Thread in Praise of David Wain's 2K7 film THE TEN

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dope film. went straight to video in the uk, this year.

seems crazy to me.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
dr ken marino kills patient 'as a goof'	5
cat scan rivalry	3
gretchen mol has summer fling with jesus	2
oliver platt as eddie murphy	2
paul rudd gets back with famke janssen (hannah and her dollars)	1
adam brodybro falls out of plane, is trapped in earth. jon hamm cameo!	0
the lying rhino	0
winona ryder runs off with puppet	0
some of the only funny prison rape jokes ever (question mark)	0
broing down, naked style	0

― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:03 (fifteen years ago)

suggest move to I love film

― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

I love David Wain but this movie didn't really do it for me.

― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

prob my favorite comedy of the 2000s. A lot of people say they only liked a few of the commadments or found it hit or miss, but I have no idea what they're talking about. Its just non-stop awesome to me.

― da croupier, Monday, 12 July 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

this was funny. cat scan rivalry was pretty weird, can't remember who was in that?

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 12 July 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

liev schreiber and joe la truglio

― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

right. good casting too.

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 12 July 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

'the goof' is kind of the only really good thing in this movie but it's fucking great

― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

i didn't 'understand' the movie (especially the first section) but it's full of funny lines imo

prolly need too see it sober to remember some

but 'go fly a kite' thing, dianne wiest, the kid pitching a tv show... gold

― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

'the goof' is kind of the only really good thing in this movie

statements like this are as baffling to me as someone saying "i only liked ling ling" at the cute bear part of a zoo.

― da croupier, Monday, 12 July 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

8/10 of these are a+ hilarity (not a huge fan of the first one or the rhino). i've stopped recommending it to people though, since no one else finds it funny. :/

― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

statements like this are as baffling to me as someone saying "i only liked ling ling" at the cute bear part of a zoo.

― da croupier, Monday, July 12, 2010 5:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ling ling is great

― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Monday, 12 July 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

dr ken marino kills patient 'as a goof'
oliver platt as eddie murphy
cat scan rivalry

these are the main ones I remember being funny.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

it WAS A GOOF

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

"i'm a doctor... a family man..."

"did you or did you not..."

"AS A GOOF!"

― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:29 (fifteen years ago)

ken marino, paul rudd and liev schrieber are the a+++++ mvps of this but really everyone is great all around, except for the cartoon which puts off a v shitty ~~racially awkward~~ vibe

― max, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:34 (fifteen years ago)

I WOULD SEE THIS

― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 05:38 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Winona Ryder is genuinely hilarious in her scene. Paul Rudd's joke about being in Famke Janssen's neighborhood and needing to take a shit had me howling in the theater (and I was the only person laughing).

― Becky Facelift, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

Broing down naked style has naked Craig Wedren from Shudder to Think (as also seen in WHAS extra features).

― Becky Facelift, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

This is way too hard to vote on. Only bit that was a bummer at all to me was Adam Brody scene (he plays it too broad, which I realize is a weird thing to say for a movie like this).

― Becky Facelift, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

The dwarf in the Gretchen Mol Jesus scene was killing me too. Fine, shit, going to re-watch now.

― Becky Facelift, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

i'm another one of those unfortunate souls living in isolation from others who think this movie is one of the funniest in the last howevermany years. otm re: not recommending it to people anymore, since no one finds it funny. also, since no one else will, i will rep the rhino cartoon. lines like, "i heard she sucked some guy's balls in the parking lot" or "that bee is a white supremist," or the lead in, "i'm definitely going to need some more heroin" crack me up. also A+ call-back with the stephen montgomery t-shirt.

― dad, i wanna be a lothario speedwagon (ytth), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:56 (fifteen years ago)

*slide whistle goes off, flower blooms*

― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)

"glen...i can't...I got nothin' left"

just realized corrdry and marino are both in that clown hospital thing

― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:13 (fifteen years ago)

this is on hulu!

― max, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

hey, i was in the neighborhood... thought id come by and take a shit.

― max, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:15 (fifteen years ago)

Wain is from one of those boring conceptual comedy troupes, right

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:15 (fifteen years ago)

* scales fall from eyes *

― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:26 (fifteen years ago)

yeah they do sketches and shit, so lame

― i'm the kind of challop that's built to last (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

this movie was mostly pretty boring but "the goof" and the prison shit are incredible.

― omar little, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

*slide whistle goes off, flower blooms*

― da croupier, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

because what you just wrote is SHIT

― da croupier, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

is there an actual jonathan lethem book called "THE" ?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

i mean i dunno, wet hot american summer is epic and wonderful and this one just mostly didn't do anything for me.

― omar little, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

it's not bad, exactly, just not that good.

― omar little, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

yeah its nowhere near whas

― max, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:41 (fifteen years ago)

hey, i was in the neighborhood... thought id come by and take a shit.

― max, Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:15 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:41 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

I assume you guys are gonna eat this alive

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-david-wains-they-came-together

He certainly loves to make hommages to loathsome braindead genres

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 June 2014 14:46 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...

^this was everything i wanted it to be, i.e. a David Wain movie

― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 4 September 2014 17:24 (eleven years ago)

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