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BiggerBoat posted:This is a really good read. I love stuff like this and really like the movie so thanks for posting it. Looks like a decent enough website too so I'll check it out. I got some bad news for you... That said, Bill Simmons took his crew & formed The Ringer, which is still pretty good IMO.
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood: Dashiki throws a pair of red boxing shorts at Ashtray. They're implied to belong to Mike Tyson, who famously boxed in black trunks. Also, lots of diegetic east coast rap, despite being set in LA in the 90s. That might actually be a deliberate joke though.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:16
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:It's funny that the second Austin Powers movie stars with a text crawl... but apparently it thinks the audience is dumber than Star Wars fans so it's narrated as well. I mean, you are watching an Austin Powers movie.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:47
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Alhazred posted:I mean, you are watching an Austin Powers movie. I watched the first one again for the first time in years not too long ago and was surprised at how much I liked it, but the sequels just don’t do it for me.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:58
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The sequels suffer from the usual Mike Myers “take a good joke and run it completely into the ground” and “take a bad joke and run it completely into the ground” bullshit.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:03
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The first Austin Powers movie actually had some heart buried under the jokes. It had something to say. The other two had no message beyond "little people are funny"
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Jul 28, 2021 19:05
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flavor.flv posted:The first Austin Powers movie actually had some heart buried under the jokes. It had something to say. The other two had no message beyond "little people are funny" There's also "poop is funny" and "Mike doing accents is funny, especially his Scottish one"
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Jul 28, 2021 19:06
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Yea the first Austin Powers has a nice arc for Austin where he has to learn to respect women and start to understand the benefits of actually having a real relationship. The sequels don't really have anything like that, at least as far as I can remember.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:10
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And such time-honored "jokes" as "The existence of people with dwarfism!". See also: Japanese TV and black men, where the appearance of a black man speaking Japanese and doing typical Japanese things is, apparently, the height of comedy.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:14
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Michael Caine was pretty good in the last one, but otherwise you are all right.
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Jul 28, 2021 19:22
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The first austin powers was only good because it had this joke.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-438wuWLUDQ
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Ardent Communist posted:The first austin powers was only good because it had this joke.. This is not the thawed-out piss joke though...
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Ardent Communist posted:The first austin powers was only good because it had this joke.. Are you talking about “I’m having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE”? Because that’s something he had been doing since before SNL. EDIT: Reminder that Mike Myers has crammed that Scottish voice into almost everything he’s ever done. SNL, Shrek, Fat Bastard, the father in So I Married an Axe Murderer, Cat in the Hat, etc. I remember being loving shocked it didn’t come out of his big stupid head in Inglourious Basterds. Pope Corky the IX has a new favorite as of 19:58 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jul 28, 2021 19:52
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Are you talking about “I’m having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE”? Because that’s something he had been doing since before SNL. It's in Wayne's World when he's talking about the Leprechaun.
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If you really want to know how loving obsessed he is with it, after Chris Farley died and Dreamworks had to scrap all his voice work for Shrek (he had completed something like 90%) they hired Myers for the character. He originally used a different accent and recorded all the dialogue for it. Then he came back in and demanded to re-record everything with the Scottish accent, costing them another $5 million.
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Jul 28, 2021 20:13
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IMO my favorite Austin Powers joke is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxaLMpTw8-U
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Jul 28, 2021 20:45
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I do want to remind everyone they Dr Evil is Myers doing an impression of Dana Carvey doing an impression of Lorne Michaels. I don't think he ever gave Dana Carvey credit for it either.
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Mike Myers was jealous of Dana Carvey to the point that he tried to have Garth’s role reduced in Wayne’s World.
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Jul 28, 2021 21:21
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Dana Carvey was always funnier than Mike Myers That Shrek makes millions in royalties a day and Master of Disguise exits is proof that hollywood is not a meritocracy
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Jul 28, 2021 21:26
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Every time I see The Master of Disguise posted I'm forever reminded of this gem. (imgur seems to be down or I'd screen shot the trivia factoid).
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Jul 28, 2021 21:50
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I already know what it is, there's exactly one incredible piece of trivia for the movie and it's the most Something Awful trivia possible.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Are you talking about “I’m having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE”? Because that’s something he had been doing since before SNL. Haha, no, I thought maybe my username would have gave it away, but I think it's funny that he thought the Reds won the Cold War and he was totally for it. Yet another mole in M16? haha
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Jul 28, 2021 22:09
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I thought the joke was that he was a gutless coward perfectly willing to sell out anything for his own self-preservation, similar to the Simpsons' "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords". As opposed to "was secretly a communist all along". But it is a good joke.
