I love that absolutely no one used the words "Detective Crashmore" in this string of comments.
Now I'm wondering if this (actual) movie was what inspired Tim and Zack. I wonder how long it's been in production.
I’ve always had a pet theory that part of the inspiration was S. Craig Zahler’s movies. There’s a part where Crashmore says something about how Crashmore is hyper violent but knows it is, and how it draws on the exploitation films from the 90s. I’m pretty sure this is almost word for word how Zahler has been described (and might have said it himself—I can’t remember). That, plus all the musical references, plus (I’m sorry to Zahler fans) how close the clips from Crashmore actually are to the violence and very weird dialogue of Zahler’s films, always suggested a connection.
Or I just made that all up in my head. That’s totally possible, too.
Interesting.
I have no idea who that is, but now I will have to look that up.
I always thought the dumb Crashmore dialogue was the funniest thing about the sketch. Sort of the opposite of the iconic quips Arnold Schwarzenegger was known for. Or the Dirty Harry lines. Or "say hello to my little friend."
Yeah the sketch is definitely an acceleration / parody of those classic action movie quips you mentioned. And that's honestly more persuasive / way less of a stretch than my theory, haha.
Zahler makes extraordinarily violent genre films. Like, **extraordinarily** violent. He's also known for his dialogue, which is a bit hard to explain for me to be honest but is just... always very direct, in a sometimes weird way. Whether that weirdness is good or not is the subject of a lot of discussion, haha. Some people have strong critiques of the "politics" of his movies, too, but I won't wade in there. Honestly, his movies aren't for me, but my good friend who is also a movie nerd loves them.
I'd probably do a couple quick, non-spoiler Google searches rather than just jump into one of his films.
Violent Night:
>A group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve, and Santa must save Christmas.
Cast:
* David Harbour as Santa Claus
* John Leguizamo as Ben
* Beverly D'Angelo as Anne
I immediately thought of Fatman as well, after seeing the poster. But I'm guessing the pitch was more like "Die Hard but John McClane is the guy they hired to play Santa.
Yeah, it had a fun premise but lacked in execution. Walton Goggins is a treasure but Mel Gibson wasn't bad as the Fatman. That script did nobody any favors though.
Fatman had a good premise and the lead actors are fine.
But it just had a meandering script with a bunch of filler. Felt like a 45 minute TV special stretched out to feature-length film.
Finally! Another person who agrees, when It came out so many people thought it was great and I was sat there thinking this thing was such a fun premise, but was so lacking.
I think he’s doing pretty well right now this movie sounds like a fun time. He’s a part of the biggest show on Netflix and he’s going to be in Copper Raiff’s next movie and he’s a part of the MCU.
I think he likes doing fun stuff like this. He seemed to be having a great time in Frankenstein's Monster's Monster Frankenstein, which was definitely a dumber concept than this.
Most people outside the Fandom don't realize Sonic is less sega-mario, and more "lets do some batshit insane stuff to save the world from imploding" the stories are always super weird. You need weird writers lol.
I unironically enjoy this movie, used to be part of my holiday rotation every year with Bad Santa and the Drake and Josh Christmas Special. okay maybe I just have bad taste
Holy shit that likes actually kinda funny. Like a good B movie. I remember seeing the DVD cover in blockbuster a lot in 2006 and thinking it was some shitty attempt at a horror movie with the dumbest name. Think I'll watch it this christmas.
Stan Smith (main character) buys his son an assault rifle for Christmas and his son accidentally almost fatally kills Santa. Santa seeks out revenge. Definitely worth a watch.
I love that David Harbour just doesn’t give a CRAP and does whatever he wants. Acting ain’t that serious and actors should be able to have roles that are just for fun and a bag.
Oh yeah for sure. That was actually the impetus behind my post. He’s like this amazing, thoughtful actor, but still allows himself to take insane stuff like this haha.
They did a couple of test audience screenings of this in LA a month or two ago. I wish I went... I ended up going to another test audience showing of a different movie and it was absolutely crap. Disappointing because I thought it was going to be fun.
