• Crew or equipment visible: When Alice is climbing out of the hole and has the cell phone thrown in her face, the hand of the person throwing the phone at her can be seen briefly on the right side of the screen.
• Continuity: When Derric meets Becca in the school corridor and opens his backpack, it doesn’t close completely while putting it on his back. In the next scene, the backpack is closed.
• Existence: Funding this movie in the first place, not having Setzer and Friedberg executed.

God damn it, another Saturday Night Live movie. Don’t they remember how poorly this went in the 90s? Aside from an okay Pat movie, you can’t make movies out of a 5 minute bit. In fact, you shouldn’t be making 5 minute bits generally, because they’re dragging on too damn long again.

Nothing over 3 minutes unless it’s really, REALLY funny. Like it makes people who aren’t Jimmy Fallon start corpsing.

That said, MacGruber bits are 20-30 seconds long. They’re funny for exactly that long. I’ve seen 30 second commercials that were already too damn long. Let’s do the math really quick, okay?

5 minute sketch converted to 90 minutes, that’s an 1800% length increase, and it ends up being very, very unfunny to outright shitty right around the 300 percent mark. 30 seconds to 90 minutes? 18,000 percent increase. If MacGruber stops being funny at 200%, and gets bad at 300%…

Well, you can do the math from here, because I’m probably doing this all wrong to begin with, but the answer is clearly the kind of suck the ends the world. You think the black hole the LHC can make is scary? Wait until MacGruber. Rumor is it was, in fact, where all that CERN funding went since they haven’t been able to get enough collisions to form a Higgs-Boson.

When they pay you $100 million for scientific research, it’s easy to think that movie’s a good idea!

The Hollywood Video I used to work at closed today, sadly, thanks to the extreme incompetence and perhaps even deliberately bad decisions of the corporate offices. So, as was our tradition when anyone left, a sign was altered in a nerdy movie joke fashion. This time? Logan’s Run was the source.