younger, hotter, wetter
July 2, 2015 9:36 AM Subscribe
First Day of Camp: the full trailer for Netflix's 8-episode prequel to the 2001 cult classic Wet Hot American Summer. Here's the promo released last week. Happy summer!
Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black, Zak Orth, A. D. Miles, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Marisa Ryan, Kevin Sussman, Joe Lo Truglio, Elizabeth Banks, David Hyde Pierce, and Judah Friedlander reprise their roles. H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Hamm, Jason Schwartzman, Kristen Wiig, John Slattery, Jason Peele, Weird Al, and others join the cast.
Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black, Zak Orth, A. D. Miles, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Marisa Ryan, Kevin Sussman, Joe Lo Truglio, Elizabeth Banks, David Hyde Pierce, and Judah Friedlander reprise their roles. H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Hamm, Jason Schwartzman, Kristen Wiig, John Slattery, Jason Peele, Weird Al, and others join the cast.
The fact that Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm weren't in the original feels more like an accident than anything else.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:44 AM on July 2, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:44 AM on July 2, 2015 [8 favorites]
Looks hilarious, can't wait! And Jason Schwartzman is part of the cast now? Awesome!
posted by Clustercuss at 9:45 AM on July 2, 2015
posted by Clustercuss at 9:45 AM on July 2, 2015
Wasn't H. Jon Benjamin the voice of the can of beans? Of course, I'll be thrilled if he got an onscreen role this time around.
posted by zombieflanders at 9:47 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by zombieflanders at 9:47 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
I anticipate Benjamin's character dying and his soul entering the can of mixed veggies.
posted by doctornecessiter at 9:50 AM on July 2, 2015 [15 favorites]
posted by doctornecessiter at 9:50 AM on July 2, 2015 [15 favorites]
I want to offer this trailer a stick of gum.
posted by en forme de poire at 9:50 AM on July 2, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by en forme de poire at 9:50 AM on July 2, 2015 [11 favorites]
Also I somehow hadn't heard it was actually a prequel, and I've been laughing on and off about that for the last 5 minutes.
posted by en forme de poire at 9:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by en forme de poire at 9:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
A former camp counselor of mine was a writer on this (no, really) and he is super excited about it, so I am very optimistic about it living up to the original.
posted by Rock Steady at 9:54 AM on July 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Rock Steady at 9:54 AM on July 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
Ah, just got back to my computer and saw HJB as the camp director. If he doesn't have several "Oh my god" scenes, I will be very put out.
posted by zombieflanders at 9:58 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by zombieflanders at 9:58 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
I had many laugh out loud moments just from the trailer. I'm greatly looking forward to this.
posted by codacorolla at 10:11 AM on July 2, 2015
posted by codacorolla at 10:11 AM on July 2, 2015
This looks pretty great. A little Wiig goes a long way for me but I think the rest of the additions are great. It really looks (from what we can see so far) like this was done right.
And Introducing Jon Hamm
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 10:12 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
And Introducing Jon Hamm
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 10:12 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
A little Wiig goes a long way for me
That's fine. More for me!
posted by maxsparber at 10:13 AM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
That's fine. More for me!
posted by maxsparber at 10:13 AM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
WHAS is one of those movies, like 1983's The Outsiders, that is interesting because of how many of its actors, who were relatively obscure at the time (outside of alternative comedy circles), would go on to be big time stars in succeeding years.
