Last Updated on April 22, 2024
Saturday Night Live skits have given us some of the funniest and most enjoyable movies of their eras. Ok, there aren’t many – we’re really mostly talking about The Blues Brothers, the Wayne’s World double feature and MacGruber – but what’s there is choice comedy. On the other side, we have crap like It’s Pat, The Ladies Man and Stuart Saves His Family, all proving that just because something works for five minutes doesn’t mean it can sustain 90. Take another recurring skit, Debbie Downer, for another example, who Rachel Dratch turned into a signature character in more than a half-dozen appearances. Thankfully such a movie never happened – something that Dratch is perfectly fine with.
Speaking with ComicBook.com, Rachel Dratch recognized that while the character stands as one of her greatest contributions to SNL, she just wouldn’t have the legs to make it on the big screen.
Saturday Night Live skits have given us some of the funniest and most enjoyable movies of their eras. Ok, there aren’t many – we’re really mostly talking about The Blues Brothers, the Wayne’s World double feature and MacGruber – but what’s there is choice comedy. On the other side, we have crap like It’s Pat, The Ladies Man and Stuart Saves His Family, all proving that just because something works for five minutes doesn’t mean it can sustain 90. Take another recurring skit, Debbie Downer, for another example, who Rachel Dratch turned into a signature character in more than a half-dozen appearances. Thankfully such a movie never happened – something that Dratch is perfectly fine with.
Speaking with ComicBook.com, Rachel Dratch recognized that while the character stands as one of her greatest contributions to SNL, she just wouldn’t have the legs to make it on the big screen.
- 4/20/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
If you’re wondering about the ungainly title of the new comedy film premiering on Peacock, then you’re probably not a sketch comedy aficionado or regular Saturday Night Live viewer. The first part of Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain refers to the comedy group consisting of 20-somethings Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, whose absurdist videos have been a regular feature on SNL for the past couple of years. The second part of the title calls to mind the sort of old-fashioned adventure movies geared toward kids that have inspired this ramshackle spoof reminding you that sketch comedy is best appreciated in small doses. For proof, look no further than such misfires as Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, It’s Pat, MacGruber and, well, you get the idea.
Written by the trio, directed by SNL veteran Paul Briganti and produced by Judd Apatow, Foggy Mountain...
Written by the trio, directed by SNL veteran Paul Briganti and produced by Judd Apatow, Foggy Mountain...
- 11/17/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Hans and Franz, the popular Saturday Night Live bodybuilding sketch that was set to be turned into a movie, is being revisited as a podcast.
The sketch originally starred Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon and was popular during the late 1980s. It starred Carvey and Nealon as a pair of muscle-bound Austrian bodybuilders and was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In the early ‘90s, it was developed as a musical movie, first at Sony, then at Columbia Pictures, that was set to star Carvey and Nealon as well as Schwarzenegger himself.
A script was written by Nealon, Carvey, Robert Smigel and O’Brien, but it never made it past development, widely considered to be a result of the box office failure of Last Action Hero as well as SNL movies such as Stuart Saves His Family and It’s Pat.
The group have now reteamed and turned the idea, or at least some of it,...
The sketch originally starred Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon and was popular during the late 1980s. It starred Carvey and Nealon as a pair of muscle-bound Austrian bodybuilders and was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In the early ‘90s, it was developed as a musical movie, first at Sony, then at Columbia Pictures, that was set to star Carvey and Nealon as well as Schwarzenegger himself.
A script was written by Nealon, Carvey, Robert Smigel and O’Brien, but it never made it past development, widely considered to be a result of the box office failure of Last Action Hero as well as SNL movies such as Stuart Saves His Family and It’s Pat.
The group have now reteamed and turned the idea, or at least some of it,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Wayne's World," the second feature film to be adapted from a "Saturday Night Live" sketch. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey turned the public access duo into a box office sensation, spawning a sequel and a whole series of "SNL" films in the 1990s, for better ("Coneheads") and for worse ("It's Pat"). Though it's "SNL" mastermind Lorne Michael and his sketch comedy cast members responsible for bringing "Wayne's World" to life, it's director Penelope Spheeris who wrangled the short-form concept into a feature-length film. Sorting through endless pages of new ideas on set and working with a lot of...
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- 2/14/2022
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Remember “It’s Pat” or “Coneheads”? While those movies based on “Saturday Night Live” skits are perhaps better left forgotten, 30 years later, “Wayne’s World” remains a classic 1990s absurdist comedy. It made phrases like “We’re not worthy!,” “Party on,” “Not!” and “Bonus!” enduring parts of the culture and became a surprise box office hit.
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey started their Wayne and Garth public access show “Wayne’s World” on “Saturday Night Live,” and it became one of just a handful of the show’s skits that justified a feature film version.
Originally released Feb. 14, 1992, “Wayne’s World” was recently re-released in a limited edition 30th anniversary Blu-Ray SteelBook from Paramount Home Entertainment.
Myers and Carvey brought endearing goofiness to their roles as public access cable TV hosts on a mission to promote their show, but the comedy’s success had another secret ingredient: director Penelope Spheeris, who was immersed in...
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey started their Wayne and Garth public access show “Wayne’s World” on “Saturday Night Live,” and it became one of just a handful of the show’s skits that justified a feature film version.
Originally released Feb. 14, 1992, “Wayne’s World” was recently re-released in a limited edition 30th anniversary Blu-Ray SteelBook from Paramount Home Entertainment.
Myers and Carvey brought endearing goofiness to their roles as public access cable TV hosts on a mission to promote their show, but the comedy’s success had another secret ingredient: director Penelope Spheeris, who was immersed in...
- 2/14/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Saturday Night Love has spawned all kinds of movies from its sketches, like Coneheads, It’s Pat, and A Night at the Roxbury, but none have more successful than Wayne’s World. The film was a box office smash and a cultural touchstone that even earned itself a sequel. While Wayne Campbell was a character Mike Myers […]
The post It’s ‘Wayne’s World,’ And Dana Carvey Was Lucky Enough To Live In It appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
The post It’s ‘Wayne’s World,’ And Dana Carvey Was Lucky Enough To Live In It appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
- 1/23/2021
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Cyrus Yavneh, an Emmy-nominated producer who worked on such drama series as 24 and Supernatural and on films including Town & Country and It's Pat: The Movie, has died. He was 76.
