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The Love Guru was never popular. Napoleon Dynamite would be a better example.
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i think The Love Guru was being used as an example of unsuccessfully going back to the well, which, kinda, yeah it was an attempt to make another "Mike Myers does dumb voices" comedy after the time for those had long passed
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Oct 1, 2020 23:13
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I worked with a very nice lady from Kazakhstan from 2010-14 and hearing people yell half-remembered Borat lines at her when they found out where she was from really ruined the movie for me.
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Oct 1, 2020 23:55
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:i think The Love Guru was being used as an example of unsuccessfully going back to the well, which, kinda, yeah Ah, gotcha.
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Oct 2, 2020 00:08
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I brought a date to watch Bruno in the theaters when I was in UK and let's just say that meat spin dot gif did not compel her to do a second date
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Oct 2, 2020 01:45
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The Love Guru becomes a lot more depressing when you find out how it got made. I assumed it was some contractual obligation thing for Myers. That he got roped into some dogshit script or something. Nope. It was a loving passion project for him and he saw it as a tribute to his own father. Which is so much worse.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:22
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Maybe he hated his father, which would make his plan a success.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:42
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:i think The Love Guru was being used as an example of unsuccessfully going back to the well, which, kinda, yeah Yes, this is what I meant. Love Guru is the “sequel” that was released too late for Myers-mania.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:45
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Snowman_McK posted:The Love Guru becomes a lot more depressing when you find out how it got made. I assumed it was some contractual obligation thing for Myers. That he got roped into some dogshit script or something. Nope. It was a loving passion project for him and he saw it as a tribute to his own father. Which is so much worse. He literally says everything he's ever done was a tribute to his father. Wayne's World, Austin Powers, Fat Bastard, Love Guru, his cameo in Inglorious Basterds.
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Oct 2, 2020 02:58
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Where's The Love 2uru?
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Oct 2, 2020 03:13
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Snowman_McK posted:The Love Guru becomes a lot more depressing when you find out how it got made. I assumed it was some contractual obligation thing for Myers. That he got roped into some dogshit script or something. Nope. It was a loving passion project for him and he saw it as a tribute to his own father. Which is so much worse. The plot being about making the Leafs win the Stanley Cup may have been a tip off to that.
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Oct 2, 2020 03:33
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A Borat sequel can work seeing as the the current US government is a sequel to Bush 2.0 (with Obama/Bruno being a spinoff).
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Oct 2, 2020 04:19
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I have basically no interest in the Borat character but I'm extremely interested in seeing how Into The poo poo SBC gets.
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Oct 2, 2020 04:38
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Eggnogium posted:Yes, this is what I meant. Love Guru is the “sequel” that was released too late for Myers-mania. I think you mean Goldmember
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Oct 2, 2020 04:40
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feedmyleg posted:I think you mean Goldmember Also a good fit for that argument, but at least that one was part of a franchise and there were certain audience expectations. It's Eddie Murphy doing Norbit vs. Dr. Doolittle 4 (I don't know how many Dr. Doolittles there are.)
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Oct 2, 2020 05:47
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A page late on the Amazing Spider-man 2 talk, but... https://twitter.com/THR/status/1311745436806451201
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Oct 2, 2020 06:48
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Is asm 2 worth watching? I watched project power, other than the excruciating ott violence all I felt was the show definitely exists, yeah
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Oct 2, 2020 06:54
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Is asm 2 worth watching? It's not. Most of the movie is either drama about Peter's parents or setting up one of a dozen planned spinoffs. It's bad, yo.
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Oct 2, 2020 07:03
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The ultimate summary of ASM2 is that Paul Giamatti plays a villain who bookends the film and yet you never get any payoff for how this russian mook from the beginning of the film is now in a mechanical Rhino suit at the end. And it cuts to black before you even see the two trade blows, because GOD DAMNIT SAVE IT FOR THE SPINOFF. That's the ASM2 promise: save it for the spinoffs!
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Oct 2, 2020 07:19
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I brought a date to watch Bruno in the theaters when I was in UK and let's just say that meat spin dot gif did not compel her to do a second date I worked at a movie theater when that came out. We had to start giving out refunds that normally we wouldn’t give out because it went against our policy of customers staying for a certain amount of the film- mostly for that scene.
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Oct 2, 2020 07:27
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Bruno was kind of an awkward follow-up to Borat partially because I don't think Cohen, as a British man, realized the full implications of how he was problematically loving around with the unique intersection of race and homophobia in America. I know that sentence sounds kind of hurf blurf, but let me try to explain. A good portion of Bruno involves Cohen using a black child as a punchline for his jokes, specifically when he appears before a mostly black talk show audience to show off his "degenerate gay" ways of mistreating the child. I'm sure that Cohen thought this was funny as gently caress because it was him once again presenting a caricature of "the other" to Americans and them buying it as real, but he was doing it to African American people which has a whole lot of baggage when it comes to both homophobia within certain black communities and also baggage having to do with white people adopting and raising black kids. The people he was lamp-shading had a lot of reasons to be genuinely angry with him, but he presents them as being just as unreasonable and silly as the usual white rednecks he targets.
