The love guru

[countdemoney]

Just saw it tonight and liked it very much. But I like Mike Myers humor. Pretty empty theater though. I expect it will be like Austin Powers and find its audience on DVD.

 

[SoCal2NYC]

Was probably better than The Happening.

 

[injung]

hmm, so it's actually worth watching? The critics were not kind to it.

 

[Go Surface]

Anything would be better than The Happening. Pushing children into traffic would be better than The Happening. I wouldn't see this movie. Saw Kung Fu Panda instead, and thought it was really 'cute.'

 

[matadorpoeta]

that movie looks stupid. once they bust out the fart jokes, in the commercial, you know it's a bomb.

 

[TUspiv]

I've heard it was pretty terrible...the commercial had an inordinate amount of midget jokes in it and so I figured it would be pretty weak. But who knows? I saw Mongol tonight instead...go see it.

 

[eidolon]

Originally Posted by GoSurface

Anything would be better than The Happening. Pushing children into traffic would be better than The Happening.

Imagine that the children who got pushed into traffic had suffered with cancer for years, and on that very day they were told that they were in complete remission. The tears of joy, the future, once a bleak cause for depression that could make even strong men weep, now bright and flowery, their parents all but financially ruined but finally witnessing a light at the end of a tunnel. Then watching their children pushed into traffic and killed. The highest high and the lowest low, the fall all that more pronounced by the heights.

That is The Love Guru. It is horrendous. It is the Hitler of movies. Between a rock (Don't Mess with The Zohan, another ****** Adam Sandler movie) and a hard place (The Love Guru, another ****** Mike Myers movie) imagine that you are paralyzed and slowly invaded by a colony of spiders, rectally. They will use your anus as a breeding ground for years while you survive on rain water and dead flies killed by the spiders as you slowly atrophy completely. Years later, in a rare moment of lucidity, in defiance of the madness that has gripped you after years of imprisonment, will you realize that it wasn't a rock and a hard place, it was a rock outcropping from the same hard place, and The Love Guru was so bad that it not only eclipsed the awfulness of Adam Sandler but it actually devoured him, incorporating his essence into its' being.

 

[Flieger]

The above post is all kinds of awesome, I feel obliged to go see the movie now in order to share your pain.

 

[West24]

i loved dont mess with the zoahn! no no no no no!

 

[Go Surface]

Originally Posted by eidolon

Imagine that the children who got pushed into traffic had suffered with cancer for years, and on that very day they were told that they were in complete remission. The tears of joy, the future, once a bleak cause for depression that could make even strong men weep, now bright and flowery, their parents all but financially ruined but finally witnessing a light at the end of a tunnel. Then watching their children pushed into traffic and killed. The highest high and the lowest low, the fall all that more pronounced by the heights.

That is The Love Guru. It is horrendous. It is the Hitler of movies. Between a rock (Don't Mess with The Zohan, another ****** Adam Sandler movie) and a hard place (The Love Guru, another ****** Mike Myers movie) imagine that you are paralyzed and slowly invaded by a colony of spiders, rectally. They will use your anus as a breeding ground for years while you survive on rain water and dead flies killed by the spiders as you slowly atrophy completely. Years later, in a rare moment of lucidity, in defiance of the madness that has gripped you after years of imprisonment, will you realize that it wasn't a rock and a hard place, it was a rock outcropping from the same hard place, and The Love Guru was so bad that it not only eclipsed the awfulness of Adam Sandler but it actually devoured him, incorporating his essence into its' being.

You made my morning.

 

[chorse123]

I have no interest in seeing the movie, but it is fun reading the reviews. A.O. Scott in the Times wrote one that was enjoyable:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/20...ve+guru&st=nyt

 

[HORNS]

Originally Posted by eidolon

Imagine that the children who got pushed into traffic had suffered with cancer for years, and on that very day they were told that they were in complete remission. The tears of joy, the future, once a bleak cause for depression that could make even strong men weep, now bright and flowery, their parents all but financially ruined but finally witnessing a light at the end of a tunnel. Then watching their children pushed into traffic and killed. The highest high and the lowest low, the fall all that more pronounced by the heights.

That is The Love Guru. It is horrendous. It is the Hitler of movies. Between a rock (Don't Mess with The Zohan, another ****** Adam Sandler movie) and a hard place (The Love Guru, another ****** Mike Myers movie) imagine that you are paralyzed and slowly invaded by a colony of spiders, rectally. They will use your anus as a breeding ground for years while you survive on rain water and dead flies killed by the spiders as you slowly atrophy completely. Years later, in a rare moment of lucidity, in defiance of the madness that has gripped you after years of imprisonment, will you realize that it wasn't a rock and a hard place, it was a rock outcropping from the same hard place, and The Love Guru was so bad that it not only eclipsed the awfulness of Adam Sandler but it actually devoured him, incorporating his essence into its' being.

Wow - this quote just goes to show that great strife and torment is the genesis of great art.

 

[vitaminc]

I am looking forward to watch the Love Guru in Spanish.

 

[countdemoney]

Originally Posted by chorse123

I have no interest in seeing the movie, but it is fun reading the reviews. A.O. Scott in the Times wrote one that was enjoyable:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/20...ve+guru&st=nyt

Wow, what a tool.

And I wonder why I don't read the times. He's blown one of the better set up jokes in the film (the joke itself is average, but the set-up is there). And no, I'm not referring to Mariska Hargitay, which itself is a pun.

I don't mind that people don't share the sense of humor, but to blow up one of the longer set-up jokes is low class. My guess is that Scott missed the set-up and some of the more sly humor that's included in the film.

Scott probably complained that he didn't understand why the guy kept spilling things on himself in Airplane.

But such is life.

Love guru is not as good as Austin Powers I, more like AP II.

 

[G79]