Is This Something?

I'm going to bet on optimism and say it's something, even though I'm old enough to know better.

Although the original has become, by now, a minor classic, I can't forget when I became aware of it: Around September 11, 2001. That was when the two-weeks-before-the-September-28-release-date marketing campaign was ramping up.

Obviously, few bothered to see it in the theaters.

Posted by: Ace at 05:31 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Hello Kitty at August 03, 2015 05:32 PM (E5UB0)

2 Second?

Posted by: Hello Kitty at August 03, 2015 05:32 PM (E5UB0)

3 I hate Ben Stiller.

Posted by: Hello Kitty at August 03, 2015 05:32 PM (E5UB0)

4 No.

Posted by: gewa76 at August 03, 2015 05:34 PM (S9rS1)

5 i hate him sometimes, but mostly I really like him.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:34 PM (dciA+)

6 The first one sucked so the second one 10 years later is supposed to be good? Stiller is unsufferable anymore.

Posted by: Chris Vaughn at August 03, 2015 05:34 PM (Bcqod)

7 no zoolander fans here?

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:34 PM (dciA+)

8 There is literally nothing about the movie in this teaser. It allows everyone who sees it to project their own ideas about what a Zoolander movie ought to be.

In many ways, this is the story of...

Never mind.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 03, 2015 05:37 PM (2lndx)

9 What is this Zealander, of which you speak?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 03, 2015 05:37 PM (VPLuQ)

10 it's really a teaser, just letting people know they're making the film for 2016. they probably haven't shot anything yet, except this trailer.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:38 PM (dciA+)

11 Damn, that Ben Stiller is hilarious. Almost as funny as Adam Sandler.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 03, 2015 05:38 PM (laMCB)

12 Some times you need a movie that's funny and has NO politics or Social Justice.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 03, 2015 05:38 PM (c4yY7)

13 Zoolander is one of those comedies that grow on you. But I'm one of those that don't read so good.

My other sleeper that I came to appreciate after about three viewings was Bowfinger.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:38 PM (vyAun)

14 I don't think this is something. It may not be anything.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 03, 2015 05:39 PM (laMCB)

15 I'll see "13 Hours" before that.
But I'm sure it's silly.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2015 05:39 PM (NOIQH)

16 How can you not like a movie with a gasoline fight?

Zoolander is awesome!

Posted by: Jay in Ames at August 03, 2015 05:39 PM (i2Lsf)

17 zoolander fans here?

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:34 PM (dciA+)

There ARE zoolander fans?

But then, I guess you can find 'someone' who likes just about anything.... including... pain...

Posted by: Ben Franklin, inventor of the Franklin stove at August 03, 2015 05:39 PM (qh617)

18 >>My other sleeper that I came to appreciate after about three viewings was Bowfinger

Heh. "Mind-Head"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2015 05:40 PM (NOIQH)

19 Was Zoolander I worth seeing?

I actually liked Ben Stiller in Mystery Men and Tropic Thunder. Even the Royal Tenenbuams. Night at the Museum looked fun--I came close to seeing it several times.

But the Zealander trailer made it look just, kind of your descriptions of unfunniness, actually.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 03, 2015 05:41 PM (2lndx)

20 I don't think this is something. It may not be anything.

Then again, it could be nothing.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2015 05:41 PM (SdfnP)

21 I can't stand Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell, but I love them both in Zoolander. That was lightning in a bottle and this one is going to suck.

Posted by: 3.14159 at August 03, 2015 05:41 PM (U4PXs)

22 >>Some times you need a movie that's funny and has NO politics or Social Justice.

Not sometimes, all the time.
Usually removing the SJW crap punches up the funny quite a bit.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2015 05:41 PM (NOIQH)

23 no zoolander fans here?

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I'm one of the few who saw it in the theaters. A first date in a relationship that had a lot of potential - but just that.

Haven't seen it in years, so I cannot tell how it really ages. Perhaps it aged well, but still had to be drunk within 10 years.

Is it still good? Not all of Ferrell's characters age as well.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (gmeXX)

24 i liked night at the museum and the sequel. i didn't see the third.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (dciA+)

25 Looks a little too kosher for my liking.

Posted by: John Kerry at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (TJCSB)

26 Don't know if I liked it because of Ben Stiller or in spite of him but Along Came Polly is a pretty good flick.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (vyAun)

27 Zoolander was the epitome, for me, of a "9-10" film. It captured that era all too well, an unserious film for an unserious era.

It speaks volumes that we're getting a sequel now.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 03, 2015 05:43 PM (2l5vw)

28 Ben Stiller's as funny as a pregnant pole vaulter.

A Fart in an Aqua lung.

A moldy cheese sandwich.

Did they really have to make this travesty twice?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:43 PM (x3GpS)

29
the other night I mentioned the Best Worst Movie ever: Hudson Hawk, and it's neat-o soundtrack.