For comparision, the cast of The Outsiders:
Patrick Swayze, one year before Red Dawn
Ralph Macchio, one year before The Karate Kid
Matt Dillon, one year before The Flamingo Kid
Rob Lowe, two years before St. Elmo's Fire
Tom Cruise, the same year as Risky Business
(and that's not even including C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane)
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:14 AM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
For comparision, the cast of The Outsiders:
Patrick Swayze, one year before Red Dawn
Ralph Macchio, one year before The Karate Kid
Matt Dillon, one year before The Flamingo Kid
Rob Lowe, two years before St. Elmo's Fire
Tom Cruise, the same year as Risky Business
(and that's not even including C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane)
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:14 AM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
A whole month! A whole flippin' month of waiting! ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ
posted by erratic meatsack at 10:14 AM on July 2, 2015
posted by erratic meatsack at 10:14 AM on July 2, 2015
A little Wiig goes a long way for me
Looks to me like she (and Josh Charles, and Rich Sommer) work at evil Camp Tigerclaw, so they probably won't be as front-and-center as the cast at Camp Firewood.
posted by doctornecessiter at 10:23 AM on July 2, 2015
Looks to me like she (and Josh Charles, and Rich Sommer) work at evil Camp Tigerclaw, so they probably won't be as front-and-center as the cast at Camp Firewood.
posted by doctornecessiter at 10:23 AM on July 2, 2015
This is worthwhile just for the obvious statement it makes about casting 20-somethings as teenagers in TV series that run multiple seasons. (And they HAVE to do multiple seasons of this.) One more tic on the "not evil" side for Netflix.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:32 AM on July 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:32 AM on July 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
I was all set to be cynical but Holy Hell this looks perfect.
posted by naju at 10:34 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by naju at 10:34 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
As a huge fan of the original, this looks terrible.
Something about the trailer makes it seem like the timing of all of the jokes is completely off....
posted by schmod at 10:45 AM on July 2, 2015
Something about the trailer makes it seem like the timing of all of the jokes is completely off....
posted by schmod at 10:45 AM on July 2, 2015
Maybe I'll like it better. Despite really enjoying Wain's work, WHAS never clicked for me. Which could well just be that I was never in a position to see it when I was in the mood for it. But I think I laughed at it about as many times and about as hard as I did during The Ten which ain't high praise.
posted by phearlez at 10:48 AM on July 2, 2015
posted by phearlez at 10:48 AM on July 2, 2015
i'm so excited! and so confused by the feelings that christopher meloni's wig is giving me.
posted by palomar at 10:49 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by palomar at 10:49 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
I wanna dip my balls in it!
posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear at 10:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear at 10:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [9 favorites]
It breaks my heart that Chris Meloni is famous for frowning and being angry on SVU when he is stupid hilarious. Such talent wasted on seasons of brooding.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 10:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [17 favorites]
posted by Elementary Penguin at 10:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [17 favorites]
Sometimes I like to watch Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle just for the scenes with Chris Meloni as Freakshow. Never gets old.
posted by palomar at 10:54 AM on July 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by palomar at 10:54 AM on July 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
The obvious next season of this should be filmed ten years from now, and be the same characters but in their last day of camp as campers before they became camp counselors themselves.
posted by tittergrrl at 11:00 AM on July 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by tittergrrl at 11:00 AM on July 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
evil Camp Tigerclaw
Oh yes this is so good and real. Like, of course they have an enemy camp that's probably exactly the same as them and like maybe other friendly camps who are also all exactly the same as them. I went to summer camp for years and then was a counselor when I got a bit older and all of the camps in the area had these weird reputations within our camp, like camp A was the camp with the hottest guys and girls at camp B were all super nice but kind of boring and girls at camp C were all really trashy (these were all single-sex summer camps) and my camp hosted a regatta once a year and you'd trade shirts with boys from the boys camps (I had shirts from three different boys camps because I was just that cool) and we'd talk about how so and so was OBVIOUSLY from camp B or not like most camp C girls but like no, really, we were ALL EXACTLY THE SAME. Wet Hot American Summer really captured so much of the camp experience perfectly (as I knew it would when it started out with that campfire with the guitar guy -- HOW IS THERE ALWAYS A GUITAR GUY?) and having another camp with whom they have a Very Serious Rivalry just adds to that.
