The Gods Make Mad

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"Akin to being locked with a clergyman and a clown in a flaming car hurtling over a cliff." -- from a review of Mike Myers' The Love Guru by the Toronto Star's Peter Howell. Proving that there's sometimes an upside to watching terrible movies. They can get you so worked up that you succumb to a kind of temporary insanity, and out of that fanged-tooth madness come images of deranged clowns, flaming cars and the comfort of an early death, Thelma and Louise-style.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM

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breadlymoore says ...

That's some lame writing. Another reason to give up on newspapers.

Posted by breadlymoore at June 21, 2008 11:15 AM

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Terry McCarty says ...

To revise a comment Bob Hope once made about John Dillinger seeing one of Hope's early two-reelers:
When they catch Bin Laden, they'll make him sit through THE LOVE GURU twice.

Posted by Terry McCarty at June 21, 2008 11:35 AM

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Balthazar says ...

Everything about this movie looks hideously unwatchable.

I'd rather rent Bio-Dome.

WTF, Mike Myers!

Posted by Balthazar at June 21, 2008 12:07 PM

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The Bandsaw Vigilante says ...

...And to think that Myers actually killed the SPROCKETS movie several years ago, because he allegedly "wasn't happy" with the script.

Who's laughin' now? The Hasselhoff, baby.

Posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante at June 21, 2008 12:35 PM

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PoisonSkin says ...

I'd sure like it if Dana Carvey made something funny someday.

but at least he's gone quiet. I can't believe how bad Meyers is.

Posted by PoisonSkin at June 21, 2008 12:38 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

Actually if you have HBO, you can catch Carvey's fairly amusing new special. Pretty good, his impressions are still dead on.

Posted by BurmaShave at June 21, 2008 12:50 PM

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dangovich says ...

This movie should have died at the idea stage.

And while Carvey's movie career never took off, there's no denying he was one of the best SNL cast members of all time.

Posted by dangovich at June 21, 2008 1:04 PM

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Arran says ...

This is tough to admit, but...

I love Clean Slate.

Posted by Arran at June 21, 2008 1:34 PM

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Arizona Joe says ...

The hair and the beard of the guru are so aesthetically repulsive as to obviate laughter.

Why did not some producer send Mike a note about that?

Posted by Arizona Joe at June 21, 2008 1:49 PM

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frankbooth says ...

Saw an ad for that Carvey special. His face is terrifying.

Posted by frankbooth at June 21, 2008 1:52 PM

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Spacesheik says ...

The fact that there was another piece of shit movie with a similar premise called THE GURU a few years ago with Myer's former co-star Heather something-or-other didnt help either.

Why couldnt he just have remade Peter Seller's THE PARTY.

Posted by Spacesheik at June 21, 2008 2:32 PM

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Zoidberg says ...

I had a free pass to see The Love Guru today....
Since it was free, I went.

Thank God I had such incredibly low expectations going in -- that helped me not hate the film as much as I would have otherwise. I found it to be merely bad, instead of the worst film ever.

Posted by Zoidberg at June 21, 2008 2:39 PM

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corey3rd says ...

so much for this being a love song to Toronto from Mike.

"Hometown boy makes crap."

Posted by corey3rd at June 21, 2008 3:23 PM

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CMAC says ...

"...And to think that Myers actually killed the SPROCKETS movie several years ago, because he allegedly "wasn't happy" with the script"

Just FYI re Sprockets. That was not his own original character. Dieter was created by Dana Anderson a frenemy/co-actor of Mikes" from the ol' days back at Second City in Toronto. Mike was not at liberty to use the character and the shit hit the fan a few years back when the folks at Brian Grazers' company found out. The whole thing about "script not being ready" was code for Potential LAWSUIT of stolen Intelectual Property. This was all written up in a Vanity Fair article about 4 or 5 years ago. Oh and I happen to know personally people involved and no this isn't just gossip or heresay...it's all true.

Posted by CMAC at June 21, 2008 4:50 PM

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The Bandsaw Vigilante says ...

CMAC, I didn't know that about the SPROCKETS debacle...very interesting. I always thought that Myers' reasons for pooching it seemed rather...facile...on the surface, but I hadn't heard about the rest of it.

Have to dig up that article some time. Thanks.

Posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante at June 21, 2008 6:40 PM

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dangovich says ...

Wow, Dana Anderson's jaw must have hit the floor the first time he saw the Sprockets skit on TC. I wondered if SNL had to pay damages to him?

Posted by dangovich at June 21, 2008 8:19 PM

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dangovich says ...

TC=TV

Posted by dangovich at June 21, 2008 8:19 PM

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Jesse Perry says ...

And yet, the reviewer gives it 2 1/2 out of 4 stars. I can't imagine what movies he would give worse reviews.

Posted by Jesse Perry at June 21, 2008 10:24 PM

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Jesse Perry says ...

Wait a second . . . This isn't even that terrible of a review. After that opening line, his review is fairly Canadian, I mean, bland.

Posted by Jesse Perry at June 21, 2008 10:28 PM

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Rothchild says ...

CMAC, you have your information wrong. Meyers is a dick, but there was no threat of lawsuit from anyone except Grazer towards Myers. Spielberg tried to step in and handle it by telling Myers that he shut down Minority Report because he wasn't happy with the script (at the time) either.

Posted by Rothchild at June 21, 2008 11:37 PM

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