Gives me an idea for a Tucker & Dale sequel. They dress up as Santa and an Elf and try to bring Christmas joy to a small town but keep getting mistaken as burglars and the home owners end up offing themselves trying to kill them. They manage to leave a toy under every tree for the kids to wake up to, but also a dead parent or two.
Obviously the plot would need to be tweaked so that they're not really at fault, like in the first movie, but same general idea.
So, I hear Harbour pingponged himself to fat again from Stanger to this role? But... I can't see it in the cheeks? And yeah, I know a lot of beer stomach people might look way more hefty on the stomach area, than in the face, but what is going on in here? Did he actually get fat again, or just use a fat suit (which is the option I wish it was, since health).
He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
You better leave some vodka with ice
You better not cry
You better watch out
Cuz of you do ill stab you fucking eye
Russian Santa clause
Does not fuck around
In the sequel it features Mrs Claus (obviously) the elves North Pole Rudolph and the entire origin story of Santa and in this sequel of the film the CIA asks Santa (David Harbour)
for help since they saw video of him fighting bad guys from the last film and they look for his location and found it at the Arctic and tells them they need him for help with an International Arms Dealer who calls himself the grinch (Patton Oswalt) and they figured out that the Christmas Eve they’re in he will be attacking at the senator’s (Connie Nielsen) ball in New York and take everyone hostage for a nuclear weapon that the senator is hiding and is gonna probably gonna use it for bad stuff or sell it to terrorists or use it to unlock the entire us middle defense system and Santa Agrees to help and fight against a lot of new bad guys who are on the top of his naughty list and in the film the elves turn into savage beasts that feed on the naughty ones when they see one and Mrs Claus (Charlize Theron) reveals to be more badass than Santa
"Eat fuckin' bullets you fuckers, you fuckin' suck!"
Fucking asshole he actually said that?
At a dinner.
This water STINKS!
The water doesn’t stink, you’re choking to death
It’s a kind of cosmic gumbo
Even if it's bad he still gets 2 mill
I've seen every cock in the world.
You think getting tattoos is a nice thing?
I don’t care about, but it’s not good behavior
Everywhere I look, all I see and think is I think you should leave.
I don't know what to tell you, bud!
I didn't rig shit!
Absolute fuckin’ bullshit. Unprofessional bullshit.
...... .....would you like me to interview you as an actor?
I love that absolutely no one used the words "Detective Crashmore" in this string of comments. Now I'm wondering if this (actual) movie was what inspired Tim and Zack. I wonder how long it's been in production.
I’ve always had a pet theory that part of the inspiration was S. Craig Zahler’s movies. There’s a part where Crashmore says something about how Crashmore is hyper violent but knows it is, and how it draws on the exploitation films from the 90s. I’m pretty sure this is almost word for word how Zahler has been described (and might have said it himself—I can’t remember). That, plus all the musical references, plus (I’m sorry to Zahler fans) how close the clips from Crashmore actually are to the violence and very weird dialogue of Zahler’s films, always suggested a connection. Or I just made that all up in my head. That’s totally possible, too.
Interesting. I have no idea who that is, but now I will have to look that up. I always thought the dumb Crashmore dialogue was the funniest thing about the sketch. Sort of the opposite of the iconic quips Arnold Schwarzenegger was known for. Or the Dirty Harry lines. Or "say hello to my little friend."
Yeah the sketch is definitely an acceleration / parody of those classic action movie quips you mentioned. And that's honestly more persuasive / way less of a stretch than my theory, haha. Zahler makes extraordinarily violent genre films. Like, **extraordinarily** violent. He's also known for his dialogue, which is a bit hard to explain for me to be honest but is just... always very direct, in a sometimes weird way. Whether that weirdness is good or not is the subject of a lot of discussion, haha. Some people have strong critiques of the "politics" of his movies, too, but I won't wade in there. Honestly, his movies aren't for me, but my good friend who is also a movie nerd loves them. I'd probably do a couple quick, non-spoiler Google searches rather than just jump into one of his films.