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:04 AM on July 2, 2015 [13 favorites]
Oh yes this is so good and real. Like, of course they have an enemy camp that's probably exactly the same as them and like maybe other friendly camps who are also all exactly the same as them. I went to summer camp for years and then was a counselor when I got a bit older and all of the camps in the area had these weird reputations within our camp, like camp A was the camp with the hottest guys and girls at camp B were all super nice but kind of boring and girls at camp C were all really trashy (these were all single-sex summer camps) and my camp hosted a regatta once a year and you'd trade shirts with boys from the boys camps (I had shirts from three different boys camps because I was just that cool) and we'd talk about how so and so was OBVIOUSLY from camp B or not like most camp C girls but like no, really, we were ALL EXACTLY THE SAME. Wet Hot American Summer really captured so much of the camp experience perfectly (as I knew it would when it started out with that campfire with the guitar guy -- HOW IS THERE ALWAYS A GUITAR GUY?) and having another camp with whom they have a Very Serious Rivalry just adds to that.
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:04 AM on July 2, 2015 [13 favorites]
Never went to camp. Hung around the house with my brothers in my childhood summers.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 11:08 AM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by jeff-o-matic at 11:08 AM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
ok
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 11:19 AM on July 2, 2015 [26 favorites]
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 11:19 AM on July 2, 2015 [26 favorites]
Ah excellent. I'll go break out my best fondlin' sweaters.
posted by shmegegge at 11:21 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by shmegegge at 11:21 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
Wet Hot American Summer really captured so much of the camp experience perfectly (as I knew it would when it started out with that campfire with the guitar guy -- HOW IS THERE ALWAYS A GUITAR GUY?) and having another camp with whom they have a Very Serious Rivalry just adds to that.
They're actually referenced in the first movie too! They're the rival baseball team that they were gonna play when Coop gives his big motivation speech about them being lovable losers.. but then both teams decide to bag it 'cause it's pretty well worn territory.
I love that scene.
posted by tittergrrl at 11:22 AM on July 2, 2015 [10 favorites]
They're actually referenced in the first movie too! They're the rival baseball team that they were gonna play when Coop gives his big motivation speech about them being lovable losers.. but then both teams decide to bag it 'cause it's pretty well worn territory.
I love that scene.
posted by tittergrrl at 11:22 AM on July 2, 2015 [10 favorites]
The original Wet Hot American Summer was required viewing for rookie staff at the camp I worked at through college, one of the largest summer camps in the U.S. so we had a little over 100 staff each year. We would pile into one of the rec areas and watch it together during staff training, late at night and well before the first round of kids arrived. It was always spontaneously arranged by returning staff who wanted to pass on the torch, but to this day still going strong.
Taking it to extremes aside, the movie is so accurate in general about how camp works behind the scenes that no one wanted to pass up the opportunity to have the following conversation:
Rookie: I thought you said this was an accurate depiction of camp life.
Veteran: It is!
Rookie: But they just left camp to do drugs in the middle of the day...
Veteran: 😎
posted by Snacks at 11:22 AM on July 2, 2015 [7 favorites]
Taking it to extremes aside, the movie is so accurate in general about how camp works behind the scenes that no one wanted to pass up the opportunity to have the following conversation:
Rookie: I thought you said this was an accurate depiction of camp life.
Veteran: It is!
Rookie: But they just left camp to do drugs in the middle of the day...
Veteran: 😎
posted by Snacks at 11:22 AM on July 2, 2015 [7 favorites]
Well, it's ALWAYS fun to get away from camp, even for an hour.
posted by tittergrrl at 11:27 AM on July 2, 2015 [22 favorites]
posted by tittergrrl at 11:27 AM on July 2, 2015 [22 favorites]
Does Wet Hot American Summer get away from camp, even for a second?
posted by fairmettle at 11:35 AM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by fairmettle at 11:35 AM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Does Wet Hot American Summer get away from camp, even for a second?
Oh, my, yes. They go to town and also go on a canoe trip.
