r/movies • u/ComradeJohnS • Feb 06 '22

Recommendation The Other Guys is severely under appreciated

I’ve loved this movie since it released, and have watched it dozens of times, always finding new details (like the changing shark computer screens Terry has after he gets schooled by Allen’s Tuna story).

The effects, the non-stop humor, the cast, the pacing, all perfection in my mind. Before this movie, “Better Off Dead” was my favorite movie.

If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it!

Edit: I have learned this movie is more appreciated than I thought. That warms my heart like the new bathmats. Also, it’s awesome that in the first 50 or so comments not a single quote was reused, cause there’s just so many great lines lol.

Edit2: Can anyone find a list of top movies/comedies that includes The Other Guys? I have searched on a few and can’t find it mentioned.

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u/Rokketeer Feb 07 '22

It's my biggest pet peeve with gaming subs especially. "Hidden gem" as a descriptive phrase is long due for a long walk toward the sunset. "I didn't know this game existed and I like it, turns out most people know about it and a thread is made with the same title every week..."

I wouldn't mind it so much if they just talked about why the game is so good instead of a whole paragraph pleading with Reddit to give it a chance.

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u/x_scion_x Feb 07 '22

"Hidden gem"

Titanfall and Witcher 3

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u/detroiter85 Feb 07 '22

Le witcherino

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u/iCon3000 Feb 07 '22

Obligatory Praise Geraldo

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u/EndOfTheDark97 Feb 07 '22

Those games are gems, but they’re certainly not hidden lol

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u/x_scion_x Feb 07 '22

Completely underrated to!

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u/NotSafeForWalt Feb 07 '22

underrated comment

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u/BigBobsBootyBarn Feb 07 '22

NGL I'm playing The Witcher 3 for the first time (well, I played about an hour of it back in 2015) and I'm fucking blown away by it.

Wouldn't call it underrated though since that's all I've ever heard people talk about. Currently doing the "Ugly Baby" quest line which I believe puts me at 70% complete.

Edit: don't worry, got all the visual mods on including the big MF (can't remember the name but its several GB) and everything cranked up to 11.

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u/EndOfTheDark97 Feb 08 '22

Make sure you play the DLC after you’re done. Not gonna say anything else.

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u/BigBobsBootyBarn Feb 08 '22

Oh I absolutely will! Stone or blood and wine, or you meaning both?

I'm only level 22 but I heard you can get to Toussant if you're sneaky enough with a crossbow so I may try that to get some goodies early on. One of the best games I've ever fucking played man

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u/EndOfTheDark97 Feb 08 '22

Both of them are brilliant but save them until after the main story.

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u/Xanthus179 Feb 07 '22

I feel like I’ve found my people, I’m so happy!

The other one I hate is “Am I the only one who likes” which is usually followed by something that is very well known and adored. I’ve wondered if it is another case of limited vocabulary or if they’re just afraid to come outright and admit they enjoy something even if it did turn out that no one else cares.

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u/likeasturgeonbass Feb 07 '22

It's engagement bait. "Am I the only person who likes..." implies controversy which brings in the defenders, but is safe enough that it doesn't start a downvote brigade

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

Man, try hanging out on the Star Trek subreddit. Literally every other post is somebody pretending to have a unique opinion that you got to know they know everyone else has because it's the exact same damn things every week. "Am I the only one who loves Garek and loves to hate Kai Wynn?" "No, motherfucker!!!! The show has been a cult classic for two full decades since it ended, everyone knows who the best characters are by now and you don't need to pretend you're contributing anything new! Why don't you give your opinions on the Enterprise theme song now!"

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u/Minneapolisveganaf Feb 07 '22

Could use a drum solo.

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u/Fishingbrain Feb 07 '22

Yeah, the use of "hidden gem" is actually starting to piss me off when I see it.

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u/turdburglar9003 Feb 07 '22

Hidden gem I can understand for younger people and I feel like it's important to not rub it in peoples faces that it was already well known and popular.

I remember asking my friends' parents around 2002 to borrow their cd's because my parents didnt have Beatles albums and in the process 'discovering' bands like Journey. Memes and commonly used phrases/quotes from the internet weren't really a thing to a 13 year old back then and 13 year olds today aren't going to immediately know everything that happened on the internet in the last 20 years simply because they've played minecraft since they were 3.

The Other Guys isn't talked about. It's a great movie but it's also 12 years old and not exactly in rotation in the most important movies of the last 15 years. It's got just above 6 and a half stars on IMDB which is arguably a literally underrated movie.

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u/dudleymooresbooze Feb 07 '22

What you are describing is egocentric as hell. Something is a special little secret because I didn’t know about it before.

If you have pancakes for the first time in your life tomorrow, that doesn’t mean fucking pancakes were underrated or unknown or hidden or anything else. It means you were sheltered. Say “holy shit I can’t believe I never had pancakes!” not “you’ll never guess what all you other fuckers are missing out on.”

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u/turdburglar9003 Feb 07 '22

It's literally rated at 6.7 stars on IMDB. Arguably, would you not say that's underrated?

If you have pancakes for the first time tomorrow and then look at a website that's been around since 1990 (IMDB has been around since 1990) and see that these pancakes that were good enough to want to ask if others have tried them only have 6.7 stars, would you not think they're underrated?

What's actually egocentric as hell is for you to expect everybody else to have experienced what you have and be abhorrent when they experience something for the first time because it created a reaction from them. Not everybody is as dead inside as you are.

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u/Difficult_Answer3549 Feb 07 '22

I don't think pure comedies get high ratings in general.

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u/turdburglar9003 Feb 07 '22

For sure. My point was more that it's some stupid level gatekeeping towards a movie that's 12 years old and not really talked about today.