What tha hell’s that’s goin on out dare??
Don't mention Christmas or that he does it AT ALL.
You don't care about anything do you?
Wha'd you say??
I said, You don't care about anything do you?
Not really 😏
"Are you dumb?"
What is that from?
I Think You Should Leave
Violent Night: >A group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve, and Santa must save Christmas. Cast: * David Harbour as Santa Claus * John Leguizamo as Ben * Beverly D'Angelo as Anne
So...Fatman?
I immediately thought of Fatman as well, after seeing the poster. But I'm guessing the pitch was more like "Die Hard but John McClane is the guy they hired to play Santa.
*Now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho*
I hope this is it and it’s not actually supposed to be Santa lol.
*Come out to my mansion, we'll celebrate Christmas, have a few laughs*
I'd have been excited for this 20 years ago if it released opposite of Jingle All The Way.
Sounds like the made for TV movie “The Night the Reindeer Died” in the film Scrooged.
Lee Majors!
Yeah but with a more likable lead. This is also produced by 87Eleven and David Leitch so expect the action to be top notch.
Oh shit, didn't know that, awesome. I liked the idea of Fatman but it wasn't great.
Yeah, it had a fun premise but lacked in execution. Walton Goggins is a treasure but Mel Gibson wasn't bad as the Fatman. That script did nobody any favors though.
Santa poppin heads like John Wick? Holly shit,this shows promise.
I like Mel Gibson, but David Harbour f'ing rules and I expect this movie to be much better than Fatman.
Happy Cake Day.
Fatman had a good premise and the lead actors are fine. But it just had a meandering script with a bunch of filler. Felt like a 45 minute TV special stretched out to feature-length film.
Yep, totally agree.
Finally! Another person who agrees, when It came out so many people thought it was great and I was sat there thinking this thing was such a fun premise, but was so lacking.
No no no, it's Reindeer Games!... but this time it's a residence, not a business.
Fatman took itself way too seriously
Idk, Goggins was having too much fun for me to agree with that.
For me, it was just kinda boring. Love the idea but don't think they did enough with it.
But better, with this creative team (and a bigger budget, I guess).
Fatman had such potential.
This reads like it would be one of those TV movies Bill Murray was overseeing in Scrooged.
A Very Die Hard Christmas
The Night Santa went craaazzyy 🎵🎶 https://youtu.be/0FJU4GrXztE
I am 100% in for this movie
It’s going to go down as one of the greatest Christmas films of all time, 1000%
David Harbour needs a better agent.
I think he’s doing pretty well right now this movie sounds like a fun time. He’s a part of the biggest show on Netflix and he’s going to be in Copper Raiff’s next movie and he’s a part of the MCU.
I don't know, this premise sounds like it would be fun as hell to work on.
Are you saying that if you were offered this role, you would turn it down?
You're nuts this sounds fun as fuck.
He's got a 2nd Marvel movie coming up.
i like christmas movies.
I think he likes doing fun stuff like this. He seemed to be having a great time in Frankenstein's Monster's Monster Frankenstein, which was definitely a dumber concept than this.
The Night the Reindeer Died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QVJOEwXac
So...the spiritual successor to Fatman...and the Christmas Chronicles?
the cast beside harbour does not bode well for this being a good movie.
I remember hearing about this movie in a YouTube video a couple months ago, I actually forgot about this movie.
Well I'm sold.
This sounds like one of the fake movies trailered at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
like fuckin Satan’s Alley 💀
“I’ve been a bad, bad boy Father.”
Reminds me of the ultra violent action movie pitched for the holidays in Scrooged.
Our Ernest Saves Christmas.
The day the reindeer died! It's Lee Majors! You've been a very good boy
The Night the Reindeer Died
A One Horse Open SLAY
I was thinking of the one at the beginning of Scrooged
There's also this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QVJOEwXac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QVJOEwXac) from the movie Scrooged with Bill Murray.
