macgruber movie

this was fuckin funny iirc

used to wish will forte a slow death for his square vibe, fondness for melody and endless parade of mustaches but i'm pretty hopeful for this.

in hindsight, my disdain for the guy may have been heavily influenced by having the box for Brothers Solomon in my peripheral vision at work for several months.

this looks fucking awful

yeah man i was expecting nothing, i don't really feel strongly about forte one way or another, and it really should have sucked

but it was funny

Oh God the commercial/trailer for this is so annoying and W Forte just bugs me so much so that even if ppl start saying it's good (???) I just don't know if I could bring myself to watch it.

^^this, completely

ya i know

but

it's funny.

In order for me to believe this, you must answer: did you see the most recent SNL, and was "Starfish" funny y/n?

Because based on some comments on the SNL thread I went and watched that sketch on Hulu, and it was completely awful.

i did not, i never really watch snl tbh

didn't know people hated the trailer, "tick tick boom" into eagles of death metal is my kinda shit

always makes me glad to know that makers of sports ads and action trailers bought that last hives album even if no one else did

didn't see the trailer

always liked the macgruber sketches - reoccuring character sketches should *all* be 30 seconds long.

and the good snl movies are the ones you never expect to be good

I find most SNL pretty insufferable these days and can't really remember the last SNL movie that I thought was good so idk. I generally trust Slock's taste though which is why this is so surprising.

wait nvm by that logic all snl movies would be good xp

MacGruber is like the one consistently funny sketch they do! I can't fathom hating Will Forte, it seems akin to hating an innocuous dessert.

my roomate saw a early screening and said it was fucking hilarious

I find most SNL pretty insufferable these days and can't really remember the last SNL movie that I thought was good so idk.

the trailer quote of "the best snl movie since wayne's world!" is awesome cuz yeah way to beat superstar, it's pat, night at the roxbury and ladies man.

xpost if my innocuous desert put on a mustache and starting yelling a song i'd hate it too

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyuaivi79s1qzr73go1_500.jpg

not innocuous

I'm opposed to this on principle and will be doing my best to get people who want to see this see it without paying for it,
but I'm opposed to actual 80s revivals even more, and if there were an actual MacGuyver movie coming out, I'd be rooting for MacGruber to outgross it.

xpost if my innocuous desert put on a mustache and starting yelling a song i'd hate it too

whereas I would think it was the most awesome dessert ever, constantly full of surprises, and I would take it on a whirlwind world tour and make $$$$ off of it

ladies man owns

lol... didn't even know this was an snl movie. trailer looked pretty dire but i love forte in his tim and eric sketches.

xpost don't forget the fable of michigan j. frog, dan

i'd rather see date night, but i probably won't see that either. both movies seem like the kind of thing it would be okay for me to miss and then later buy at a tag sale for a dollar on dvd.

the big difference is that I wouldn't eat a frog that wasn't acting right

date night was kind of awesome in parts but the retarded action plot kept getting in the way

i feel like going to the movies and nothing good is playing. don't want to see iron man. last two movies i saw at the theatre: tooth fairy, furry vengeance.

don't want to see robin hood either. or letters to cleo or whatever it is.

kinda want to see Oceans! its only playing on earth day.

oh wait i missed earth day

i never know what time of the year it is.

lol awww

Hot Rod (which had the same director) had a terrible unappealing trailer/premise and turned out to be hilarious and crazy, so I can see this being good.

hot rod didn't have the same director.

my bad -- each was directed by a different non-Samberg Lonely Island dude. i'm sure they make pretty similar movies anyway.

this looks fucking awful

this. the only thing i ever liked from will forte is an snl skit where he plays the dazed, semi-responsive spelling bee contestant. can't find actual video, but here's the audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGZ7rhZNHo

tim calhoun is one of my favorite SNL recurring characters in recent history

I'm holding out for a Greg Stink movie
http://thetwocentscorp.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/snlsports.jpg

SNL alums make plenty of great movies, but I seriously can't remember the last time an SNL CHARACTER made a good movie. when I saw the preview for this I was just surprised that they were already giving a vehicle to Forte. But I guess time flies a the laff factory that is SNL

i know

but it's funny

ngl, I want to see this.

