This movie is funnier than 90% of that Onion list
Counterpoint: no it isn't
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DK7arn2.png
― soref, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
this is up there with empire of the sun as far as autobiopics go.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
also less morally repugnant and disgusting than wolf of wall st.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
If more than three people were likely to participate, it'd be fun to run a poll of this movie's most OMGWTF moments.
― a charisma-free shitlord (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
there are so many choices... the kid getting sucked into the jet engine at the end is up there. licking the compound fracture, skinning the deer and wearing it then getting hit by the truck, the fact that this movie has multiple helicopter sequences.... but the most disturbing scene has got to be Rip Torn bending over and begging Tom Green to fuck him. The fact that the whole movie is a result of parental neglect makes this even more fucked up.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
That's like maybe 7% of the fucked up moments in this movie you just listed.
― a charisma-free shitlord (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
There are a bunch of funny, non-fucked up bits, though. "HELSINKI, BOB?!"
― a charisma-free shitlord (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
"DADDY IM A FARMER DADDY IM A FARMER!!"
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
this movie is a really tiring grind but has a few sequences, 3-5 minute bursts, that are some of the funniest things i've ever seen, like vertigo-inducing
― goole, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
I remember laughing at swinging the baby around by the umbilical cord. but in retrospect...
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
i remember almost nothing else tbh.
― goole, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
about that whole year of my life
not even 9/11?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Was 9/11 the one where the guy sprayed his dad with elephant jizz?
― a charisma-free shitlord (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Well, yeah. That happened in Pakistan.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Has anybody engaged with anything Tom Green has done since Freddy Got Fingered? I don't feel like reading his book. Doesn't he have a podcast now? I feel like this movie was so ahead of its time and still utterly unique, it definitely seems to have had an influence but it didn't inspire a million copycats like Tim & Eric. I also don't really see echoes of it anywhere except in its total nihilism. Like someone said upthread, its total disregard for the audience is still unparalleled imo. It's an incredibly personal movie, moreso than any of the Adult Swim or internet comedy stuff like Balloon Shop.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
The book explains the movie. It's incredibly personal because it came from his life, though there is only one scene where this is literally true.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
idk about copycat but there's definitely shades of him in eric andre
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Oh true, I definitely see that. Eric Andre is definitely more tolerable/balanced? somehow, because a little Tom Green goes a long way. I feel like Eric Andre will be around for a while.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
Eric Andre is id with some degree of intention behind it, whereas Tom Green just seems like id + the occasional horse penis.
― I'm a werewolf is anybody else one?? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
i'd agree with that as far as the tom green show went but the movie was a different, very intentional horse.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
i really need to watch this movie.
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
Pre 9/11 shock comedy
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
This movie is definitely the zenith of pre-9/11 innocence & decadence
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Mike Fitzgibbons' son is a nuclear physicist
― flappy bird, Friday, 5 August 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
daddy would you like some sausage
― Rob Boss (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 August 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
we can live like kings
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 August 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEyFlRljss
― del griffith, Saturday, 6 August 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
great film
― billstevejim, Saturday, 6 August 2016 07:19 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Ebert gives it too much credit. it's a pretty mediocre comedy leaning heavily on gross-out humor.
if it is surreal then it is cynically, predictably surreal.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
This movie was so far ahead of its time that time still hasn't caught up to it yet. Eric Andre's like a halfway point, at best.
― larry appleton, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
this movie is hundreds of times more watchable than major network prime time reality shows
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
Accurate
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
saw it when it was released and didn't like most of it. saw the "daddy would you like some sausage" scene last year and cracked up. also: sandwich factory.
the recent sbc flop "the brothers grimsby" also had an elephant cum scene.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
So is that an IMDB category yet or is there someone we need to petition
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
brothers grimsby was ok but it was some stepped on shit compared to his previous work
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 06:16 (seven years ago) link
His positive review of this movie made A.O. Scott as a film reviewer
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 06:47 (seven years ago) link
where's my lebaron?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
how had I not voted in this
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 25 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/tom-green-has-a-good-freddy-got-fingered-conspiracy-theory.html
And you got to make Freddy Got Fingered. I have the distinction of having seen that movie in the theater.Actually, a lot more people saw that movie in the theaters than is reported. Dramatically more.Why would it have been reported differently?It made $14 million at the box office, okay? Which basically means that it actually made its budget money back. But there was also a pretty scientific understanding that all of my fans were buying tickets to Crocodile Dundee and then sneaking into my movie because it was R-rated. You literally couldn’t get a seat in a theater where my movie was playing that opening weekend. All over Los Angeles the theaters were packed. A lot of things about the way people write about that Freddy Got Fingered are unfair.I’m sorry, I was teasing.The movie cost $14 million to produce and it made $14 million in its opening weekend and it made over $25 million on DVD and video. So it was a totally profitable movie even when you include the ten million dollars in promotion that the studio put into it. That’s a wildly financial success story for a comedy movie. And people say, “The movie bombed.” It didn’t actually, you know?I didn’t mean to offend. I was just joking around.No, I know. It’s just so often that I’ll do an interview and people say, “Oh yeah, Tom Green, the guy who made the worst movie ever made!” Meanwhile, I can’t go to an English-speaking city in the world without people shouting at me, “Daddy, would you like some sausage?” Doesn’t matter what city I am in in the world, people will be shouting out lines from the movie at me.
Why would it have been reported differently?It made $14 million at the box office, okay? Which basically means that it actually made its budget money back. But there was also a pretty scientific understanding that all of my fans were buying tickets to Crocodile Dundee and then sneaking into my movie because it was R-rated. You literally couldn’t get a seat in a theater where my movie was playing that opening weekend. All over Los Angeles the theaters were packed. A lot of things about the way people write about that Freddy Got Fingered are unfair.
I’m sorry, I was teasing.The movie cost $14 million to produce and it made $14 million in its opening weekend and it made over $25 million on DVD and video. So it was a totally profitable movie even when you include the ten million dollars in promotion that the studio put into it. That’s a wildly financial success story for a comedy movie. And people say, “The movie bombed.” It didn’t actually, you know?
I didn’t mean to offend. I was just joking around.No, I know. It’s just so often that I’ll do an interview and people say, “Oh yeah, Tom Green, the guy who made the worst movie ever made!” Meanwhile, I can’t go to an English-speaking city in the world without people shouting at me, “Daddy, would you like some sausage?” Doesn’t matter what city I am in in the world, people will be shouting out lines from the movie at me.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
I can’t go to an English-speaking city in the world without people shouting at me, “Daddy, would you like some sausage?”
For whom is this not true, though, tbf.
― Home of the Ill-Considered Gravy Spigot (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
like everyone I know has seen this movie but I think it's one of those "Super Troopers" things where no one actually saw it in the theater
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
My brother and I were there opening night.
― Home of the Ill-Considered Gravy Spigot (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
#humblebrag
I definitely saw it in the theater
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link