And even though we ain't got money,
I'm so in love with you, honey,
And everything will bring a chain of love.
And in the morning, when I rise,
You bring a tear of joy to my eyes
And tell me everything is gonna be alright OH FUCK
posted by maxsparber at 11:37 AM on July 2, 2015 [13 favorites]
Oh, my, yes. They go to town and also go on a canoe trip.
And even though we ain't got money,
I'm so in love with you, honey,
And everything will bring a chain of love.
And in the morning, when I rise,
You bring a tear of joy to my eyes
And tell me everything is gonna be alright OH FUCK
posted by maxsparber at 11:37 AM on July 2, 2015 [13 favorites]
Does Wet Hot American Summer get away from camp, even for a second?
Do you mean in the sense of "a place kids go for the summer" or in the sense of "something over-the-top"?
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:40 AM on July 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
Do you mean in the sense of "a place kids go for the summer" or in the sense of "something over-the-top"?
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:40 AM on July 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
I went to Jewish sleepaway camp in the Poconos, and this movie was really not that much of a parody.
Actually, when I was 14, we had the longest mail call in camp history because everyone's parents had preordered the 4th Harry Potter book, and when I later saw the scene where Janeane Garofalo makes up random Jewish names it was hauntingly familiar.
posted by nonasuch at 11:49 AM on July 2, 2015 [7 favorites]
Actually, when I was 14, we had the longest mail call in camp history because everyone's parents had preordered the 4th Harry Potter book, and when I later saw the scene where Janeane Garofalo makes up random Jewish names it was hauntingly familiar.
posted by nonasuch at 11:49 AM on July 2, 2015 [7 favorites]
Before we start, I'd just like to say the trailer you're about to see suck dick! But nevertheless, please welcome it.
The trailer (and another from the Netflix UK & Ireland YT account, for whatever that's worth).
OK, it doesn't suck dick at all, and I'm pretty excited for another 4 to 8 hours of summer camp antics.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
The trailer (and another from the Netflix UK & Ireland YT account, for whatever that's worth).
OK, it doesn't suck dick at all, and I'm pretty excited for another 4 to 8 hours of summer camp antics.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:51 AM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
What the hell? Are there emoticons in mefi comments now?!
posted by shmegegge at 11:52 AM on July 2, 2015
posted by shmegegge at 11:52 AM on July 2, 2015
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
posted by Chrysostom at 11:56 AM on July 2, 2015
posted by Chrysostom at 11:56 AM on July 2, 2015
Also, I am always happy to see Janeane Garofalo.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:58 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Chrysostom at 11:58 AM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
Jon Hamm had better crank out a few "yowzas!" if this is going to be worth my time.
posted by dr_dank at 12:08 PM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by dr_dank at 12:08 PM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
younger, hotter
Maybe I'm just getting too old and Comic Book Guy-like, but it feels like US TV and movie comedy is in the middle of something like heat death.
Almost everyone here seems weirdly self-conscious, and like they're reading their lines off a teleprompter - even Janine Garafolo, who is capable of better.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:33 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Maybe I'm just getting too old and Comic Book Guy-like, but it feels like US TV and movie comedy is in the middle of something like heat death.
Almost everyone here seems weirdly self-conscious, and like they're reading their lines off a teleprompter - even Janine Garafolo, who is capable of better.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:33 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
LOOK AT ME, MA- I MADE IT! I'M OK!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:50 PM on July 2, 2015
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:50 PM on July 2, 2015
Looks to me like she (and Josh Charles, and Rich Sommer) work at evil Camp Tigerclaw
BOOOOO!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:52 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
BOOOOO!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:52 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's for my pussy.
posted by rhizome at 12:53 PM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 12:53 PM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
What the hell? Are there emoticons in mefi comments now?!
