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.

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!