Zoolander doesn't even rank as Best Worst. It's just silly and boring after 30 minutes.

Posted by: Summer Slam Soothsayer at August 03, 2015 05:43 PM (/x15Q)

30 Zoolander was funny and at least Ben Stiller refrains from conservative bashing.

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2015 05:44 PM (sPO3u)

31 I saw this trailer when I saw Mission Impossible this weekend-

most of the audience laughed. So, I'd say there's a lot of pretty good will towards the character.

Will the sequel be able to walk the same intensely stupid but fun line as the first or just totally and irrevocably suck?

For instance, the gasoline fight makes me laugh every single time I see it.

That kind of hilarious stupid is a rare commodity.

OT: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation was a great summer action movie and well worth your time.

MI:RN, in fact, is going to be hard to top as an action thriller by the new James Bond.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 03, 2015 05:44 PM (0cMkb)

32 What we really need is a sequel to TEAM AMERICA, damn that was a funny movie. I really need to get my Hands on that French film about the 4 daughters marring and the Parents being well French and racist. No U.S. Distributer would touch it, because social justice.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 03, 2015 05:44 PM (c4yY7)

33 Zoolander was the epitome, for me, of a "9-10" film. It captured that era all too well, an unserious film for an unserious era.

------

Not everything needs to be serious.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 05:44 PM (gmeXX)

34 anyone want to talk about how bad Anchorman 2 was?

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:45 PM (dciA+)

35 I like Zoolander. And, I'd definitely do Zoolander's girlfriend, even if she was fat in high school.

Posted by: Old Hob at August 03, 2015 05:45 PM (Z+7WE)

36 Apparently many here didn't appreciate the parody of the me decade that was Zoolander.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:45 PM (vyAun)

37
I liked Will Ferrell in one thing: his small part in HBO's East Down And Out.

Posted by: Summer Slam Soothsayer at August 03, 2015 05:45 PM (/x15Q)

38 And they bag on Adam Sandler. Who knew?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 05:46 PM (Ii765)

39
Hey, Ace!

Have you seen Fargo the tv series? You said on the podcast that you liked the hitman subculture on John Wick and Fargo has that, too.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 05:46 PM (iQIUe)

40 I may have seen Zoolander. Parts of it anyway. Don't remember much about it.

I think that was about the time I was tuning Stiller out because he was in every-fugging-thing.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2015 05:46 PM (LA7Cm)

41 and on disappointing sequels: Horrible Bosses 2 was clearly inferior to the first, and had a lot of garbage gags in it that the first one would not have lowered itself to have, but I gotta tell ya, there are about 10 really funny bits in the movie, and that makes it a success, even if I kinda think it's not a very good movie.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:46 PM (dciA+)

42 I spent 5 years in the Zoolander, I was innocent I tells ya!

Posted by: Killerdog at August 03, 2015 05:46 PM (/fh9i)

43 Because I"m not a metrosexual like the rest of you, I could not get into Zoolander.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 05:47 PM (iQIUe)

44 It's probably a generational thing.

Can't stand either Ben Stiller or Will Ferrel

Am mystified in the press they get.

Maybe it's because y'all are on my lawn.

(which btw I killed with weed killer so I don't have to mow the damn thing. I didn't retire just so I could mow the freakin' lawn)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:47 PM (x3GpS)

45 >>>Have you seen Fargo the tv series? You said on the podcast that you liked the hitman subculture on John Wick and Fargo has that, too.

No... I don't watch too many tv shows and I'm very selective about sampling any of them because I don't *want* a new tv show, if you know what i mean.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:47 PM (dciA+)

46 >>anyone want to talk about how bad Anchorman 2 was?

So bad I didn't finish watching it.
I watch a lot of dumb or bad movies, so I'm not claiming superior taste on this, but....So. Bad.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2015 05:48 PM (NOIQH)

47 Never seen Anchorman 2.Could tell from the ad campaign it was goig to be bad.

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2015 05:48 PM (sPO3u)

48 Is that you ace?

Posted by: Golfman at August 03, 2015 05:48 PM (48QDY)

49 >>>>35 And, I'd definitely do Zoolander's girlfriend, even if she was fat in high school.

Ew!

Posted by: 3.14159 at August 03, 2015 05:49 PM (U4PXs)

50 >>>Never seen Anchorman 2.Could tell from the ad campaign it was goig to be bad.

sure but there is knowing and there is *experiencing.*

I mean, it has some funny bits. but it is sooooo inferior to the first, you just can't help but feel kinda sad for it.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:49 PM (dciA+)

51 Worst sequel never made.

Wickerman II

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:49 PM (vyAun)

52
Zoolander

Cast
Donald Trump -- Himself

In the Circle

The Circle of Life

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 03, 2015 05:50 PM (kdS6q)

53 Here we are talking about a talent less hack while hitchBOT got murdered in Philly.

Priorities, priorities.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:50 PM (x3GpS)

54 " anyone want to talk about how bad Anchorman 2 was?"

