psychotic ocd laden unfunny bastard, and probably always was, Waynes world was a fluke
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In a horrible, what the hell kind of movie is this trainwreck, good.
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Instead of making SNL sketches based on the hilariousness of TV shows in the 80's (and early 90's) how about combine them all into one show/movie that, in taking itself seriously, becomes hilarious. How about this: In competing schemes to get Kelly, Lisa AND Jessie into a 4-way, Zach Morris and A.C. Slater accidentally discover a Satrgate that opens a portal to a dark dimension and summon an evil emperor bent on using the Stargate technology to take over the multiverse. When Col. Jack O'Neil finds out, he must turn to Dr. Sam Beckett and his holographic companion Al and their Time accelerator in hopes of going back in time and stopping Zach and A.C. from finding the Stargate, but a temporol disturbance occurs when they timeslip within proximity of the Stargate, giving them then inconvenient ability to not only travel through time but to another dimension as well. As they Leap between dimensions, trying to find a way back to their own they continue to hear stories of a man named Quinn Mallory and his group of Sliders. Hoping Quinn may be able to help them home, the New Quantum Leapers set out into the multiverse to find Mallory, along the way recruiting heroes from the various NBC Universe(al): MacGuyver, Walker Texas Ranger, Michael Knight, the Airwolf dude, Bill Bixby, and The A-Team. Together they race to find Quin Mallory and Stop the Evil Emperor from destroying the entire NBC Universe. But can Quinn Mallory and Crew gat them home?
Also original actors should star, esp. Richard Dean Anderson as MacGuyver and Col. O'Neill
Yes, I have watched for too much television in my lifetime.
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This is going to suck and the vast majority of SNL movies suck, but Coneheads?! Fuckin great.
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an SNL feature movie based on the Andy Samberg/Justin Timberlake rappin duo! I don't think there has ever been a comedy where the main characters rapped all their dialog! It'll be fresh and cool and if it's a hit every rapper out there will try to copy it!
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I laughed my ass off. I wonder if they will have the same send off for Gary Glitter?
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adjust future headlines accordingly
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the rest is just pap populist filler
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That being said I'm still looking forward to it because Will Forte is a weird, weird guy and letting him loose on a feature film has potential. One can almost guarantee that the McGruber premise will merely be a delivery system for a ton of absurd ideas that are rattling around in Taccome and Forte's heads.
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That's a great character. A soft-spoken boring square of a guy who casually admits to all sorts of debauchery you can't picture him partaking in.
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When are we gonna get that shit up here in the colonies (former British colony, that is, not like Guam or whatever)?
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I'd see that.
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is the only SNL skit to movie I will actually go see. Not that would make a good movie either, but at least I'd laugh hysterically everything JT sings as Andy Gibb with his "crazy cool medallions" But MacGruber? I don't even hate the skit, but they are literally 90 seconds long. What kind of movie could they really make? I don't see anything quality coming from this. I'm just gonna keep...talkin' it up, on the Barry Gibb Talk Show. Talkin bout chest hair, talkin bout crazy cool medallions.
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Please put videos which everyone in the world can see. This HULU embed is for US only.
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The Church Lady would make a good satire on fundamentalist Christianity.
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the sketch was a reacurring thing on the show waaaay before they used it during the superbowl. i barely watch SNL but caught it a few times and then i saw it was used during the superbowl. and man richard dean anderson looked so bad in those....its like he gained 50pounds once he was off stargate or something. for a second i thought it was a bad look-a-like.
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Herc, how can you possibly compare the faux German existential noir of Dieter with gay Austrian fashionista of Bruno? Just because bother characters were 'fey'? I wouldn't even say that Dieter was necessarily gay, I'd see his sexuality being more as a slave type to some dominatrix in Nazi-esqe regalia but more fucked up like combined with Minnie Mouse (on the girl). DIETER could still be a great movie, "You are boring me, you have failed to entertain me. TOUCH MY MONKEY!"
