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is it just me or does this look painfully misogynistic?

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

is it just me or does this look painful~~ly misogynistic~~?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

i somehow want to see this more than war of the worlds, without actually wanting to see it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

I like that that character that Vince Vaughn has played in every movie he's ever been in finally has a vehicle with which to really SHINE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Vince Vaughn + Owen Wilson

YES!

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

It looks absolutely horrible, and for some reason, I want to see it. Hopefully, I'll forget.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

It is masterful.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't get over the horrible horrible 5/6 syllable ads on all the bus stops. Wretched slogan marketing at its worst; totally turned me off to this.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

They're all in the form of commands, as well, so whenever I see them a little voice inside goes "don't tell me what to fuckin do!!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 16 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

this shit looks pretty funny i love vince vaughns dance on the poster

― 33, Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/new_line_cinema/wedding_crashers/weddingcrashers_bigposter.jpg
GET LOW!!!!

― 33, Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

it wasn't too bad....

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Saturday, 16 July 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

the onion's comment about this was that it's this decade's version of when all the ex-SNL guys went from making Caddyshack & Stripes to Spies Like Us. Capable actors, shitty material.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 16 July 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

wait, did we ever get our caddyshack and stripes though??

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I WELCOME OUR NEW R RATED OVER LORDS

― Anthony Easton, Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

That's the spirit!

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0462466/

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

This movie turned anthony Uppercase!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

it was okay, but it could've used more wedding crashing

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

This movie had titties!

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 17 July 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

And Isla Fisher!

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

And Isla Fisher's titties (or at the very least, some stunt titties)!

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

I WANT TO BELIEVE!

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

damn, GIS for 'stunt titties' turns up nothing

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Did you try 'stunt tittays'?

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah but tits are always re al and cocks are fake always, stunting

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

misogyny painful?

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

Vince Vaughn + any Wilson brother = lite comedy gold

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

i think we're looking more for this:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0437529/

Untitled Harold Ramis/Owen Wilson Project

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

I loved the wedding crashers! Unexpectedly great script, and (here goes) I have a brand new obsession in the delightful form of his young lady:

http://images.zap2it.com/20040825/thebrunettegallery01/004_rachelmcadams2_meangirlspr_copy.jpg

who i'd never heard of before, but...crikey. can't find any decent pictures of her from the actual film though - her hair's different.

aaanyway. mmm.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Dude, I can't believe that's the same girl who was just in Mean Girls.

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

cmon mean girls they filmed like in 94

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

she's 29 apparently. which means the must've been, what, 24 when mean girls was filmed? i haven't seen that yet. she looks pretty young in wedding crashers, like 21 or so, but that pic i posted makes her look way old. hmmm. who's ryan gosling, her chap?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0332280/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT10aGUgbm90ZWJvb2t8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

McCain's cameo in this will be used as ammo against his future political runs.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/opinion/12147959.htm