Yavneh died Thursday of lung cancer at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, his cousin, screenwriter Robbie Fox, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Only two months ago, Yavneh was in Atlanta producing the new Netflix series Insatiable when he became ill, Fox said. He also did the pilot for the recent CBS reboot of MacGyver.
Yavneh worked on Fox's 24 during its first two seasons, producing 34...
Yavneh died Thursday of lung cancer at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, his cousin, screenwriter Robbie Fox, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Only two months ago, Yavneh was in Atlanta producing the new Netflix series Insatiable when he became ill, Fox said. He also did the pilot for the recent CBS reboot of MacGyver.
Yavneh worked on Fox's 24 during its first two seasons, producing 34...
- 1/31/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Expanding SNL characters past their initial 5-10 minute lifespans is always a risky endeavor. Some of these characters prove particularly malleable and successful in a longer format - such as Blues Brothers and Wayne's World - while most are awful trainwrecks like It's Pat! and Ladies Man. So I'm iffy about expanding the David S. Pumpkins sketch any longer than it already is. To be fair, his... Read More...
- 10/26/2017
- by Damion Damaske
- JoBlo.com
Pulp Fiction has become so canonized as a modern classic, it's easy to forget how transgressive it was on its release twenty years ago. But when Quentin Tarantino's film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994, it thrilled and shocked the audience in equal measures.
'Pulp Fiction,' A to Z
No scene upended more expectations than the pawn shop sequence (Spoiler Alert — if you haven't ever seen the movie, this is the moment when you should stop reading and go do that. Really! It's streaming on Netflix!
'Pulp Fiction,' A to Z
No scene upended more expectations than the pawn shop sequence (Spoiler Alert — if you haven't ever seen the movie, this is the moment when you should stop reading and go do that. Really! It's streaming on Netflix!
- 5/21/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Generally, screenwriting is reserved for a thankless group of nerds who spend most of their waking hours making "Star Wars" references and lamenting their low position on the Hollywood totem pole.
But once in a while, the ladies and gentlemen behind the scripts end up becoming household name ... or move on from other successful careers to take a stab at screenwriting. And whether it's to make a buck, help out a buddy or take on a new challenge, these scribes sometimes end up scoring some pretty unexpected gigs.
So, upon the revelation that titan of twist M. Night Shyamalan was allegedly though perhaps wasn't after all involved in writing "She's All That" (1999), a movie about how beautiful women become even more beautiful when they take off their glasses and wear their hair down, we've assembled a list of some other well-known writers whose names are attached to some surprising projects.
But once in a while, the ladies and gentlemen behind the scripts end up becoming household name ... or move on from other successful careers to take a stab at screenwriting. And whether it's to make a buck, help out a buddy or take on a new challenge, these scribes sometimes end up scoring some pretty unexpected gigs.
So, upon the revelation that titan of twist M. Night Shyamalan was allegedly though perhaps wasn't after all involved in writing "She's All That" (1999), a movie about how beautiful women become even more beautiful when they take off their glasses and wear their hair down, we've assembled a list of some other well-known writers whose names are attached to some surprising projects.
- 6/18/2013
- by Adam D'Arpino
- NextMovie
That's right, "Disaster Movie," at least according to IMDb users who voted. The comedy, a send-up of disaster flicks, received 55,112 votes. But here's the more interesting part. Paris Hilton topped the charts with two movies appearing in the Top 10 namely "The Hottie & the Nottie" and 2006's "Pledge This."
So without further adieu, here's your Top 100 Worst Movies of All Time!
Rank Rating Title Votes
1. 1.9 Disaster Movie (2008) 55,112
2. 1.9 The Hottie & the Nottie (2008) 27,996
3. 1.9 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) 20,247
4. 1.9 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) 27,348
5. 1.9 Pledge This! (2006) 13,121
6. 1.9 Die Hard Dracula (1998) 2,641
7. 1.9 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) 4,842
8. 1.9 Anne B. Real (2003) 3,325
9. 1.9 From Justin to Kelly (2003) 21,887
10. 1.9 Going Overboard (1989) 7,713
11. 1.9 Track of the Moon Beast (1976) 2,272
12. 1.9 Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985) 2,021
13. 1.9 The Maize: The Movie (2004) 2,284
14. 1.9 The Pod People (1983) 3,089
15. 1.9 The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) 3,097
16. 1.9 Turks in Space (2006) 9,634
17. 1.9 Who's Your Caddy? (2007) 12,991
18. 1.9 The Creeping Terror (1964) 2,764
19. 1.9 Crossover (2006) 8,350
20. 1.9 Girl in Gold Boots (1968) 2,532
21. 2.0 Miss Castaway and the Island Girls (2004) 1,945
22. 2.0 Space Mutiny (1988) 4,376
23. 2.0 Daniel - Der Zauberer (2004) 12,159
24. 2.0 The Starfighters (1964) 2,726
25. 2.0 Fat Slags...
So without further adieu, here's your Top 100 Worst Movies of All Time!
Rank Rating Title Votes
1. 1.9 Disaster Movie (2008) 55,112
2. 1.9 The Hottie & the Nottie (2008) 27,996
3. 1.9 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) 20,247
4. 1.9 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) 27,348
5. 1.9 Pledge This! (2006) 13,121
6. 1.9 Die Hard Dracula (1998) 2,641
7. 1.9 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) 4,842
8. 1.9 Anne B. Real (2003) 3,325
9. 1.9 From Justin to Kelly (2003) 21,887
10. 1.9 Going Overboard (1989) 7,713
11. 1.9 Track of the Moon Beast (1976) 2,272
12. 1.9 Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985) 2,021
13. 1.9 The Maize: The Movie (2004) 2,284
14. 1.9 The Pod People (1983) 3,089
15. 1.9 The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) 3,097
16. 1.9 Turks in Space (2006) 9,634
17. 1.9 Who's Your Caddy? (2007) 12,991
18. 1.9 The Creeping Terror (1964) 2,764
19. 1.9 Crossover (2006) 8,350
20. 1.9 Girl in Gold Boots (1968) 2,532
21. 2.0 Miss Castaway and the Island Girls (2004) 1,945
22. 2.0 Space Mutiny (1988) 4,376
23. 2.0 Daniel - Der Zauberer (2004) 12,159
24. 2.0 The Starfighters (1964) 2,726
25. 2.0 Fat Slags...