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Jul 08, 2009 6:58:13 AM CDT
Bring "Bitch Please" Movie Reviewer Chick from SNL to AICN
by zombieheathledger
Now THAT shit is funny. She'd sure beat the shit out of TITGIRL, oops, I mean, SCRIPTGIRL. "Biiiittccccccchh, pleaseeeeeeee."
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they happen quickly and end before you expect - with "our hero" being blown up. that's the punch line. how is a 90 minute movie going to sustain that?
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There's been a helluva lot of Bitch Pleeeeeze type news around here lately...
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The worst pat about this is that Herc actually seems to be defending it. Yes, Lorne Michaels had a hit twenty years ago with Wayne's World, but those residual checks aren't stuffing his mailbox. The movie very rarely plays on cable or T.V. and how many of you out there have bought a recent copy or even watched your old one? That movie is now stained with the disgust we now all have for the incredibly infunny actor that plays Wayne. We've seen all his tricks now and the sight of him makes me grab the remote. Wayne's World did make a shitload of money though and was hilarious in its time. Since then, Michaels has lost all of the Wayne's World money he made producing countless movies trying to recapture that magic. All one would have to do to predict the box office returns of some of these movies is apply a little common sense and have a sense of humor and a sense of what audiences want. Anyone who has watched SNL at all in the last ten years knows that Michaels displays none of those attributes. I say, let him keep making these gems. Hopefully he makes enough of them that he eventually goes bankrupt. And Herc, the Blues Brothers was based on a lot more than a few musical numbers on SNL, do your homework before saying something ignorant like that.
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"Michaels has PROBABLY lost all of the ...." Fucking no edit feature
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The Blues Brothers 1980 $57,229,890 Wayne's World 1992 $121,697,323Wayne's World 2 1993 $48,197,805Coneheads 1993 $21,274,717It's Pat! 1994 $60,822Stuart Saves His Family 1995 $912,082A Night at the Roxbury 1998 $30,331,165 Blues Brothers 2000 1998 $14,051,384Superstar 1999 $30,636,478 The Waterboy 1998 160 million The Ladies Man 2000 $13,616,610 MacGruber ????
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What's the movie going to be 2 minutes long? Isn't that the point of the skit? Look. There's no laughs beyond the one punchline. That's the reason so many SNL movies suck. Night at the Roxbury is a perfect example. That was a movie where they tried to stretch a 4 or 5 minute gag into an hour and a half feature. Didn't work because the skit has no life past the one punchline. I mean there are examples of SNL movies that did in fact make it. But you have to know what can take on life beyond a simple gag and what's just going to be plain annoying. For example, look at WAYNES WORLD vs IT'S PAT. The possibilities for what you could do with characters from WAYNES WORLD were endless. Myers and Carvey created not only a couple of likeable characters but they created a living situation, an environment and culture distinct to the WAYNES WORLD characters themselves. IT'S PAT? Not so much. That skit was about an annoying girl/boy who showed up at parties and everyone tried to guess what sex she/he was. That's not a good basis for a movie. I doubt MACGRUBER is either. Then again, maybe I'm just sore that Myers never got to make a SPROCKETS movie with David Hasselhoff touching the monkey.
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A "Bitch Pleeze" movie? That makes a "MacGruber" movie sound like genius.
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....ever since the Mike Myers era ended.
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See also: Six Demon Bag's posting, with the possible exception of the Waterboy, which I don't believe was a sketch (unless the similarities to Cajun Man are too great to ignore). Of course, this is the same Herc that breathlessly posts about a re-united Another Bad Creation being the musical act when that one dude from that one movie that totally bombed is guest hosting.
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Who the fuck said anything about a "Bitch Pleeze" movie, numbnuts? I said bring her to AICN, NOT make a movie about her. Reading comprehension skills not one of your strengths, eh?