Posted on Sat, Jul. 16, 2005
'RAUNCH FEST'
Film role casts doubt on McCain judgment
SUSAN ESTRICH
"McCain to Star in Boob Raunch Fest," read the headline in the Drudge Report. I don't even know what that is, but it certainly sounds like something that someone who's running in a process dominated by Christian conservatives would prefer not to be caught in.
It turns out McCain has a cameo role playing himself attending the big wedding in the raunchiest R-rated movie of the weekend, "Wedding Crashers." We've been exposed to the trailers and ads for weeks. My kids are eager to see it, all the more so because it is R-rated.
You know how that works: It must be good. I hear it's awful, with unnecessary montages of naked women's breasts, before they all sleep with our hero, for his endless meaningless sex - and, of course, endless swear words just for the sake of it, which is right up my son's alley (he's 12) and the sort of thing that bores and embarrasses my 15-year-old daughter and me.
According to the producers, they're "swimming against the tide" by making this "original R-rated comedy" in which, according to the previews, the stars get fondled at the dinner table and no pretense is even made of being family-friendly.
If John McCain were just another U.S. senator, you might say that it was quite a star turn, particularly for a Republican who is actually quite conservative on social issues. And since it's not just another senator, but John McCain, a man whose life story is of courage and service, maybe you'd say it's part of what makes him an appealing figure across generational lines. As he explained it, "It impressed my kids."
But McCain isn't just another senator. He is currently - according to the polls - the "front-runner" in the Republican race for the 2008 nomination, although Republicans are sharply divided as to whether that can hold in a process dominated by party regulars and Christian conservatives.
It was John McCain - the senator, not the character - who held hearings prior to the 2000 elections, as everyone is now pointing out, to take Hollywood to task for making R-rated movies and marketing them to teenagers. The result was a commitment by the industry to enforce more strictly the R restriction - with the unintended consequence, some would argue, that PG-13 movies got to be more sexual and more violent. This movie was conceived of as R-rated from the get-go, and McCain apparently is the only elected official to join the cast.
In 2008, one friend of Hillary's told me, he'll be 72 years old, he'll have had cancer twice, and he has a reputation for being erratic. Remember that Chelsea joke? It was a terrible joke - about Janet Reno being her father - that insulted both a teenage girl and her mother. Hillary has told off-color jokes, but sticking a knife in the back of a kid?
Will the right laugh off the senator's latest cameo as just that? Or will they ask what he was thinking when, having campaigned against R-rated films marketed to kids, he agreed to appear in one.
In the end, what may be at issue is not whether conservatives share McCain's sense of humor but whether they come to question his judgment.

A special note to our listening audience: the fact that a flick has nudity and that your 12-year-old wants to see tittays does not a kid-marketed flick make. Also, conservative columnist in decrying pop culture without actually seeing the film but more than willing to echo that week's talking points shocka, etc.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 17 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

okay, found it, and yeah, those are talking points:

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2005/07/14/20050714_013400_flash3jm.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JULY 13, 2005 10:24:02 ET XXXXX

SEN. MCCAIN STARS IN BOOB RAUNCH FEST

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- who once held hearings chastising Hollywood studios for producing R- rated films and marketing them to teens -- is now playing a part in one!

Opening this weekend, WEDDING CRASHERS, a movie packed with raunchy moments and bare-breasted beauties bedding down with the guys.

And Senator John McCain!

"In a summer full of sequels and remakes rated PG-13, we feel an original R-rated comedy will stand out," said Rolf Mittweg, president of worldwide distribution and marketing at NEW LINE.

Executives at the studio made a deliberate decision to swim against the current and fill the movie with four-letter words and lots-a-sex...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 17 July 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

John McCain, a man whose life story is of courage and service, maybe you'd say it's part of what makes him an appealing figure across generational lines. As he explained it, "It impressed my kids."

YUCK! Is this the whiny bitch who shows her tits on the Bill O'Reilly show?

(actually, I saw the film; I wish it had MORE tits, four-letter words, and gratuitous nudity...anything except for the awful ending)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Kingfish, please stop with the "news" postings please.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

oh alright...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

looking up Mean Girls on IMDB reveals a wonderful nugget from one mini bio: "Regarded as one of the best young actresses of her generation, Lacey Chabert..."

Oh, really?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

the onion's comment about this was that it's this decade's version of when all the ex-SNL guys went from making Caddyshack & Stripes to Spies Like Us. Capable actors, shitty material.

-- kingfish

Spies Like Us is great!

― richardk (Richard K), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

wrong call

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

The Onion can't be right all the time...

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

she looks more like this in the movie:
http://www.celebrity-exchange.com/celebs/photos61/rachel-mcadams-07.jpg

anyway, it was pretty boring. dragged on forever.

the best part, which was really really good, was the introduction of will ferrell. nonstop laughs for about 2.5 minutes.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

"fuck ma, wheres the meatloaf"

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

im a vince vaughn fan...i thought he was hysterical. and rowr for isla fisher...soon to be miss ali g.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

he's shtoopin a goy?

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

vince vaughn was very good in this. will ferrell's part was funny. awful ending.

