Firstborn posted:

I don't know what to call it, so let me try to explain it.

In a lot of comedies about schlubby normal dudes (a lot of stoner comedies, too), there's often this weird idolization of some c/d-list celebrity that usually isn't even from the generation of the cast. It becomes this worship where they will say "X would never do that to a bro!", or "what would X do!", and then lo and behold there's a cameo "as himself" and he gets to give sage advice or be really weird and self referential and I kind of hate it. Off the top of my head I can think of Neil Diamond in Saving Silverman, Neil Patrick Harris in Harold & Kumar, and I think there was a guy in Dude! Where's My Car?. That movie This Is The End is basically this: the movie...

KozmoNaut posted:

If nothing else, watch it for Alan Tudyk as Steve The Pirate

And Rip Torn as Patches O'Houlihan himself, drunk off his rocker

Alhazred posted:

I have no idea why that movie became popular.

Pilchenstein posted:

I watched Zoolander with my son recently and then Dodgeball off the back of that, because I vaguely remembered it being of similar quality. Holy poo poo did we have lower standards back then or what? It's loving terrible and not at all helped by the fact that Vince Vaughn is a personality vacuum.

IShallRiseAgain posted:

Zoolander was always bad, except for the gasoline fight scene.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

You guys must have mixed up Dodgeball with some other hosed up movie cause the one I watched was hilarious.

"You can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

Jedit posted:

Chevy Chase's unfunny clone.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

but I repeat myself

Jedit posted:

You appear to have confused "funny" and "moronic". It's an easy mistake to make, if you're the kind of person who likes Vince Vaughn comedies.

That said, Vaughn has at least made the odd decent thing from time to time. This puts him a step above Will Ferrell, who seems to have no aspiration in life beyond being Chevy Chase's unfunny clone.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

You guys must have mixed up Dodgeball with some other hosed up movie cause the one I watched was hilarious.

"You can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

Non Serviam posted:

I don't know if you're joking or if you're autistic.

Jedit posted:

You appear to have confused "funny" and "moronic". It's an easy mistake to make, if you're the kind of person who likes Vince Vaughn comedies.

That said, Vaughn has at least made the odd decent thing from time to time. This puts him a step above Will Ferrell, who seems to have no aspiration in life beyond being Chevy Chase's unfunny clone.

MisterBibs posted:

It's not a movie, and it's something that comes up in the property that arguably isn't a moment, but whatever:

Warhammer 40k's fluff and backstory makes no sense when you think about it even for a second, and while 95% of my brain accepts that it's ridiculous, the 5% of my mind goes into hysterics when I read anything with the property. It bitches about how a multi-millennia war would've depleted the materials from most of the worlds long before the 'modern era', how Orcs can manufacture the poo poo they don't just re-appropriate from others, and all the other stuff I'm not going to explain because jesus wept, it's Warhammer 40k why am I overthinking this you dumb-dumb, stop it

Jedit posted:

You appear to have confused "funny" and "moronic". It's an easy mistake to make, if you're the kind of person who likes Vince Vaughn comedies.

That said, Vaughn has at least made the odd decent thing from time to time. This puts him a step above Will Ferrell, who seems to have no aspiration in life beyond being Chevy Chase's unfunny clone.

swamp waste posted:

Your brain is trying to send you a message that you're spending too much of it on bad poo poo

Gordon Shumway posted:

flintknapper.

Pneub posted:

Cool enough to literally base an entire tv series around a guy doing that a lot.

MisterBibs posted:

It's not a movie, and it's something that comes up in the property that arguably isn't a moment, but whatever:

Warhammer 40k's fluff and backstory makes no sense when you think about it even for a second, and while 95% of my brain accepts that it's ridiculous, the 5% of my mind goes into hysterics when I read anything with the property. It bitches about how a multi-millennia war would've depleted the materials from most of the worlds long before the 'modern era', how Orcs can manufacture the poo poo they don't just re-appropriate from others, and all the other stuff I'm not going to explain because jesus wept, it's Warhammer 40k why am I overthinking this you dumb-dumb, stop it

Strom Cuzewon posted:

The leader of the orks is named after Margaret Thatcher, and sections of space Marine doctrine are lifted straight from 1984. You're not exactly meant to take it seriously.

syscall girl posted:

It's gonna be weird seeing Vaughn in True Detective season 2. I hope they make him play a real shitbird.

Ignite Memories posted:

Thank you for once-and-for-all convincing me I don't need to watch True Detective.

Ignite Memories posted:

Thank you for once-and-for-all convincing me I don't need to watch True Detective.

Ignite Memories posted:

Thank you for once-and-for-all convincing me I don't need to watch True Detective.

Zaphod42 posted:

That scene where the T1000 is imposing as his mom and the old-school Arnold Termie is posing as the kid, both doing perfect voice matching, was the coooooooooolest loving poo poo back when T2 came out. That stuff is pretty terrifying and computers are going to be able to do it in a few years here.

Fun story about Judgement Day: When filming the motorcycle chase sequence, Arnold picked up the wrong shotgun once and came close to breaking 3 fingers when he attempted to flip-cock it.

More movies should have flip-cocking shotguns in them Even if it isn't practical.

Pook Good Mook posted:

Or the new Karate Kid being set in China, which actually practices kungfu.

Or half the choices in Pacific Rim in general.

I have nothing against films that might appeal to the Asian market, but the flagrant pandering drives me crazy.

Pook Good Mook posted:

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You sound like one of my RL acquaintances who gets upset about "pandering to feminists" when things female Ghostbusters happen

Motivations aside, you ever think that Asian audiences and people might actually find it nice to see someone like themselves represented on the big screen? Why does seeing an Asian on screen even register in your mind as "a thing"?

syscall girl posted:

I think having things tuned towards the cultural mores and the bland regressive palette of the Chinese authorities (which I'm sure is almost as bad and confusing as the MPAA) will tend to make them suck just that much more.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I'm not interested in the specific details of the examples used. I never watched Karate Kid or the new Red Dawn, and I'm with the other poster in that Battleship and Pacific Rim are really weird ones to notice Asian pandering in. I'm curious what other examples of Asian pandering Pook could provide.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I'm not interested in the specific details of the examples used. I never watched Karate Kid or the new Red Dawn, and I'm with the other poster in that Battleship and Pacific Rim are really weird ones to notice Asian pandering in. I'm curious what other examples of Asian pandering Pook could provide.

WickedHate posted:

Yeah, there's a big difference between "loving around with the film so it's a bigger hit in China" and "has Asians in it or is set in Asia". Accusing The Karate Kid and Pacific Rim of that just sounds like racism.

Pook Good Mook posted:

Love of God, just because I used some bad examples (though "karate" in China is dumb but if it's because of dumb Americans then fine) doesn't make me racist.