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...but it was fuckin' funny. I used to live on Beachwood Dr. in Hollywood where the scene takes place in STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY where Stuart and his siblings get hit by a car as their Dad tries to take a picture of them in front of the Hollywood Sign, every weekend I'd see kids running for their lives dodging cars as their parents tried to take the exact same picture and I'd always think back to that scene in STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY.
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...and even then they have to be characters that aren't just one-note. "Wayne's World", "Strange Brew", "The Blues Bros."... none of these came from skits that were about situational humor. They were also all reasonably believable characters in those skits.
On the flip side of the argument, while MacGruber isn't much of a character, the announcement is essentially that they're making a parody film of MacGuyver, so the quality will depend on whether they can find enough there to mock beyond the one joke they have. -
"The Waterboy" (the highest grosser on your list) was not based on a SNL sketch. There was an Adam Sandler sketch called "Canteen Boy" but that was a different character.
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Just testing here. Can't post to the DVD talkback.
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I really hope it's kind of a Top Secret meets Hot Rod thing. That would be fantastic. I love and own the ZAZ movies and Hot Rod I hated when I first saw but it grew on me.
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...there is no justice in this life. Or the next.
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...coach kills me. That guy is my dad...sits you down...tells you you just HAVE to hear this song......and presses play on some sort of elevator music or the latest AMERICAN IDOL single...then gets all choked up with emotion and keeps looking over at you to make sure you're feeling it too...
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in the week. You'll know when that happens because it will turn red.I thought this was news of a MacGyver movie, and Herc was just being funny with the headline.Wayne's World worked, as did Strange Brew, because they were based on well-defined (as well as they can be in a skit) characters. MacGruber is mainly a one-note joke. He's dealing with some issue (explained in the opening song) which affects his concentration in diffusing a bomb. And then he blows up real good. His supporting character is nothing more than a cross between a blueprint and a clock - "we're trapped in the boiler room and have only 10 seconds until the bomb goes off". How much can you do with a character, possibly your co-star, who is simply there for exposition?
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with nothing but Love Guru recently, perhaps Mike Myers will try Lothar of the hIll people, but Simon would be too creepy, even now with MJ gone.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qD2FI9nsz4
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I like Will Forte a lot, but a sketch that only lasts 30-40 seconds into a 90-minute movie? Yikes. Maybe a "Laser Cats" film?
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"Middle Aged Man" starring Mike Meyers. Unfortunately, Chris Farley is dead, R.I.P., so we need to find another actor to play his sidekick, Drinking Buddy. My suggestion would be Will Sasso if he can get fat again or maybe Artie Lang. God, there aren't any funny fat actors anymore. The movie would be about a guy going through a midlife crisis who decides to try and be a superhero and his drinking buddy comes along for the ride. All kinds of hijinks ensue, it puts a strain on his marriage and the main characters bond in a Judd Apatoesque bromance type way. Give me a call, Lorne.
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I mean that's the level of comedy we're dealing with here. We're entering the late 1980s-era of Sly Stallone's career here... very uninspired work coming out of Hollywood now. Herc, you and 25 college kids will go see this.
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It has sucked for a while now. BUT I am old enough to remember it sucking this badly before we got Eddie Murphy and Phil Hartman. There's hope but Will Forte needs to take up web design or something. He's no comedian.
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or possibly Horatio (gotta eat) Sanz
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I could live with Sanz. I forgot about him. But definitely not Thompson. The only thing he can do that is remotely funny is Cosby.
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Not a parody. I'd love to hear how they manage to find an actual plot based on this sketch, which has the legs of about 30 seconds. I like the sketch for its abruptness, but a feature would not hold my attention. I could be wrong though, we'll see. I agree, the Falconer would be a MUCH better choice, if only for its unique absurdity.
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Point is, the bitch ain't funny.
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I have clearly lived too long.
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Neither is Will Forte.
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magruber, viewmaster, block of wood, door, pepsicoke.
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and have him banging all of the female lifeguards.
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I officially give up.