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

i liked this quite a bit. mcadams is totally cute and it never worked any single gag too long. just inventive inventive inventive except for the gay son, who was a bit of a painful sour note.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to see isla fisher (is she known for something else? imdb sez huckabees but i don't remember her) in this, the bits from the trailer were pretty impressive. but really i feel like i've already seen this movie, not a good feeling.

and is VV like two feet taller than OW? look at that poster!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

except for the gay son, who was a bit of a painful sour note.

-- Sterling Clover (s.clove...), July 22nd, 2005.

OTM

he looked kinda like that douche from the vines

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

OTM seconded. The only time I didn't laugh and everyone else did was the bits with the gay son. OMG HE'S GAY, VEGETARIAN ARTMO AND HE'S CRAAAAAAZYYYY.

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, this was pretty good. Laughs. Boobs. Raunch. It's certainly the best movie of its kind that I've seen in a long time. Kicked the hell out of, say, "Old School."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

is harold and kumar this type of movie? i'd say that kicked this movie's ass.

H&K>old school>Crashers

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 22 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I gotta give you H&K.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 22 July 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

i like how its sort of explicit that this is the way that not-so-young-ppl get their kicks and the whole sappy "everybody loves a wedding" theme hits just the right note of bittersweet.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

i also heart all the unresolved subplots, especially with the moms. it's like -- ooh, creepy psychodra... psyche! also the self-aware gag about "it's like you're the houseguest who think's he's already part of the family."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

and the oh..look..he's going undercover to get her bac... oh no he's just getting the crap kicked out of him.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

the ending is so fucked though, how come it's not rachel mcadams' wedding he's crashing?! that would have made so much more sense. POOR SCREENWRITING

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

the end should've been a buildup to a super-wedding-crash

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

but that was the whole gag like he crashes the enagement party and just gets fucked up!

instead he does the right thing and goes for his buddy and it turns out ok. also her fiancee was a pretty good classic 80s super-dick prep character.

this movie was all about the difference between a sweet jerk and a bad jerk (which i guess has to do with tricking women vs. ordering them around?)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

the ending is so fucked though, how come it's not rachel mcadams' wedding he's crashing?! that would have made so much more sense. POOR SCREENWRITING

NO! Great screenwriting because it would be EASIER to show up at RMcA's wedding.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

cf. ELAINE!

also...

cf. CASSANDRA!

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

Owen Wilson is the Dave Grohl of Hollywood in that no matter how lame his stuff might appear to be sometimes I could never be too mean to such a seemingly cool guy.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

no bad screenwriting because why does the family hate owen wilson for being a duplicitous wedding crasher yet not mind vince vaughn for being the exact same thing?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

no bad screenwriting because why does the family hate owen wilson for being a duplicitous wedding crasher yet not mind vince vaughn for being the exact same thing?

"Remember when we had to throw a Sweet 16 party for her 13th birthday?"

Walken had resigned himself to the fact that he can't control the baby of the family.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

haha i don't think walken dislikes wilson either, really. at least not once the daughter sez she likes him, he comes over real quicklike.

one of the gags of the film is you keep thinking walken..ooh they're gonna use him like a creepy bad guy... then they never really do!

it's like a whole riff on the deniro meet the parents thing.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 23 July 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

i like walken's explanation to uh 'sack' or whatever his name is, when he sides with his daughter at the end. and it fits perfectly with the family's accepting vaughn's character too.

whole thing would've been better if there were a few more notes of desperate misery (on the part of the guys, not any putatively desparate women), but hey.

i thought the introduction of chaz's / will ferrell's next-level schtick was quite nice as far as instructively significant gestures in vulgar comedies go. and then they didn't even overplay the actual graveside scene!

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

I just loved Owen Wilson's "I'm not going to judge you, because I believe you're a true innovator" speech to Will Ferrell.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

It could have done with a good twenty minutes sawn off of it, but it was very effective and finally I see why Vaughan is in this gang, he is very very funny here.

That montage sequence at the begining though. LONGEST MONTAGE EVER!

Good to see you are putting your UGC card to good use.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

There's no going back.

