MOVIE 43
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Forum Name: MEMBER-STARTED FORUMS on 2013 TITLES
Forum Discription: Discussions of 2013 Movies Our Members Wanted to Be Sure We Didn't Over-Look...
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Printed Date: May 24 2013 at 11:56pm
Topic: MOVIE 43
Posted By: GTAHater767
Subject: MOVIE 43
Date Posted: January 25 2013 at 10:43am
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IN OCTOBER 2012, A TRAILER FOR A STRANGE-LOOKING ENSEMBLE COMEDY DEBUTED ONLINE. IT WENT ON FOR AT LEAST 10 MINUTES, BUT I CAN'T RECALL HOW LONG IT WAS EXACTLY. THE FIRST CLIP SHOWED A PICNIC, WHERE ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN SOUND LIKE THEY'RE ABOUT TO PROPOSE TO EACH OTHER, BUT INSTEAD, SHE SAYS, "WILL YOU POOP ON ME?" ANOTHER TRAILER RELEASED IN LATE NOVEMBER/EARLY DECEMBER SHOWED A BASKETBALL TEAM, WHERE ONE PLAYER TOLD ANOTHER TO USE HIS GENITALS TO KNOCK OVER HIS RIVALS -- IN A GAME OF BASKETBALL. I NOW HEARD EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO HEAR TO KNOW THAT MOVIE 43 WAS GOING TO EMBODY EVERYTHING WRONG WITH SCATOLOGICAL COMEDY IN A POST-Y2K WORLD.
BY JANUARY, I WAS WARNING EVERYONE ABOUT MOVIE 43, COMING AT THE END OF THE MONTH. THERE WERE ONLY A FEW PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T SWEEP IT UNDER THE RUG. ONLY A HANDFUL OF US EVEN TALKED ABOUT THIS FILM. IT WAS NOT PRE-SCREENED FOR CRITICS, AND IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY REVIEWS ON ROTTEN TOMATOES (UNTIL OPENING MORNING). I THOUGHT THE APPROVAL RATING WOULD BE LOW, BUT I SHOULD'VE KNOWN THAT ALL of THE FIRST 6 REVIEWS WOULD BE NEGATIVE. THE ENSEMBLE CAST INCLUDES SOME FAMILIAR FACES TO THE RAZZIES, INCLUDING HALLE BERRY, GERARD BUTLER, AND KATE BOSWORTH. BUT MOST INTRIGUING OF ALL IS THE 11 DIRECTORS. THIS HAS TO AT LEAST MAKE OUR 2013 NOMINATING BALLOT FOR WORST ENSEMBLE CAST -- AND IT WOULD PROBABLY SERVE US WELL TO CONSIDER MOVIE 43 FOR A JOINT NOMINATION FOR WORST DIRECTOR.
BUT DON'T LET ME BE THE ONLY ONE MASHING MOVIE 43. VENT AT THIS 43-POUND BLOB OF MUCK BELOW!
 VERY CLEVER, ALL OF YOU INVOLVED IN THIS *H**FEST! A LEMON-LIME COLORED SORCERESS DRESSED ONLY IN BLUE WRITING? I CAN TASTE THE MEDICINE-FLAVORED CITRUS DRINKS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT! THE SCATOLOGY SMELLS FILTHIER THAN EVER BEFORE! ------------- RAZZIE Dirty Dozen: Battlefield Earth, F G Fingered, Pluto Nash, A Sound of Thunder, Alone in the Dark, Dirty Love, Rise Silver Srfr, Daddy Day Camp, IKWKM, The Love Guru, All About Steve, Airbender |
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Posted By: oiram
Date Posted: January 25 2013 at 10:49am
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Yep, they're going on my list...all of them! ------------- Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact. |
Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: January 25 2013 at 11:09am
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It is starting off with 0% at R.T.!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109813/awards - It wouldn't be the first time something like that happens. ------------- http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com - http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com |
Posted By: oiram
Date Posted: January 25 2013 at 3:30pm
That was for Worst Screenplay. ------------- Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact. |
Posted By: JackdaMan171
Date Posted: January 25 2013 at 7:57pm
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It's only January, and I already have my worst film of the year! This should be up for Worst Picture, Worst Screen Ensemble, Worst Screenplay, and for Worst Director -- with an (s) in parentheses! I didn't laugh at all, except for a couple times when the dumb audience did, and only because laughter is contagious. Any good traits this film has? It's easily forgettable...and that's it! ------------- |
Posted By: travis112096
Date Posted: January 25 2013 at 11:31pm
| It's also worth noting that Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts are in this movie, and they are both nominated for Oscars this year. Being in a movie this crappy could hurt their chances of winning, kinda how Eddie Murphy being in Norbit (which came out during the time he was Oscar-nominated for Dreamgirls) supposedly caused him to lose... |
Posted By: oiram
Date Posted: January 26 2013 at 4:20am
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So, according to IMDb, among the people who managed to avoid involvement in this fiasco are George Clooney, Colin Farrell, and, in the directors' chair, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (It'd be "The End Times" if Trey and Matt got Razzie nominations)... ------------- Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact. |
Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: January 26 2013 at 12:02pm
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R.T. (5%): "A star-studded turkey loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but largely bereft of laughs".