this is definitely more "it'd be fun/ridiculous to do a MacGruber movie" than "Will Forte is such a rising star we have to bottle his lightening while he's still on SNL"

"but I seriously can't remember the last time an SNL CHARACTER made a good movie."

http://www.thefoxnation.com/assets/imagecache/fox-nation-large/fox-nation/415_Stuart_Smalley.jpg

will forte epitomizes what i don't like about snl now. the default emotion underlying the older snl cast members (70s, and to some extent, the early 80s) was flippancy to seething anger. the default emotion underlying the new snl cast members is an eagerness-to-please to total befuddlement.

dane cook is pretty angry

he's not on snl, but it's a sign that the fire still burns

Dane Cook is angry that he has one funny joke.

based on the special i saw part of, he's also angry that he can't be straight without having to spend time near vaginas

i don't hear too much about dane cook anymore. thankfully. is his 15 minutes of dice clay fame up yet?

dude stop trying to goad me into writing libelous shit about Dane Cook

is dane cook angry or funny? doesn't seem so. but he isn't on snl, i don't think.

PLEASE WRITE SOMETHING LIBELOUS ABOUT DANE COOK

i am making a special request

all these current people like forte make chevy chase look like some sort of immortal comedy god, and 75% of chevy's career is complete crap.

yeah, this ^^^^^

he was okay in modern problems imo

dane cook is still probably the single most popular stand-up comedian in america, so I would say that no, his 15 minutes of fame are not over

for me, chevy chase career highlights goes SNL > Spies Like Us > Community

dane's movie career seems kaput thankfully though

well wasn't his gambit to play against type or something? haven't most of his characters been unlike his standup?

i'd see this

So, not that I'm saying all of the following is excellent, but 75% of it is complete crap...?

# "Community" .... Pierce Hawthorne (48 episodes, 2009-2011)
# Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) .... Repair Man
# Presidential Reunion (2010) (V) .... Gerald Ford
# Hotel Hell Vacation (2010) (V) .... Clark W. Griswold
# Jack and the Beanstalk (2010) (V) .... Antipode
# "Chuck" .... Ted Roark (3 episodes, 2009)
# Stay Cool (2009) .... Principal Marshall
# "Hjälp!" .... Dan Carter (8 episodes, 2009)
# "Brothers & Sisters" .... Stan Harris (2 episodes, 2007)
# Cutlass (2007) .... Stan
# "Saturday Night Live" .... Various / ... (35 episodes, 1975-2007)
# "Family Guy" .... Clark Griswold (1 episode, 2007)
# "Law & Order" .... Mitch Carroll (1 episode, 2006)
# The Secret Policeman's Ball (2006) (TV) .... General Nuisance
# Zoom (2006) .... Dr. Grant
# Funny Money (2006) .... Henry
# Doogal (2006) (voice) .... Train
# Goose on the Loose (2006) .... Congreve Maddox
# Ellie Parker (2005) .... Dennis Swartzbaum
# Bad Meat (2004) .... Congressman Bernard P. Greely
# The Karate Dog (2004) (TV) (voice) .... Cho-Cho
# Mariti in affitto (2004) .... Paul Parmesan
# "Freedom: A History of Us" .... Captain John Parker / ... (5 episodes, 2003)
# Orange County (2002) .... Principal Harbert
# Vacuums (2002) .... Mr. Punch
# America's Most Terrible Things (2002) (TV) .... Andy Potts
# Ellie Parker (2001) .... Dennis
# Snow Day (2000) .... Tom Brandston
# Pete's a Pizza (2000) (voice) .... Narrator
# The One Arm Bandit (2000) .... Cop/Second Man With Briefcase
# Dirty Work (1998) .... Dr. Farthing
# Vegas Vacation (1997) .... Clark Griswold
# Man of the House (1995) .... Jack Sturgess (Squatting Dog)
# Cops and Robbersons (1994) .... Norman Robberson
# Last Action Hero (1993) .... Cameo Appearance
# Hero (1992/I) (uncredited) .... Deke - Channel 4 News Director
# Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) .... Nick Halloway
# Nothing But Trouble (1991) .... Chris Thorne
# L.A. Story (1991) (uncredited) .... Carlo Christopher
# Christmas Vacation (1989) .... Clark Griswold
# Fletch Lives (1989) .... Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
# That's What Friends Are for: Arista's 15th Anniversary Concert (1989) (TV)
# Caddyshack II (1988) .... Ty Webb
# Funny Farm (1988) .... Andy Farmer
# The Couch Trip (1988) .... Condom Father
# ¡Three Amigos! (1986) .... Dusty Bottoms
# Spies Like Us (1985) .... Emmett Fitz-Hume
# Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (1985) .... Newscaster
# European Vacation (1985) .... Clark Griswold
# Fletch (1985) .... Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
# Deal of the Century (1983) .... Eddie Muntz
# Vacation (1983) .... Clark Griswold
# Modern Problems (1981) .... Max Fielder
# Under the Rainbow (1981) .... Bruce Thorpe
# Seems Like Old Times (1980) .... Nicholas Gardenia
# Caddyshack (1980) .... Ty Webb
# Oh Heavenly Dog (1980) .... Browning
# Foul Play (1978) .... Tony Carlson
# The Groove Tube (1974) .... The Fingers/Geritan/Four Leaf Clover
# Lemmings (1973) (V) (as Chevey Chase) .... Various
# "The Great American Dream Machine" (1971) TV series
# Walk... Don't Walk (1968) .... Pedestrian

