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The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #1: The tyranny of the opening weekend box office
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NYCitygurl
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2/27/07 2:10pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #45: foot in mouth disease
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#44: Why do bad things happen to good Saturday Night Live comedians? And vice versa?
Everything from drug abuse to cancer to a murder-suicide has conspired to take some of SNL's brightest and funniest stars, including John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley, and Phil Hartman. While they were stolen from us too soon, other SNL alumni are dying a slow death, subjecting us to formulaic and not-funny (ha-ha or otherwise) movies. (For now, we'll forgive Will Ferrell for Anchorman.)
I  Will Ferrell and Anchorman, and Adam Sandler has mae some pretty good movies. Though this is somewhat accurate, it doesn't really take into account to former SNL stars who really made it big.
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Gonk
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2/27/07 5:14pm
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This is innacurate as far as the bad comedy things goes. Sure, there's been bad, formulaic comedies from SNL alumni... it's because so many of them didn't have anything. I mean, the best rise to the top. The fault is really people who give the money to Rob Schneider et. all. They're not FUNNY, that's the problem.
But not all the SNL alumni hand out this crap. Taledega Nights has got to be one of the funniest movies in ages. And Tina Fey is responsible for some top notch stuff: not just Mean Girls, but her new NBC comedy 30 rock. And Mike Myers has had inspired stuff.
Too many of the SNLers make thier careers out of the characters they create, but those characters have limited life before the joke just dies. Mike Myers again is a case in point. He left Wayne Campbell before it got too old, but held on to Austin Powers way, way too long (the second film was HORRIBLE!). But the original ideas were great -- but most are only worth like, one movie. If that.
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Zaz
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2/27/07 8:20pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #44: Why do bad things happen to good SNL comedians?
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The point is perhaps that the people involved invariably did their best work on television.
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NYCitygurl
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3/5/07 3:18pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #44: Why do bad things happen to good SNL comedians?
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Probably, but I don't necessarily agree with that. Will Ferrell was HILARIOUS in the Jeopardy skits (my friends and I downloaded them and watched them during lunch one week) but he's still funny and amazing in his movies. Some former SNL stars had awful careers after leaving, but not all.
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3/5/07 3:28pm
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Zaz posted:
The point is perhaps that the people involved invariably did their best work on television.
In the case of Adam Sandler and Mike Myers (if for So I Married An Axe Murderer... alone), this is clearly not the case.
Nor with Eddie Murphy (Raw and Delirious were light-years better than anything he did on SNL, even if his SNL was more biting satire because it had to be sanitized) or Dan Ackroyd (Julia Child still makes top-5 sketches of all-time however), etc. Would anyone really suggest that Belushi's work was better on SNL than in Animal House?
I agree that it's hit or miss, usually due to completely UNFUNNY people being given loads of money to make movies.
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3/5/07 6:36pm
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Gonk posted:
They're not FUNNY, that's the problem.
Jimmy Fallon... 
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anyone who has seen SNL has been present for at least a few brilliant sketches. we have also been present for those sketches that go a little to long, and become painful. the bad SNL movies are the same, an idea with potential that really doesnt warrant a feature length film. Roxbury comes to mind, made me laugh, but a full on movie, wowzers, same with Ladies Man, really funny at times, but no need for a full length movie.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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3/6/07 7:51pm
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I think the ratio is about the same, given that most people's stints on Saturday Night Live lost longer than the average movie. . .
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Jimmy Fallon? Proof positive, there's no standards anymore.
He's never even made me SMILE, let alone laugh. What happened to the
show biz concept of talent?
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Zaz
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3/7/07 2:55pm
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"It's Pat" I rest my case. 
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Beowulf
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3/7/07 3:08pm
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I wouldn't call Tim Meadows a good SNL comedian.
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Let's not forget Eddie Murphy in "Pluto Nash". "Pluto Nash" has the distinction of being the biggest bomb in film history. It cost over a 106 Million to make and took in less then Five Million at the box office.It lost more money then any other film.
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NYCitygurl
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43: The incredible brain trust that was Pop.com
Nothing encapsulates the misguidedness of the dot-com era like the website from Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer, some of the smartest men in Hollywood. The DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment partners spent $7 million developing the much-hyped venture, announced in 1999, which promised content from A-listers like Steve Martin, Drew Barrymore, Mike Myers, and Eddie Murphy. And then they pulled the plug before it even launched.
Never heard of this, though I'm surprised the plug was pulled.
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Zaz
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Never heard of this, either.
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Wilderness_Comedian
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Drew Barrymore is A list?
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