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And also, I completely don't believe Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe are doing this movie. They were just announced as being in talks in hopes of getting one of the two.
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Do you honestly think that the movie is going to be like the sketch beyond similiar characters? Was "The Ladies Man" a 90 minute movie about Leon answering phone calls (which is what the sketch was)? Was Waynes World 1 and 2 just one long episode of their show? Give MacGruber a fuckin break because you have no idea what the movie will be like... If anything, it will just be a full on MacGyver parody, which is probably a terrible movie in its own right but if they could fuckin stretch "Wayne's World" into 2 90 minute movies, they can stretch anything out.
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Out of the John Malkovich/Fred Armisen skit where they were two brothers on Christmas Eve hoping to get a Calculator for the holiday.
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Jul 08, 2009 10:41:12 AM CDT
Darkman- yeah, I'll take a guy's opinion who can't read
by zombieheathledger
Bittttchhhhhh, pllleeassseeee! lol
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its only funny when MacGruber blows up.
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That was kind of funny.
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Seriously, every script he's touched in Hollywood gets worse and turns to shit. There are countless projects he's been involved in that get stalled or shelved. Unless Lorne pushes hard for this movie, I don't see it getting made as the script will be worse than any of the other SNL inspired flops and the budget will be high due to all the action set pieces and explosions. Wil Forte cannot open a movie and will never open a movie. He's not that popular. A studio will have a hard time greenlighting a piece of shit script with a no box office star for anything more than 15-20 million tops.
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"if they could fuckin stretch "Wayne's World" into 2 90 minute movies, they can stretch anything out." That's the best defense for this POS idea that you can come up with? Seriously?!
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"if they could fuckin stretch "Wayne's World" into 2 90 minute movies, they can stretch anything out."
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I know, humor is subjective, I'm sure there are things I find hilarious that other people can't stand, but I'll be damned if that Forte asshole isn't the worst SNL cast member ever. And yes, I have seen enough of SNL's run (much of it live) to make that claim.
I used to go out of my way to watch the show. There were times when the quality dropped off and I'd just tune in if I happened to catch it on, but I never found myself actively avoiding SNL until I saw a few episodes with Forte's shitty Bush impression, his shitty Chris Dodd(?) impression (red face and yelling), his shitty falconer thing, and worst of all the "Oh, No!" guy. For those of you who haven't seen it, he just shouts "Oh, No!" in a strangled voice for five minutes or so while answering phones. That's the whole idea. It is apparently a recurring character.
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i thought maybe they knew something i didnt...i just cut and paste man
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Jul 08, 2009 11:24:18 AM CDT
Why do it at all if they have no respect for the source material
by matineer
Starsky and Hutch. Hooker. Six Million Dollar Man with Jim Carrey. The folk who liked these shows probably don't want a parody. Must the movie be made with an either/ or mentality. I mean, they can add humour to an otherwise "serious" film, right?
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shouldve been movies!!!!!!!
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Jul 08, 2009 11:36:52 AM CDT
a one-joke sketch that wasn't that funny in the first place
by smudgewhat
should make for a hardy 90 minutes.
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I hate that will Forte and this concept is paper thin. Somebody's flushing money.
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...somehow, a comedic reinterpretation of something no one took seriously in the first place by a talented writer is the worst idea ever, and this dreck is great news? I love this site.
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Sure they can. Add humor to serious films, that is. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs or two of the funniest movies of all times and they're not comedies.
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Jul 08, 2009 11:48:24 AM CDT
Check out this funny pic of MacGruber! --- this proves it can wo
by dioxholster
http://tinyurl.com/n9jk6k
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It's very unfortunate that the MacGruber sketches were written by people who don't seemed to have ever seen an episode of MacGyver in their lives because they did get the look of the character down pat. If only somebody who watched MacGyver wrote those sketches they wouldn't have been so painfully unfunny. When has MacGyver ever wasted precious time explaining things? Never. MacGyver either explains what he's doing to others WHILE he's doing it (and usually BECAUSE he needs the other characters to help) or we get the explanation in voiceover. There's so much that is satire-worthy about MacGyver, but wasting time explaining how he's going to deactivate the bomb without actually doing it is not one of them. Seriously, it AMAZES me that no one has murdered the entire writing staff of SNL by now. A trained chimp could write better comedy than they do. And the senator from Minnesota can definitely write better comedy than they do. Enjoy your MacGruber movie. I'll be at home watching The Daily Show and Colbert Report, which aren't just funny in theory but are actually funny.
