"Wet Hot American Summer"

rodney dangerfield

wtf who wants comedies to have super tight three act plotting and elegant structures and all that

also CRISTOPHER MELONI IS A LAUGH RIOT esp due to watching this right after watching Oz

Waiting is funnier than Anchorman or WHAS

that is the wrongest thing i've ever read

this is a pretty funny freakin movie, not perfect but hard for me to care

Comedies are supposed to make you laugh. I never understood people taking these movies super seriously... critics destroyed Dirty Work, but man, that movie is funny.

^^^^^ the new cash sitta

lol

dirty work is a piece of shit

Waiting is funnier than Anchorman or WHAS

-- milo z, Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

^^true, if by Waiting you mean Waiting for Guffman

fuck a Christopher Guest

you're BASTARD people

i was too messd up to remember this movie, i'm sorry.

it was college! and dark.

the movie theater was too dark?

the bedroom. the bedroom was dark.

did you people that hate this movie enjoy "Anchorman?"

No. That was terrible too.

a decent cast, a lazy to nonexistent script, the occasional funny joke and that's about it.

^^^this is spot on, and applies to both films.

My Breakfast With Blassie is pretty funny, too.

so much rong on this thread.

this movie is funny. end of story.

if you can't enjoy meloni talking to a can, i can't help you.

dirty work is a piece of shit

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

man i thought you were sort of crazy hating on whas but when you say something like this it makes me want to prevent you from ever seeing another movie ever again

that's... oddly hostile

and Shakey knows hostile!

(excelsior-level zing bait; my bad)

I am a man of peace

i was thinking about this on the subway today actually because i can't really understand the hatred this movie inspires and i think it has to do with whether or not you grew up with the state (or sketch comedy in general) - i was like, 12 or 13 when the state was on and it hit me so hard with the funny but then for many years it wasn't on tv even in reruns or available on video (pre-youtube era) so i wonder if maybe people who were either a) in their jaded 20s when the show was on tv or b) not exposed to the show until their 20s because it was hard to come by, maybe never got that it was funny, because it is a juvenile type of comedy. i don't know maybe i am overthinking this.

I was in my jaded 20s when the State was on and saw a few episodes and thought it was horrible - especially when compared to stuff like Kids in the Hall or Mr. Show or hell any other high quality sketch show

and I didn't really consider it juvenile so much as just sort of nonsensical...? like they didn't understand how jokes work?

"I'm gonna dip my balls in it" was kinda funny

i've never seen the state but i love WHAS

oh man i am not fucking with kith but the state was sooo much better than mr. show.

I was a jaded 12-13 year old when The State was on and I was like yeah, this ain't shit compared to KITH, so I'm splitting the difference here. I'd probably like The State more now, but the proliferation of its cast members into a hundred mostly shitty movies/shows (haven't seen WHAS though) has just made me dislike it more in retrospect.

they showed this outdoors in Williamsburg the other night, which is kinda why I figure I don't need to ever see it.

you'd hate it

there's no need to make this whas v. anchorman. i love both of those movies a lot.

if only we could somehow incorporate batman returns into this discussion

what if batman ran a summer camp

Tuomas would've preferred this movie to be a serious examination of the fascistic underpinnings of camp counselorhood

x-post

way to play in traffic, guys

omfg paul rudd was at the w'burg thing??? and i didn't go??? ;_; ;_; ;_;

also the doubletake he does when coop enters is basically the greatest thing put to film.

paul rudd is seriously genius in this role. when he gives janeane garofolo attitude about having to clean up after himself?

i loved the State but i plan never to see this movie

yay for you

ha, just watched that on youtube. "i just got...i don't have time right now"

yay for you

i'm glad you agree!

gabbneb, why on earth do you gotta come on a thread to announce your utter disinterest in its topic? are you that bored at work?

I think gabb is trying to horn in on Snrub's racket (which is pretty ballsy)

gabballs

the funny thing is i hadn't seen a single state sketch before i saw this movie (i didn't really start watching mtv with any kind of regularity until after it was canceled). i've since changed that but i'm pretty sure there's a separate thread for just discussion of the state

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7yJ7sMosk