- 4/10/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
My birthday is this Saturday, so I thought we'd celebrate with a little get-together. A soiree for just the four of us. A little brandy. Conversation about the college. Games. Laughter. Screaming. Vomiting. Psychological warfare. Ruining you and throwing you in the toilet and murmuring into your ear about what a miserable flop you've become. Then more drinking. Then horrified silence. Then more.
Congrats and condolences, because you're dropping in on one of my favorite movies and my personal national anthem, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, this week's candidate for "Best Movie Ever?" Bizarre secret: I often keep this movie in my computer's DVD player while I'm writing, because nothing propels my creative juices like Elizabeth Taylor's bellowing and Richard Burton's deadpanned despair. It's my Powerade. Liz and Dick shoot the electrolytes right into my skull. Forty-five years after Virginia Woolf's sensational release (and fifty after the debut...
Congrats and condolences, because you're dropping in on one of my favorite movies and my personal national anthem, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, this week's candidate for "Best Movie Ever?" Bizarre secret: I often keep this movie in my computer's DVD player while I'm writing, because nothing propels my creative juices like Elizabeth Taylor's bellowing and Richard Burton's deadpanned despair. It's my Powerade. Liz and Dick shoot the electrolytes right into my skull. Forty-five years after Virginia Woolf's sensational release (and fifty after the debut...
- 7/31/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
From Eddie Murphy to Will Ferrell and Tim Meadows, 'SNL' has a checkered record of minting movie stars.
By Gil Kaufman
Kristen Wiig in "Bridesmaids"
Photo: Universal Studios
Since its debut 37 years ago, "Saturday Night Live" has done two things incredibly well: skewer the day's headlines with a twisted, acid perspective and serve as a launching pad for some of the biggest careers in movie comedy history.
And following her tearful final spin on Saturday night's season finale, it appears clear that the show's ace player, "Bridesmaids" star Kristen Wiig, will be the latest breakout player to make a permanent leap from the stage at Studio 8H to movie stardom. Wiig has already tasted success with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for "Bridesmaids," and she has at least half a dozen features in various stages of shooting and development. We thought it was worth taking a...
By Gil Kaufman
Kristen Wiig in "Bridesmaids"
Photo: Universal Studios
Since its debut 37 years ago, "Saturday Night Live" has done two things incredibly well: skewer the day's headlines with a twisted, acid perspective and serve as a launching pad for some of the biggest careers in movie comedy history.
And following her tearful final spin on Saturday night's season finale, it appears clear that the show's ace player, "Bridesmaids" star Kristen Wiig, will be the latest breakout player to make a permanent leap from the stage at Studio 8H to movie stardom. Wiig has already tasted success with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for "Bridesmaids," and she has at least half a dozen features in various stages of shooting and development. We thought it was worth taking a...
- 5/21/2012
- MTV Music News
From Eddie Murphy to Will Ferrell and Tim Meadows, 'SNL' has a checkered record of minting movie stars.
By Gil Kaufman
Kristen Wiig in "Bridesmaids"
Photo: Universal Studios
Since its debut 37 years ago, "Saturday Night Live" has done two things incredibly well: skewer the day's headlines with a twisted, acid perspective and serve as a launching pad for some of the biggest careers in movie comedy history.
And following her tearful final spin on Saturday night's season finale, it appears clear that the show's ace player, "Bridesmaids" star Kristen Wiig, will be the latest breakout player to make a permanent leap from the stage at Studio 8H to movie stardom. Wiig has already tasted success with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for "Bridesmaids," and she has at least half a dozen features in various stages of shooting and development. We thought it was worth taking a...
By Gil Kaufman
Kristen Wiig in "Bridesmaids"
Photo: Universal Studios
Since its debut 37 years ago, "Saturday Night Live" has done two things incredibly well: skewer the day's headlines with a twisted, acid perspective and serve as a launching pad for some of the biggest careers in movie comedy history.
And following her tearful final spin on Saturday night's season finale, it appears clear that the show's ace player, "Bridesmaids" star Kristen Wiig, will be the latest breakout player to make a permanent leap from the stage at Studio 8H to movie stardom. Wiig has already tasted success with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for "Bridesmaids," and she has at least half a dozen features in various stages of shooting and development. We thought it was worth taking a...
- 5/21/2012
- MTV Movie News
AfterEllen.com is Logo's site for lesbians and bisexual women in entertainment and media, which means we pride ourselves on knowing all kinds of Sapphic pop-culture facts. Each week we'll share some of the best tidbits on The Huffington Post in our new series, "Best Lesbian Week Ever."
Here's who and what was on our raging gay radar this week.
The Good Wife's good sex scene: With no kissing or camera showing the below-the-shoulder action, Kalinda and Lana shared the hottest two-minute foreplay CBS would allow.
Erin Foley's stand-up job on Conan: The out comedian made her late-night debut and announced that she plays softball and loves sports. "Sometimes stereotypes are true!"
"Brittana" do it duet: Brittany and Santana sang "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" on this week's Whitney Houston episode of Glee. They even changed the words to "I need a woman who'll take a chance.
Here's who and what was on our raging gay radar this week.
The Good Wife's good sex scene: With no kissing or camera showing the below-the-shoulder action, Kalinda and Lana shared the hottest two-minute foreplay CBS would allow.
Erin Foley's stand-up job on Conan: The out comedian made her late-night debut and announced that she plays softball and loves sports. "Sometimes stereotypes are true!"
"Brittana" do it duet: Brittany and Santana sang "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" on this week's Whitney Houston episode of Glee. They even changed the words to "I need a woman who'll take a chance.
