Michael Myers has officially signed to do AP4

[Timby]

He didn't make the Sprockets movie, but he WILL do this?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the interest level in a movie based on a niche Saturday Night Live skit not seen in, oh, eighteen years or so is only slightly higher than the interest level in a Red Green film.

 

[Amaris]

I would absolutely watch a Red Green film.

 

[Timby]

You have a pony avatar, your argument is invalid.

 

[Gepard]

No, the saying goes "I have a pony avatar, your argument is invalid."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I would absolutely watch a Red Green film.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMV-QuZCEuE[/yt]

 

[JarodRussell]

I'd watch it with the Travolta, Cruise, Paltrow, Spacey, DeVito cast for the entire length of the film.

 

[jep316]

Must need money.

Well he got all that Shrek money,but the Love Guru left a lot of bad taste in everyone mouth for a Myer's live movie so maybe he's attempting to redeem himself for that.

 

[doubleohfive]

The first Austin Powers film is a delightful, rompy sendup of the Bond franchise in the '60s and rather charming for being made on the cheap.

The second one was fun and funny too, with everything all ramped up and paid for. Its a little on the dirtier side, but it never bothered me that much.

The third had an amazingly hilarious opening act and summarily goes to shit after the opening titles.

Hopefully #4 will be a return to form.

 

[doubleohfive]

Also (and this is a completely minor point of contention):

Michael Myers is a character in Halloween horror film franchise; Mike Meyers is the guy who writes and stars as Austin Powers.

 

[jep316]

Also (and this is a completely minor point of contention):

Michael Myers is a character in Halloween horror film franchise; Mike Meyers is the guy who writes and stars as Austin Powers.

No there both spelled Myers,atleast his IMDb page spells it that way.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000196/

 

[doubleohfive]

Good point.

That being said, I guess I was responding more to the use of "Michael" instead of "Mike."

 

[suarezguy]

I also liked the second best and was underwhelmed by the third. A fourth could be fun from setting a quasi-reformed Dr. Evil against Scott, with Frau in the middle, and in spoofing the reboot craze, especially Craig's Bond.

 

[Admiral_Young]

@georgedoubleohfive I acknowledged in my original post that I messed up the thread title I still don't know why I typed Michael Myers lol.

 

[Aldo]

I give the third film points for trying. And that's probably the problem, it tries a bit too hard. But by that point Myers (or Meyers) had made Dr. Evil a more interesting character thanks to the second film that it was inevitable he'd get much more focus. Didn't quite work out. I'm in a minority but I always felt like Austin himself was an interesting character and he really got the short end of the stick in the third film.

But then again, aside from the first film, Austin never really got to act like a real person.

 

[Harvey]

I would absolutely watch a Red Green film.

They made one and, boy, was it terrible. It didn't capture what was so funny about the series at all, which I suppose isn't really shocking. Red Green was always a series of short vignettes with only the faintest of a narrative backbone. It was also best in 20 minute bursts.

Moreover, the narrative backbone was always the weakest part of the sereis, and when they tried to stretch it out into a movie, it wasn't nearly strong enough to hold things together (it didn't help that the show's 20 minutes were also stretched into the movie's 90 minutes).

 

[Starkers]

The first Austin Powers film is a delightful, rompy sendup of the Bond franchise in the '60s and rather charming for being made on the cheap.

The second one was fun and funny too, with everything all ramped up and paid for. Its a little on the dirtier side, but it never bothered me that much.

The third had an amazingly hilarious opening act and summarily goes to shit after the opening titles.

Hopefully #4 will be a return to form.

Pretty much agree, the first one is the best by far, and is actually quite sweet, the second one starts the downhill slide, mainly thanks to Fat Bastard, but it's still very enjoyable. The third one though...for some reason I bought the DVD, I think it was for the pre-title sequence, certainly I don't think I've watched it much beyond that without turning off.

If a 4th film returns to the lower budget origins, and if Myers has limited creative control or someone to reign in his grosser tendencies, this might work...but somehow I doubt it.

 

[Holdfast]

The 3rd movie has to hold some kind of record for having one of the funniest starts to a film followed by one of the most dreadful rest of the movie ever. I'm not optimistic about a fourth...

 

[Admiral_Young]

The third movie had an amazing opening and a pretty awesome cliffhanger ending with Scott Evil becoming Evil and inheriting his father's evil empire (one assumes). The rest of the movie was rather meh, and I agree with those who stated that it tried too hard.

 

[doubleohfive]

I agree the beginning was well done ... but the Scott thing at the end was contrived and just grasping, I thought. Scott works best as a foil for Doctor Evil, voicing the audience's indignation and ridicule of Doctor Evil's outdated and outmoded behavior. By making Scott the "new" Doctor Evil, the film effectively killed that ability for the audience to relate to the characters and the conceit of the "world" of Austin Powers.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I would absolutely watch a Red Green film.

They made one and, boy, was it terrible. It didn't capture what was so funny about the series at all, which I suppose isn't really shocking. Red Green was always a series of short vignettes with only the faintest of a narrative backbone. It was also best in 20 minute bursts.

Moreover, the narrative backbone was always the weakest part of the sereis, and when they tried to stretch it out into a movie, it wasn't nearly strong enough to hold things together (it didn't help that the show's 20 minutes were also stretched into the movie's 90 minutes).

This is also why the Mr. Bean movies have sucked. And every film based on an SNL skit (with the exception of The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World).

The Austin Powers films were a perfect example of the budget being inverse to the quality. The more money New Line gave Myers to throw at these films, the worse they got. Plus, I'm trying to think of a non-Shrek movie he's done in the past decade that didn't suck, and I'm drawing a blank. I'll wait for the DVD, if I ever see it.