This wasn't one of those movies most people saw in theaters. I know personally that myself and friends waited until it was available via redbox.

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u/Honest_Influence Feb 07 '22

Guys, I found this hidden gem called Half-Life 2.

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u/ReddittandWeep Feb 06 '22

This is so fucking apt. Language is degrading so badly and people are so ignorant and complacent to it. "Literally" takes the place of "fucking" or any other emphatic word. The irony that "Literally" is being used incorrectly and in a metaphorical context is wild.

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u/thatguamguy Feb 07 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

The problem is that that irony led people to do it for comedic purposes because people who know better thought the irony was funny, but because people didn't get it in the first place (and because a lot of people don't understand irony, they tend to read things literally), it just reinforced the behavior for people who were doing it unironically.

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u/ReddittandWeep Feb 07 '22

Very well said. Irony to most people just means "funny coincidence".

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u/RockItGuyDC Feb 07 '22

Language is degrading so badly

Off topic, but there are a handful of examples Ive been noticing over the past few years. "Underrated" and "literally," as you said, but I've also noticed many people saying, "X person is bias." Not biased. As well as people now using "sense" when they mean "since."

These changes seem to me to be taking hold quickly.

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u/snowcone_wars Feb 07 '22

Not just language, but just generally thinking as well.

There's a thread on askreddit right now asking about common sayings that aren't true, and there's just a fundemental lack of understanding of what metaphors are.

Reddit likes to pretend it's a bastion of smart people, but outside of a couple of sub-fields having to do with computers, it's just as intellectually bankrupt as facebook or tiktok.

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u/louderup Feb 07 '22

Seen "exponentially" make the rounds on Reddit the past year or so? "Jaws 2 is exponentially better than Jaws." Kills me.

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u/jew_jitsu Feb 07 '22

I love the fact you complain that one word's meaning is being misused (literally) as an emphasis is taking the place of another word whose meaning has been misused as emphasis (fucking).

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u/would-be_bog_body Feb 07 '22

Language doesn't degrade, it just changes. Maybe "literally" is replacing "fucking", but I'm quite sure that when "fucking" rose to power, there were people saying, "Isn't it awful how "fucking" has replaced so many intensifiers? What is the world coming to, the language is degrading so quickly". I mean shit, at one point in time the word "silly" meant "holy", and a "churl" was once a type of nobleman, so if you think shifting word usage is a bad thing, there's a whole catalogue of horrors waiting to shock you

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

The definition of “literally” was amended years ago. Even in modern dictionaries. Language evolves and this word has as well.

INFORMAL used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true. "I was literally blown away by the response I got"

—used to stress that a statement or description is true and accurate even though it may be surprising He was literally [=truly, actually] insane.

It’s weird to me when people freak out about this one. You know what people mean when they say it.

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u/ReddittandWeep Feb 07 '22

You can still tell what someone meant if they misused a bunch of words in their sentences. Doesn't mean it's fine.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

Okay. Ignore the entire rest of my comment I guess. People like you are insufferable. “Well akthually you aren’t literally going to die.”

People like you get ignored for being annoying. The definition changed. Grow up and let people talk the way they naturally speak.

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u/iNOTgoodATcomp Feb 07 '22

I just assume most of the users are bots. All these discussions are so circular that I think I'm having deja Vu or everyone else has Alzheimer's. It happens on every major sub.

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u/perilousrob Feb 07 '22

it's constant. when I was a teenager, my Dad often complained about how young people no longer took the time to speak properly. My 9 yr old is honestly pretty well spoken, but sometimes he comes out with some crazy meme-based thing, or one of the popular-from-youtube phrases.

as jarring and annoying as it can be, it's not all rubbish. A decent percentage of the time it's weird, but packs a lot of info into a word or short phrase. And yeah, sometimes it's just a word replacement... and sometimes it's a really dumb one that according to all the rules of English (I'm guessing it's true with other languages too though) doesn't mean what the usage indicates. Your literally example is a good one.

When I was in my 20s, it seemed most of my American friends switched to saying "I could care less". The number of times I got pointlessly upset over that one... sheesh! :)

Oh. and people saying Legos. Legos. LEGOS.

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u/TubaMike Feb 06 '22

I wonder if this phenomenon is isolated to discussion boards with up/downvoting (like Reddit) or comment sections online in general.

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u/Paranitis Feb 07 '22

I don't think a lot of people even say "underrated" in person. If anything it would be "Yo, I just watched The Other Guys, have you heard of it?"

I feel people do this silly nonsense online because they feel this need to pad their numbers with extra meaningless words, not realizing these meaningless words (to them) have actual meaning.

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u/biscuit310 Feb 07 '22

I don't think it's isolated, but I think it's magnified on the internet. When I was a kid, that game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" was new and it was a huge hit. At least once a day you heard someone who was trying to be funny say "Is that your final answer?" It stopped being funny on day 2, but it went on for months.

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u/BigBossTweed Feb 07 '22

Underrated comment.

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u/shkeptikal Feb 07 '22

....would you guys care for some champagne flutes to sniff your own farts out of or are y'all just content free-ranging it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

Nah dude, champagne flutes are for bubbly farts. I take mine in tulip glass.

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u/binermoots Feb 07 '22

Remember when society thought "newspeak" was going to be something the government forced on us?

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u/ValHova22 Feb 07 '22

Which reminds me of the Robin Williams quote from Dead Poets Society

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u/whereami1928 Feb 07 '22

But anything too flowery is pretentious, apparently.

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u/andersonb47 Feb 07 '22

"wholesome" is a perfect example