Mike Myers: Classic or Dud

Remember that this is the man who said he would not do a Sprockets film because the script 'wasn't good enough.' Now think about what he has done elsewhere.

A spinchter says what?

*you, yes, but me too and all of us

the failure of SIMAAM definitely seems to have scarred him enough to insure that he'll never try a comedic role without a wig and an improbably wacky premise ever again. I mean he's clearly capable of coming up with more hit characters than to necessitate milking each for 2 or 3 movies, as evidenced by the SNL years, but I'm sure also SNL also instilled in him the value of milking the same gag over and over. I loved Sprockets but can you imagine how sad and saggy a movie of that 10 years too late would've been?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Guru

!!!!

yyyyup, trailer

http://mackaycartoons.net/graphics/fonz.jpg

That preview made me want to see this stoned

I felt embarrassed for him when I saw the trailer in a theatre last weekend.

o_o

If you like the midget jokes in the trailer, I'm guessing there are plenty more where those came from.

the trailer makes it sound like mike myers couldn't decided whether to go with a comedy indian accent or not

also im so tired of sweetie love interest jessica alba

also justin timberlake as a sexy quebecois is :O

that about sums it up.

Ben Kingsley as Guru Tugginmypudha

what in god's name

interesting

New "the new Peter Sellers" answers.

― Venga, Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:00 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o_O

There's a wayne's world tie-in book co-authored by Myers and his wife that seems to have an amazing amount of effort poured into it for a commercial movie tie-in, as if this were their true outlet for comedic expression.

god i actually want to read that now

i'm probably overselling it, but there was a line in it about how the transgressive nature of a lady in a baseball uniform counterintuitively accentuates her feminine qualities that seemed a cut above usual movie tie-in cash grab lit

Mike Myers, Arctic Monkeys fan (check at the end of the piece).

How come he seems such a knowledgeable, thoughtful, interesting guy but makes such puerile crap?

...

you know like 85-95% of the posters here are highly overeducated, right

Guess I should stick to the knob jokes.

"In the case of, say, Nixon, who is an interesting villain, if he loved himself more, he wouldn’t have felt it necessary to cheat. "

I think I could enjoy a movie wherein Mike Meyers uses some funny magic powers and Janovian scream therapy to help Nixon love himself and make Watergate never happen & pull out of Vietnam.

Yes, what we clearly need is for politicians to love themselves more

a Mike Myers tv comedy could be really refreshing if he played the right kind of character and, of course, if it was well made. His style/persona is so unlike the Apatow/modern improv comedy types that dominate right now. Like in "So I Married an Axe Murderer" he played a down-to-earth, sympathetic and funny guy really effortlessly.

And yeah I know he's made "The Love Guru" and other mistakes, but we can forgive.

You're right. He did do that in ...Axe Murderer. And then he abandoned it completely for the remainder of his career, Nick Cage style.

That would make a good thread: acting personas actors carried early in their career, that they would foolishly abandon 4ever

i watched the love guru on friday. maybe it's all the build-up and hype around it being the worst film in years, but it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. it wasn't good, either, and the endless string of fart/knob/piss jokes was not my thing (as i imagine it wasn't very many people's thing), but i had expected wiseau-grade production values, sloppy editing etc. it was merely boring and racist.

anyway, apparently myers is doing austin powers 4 and

http://itsmybloginnit.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/just-stop.jpg

if he times it right he'll have Austin Powers 4 come out right when 90s nostalgia hits the mid and late-90s and there's an actual demand for this.

Same point as a couple of people above: just watched So I Married an Axe Murderer for the first time, and it's amazing how genial and normal Mike Myers is, before he got completely overtaken by all the Austin Powers schtick (some it funny, yes). The last 10 minutes gets a little slapsticky, but the rest was quite good. So many well-known people--even Michael Richards a couple of years into Seinfeld. I just love Nancy Travis. She starts out at the same time as Julia Roberts: one becomes the most famous actress in the world, the other keeps working but seems to take a step back from big roles.

We watched that as a family a couple of years ago and it was a big hit.