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Sure. It was so bad (I suspect), that I haven't even watched it for free on Prime.

Posted by: revolting peasant at August 03, 2015 05:50 PM (jLnPV)

55 Now THAT'S funny.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:51 PM (x3GpS)

56 >>>OT: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation was a great summer action movie and well worth your time.

MI:RN, in fact, is going to be hard to top as an action thriller by the new James Bond.

...

huh, maybe i'll see it. You know, this is a weird thing, because I don't really love the M:I movies and am not a big fan of Cruise, but I have, now that I realize it, seen all four in the theaters. All four.

Might as well see this one in the theaters too.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:51 PM (dciA+)

57 "Can't stand either Ben Stiller or Will Ferrel"

Ferrel runs hot and cold for me. "Stepbrothers" is and always will be one of all time favorites. But, then he's in other stuff and just sorta sucks.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2015 05:51 PM (LA7Cm)

58 >>Worst sequel never made.

Wickerman II

* * *

Highlander II

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2015 05:51 PM (NOIQH)

59 Geez we start talking about bad sequels, we'll be here all night.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (x3GpS)

60 I assume Stiller is left wing politically,but he doesn't beat you over the head with it.I like that about him and,come on,Dodge Ball the Movie is awesome.

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (sPO3u)

61 M:I 3 was good, but that was really the only one I'd say was "good." M:I 4, the one the critics all screamed about, I thought was okay.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (dciA+)

62 Serial bad weddings, is the name of the French Movie. Thier is NO way in Hell Hollywood would ever make a movie like this.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (c4yY7)

63
Man From UNCLE looks weak. I noticed it's pg-13.

Posted by: Summer Slam Soothsayer at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (/x15Q)

64 The good news is they are making a sequel to John Wick.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (vyAun)

65 24 i liked night at the museum and the sequel. i didn't see the ~~third~~ turd.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (dciA+)

Fixed.

Close on the hash BTW.

Posted by: Golfman at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (48QDY)

66 Ace,

I'm with you on not trying to find a new TV show to watch (esp. when True Detective 2 has sucked so mightily).

But the first season of "Fargo" is probably worth your time.

It starts off really poorly though and doesn't really get it's feet and the proper tone till after episode 3.

After that it's a fun rollercoaster ride with some outstanding performances.

And ends quite nicely.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (0cMkb)

67 Hey, if an hour-and-a-half comedy makes you really laugh hard ten times, that's a decent movie.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (2lndx)

68 hitchBOT wasn't murdered. He was disassembled for packing, but then the union went on strike.

Posted by: revolting peasant at August 03, 2015 05:53 PM (jLnPV)

69 >>Hey, if an hour-and-a-half comedy makes you really laugh hard ten times, that's a decent movie.

i wouldn't say "really hard" for a lot of the laughs, but there are some good chuckles.

and I agree with you, ten genuinely funny bits make a comedy a success, no matter what other criteria you bring into it.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:53 PM (dciA+)

70 Nice to see you to have the time to comment Ace.

You need a break.

Posted by: Golfman at August 03, 2015 05:53 PM (48QDY)

71 First episode of Fargo is great.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (iQIUe)

72 I think I laughed more during A New Hope.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (x3GpS)

73 Stephen Hawkings is a racist! And he has a funny voice!

Posted by: goon at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (gy5kE)

74 >>>But the first season of "Fargo" is probably worth your time.

as they say on Archer, "NOOOOOPE."

I really try to stay away from TV.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (dciA+)

75 Your move, Cecil.

Posted by: Death, with a Chessboard at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (8ZskC)

76 As a former runway model, y'all just don't understand how hard that left turn can be, especially when you're just coming off (pardon the pun) a three week tantric experience with a troupe of Chinese acrobats, a tribe a Maori, and a Sumo wrestler named Jaun.

Posted by: Jim at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (fkaxc)

77 Fargo is extremely well written and acted.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (iQIUe)

78 John Kerry went to the Derek Zoolander Center for Diplomats Who Can't Negotiate Good, and Want to Do Other Stuff Good, Too.

Posted by: A440Hz at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (FAPxv)

79 I like a lot of Ferrel's work, Anchorman, Blades of Glory, Stepbrothers, Old School.

If you want to learn how to beat a woman watch The Wickerman with Nick Cage, he punches a chick every 5 minutes in that flick.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (TJCSB)

80 Why would someone not want to be entertained? No, I dont get it.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (iQIUe)

81 Highlander II had at least one nice costume.

Posted by: revolting peasant at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (jLnPV)

82 I got mixed up (being old school) that was during Phantom Menace.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (x3GpS)

83 Not all of Ferrell's characters age as well.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (gmeXX)

Will Ferrell is painfully unfunny. What's worse are people still quoting Anchorman and trying to get laughs.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (493sH)

84 Funny I don't like Cruise as an actor but he's been in a lot of movies that I've enjoyed.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (vyAun)

85 Yeah, it's a minor classic, and the original it's still silly-funny. The one-up jokes and character bits will always be good.
Anyway, it's the only time in my life I thought bread baking was funny.

