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

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

Chief Duff (Eazy), Friday, 11 January 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

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

da croupier, Friday, 11 January 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link

new york stories flopped, though

da croupier, Friday, 11 January 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link

Paris Je T'aime

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

Chief Duff (Eazy), Friday, 11 January 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link

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

give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Friday, 11 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

hey, the return of rusty cundieff

turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 11 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

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

NINO CARTER, Friday, 11 January 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

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

turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 11 January 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link

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

Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 11 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link

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

vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link

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

jaymc, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:20 (eleven years ago) link

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.”

da croupier, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link

this is gonna be ~goooooood~

zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:48 (eleven years ago) link

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.

(panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:53 (eleven years ago) link

The Wikipedia page alleges this as a credit:

Michael Wilbon as Human Buttplug

I have doubts.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link

why didn't they just write "as himself"

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:56 (eleven years ago) link

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

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:56 (eleven years ago) link

i want to go see this with Morbs

vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link

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

Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link

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

zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link

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.

danzig, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link

lol Wikipedia:

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Walter Galt, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link

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

Number None, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link

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

Gukbe, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link

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

zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link

haha

Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link

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

Spectrum, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link

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

Ulna (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link

just started reading the AV Club review, poor Anna Faris

Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link

Well, does it feature Adrian Chiles?

Mark G, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link

This movie has some funny gags in it. People celebrating this as 'the worst movie ever!' don't actually watch or care about movies.

She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link

Mostly people seem to be thinking it's horrible and wishing they hadn't seen it tho, not "celebrating" its awfulness exactly

albvivertine, Thursday, 31 January 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link

wait so does chris pratt get naked in this? that's the only thing that could motivate me to see this

d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:10 (eleven years ago) link

Tampax
Directed by Patrik Forsberg
Two women use, discuss, favor, and argue about tampax

buzza, Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link

poor griffin dunne

buzza, Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link

tampax is the name of their dog.

Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2013 09:37 (eleven years ago) link

Weird fact from the Guardian story: it's made back its $6m budget from Russian box office alone.

Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, I bet the rooskies are just eating this up.

that futterwacken you like is back in style (how's life), Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:38 (eleven years ago) link

coprophilia is so hot right now

maura, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link

In mother russia, poop eats YOU!

that futterwacken you like is back in style (how's life), Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link

it's funny how they're going out of their way to point out the movie wasn't a money-loser, when what that means is a bunch of successful actors appeared in skits about poopie for no money

da croupier, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

poor griffin dunne
― buzza, Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:16 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He seems to be doing alright. It was nice to see him in one of the last Girls episodes.

His skit is by far the weirdest in the movie, and certainly the most tonally different. It looks great (though there is an extended shot of Emma Stone that might be more out of focus than anything I've ever seen in a major movie. Like, maybe she just dropped in for a single take and bailed).

He's a veteran of the sketch anthology movie, too, having appeared in Amazon Women on the Moon (which this movie most closely resembles) in '87.

Walter Galt, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link

i'd like to think this movie might have cost that dude who produces farrelly bros movies a little social capital on top of the $6m

da croupier, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.asiabooks.com/images_books/9780977507078_C0_S.jpg

Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link

Unrated version on DVD is gonna blow this out of the water

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 31 January 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link

Just waiting on the porn parody Movie 69

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link


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