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Oct 2, 2020 07:46
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END ME SCOOB posted:The ultimate summary of ASM2 is that Paul Giamatti plays a villain who bookends the film and yet you never get any payoff for how this russian mook from the beginning of the film is now in a mechanical Rhino suit at the end. They also kept putting that final slo-mo scene in trailers and ads, so you totally knew it was coming and it had zero pay-off.
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Oct 2, 2020 09:18
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ASM2 wasn’t very good but Foxx was fine as Electro and his inner monologue being expressed through dubstep was memorable.
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Oct 2, 2020 13:29
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ASM2 is essentially the Unviersal Dark Universe of superhero movies.
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Oct 2, 2020 13:41
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feedmyleg posted:I think you mean Goldmember I mean it grossed $300 million. Might have been disastrous if it came out even one year later though.
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Oct 2, 2020 15:08
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I thought Goldmember had some fun gags although it was weaker overall, like the English-English subtitle gag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUaT5ovZ50
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Oct 2, 2020 16:50
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The first Austin Powers is a fuckin banger. That's still a great comedy. I think by Goldmember you have definitely extracted all of the blood out of that stone though, I'm not sure what else they could do to parody a genre that hasn't had a movie made in decades -- unless you pivot to making fun of modern spy movies instead.
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Oct 2, 2020 16:52
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Detective No. 27 posted:ASM2 is essentially the Unviersal Dark Universe of superhero movies. Still say they needed Abbot and Costello as the Nick Fury.
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Oct 2, 2020 17:25
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Mierenneuker posted:They also kept putting that final slo-mo scene in trailers and ads, so you totally knew it was coming and it had zero pay-off. I think it was for ASM 2 that someone just gathered all of the trailers and was able to pretty much stitch together the movie. I want to say they were so nervous that they put over 30 minutes of footage out from announcement to release.
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Oct 2, 2020 17:38
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Electro and his inner monologue being expressed through dubstep was memorable. This is all I remember about ASM2 and I liked it. But also the dubstep is just "Itsy Bitsy Spider" which is kinda on the nose.
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Oct 2, 2020 18:07
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Somehow this passed me by but Robert Zemeckis remade The Witches? With Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci? With Guillermo Del Toro on the screenplay? And it's dropping onto HBO Max this month? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHEuiVqn34 This looks fun. I'm down for it.
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Oct 2, 2020 18:20
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Cacator posted:He literally says everything he's ever done was a tribute to his father. Wayne's World, Austin Powers, Fat Bastard, Love Guru, his cameo in Inglorious Basterds. I mean, all but one of those things is pretty much drawing from the same well, so it entirely tracks that Myers' dad has a dumb sense of humor and loves all of his son's stuff.
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Oct 2, 2020 18:24
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Vandar posted:Somehow this passed me by but Robert Zemeckis remade The Witches? With Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci? With Guillermo Del Toro on the screenplay? And it's dropping onto HBO Max this month? The HBO Max part is new, it was supposed to be in theaters.
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Oct 2, 2020 20:49
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James Bond has been delayed again lol
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Oct 2, 2020 21:14
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Just put it out on streaming, Bond movies are evergreen money makers so who cares how much it makes in theaters.
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Oct 2, 2020 21:16
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Man they were really cranking up the marketing in the last couple weeks too. Cursed
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Oct 2, 2020 21:33
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A Bond movie runs into problem as a PVOD streaming opportunity since, unlike Trolls or Mulan or The Witches, it’s a movie that has two other heavy partners on the picture in EON and MGM whereas the other three movies are all internal productions. There’s likely a lot of contractual entanglements built under the assumption that this thing would play in theaters with home video revenue coming later (and maybe more heavily weighed to Uni as EON and MGM would have presumably made the lion( )’s share of profits from the theatrical; in other words, they get the upfront money, but Uni gets the long tail) that now would have to be page one re-negotiated since all of it is technically “home video” revenue in that case. It probably gets real messy real quick.
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Oct 2, 2020 22:35
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Did Green Knight get shelved? Apart from Bond and TENET it was the only movie I was looking forward to and a smaller film like that seems perfect for VOD.
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Oct 3, 2020 00:23
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The new Bond date put it up against F9 and F9 producers blinked, pushing it back to May.
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Huh, I was confused by F9 blinking, since I remember the story about both franchises last movies being Spectre was a disappointment and F8 being a success but it's looks like they were neck and neck for US domestic box office.
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