Not sure how a zoolander sequel could be made into anything watchable let alone funny, though. Although it will be fun to see a thumbnail on my phone and ask hubby "what is this, a sequel for ants?"

Posted by: Sarahw at August 03, 2015 05:55 PM (3fTXW)

86 I thought zoolander looked dumb when it came out. Of the bits and pieces I've seen of it it still looked dumb and not worth sitting through it. I think it might be stiller. Because I also have no interest in "there's something about Mary."

I like Tropic Thunder. And meet the parents is somewhat ok. I won't turn it off if it's on tv and I just want background noise.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 05:56 PM (z/Ubi)

87 Hey, the way we're going, the two week campaign for this flick will ramp up on the day of the first Iranian nuclear strike.

Posted by: Hawkins1701 at August 03, 2015 05:56 PM (63IFd)

88 The best Will Ferrel movie was the one with Maggie G, Jakes sister. He was an IRS agent who's life was being written by a writer unknown to him. Dustin Hoffman was in it too. Was a good take on your inability to actually control your own life. Cant remember the name of it though. A little help?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 05:56 PM (Ii765)

89 >>>
84 Funny I don't like Cruise as an actor but he's been in a lot of movies that I've enjoyed.

same here. He makes the sort of movies I want to see, like Jack Reacher and Edge of Tomorrow and Oblivion.

Not a lot of people do that. Barely any. It's all comic book movies now, or tentpole disaster movies, etc.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:56 PM (dciA+)

90 Has there ever been a sequel made over a decade after the original that wasn't a huge letdown?

Aside from Mad Max: Fury Road?

Posted by: 3.14159 at August 03, 2015 05:57 PM (U4PXs)

91 Ben Stiller to me always seems like he ought to be funny, and in some bits he cracks me up.

But he's mostly like a twin engine Cessna that is weight overloaded. Taxis down the runway at a pretty good clip but never quite gets off the ground. That's how Zoolander strikes me. I have started watching it 2 or 3 times but never get into it enough to start to enjoy it. Is it worth the effort?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2015 05:57 PM (NeFrd)

92 Not all of Ferrell's characters age as well.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 05:42 PM (gmeXX)

Will Ferrell is painfully unfunny. What's worse are people still quoting Anchorman and trying to get laughs.

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I have this strange feeling that Anchorman is going to start souring quickly - and it will not hold up in the long run.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 05:57 PM (gmeXX)

93 Highlander II

For a long time, I thought there were two really bad Highlander sequels made in the nineties. I walked out of Highlander II during the Zeist sequence--literally, that is the only movie I can remember walking out on.

A few years later, I happened across Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery doing some really bad Highlander sequel involving ozone depletion on TV. Never occurred to me that they were the same movie, since they seemed so completely unrelated to each other.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 03, 2015 05:57 PM (2lndx)

94 Someone got a decent start in the war against the machines when they took out hitchBot. Good job boyz! Metal mother-f*ckers can't just go out hitchhiking around our country! We'll show'em!

Posted by: goon at August 03, 2015 05:57 PM (gy5kE)

95 Man From UNCLE looks weak. I noticed it's pg-13.

Posted by: Summer Slam Soothsayer at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (/x15Q)

As a fan of the TV series. I'm going to assume the movie will have nothing in common with the series but names. It will be a lot of CGI and explosions and empty dialogue.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (493sH)

96 Yeah, Ace, right there with you about the "meh"ness of the MI series (3>4>2>1).

But this time, and it's somewhat obvious, they went straight after the JB formula and added a group effort spin to the whole thing that works very well.

Plus, a strong villain.

Yeah, it's a theater movie- big screen, great sound.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (0cMkb)

97 speaking of disappointing sequels: I hated every Lethal Weapon sequel more and more and more and more.

I didn't even like Lethal Weapon 2. Everyone quotes that "Diplomatic immunity" line, but I thought the movie sucked.

And then... it just got worse and worse and worse.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (dciA+)

98
Will Ferrell as Mugatu was classic
I'll watch this sequel in tiger print thong underwear
suck it bitchez!!11!!!

Posted by: Hung Lo at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (LPHFE)

99 Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:54 PM (dciA+

If you ever think about adding something to your TV viewing , keep it simple and enjoy the he out of Bob's Burgers. Best animated show on TV right now.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (vyAun)

100 Stranger Than Fiction

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (TJCSB)

101 89 Cruise also tends to not beat people over the head with left wing politics.Though he was in Born on the 4th of July and that one with Robert Redford,forget the title.