I know, that's why I said "like". The point is that, unlike the Oscars which have a rule about the number of nominees per category, the Razzies have no problem in awarding dozens of people. ------------- http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com - http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com |
Posted By: cvcjr13
Date Posted: January 26 2013 at 6:30pm
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333125/?ref_=hm_inth_t3 - Come and ponder the cast & crew for Movie 43 at IMDb for awhile . Doesn't this strike you as the excretable (take that any way you want) version of http://www.razzies.com/forum/valentines-day_forum416.html - Valentine's Day and http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum-discussion-addl-info-on-new-years-eve_forum585.html - New Year's Eve ? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=movie43.htm - You may also ponder the excretable box office for Movie 43 at Box Office Mojo while you're at it . Then you may continue to revisit http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/movie_43/ - the excretable Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes , as well as http://www.metacritic.com/movie/movie-43 - the excretable Metascore at Metacritic . There's only one conclusion. This movie has been flushed down the crapper, which makes this movie ours for the |
Posted By: MiguelAntilsu
Date Posted: January 26 2013 at 9:12pm
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Boy! This film is setting the bar pretty low. Richard Roeper called it 'the "Citizen Kane" of awful' and referenced "Showgirls," "Howard the Duck," and "Freddy Got Fingered" in his review: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130123/REVIEWS/130129973 - http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130123/REVIEWS/130129973 "Pain and Gain," "After Earth," and "The Host" may have their work cut out for them. ------------- |
Posted By: oiram
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 4:02am
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...and don't forget Adam Sandler's Grown Ups 2! ------------- Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact. |
Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 9:53am
As I said in another forum (which I'm guessing you didn't read), this has nothing to do with NEW YEAR'S EVE, VALENTINE'S DAY, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING, THINK LIKE A MAN, HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU nor LOVE ACTUALLY. It's an Anthology Movie.
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Posted By: cvcjr13
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 12:41pm
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A.k.a. a "portmanteau film". Okay, so instead of intertwining the multiple storylines like those other films, And while you're busy splitting hairs, let's talk about something more important, like everybody who squandered their career on this portmanteau film: Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Common, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslett, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Kate Bosworth, Uma Thurman, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Snooki, Terrence Howard, and way too many other names. . . .
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Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 1:07pm
Well, I think that there's a big difference between hiring many actors for many short films (where there are big chances that they'll be mostly stars) for practical reasons (you can't make a Portmanteau Film with a few actors*), and, coming up with half-assed ideas as an excuse to reunite actors (stars only) for commercial reasons.  *AMERICAN HORROR STORY is a valid exception.
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Posted By: cvcjr13
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 3:51pm
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I disagree, because you're not considering: 1) They both "hire many actors" 2) They both have "many short films", or to be more accurate, many short stories - one intertwines, the other keeps them separate 3) They both tend to have "half-assed ideas" 4) They both are excuses to reunite actors (stars only - take, well, Movie 43 for example) Once you stop disregarding the similarities, we can discuss the only real difference between them.
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Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 4:59pm
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Those are the same point. And I've seen plenty of Anthology Films made by famous directors that don't have just stars. For example: NEW YORK STORIES.
I really don't wanna sound condescending, but do I have to explain the difference between a short film and a sub-plot?
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Posted By: oiram
Date Posted: January 27 2013 at 7:46pm
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Oh, come on guys -- Why Can't We Be Friends, and forget about this little hissy-fit here?? [TUBE]5DmYLrxR0Y8[/TUBE] ------------- Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact. |
Posted By: cvcjr13
Date Posted: January 28 2013 at 7:38pm
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You say New York Stories, I say Grand Hotel, Crash and Babel. As for explaining what "subplot" means, you first need to understand a subplot before you can explain it. See, you have a main plot, and then you have a subplot. You can't have a subplot without a main plot. That's different from having many main plots intertwine with each other. However, you don't see that because you don't know what a main plot is, because if you knew what a main plot was, you wouldn't be using "subplot" to describe Valentine's Day or New Year's Eve. Speaking of portmanteau films, anybody seen Blame It On The Bellboy?
