"SNL Movies" /ess-en-ell moovies/ (n): Definition: Movies that require little thought and include a number of slapstick jokes, lame cameos, and sometimes a grueling plot that is unbearable. Usually met by panning reviews from critics and lukewarm fan reception.
That is my connotation of the term "SNL Movies". In the last thirty years there have been a handful of eleven films that have some sort of relation to SNL. Three companies have had the courage to put these out; Universal, Paramount, and one was put out by Buena Vista (It's Pat). It all started in 1980 with the smash hit cult classic film The Blues Brothers and most recently was the sleeper hit, MacGruber that came to theaters a few weeks ago.
I'm not saying all of these films suck, I'm just saying most of them were flops and are long gone and forgotten about to this day. I hear a lot about The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, and it's sequel are the only really popular SNL films. Very rarely does the film Coneheads get any recognition from people and the films Stuart Saves His Family, The Ladies Man, Blues Brothers 2000, and especially It's Pat are long gone out of the consumers' minds and are trying to be forgotten as abominations and ludicrous misconceptions by the industry, cast, and crew of the films.
I managed to pull up a list of the films, their grossing, their budget for most, the Rotten Tomatoes rating, and their IMDB rating. Here is the chart:
How to read the chart: Name of film: Year, Budget, Gross, RT rating, IMDB rating, MPAA rating, Company.
The Blues Brothers: 1980, $27 million, $57,229,890, 84% (fresh), 7.9, R, Universal.
Wayne's World: 1992, $20 million, $121,697,323, 83%, 6.9, PG-13, Paramount.
Wayne's World 2: 1993, $40 million, $48,197,805, 59%, 5.8, PG-13, Paramount.
Coneheads: 1993, Unknown, $21,274,717, 27%, 5.0, PG, Paramount.
It's Pat: 1994, Unknown, $60,822, 0%, 2.4, PG-13, Buena Vista.
Stuart Saves His Family: 1995, $15 million, $912,082, 29%, 5.0, PG-13, Paramount.
A Night at the Roxbury: 1998, $17 million, $30,331,165, 10%, 5.7, PG-13, Paramount.
Blues Brothers 2000: 1998, $28 million, $14,051,384, 45%, 4.4, PG-13, Universal.
Superstar: 1999, $14 million, $34,636,478, 33%, 4.5, PG-13, Paramount.
The Ladies Man: 2000, $24 million, $13,616,610, 11%, 4.7, R, Paramount.
MacGruber: 2010, $10 million, N/A, 56%, 7.0, R, Universal.*
*The entire gross for MacGruber is yet to be determined.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live#Films
This chart is in my favor because it's clear, easy to read, and understandable to nearly everyone. As you can see though No film has been a blog buster since the first Wayne's World film in 1992. Out of eleven films, four are considered flops. It's Pat, The Ladies Man, Blues Brothers 2000, and Stuart Saves His Family are all victims.
Lets talk about It's Pat. The budget is unknown but since it made the reidiculously low amount of $60,000 we are considering it a flop. Checking the 0% rating on RT, the 2.4 Metracritic rating, and all the panning reviews from critics and fans of the skit that are flooded online, I dub it "The worst SNL film yet". I say "yet" because it is unknown if MacGruber will be the last or not.
According to a recent article which inspired this blog, (avaliable on my forum or at this link, http://movie-critics.ew.com/2010/05/25/macgruber-is-it-the-last-snl-movie) MacGruber's possible poor performance could lead to SNL's permanent pause on making movies. Seeing MacGruber wasn't an awful movie expierence, but definitely it was just an average/slightly below average film. I wasn't dying laughing, I'm not wanting/anticipating a sequel, I don't think I'll buy it on Dvd or Blu-Ray this fall. It wasn't a movie I'm willing to watch again.
The whole point of this was to say what SNL means to me. To me, it's just a chain of parody/slapstick movies, some no funnier than the crappy spoof films made by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. If they stop making movies, I will not care. It's not like their planning to make a Wayne's World 3 that will be scrapped if the close doors on any future projects. In fact, I believe every idea they've had is last minute. I saw TV spots for MacGruber, I never heard news, saw trailers at the theater, anything that involved it besides a fifteen second TV spot. So my assumption is that the project was thrown together last minute and Owen Wilson, Val Kilmer, and Kristen Wiig just did for the money. I wouldn't be anymore surprised to hear no more SNL films were being made as I would be to hear that statement.