dane cook is still probably the single most popular stand-up comedian in america

O RLY?

http://www.paunchstevenson.com/photos/gallagher-250x333.jpg

SNL is unbearable at present. Dane Cook has been and always will be unbearable.

xp

# "Hjälp!" .... Dan Carter (8 episodes, 2009)

well wasn't his gambit to play against type or something? haven't most of his characters been unlike his standup?

nah he's played a grabass jerk in every comedy i've seen part of and in the renowed costner thriller mr. brooks he kept acting like he was supposed to riff but had no material ("man i hate when people drive slowly on the highway...it's like...DRIVE FASTER!!!" that kind of shit)

lol at Gallagher

"So, not that I'm saying all of the following is excellent, but 75% of it is complete crap...?"

kinda! i've never seen The Karate Dog though.

Goose on the Loose

how did Dane Cook even end up in this thread

the macgruber trailer looks fucking hilarious to me, and I hate the current SNL.

the sketch that Forte plays the trick or treating sex offender has got to be the best thing he's done.

http://m.nbc.com/images/snl/recaps/34/5214/fphone_54851.jpg

tbh the Macgruber sketches were the only thing I laughed at on the recent Betty White ep (which was the first time I'd watched the show in like 5 years or something)

well that's not entirely true, I guess I saw those Tina Fey/Sarah Palin bits, they were funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J33HdkLjw6Q

nah he's played a grabass jerk in every comedy i've seen part of and in the renowed costner thriller mr. brooks he kept acting like he was supposed to riff but had no material ("man i hate when people drive slowly on the highway...it's like...DRIVE FASTER!!!" that kind of shit)

― da croupier, Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:14 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ah, ok. i cant remember what it was i saw him in but i swear he was playing a sweethearted guy of some kind

haha i just realized i was thinking of ryan reynolds---they look exactly alike

Never saw the sketch til the Betty White show. God Almighty.

Ultrabomb:

1. Shrek Forever After 3D (DWA/Par) NEW [4,359 Theaters]
Friday $20M, Saturday $29M, Weekend $72M

2. Iron Man 2 (Marvel/Paramount) Week 3 [4,177 Theaters]
Friday $7.8M, Saturday $11.4M, Weekend $26M, Cume $256M

3. Robin Hood (Universal) Week 2 [3,505 Theaters]
Friday $5.5M, Saturday $7.9M, Weekend $18.5M (-49%), Cume $66M

4. Letters To Juliet (Summit) Week 2 [2,975 Theaters]
Friday $3M, Saturday $3.7M, Weekend $9M (-34%), Cume $27.2M

5. Just Wright (Fox Searchlight/Fox) Week 2 [1,831 Theaters]
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.9M, Weekend $4.3M (-48%), Cume $14.7M

