by Nat Almirall, Feb 1 2012 // 3:00 PM
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim work best in sketches. If you’re reading this, I suspect you’re a fan of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. If not, it’s a sketch show that’s best bits mock public-access television, from the strange and self-aggrandizing programs to those car commercials from the local dealer who insists on inserting himself into nearly every frame, regardless of appearance or vocal stylings.
All this is done with hyper editing, bizarre imagery, and hopelessly cheesy special effects. The trailer gives a pretty good idea.
Either way, it’s very creative but can’t last beyond a minute or so. And that’s the biggest failing of Tim and Eric’s Billion-Dollar Movie – the sketches are great, the main storyline is horrible.
I was in utter stitches at the opening commercial with Chef Goldblum (Jeff Goldblum, and the movie gets at least a star for capturing the only non-bad-ass image of Goldblum) and loved the actual billion-dollar movie itself, but then the lights go up and it all goes downhill.
Imagine if the sublime Jackass films actually forced the gang into an actual plot—and how traumatic an experience that would be.
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Tagged: Adam McKay, David Liebe Hart, Eric Wareheim, Erica Durance, Funny or Die, Great Job!, Jeff Goldblum, John C. Reilly, Magnet Releasing, Ray Wise, Robert Loggia, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Tim and Eric's Billion-Dollar Movie, Tim Heidecker, Twink Caplan, Will Ferrell, Will Forte, William Atherton, Zach Galifianakis
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by Matt Raub, Jan 19 2012 // 9:00 AM
Sure, we may get Abraham Lincoln fighting vampires later this year, but before that even happens, you’ll be getting another American icon kicking some supernatural ass and leaving historical fact at the door.
That’s right, the film FDR: American Badass! is a real film starring the likes of Bruce McGill (Animal House), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) , Lin Shaye (Austin Powers Films), and Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Here’s a brief synopsis if you don’t believe us.
In this throwback to the original 1966 Batman movie, FDR rides a “wheelchair of death” to stop the world from werewolves who carry the polio virus, including werewolf versions of Hitler, Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito.
Imagine FDR taking on Nazi werewolves, riding a gun-wielding wheelchair, and saying things like “F*ck Polio!”. That’s exactly what you’re going to get from the “straight to Netflix” writing/directing duo of Ross Patterson and Garret Brawith in this flick.
Take a look at the awe inspiring trailer after the jump, and keep your eyes on all forms of distribution for when this movie hits later this year.
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Tagged: Animal House, Austin Powers, Barry Boswtick, Batman, Bruce McGill, FDR: American Badass, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Garret Brawith, Kevin Sorbo, Lin Shaye, Ray Wise, Ross Patterson, Twin Peaks
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