That is my connotation of the term "SNL Movies". In the last thirty years there have been a handful of eleven films that have some sort of relation to SNL. Three companies have had the courage to put these out; Universal, Paramount, and one was put out by Buena Vista (It's Pat). It all started in 1980 with the smash hit cult classic film The Blues Brothers and most recently was the sleeper hit, MacGruber that came to theaters a few weeks ago.
I'm not saying all of these films suck, I'm just saying most of them were flops and are long gone and forgotten about to this day. I hear a lot about The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, and it's sequel are the only really popular SNL films. Very rarely does the film Coneheads get any recognition from people and the films Stuart Saves His Family, The Ladies Man, Blues Brothers 2000, and especially It's Pat are long gone out of the consumers' minds and are trying to be forgotten as abominations and ludicrous misconceptions by the industry, cast, and crew of the films.
I managed to pull up a list of the films, their grossing, their budget for most, the Rotten Tomatoes rating, and their IMDB rating. Here is the chart:
How to read the chart: Name of film: Year, Budget, Gross, RT rating, IMDB rating, MPAA rating, Company.
The Blues Brothers: 1980, $27 million, $57,229,890, 84% (fresh), 7.9, R, Universal.
Wayne's World: 1992, $20 million, $121,697,323, 83%, 6.9, PG-13, Paramount.
Wayne's World 2: 1993, $40 million, $48,197,805, 59%, 5.8, PG-13, Paramount.
Coneheads: 1993, Unknown, $21,274,717, 27%, 5.0, PG, Paramount.
It's Pat: 1994, Unknown, $60,822, 0%, 2.4, PG-13, Buena Vista.
Stuart Saves His Family: 1995, $15 million, $912,082, 29%, 5.0, PG-13, Paramount.
A Night at the Roxbury: 1998, $17 million, $30,331,165, 10%, 5.7, PG-13, Paramount.
Blues Brothers 2000: 1998, $28 million, $14,051,384, 45%, 4.4, PG-13, Universal.
Superstar: 1999, $14 million, $34,636,478, 33%, 4.5, PG-13, Paramount.
The Ladies Man: 2000, $24 million, $13,616,610, 11%, 4.7, R, Paramount.
MacGruber: 2010, $10 million, N/A, 56%, 7.0, R, Universal.*
*The entire gross for MacGruber is yet to be determined.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live#Films
This chart is in my favor because it's clear, easy to read, and understandable to nearly everyone. As you can see though No film has been a blog buster since the first Wayne's World film in 1992. Out of eleven films, four are considered flops. It's Pat, The Ladies Man, Blues Brothers 2000, and Stuart Saves His Family are all victims.
Lets talk about It's Pat. The budget is unknown but since it made the reidiculously low amount of $60,000 we are considering it a flop. Checking the 0% rating on RT, the 2.4 Metracritic rating, and all the panning reviews from critics and fans of the skit that are flooded online, I dub it "The worst SNL film yet". I say "yet" because it is unknown if MacGruber will be the last or not.
According to a recent article which inspired this blog, (avaliable on my forum or at this link, http://movie-critics.ew.com/2010/05/25/macgruber-is-it-the-last-snl-movie) MacGruber's possible poor performance could lead to SNL's permanent pause on making movies. Seeing MacGruber wasn't an awful movie expierence, but definitely it was just an average/slightly below average film. I wasn't dying laughing, I'm not wanting/anticipating a sequel, I don't think I'll buy it on Dvd or Blu-Ray this fall. It wasn't a movie I'm willing to watch again.
The whole point of this was to say what SNL means to me. To me, it's just a chain of parody/slapstick movies, some no funnier than the crappy spoof films made by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. If they stop making movies, I will not care. It's not like their planning to make a Wayne's World 3 that will be scrapped if the close doors on any future projects. In fact, I believe every idea they've had is last minute. I saw TV spots for MacGruber, I never heard news, saw trailers at the theater, anything that involved it besides a fifteen second TV spot. So my assumption is that the project was thrown together last minute and Owen Wilson, Val Kilmer, and Kristen Wiig just did for the money. I wouldn't be anymore surprised to hear no more SNL films were being made as I would be to hear that statement.
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