theplaylist.blogspot.com - 8/13/2009
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In the tradition of " It's Pat ," " Stuart Saves His Family " and " Superstar, " yet another marginal SNL sketch is getting ready for the big screen treatment. Those twenty second " MacGruber " skits, which we admit are hilarious late on a Saturday night after a few drinks, are being turned ...
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AN R-RATED MACGRUBER? YEAH, SURE.
Filmdrunk —
... Unfortunately scripts have a way of changing once the people paying the bills get ahold of them. And putting out an R-rated SNL movie would take some serious balls, a rarity these days everywhere but your mom’s underwear. As ThePlaylist points out, there hasn’t been an R-rated SNL movie since Blues Brothers, and the conventional wisdom is that they’d lose a big chunk of their network-TV friendly audience by making an R-rated film. But I hope they do it, not because cussing is inherently funnier, but because that would at least give ...
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