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I'm a huge fan of the MacGruber skits (as i'm a huge MacGyver tv show fan) but i'm not sure how a movie will work. Obviously they won't follow the same format as the skits but i'm a big enough fan of Will Forte and Jorma Taccone to give them a chance. I'm sure it will have some of the off the wall, ridiculous comedy of Forte. Anyway here are more details about the plot. I know the part about being a monk made me smile just thinking about how Forte would look.
"Yesterday you heard the news that a MACGRUBER movie was coming to the big-screen to be directed by Jorma Taccone. Today we have some word on what the hell this movie is going to be about and who else is going to star.
Because every good hero needs a sidekick and a villain, Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer will co-star with MACGRUBER regulars Will Forte and Kristen Wiig in the film. Phillippe will star as Piper, an army officer forced to accompany MacGruber on his mission. Kilmer will play the film's main bad guy, Cunth, who has stolen a nuclear warhead (MacGruber is out to stop him because Cunth killed his wife). In the film, MacGruber is pulled out of retirement (where he's been living as a monk in Ecuador) to once again serve his country." -
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is what i want to hear.
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Yup... you are about right there.
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"Say Hello To Your Mother For Me: The Mark Wahlberg Story"
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EVEN THE TITLE/CHARACTER NAME IS NOT FUNNY
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Jul 08, 2009 12:31:15 PM CDT
I don't like blind people. They think they're soo cool.
by so_here_i_am
For some reason that Tim Calhoun line made me laugh and laugh. It's also from five years ago and I haven't really paid attention to SNL since.
I would watch a Clone High movie though.
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The Falconer shorts have way more depth and story potential, whereas McGrubber works best as a short sketch.
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They tried to make a serious movie out of an '80's show. Michael Mann remade Miami Vice very serious (I love it, BTW). But many didn't, seemingly wanting pastel suits and perms). Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
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keeps churning out these POSs. "He's still getting residual checks from Wayne's World." And that's a good thing. He had 1 hit out of over a dozen POSs. that's some track record. Maybe he should stick to what he does best which is sketch comedy and run movie ides by someone who can really produce movies. And let's be honest, the only reason Wayne's World was a hit was because of Mike Meyers and had absolutely nothing the fuck to do with Lorne Michaels.
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In congress! Wheres that movie?
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and I don't smoke anymore so I never thought it was funny. And that lame assed Super Bowl commercial killed any kind of street cred this skit may have had to begin with.
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Movies can never be as funny as real life.
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The Brothers Soloman! HUH! What? Yeah I haven't seen it either.
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I like MacGruber but no way does this work
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Well not really, I think this movie will be awful, but I am getting a kick out of singing the thread title to MacGruber's theme.
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...get Ferrell, Parnell, and Alec Baldwin (along with Gasteyer) to do RED SHIPS OF SPAIN: THE MOVIE. I'd *so* pay to see that one.
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I want a Brian Fellows movie where he thinks he's being stalked by the manta ray that killed Steve Irwin.
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... are a bunch of xenophobic bitches. Fuck 'em.
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I feel bad for the mush-brains who find MacGruber, and morever, SNL funny. Its made for white idiots.
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Not sure why Trevor Moore isn't getting at the very least Ed Helms big.
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Or "Schwetty Balls: The Musical"
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Why would they want to make a spoof on MacGuyver, when they could just make a cool MacGuyver movie instead. I smell poison all over this thing.