Austin Powers was not.

I did not like So I Married … at all at the time, but maybe it ages we’ll.

Don't ever remember hearing about these 2 1998 movies with Meyers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Pink_Line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%27s_Meteor

In my SNL blog reading adventures the past couple weeks, one of my Wilder discoveries is that Myers had planned to leave SNL a year earlier than he did, but stayed on because his COFFEE TALK MOVIE was cancelled during pre-production.

I knew he tried to do a Sprockets movie (I've even read the script!), but WOW at trying to extend Coffee Talk to 80-90 minutes.

Mike Myers plays a drug dealer living in the slums of Dublin. He tries to financially provide for the three children of his dead brother. The children's lives are forever changed when a meteor crashes into their backyard. Alfred Molina plays a wealthy scientist that the children must confront to retrieve their heaven sent gift.

somebody made this up, right?

I've seen that movie! It was on TV one Saturday morning. Iirc, Myers is barely in it.

The coffee house neo-beatnik slam poetry scenes are delightfully weird.

I've always loved the joke where he calls a former girlfriend a kleptomaniac, and his friend tells him he has no proof of that, and he responds with "To this day I still can't find my cat."

Also, my whole family still gets a kick out of "woman, woman ... whoa-man!"

hyuge pilluh

I will still argue Axe Murderer is a delightful movie

was wondering about this guy since I saw him in the Sparks documentary but unfortunately the only thing that ever comes to mind with him anymore is the Clickhole quote

I liked the beatnik poetry too. Alan Arkin was really good. When he was chewing out Anthony LaPaglia, you knew what was going on, but they managed not to ruin the joke by letting him leave the room and come back in. (They did repeat the joke within a couple of minutes--that was unnecessary.) The guy who shared that scene with Michael Richards, he was Seinfeld too--I think he was the guy who bought Morty's executive raincoats.

yes, Rudy!
I mainly think of him as Uncle Billy from Overboard.

I feel like the final act of so I married an axe murderer loses me a little but it's a perfectly pleasant film.

Austin Powers absolutely holds up imo. sequels are a bit crap mind you

Will anyone own up to watching the Indian guru movie?

hardly anyone did. word got around fast. according to IMDb, it grossed $32,235,793 in the USA and Canada combined, and only $40,877,556 worldwide!

I watched it! I dunno, I kinda liked it, but I also thought Zoolander was the funniest movie ever back then so your mileage may vary

i watched it about 5 years ago because my then 8th grader son loved it and begged me to watch it with him. it is one of the more perfect 8th grade boy movies, tis sadly true. impressive in its vulgar and juvenile persistence. me: "surely they're not gonna have the elephants...well, of course they did." colbert AND john oliver were notable surprises.

is this a safe place to admit that I actually liked "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" a lot too, it was aggressively stupid in a way that was actually more funny than obnoxious which for Sandler is quite impressive

it is one of the more perfect 8th grade boy movies, tis sadly true. impressive in its vulgar and juvenile persistence

Every generation needs an Encino Man/Son In Law.

Myers' least-remembered reoccurring SNL character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzo73jYl3Ew

I remember middle aged man

"who's your dad now?"
"Dead Man!"

Remember him too. Remember that one thing he said distinguished him from his immediate predecessor was “I know how to work a VCR.”

I watched The Love Guru and it's absolutely insane

colbert AND john oliver were notable surprises.

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And Samantha Bee!

Middle aged man less remembered than Lothar?

Lothar song is memorable

Whole shtick is memorable tbh.

I used to sign in work meetings (when we used WebEx) as Lothar, but nobody recognized it and kept saying it like Low-Ther and demanding to know who it was signed in as that.

That is a good idea, but it is a new idea, and therefore we fear it. If you question the way we hunt, you might as well question why we worship !@#$%, the Many-Headed One, or why we walk with women.

what's this then? any good?

https://djmag.com/news/orbital-soundtrack-new-netflix-series-starring-mike-myers-pentaverate

i watched an episode. it had the wild silliness I expected from Myers, and also the hackneyed cheap gags that I expected Myers.