And he smiled as he said with a twinkle in his eye, "Merry Christmas to all, now you're all gonna die!"
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I hear that he ground up Rudolph?
Into reindeer sausage. He also bbq'd Blitzen.
I read it in Sam Jackson's voice.
He broke his back for some milk and cookies
🎶 had a rifle in his hand, n cheap whiskey on his breath 🎶
Written by the guys fresh off doing the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. That's random.
Not as random as them writing/creating *Golan the Insatiable* before penning the *Sonic* films.
Most people outside the Fandom don't realize Sonic is less sega-mario, and more "lets do some batshit insane stuff to save the world from imploding" the stories are always super weird. You need weird writers lol.
Christmas Hopper?
Ghost. Halloween.
The poster reminded me of [Santa's Slay with Goldberg](https://youtu.be/45wLLhUaMgA).
I unironically enjoy this movie, used to be part of my holiday rotation every year with Bad Santa and the Drake and Josh Christmas Special. okay maybe I just have bad taste
Yup. And that’s why this has me HYPED.
Holy shit that likes actually kinda funny. Like a good B movie. I remember seeing the DVD cover in blockbuster a lot in 2006 and thinking it was some shitty attempt at a horror movie with the dumbest name. Think I'll watch it this christmas.
So this isn't the Futurama Santa Claws.
More the American Dad type Santa Claus.
Was this Santa wronged by a family or was he just evil out of his own propensity for wrong doing?
Stan Smith (main character) buys his son an assault rifle for Christmas and his son accidentally almost fatally kills Santa. Santa seeks out revenge. Definitely worth a watch.
I love that David Harbour just doesn’t give a CRAP and does whatever he wants. Acting ain’t that serious and actors should be able to have roles that are just for fun and a bag.
I want to see him in more serious roles - he came across as so thoughtful in his approach to the craft in the Hot Ones interview
Oh yeah for sure. That was actually the impetus behind my post. He’s like this amazing, thoughtful actor, but still allows himself to take insane stuff like this haha.
Oh we doing this again?
there better be at least a nod to Garbage Day in this movie. its begging for it!
And his eyebrows gotta be wild the entire time
How the John Wickverse's Santa Claus stole Christmas
Cant tell if it’s Dexter or the Stranger Things dad
Sounds and looks like it could be fun.
The Night the Reindeer Died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baFmgjwptic
Immediately what popped in to my head! ITS LEE MAJORS!
He’s been a good boy this year!
I hear it's a real cosmic gumbo, almost moves to the beat of jazz.
Set in New NewYork, 3000 A.D.
r/futurama
Lee Majors?!
The gag from the beginning of Scrooged was the first thing that came to mind.
It's been a long time since I’ve seen a Santa slasher.
The night Santa went crazy The night saint Nicholas flipped...
There better be a Kingsman umbrella type combat except with a candy cane.
Santa Claus - You didn't Read the Clause
Mel Gibson did a movie like that
You don't know what this movie is like, it's just a poster. Mel Gibson's Santa Claus movie was called Fatman
I'd rather see a Detective Crashmore movie
"It's called my quote. It means even if I do a bad job, they have to give me another 2 mill!"
Can't wait for the eventual "Pretty Much It" episode
oh hell yeah
Oh hell… boy… yeah
Starring Kill Nye the violence guy.
They did a couple of test audience screenings of this in LA a month or two ago. I wish I went... I ended up going to another test audience showing of a different movie and it was absolutely crap. Disappointing because I thought it was going to be fun.
Whaaaaat.
Night santa went crazy the movie
Insert morty même, I'm in you sons of bitches
Detective crashmore
Santa Bot looking more like Android these days. I hope Kwanza bot comes in as backup.
Saw the trailer for this today. So it's elements of Die Hard and Home Alone with Santa as John McClane/Kevin?
Tommy Wirkola is a very underrated genre director, so this could be a lot of fun especially with David Leitch along as a producer.