6. MacGruber (Rogue/Universal) NEW [2,551 Theaters]
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $1.5M, Weekend $4.1M

7. Date Night (Fox) Week 7 [1,869 Theaters]
Friday $1M, Estimated Weekend $3M, Estimated Cume $90M

can't see how anyone would expecting anything much better than that tbh

seriously, i'm surprised it did even that well.

american tragedy imo

i hope Richard Dean Anderson gets royalties from this film.

on second thought, maybe that wouldn't amount to much.

ha.

can't see how anyone would expecting anything much better than that tbh

while i didn't expect it to do wayne's world money, i am surprised with the positive buzz it couldn't do better than the second week of a queen latifah/common romance.

then again the movie has a 44 on metacritic so maybe our boy slock is more of an outlier than i assumed

im pretty sure i am :(

glenn kenny liked it tho

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

okay then how does it compare to Step Brothers?

Step Bros is way more quotable but this was really funny/retarded.

i've seen the trailers and this Forte character seems too whiny to handle a whole movie.

the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

otm, i don't know how it managed to be both simultaneously but it did.

forte's whininess led to the best parts of the movie imo.

he admirably doesn't try to make his character all that likable

the scene where you find out why him and val kilmer are enemies

OMG yes megalols

does everyone who likes this movie think that step brothers is a classic?

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

^ this.

does everyone who likes this movie think that step brothers is a classic?

― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Monday, May 24, 2010 3:43 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i do

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, May 23, 2010 4:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i kind of agree with this, i mean it's not like a "great movie," but i feel like thats kind of besides the point you know? it's meant to be, like, a bad action movie. not saying that being bad is the point, but like, not sure how this movie could have been "better" on those terms yknow?

No, I mean as far as filmmaking goes, like maintaining a linear narrative and changing locations with some purpose... this movie fails in about every area. What it is is just a freeform vehicle for fantastically funny gags strung together clumsily.

yeah i mean... it's just so ridiculous i would never even think to hold it to that kind of standard u know? just keep shooting the lols @ me, nonsequitur style if u must

i'm a little more interested in this now that you are saying it's incoherent and doesn't hang together. fuck a plot!

val kilmer pretty amusing in this too

sounds like we have a new pootie tang

croup why have u not seen this yet

stuffed up enough this weekend I just stuck around the house. If it's still at my nearby 14plex for a second week, I'll strike.

though i might have gone anyway if i'd remembered val kilmer was in it

i wouldnt count on it still being there :(

so funny. fat kilmer forever.

but then i think step brothers is a classic

so do i

Coincidentally, I only saw Step Brothers for the first time when I was watching tv after getting home from MacGruber last Friday night. They were both funny, but Step Brothers is probably the better movie and MacGruber is the funnier movie.

Swift bombing out in theaters will probably only hasten its cult status.

If it's still at my nearby 14plex for a second week, I'll strike.

I doubt it will still be there, but definitely go if it is -- I know you'd like it.

kinda can't wait to see it again tbh

seeing this tonight since it's cheap day - hoping everyone else will be at shrek instead.

just chiming in to say Step Bros is ALL TIME AWESOME

"the clown has no penis"

this was awesome

this anecdote from the director's interview with ny mag gets at one the aspects I really liked, how it was basically a regular action movie world with this great, pathetic character in the middle of it (I guess I can never say I hate Will Forte again).

We wanted to plug this comedy character into a world he really shouldn’t be in. I had a conversation with Powers Boothe, where he said, “What is this? Is this Hot Shots?” And I’d say, “No. You’re dead serious.” He’d say, “So in the scene where he’s offering to fellate me, how should I play that?” And I’d say, “It’s heartbreaking. It’s genuinely heartbreaking.”

went into it hoping it'd live up to, like, pootie tang and it definitely blasted past that marker. Don't really agree with the "TERRIBLE but HILARIOUS" sentiment upthread. Movie's a lot more thought out and consistent than most (was based around a character rather than the sketch, didn't throw in off-game jokes just cause there was space, jorma taccone has some visual sense, characters actually react to MacGruber's awfulness, rather than it being like Fletch where Chevy's riffing into a void of folks who never seem to notice the crazy shit he's saying).

