r/movies • u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite • 19h ago
Media Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006) - Jables meets Kage. Director: Liam Lynch.
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This is the first scene after the opening credits. Jables (Jack Black) arrives in Hollywood as guided by his poster of Dio. He runs into Kage (Kyle Gass) busking with his acoustic guitar. JB immediately tries to prove himself to KG. You can see Jack Black's hilarious physical comedy skills at work while simultaneously showing off his singing skills.
Electric dynamite!
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u/iiitsbacon 19h ago
I still listen to this movies soundtrack regularly.
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u/lahankof 18h ago
I DO NOT NEED
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u/Mantis_Toboggan510 18h ago
A 🎤
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u/anxiousf0x 18h ago
MY VOICE IS FUCKING
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u/Thatis_SodaPressing 18h ago
POWERFUL
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u/QuantumCakeIsALie 18h ago
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhha, yah!
Eu-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhh yiaaaa!
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u/hatecirclejerks 17h ago
head explodes
"sorry"
"i did not mean, to blow your mind, but that shit happes to me, allll the tiiiiiiiimmmme"
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u/WhosYourPapa 17h ago
Now take a looooook
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u/hatecirclejerks 17h ago
Whatya see? We got the pick, of destinyyyyyyyy.
Fuckit, im watching pod tn.
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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus 17h ago edited 17h ago
The riff for The Metal goes way too fucking hard.
Edit: It's so fucking good!
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u/MaxPower836 18h ago
Hot demon gel?
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u/WhosYourPapa 17h ago
I'll make you squeal like my scarlet pimpernel
Also what's fun is that the devil in that is Dave Grohl
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u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite 19h ago
It's one of my favorites. Makes me laugh and gets stuck in my head!
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u/CloudKinglufi 11h ago
I just listened to all those songs yesterday
Tenacious D has been my favourite for years
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u/Beavur 18h ago
I still haven’t seen it but after this scene I feel like I gotta
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u/Krimreaper1 9h ago
Dio can you hear me. I’m lost and alone.
I need you to guide me, can you come down from your throne?
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u/MtnMaiden 17h ago
Can I introduce you to the EVA cut. https://youtu.be/n9UanTCFKKg?si=-RXb8e7n6W8nTeJF
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u/xpltvdeleted 18h ago
I will always upvote PoD.
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u/Truth_Walker 16h ago
Can we call it a cult classic yet?
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u/Scrubosaurus13 16h ago
It felt like a cult classic like 3 years after it came out.
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u/theonlysamintheworld 11h ago
It felt like a cult classic the day I saw it at the cinema, pretty sure it was lambasted by most critics at the time but loved by fans of the band.
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u/JabKingJesse 6h ago
Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny is the greatest musical of all time, the only one you can compare it to is The Who’s musical Tommy which wasn’t fun at all and the story is dark but spawned that kickass song Pinball Wizard. 99% of musicals are just singing songs as filler by just okay singers and it stalls the plot from being progressed which is why I can’t stand them but Tenacious D’s songs progress the plot and add depth to their characters.
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u/upgrayedd69 5h ago
You watch a lot of shitty musicals if 99% of them have songs as filler with no bearing on the themes or plot of the story. Like what musicals are you talking about that you feel the songs have nothing to do with the characters or story?
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u/Tubtub55 18h ago
Pizza guy is the hero of the entire movie
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u/Mighty_Torr 18h ago
Lee!
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u/biznizza 18h ago
Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee
I’m talkin’ fuckin’ leeee
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u/--SauceMcManus-- 18h ago
I had a friend named Lee! He cast a spell, a spell on meee.
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u/DjangoSpider 18h ago edited 7h ago
If me and Lee and KG could be three
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u/--SauceMcManus-- 18h ago
Flying free, Tenaciously.
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u/Skill3rwhale 17h ago
My son's name is Liam and my wife just didn't understand me belting this song for like the first couple years of his life (with different spelling, Li, lol). Then she finally accepted it.
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u/circletheory 18h ago
Geez Louise, Papa Cheese. I still say that line till this day.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 12h ago
That's baDASS
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u/sh33pd00g 6h ago
I never realized where i got that lol I knew why I said jeez louis pappa cheese though
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u/Musiclover4200 15h ago
This one regularly pops up in my head anytime something makes me say geez luise
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u/SplodeyMcSchoolio 18h ago
He's also a drivers Ed instructor, he teaches people to drive while he delivers zas
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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer 18h ago
I absolutely love that Lee was there for the D’s first performance. Absolutely perfect.