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (sPO3u)

102 Fargo was Okay. It did convey the boredom and emptiness of the midwest small towns.

But it also conveyed the competence and persistence of them also.

Don't try doing crime in small towns. Everything you do is seen by someone.

And they'll tell someone else as soon as they can. (which may be days but eventually the whole town knows who what when where.) I never understood why they needed newspapers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (x3GpS)

103 Blue Steel

Posted by: Clarney at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (8WIxT)

104 No. Just no.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (JO9+V)

105 97 Agreed.

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (sPO3u)

106 No... I don't watch too many tv shows and I'm very selective about sampling any of them because I don't *want* a new tv show, if you know what i mean.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:47 PM (dciA+)

You should really give it a shot.

I'm someone who watches almost no television and I really thought it was great. Billy Bob Thornton hits it out of the park as a mysterious hitman.

I thought it ended on a weaker note, but overall a great little series.

You could easily watch all the episodes over a weekend.

I'm actually looking forward to the next installment.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (oFCZn)

107 The new version of Outlaw Josey Wales will probably star Michael Sam and that Doogie Houser girl.

Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2015 06:00 PM (go5uR)

108 Rowdy Roddy Piper is dead?!

Fly kilts at half mast

Posted by: derit at August 03, 2015 06:00 PM (jT+gh)

109 >>>Yeah, Ace, right there with you about the "meh"ness of the MI series (3>4>2>1).

i'd go 3>4=1>2. I really did not like the John Woo one, and also thought he made it too John Woo-ey. I mean, if you do a james bond movie, you don't come in and use all your signature stylistic crap. James bond movies have their own style, and you work in that style.

I didn't like anything about M:I 2 except the great Anthony Hopkins appearance, really. Add in the white doves and other Woo-eyness, and it's a miss for me.

At least M:I had that great opening: For five minutes, you were excited to be watching a movie.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:00 PM (dciA+)

110 The new version of Outlaw Josey Wales will probably star Michael Sam and that Doogie Houser girl.

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Wanda? Or Vinnie's girl?

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:00 PM (gmeXX)

111 95 Man From UNCLE looks weak. I noticed it's pg-13.

Posted by: Summer Slam Soothsayer at August 03, 2015 05:52 PM (/x15Q)

As a fan of the TV series. I'm going to assume the movie will have nothing in common with the series but names. It will be a lot of CGI and explosions and empty dialogue.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (493sH)

Mid to late August release. That usually means film that they hoped was going to be a summer blockbuster but is actually a let down so they're releasing it just to get it out and done and make whatever they can.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 06:00 PM (z/Ubi)

112 Stranger than fiction, That's it. Thanks

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 06:01 PM (Ii765)

113 ... best Will Ferrel movie was the one with Maggie G, Jakes sister

Stranger Than Fiction. Yes, that was good.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 03, 2015 06:01 PM (2lndx)

114 97 speaking of disappointing sequels: I hated every Lethal Weapon sequel more and more and more and more.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (dciA+)

Loaded Weapon I was great, though.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 03, 2015 06:01 PM (EHU9F)

115 The Lethal Weapon sequels did suck but that was because the first was a bit out there. Mel brought Mad Max to LA.

Danny Glover was too old for that shit from the first though.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 06:01 PM (x3GpS)

116
Was zoolander the one where he was an Israeli agent but wanted to be a hairdresser?

It was ok for mindless watching, but wouldn't put it up there with caddyshack, groundhog day or hot fuzz.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2015 06:02 PM (ODxAs)

117 >>>You should really give it a shot.

I'm someone who watches almost no television and I really thought it was great. Billy Bob Thornton hits it out of the park as a mysterious hitman.

...

NOOOOOPE.

seriously, I read a lot at night, and I'm very happy to be reading again. I feel better, I feel smarter, I feel engaged. I do not like the passive spectator aspect of TV watching.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:02 PM (dciA+)

118 Fly kilts at half mast

***

Heh!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 03, 2015 06:02 PM (NeFrd)

119 Really I'm not sure how Fargo is going to improve on Billy Bob Thornton in the next installment. He really made it work.

They should get Javier Bardem to do Anton Chigurh in it since it's technically set in the same universe as No Country For Old Men.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 06:03 PM (oFCZn)

120
Cheers: Season 10, Episode 23

Bar Wars VI: This Time It's for Real (30 Apr. 1992)

John Kerry --- Senator John Kerry

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 03, 2015 06:03 PM (kdS6q)

121 I liked Will Ferrel in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, too. Speaking of dumb funny comedies.

He was better playing Marshal Willenholly then he was just playing Marshal.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 03, 2015 06:03 PM (2lndx)

122 >>>95 Man From UNCLE looks weak. I noticed it's pg-13.

economically, you really cannot make this sort of movie with an R-rating. You just can't. The biggest audience for it is, in theory, teenage boys, and if you make it R, they will buy tickets for OTHER movies and then sneak into yours, but you make no money off that, and your movie fails.