- 4/27/2012
- by Trish Bendix
- Aol TV.
Top Ten TV to Film Adaptations This weekend 21 Jump Street scored the top spot at the weekend box-office and Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall are busy preparing a sequel and after posting my review someone on Twitter told me one of the reasons they liked it was because it was a huge improvement compared to most TV-to-film adaptations. While I enjoyed it, I wasn't as excited over it as some people seem to be and I never even thought to compare it to other TV-to-film adaptations, especially considering a film needs to stand on its own, whether it's simply better than other films that tried to make the leap from the small screen to the silver screen is irrelevant. But it did get me to thinking... what are the best TV-to-film adaptations? So I started the process of compiling a list and while 21 Jump Street is a good flick, it...
- 3/19/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Want to make a Gen Xer feel old? Tell 'em that 20 years ago today, on February 14, 1992, "Wayne's World" was released in theaters. ("'Wayne's World' is 20? No way?!" "Way!") Lots of now middle-aged folks who spent too long living in their parents' basements (like Wayne and Garth) have fond memories of what may be the funniest film ever spawned from a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, a film that made a bankable movie comedy star out of Mike Myers, introduced the world to Tia Carrere, helped rescue Rob Lowe's career, and spawned countless catchphrases that viewers couldn't stop repeating. ("Schwing!" "We're not worthy!" "That's what she said!") Yet behind the movie's blissful silliness lies a secret story of off-camera bitterness and strife that threatened to keep the film from partying on -- as you'll read below. 1. Myers created the Wayne Campbell character long before "SNL," when he was still in high school.
- 2/15/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
The news that MSNBC has signed Rachel Maddow to a new multi-year contract will hopefully overshadow last week's headlines of the lawsuit she was served with by Christian rocker/minister Bradlee Dean. But the 38-year-old host of The Rachel Maddow Show isn't concerned about any of that — she's been up 23% in ratings in the second quarter of 2011, and she's part of MSNBC's overall rise.
The president of the channel says Rachel's new contract is keeping her around for "a long time to come," which is great news for fans of her show or of Rachel herself, an out lesbian activist turned broadcast journalist who is primarily concerned with, as she says, public policy.
"As a gay kid growing up in the '80s in the San Francisco Bay area, I was very, very, very much affected by both the AIDS Crisis and the AIDS activist movement, as it's some of my formative growing up years,...
The president of the channel says Rachel's new contract is keeping her around for "a long time to come," which is great news for fans of her show or of Rachel herself, an out lesbian activist turned broadcast journalist who is primarily concerned with, as she says, public policy.
"As a gay kid growing up in the '80s in the San Francisco Bay area, I was very, very, very much affected by both the AIDS Crisis and the AIDS activist movement, as it's some of my formative growing up years,...
- 8/3/2011
- by Trish Bendix
- The Backlot
Comedy sequels fall into three categories: bad enough to make you wonder if the original was as good as you thought ("Weekend at Bernies II," "Evan Almighty," and far too many others); amusing but less entertaining than the first ("Ghostbusters II," "American Pie 2"); and -- rarest of all -- funny enough to stand on its own merits.
Here's hoping that the men-behaving-badly-again release of "The Hangover Part II" falls into the last group. In the meantime, here are five comedy sequels that aren't just worthy of the originals, but also righteously hilarious on their own.
5. 'Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay' (2008)
In most contexts, Gitmo is no laughing matter; but Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) transcend political sensitivity. The odd-couple duo (Harold's organized, Kumar's a slacker) take their ganja-laced humor to the notorious military prison after getting arrested on a flight to the pot-nirvana of Amsterdam. Despite...
Here's hoping that the men-behaving-badly-again release of "The Hangover Part II" falls into the last group. In the meantime, here are five comedy sequels that aren't just worthy of the originals, but also righteously hilarious on their own.
5. 'Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay' (2008)
In most contexts, Gitmo is no laughing matter; but Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) transcend political sensitivity. The odd-couple duo (Harold's organized, Kumar's a slacker) take their ganja-laced humor to the notorious military prison after getting arrested on a flight to the pot-nirvana of Amsterdam. Despite...
- 5/24/2011
- by Sandie Angulo Chen
- NextMovie
The track record of "Saturday Night Live" member vanity projects is littered with failure. "It's Pat," "The Coneheads," "The Ladies Man," "Hot Rod," and even last year's "MacGruber" (which was actually good) have shown that moviegoers aren't interested in seeing sketch comedy actors try their hand at features (at least not until they're off the show). It seems that making that jump to the big screen while still attempting to create yuks on the late night show is a recipe for disaster. But that won't stop Kenan Thompson. Deadline reports that the wheels are in motion for the actor to…...
- 3/23/2011
- The Playlist
Many film connoisseurs are well aware of the prestigious Criterion Collection, an assortment of cinema's finest and most influential films from prominent filmmakers around the world. While there's always some dissension amongst fans regarding what films deserve the honor being included in the collection (especially Michael Bay's Armageddon, a film that is actually in the collection), there are plenty that will almost never, ever be considered for the prestigious series. Well, a Tumblr called Fake Criterions takes "classic" films like Ghost Dad and Ernest Goes to Jail and imagines what the Criterion DVD cover art might look like. These are just a few of our favorites, and there's more great work featuring The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and It's Pat: The Movie over at Fake Criterions Tumblr page as well. This venture looks to be a fairly recent creation that only goes back as far as November...
- 12/3/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
MacGruber; Villa Amalia; The Time That Remains; London River; StreetDance 3D
What is it about Saturday Night Live spin-off movies that induces such soul-crushing torpor? For every rare success (Wayne's World, The Blues Brothers) there are umpteen duffers (Coneheads, It's Pat, The Ladies Man, Blues Brothers 2000) which demonstrate just how poorly TV skits translate to the big screen.
Few SNL stinkers could be worse, however, than MacGruber, an execrable dirge which suffers not only from stretching a single joke over an excruciating hour and a half, but also from spoofing an 80s TV show (MacGyver) which few in the UK either saw or care to remember. "I'm proud of how bad this film is," announced Val Kilmer whose character name, Dieter von Cunth, is about as close as the script gets to humour. "In fact, I can't believe I just called it a film. It's a two-hour skit."