Unicode, unfortunately. 😭
posted by phearlez at 12:55 PM on July 2, 2015
Unicode, unfortunately. 😭
posted by phearlez at 12:55 PM on July 2, 2015
For comparision, the cast of The Outsiders:
Patrick Swayze, one year before Red Dawn
Ralph Macchio, one year before The Karate Kid
Matt Dillon, one year before The Flamingo Kid
Rob Lowe, two years before St. Elmo's Fire
Tom Cruise, the same year as Risky Business
(and that's not even including C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane)
Not to mention Leif Garrett as the main Soc, Michelle Meyrink (better known as Jordan from Real Genius) as another Soc, and Tom Waits.
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:16 PM on July 2, 2015
Patrick Swayze, one year before Red Dawn
Ralph Macchio, one year before The Karate Kid
Matt Dillon, one year before The Flamingo Kid
Rob Lowe, two years before St. Elmo's Fire
Tom Cruise, the same year as Risky Business
(and that's not even including C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane)
Not to mention Leif Garrett as the main Soc, Michelle Meyrink (better known as Jordan from Real Genius) as another Soc, and Tom Waits.
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:16 PM on July 2, 2015
Welp, I guess I'll be watching WHAS this weekend. Which Netflix has conveniently made available for those of us who did not see the original when it was theatrically released.
posted by the sobsister at 1:23 PM on July 2, 2015
posted by the sobsister at 1:23 PM on July 2, 2015
I feel very lost in this discussion because I never even knew the first film was a thing. Reading the wiki now.
Should I even bother with the original? Is it good? Or bad-good? (So bad, it becomes good?)
posted by Fizz at 1:34 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Should I even bother with the original? Is it good? Or bad-good? (So bad, it becomes good?)
posted by Fizz at 1:34 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Almost everyone here seems weirdly self-conscious, and like they're reading their lines off a teleprompter - even Janine Garafolo, who is capable of better.
Hmm, well, this is part of the WHAS aesthetic and by that I mean please watch this scene and if you still don't get it, watch it again. Do this until you either a.) see the light or b.) don't. (Both are ok).
posted by jeremias at 1:36 PM on July 2, 2015 [9 favorites]
Hmm, well, this is part of the WHAS aesthetic and by that I mean please watch this scene and if you still don't get it, watch it again. Do this until you either a.) see the light or b.) don't. (Both are ok).
posted by jeremias at 1:36 PM on July 2, 2015 [9 favorites]
I just want to see Ken Marino in that ridiculous wig again.
posted by cazoo at 1:37 PM on July 2, 2015
posted by cazoo at 1:37 PM on July 2, 2015
Should I even bother with the original? Is it good? Or bad-good? (So bad, it becomes good.)
It is absolutely one of the greatest movies ever made, in my opinion. Also, it's only an hour and a half out of your life, so it's still worth it even if it isn't your thing.
posted by likeatoaster at 1:41 PM on July 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
It is absolutely one of the greatest movies ever made, in my opinion. Also, it's only an hour and a half out of your life, so it's still worth it even if it isn't your thing.
posted by likeatoaster at 1:41 PM on July 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
Fizz: "Should I even bother with the original? Is it good? Or bad-good? (So bad, it becomes good.)"
It kind of defies traditional judgements along the bad/good spectrum. Suffice it to say, if the surrealist alternative comedy sensibility of stuff like Mr Show, UCB, The State, Reno 911, Stella, etc appeal to you, than yes, you must watch it.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:43 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
It kind of defies traditional judgements along the bad/good spectrum. Suffice it to say, if the surrealist alternative comedy sensibility of stuff like Mr Show, UCB, The State, Reno 911, Stella, etc appeal to you, than yes, you must watch it.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:43 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Fizz - I will use a quote from the movie to help you decide:
posted by namewithoutwords at 1:46 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Beth, now is not the time or the place to speak of it. Meet me at the picnic table in ten seconds and I'll tell you all about it.it's hilarious, go watch it
posted by namewithoutwords at 1:46 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Fizz - I will use a quote from the movie to help you decide:
posted by tittergrrl at 1:50 PM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
Beth, now is not the time or the place to speak of it. Meet me at the picnic table in ten seconds and I'll tell you all about it.Which then becomes one of the greatest sight gags/set dressing changes ever.