wasn't transcendent but I thought it was a pretty solid example of people who probably know their zucker bros and snl comedies by heart and thinking out ways to improve on their weak points. not just screaming and clumsily winging random bullshit in a creaky premise like Hot Rod (which I still enjoyed).

also the female lead was actually a funny, entertaining person rather than just an object to quest for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBsiPSUlPVQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGwl2iKotgM&feature=related

We wanted to plug this comedy character into a world he really shouldn’t be in. I had a conversation with Powers Boothe, where he said, “What is this? Is this Hot Shots?” And I’d say, “No. You’re dead serious.” He’d say, “So in the scene where he’s offering to fellate me, how should I play that?” And I’d say, “It’s heartbreaking. It’s genuinely heartbreaking.”

― da croupier, Friday, May 28, 2010 8:15 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

awesome

I really love the use of "Hot Shots" as shorthand

also want to believe boothe really used the term "fellate"

glad u liked it croup.

powers boothe. i am so there.

why isn't this nestled between mystery team and something starring luke wilson in the redbox machine already. can't wait

this was AMAZING

the way val kilmer says "WEEEEEEEAK"

also macgruber porks his wife's ghost in a cemetery

ehhhh really guys? this had a couple of huge laughs (the note) but I thought it was pretty lacking overall.

u must have been out of the theater when he porks the ghost of his wife??

one of many bits that was smirk-funny, not lol-worthy, mostly for going on way way too long. also the repeated gags just seemed lazy, not clever.

Yeah I just hate it when running gags run throughout a movie. Also really hate refrains and choruses in songs. So lazy.

there's more than one way to repeat a gag.

macgruber orgasms were A+++

This was the best SNL spin-off since "Hot Tub Time Machine." Note: in 2012, the cast of SNL will travel back in time and premiere the skit "Hot Tub Time Machine." The rest of history, alas, remains the same.

Didn't see this piece of ish, btw. Because it looks terrible.

hey gr8 u saw the preview which shows none of the best parts because they are unairable 4 tv

This was the best SNL spin-off since "Hot Tub Time Machine." Note: in 2012, the cast of SNL will travel back in time and premiere the skit "Hot Tub Time Machine." The rest of history, alas, remains the same.

Didn't see this piece of ish, btw. Because it looks terrible.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, June 7, 2010 8:13 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

congratulations

To make that joke and then gripe about macgruber looking terrible.

http://media.bigoo.ws/content/gif/music/music_139.gif

lol!

not that funnie imo

does richard dean anderson appear after the credits or something? I thought he was supposed to be in this.
i have very conflicted feelings about this:

1. i am glad macgyver isn't sullied by appearing in this
2. but he's already sullied himself by appearing in pepsi macgruber ads

ah, this was alright, no great shakes though.

i really like Val Kilmer since he got fat and old.

Saw this on Thursday just to have a break in the heat. Could NOT stop laughing, from the soundtrack choices, to the car stereo jokes, to the coffee shop scene. It horrifies me that I have to be the same age as these guys, as I remember all these stupid Cannon Group/New World late 80's action shite flicks.

:D gotta see this again

THIS SHIT IS HELLA FUNNY WTF LOOOOOOL

yuip

saw it on yr recommend, thx

still die whenever i think of the abortion joke

'we actually all went to college together...'

starting tight end for the university of texas at el paso

I dunno if I posted this on ilxor.com/ILX earlier but Will Forte is very handsome. it's just that he might be like five foot two

haha i just realized i was thinking of ryan reynolds---they look exactly alike <-- One of the weirder claims ever made

But yeah, MacGruber... Jesus Christ, I laughed so much harder at this than I ever would have predicted. So many huge laughs.

SPOILERS for a great joke:

Lt. Dixon Piper: Why did he do it? Why did Cunth kill your wife?

