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May 25
2010
01:38 PM ET
Is 'MacGruber' the last 'Saturday Night Live' movie?
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There are two reasons why Blues Brothers and Wayne’s World were successes and the rest were failures. First the characters were believable as real people so audiences could put away thoughts on how someone could be like that and actually watch the movies. Second their skits prior to the movies had variety in how laughs were generated. All the failures were about skits with one running joke. Is Pat a man or woman, McGruber screws something up, Obnoxious club guys dance too rough with someone etc.
The posters defending ‘McGruber’ have to be studio worker bees posing as ‘fans’ calling it ‘brilliant’. The give away is when they say “McGruber will make over it’s $10M budget”, which is what the studio said also!
I don’t beleive that a true movie comedy fan will go see it based on ‘well… it will make its budget’ statements. Most will wait for it in Red Box.
Point is, 1st weekend matters, and studio heads and theaters don’t have patience for empty seats at new movies. So thankfully, there won’t be any ‘Target Lady’ or ‘Deep House Dish’ movies!
Night at the Roxbury’s was so dumb that it was actually really funny and you couldn’t help yourself from laughing. I ended up liking it, kinda like one of those movies that you dont like the first time you see it like Jim Carrey’s Cable Guy, but if you watch it again at a different time, you end up finding it funny and understand the humor a little more.
“Superstar” with Molly Shannon deserves high ratings as well… the Mary Catharine Gallagher skits on SNL were actually funny. I just don’t understand making movies from skits that are tedious to watch in the first place.
Probably Wayne’s World. I love the film and the sequel. The sequel was one of the most worthy sequels ever.
THE BLUES BROTHERS put SNL films on the map. Waynes World was the second to make it. It’s Pat, Stuart Smalley Saves his Family, were pretty horrific, and the only thing good about Superstar, A Night at The Roxbury, and The Ladies Man was Will Ferrell. I am sorry but good comedic timing does not make a film click. BTW: apparently it was reported that Mike Meyers’s character Dieter was supposed to have a film but after a huge fight with director Ron Howard, Meyers walked off the project and Howard sued.
I have a friend who saw “Night at the Roxbury” at least three times in. the. theater. I seriously doubt any and all movie recommendations she gives me, unless it stars Johnny Depp. He is one thing we agree on.
I’m someone who optimistically thinks there’s almost no such thing as a bad premise. Just about any premise can be made into a good movie if you have the right writer and director, IMO.
However, I think Gleiberman nailed it when he talked about translating short form comedy onto the big screen. To me, the Blues Brothers and Wayne’s World were about the characters. Put them into a situation that takes 1.5 hours to resolve, and the result can be pretty funny. MacGruber, on the other hand, is really only about an absurd set up and kaboom ending. I never thought MacGruber was all that funny as a 3 minute sketch, and I NEVER thought it would make it as a movie. There is no character there, other than an absurdist shadow of MacGyver.
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The author is exaggerating a bit. None of the SNL movies are classics by any stretch of the imagination save for wayne’s world, but they’re far from the abortions the author (and many other critics for that matter) are making it out to be. I didn’t think MacGruber or Ladies Man were that bad.