posted by tittergrrl at 1:50 PM on July 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
Yeah, if you hate kind of off-kilter comedy, it won't do anything for you. If you like that sort of thing, it's great.
posted by Chrysostom at 1:52 PM on July 2, 2015
posted by Chrysostom at 1:52 PM on July 2, 2015
I pretty much think WHAS is a perfect sketch movie just on a construction level. I can't think of a better made vignette-based movie of that type, that still manages to feel like a whole and has that kind of sustained momentum.
posted by anazgnos at 1:56 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by anazgnos at 1:56 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Here's the FanFare thread.
And here's a prior WHAS post on the blue.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:06 PM on July 2, 2015
And here's a prior WHAS post on the blue.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:06 PM on July 2, 2015
I love this movie so much and our brewery has a beer named after it and then Rich Sommer from Mad Men tweeted about it and then David Wain and Michael Showalter and the Wet Hot American Summer Twitter account all retweeted it and then I exploded
posted by shakespeherian at 2:38 PM on July 2, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by shakespeherian at 2:38 PM on July 2, 2015 [7 favorites]
"A new way..."
posted by sara is disenchanted at 2:41 PM on July 2, 2015
posted by sara is disenchanted at 2:41 PM on July 2, 2015
Srsly though, the original was so awesome. It is my litmus test for understanding if you and I are destined to be friends forever.
Unfortunately, I keep showing it to people, and they're usually like "...wtf Sara." And then I am a little sad.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 2:44 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Unfortunately, I keep showing it to people, and they're usually like "...wtf Sara." And then I am a little sad.
posted by sara is disenchanted at 2:44 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Unfortunately, I keep showing it to people, and they're usually like "...wtf Sara." And then I am a little sad.
I get this too, except nobody calls me Sara because that would be weird. But yeah... I have a small handful of friends who love this movie as much as I do, but recently I tried to entice a friend into watching it and he cited what he and a mutual friend of ours call their "Lutheran gene". Basically they can't handle watching anything that makes them feel embarrassed for the people in the thing, so... they'll probably never watch the prequel or the original based on a quick viewing of the new trailer that dropped today.
Sigh. I love them, but... they're so missing out.
posted by palomar at 3:07 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
I get this too, except nobody calls me Sara because that would be weird. But yeah... I have a small handful of friends who love this movie as much as I do, but recently I tried to entice a friend into watching it and he cited what he and a mutual friend of ours call their "Lutheran gene". Basically they can't handle watching anything that makes them feel embarrassed for the people in the thing, so... they'll probably never watch the prequel or the original based on a quick viewing of the new trailer that dropped today.
Sigh. I love them, but... they're so missing out.
posted by palomar at 3:07 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Unfortunately, I keep showing it to people, and they're usually like "...wtf Sara." And then I am a little sad.
posted by sara is disenchanted
posted by jason_steakums at 3:24 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
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posted by jason_steakums at 3:24 PM on July 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Should I even bother with the original? Is it good? Or bad-good? (So bad, it becomes good?)
You should watch it. I watched it for the first time ever I think about a year-year and a half ago and it certainly has it's hilarious moments. It doesn't really resonate with me in the way it clearly does for so many people, probably because I never had a typical camp experience. It's a movie I watched and enjoyed but wasn't really excited about, you know?
But holy hell I am so excited for this Netflix series I can't even. Everyone I love is in it and it's going to be ridiculous and wonderful. It doesn't even make sense that I'd be jazzed for this show when the movie never really did it for me, but there you go.
posted by phunniemee at 4:50 PM on July 2, 2015
You should watch it. I watched it for the first time ever I think about a year-year and a half ago and it certainly has it's hilarious moments. It doesn't really resonate with me in the way it clearly does for so many people, probably because I never had a typical camp experience. It's a movie I watched and enjoyed but wasn't really excited about, you know?