MacGruber: To this day, I have no idea. We actually all went to college together. Believe it or not, we were very close friends. Then after graduation, he got engaged to her. He asked me to be his best man and right about that time, I started banging her and mowing her box. She was actually the first person I felt comfortable enough around to let eat out my butt. Anyway, shortly thereafter, she left him for me. She was actually carrying his child at the time. I asked her to terminate it, obviously, so we could start fresh. And she agreed. We were so in love. And he took that from me.

Lt. Dixon Piper: That's really fucked up.

MacGruber: Thanks.

best joke in the movie for sure

Badly paraphrased, I'm sure, but his delivery of the punchline to this killed me:

MacGruber: "I'm gonna cut off your dick and..."
Cunth: "...and shove it in my mouth? You're like a broken record!"
MacGruber: "The only record I'm gonna break is the amount of your own dick in your mouth record."

And his sex noises were amazing.

totally buying this when its $5 at wal-mart

the only record im gonna break is the amount of your own dick in your mouth record

lol didnt see it literally 1 post above

"no, macgruber would never tip."

the look on the barista's face as wiig takes the money out of the jar.

I feel like I've seen this exact joke done somewhere else before (can't remember where), but they sell it thanks to Powers Boothe's incredible deadpan - MacGruber begging to be let back on the case, culminating in him screaming "I will suck your dick. I will fuck you. I will let you fuck me. I will fuck anything in this room; just point at an object and I'll start fucking it."

the director drinks everytime someone sez any version of macgruber on the commentary

is the commentary any good? jorma + other lonely island guys were p. funny on the hot rod commentary.

it shouldve been better, jorma had 4 beers while talking, but it nvr got that funny

<3 jorm, shoulda been snl cast member imo, funniest of the lonely island dudes

the part where hes all 'if you change yr mind' and hands her the piece of paper with 'im at the pentagon' in messy big handwriting slayed me completely

hahaha

i like everyone involved in this movie, the SNL sketches, and generally am on the same wavelength w/ a lot of you dudes re: comedies, but man this just didn't do anything for me. a few good gags, sure, but it felt kinda uneventful and not very fun overall.

Just looked up Robbie Dupree on YouTube because of this movie.

saw this over the weekend FINALLY

fucking owned

I think my wife is still somewhat annoyed that I picked this over The Adjustment Bureau but I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE

Yyyyyup. I daresay it's the best of the SNL movies, probably largely due to not being super slavish to the source material.

YOU MADE THE RIGHT CALL. xp

actually the real annoyance is probably because after she suggested TAB I started flipping through the OnDemand menu to see if there was anything else I wanted to see and when I got to Macgruber I just went "OOOH!" and pushed play

Okay, I would have been annoyed as well because things like this happen to me all of the damn time.

this movie is insane.

A shame this wasn't nominated for the action movie poll. Heads would have exploded.

This and Hot Fuzz are great action movies because knowingly ramped-up parodies of action movie OTT-ness just kinda makes for even more awesomeness. They're taking what's already there and making it one louder.

I didn't think this movie was any more over the top than Bad Boys II or The A-Team.

the other guys was better

"probably largely due to not being super slavish to the source material."

slavish to the skit, maybe, but no macguyver, no cred.
it'd be like making an ALF parody movie and ALF never shows up, and it's just Chris Kataan in a furry suit for 70 minutes.

I have no idea if that is genius comedy or the most terrifying idea I've ever heard

the other guys was better

― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:56 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah i got in this exact same argument w/a friend after recommending macgruber, needless to say you could not be more wrong

The Adjustment Bureau was so lame. It's like The Matrix except there's no kicking and the agents are just angels with a Mad Men fashion sense who can't appreciate the glory of love.

and no guns either. occasionally characters are forced to hurry.

hats and doors

really enjoy watching macgyver with my children. never really watched it when it was on.

good 2 know lagoon

just #fyi

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.

the main thing i remember abt the other guys is marky mark in tight throwback graphic tees, it may have secretly been an old navy ad now that i think abt it

The Other Guys had a lot of great moments but was really fucking sloppy and indulgent in comparison to this

that... is an amazing statement

brb, boggling

are you saying that the other guys is a tightly-plotted movie or that it's absurd a movie could have more loose ends and unrewarding bits than MacGruber?