I also don't see why you'd make it R.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (dciA+)

123 NOOOOOPE.

seriously, I read a lot at night, and I'm very happy to be reading again. I feel better, I feel smarter, I feel engaged. I do not like the passive spectator aspect of TV watching.

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Smart. It may be smug (though I don't think so), but I too just feel better when I read more. And yet, TV has a stranglehold over me.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (gmeXX)

124 So what's next? Starsky and Hutch Two? Sonny, think out of the box.

Posted by: Zombie Anne Meara at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (fY+fw)

125 I knew the movie "Vacation" would bomb just watching the preview, what a dumb ass remake of a classic.

Posted by: Colin at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (tlI5H)

126
And Ferrell's bit in The Wedding Crashers was stoopid hilarious

You people need to lighten up or you won't be able to enjoy the SMODdening

Posted by: Hung Lo at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (LPHFE)

127 What's next? Riptide.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 03, 2015 06:05 PM (JO9+V)

128 We're going streaking!

Posted by: derit at August 03, 2015 06:05 PM (jT+gh)

129 Damn watch, treacherous machine that it is, almost got him killed. I liked Latifah's role and the crazy woman planning murders. Stranger than Fiction was really first rate. It changed the way that I brush my teeth!

Posted by: goon at August 03, 2015 06:05 PM (gy5kE)

130 I'm still waiting for a martial arts movie that can stand up to Kung Fu Hustle. Comedy wise.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 06:05 PM (Ii765)

131 >>>Smart. It may be smug (though I don't think so), but I too just feel better when I read more. And yet, TV has a stranglehold over me.

like carbs, the more you consume it, the more you want it, and the less you consume it, the less you want it.

though i do watch Always Sunny, Archer, The Flash, sometimes Arrow, sometimes Person of Interest, sometimes big bang theory, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

but I try not to fill up EVERY DAMN NIGHT with "must watch TV shows."

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (dciA+)

132 Smart. It may be smug (though I don't think so), but I too just feel better when I read more. And yet, TV has a stranglehold over me.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (gmeXX)

I watched Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Fargo. Some episodes of The Walking Dead and that's about it. My television set remotes have dust on them from not using them lol. I don't even watch news much anymore.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (oFCZn)

133 Posted by: Colin at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (tlI5H)

How did it bomb? It was second at the box office behind MI and actually increased its ticket sales from the opening. It only cost 30 million to make.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (vyAun)

134 Optimism is its own punishment...

and fuck Hollyweird and the stupid crap they want me to give them money for.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (Vha1U)

135 oh i watch elementary but I might cut that out of the schedule... kinda getting bored by it.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (dciA+)

136 Earth to Matilda...???

Posted by: Clarney at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (8WIxT)

137 I knew the movie "Vacation" would bomb just watching the preview, what a dumb ass remake of a classic.

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That movie had three standouts involved - all at their peak.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (gmeXX)

138
Man of the House (2005)

A Texas Ranger must protect a group of cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder.

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones -- Ranger Roland Sharp

Curtis "Booger" Armstrong -- Morgan Ball

Rick Perry -- Himself (as James Richard Perry)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 03, 2015 06:06 PM (kdS6q)

139 116
Was zoolander the one where he was an Israeli agent but wanted to be a hairdresser?

It was ok for mindless watching, but wouldn't put it up there with caddyshack, groundhog day or hot fuzz.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2015 06:02 PM (ODxAs)

That was Adam sandler. You Don't Mess With The Zohan.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 06:07 PM (z/Ubi)

140 I see that they are re-making Big Trouble In Little China. An expected flop.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 06:07 PM (Ii765)

141 I watch what I want and read what I want. I don't worry about whether I'm doing one too much or the other not enough.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 03, 2015 06:08 PM (vyAun)

142 In an effort to at least appear to possess some creativity, the Whoreywood douchebags should start mashing up old TV shows before rebooting them on the big screen.

First suggestion: Automanimal.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 03, 2015 06:08 PM (EHU9F)

143 TV has a stranglehold over me. Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:04 PM (gmeXX)

Obligatory flashback:

http://tinyurl.com/lnbbgb5

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 06:08 PM (x3GpS)

144 107 The new version of Outlaw Josey Wales will probably star Michael Sam and that Doogie Houser girl.
Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2015 06:00 PM (go5uR)

They're remaking Josey Wales?

ugh.......*rubs temples*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at August 03, 2015 06:08 PM (DzWtF)

145 I'm actually looking forward to the next installment.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 05:59 PM (oFCZn)
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Yes, bodies piled up to the second story in Sioux City...
But they have Ted Danson who is wayyyy too old to be a cop.

Bob Ouderkurk (sp?) was good, too: "A cake with an assault rifle made of frosting-- ya gotta see it!"