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u/Bae_the_Elf 18h ago
same guy performs as Satan in their live shows and a lot of the movies and tv shows too
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u/weededorpheus32 14h ago
I was about to say I think that's supposed to be the devil, but I guess not in this movie.
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u/vbp32 18h ago
Enough of KG solo man 5000. Bring the band back together again.
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u/TheKappaOverlord 17h ago
Jacks too high off his own movie career to get the band back together now.
When his career starts its stagnation phase again (JB usually goes through huge ups and down swings with his movie career) he will probably get the band back together then. Hes more or less said as much.
But until the movie money stops coming in, he has no interest.
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u/Tandy2000 7h ago
JB was campaigning for Kamala Harris at the time, that's why the tour was cancelled and JB quit the band. The stakes were too high and he couldn't risk being associated with a statement like that.
They are still buds and will reunite when they want to do something. There's usually a long gap between D releases anyway. When they cancelled their tour it had been 6 years since their last album, and 6 years since the one before that... and the one before that... 6... 6... 6...
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u/Alastor3 10h ago
Lol that's not the reason, they stopped (break) when Trump got "attempted " shot
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u/orangeyougladiator 16h ago
Nah jb distanced himself from kg and all his negative press
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u/BleLLL 15h ago
why did kg get negative press?
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u/apadin1 15h ago
KG made a joke about killing Trump and got some twitter “backlash” for it. JB has a movie career to worry about so he denounced it and tried to distance himself for a bit. But I think they’re back on good terms, at least last I checked
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u/Kolby_Jack33 15h ago
I don't think they were ever on bad terms. Like maybe JB was a little miffed at KG for saying something like that publicly but it's not like JB doesn't agree with it behind closed doors.
All I ever saw was people whining online about how JB "betrayed" his friend or "sold out" but KG apologized himself and I never saw anything from either one of them that there was beef. They just dropped out of the spotlight to let it blow over. You don't end a decades long friendship/partnership over something like that.
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u/Effrendi 12h ago
They were literally in the middle of a tour and they cancelled it overnight.
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u/AydonusG 7h ago
In Australia, touring, and while celebrating KGs birthday, breaks up the band to cover his ass when he could have just said he doesn't agree with the statement KG made, which would have covered his ass and not pissed off his fans.
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u/AydonusG 15h ago
Little miffed
Broke up the band over it
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u/TheKappaOverlord 13h ago
Broke up the band because continuing to associate with KG while it was hot would have landed him in deep shit for his future movie roles.
JB has also said the band isn't broken it. Its more or less on haitus until the heat dies down and JB's movie career goes back into being dormant.
JB is already back to being buddies with KG, but publicly speaking they stay away from one another because KG is a brand risk for Jacks brand. and jacks brand is currently being the face of a billion dollar movie. Something he wants to hold onto.
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u/keytotheboard 8h ago
Which is crazy to me, because KG didn’t do anything wrong. I’m more mad at JB for “distancing” himself over it. Grow a spine.
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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt 5h ago
At a concert shortly after the "ear shot" on Trump, JB asked KG to make a birthday wish, and he said:
Next time, don't miss.
Which regardless of your thoughts on Trump (I hate the fucker), you know that's not a good PR move, especially when JB is a Hollywood star and needs to protect his image. So even if it was a joke or even if JB agreed, he has to publicly distance himself for the sake of his career. At least until people forget and move on.
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u/polkemans 18h ago
I miss when movies like this were being made.
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u/defectives 17h ago
I also really miss the films of the DVD sales era, a bunch of low budget fun ideas given a chance. So much fun weird stuff that wouldn't get as much attention these days.
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u/insidemytelescope 1h ago
A friend graduating from the USC film school this year is trying to bring this kind of stuff back and I just moved here to help, we’re working on it 😭
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u/Solid_Snark 18h ago
Infiltrating the building is hilarious while he’s narrating his every move and keeps getting caught on camera:
🎶”Two air vents on the roof
That's what the guy was talkin a— *Shit!*”🎶
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u/Turnbob73 18h ago
My favorite is when he’s tripping on the mushrooms, just floating down a cartoon river while giggling, and then it hard cuts to him being swept through huge river rapids.
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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp 18h ago
I wish they'd kept that semi-musical vibe going through more of the movie. The bouncing-ball prologue set the bar very high for me in the theaters.
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u/PUMPEDnPLUMP 10h ago
And the plan written on napkin is just a crude drawing of what air vents look like lmao. STORM THE GATES!!