Just...
What is it about Saturday Night Live spin-off movies that induces such soul-crushing torpor? For every rare success (Wayne's World, The Blues Brothers) there are umpteen duffers (Coneheads, It's Pat, The Ladies Man, Blues Brothers 2000) which demonstrate just how poorly TV skits translate to the big screen.
Few SNL stinkers could be worse, however, than MacGruber, an execrable dirge which suffers not only from stretching a single joke over an excruciating hour and a half, but also from spoofing an 80s TV show (MacGyver) which few in the UK either saw or care to remember. "I'm proud of how bad this film is," announced Val Kilmer whose character name, Dieter von Cunth, is about as close as the script gets to humour. "In fact, I can't believe I just called it a film. It's a two-hour skit."
Just...
- 10/9/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
There have been a lot of movies made in the history of the world. If forced to do so, you could probably divide them into five categories: Good, Watchable, Bad, Ironic Bad, and Completely Irredeemable on Any Level. It's that last category I want to focus on today, listing the ten most irredeemable pieces of crap in recent memory. These are movies that oughtn't be owned by anyone for any reason, and ownership therein should call into a question a person's intelligence, social abilities, and mental balance. These movies are not good, they are not watchable, and they cannot even be enjoyed on an ironic level. They are markers for a person's ignorance, unreasonableness, and incompatibility.
There are very few of these movies in existence; if you look hard enough, you can find something worthwhile, ironic or not, in almost any movie, at least if you're drunk enough. Not these.
There are very few of these movies in existence; if you look hard enough, you can find something worthwhile, ironic or not, in almost any movie, at least if you're drunk enough. Not these.
- 8/9/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Blues Brothers and Wayne's World were blips. Comedy troupe's MacGyver spoof should have stayed on the small screen
I've written before about the comedy machine that is NBC's sketch show Saturday Night Live, and I wouldn't change a word I've put down about how the SNL machine pumps out talented comic writers and performers like no other outlet in American showbiz: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Guest, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell, Al Franken, plus Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert. The show has put an ineradicable comic stamp on American life for 35 years now, with buzzwords and catchphrases entering the lexicon pretty much first thing Monday morning at watercoolers and office cubicles across the nation. It's a machine, a monolith, a comedy-volcano that's rarely dormant.
The SNL spin-off movies, however? Whole different story.
I've written before about the comedy machine that is NBC's sketch show Saturday Night Live, and I wouldn't change a word I've put down about how the SNL machine pumps out talented comic writers and performers like no other outlet in American showbiz: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Guest, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell, Al Franken, plus Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert. The show has put an ineradicable comic stamp on American life for 35 years now, with buzzwords and catchphrases entering the lexicon pretty much first thing Monday morning at watercoolers and office cubicles across the nation. It's a machine, a monolith, a comedy-volcano that's rarely dormant.
The SNL spin-off movies, however? Whole different story.
- 6/11/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
You want a Les Grossman film. You may not have realized that, but it's true. Tom Cruise knows you want a Les Grossman film. He knows that his pudgy, balding, egocentric turn in Tropic Thunder is the most popular thing he's done in years, and so -- in true modern Hollywood fashion -- he's working on a way to spin the character off into his own movie. E! Online's Marc Malkin reports that, backstage after his performance at the MTV Movie Awards, Cruise said to him of a Les Grossman movie, "We're working on it," he beamed. "Yup, we're working on it." So...how will this not be a weird bookend to It's Pat? or the Martin Short Glick material? (Ugh, on both counts.) I like the Grossman character. He was great in Tropic Thunder, and the recent appearances in conjunction with the MTV Movie Awards have, if nothing else,...
- 6/7/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
To a startling degree, audiences either rejected or were indifferent to MacGruber, the latest Saturday Night Live adaptation. Despite a boatload of promotion (particularly on SNL home NBC), MacGruber mustered just $4 million on its opening weekend at 2,551 theaters. MacGruber's start ranks as the worst-to-date for 2010 among 1,000-theater-plus launches. It's also the ninth worst start ever for a picture playing at more than 2,500 sites. The news is even worse in terms of estimated attendance. On that front, MacGruber had the third poorest 2,500-plus site debut, behind only The Rocker and Lucky You. The key reason for MacGruber's failure may have been an inability to transcend the rote one-joke nature of its source material. Like most recurring SNL sketches, the show's MacGruber interstitials repeat the same gag of the MacGyver-like main character being distracted from defusing a bomb that's about to explode over and over again. People who have been exposed to...
- 5/27/2010
- by Brandon Gray <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
As the first big comedy of the summer, did MacGruber tickle Ron's funny bone?
There's the best of the best. The Green Berets, the Airborne Rangers, the Navy Seals? They're nothing compared to the greatest secret agent/problem solver/mankiller in history, MacGruber (Will Forte). He's got a combat record the likes of which the military has never seen, he's been a member of all of the above elite special forces units, and he's also got a heroic mullet worn in a completely non-ironic manner.
MacGruber has been gone a long time. For ten years, in fact, he's been living in a monastery in Mexico, while the world has believed him to be dead. He was attacked at his wedding by his arch nemesis, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). Except there's no proof Von Cunth did it, and in the ten years MacGruber has been living underground, Von Cunth has...
There's the best of the best. The Green Berets, the Airborne Rangers, the Navy Seals? They're nothing compared to the greatest secret agent/problem solver/mankiller in history, MacGruber (Will Forte). He's got a combat record the likes of which the military has never seen, he's been a member of all of the above elite special forces units, and he's also got a heroic mullet worn in a completely non-ironic manner.
MacGruber has been gone a long time. For ten years, in fact, he's been living in a monastery in Mexico, while the world has believed him to be dead. He was attacked at his wedding by his arch nemesis, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). Except there's no proof Von Cunth did it, and in the ten years MacGruber has been living underground, Von Cunth has...
