Come anticipate HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, won't you?

i watched it a second time at a friends place - just as funny.

Just watched it last night. I wasn't expecting miracles, just a few chuckles. I got those.

I am shocked and appalled that the timeline of HOT TUB TIME MACHINE was incorrect at times.

I know, it's a ridiculous argument. But really, would it have been too much trouble to hire someone to go through the script just once to make sure all the references were 1986-appropriate? I mean, fucking Mötley Lou? Mötley Crüe's first album was from 1981 and "Home Sweet Home" was from 1985, so how exactly would that have happened?

Also, I'm sure it was inadvertent, but it was funny that time-traveling John Cusack (the *star* if there was one) wore a puffy winter vest like Marty McFly did in Back to the Future...A TIME TRAVEL MOVIE THAT CAME OUT ONE YEAR BEFORE HOT TUB TIME MACHINE TOOK PLACE. When he was spilling his guts to Lizzy Caplan, I'm sure she was thinking "this guy's seen Back to the Future one too many times."

gawd this was terrible. didn't make it to the end. unfunny and strangely depressing.

Also, not really a 'ski comedy.'

unfortunately

i just thought it was kinda tragic 2 hide lizzy caplan under bad hats & that wig and corddry is barely believable as a macho rebel bro but this was reasonably funny enough; 1 of the rare times i could stomach john cusack

""wife wants to see this tonight. I'm inclined to see Greenberg instead. Help us decide, ILX!"

We watched this instead of Greenberg last night! We laffed. What can I say, we're lowbrow."

Never take your wife to a guy movie and vice versa.
I can't decide if I like this movie or not - some of its funny

This has enough funny moments, but they are carried by Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson.

I still find the kid living in the basement and playing out Second Life in jail kind of funny.

second life itself is kind of funny

Pretty sure it's been referenced in articles, television, and film much more than anyone has ever used it

all you do is fly around all day

Watched last night:

It was funny and reasonably promising up until they got into the hot tub.

After that, I got bored, and lasted another 20 mins or so.

they did not go back to the eighties, they went back to the "lol eighties"

yeah i was appalled that Hot Tub Time Machine was not an accurate period piece

p sure the movie was aiming for "lol"s not "documentary realism"

worst example of non-historicism was Craig Robinson singing "started" instead of "retarded," but apparently the director didn't know that was even a radio version

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Oh, that wasn't why I didn't like the film.

Basically, it stopped being funny, beyond the loleighties angle.

What a weird movie. Overall pretty funny but uh if you are going to bring music back from the future why would you pick the Black Eyed Peas?

Also I wish that one bald guy wasn't in this movie. I guess all the other characters were so vacant that he was essential to driving the plot but there was a lot of potential for some 80s humor that got tossed aside in favor of shock comedy from the loser brother of the trailer park guy from GTAV.

I haven't been so excited for a sequel since 'another stakeout'

Sequel couldn't muster the amount of heart (what little there was) that there was in the first one, and it's basically even dumber and more unforgivable than 22 Jump Street's shamelessness. But there were enough stupid, stupid jokes to elicit guilty lols from me

the sequel bombed really badly

i finally watched the original film. it was neither as bad nor as good as some have suggested. i say that, though, as someone who laughs very easily.

above all, it seemed profoundly /lazy/, like a bunch of writers hashed out a rough draft and never bothered to rework it.

i thought the use of public enemy was really discordant; so odd to hear chuck d's politicized lyrics being used as nothing other than a generic "80s badass" signifier.