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 06:08 PM (iQIUe)

146
Love Archer!!
Still waiting for him to cut loose with a "stupid fucking whore" or a
"Yeah, because you put your cock...in.my.ass"

Posted by: Hung Lo at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (LPHFE)

147 I think I got the black lung Pop.

Posted by: Clarney at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (dgO4h)

148 >>>That movie had three standouts involved - all at their peak.

three...?

You mean john candy? he was in it for three minutes!

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (dciA+)

149
That movie had three standouts involved - all at their peak.

Beverly D'Angelo and her third nipple?

Posted by: derit at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (jT+gh)

150 but I try not to fill up EVERY DAMN NIGHT with "must watch TV shows."

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Its amazing how quickly you can get hooked. And how difficult it is to release a show that is in decline. You are better off not watching at all. One reason why I have resisted watching Breaking Bad. I know I'd just get hooked on it and have to commit to watching 60 (?) episodes.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (gmeXX)

151 140 I see that they are re-making Big Trouble In Little China. An expected flop.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 06:07 PM (Ii765)

I remember seeing The Prince of Darkness in the theater and hating it.

Now I think it's one of Carpenter's best flicks. It gets better every time I watch it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (oFCZn)

152 Comedy sequels are almost all terrible. For obvious reasons, I guess. I can't think of one that wasn't disappointing if not a complete disaster.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (b65cm)

153 149. LOL

Posted by: Clarney at August 03, 2015 06:10 PM (dgO4h)

154 Yeah, they can't do the same jokes (although some do try it) and they have to make new ones that still fit.

Not easy to do.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 03, 2015 06:10 PM (x3GpS)

155 Its amazing how quickly you can get hooked. And how difficult it is to release a show that is in decline. You are better off not watching at all. One reason why I have resisted watching Breaking Bad. I know I'd just get hooked on it and have to commit to watching 60 (?) episodes.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:09 PM (gmeXX)

See though I think that's why now is better because you can literally sit down and watch an entire series in a couple of days and then do nothing with television for weeks or months. You can compartmentalize your viewing and move on to more productive endeavors.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (oFCZn)

156 three...?

You mean john candy? he was in it for three minutes!

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Writer (Hughes)
Director (Ramis)
Actor (Hall)

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (gmeXX)

157 >>>Comedy sequels are almost all terrible. For obvious reasons, I guess. I can't think of one that wasn't disappointing if not a complete disaster.

hm, interesting trivia question: Has there been a successful comedy sequel?

Night at the Museum 2 was good, but that leans heavily on the light fantasy action stuff, not so much a pure comedy.

also, the first one wasn't SOOOO GOOD that you were like "How can they possibly TOP this?"

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (dciA+)

158 "What's next? Riptide."

Rosie O'Donnell could play the "Screaming Mimi."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (LA7Cm)

159
Too much tv is just mediocre. When there is a good series, I'm happy to binge watch. However, I think television has peaked. Too bad, it had a nice run recently...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (iQIUe)

160 oh director...

Ramis directed that?! I didn't know that. Wouldn't have guessed.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (dciA+)

161 Really liked Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. Every time he got wasted and came back and got wasted again, I said Dammit! Had Mrs Old Blue cracking up.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (9iR5/)

162 157 >>>Comedy sequels are almost all terrible. For obvious reasons, I guess. I can't think of one that wasn't disappointing if not a complete disaster.

hm, interesting trivia question: Has there been a successful comedy sequel?

Night at the Museum 2 was good, but that leans heavily on the light fantasy action stuff, not so much a pure comedy.

also, the first one wasn't SOOOO GOOD that you were like "How can they possibly TOP this?"

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 06:11 PM (dciA+)

Austin powers 2

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 06:12 PM (z/Ubi)

163 What would be good comedy sequels? Is Christmas Vacation the only one?

Here I mean proper sequels (not Marx brothers) and not kids movies.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 03, 2015 06:13 PM (b65cm)

164 Christmas Vacation is hilarious and it is a sequel. It's not the first sequel (the European one which sucked donkey balls), but it's a sequel that's as good as the original.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2015 06:13 PM (oFCZn)

165 I left the Vacation movie, get this, in tears of laughter.

btw, one of the Mothersbaugh brothers of DEVO did the closing credits song. The makers of this movie did a nice job with it and Applegate and Helms give nods to their persona history - Helms with the a capella singing from The Office and Applegate with the wild bad girl from Married With Children.

Just don't take the kids to see it, unless you like explaining what a rim job is or a truckstop glory hole.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 03, 2015 06:13 PM (JO9+V)

166 hm, interesting trivia question: Has there been a successful comedy sequel?

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I'd say Xmas Vacation was successful. But partly because it fits into a nice nostalgia genre. Of course its sandwiched between two bad Vacation films (though I liked European vacation as well).