it's absurd that a movie could be more indulgent than Macgruber, or really any SNL character film

when I say "sloppy and indulgent" I'm not talking about riffs that go on for a long time (which MacGruber certainly has), but stuff like Will Ferrell hollering for an MRI in a manner that's more Generic Will Ferrell than the character he's supposed to be playing and needless subplots about Mark Wahlberg's marital status. MacGruber's pretty damn focused and character-centric in comparison!

also, considering The Other Guys was made by a former SNL star and SNL head writer, I'm really comparing two movies within that genre.

okay that I totally buy/understand

it is amazing to me how funny Kristin Wiig is outside of SNL

She's great in anything as long as it's not a sketch where she's a wacky lady who does one thing over and over and everyone else on the stage is saying "hey look it's a wacky lady who does one thing over and over".

every snl skit ever

although I'm not gonna lie, the "don't make me sing" skit cracks me up every single time

needless subplots about Mark Wahlberg's marital status

needless? he learned ballet sarcastically, iirc that's the core of the character/movie/lyfe

yeah i agree

i really enjoyed the other guys and i don't nec. need ilx to ruin it for me

there's a thread that's p much a love-in about the other guys, perk yourself up there imo

Anticipate the heck out of THE OTHER GUYS

think there may have been another one tho

the other guys had its moments but i dont think they really understood how to utilize wahlburg fully

although I'm not gonna lie, the "don't make me sing" skit cracks me up every single time

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:19 PM (21 minutes ago)

my dear friend u need to reassess

the ballet was great, i'm just saying the plot added up to a whole lot of nothing. also didn't give Steve Coogan anything funny to do despite his long screentime, no similar waste of comedian in macgruber.

lol goole

Val Kilmer was just perfect in this movie, so hilarious

will never forgive kilmer for replacing will arnett as voice of KITT in revamped knight rider.

no redemption for iceman.

you will never forgive Val Kilmer for throwing himself onto a land mine for Will Arnett?

Kilmer's career tanking has been pretty sad

Other Guys was awesome. never even considered seeing this macgruber movie, but I do love the conceit of a character who dies at the end of every sketch

i'm just saying the plot added up to a whole lot of nothing

i choose to believe that this was a conscious decision tbh

It's an absolutely terrible movie with several bits that will make you laugh until your head hurts. I'm actually puzzled as to how that works, because I mean the movie is TERRIBLE but also HILARIOUS.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, May 23, 2010 3:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm

The scene where MacGruber tells the story of why Kuntz hates him is all-time. Tried to find the clip online,. but no dice...

ya, so so good, that was the point that i realized hey this is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4agobzbA-jI

what kidn of weird cyberworld living room was that filmed in

was thinking maybe its something to fool the programs they have to scan for copyrighted material, like how the angle changes and so forth

it was really weird and made me feel like i was living in the future tbh

was it cool or no

kinda, but in a scary way

the oddness of this video made me wish brak or zorak was macgruber's conversation partner instead.

quality movie experience

summer to do list:
cheese it
watch this movie again

fuck you dickhead

just tell me what you want me to fuuuuck

Got my brother to buy a copy of this for himself after only seeing about 2/3rds at Christmastime

val kilmer and powers boothe are stone pros but man the desperation coming off ryan philippe

http://gifsoup.com/view6/2175404/macgruber-o.gif

Holy shit, most episodes of "The A-Team" were funnier than this. It's an incredible anti-movie, some sort of weird negative achievement.

hater

kinda want 2 tthrow u thru plate glass rite now
http://gifsoup.com/view6/2175404/macgruber-o.gif

I thought the one thing in its favor - that it is played totally straight - simultaneously worked against it. A fascinating paradox.

amazing movie

lol forgot about that your all wet gag

josh i have no idea what you're talking about

he's confused, he v obviously got blackout drunk and broke into will forte's house

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

I don't know what went wrong. I had alcohol, I had intent ... nothing. It was like an elaborate joke where the joke is that it's not funny. Which is funny, sort of, on paper. But in practice ...

