MOVIE 43: this is guaranteed to be hot garbage, right

even Dance Flick turned a profit. it's not like they have even a medium budget.

also holy shit @ epic movie being six years old

lol right after i posted i remembered the Wayans have the Paranormal Activity spoof coming out today, so I guess I can't underestimate how cheap/profitable these things are

i would thiiiink shit becomes less profitable when you pay 12 directors to make 12 short films starring a ton of stars, rather than have one director make one film with zero stars, but it's possible all these celebs worked for scale for the chance to talk about poopie and whatnot

i feel like a cast like this is assembled as a result of increasingly absurd studio demands. "mintz-plasse or the project is dead!"

also this is one of those movies that tends to shock everyone by grossing $120 million. i'm interested though I really do not ever want to see it.

IMO they should have gotten Clooney, Pitt and Damon into the mix and made it Ocean's 43.

Already have a tagline: "Stealing from the Casino is easy... when the whole Casino is in on it!"

has there ever been a hit anthology movie? like actual blockbuster hit?

not some new years eve/mad mad world thing, but a bunch of little short films

I just can't believe that not one, but two fucking Paranormal Activity spoofs are coming out

I don't think Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a blockbuster hit but it received huge critical acclaim and I'm sure turned a profit.

oddly enough that was also the work of one creative team, like the ten and kentucky fried

I wonder how much of the movie is the basketball joke?

has there ever been a hit anthology movie? like actual blockbuster hit?

― da croupier, Friday, January 11, 2013 4:23 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fantasia?

good catch! didn't think of that.

Fantasia was sort of a flop when first released

It didn't make a profit until nearly 30 years after initial release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_%28film%29#Theatrical_runs

The film was shot in 2010 and is set to be released by Relativity Media on January 25, 2013.[2]

Creepshow was a hit, wasn't it? Twilight Zone too, maybe?

It didn't make a profit until nearly 30 years after initial release.

If they manage to squeak out a profit in theaters i hope they put "BIGGER THAN FANTASIA!*" on the blu-ray box

creepshow did indeed turn a profit (though oddly enough one creative team again), twilight zone was a genuine multi-team anthology and turned a profit but apparently underwhelmed considering landis and spielberg were usually doing way bigger numbers

new york stories flopped, though

Paris Je T'aime

Budget $13 million[3]
Box office $17,471,727[4]

Monty python's meaning of life
Budget: $9m
Gross:$18,099,522

hey, the return of rusty cundieff

HEY
GET ON OFF YOUR ASS
IT'S THE "REAGAN WAS A DICKHEAD" TOUR

the homeschooling sketch is the only one in this i'd want to watch

Were Woody's "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex" or Neil Simon's "California Suite" considered anthologies?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_ungodly_gross_out_epic_wood_mfCWrFl3qus9d0e1CRNWZN?fb_action_ids=10151353111904578&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151353111904578%22%3A102814829897884%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151353111904578%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

man i would love it if our generation actually got a 'Kentucky Fried Movie'

So I just discovered that I know two of the screenwriters of this movie.

Others weren’t so affable. In fact, some stars hedged: Gere, a friend of Wessler’s, said yes — though he wouldn’t be available for more than a year.

Wessler waited him out. He thought the idea was too good: Gere plays a Steve Jobs-like character whose company is producing an “iBabe” — a naked woman in a box with a malfunctioning port. “His executive staff is trying to explain to him that this product is cutting off boys’ penises,” Wessler says, “and he just doesn’t get it. He cannot figure out why boys are putting their penises in it.”

this is gonna be ~goooooood~

So I don't want to read this thread; can someone summarize whether it is okay for me to see this movie, and if I do, whether I'm allowed to laugh at it? Thanks in advance.

The Wikipedia page alleges this as a credit:

Michael Wilbon as Human Buttplug

I have doubts.

why didn't they just write "as himself"

I laughed like 6 times at the trailer, don't get the hate

i want to go see this with Morbs

This is how At the Movies should be re-booted.

morbs is either going to like it or make some comment about how he'd rather watch this than some quentin tarantino movie

so this movie was made for only $6 million apparently, and has already made a tidy profit in Russia. It also opened to a higher per screen average than Zero Dark Thirty in the UK this weekend.

lol Wikipedia:

Movie 43 is a 2013 American "comedy" film [citation needed]

This movie is awful, but I laughed a bunch. People seem apoplectic about this fairly harmless thing (which isn't particularly cynical, and is rarely cruel - just dumb), when surely it's a GOOD thing that a studio threw down for a wide-release film that cost $6m and isn't based on a friggin' videogame/superhero or an '80s reboot. Anyway, yeah - it's worth the price of admission for the Rusty Cundieff skit. Lots of fun.

One of two 0-star reviews on Slant in the last week.

You'd have better luck getting me to watch Les Miz

the more terrible reviews this gets the more i want to defend it. Of course that would require actually watching it, which i'm not yet willing to do

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/29/movie-43-hollywood-humiliation

crazy that this really terrible-looking movie ended up being bad!!!

haha

there's something magical about movies described as the "worst of all time". i'll def be checking this out.

It doesn't seem spectacularly bad to me, just dumb jokes that don't seem to work.

just started reading the AV Club review, poor Anna Faris

Yeah, I feel "worst of all time" fascination would have to be something special, not a collection of unfunny collegehumor skits. I imagine this is just queasily dull like Sex Lives of this Potato Men.