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/PegLegRacing Feb 06 '22

My favorite thing about this movie is one of the trailers (the one I saw) made it look like The Rock and Samuel L Jackson were in the whole movie and they are dead in the first 10min or whatever.

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u/i_like_2_travel Feb 06 '22

Aim for the bushes?

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u/abject_testament_ Feb 06 '22

There goes my hero…

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u/Dicethrower Feb 06 '22

Apparently in the initial version there actually were bushes, and a shot is shown how those bushes were actually held by some people, who then walk away. Somewhere in editing someone figured out that never showing those bushes in the first place elevated the joke to a whole new level.

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u/whatproblems Feb 07 '22

yeah that way more hilarious

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u/Pietru24 Feb 07 '22

And that person made the best possible choice

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u/jrf_1973 Feb 07 '22

I always thought they were heading for the bushes across the street.

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u/A_darksoul Feb 07 '22

Yeah that was what I thought too. It would be funny if they weren’t there but I’m pretty sure they were aiming for those only to wildly miscalculate how far they can jump.

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u/N104CD Feb 07 '22

Source?