BAD. SANTA.

*all the time

**or, just as likely, I'm missing some hilarious pop culture reference. In which case, go on, laugh at the spaz.

But, in the Christmas spirit, my favourite line from Ghost World.

Rebecca: This is so bad it's almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again.

Easy, Mark! Yes, it is an example of "the filmic arts", on general release in the US as of today. It looks quite bad, but some of the reviews has been surprising.

http://www.ostrichink.com/oct2003/santa1.jpg

http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/img/pg203_1.jpg

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Alan

The ending isn't as bad as I'd been led to believe, and for once the really-dark ending wouldn't have satisfied me.

I really, really liked the black comedy aspect. So much so I resented the redemption and rehumanization aspect.

oh good, Doug Ellin

Can this possibly be worse than Trainspotting 2?

At least Trainspotting 2 has decent original material to draw from (Glue + Porno)

I wasn't too impressed by Porno but it's been so long I can't remember why. That and Trainspotting are all I've read by him and I've heard his work is hit and miss so maybe I should give Glue a shot.

The ones i didnt like at all were the filth and malibu stork nightmares

Sounds like it's only going to be extremely loosely based on Porno. And I wouldn't think it'll draw anything from Glue at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qQWG_5wumA

Maybe some cheap laughs but none of the pathos.

"The ones i didnt like at all were the filth and malibu stork nightmares"

I liked both of those! The Filth in particular, which is horrible but still good. Apparently there is a movie. I have no desire to see it.

I liked MSN, but I can see why Irvine Welsh doesn't: it sort of seems tacked together and finished in a rush.

holy shit the kid from Bad Santa looks the same only adult-sized in the trailer for 2

Seeing this sequel tonight, I don't dare raise my hopes any higher than "not completely terrible" tbh

(also don't feel Christmassy at all for obvious calendar-based reasons)

Will await w/interest

am hearing terrible

there's no way this isn't going to be godawful

yeah quite aside from the usual years-later unnecessary sequel concerns the first film was kinda good against the odds, chances of that happening again are slim

i'd weigh in that the original had a lot of weird factors that contributed to its existence

the Coen brothers doing uncredited script doctoring, Zwigoff directing but the editing keeping it light (the director's cut is somehow darker and less funny), Cloris Leachman as the senile grandmother....

yeah, no high hopes here, but i will watch it

Seeing the Welsh talk upthread reminds me that I was recently reminded that there was a movie of Acid House I completely forgot about released in '99, which was made up of the title story and two others from the book.

I think I watched that but I have absolutely no memory of it whatsoever

(the director's cut is somehow darker and less funny)

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

well one thing I can say: if the turnout for this (free!) screening is anything to go by, people do not give a fuck about this film

I get the feeling that despite it's absolute shiteness I'll probably end up liking this. Despite both the actor/character dying I get the feeling Bernie Mac is a big loss for any bullshit sequel, he's at least a quarter of what I liked about the original.

haaaalf

(you walked into that one)

fair enough

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

Re Acid House - I remember seeing "Screenplay by Irvine Welsh" and thinking "Uh-oh"

Rightly, as it turned out. Being a bunch of short stories, some were OK, but when they were bad, they were very bad.

there's only 3 of the short stories from the book in the film, it is a bad film

yyyyeeeahh so

I think we're OK to just use this thread to talk about shitty Irvine Welsh flicks

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:09 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asked and answered

'the best thing about 'bad santa' was the STORY'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:58 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:09 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asked and answered

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:58

I like the film but I would have cut that scene too.

That scene ruled, nut-knock based slapstick is always funny

No kidding, he excised the best gag in the movie.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which one do you mean? Def ruined the ending. Also cutting the getting punched in the nuts while boxing gag

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:09 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asked and answered

Ha, no. The gag about the safebreaker who could get into anything, even Margaret Thatcher's pussy.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, November 21, 2016 10:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That last resply was from me not caek obv.

reply even.

So, what did wins think?

god, i don't know which version of the original I've seen now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgoSq_2I8aM

Shouldn't have had Marcus respond - just staring at him for an empty 10 seconds would have made this one of the best scenes ever.

Kid: What's the North Pole like?
Willie: It's like a suburb.
Kid: Which suburb?
Willie: Apache Junction. What the fuck do you care? Now get off my lap you sit there like a fuckin r***

lmao

“On MY head?” still makes me laugh like a loon

lmao "apache junction"

its so good

also: i like thinking of this as a Landman prequel

Willie: What the FUCK is wrong with you? I can't remember this shit. Does everything with you have to be a fucking test?

“And he can take his orders from the talking walnut, so it won't be my bad thing.”

This is the saddest line in the whole thing.

yeah it always makes me a bit teary