I remember loving Kentucky Fried Movie when it came out. But I was around 12 or 13 at the time, so that’ll give you an idea of what my tastes were at the time. I wil make a point of watching Movie 43 when it comes out on cable.
Yeah, for those who watched Kentucky Fried Movie as a kid and loved it, I challenge you to re-watch it now and still call it a great movie.
I suspect Movie 43 is much the same. I can easily imagine 12-year-old me watching the movie and finding it hilarious. Grown-up me, not so much.
I watched (well, zipped thru on the DVR) similar movie not too long ago: National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie (2011). Sketches loosely held together around making a movie. That had Christopher Meloni as the best known actor. So not nearly in the same class as Oscar Winner/Nominee, but he was fresh off SUV and was doing True Blood. His career was hardly in the toilet enough to warrant being saddled doing crap like that.
Absolutely awful. A lot of racist stereotype stuff. Straight to video apparently, no reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.
I just don’t get it. What makes these actors do these kinds of movies?
(Meloni has 42 coming out soon where he plays Leo Durocher. Can 42 be better than Movie 43?)
Well, exactly! I know just the goofball friend I think I can talk into going.
You doing ok? With the health stuff, I mean. I’m sure you’ll recover from bad movieitis eventually.
The Room is bad, but the Rifftrax was fairly hilarious. Maybe I’ll check this one out if it gets riffed.
That would be a near-impossible task. Subjecting a bad movie to the Rifftrax or MST3K treatment generally works best if the film is a drama since those movies take themselves seriously. Cheesy special effects, clunky dialogue, and histrionic or wooden acting are always prime fodder for funny. A bad comedy, on the other hand, is a special kind of hell because your source of humor is the filmmaker’s failed attempts at humor.
That I would pay to see.
I think parts of Kentucky Fried Movie still hold up. Particularly Fist Full of Yen. And I was an adult when I saw Amazon Women on the Moon and I liked it.
*This is not a chawade. We need total concentwation. *
It was absolutely horrible. Not that I was expecting something award-worthy, but…ugh. I originally wanted to see it but backed down after the reviews started coming in. The boyfriend still wanted to see it anyway, so off we went. Let’s just say, I’m glad he paid and not me. Here’s what I wrote on another sitet-
“I saw it, unfortunately…It’s as bad as the critics say. A bunch of shorts tied together by a weak plot, it tries to push the envelope with its vulgarity and awkwardness. Eventually you just get desensitized to the vulgarity and can predict what’s going to happen next. Each short starts off with potential but after a few you realize that the huge laugh you’ve been waiting for is never going to happen. The only good thing I can say about this movie is that it’s relatively short. Definitely not worth seeing in the movie theater…or ever, really.”
Hate to force this on any man, but he owes you a chick flick or something like that.
Haha lucky for him I hate chick flicks. 
But there will come a time where the “Hey, remember when you made me go see Movie 43?..” card will be used. 
While it was a patently terrible movie, I did laugh at this movie quite a bit. The opening sketch with Winslet and Jackman was actually funny/awkward, if very juvenile. I also liked the last sketch, it reminded me of something from Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation.
For demographics sake, I’m 40, and I loved KFM and Amazon Women, though I know they are ridiculous.
So basically its like watching Saturday Night Live.
Or like* paying* to watch SNL.
Really bad movies, the reviews have a special butthurt tone that I have learned to recognize means that the movie is a black hole that will suck your time and money away and leave you with nothing but a screaming void. The reviews I have read here and elsewhere of Movie 43 have EXACTLY that quality.
Yes, Evil Captor that is exactly it – “This just HAS to get better, doesn’t it?” One of my biggest regrets is my friend actually said, “Should we leave?” and I drunkenly waited too many seconds to respond and we went back to cautious hopefulness.
And yes, randiwill and jlzania I got the report yesterday and will not have to risk a movie under sedation for another decade. I was afraid my elderly-ness was part of my problem with this movie and I’m glad to see it wasn’t so I’ll just pick a more comedic comedy next time.
Yeah, it was pretty much like paying to watch SNL. I think it even had someone from SNL in it, for the last skit in the middle of the credits (why even put a skit there? 
) that one was by far the grossest, most unfunny skit within the movie. Luckily, my brain was already in the process of deleting the movie from my memory as I was watching it.
I had a theory about this movie once I heard about it and read the Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes entries about it…
I figure it’s something like the plot of “The Producers” but in real life? I don’t understand the economy of Hollywood well enough, but is there some kind of way to get a bunch of money off of making a horrible movie that you WANT to flop on purpose…like taking the money from investors/a big budget studio (in this case, Virgin/Relativity Media) putting it into a swiss bank account for later and filming the movie on a shoe string, considering that it will fail on purpose?
The three kids looking for the movie that will end civilization, according to Wikipedia, was the premise/opening skit for the UK version instead of the Dennis Quaid as Randy Quaid skit we got here in the U.S.
If you are absolutely sure you’re not going to go see it, here is a link to a complete spoiler. Read it, and you will feel good about your decision, guaranteed.