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You could have them all: Brian Fellows, MacGrubber, etc. all do expanded skits or a plot that intertwines.
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http://tinyurl.com/mvmlfz
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I saw one of the sketches for this and was not impressed at all. Hollywood is suffering from a shortage of writers with original ideas and executives who will allow original ideas to be put on film.
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OUT OF A MEDIOCRE BIT ON SNL?
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They are making a Jizzed in my pants movie starring Paul Reubens
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She is painfully, horribly unfunny and not even good looking. Unless she's in 30 or so second doses--KNOCKED UP--she is the worst. In fact, I almost dread EXTRACT because of her presence but trust in Mike Judge. Also, this is awful news, but who gives a shit because there is no way this movie will make money. Other than the Waynes Worlds have ANY SNL movies made money in the last 20 years?
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is the only thing keeping SNL afloat.
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Every time it's on, but idk about a 80 minute movie. I used to hate Forte, but he's grown on me with Magruber and Falconer...not so much the dancing coach.
Also, Kristen wiig is super annoying, but i liked her on Flight of the Conchords -
...Mind you it's thirty years too late, but that was an SNL premise that had the promise of being a really great full-length film.
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The prequel to "Sofa King" and the sequel to "Funkin' A"!
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Aside from the writing and Tina Fey appearances.
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If Kilmer was really looking to do another comedy, he should go back and do a sequel to REAL GENIUS -- for example, where we see Chris Knight now as an adult and teaching back at his old university or promoted to heading up a giant science project for the government that someone wants to screw up. Kilmer rocked in that role, the movie was hilarious, and it would make for a fun sequel -- plus, you could now play to Kilmer's actual adult age and have a movie that deals with someone like Chris Knight actually getting older. Well, assuming anyone besides myself remembers the first film.But as for him doing MacGruber? Seems like the classic "I need a quick mortgage paycheck" kind of gig. The SNL skits tire fast, so the only thing that could make this work as a movie is just how silly and over the top the situations are -- sort of a Zucker Brothers kind of comedy. But frankly, given the absolute shitty quality of past SNL movies, I have very little faith they'll hit a Zucker Brothers kind of benchmark.
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Even if NacGruber was funny there's no way they can stretch it into a movie and still be funny.
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and he mentioned this. How old is this news? But they showed a MacGruber clip that featured Shia Lebeouf admitting the anal lube he just happened to have in his pocket was for his "girlfriend" Scott. So I laughed, sue me.
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http://tinyurl.com/yo3ndz
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I just want to thank you for the compliment and for seeing things my way.
(I can't read, remember? For all I know, your response may well have been an insult, but I'll never know for sure.) -
Jul 08, 2009 7:45:36 PM CDT
If only all worn-out recurring SNL sketches were so brief!
by brandloyalist
Really funny sketch idea, have laughed at more than one of them... but there probably should only have been 3 or 4. Yet, each time they wheel it out again on the TV show, if it turns out to be a dumb one or you just can't laugh at the concept anymore, at least you know it's only going to last 30 seconds. A Debbie Downer sketch would just be getting started at that point. The super brief format really works for it... so they're gonna drag it out to 105 minutes. I too am baffled. Still, "He's lashing out at everyone McGRUBER!" heh heh heh.
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http://tinyurl.com/yo3ndz
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...It's a Hell of a Drug!
These old geezers know they only have another year or so to live.
They have chosen to spend their golden years coked to the gills sucking down Bombay Sapphire Gin and Tonics...
This presents a problem however-because Cocaine is expensive-so they are just Spitballing every lame project in the kopes that it will make 20K so they can get just one more fix...
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Jul 08, 2009 8:36:54 PM CDT
mjgtexas, I totally agree with you about Trevor Moore
by mel_gibsons_nazi_dad
Wkuk has some really great original sketches. Anyone reading this go look up some Whitest Kids U Know clips on youtube at least check out bowser tatoo.