- 5/24/2010
- Den of Geek
Filed under: Features
Thanks to the release of 'MacGruber' and the Betty White glow we're all still basking in, 'Saturday Night Live' nostalgia is in full-swing.
Looking back on the various 'SNL' sketches that made the jump from the boob tube to the silver screen it's safe to say there are more duds than blockbusters. Remember, for every 'Wayne's World' there are two 'It's Pat.'
'MacGruber' has been generating some buzz, early reviews said it's better than expected. ' Moviefone came up with 10 pitches for various movie versions of 'SNL' sketches and they're not bad.
I'd love to see more of Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer doing their 'Delicious Dish' characters. Their reappearance on the Betty White episode only served to fuel that desire.
What about a Debbie Downer flick where she becomes an unlikely action hero? What? Oh, you didn't say anything,...
Thanks to the release of 'MacGruber' and the Betty White glow we're all still basking in, 'Saturday Night Live' nostalgia is in full-swing.
Looking back on the various 'SNL' sketches that made the jump from the boob tube to the silver screen it's safe to say there are more duds than blockbusters. Remember, for every 'Wayne's World' there are two 'It's Pat.'
'MacGruber' has been generating some buzz, early reviews said it's better than expected. ' Moviefone came up with 10 pitches for various movie versions of 'SNL' sketches and they're not bad.
I'd love to see more of Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer doing their 'Delicious Dish' characters. Their reappearance on the Betty White episode only served to fuel that desire.
What about a Debbie Downer flick where she becomes an unlikely action hero? What? Oh, you didn't say anything,...
- 5/20/2010
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
'We weren't worried about the 'SNL' aspect of the movie,' Will Forte tells MTV News.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
Let's play Rank the "Saturday Night Live" Movies!
We'll go first. "The Blues Brothers" did it first and, arguably, best. "Wayne's World" has got to be up there, and for some strange reason, we have a soft spot for "Coneheads." At the other end of our highly subjective spectrum, we've got "It's Pat," "The Ladies Man" and "Blues Brothers 2000" duking it out for last place.
Where might Will Forte's "MacGruber" fall? The early buzz on this adaptation of a sketch about a wildly incompetent action hero is largely positive. Forte himself isn't bothered by the comparisons to "SNL" flicks past. If you ask him, the varying reception of those films is about on par with the way decades' worth of movies...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
Let's play Rank the "Saturday Night Live" Movies!
We'll go first. "The Blues Brothers" did it first and, arguably, best. "Wayne's World" has got to be up there, and for some strange reason, we have a soft spot for "Coneheads." At the other end of our highly subjective spectrum, we've got "It's Pat," "The Ladies Man" and "Blues Brothers 2000" duking it out for last place.
Where might Will Forte's "MacGruber" fall? The early buzz on this adaptation of a sketch about a wildly incompetent action hero is largely positive. Forte himself isn't bothered by the comparisons to "SNL" flicks past. If you ask him, the varying reception of those films is about on par with the way decades' worth of movies...
- 5/19/2010
- MTV Movie News
'We weren't worried about the 'SNL' aspect of the movie,' Will Forte tells MTV News.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
Let's play Rank the "Saturday Night Live" Movies!
We'll go first. "The Blues Brothers" did it first and, arguably, best. "Wayne's World" has got to be up there, and for some strange reason, we have a soft spot for "Coneheads." At the other end of our highly subjective spectrum, we've got "It's Pat," "The Ladies Man" and "Blues Brothers 2000" duking it out for last place.
Where might Will Forte's "MacGruber" fall? The early buzz on this adaptation of a sketch about a wildly incompetent action hero is largely positive. Forte himself isn't bothered by the comparisons to "SNL" flicks past. If you ask him, the varying reception of those films is about on par with the way decades' worth of movies...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
Let's play Rank the "Saturday Night Live" Movies!
We'll go first. "The Blues Brothers" did it first and, arguably, best. "Wayne's World" has got to be up there, and for some strange reason, we have a soft spot for "Coneheads." At the other end of our highly subjective spectrum, we've got "It's Pat," "The Ladies Man" and "Blues Brothers 2000" duking it out for last place.
Where might Will Forte's "MacGruber" fall? The early buzz on this adaptation of a sketch about a wildly incompetent action hero is largely positive. Forte himself isn't bothered by the comparisons to "SNL" flicks past. If you ask him, the varying reception of those films is about on par with the way decades' worth of movies...
- 5/19/2010
- MTV Music News
This week's "MacGruber" is one of the best "Saturday Night Live" movies ever made. Of course, given the competition, that's not saying very much. It's not easy to take a five minute sketch and turn it into a 90 minute feature and we know it's not easy because almost every time Lorne Michaels and the talented comedians from "SNL" have tried it, they've failed.
This week on the IFC News podcast, we get in and out of an ultra-sticky situation, ranking the "Saturday Night Live" spinoff movies from the best ("The Blues Brothers!" "Wayne's World!") to the worst (Just about everything else!). Plus we'll take a look at the movies that didn't work (we're looking at you "It's Pat," and no, it's not because we can't figure out whether Pat's a man or a woman) to find out why this comedy sub-genre -- which features work from many of the best...
This week on the IFC News podcast, we get in and out of an ultra-sticky situation, ranking the "Saturday Night Live" spinoff movies from the best ("The Blues Brothers!" "Wayne's World!") to the worst (Just about everything else!). Plus we'll take a look at the movies that didn't work (we're looking at you "It's Pat," and no, it's not because we can't figure out whether Pat's a man or a woman) to find out why this comedy sub-genre -- which features work from many of the best...
- 5/17/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
It's been a long, long (long, long, long) time since a movie based on a Saturday Night Live (TV) sketch caused anything but severe pain to those who paid their hard-earned bucks hoping against hope that what amused them for a few minutes once in a while on SNL could provide 90 minutes to two hours of laughter in a theater. The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992), Wayne's World 2 (1993) and the vastly underrated Coneheads (1993) aside, we're talking about non-stop clinkers spanning from It's Pat (1994), Stuart Saves His Family (1994) and A Night at the Roxbury (1998) to Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Superstar (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000). Now, after a decade free of SNL movies, longtime producer Lorne Michaels has seen fit to bring -- of all things -- MacGruber (2010) to the big screen. Why do we say "of all things?" Well, the sketches are essentially spoofs of MacGyver (TV), with Will Forte as MacGruber,...