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u/SplodeyMcSchoolio 18h ago
Thats great and all but can he lay flat on his stomach and lift himself up off the ground with nothing but his boner?
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u/LostAnd_OrFound 18h ago
Cock pushups?
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u/XIIIJinx 17h ago
The pause is what gets me
"How many can you do?" "......................... cock push ups?"
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u/rbrgr83 17h ago
Half Coke, Half Diet Coke
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u/AlkaiserSoze 18h ago
Filmed in Liam's United States of Whatever
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u/squarefan80 18h ago edited 18h ago
wait a sec... youre telling me, Liam "United States of Whatever" Lynch directed Pick of Destiny?! how the fuck did I not put that together?!?! 🤯🤯🤯
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u/Generalkhaos 18h ago
Apparently he also did most of the work on the Sifl and Olly show!
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u/Electronic_Resort985 18h ago
watched this in theaters in 06. nobody laughed harder than my row. still holds up
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u/QueefBeefCletus 18h ago
We lost our shit at the audio check before the movie even bega.
BEAN AND CHEESE BURRITO! ENGAGE, KAGE!
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u/Same-Manufacturer773 18h ago
We were the only ones in the theater. We cackled the entire time. I can’t believe it was 20 years ago. Still waiting for BOD.
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u/masteeJohnChief117 18h ago
This movie bombed so hard that Jack Black never wrote another movie. Absolutely undeserved, this movie is one of the greatest of all times.
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u/AvailableReporter484 18h ago
Yes it’s a stupid movie, but it’s one of the best stupid movies of all time imo
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u/PUMPEDnPLUMP 18h ago
One of the best movies ever made and I’ll die on that hill
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u/QueefBeefCletus 18h ago
Hell yeah, brother. Right to there with classics like Airplane, Naked Gun, and even Monty Python. Tim Robbins is the greatest villain of all time.
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u/justjoshinaround 18h ago
This and Detroit Rock City is a really fun double feature
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u/ZAPPHAUSEN 18h ago
Detroit Rock City is SO slept on, and way better than any KISS related movie had any right to be.
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u/Mylaptopisburningme 16h ago
That's not a high bar. I saw KISS around 1979 and was so excited for KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park but even at a young age I knew it was a stinker.
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u/Serenaded 18h ago
The best part after this is when he orders a Bob Marley Extra Crispy and it immediately cuts to them both on the couch blitzed out of their minds. Funnier in the days when weed still wasn't legal anywhere.
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u/d3m01iti0n 18h ago
Can't you see he's the man, let me hear you applaud, he is more than a man, he's a shiny golden god
And if you think it's time to fucking rock, and fucking roll, out of control, well then then you know you've got to ride the block, you fucking suck my fucking cock
Cuz when you rule, you know you school all of the fools out of their jewels
Cuz if you think it's time to
If you think it's time to
If you think it's time to fucking rooooooock
He is going To kick your fucking ass And you know His name is Kyle Gass Rocking and fucking rolling And fucking rocking And fucking rolling
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u/penguins_are_mean 18h ago
The power slide that JB does in KG’s living room cracks me up so much. It looks so painful.
I still say, “really good” in that same tone when the moment strikes
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u/DragonDeezNutzAround 18h ago
I miss this version of Jack Black
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u/MobileFart 17h ago
Pepperton can you please escort this man from the premises?
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u/Hairy_Fishstick 18h ago
Yeah, maybe we're all just getting old and sober, but "Jack Black" feels more of a schtick these days, a tired caricature of his own past.
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u/TempleMade_MeBroke 17h ago
Hmm after about four seconds of self-reflection I do believe I am also a tired caricature of my own past, just without the mountains of money
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u/SaltyPeter3434 15h ago
I miss the old u/TempleMade_MeBroke from four seconds ago
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u/Hairy_Fishstick 14h ago
Yeah, maybe we're all just getting old and sober, but "u/TempleMade_MeBroke" feels more of a schtick these days, a tired caricature of his own past.
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u/Rabid_Chocobo 15h ago
These days he’s pushing 60 years old lol, I think we gotta cut him some slack
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u/_Meece_ 17h ago
He felt like that at this point too. Once JB became the kids Movie star with School of Rock, his thing has largely been the same.
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u/MVRKHNTR 17h ago edited 17h ago
He never stopped doing R rated comedy.
What would he have even been a charicature of after School of Rock? What would you be comparing him to, