"Wet Hot American Summer"

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

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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

i love the way he flings himself around!

"we're all going to be in our late 20's by then, i don't see any reason why we can't be places on time."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzkaS4uCOls

car crash cheap lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isX3YH_0TQo

I mean, I get why some people hate this movie. Many of the punchlines seem so lazy and stupid that it almost seems like the movie is actually satirizing comedy or something.

and failing, I mean.

But I dunno. It's and American Movie are the only two movies in the last decade or so that make me laugh consistently the whole way through.

It's It

does morbs know about the touching gay sex scene?

I am somewhat surprised that n/a has never seen The State.

Actually, I never saw it when it was originally on, but we passed around a warped VHS tape in college with some State episodes on it.

"i don't care that you're bowlegged, and i don't care that you're bilingual!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgHiB8HYUyc

the laziness bugged a lot of critics (fucking KIDS aren't even TRYING they're just HANGING OUT), but, a la mr. paul rudd flinging himself about, it's great at taking nothing situations and making them funny

It's not so much the gay sex scene that's awesome, but the scene where their friends find out about their relationship, make like they're going to fag-bash them, howl "We've got something for you!" and then cart in a chaise lounge as a wedding gift.

tons more subversive than, I dunno, Brokeback.

to be honest, i watched a few state sketches on youtube last year but i don't really remember them and i never watched the show when it was on (no cable) and i haven't seen it on dvd or anything

quit trying to make this movie important

the state blew my mind at the time, but yeah it was kind of right place right time re: (young) age and (non)exposure to other stuff

i have to say that hearing "nation of ulysses plays pretty for baby" a few years later in college and hearing where those samples came from was kind of exciting and nostalgic

wait, what? I never knew there was an NOU/State connection....?

The opening sequence was set to "Boys and Girls – Action" by Craig Wedren of Shudder To Think and Eli Janney of Girls Against Boys. The song is built around a sample of the Nation of Ulysses song "The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm".

(it's the "ALL THE GIRLS GATHER ROUND" and "ACTION ACTION" vocal bits)

lol xp, just c+p'd that

hmm kinda third-hand there. (NOU miles better than both those bands anyway imho)

this movie kind of rolls along being mildly funny until the FUCKING AWESOME TRAINING SEQUENCE.

I would almost go as far as to say that there is nothing in this movie that isn't funny.

there's a few tiny details in this movie that always get me, like the deliberate continuity errors between shots -- for example, when one character is knitting a tiny piece of fabric, the camera cuts away and when it cuts back, there's an entire afghan blanket. or how they use the exact same glass-shattering sound effect three different times throughout the movie.

i gotta say that the campy genre parody stuff and some of the 'zany' non-sequitur comedy are probably the least funny things about this movie, but there's a still a lot to laugh at

the parody stuff is more or less just a pretext to have the silliness unfold in

No-one mentionned the number of 30 rock cast members in this?

who?

I LOVED the state when it was on but watched WHAS a couple days ago and couldn't sit through the whole thing. I feel like it was built up too much. I lasted long enough to watch Stabler hump the fridge and then got bored. It was ok but I don't understand why some people thought it was hysterical.

Small cameos of Judah Friedlander and Jane Krakowski

This movie is HILARIOUS.

But here's what's freaking me out: The image of the DVD in the first post, made in 2004, says "From the director of Role Models," which came out in 2008.

?????????