- 5/12/2010
- by ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
- ScreenStar
It's been a long, long (long, long, long) time since a movie based on a Saturday Night Live (TV) sketch caused anything but severe pain to those who paid their hard-earned bucks hoping against hope that what amused them for a few minutes once in a while on SNL could provide 90 minutes to two hours of laughter in a theater. The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992), Wayne's World 2 (1993) and the vastly underrated Coneheads (1993) aside, we're talking about non-stop clinkers spanning from It's Pat (1994), Stuart Saves His Family (1994) and A Night at the Roxbury (1998) to Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Superstar (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000). Now, after a decade free of SNL movies, longtime producer Lorne Michaels has seen fit to bring -- of all things -- MacGruber (2010) to the big screen. Why do we say "of all things?" Well, the sketches are essentially spoofs of MacGyver (TV), with Will Forte as MacGruber,...
- 5/12/2010
- by ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
- ScreenStar
Us comedy has never been more consistently funny, as the laughs that started with the election of George W Bush show no sign of stopping
These days it's easy to feel bleak about life in the Us: the economy, the banks, a gridlocked Congress, jobs going overseas or just vanishing forever, the mad ravings of the Tea Party brain donors, the sun slowly setting on the Pax Americana, and a general sense of pessimism overarching everything.
But the one area in which America continually goes from strength to strength is the one speciality that might help us forget our woes, even though its raw material is precisely those woes: Us comedy is in the throes of a decade-long golden age – in film and on TV – that just never seems to end. We may be on a downward slope, but when the end comes, at least we'll die laughing.
I can't...
These days it's easy to feel bleak about life in the Us: the economy, the banks, a gridlocked Congress, jobs going overseas or just vanishing forever, the mad ravings of the Tea Party brain donors, the sun slowly setting on the Pax Americana, and a general sense of pessimism overarching everything.
But the one area in which America continually goes from strength to strength is the one speciality that might help us forget our woes, even though its raw material is precisely those woes: Us comedy is in the throes of a decade-long golden age – in film and on TV – that just never seems to end. We may be on a downward slope, but when the end comes, at least we'll die laughing.
I can't...
- 4/16/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
There is a long tradition of characters that have sprung to life as characters on "Saturday Night Live" making the jump from sketch form to feature film, and it's yielded all sorts of results over the years. "The Blues Brothers" and "Wayne's World" could be said to represent one end of the scale, with "It's Pat" and "The Ladies Man" at the other end. The demands of narrative long-form storytelling are totally different, in terms of how you build a character, than the expectations in a six-minute sketch with a recurring punchline. Some characters just can't make that jump. "MacGruber" seems at...
- 3/16/2010
- Hitfix
MacGruber
I had hoped that we as a society had gotten past the idea that a good movie can be made from a Saturday Night Live sketch. Yes, we have The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World in the plus column, but on the flip side we also have turkeys like Superstar, A Night at the Roxbury, It's Pat and god knows how many others. While there were a few minor laughs in this red band trailer, I'm pretty sure MacGruber, Will Forte's MacGyver parody, will fall into the latter category. We'll find out for sure on April 23.
Happy Tears
Comedy drama starring Demi Moore and Parker Posey as sisters who must care for their father (Rip Torn) now that his health has taken a turn for the worse. This one is from the director of Teeth. Posey is worth seeing in just about anything and the rest of the cast is pretty good too.
I had hoped that we as a society had gotten past the idea that a good movie can be made from a Saturday Night Live sketch. Yes, we have The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World in the plus column, but on the flip side we also have turkeys like Superstar, A Night at the Roxbury, It's Pat and god knows how many others. While there were a few minor laughs in this red band trailer, I'm pretty sure MacGruber, Will Forte's MacGyver parody, will fall into the latter category. We'll find out for sure on April 23.
Happy Tears
Comedy drama starring Demi Moore and Parker Posey as sisters who must care for their father (Rip Torn) now that his health has taken a turn for the worse. This one is from the director of Teeth. Posey is worth seeing in just about anything and the rest of the cast is pretty good too.
- 1/23/2010
- by Matt Bradshaw
- Cinematical
Just days after releasing a red band trailer for the upcoming comedy MacGruber, Relativity Media has a green band version that edits some of the naughtiness out of the first trailer.
Based on a recurring sketch from Saturday Night Live, MacGruber is an action-comedy parody of the TV show MacGyver. The movie stars Will Forte, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe, Kristen Wiig, and Maya Rudolph. When it comes to SNL sketches-turned-movies, we're hoping MacGruber is more Wayne's World than It's Pat.
Next Showing: MacGruber opens April 23
MacGruber - Exclusive Interview Part 1
Will Forte on the SNL skit turned movie
MacGruber - Exclusive Interview Part 2
Will Forte talks about working with Val Kilmer
Link | Posted 1/22/2010 by Ryan
Ryan Phillippe | Val Kilmer | Will Forte | Kristen Wiig | MacGruber...
Based on a recurring sketch from Saturday Night Live, MacGruber is an action-comedy parody of the TV show MacGyver. The movie stars Will Forte, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe, Kristen Wiig, and Maya Rudolph. When it comes to SNL sketches-turned-movies, we're hoping MacGruber is more Wayne's World than It's Pat.
Next Showing: MacGruber opens April 23
MacGruber - Exclusive Interview Part 1
Will Forte on the SNL skit turned movie
MacGruber - Exclusive Interview Part 2
Will Forte talks about working with Val Kilmer
Link | Posted 1/22/2010 by Ryan
Ryan Phillippe | Val Kilmer | Will Forte | Kristen Wiig | MacGruber...