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"I shot you in the back of your head".....by...Paul Reubens
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Holy Fuck!!! That actually WOULD be a good idea. You can cameo some older characters too for a very weird and self-referential movie.
Say what you will about SNL's greatness/suckitude, but that could actually be pants shitting funny.
MacGruber itself could be a funny movie. Funny in the way that only a late night cable TV movie or boring Sunday diversion could be. I think that it'll be another "Superstar", "It's Pat", or "Midnight at the Roxberry".
Then again, you never know. "Wayne's World" actually struck gold. For my money, I actually think that Will Forte has more comedic potential than Mike Meyers. I don't think that he's got the off screen personality to match, but his timing is even better than Meyers' ever was. -
Give it arest!!!
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Unless you WANT people to hate Stargate!
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Jul 08, 2009 10:10:01 PM CDT
Herc, are you really going to compare MaGruber to Wayne's World?
by rob0729
Wayne's World was never a one joke sketch. Every sketch for waynes World was different, the overall premise was about a show of two Gen X slackers doing a TV show out of their basement, but it was never repetitive. It wasn't always funny, but every sketch was different from the next. MaGruber is like the Night at the Roxbury guys and Pat where all the "comedy" is to redo the same joke in different situations. I expect this movie to fail just like the long movie versions of those other sketches failed. Wayne's World had more depth to stretch out into to movies. MacGruber doesn't have enough depth to fill those 30 second sketches that air repeatedly. I have never gotten MacGruber. It was barely funny once.
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http://tinyurl.com/mstxl2
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...is my vote for a SNL skit movie...90 minutes of Christopher Walken talking to the camera...I'm chuckling already :)
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What's more, Rob - with WAYNE'S WORLD they took the skeleton of the sketch and REALLY fleshed-out the characters and gave them legitimate depth - friends, enemies, loves, fears, anxieties ... that were REAL for the types of kids they were parodying. Far from being true slackers, Wayne and Garth were good-natured kids at heart - the kinds of kids who seem like bad news to Aunt Mildred but who really WOULD work all weekend fixing her lawn if it was sorely needed. They were just good-natured kids. That's what made the movies work.
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That movie would be huuuge man, that's all I'm sayin'
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That movie is a treasure.
That was so long ago, though. All the rest were over-rated. Even Wayne's World. Especially that lame sequel.
Also, Strange Brew WAS MODELED AFTER A REACURRING SKIT. It was on SCTV, not SNL. It was called Great White North, with Bob and Doug McKinzie -
Great White North:
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Like back in the day when they used to show cartoons and things before movies. It seems fine. Make one or 2 shorts for big summer movies, or whatever. No 2 hour bullshit
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I just hope this isn't another 'Lady's Msn'.
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I think Will Forte is funny, but the problem is he's often a bit too left-field (like the "Toddlers and jars of beer" sketch, that makes me wet myself but confuses everyone else).
I think the danger is McGruber would be too similar to any other "X is incompetent version of Y" film, with jokes mainly consisting of banging into things, dropping things and saying "I meant to do that."
Pleae though no "X Is Incompetent Version Of Y Movie". -
And, not just b/c I'm below you.(yeah, I know that saying that is ironic-e-lee ((funny))).I thought the BS (yeah, that's the short term for it, although to spell ir is longer) was funny, esp. if you listen to the the commentary and wonder WTF they we're going to do with the baby at first (if anyone knows Will Forte let us know what they was'-goin' to do with baby at first).
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"Just in case the baby learns how to open the original locks".
The opening credits are a good test- if you find their faces funny (as I do) it's a good start.
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This is right up there with Superstar, Stuart Smalley Saves His Family and a Knight at the Roxbury. Completely DOA.
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THE BLUES BROTHERS, STRANGE BREW, & WAYNE'S WORLD were all based on ORIGINAL & FUNNY sketches/characters from SCTV & SNL...not some half-assed MacGyver rip-off!
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Fuck You. With a barbed rubber penis
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