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Posted By: cvcjr13
Date Posted: January 28 2013 at 7:39pm
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oiram, I like that song! Okay, Vits, if you'll stop pretending you know something when you don't, I'll be your friend. . . ------------- |
Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: January 29 2013 at 10:44am
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GRAND HOTEL is actually close enough for comparison, but BABEL isn't star-studded. Besides, BABEL and CRASH have a lot of content.
No, no, because... Well... Ummm... Huh. That's actually accurate. Crap! Anyway, this started because you were comparing MOVIE 43 to those movies. Now we know they're comparable in quality, but not in format (as I said from the beginning).
1) I was saying something, thinking it was right -- not pretending to know something I don't, Mr. Semantics. 2) I thought we were already friends. I've got you on my Buddy List, and Oiram too -- though I might have to eliminate Oiram for his taste in music.  ------------- http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com - http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com |
Posted By: oiram
Date Posted: February 10 2013 at 6:14am
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Check out this "collage" of really nasty reviews on this film: http://www.empireonline.com/features/movie-43-critic-quotes/ - LINK ...OUCH!! ------------- Elizabeth Hartman and Judith Barsi are much more talented and beautiful than Scarlett Johansson and Chloe Grace Moretz. Fact. |
Posted By: Dun-Ida
Date Posted: March 02 2013 at 5:01am
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Categories this pile of $h!^ should get nominated for: Worst Picture: There's much to hate about this movie. This will be discussed in other categories the movie is worthy of getting nominated. Worst Director: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner & Jonathan VanTulleken. All the directors should be condemned. Their combined "effort" resulted in this poorly-structured pile-of-$h!^. Worst Screenplay: Steve Baker, Will Carlough, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Matt Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Jeremy Sosenko & Elizabeth Wright Shapiro. What were these writers on when they were working on this? The "story" doesn't make much sense. Worst Screen Ensemble: The cast combination just doesn't work. The movie's poor structure just made the the entire cast unlikable. Worst Screen Couple: Many pairings in this movie deserve nominations. ------------- Directed by Michael Bay and M. Night Shyamalan comes a movie guaranteed to win Razzies. |
Posted By: moviecritic1994
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 4:50am
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If anything, this film should receive a "Worst Screen Ensemble" Razzie Award. I might even suggest Worst Picture, but I fear it might be a film best forgotten by year's end... ------------- If you care to find me, Look to the Western Sky :) |
Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 2:10pm
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I don't know. Unlike movies like THE CALL and DEAD MAN DOWN, people all over the internet have expressed lots of hate for this movie. In fact, several months ago, it was added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst#Movie_43_.282013.29 - ------------- http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com - http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com |
Posted By: moviecritic1994
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 6:41pm
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Well after seeing the trailers for both Movie 43 and Inappropriate Comedy, I can now say that it will be hard to forget two horrible offensive "comedies". Side note: Why would the creators of these films even make movies like that? What's the point or the joke? I don't see how being offensive, racist, sexist or homophobic is funny at all. ------------- If you care to find me, Look to the Western Sky :) |
Posted By: Vits
Date Posted: May 12 2013 at 7:24pm
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Actually, while MOVIE 43 has remained in the audiences' minds, IN-APP-PROPRIATE COMEDY grossed very little money, to the point where it has only been remembered by a few of the members here.
It can be, but it requires wit. Just look at the stand-up of Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman. And also the works of Trey Parker & Matt Stone, and, some of the works of Seth MacFarlane.
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Posted By: moviecritic1994
Date Posted: May 13 2013 at 2:15am
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Yeah true, but at the same time these films just outright (and for no reason) offend and make fun of various minority groups and people with disabilities. Like you said, there is no wit, and I think there should be a disclaimer or something on these films. Also, I think comedians like Chris Rock and Seth Macfarlane don't really mean what they're saying when doing "offensive jokes" in their stand up routines or on Family Guy. Like what happened at this years Oscars: Seth sang the song "We saw your Boobs" just for shock value... ------------- If you care to find me, Look to the Western Sky :) |