But holy hell I am so excited for this Netflix series I can't even. Everyone I love is in it and it's going to be ridiculous and wonderful. It doesn't even make sense that I'd be jazzed for this show when the movie never really did it for me, but there you go.
posted by phunniemee at 4:50 PM on July 2, 2015
a lot of us who love the movie have also never been to camp. I'd wager that like me a fair number of fans watched the movie in the first place due to its huge connections to The State.
posted by palomar at 5:39 PM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by palomar at 5:39 PM on July 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
I probably watch this more than any other movie comedy, it makes me feel so happy and so comfortable, and I wonder when and how I gave it a second chance.
The first time I saw it was on Comedy Cdntral, and even though I don't think of it bring that profane, having parts of it censored, and the whole thing broke up by commercials, made it feel like unwatchable trash, and all of the overacting (and underacting) feel a little too winking, like I was watching an Austin Powers sequel or Undercover Brother or something else I'd be likely to see on a Sunday afternCdntral Comedy Central
posted by elr at 6:48 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
The first time I saw it was on Comedy Cdntral, and even though I don't think of it bring that profane, having parts of it censored, and the whole thing broke up by commercials, made it feel like unwatchable trash, and all of the overacting (and underacting) feel a little too winking, like I was watching an Austin Powers sequel or Undercover Brother or something else I'd be likely to see on a Sunday afternCdntral Comedy Central
posted by elr at 6:48 PM on July 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Not only did I go to camp, but I went to the camp where they filmed WHAS! It's one of my favorite movies, but watching it is always a little surreal for me, because it like, "hey, they're using the laundry shed as a bunk."
Also, I totally went to camp with a kid who refused to shower for no good reason until everybody just pushed him in there with his clothes on.
posted by Ragged Richard at 1:15 PM on July 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also, I totally went to camp with a kid who refused to shower for no good reason until everybody just pushed him in there with his clothes on.
posted by Ragged Richard at 1:15 PM on July 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also, our anonymously evil enemy camp was called Tyler Hill.
posted by Ragged Richard at 1:16 PM on July 3, 2015
posted by Ragged Richard at 1:16 PM on July 3, 2015
Oh my Lord people. I have never watched this movie.... Rented it tonight because of this post. I'm just dying.....not enough words. Metafilter for the WIN!!
posted by pearlybob at 8:17 PM on July 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by pearlybob at 8:17 PM on July 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Stella Shorts: The Musical (just getting this idea out there)
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:18 PM on July 9, 2015
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:18 PM on July 9, 2015
Yeah Mrs. Penguin and I rewatched I last night then watched the trailer for the show, and I think the show is going to be great. I know everyone jokes about how Paul Rudd is ageless, but God he looks exactly the same.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 3:39 PM on July 9, 2015
posted by Elementary Penguin at 3:39 PM on July 9, 2015
I know everyone jokes about how Paul Rudd is ageless, but God he looks exactly the same.
It's sort of weirding me out at this point. Either he's a vampire, or he's gonna tootle along looking exactly like that until he's about 60 and then thbbbbppppt, that boyish face will collapse like a skin souffle.
I kinda hope he's a vampire, because that'd be adorable.
posted by palomar at 3:58 PM on July 9, 2015
It's sort of weirding me out at this point. Either he's a vampire, or he's gonna tootle along looking exactly like that until he's about 60 and then thbbbbppppt, that boyish face will collapse like a skin souffle.
I kinda hope he's a vampire, because that'd be adorable.
posted by palomar at 3:58 PM on July 9, 2015
I noticed that some of his cast members have aged a lot more than others, so I can only assume that Paul Rudd is living off their life essences.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 4:34 PM on July 9, 2015
posted by Elementary Penguin at 4:34 PM on July 9, 2015
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