Thread: The Jerseydevil Film Appreciation Game

New rule. No poisoning the ****ing well. He'll watch it and then we can all get it out in the open. Mean time...... shut it.

Count me in as well.

we need more people!

They will come...meanwhile we will play on.

Ok...I watched it(MacGruber). Boy was I wrong. It took Doc Naysay's constant protestations to make me see the error of my ways. MacGruber may be one of the funniest movies I have seen in a while...

That's what I would love to tell you after force feeding myself this 'movie'. Sadly, I cannot. What a ****ing chore. Granted, I am old school when it comes to SNL. I have not enjoyed it for many years and, in particular I am not a fan of Kristen Wiig or Will Arnett. That being said, I love the stupider movies based on SNL skits, The Coneheads, Ladies Man, hell, even Night at the Roxbury. But this movie literally was a waste of time. Not a single funny moment. As a matter of fact there was an absence of comedy, like a comedy black hole. I feel really bad because Doc earnestly likes this movie and for the love of me I cannot understand why. What the hell, we all have our blind spots. I really struggled to keep watching this but I made a promise. Val Kilmer was good enough(as always) but he was in it for about 5 minutes. Ryan Phillipe deserved better. Hell, I even felt sorry for Wiig who was given nothing to do. The real question I had after watching this, was 'is Powers Booth a tremendous pain in the ass to work with or what?' There was a moment where he was headed for stardom...and now he's relegated to this. He must've really pissed someone off. So yeah, I accepted the challenge and I lived up to it in the face of a really bad movie. Sorry Doc...no sale.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Ok...I watched it(MacGruber). Boy was I wrong. It took Doc Naysay's constant protestations to make me see the error of my ways. MacGruber may be one of the funniest movies I have seen in a while...

I was so happy to read this that I just stopped reading...

I assume you went on to detail all the parts you loved right?

Right?























You suck, that movie is hilarious.

No, Doc. No, it's not.


Like most SNL skits since the late 90's or so, it has a semi-funny one-note premise that plays out for waaaaay too long. I'm not even gonna comment on the acting, simply because there's no real work for them to do, no material to play up. After you tell the main joke, there's really nothing left.


Hell, the real MacGyver never even had a movie, and the show was basically however many seasons of repeats.

The only part that made me laugh was the "what do you want me to ****" bit. There may have been a few other "that's kinda humorous, in a cute sort of a way" moments, but not anywhere near to laugh-educing.

My only guess is that Doc has a deep hidden sexual attraction to Richard Dean Anderson but is in such denial that he couldn't wank to MacGyver or Stargate: SG1, so he looked for an alternative way to release his secret joy. Since there is no spoof of Stargate: SG1, he ended up here with MacGruber and had such a personal release of his deeply homosexual love for Richard Dean Anderson through this sad copy that he somehow confused this movie of being something other than a total waste of film simply because of his subconcious coming out party.






That worth any points Doc?