Definitely it was too long though.

Rachel McAdams is like Kate Beckinsale before she went all Beverly Hills.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Will Ferrell's wearing out his welcome. His cameo was pointless and just reminded me how much Anchorman sucked fish out of a sumo's asshole.

I don't see why anybody had a problem with the ending. I have started referring to all the Sack-clones I see around here as, uh, Sacks. He was in Wet Hot American Summer! Color me amazed.

Screenwriting has nothing to do with the quality of this movie. Vince Vaughn is brilliant + Owen Wilson is a perfect straight man.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

BUT BUT IN ANCHORMAN JACK BLACK PUNTED BAXTER...WHICH WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE MOVIE FOR ME.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

the montage was really poor filmmaking

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

and don't get me wrong, the ending didn't ruin the movie for me at all, i actually really liked the will ferrell stuff. and i was glad to get back to actual wedding crashing and away from weekend vacationing.

but some stuff did bug me!! it'd really have been better if he had crashed mcadams' wedding instead of her... engagement party? just seems simple to me!! also the "lackluster wedding crashing" sequence didn't work for me, i guess i couldn't really buy owen wilson as a broken degenerate man.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I can't figure out if living around here and already knowing these people enough to hate them helped me enjoy this movie or not.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Hang on - which people?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

YOU KNOW THE WEDDING CRASHERS?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Cliche number one in romantic comedies is the hero crashing his crushes wedding and her ditching the man at the alter (cf The Guru, A Guy Thing, The Graduate to name three that I have seen in the last TWO WEEKS) so it was good that this film didn't go down the cheesiest of cliches ever.

It was also nice to see Vaughan getting married himself, but looking out for his mate. The dn was great, it was just the engagement nonsense and the forced falling out which did not work.

I'M CRASHING YOUR WEDDING TOMBOT.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

i'd rather it go the cliche graduate route whole-hog rather than try and do it half-assedly

plus mucho opportunities for hilarity as they plan the ultimate crash!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I'M CRASHING YOUR WEDDING TOMBOT.

ME TOO.

WE WILL BE A HORRIBLE UNSUCCESSFUL VERSION OF VINCE 'N' OWEN.

NB. I WILL NOT TRY TO WIN ALLY'S HEART THAT WOULD BE STUPID.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Only because I don't have one, Nick.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

That was one of the nuances of my remark.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I was helping you, in case anyone missed it. That happens often, missed hidden messages, subtleness, you know.

Re: the gay son, btw, he was worth it for that ridiculous painting of Vince Vaughn which I will totally buy.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that painting was a highlight.

Despite having my reservations about that character he played, it seems like the kind of cameo that might launch a successful career. IMDB tells me he was 'Thomas' in episode 10 of 'Lost'. I can't remember him.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I still want to find those paintings of Mos Def and Alan Rickman from that Johns Hopkins Heart Surgery movie!!!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

When I finally get around to decorating Luke and Tony's joint for them, I'm covering it in ostentatious paintings of ridiculous celebrities.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Alan Rickman is NOT ridiculous.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes, he is. He totally is.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mckellen.com/images/misc/ras01.jpg

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

If he doesn't sing his "Tenderness" song with Jarvis Cocker and Radiohead in the new Harry Potter movie, I'm going to boycott him for the rest of my life.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I just saw this this afternoon, and have to say I quite enjoyed it. Sure, it's flawed (the whole subplot involving the gay painter son is slightly offensive complicates matters needlessly), but I laughed quite a bit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

And yes, the woman who plays Claire is strikingly beautiful.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Funniest movie since Harold & Kumar - Vaughn was incredible throughout, it was smarter than your average comedy, the ending was a little hokey (but as noted, fit with everyone's conduct). The handjob scene had the crowd laughing so hard it actually drowned out some dialogue.