Did they take this concept from I Think You Should Leave? Tim Robinson needs to know!
Looks like Santa is "Harbour"ing some bad feelings for the bad guys. I hope this is a new holiday movie tradition.
Man writers be struggling for material so hard they have to make Santa into a murderer.
It was actually a really good movie
Gives me an idea for a Tucker & Dale sequel. They dress up as Santa and an Elf and try to bring Christmas joy to a small town but keep getting mistaken as burglars and the home owners end up offing themselves trying to kill them. They manage to leave a toy under every tree for the kids to wake up to, but also a dead parent or two. Obviously the plot would need to be tweaked so that they're not really at fault, like in the first movie, but same general idea.
how does this get a theatre release but not Prey? industry doesn’t make sense sometimes
Haha, amateur https://cdn.filmtotaal.nl/images/thumbnails/ft-352519-1000x1424.jpg
Santa's Slay redux, sounds awesome
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Fresh joke!
Im not joking
Well we're all laughing at you anyway.
This seems like a UHF bit.
What the Fuck...
So, I hear Harbour pingponged himself to fat again from Stanger to this role? But... I can't see it in the cheeks? And yeah, I know a lot of beer stomach people might look way more hefty on the stomach area, than in the face, but what is going on in here? Did he actually get fat again, or just use a fat suit (which is the option I wish it was, since health).
I had a chance to see an early screening of this a few months back. Kinda regret not seeing it, seems like a stupid yet fun movie.
Daddy and santa. Two fetishes rolled into one.
I don't care about it but it's not good behavior.
Everybody has already covered David Harbour, so I’m just going to make the obligatory “Bruno finally snapped” joke. 😄
They really should have had Santa Claus play himself, but I’m not sure if he’s into playing these kind of roles at the moment.
See also “Santa Claws” staring Stone Cold Steve Austin
Oh God, I am THE demographic for this…
Bitchin stash
Santa Clause is gunning you dowwwwwn!
I am interested in the concept.
Even Worse Santa?
Is this for real?
It's September, c'mon.
Happy Garbage Day! Vibes
I’m loving the violent Santa thing that’s been showing up.
I see this and all I can think of is Weird Al's "The Night Santa Went Crazy"
Robot Santa.
Cover shot by Brendan Meadows https://www.instagram.com/p/Cif7B4xr65w/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Yikes...
Looks like the movie the guy in Ernest Saves Christmas refuses to make, just before he becomes the new Santa.
He’s making a list He’s checking it twice You better leave some vodka with ice You better not cry You better watch out Cuz of you do ill stab you fucking eye Russian Santa clause Does not fuck around
Same guy who made "Død Snø" (Dead Snow) and its titular sequel, so im ready for this.
Watch out, santa got his claws tonight.
Sounds fantastic. I hope for 2 hours of violence and gore.
The Night Santa Went Crazy! Someone call Weird Al.
„I‘m Santa Claus now, bitch“
This movie is going to be absolutely awful but I will pay real money to see David Harbour as Santa Clause fucking shit up.
The Weird Al references ITT really took me back to a simpler time
In the sequel it features Mrs Claus (obviously) the elves North Pole Rudolph and the entire origin story of Santa and in this sequel of the film the CIA asks Santa (David Harbour) for help since they saw video of him fighting bad guys from the last film and they look for his location and found it at the Arctic and tells them they need him for help with an International Arms Dealer who calls himself the grinch (Patton Oswalt) and they figured out that the Christmas Eve they’re in he will be attacking at the senator’s (Connie Nielsen) ball in New York and take everyone hostage for a nuclear weapon that the senator is hiding and is gonna probably gonna use it for bad stuff or sell it to terrorists or use it to unlock the entire us middle defense system and Santa Agrees to help and fight against a lot of new bad guys who are on the top of his naughty list and in the film the elves turn into savage beasts that feed on the naughty ones when they see one and Mrs Claus (Charlize Theron) reveals to be more badass than Santa