- 1/22/2010
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
Typically I write the intros to these Blog Trend roundups before I've read the majority of the blogs I quote. So, before listing the buzz below I had written all about how unfunny the red-band trailer for MacGruber is and how surprised I am that such a terrible-looking movie is getting so much attention. I've since erased my first intro and replaced it with this stunned-reaction paragraph, because the movie bloggers are actually, shockingly eating this up like a double-decker taco (and I mean a watery, shit-comprised taco in honor of the overrated joke in the trailer). Even the usually very snarky and super cynical guys like Vince Mancini are into this thing. Wtf?
I don't agree with the majority, I guess. I especially thought it wrong for Universal/Rogue to unleash this piece of crap on the heels of this weekend's hilarious SNL short "James Cameron's Laser Cats...
I don't agree with the majority, I guess. I especially thought it wrong for Universal/Rogue to unleash this piece of crap on the heels of this weekend's hilarious SNL short "James Cameron's Laser Cats...
- 1/20/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
Here it is. Yuk it up, but it could look a lot worse. SNL movies are historically analgruesome, but this one rises all the way up to the level of "not bad." And after The Ladies' Man, A Night at the Roxbury, It's Pat and Superstar, I'll take "not bad" any goddamn day of the week.
Now go buy a Pepsi.
Now go buy a Pepsi.
- 1/19/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
SNL skits stretched to feature length. Sometimes they work, right? Wayne's World, The Blues Brothers, um... Maybe MacGruber will stand apart from movies like The Ladies Man, It's Pat and Stuart Saves His Family. Early word is that it's surprisingly funny and completely ridiculous, one of which describes Will Forte's chosen hairstyle. Some pics and synopsis:Only one American hero has earned the rank of Green Beret, Navy Seal and Army Ranger. Just one operative has been awarded 16 purple...
- 1/6/2010
- by Dave Davis
- JoBlo.com
Given that the entire joke of the long-running "MacGruber" sketch series on SNL is that the titular hero has only 30 seconds to save the world-- and doesn't do it-- it seemed incredibly, incredibly doubtful that a feature-length movie about the guy would be anything but an It's Pat!-level embarrassment. And while the film isn't entirely finished, and no critics have actually seen it, there's one voice crying out in the internet wilderness to tell you, hold on... this thing might actually be good. "MacGruber is the best SNL film since Wayne.s World back in 1992," is just one of many astonishing bits of praise in the test screening review over at The Vertex Blog, where they actually call the movie "amazing." Aparently Will Forte and Kristen Wiig is great, Ryan Phillippe is "excellent" and Val Kilmer isn't embarrassing, and even a plot about a supervillian named Dieter Von Cunth...
- 12/8/2009
- cinemablend.com
When it comes to the family of films based on comedy sketches, "Saturday Night Live" is Don Corleone, though in terms of quality, a more apt analogy might be Fredo, as the venerable late-night staple is responsible for some of the most inept cinematic yukfests of the past two decades. In the '90s alone, a slew of spin-offs helped expand the show's brand to movie theaters with negative results, with the movies often so awful that the show's once-unimpeachable status as a comedy innovator slowly gave way to a new reputation as a program dedicated to creating recurring characters fit for lame celluloid treatment. As the only comedy show on TV with the clout to get its gossamer-thin bits blown up for the big-screen, "SNL" naturally dominates our roundup of the worst sketches turned into films, though Lorne Michaels can take minor solace from the fact that the one...
- 9/1/2009
- by Nick Schager
- ifc.com
The other day when an interview with Bill Hader came out that discussed the upcoming concepts behind the feature-length MacGruber film, the reactions were mostly negative. Not because Hader claimed that he wanted the film to be R-rated (after proclaiming that he'd made information up in interviews before), but because most people don't seem to be too keen on the movie. I can't say I'm super excited about it either, but I am thrilled at the possibility that it could be R-rated. Here's why. Saturday Night Live has had a mixed track record with movies ranging from the genius of The Blues Brothers to the mediocrity of It's Pat! which is clearly one reason for concern. The other seems to be that the sketch itself is short, sweet and always ends the same. But doesn't the very nature of that sketch demand a killer R-rating? Here are a few points: The shortness and meaningless lends itself to...
- 8/12/2009
- by Dr. Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Can I have your attention for a moment Mr. Val Kilmer and Mr. Ryan Phillippe? Sirs, I have a question: do you really want to have MacGruber on your resumes?
I know you're both actors and actors take jobs. People have to eat, yunno? I can dig that. But Val: you said all that you needed said about comedy in Top Secret! Ryan, I know it blew when George Lucas went with that other guy to play Anakin Skywalker but if you needed an intervention all you had to do was reach out a hand and I'd be Jack to your Rose. Your heart could go on and on.
I've covered the movie news beat for almost 15 years and I can't figure out for the life of me how anyone could stretch a MacGruber SNL skit -- which was never the funniest thing in the first place -- and make...
I know you're both actors and actors take jobs. People have to eat, yunno? I can dig that. But Val: you said all that you needed said about comedy in Top Secret! Ryan, I know it blew when George Lucas went with that other guy to play Anakin Skywalker but if you needed an intervention all you had to do was reach out a hand and I'd be Jack to your Rose. Your heart could go on and on.
I've covered the movie news beat for almost 15 years and I can't figure out for the life of me how anyone could stretch a MacGruber SNL skit -- which was never the funniest thing in the first place -- and make...
- 7/8/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Batman and Robin has been voted the worst movie of all time by a Maxim magazine poll. The action adventure - starring George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell as the undynamic duo - topped the poll, hotly followed by the Julia Roberts tearjerker Steel Magnolias, Robin Williams' horrific Patch Adams and the big-budget blockbuster Armageddon.
The Top Ten Worst Films:
1: Batman and Robin
2: Steel Magnolias
3: Patch Adams
4: Armageddon
5: Staying Alive
6: The Postman
7: The English Patient
8: It's Pat! The Movie
9: When Harry Met Sally
10: Little Nicky...
The Top Ten Worst Films:
1: Batman and Robin
2: Steel Magnolias
3: Patch Adams
4: Armageddon
5: Staying Alive
6: The Postman
7: The English Patient
8: It's Pat! The Movie
9: When Harry Met Sally
10: Little Nicky...
- 7/5/2002
- WENN
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