Only downsides: montage was too long and not funny enough (probably would have been funny enough at half the length), the gay son plot had moments but never went anywhere.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

All the men I saw that movie with agreed that that handjob was kind of terrifying! She looked like she was trying to tear his dick off.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

she knew what she wanted, she knew what he needed

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Try to detach it, it's not too late.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

It kind of looked to me like she was just rubbing his crotch through his trousers, rather than actually having got hold of anything. I don't know what I was expecting of a handjob scene. It wasn't like they were going to show Vince Vaughan's erect penis.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Or even a body double's, really.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he's no Vince Gallo.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

just the tip...to see how it feels.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Were they build for comfort or built for speed? You motorboat?

― It's just Jimmy Mod. Don't trip out and get labia reduction surgery or anyt (Mod, Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

i kind of fell in love with rachel mcadams there. it's beyond my control.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

re. ferrell -- it's probably because i'm english and have never seen snl that i don't think he's outstayed his welcome. i think the funeral scene may be the best in the movie because it had the most offensive humour and the most authentic 'serious bit' within about 15 seconds of each other.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

but it is a strange film.
1) too long at two hours. they could easily have cut down on all the 'meet the fockers' stuff.
2) and they could have had a funny scene at a wedding instead of the mental montage. the montage had funny bits that were in the trailers, but was underwhelming as a whole.
3) a bit like 1): some of it was needlessly crude. the ferrell bit was properly transgressive, but the gay son, the hot mom -- we have had all that before.
4) and it sat uneasily alongside the pretty conventional mcadams/wilson romance. charles gant (heat) says the publicity machine was very firm about NOT promoting the film as a romcom, but it kind of *is* a romcom.
5) the isla fisher plotline redeemed itself in the end.
6) i was thinking mcadams looked way young (about 15 years wilson's junior) but she's actually 29. she still looks about 19, though.
7) such bad music.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Agreed with the montage. It would have been nice to see a crash from a to b (especially the Chinese one).

I am interested in the "gay" son subtext, because I'm not sure he is actually gay in the film. Obv Bi, but the look at the end when he seems to consider Wedding Crashing himself. There was also of course the suggestion that the big problem with homosexuality was his family, rather than him - but admittedly there is a difficulty with showing a straight man turnign down a male come on without seeming homophobic at the same time. In a Hollywood movie.

It does strike me as, length notwithstanding, the almost perfect date move.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. It left me feeling a bit inadequate for not having their gusto and not being able to dance properly. I wouldn't want my date to be thinking "Hmm... he's no Owen Wilson"

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

petee's right, the gay son isn't as bad as made out, and the painting ("it's a gift, i'm taking it") justified him. but the bit with vaughn tied up in bed was a bit de trop.

date movie?

mmm. i dunno, there aren't very full female characters, are there? they were both good, but were still very much second-fiddle.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Many women like having Owen Wilson to look at, N_RQ. And maybe they find it FUN too, y'know?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah, sure they do! i wz with my g/f and we both enjoyed it equally. but i think for a film to be a good romantic comedy or date movie it needs slightly thicker characterisation for the wimmin.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

is it me, or did they deliberately model the gay artist son on conor oberst?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Its possibly enough for a date movie to show the men up as being shallow AND that Isla Fisher is in control AND woman in control = sexy. Though we don't spend much time with the girls, they come off pretty well (excpet in a traditional Hollywood way of being massivley underwritten for which I see your point).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Charlie, i thought the same thing.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't want my date to be thinking "Hmm... he's no Owen Wilson"

Just so you know, this happens all the time, no matter who you are or what movie you go to see, it is inevitable at some point, your date/gf/wife is going to think, "Man, he's not really Owen Wilson, is he?" So don't worry so much.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Ally otm.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I hate it when my suspicions are confirmed.

Is there no way we can roll back the mass media project? Or were women in medieaval times just thinking: "Hmmm... he's no Seth from the next village?"

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I hate it when my suspicions are confirmed.

Is there no way we can roll back the mass media project? Or were women in medieaval times just thinking things like "Hmm... he's no Seth from the next village!" instead?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"He's no Christopher Lee, is he?"

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I hate it when my suspicions are confirmed.
Is there no way we can roll back the mass media project? Or were women in medieaval times just thinking things like things like "Hmm... he's no Seth from the next village!" instead?

