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Posted: May 06 2010 04:38 pm

how is there not a thread on this yet... or did I just not see it? Anyways, post what your prospects are for the MACGRUBER movie. I think it will be mediocre at best, but you never know.

Posted: May 06 2010 04:41 pm

Maybe there's not a thread on it because we all thought it'd be mediocre at best.

Posted: May 06 2010 04:42 pm

i set one up under snl movie thread or some shit like that

Posted: May 06 2010 04:42 pm

Is an SNL-based movie EVER better than mediocre?

(Wayne's World was an exception.....and I actually love the Coneheads movie, too)

Posted: May 06 2010 06:20 pm

Blues Brothers wasn't bad. That is the only other one I can think of at the moment.

Posted: May 06 2010 06:58 pm

night at roxbury is a guilty pleasure of mine.

hot rod was produced by whats his name, but its not necessarily SNL.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

I was iffy on this as well but what ive seen from trailers and such has me really excited.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

sidewaydriver wrote:

Maybe there's not a thread on it because we all thought it'd be mediocre at best.

This.

Except I thought it'd be a horrible waste of money and 90 minutes of my life I'd never get back.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

This seems like the type of movie that will pass through HBO, Showtime, Max and Starz before getting stuck on Encore for a year. Finally it will be put on TNT or TBS every third weekend before fading into obscurity. Most people won't realize it was ever in the theater or had a DVD release.

Posted: May 07 2010 10:33 pm

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Is an SNL-based movie EVER better than mediocre?

(Wayne's World was an exception.....and I actually love the Coneheads movie, too)

Wow, you must be forgetting Three Amigos.

Posted: May 07 2010 10:36 pm

Ash Burton wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Is an SNL-based movie EVER better than mediocre?

(Wayne's World was an exception.....and I actually love the Coneheads movie, too)

Wow, you must be forgetting Three Amigos.

true. it is a lorne michaels movie.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Based JUST on SNL sketches, the only SNL movie I enjoyed was Blues Brothers. I heard "Stuart Saves His Family" was supposed to be pretty good, but never saw it.

As far as Lorne Michaels produced movies?

¡Three Amigos!
Tommy Boy

Everything else is shit...including Wayne's World.

Posted: May 07 2010 11:21 pm

Okay, am I the only person that thought Three Amigos wasn't funny. I know there are people here that love it and I respect that, but everyone I know in real life thinks it is corny as hell, including me. I watched it at the movies when it was out and I thought it was dumb as a child, and I watched it as an adult to see if my opinion changed like it sometimes has, but it didn't. I love the actors in it, but I consider it a low point in all their careers.

Really, if you liked it that is cool. I like plenty of movies critics and people in general pan, I just never saw the reason that this movie has the following it does.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I was kind of the opposite. I hated the movie as a kid and watched it a few years ago and enjoyed the hell out of it. The little things make it, like when El Guapo opens his present and it's a sweater, I thought it was pretty funny.

Posted: May 09 2010 09:40 pm

"are gringos falling from the sky?" and ned falls

"the german says to wait here" and lucky just nods as if he knows what that means

and chevy chase asking if there is anything besides mexican food lol

Posted: May 10 2010 12:16 am

Doddsino wrote:

Based JUST on SNL sketches, the only SNL movie I enjoyed was Blues Brothers. I heard "Stuart Saves His Family" was supposed to be pretty good, but never saw it.

As far as Lorne Michaels produced movies?

¡Three Amigos!
Tommy Boy

Everything else is shit...including Wayne's World.

What about Kid's In The Hall Brain Candy?

Posted: May 10 2010 01:32 pm

Ash Burton wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Is an SNL-based movie EVER better than mediocre?

(Wayne's World was an exception.....and I actually love the Coneheads movie, too)

Wow, you must be forgetting Three Amigos.

Three Amigos was an SNL sketch? Wow......I never knew that.

Posted: May 13 2010 09:51 am

username wrote:

"are gringos falling from the sky?" and ned falls

"the german says to wait here" and lucky just nods as if he knows what that means

and chevy chase asking if there is anything besides mexican food lol

I liked when they're trying to find a way into El Guapo's compound, the guards come walking by, and they all just freeze. They stand perfectly still, and the guards just walk past.

Posted: May 13 2010 12:28 pm

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

username wrote:

"are gringos falling from the sky?" and ned falls

"the german says to wait here" and lucky just nods as if he knows what that means

and chevy chase asking if there is anything besides mexican food lol

I liked when they're trying to find a way into El Guapo's compound, the guards come walking by, and they all just freeze. They stand perfectly still, and the guards just walk past.

Well yeah! The Three Amigos! were experts with stealth. See:

Or when they were trying to sneak into the movie studio.

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This movie bombed hard its first weekend, only $4.1 million.

Posted: May 23 2010 11:22 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

This movie bombed hard its first weekend, only $4.1 million.

And it cost 10 million to make.

Posted: May 23 2010 11:32 pm

Looks like a turd. Then again, I didn't find the MacGruber sketches all too great, either. Now Hot Rod, that was a great movie that was sadly overlooked by most.

Posted: May 24 2010 10:40 am

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Ash Burton wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Is an SNL-based movie EVER better than mediocre?

(Wayne's World was an exception.....and I actually love the Coneheads movie, too)

Wow, you must be forgetting Three Amigos.

Three Amigos was an SNL sketch? Wow......I never knew that.

Ah yes, I see now. Right you are. I was just looking for a reason to say Three Amigos was awesome.

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Stuart Saves His Family is superb.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

This movie did bomb this weekend, but I assume it will make it's money back. Nonetheless, I have no idea why anyone thought this would make a good movie, the sketches I saw online for it look horrid and nothing about this screams box office hit.