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:14 PM (gmeXX)

167 Binge watching in my day was when me and my buds went to the local theater to watch all 5 Planet of The Apes movies in one day. Hardest thing was how we were gonna go out to smoke a joint in between movies.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 06:14 PM (Ii765)

168 Ghostbusters 2 has some great lines.

"You're not going to get a green card with that attitude pal."

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2015 06:15 PM (gmeXX)

169 hm, interesting trivia question: Has there been a successful comedy sequel?

Moneywise? Sure.

I guess if you want a measure, Rotten Tomatoes scores are the best you could pick.

Austin powers 2

No. If nothing else, Heather Graham is the most atrocious actress in the universe. Or at least she was in that movie.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 03, 2015 06:15 PM (b65cm)

170 Austin powers 2

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 06:12 PM (z/Ubi)

Hey, great choice. Everything was better and funnier in the second.

That stupid tent scene had me crying I was laughing so hard.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 03, 2015 06:15 PM (0cMkb)

171 'Sherlock' and 'Broadchurch' are very good shows.

Posted by: British Telly Tips at August 03, 2015 06:16 PM (Ui7Rt)

172

Well, a pg-13 rating tells me that it's not a serious movie.

Like Mad Max: Fury Road is rated R. I wouldn't even bother with it if it was less.

Mad Max was rated R. Good.
Road Warrior was rated R. Good.
Beyond Thunderdome...rated pg-13...lousy. They made it FOR teen boys for the reasons Ace mentioned. And that made it a lousy film.

Posted by: Summer Slam Soothsayer at August 03, 2015 06:16 PM (/x15Q)

173 "Deepthroat 2: Engorged Lollipop" was the best sequel ever

Posted by: Hung Lo at August 03, 2015 06:16 PM (LPHFE)

174 There aren't a lot of good sequels, period.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 03, 2015 06:18 PM (TJCSB)

175 No. If nothing else, Heather Graham is the most atrocious actress in the universe. Or at least she was in that movie.

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Obviously you did not see Beyonce in the third one then

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 06:19 PM (z/Ubi)

176 According to Rotten Tomatoes, the top comedy sequels (throwing out kids movies like Shrek 2 and Toy Story 2&3):

A Shot in the Dark (Pink Panther): 93%

Christmas Vacation only scored 64%

Posted by: AmishDude at August 03, 2015 06:19 PM (b65cm)

177 newd

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 03, 2015 06:22 PM (JO9+V)

178 Bond movies were rated PG. It doesn't have to be R to be a good movie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2015 06:22 PM (OSs/l)

179 A Shot in the Dark was one of the first movies I remember. Made me cry. They used to put me in the back compartment of the VW we had at the drive in. That and It's A Mad Mad Mad World.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2015 06:23 PM (Ii765)

180 34 anyone want to talk about how bad Anchorman 2 was?

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:45 PM (dciA+)

Anchorman 2 was like they stringed together a bunch of alternate takes from Anchorman 1 that they did not use. It was superfluous and unfunny.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 03, 2015 06:32 PM (isZ08)

181 Was Goldmember the third Austin Powers? That might be the best. A Shot in the Dark!! Almost perfect!

Posted by: Clarney at August 03, 2015 06:36 PM (dgO4h)

182 180 34 anyone want to talk about how bad Anchorman 2 was?

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:45 PM (dciA+)

Anchorman 2 was like they stringed together a bunch of alternate takes from Anchorman 1 that they did not use. It was superfluous and unfunny.
Posted by: Minuteman at August 03, 2015 06:32 PM (isZ0

The thing is that I believe they did exactly that on one of the dvd releases. They took a bunch of the cut footage and alternate takes and made almost another movie out of it. I don't think it was that good. It would be interesting to know which is worse. The cut content "movie" or anchorman 2

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2015 06:53 PM (z/Ubi)

183 "Tropic Thunder" was great, but mostly because of Robert Downey Jr and Tom Cruise.

Posted by: movie watcher at August 03, 2015 07:07 PM (3MNCs)

184 97
speaking of disappointing sequels: I hated every Lethal Weapon sequel more and more and more and more.

I didn't even like Lethal Weapon 2. Everyone quotes that "Diplomatic immunity" line, but I thought the movie sucked.

And then... it just got worse and worse and worse.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2015 05:58 PM (dciA+)

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The bit with Danny Glover's character on the toilet was good.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 03, 2015 07:13 PM (5f5bM)

185 183
"Tropic Thunder" was great, but mostly because of Robert Downey Jr and Tom Cruise.

Posted by: movie watcher at August 03, 2015 07:07 PM (3MNCs)

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Agree and disagree. I thought it sucked, but RDJ and Cruise had the 3 funniest bits: 1. The hip-hop song by the producer at the end, 2. The Australian method actor staying "in character" as a black American, and 3. Going full retard.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 03, 2015 07:15 PM (5f5bM)

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