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't want my date to be thinking "Hmm... he's no Owen Wilson"

She's no Isla Fisher, either...

― The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

just having fun :)

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I thought the movie was generally pretty good and funny, but the thing that I think of about a week after seeing the film is how strange Rachel McAdams character was. I don't believe that her motivations and actions were ever all that unbelievable, but they really underplayed some interesting subtext in her personality, especially in regards to how she puts down her older sister for trying to make everyone happy and keep up appearances while arguably being far worse in that respect.

Then I think of what it would be like if the writing staff of Six Feet Under rewrote this film...

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I really loved all the bits when people would overhear Vince Vaughan saying incredibly vulgar things.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

"Yeah, well, the proper girl in the hat just eye-fucked the shit out of me..."

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 29 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

"THAT WAS MY FIRST ASIAN"

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 July 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

"tattoo on lower back...might as well be a TARGET"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

ha! my girlfriend texted me after seeing this film to say "I just saw Wedding Crashers, Owen Wilsons hair is a bit like yours, but not as good".

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I suppose she didn't mean it, right N/Ally?

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of sad, that the only thing she could think of that was better about you was your hair.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Then I think of what it would be like if the writing staff of Six Feet Under rewrote this film...

Everyone dies of a brain tumor at the end?

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

well she didn't say anything positive about Wilson, in the text.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh Ronan.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

it's Seth in the next village you need to worry about.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

"Tattoo on the lower back it may as well be NARM NARM NARM"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Then I think of what it would be like if the writing staff of Six Feet Under rewrote this film...

What would even be the point of wondering about this?

― The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 30 July 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

ok so it hit me that wedding crashers is basically a concept for a reality pr0n site (i.e. b*ngbus) gone bigscreen. a quick google for relevent terms reveals that no filmcritic has quite expressed this yet.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 30 July 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

How many fucking different J-Crew outfits did Owen Wilson sneak into in this thing???

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.weddingcrashersmovie.com/crashthistrailer/

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Kicked the hell out of, say, "Old School."

That is absolute crazy talk.

I didn't like this movie when I saw it, but after reading this thread and laughing at memories of certain scenes, I may actually give it another shot.

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

the meatloaf thing was funny. i share will ferrell's character's love of the dish.

― latebloomer: yes...that's a human ear, all right (latebloomer), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 July 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

OK IT'S THE GREATESET MOVIE OF TONIGHT

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 July 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

having this movie and 40 y/o virgin on demand is the best thing about this summer (sadly)

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 21 July 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Has Doc Morbius seen Wedding Crashers?

― milo z, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

let Morbius be Morbius and don't keep poking him

-- milo z, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 1:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

That's why I took it to another thread.

I think he'd like Crashers better than the Apatowverse.

― milo z, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

what happened to 007? who was he? i liked that dude

― gff, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

i re-screened this the other week. it could have been so much better.

rachel mcadams is hot as balls obviously.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

the ending is so fucked though, how come it's not rachel mcadams' wedding he's crashing?! that would have made so much more sense. POOR SCREENWRITING
-- s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:52 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

i listened to the commentary and this was the original idea.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/7/15/21325097/making-of-wedding-crashers-football-scene

It’s impossible to look back on the movie now without considering that the main plot hinges on two borderline predatory men who lie about their identities to sleep with women (not to mention the Cleary family’s homophobia and misogyny).

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 20 July 2020 13:04 (five years ago)

Sorry, that’s a quote from the article, not my original opinion or anything.

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 20 July 2020 13:05 (five years ago)

is it just me or does this look painfully misogynistic?

OP didn't even need to look back

McCain's cameo in this will be used as ammo against his future political runs.

This aged well.

he's shtoopin a goy?

Those were the days.

― Steppin' RZA (sic), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:19 (five years ago)

It’s not quite as misogynistic as Will Ferrell’s other films, particularly The Other Guys. I like Rebecca de Mornay in the beginning, and that’s it

― beamish13, Monday, 20 July 2020 19:57 (five years ago)

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