"Wedding Crashers"

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YES!

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

Untitled Harold Ramis/Owen Wilson Project

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.

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.

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...

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)

Oh, really?

-- kingfish

Spies Like Us is great!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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?

She's no Isla Fisher, either...

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?

What would even be the point of wondering about this?

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.

Has Doc Morbius seen Wedding Crashers?

let Morbius be Morbius and don't keep poking him

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

That's why I took it to another thread.

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

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

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

rachel mcadams is hot as balls obviously.

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.

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).

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

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.

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