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Post by ck100 on Jun 20, 2023 4:21:02 GMT
Well if it didn't fully destroy the film career of Mike Myers, it certainly hit it hard. But at least Mike got future roles in "Inglorious Basterds", "Shrek Forever After," and "Bohemian Rhapsody" to help make up for this film not doing well. What is Ben Kingsley doing here besides cashing a paycheck? He went from playing Gandhi in a past film to a guru in this film named "Tugginmypudha" who is cross-eyed from masturbating too much. Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: The Love Guru (2008) - 2 out of 4 stars
"Myers hams it up as an American-born self-help guru raised in India, who is hired by the fetching owner (Alba) of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team to help a struggling star player regain his confidence. Myers also cowrote this silly little farce that has a few laughs but is mostly filled with double entendres and recycled Austin Powers shtick. A number of celebrities appear as themselves. Super 35."
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Post by Cat on Jun 20, 2023 4:35:22 GMT
"Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: The Love Guru (2008) - 2 out of 4 stars"
This walking hootenanny rated The Love Guru higher than The Great Outdoors (which I learned from your other thread)?
Yikes.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 20, 2023 4:37:06 GMT
"Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: The Love Guru (2008) - 2 out of 4 stars"
This walking hootenanny rated The Love Guru higher than The Great Outdoors (which I learned from your other thread)?
Yikes.
The Maltin reviews in those books were written by a bunch of different people who contributed, so it's no surprise that a lot of the reviews are inconsistent.
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Post by Cat on Jun 20, 2023 4:41:56 GMT
"Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: The Love Guru (2008) - 2 out of 4 stars"
This walking hootenanny rated The Love Guru higher than The Great Outdoors (which I learned from your other thread)?
Yikes.
The Maltin reviews in those books were written by a bunch of different people who contributed, so it's no surprise that a lot of the reviews are inconsistent. Oh! I never knew that.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 20, 2023 4:47:33 GMT
This walking hootenanny rated The Love Guru higher than The Great Outdoors (which I learned from your other thread)?
Yikes. And higher than Blade Runner, Scarface (1983), and The Thing (1982).
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Post by Cat on Jun 20, 2023 4:54:49 GMT
This walking hootenanny rated The Love Guru higher than The Great Outdoors (which I learned from your other thread)?
Yikes. And higher than Blade Runner, Scarface (1983), and The Thing (1982). The Thing!
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Post by jjamp48 on Jun 20, 2023 5:42:02 GMT
Am I a bad person for being kinda glad this effectively ended Mike Myers’ career?
Someone was starting to get really annoying with their one trick pony thing ——> their movie bombed ———-> audiences were either rightly sick of him or correctly didn’t show any interest —————> and then Hollywood did the right thing and shut him out, and he was no longer a problem. Nuisance over.
Totally successful chain of events. Why can’t it work like this more often???
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 20, 2023 7:19:29 GMT
What is Ben Kingsley doing here besides cashing a paycheck? He went from playing Gandhi in a past film to a guru in this film named "Tugginmypudha" who is cross-eyed from masturbating too much. Well, Gandhi liked to lay naked in bed with his underage grandnieces, so that's sort of a step up, right?
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Post by petrolino on Jun 21, 2023 17:31:36 GMT
Would make a good double bill with 'The Guru' (2002).
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 21, 2023 21:32:29 GMT
It was sort of like Mike Myers's Norbit, wasn't it?
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Post by Cat on Jun 21, 2023 21:37:51 GMT
"He went from playing Gandhi in a past film to a guru in this film named "Tugginmypudha" who is cross-eyed from masturbating too much."
Can that actually happen?
Asking for a friend.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 21, 2023 22:29:03 GMT
Wrong time & place. I think it might've worked in between the first 2 Austin Powers movies, explicitly as a 90's release. 00's became Apatow country & aged Myers wasn't it. Hell, Myers was even noticeably ageing through the Austin Powers trilogy - it's best he wasn't all over Beyonce in Goldmember by then.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 21, 2023 22:33:42 GMT
Would make a good double bill with 'The Guru' (2002). Make that a triple bill with a loaded shotgun.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Jun 22, 2023 0:57:08 GMT
It was sort of like Mike Myers's Norbit, wasn't it? That is one way to look at it.
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 22, 2023 2:36:33 GMT
Am I a bad person for being kinda glad this effectively ended Mike Myers’ career? Someone was starting to get really annoying with their one trick pony thing ——> their movie bombed ———-> audiences were either rightly sick of him or correctly didn’t show any interest —————> and then Hollywood did the right thing and shut him out, and he was no longer a problem. Nuisance over. Totally successful chain of events. Why can’t it work like this more often??? Dana Carvey, thou art avenged!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎃💀😈 on Jun 22, 2023 13:46:25 GMT
petrolino Although I like Mike Myers a lot, I would recommend The Guru (2002) over The Love Guru (2008). It has a great musical number and Heather Graham too!
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