I’ve heard that. I really, really want to see it.
And since we’re back here, another exception to this rule: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.
Low budget, positively ludicrous, but one of the most fun movies I’ve seen in a while.
I mean…what’s NOT to love about a movie where Jesus Christ and a luchadore fight martial artist lesbian vampires with (among other things) drumsticks, a bathroom plunger, and TOOTHPICKS?
Why, Marley! Are you saying that It’s Pat: The Movie was less than a cinematic masterpiece? (I have it on laserdisc, in letterbox format, y’know.)
The ads for Spider-Man 2 quote Roger Ebert as saying that it’s “The best super-hero movie I’ve ever seen!”
I can’t imagine there being a whole lot of competition within that genre.
Office Space was hilarious.
Wayne’s World was OK.
Everything else sucked.
Batman
Batman & Robin
Batman Forever
Superman
Superman 2
Superman III
SupermanIV
Superman V
Daredevil
Mystery Men
Unbreakable
X-Men
X-Men 2
Hulk
SpiderMan
Fantastic Four
The Specials
RoboCop
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 3
Blade
Blade 2
Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles
Phantom
Rocketeer
Steel
Tarzan
Inspector Gadget
Doc Savage the Man of Bronze
The Shadow
Judge Dredd
The Mask
etc, etc…
Naaa, not much.
So why don’t you like Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison?
And did I forget a little classic known as “Tommy Boy”?
In any event, I think the point has been made. Saturday Night Live star does not necessarily mean a sucky movie.
Movies about people trapped on a ghost ship or underwater research facility with a monster, does (Ghost Ship, Deep Rising, Deep Blue Sea, Virus, Leviathan, Deep Star Six, etc).
While we’re ragging on ex-SNL cast members (I refuse to call them “stars”), let’s not forget the least talented of all (although there’s serious competition for this distinction): David Spade. To call him a no-talent bum would be to insult no-talent bums around the world. He is nothing but a smirk and snide tone of voice. What sublight said about Adam Sandler goes for David Spade, except I’d like it to be something slower and more painful than head in a blender.
On the other hand, can we have a moment of silence for the only truly talented member of the SNL cast in the last 15 years: Phil Hartman (1948-1998).
About “Office Space” - unless I’m thinking of a different movie, I can’t understand why it’s being categorized as an “SNL” movie. I can’t think of anyone in it who was in SNL. Am I thinking of the right movie? The one with Ron Livingston & Jennifer Aniston, and that schlub character that mumbled to himself about being told he could play his radio if he kept it at an acceptable level, who kept getting moved around? Help me out here.
I can’t belive that nobody has mentioned “Fun for the whole family”. Did anyone notice that some variation of “fun for the whole family” was tossed out more than once during the trailer for the Jackie Chan “Arround the World in 80 Days?”
This prase in a trailer or on a video box only means:
A. This movie sucks, but we are hoping that parents desperate to find something for the kids will drag them to this turkey.
And/or
B. This movie is so sickly sweet that anyone over the age of five is going to need insulin to get through.
I am not saying that movies marketed at children nessarily suck, but the good ones seldom use that dreaded prase when marketing. Prefering to stand on their merits as a film rather than try to lure unwary parents into subjecting the entire clan to the torture of “Care Bears XXVII: Grumpy Finally Snaps”
Milton’s character originated in cartoons on SNL. I remember cartoons about his stapler getting taken and his cube being filled with boxes.
Office Space started out as a series of animated segments on SNL, although the cartoons focused exclusively on Lumbergh and Milton, who are relatively minor characters in the movie.
BMalion: I think the point sublight was trying to make wasn’t that there weren’t a lot of superhero movies, but rather, there are hardly any superhero movies that don’t suck on a truly epic scale. So, the “best comic book movie ever” doesn’t have a lot of competition in the same way that “best acting in a porno” doesn’t have a lot competition.
Also, was Inspector Gadget ever a comic book?
Thank you! I had no idea about the cartoons; I stopped watching SNL long ago, and I only know what actors are on it by secondary sources.
Office Space was an animated short (created by Mike Judge) with Milton in it before it was ever on SNL.
I think it even existed before Beavis & Butthead.
SNL ran some shorts of his, be he predated SNL.
Anyway, SNL cast member movies. . .my god. . .
How about
Caddyshack
Groundhog Day
Austin Powers
Beverly Hills Cop
Wayne’s World
What do people think are funny that don’t include some of these? The madcap antics of Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt in “The Imposters”? The biting satire of “Sim-One”?
Oh sure, there’s a ton that suck, but it’s certainly not a “sure thing” to slam a movie from an SNL cast member.
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You know, when I started typing that list I began to think “boy, most of these are crap.” But, I plowed ahead anyway.
Sublight, I think we agree.
You mean like Road Warrior, the sequel to Mad Max? 
I second the votes for ‘directed by Tim Burton’. Perhaps if they changed it to ‘…mis-directed by Tim Burton’.
Also, ‘starring Hugh Grant’. Gee, I wonder what sort of character he plays in this one? And what sort of movie it will be?
Sorry, but that is far too overgeneralized. Will Ferrell has been excellent so far and Chevy Chase was very good in the first Vacation, Caddyshack and Fletch.
Old School was hilarious.
No one’s mentioned that a sure sign a movie sucks is if it features a natural disaster! You can be guaranteed that there will be more plot twists and plot devices than actual plot. You can also expect so-so effects.
A few months ago I saw part of “Twister” on television. Thanks goodness I didn’t pay money for that! The one in “The Wizard of Oz” was more realistic. Who knew you could run though an open field with shards of wooden fence and building whizzing past you at amazing speeds and yet never get so much as a splinter. Yet when you approach a building which is still standing, the thing acts like a shard magnet and is punched full of holes. Kinda like anything resembling realism in that movie.
How about the one where they diverted a huge lava flow down the streets of L.A., thus saving the children’s hospital? Uh huh… :rolleyes:
OK (to steal from MST3K) “anything where the camera is pointed at a member of the Wayans family”.