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Jul 28, 2021 22:37
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The Austin Power's sequels are poo poo aside from the joke where Michael Caine says he only hates two things: People who are intolerant of other cultures and the Dutch.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:08
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I watched the first one again for the first time in years not too long ago and was surprised at how much I liked it, but the sequels just don’t do it for me. I also rewatched it not that long ago and the first movie is funny but very slight. Like almost nothing actually happens in it. Also it's kind of weird how much everyone poo poo talks his teeth when they aren't that bad.
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flavor.flv posted:Dana Carvey was always funnier than Mike Myers Think about it this way, if not for those royalties we'd probably have had to suffer at least a few more Mike Myers projects in the past 15 years. At least Shrek gave him the ability to gently caress off and leave us alone.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:12
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muscles like this! posted:I also rewatched it not that long ago and the first movie is funny but very slight. Like almost nothing actually happens in it. American's get very hung up about teeth.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:20
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After Master of Disguise, Dana Carvey wouldn't appear in another film again for close to a decade, making his grand reappearance in the 2011 Adam Sandler smash hit, Jack and Jill.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:24
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Well, part of it was health issues. IIRC he had heart problems.
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muscles like this! posted:Well, part of it was health issues. IIRC he had heart problems. That was back in the 90s, I think. He also did the Rick Moranis thing and wanted to step back to be a family man which I actually do respect, I just think it's funny that he broke his streak for that.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:28
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By all accounts, Adam Sandler movies are awesome to be in. It's a two month vacation and you all get paid a bunch of money at the end
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My IMM is that The Love Guru exists and is one of the most intolerable pieces of media in the world. I watch A LOT of poo poo and that was a painful chore to watch.
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Another reminder that Mike Myers insisted that Guru Pitka(?) was his latest and greatest creation that he had been working on for years at comedy clubs all over North America and beyond.
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flavor.flv posted:By all accounts, Adam Sandler movies are awesome to be in. Unless you're a native american.
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muscles like this! posted:I also rewatched it not that long ago and the first movie is funny but very slight. Like almost nothing actually happens in it. Oh, absolutely- all of them are just scenes set up to deliver a joke. The first one just bothers to make that joke actually good.
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The first Austin Powers kind of ran on running poo poo into the ground. Off the top of my head I can remember two scenes that work solely because a joke was drawn out for so long it looped back to being hilarious, when Powers goes to the loo after his deep freeze and when Evil punishes the henchman with a Fez. And of course Austin Powers himself is every joke about spies from the 60s ran through the core of the earth.
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Whilst I agree with what most of everyone is saying."Austin Powers 1 is fine and dandy, but the sequels suffer from Mike Myers being very Mike Myers". My favourite joke in it will always be: "Who does Number 2 work for?" "That's right buddy, you show that turd who's boss!" I am a man of simple tastes. Re: Mike Myers being such an insufferable shithead. I think a lot of it is due to how I reckon he doesn't get enough people no-selling his insufferable ness. i.e. When he tries his bullshit scottish accent, or racist brown-face Indian wobble head bullshit, I reckon he is usually surrounded by sycophants that laugh and tell him he is a genius. Instead of having someone stone-face it and tell him to cut it out. I mean even look at Waynes World. He tries his best to mug and buffon his way to laughs, but fortunately is reigned in by good direction, and Dana Carvey sat next to him being actually funny.
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Jul 29, 2021 08:38
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Another reminder that Mike Myers insisted that Guru Pitka(?) was his latest and greatest creation that he had been working on for years at comedy clubs all over North America and beyond. The fact that no one called him out on it speaks volumes about, I dunno, something.
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BrigadierSensible posted:My favourite joke in it will always be: A rare instance of Tom Arnold being funny. Memento posted:The fact that no one called him out on it speaks volumes about, I dunno, something. Myer's is Canadian, even his Prime Minister has gotten in on the brownface action a couple of times. I dunno, I didn't even know about that movie until it was brought up here, so I have no idea what the cultural reaction was like when it came out.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I mean even look at Waynes World. He tries his best to mug and buffon his way to laughs, but fortunately is reigned in by good direction, and Dana Carvey sat next to him being actually funny. There are two good Myers jokes in the Wayne's World movies. One is "Do you accept cash?", which probably only works because he's smug and insufferable but is still funny. The other is in the second movie when he meets his girlfriend's father and they start talking in Chinese. After a minute Myers says he's uncomfortable with subtitles and asks if they can be badly dubbed into English instead.
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