Backstory. Years ago, when my wife and I saw some movie (maybe "Bridesmaids"?), the "MacGruber" trailer came up, and she laughed harder than I've heard her laugh at anything. She didn't even know it was a SNL skit. She just cracked the fuck up. So years later, I surprised her with "MacGruber," which she was totally psyched to see, having recently sat through the weirdly what-the-fuck? "Step Brothers." She made it about an hour into "MacGruber" then basically told me to turn it off it was so not funny. She asked if it was not funny on purpose, and I told her ... maybe?

way to throw your wife under the bus there pal

ALL OF A SUDDEN ITS HIS WIFE'S FAULT.

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

It's not her fault the movie was terrible, though.

i had no idea this movie was so over the top when i watched it. i thought it was crazy. i liked how wrong it was. i always want R rated comedies to go off the deep end and they rarely do. this one did. it had some of that mr. show vibe in its cringeworthy wrongness.

I watched it a second time when it showed up on ppv, and it was even funnier (and probably a little better narratively, because I knew where everything was leading). That was still a couple years ago, though, so I should watch it at least a third time.

have idly wondered if this is worth it. Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude? I love Step Brothers so not sure I'm trusting Josh's judgment here...

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

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

I had almost the exact same experience with my gf. I LOVED MacGruber, and forced her to watch it. About an hour in, she was like "ok, that's enough." Sad moment in our relationship, but we got through it.

My wife and I both cackled like fiends at MacGruber

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

but you GAINED another year of wisdom
think about it

Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude?

what the fuc

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

Is it Pootie Tang-levels of ineptitude?

And the answer is 'no.' "MacGruber" is massively competent. Actors are fine, direction is fine, writing is fine, etc. I just found it profoundly unfunny. More like "Kids in the Hall Brain Candy?" I barely remember that, but remember not laughing. So maybe "Run, Ronnie, Run?" That's a better totally unfunny "Mr. Show" comparison.

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

There is a total WTF level of "Tang"-iness to "MacGruber," I guess, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y587UlBV9jg

Is this scene funny? Not in any conventional sense.

It's anti-funny.

The film is really one joke ("what if the lead in an 80s action flick was replaced by a vain delusional chickenshit") taken to the limit. If you aren't going to like it you'll know in ten minutes. But I loved it.

maria and i both were kinda staggered by it. in a good way. when his team just dies i knew i was in for a anything goes kinda treat.

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

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

fits of laughter just reading that

Maybe i need to re-watch this. First time I saw it I found it barely funny and somewhat of a waste of my time.

your time is not very valuable, please watch this again

love pootie tang and this is a similar kind of commitment so it may work as a litmus test for how you'll react to macgruber. i caught this opening night, rang up my sister and said 'hey let's go see macgruber' and her reaction was 'wait - what???' and scoffed at the idea. rang me a couple of hours later and said she was in, apparently her husband had (independently) rang her up and said 'hey let's go see macgruber'. not exactly a packed house but we all loved it. fantastic movie.

pootie tang is one of those things that I dug on one, sort of more conceptual level (the basic premise is great, wha da tey indeed) but then you can tell it got REALLY fucked with in execution/editing to make it into something it was not intended to be and that makes it fail at basic moviemaking nuts n bolts stuff. and then there's the fact that everything it tried to do Black Dynamite basically did better.

Black Dynamite did not have a gorilla attack or the dj playing Pootie's hot new jam, tho BD was a supreme.

Also, I loved both MacGruber and Pootie Tang and laughed so hard during the christmas tree scene in Stepbrothers that I think I began to disassociate.

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

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

dj playing Pootie's hot new jam

that whole bit is pretty awesome, I agree

Step Bros is all-time though. almost every line is a quality joke.

stepbrothers might be a perfect movie

I love this Scott Aukerman take:

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

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

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

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

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

the part where they become best friends is so perfect

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

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

from doing exactly what he wanted to do, i mean

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

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

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

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

or maybe you just have shitty taste

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

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

ok cool thanks for admitting you have shitty taste

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

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

"Observe & Report" has the advantage of being totally fucked up in a realistic way.

yeah i don't really see this as an advantage in its case

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

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that the Macgruber show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!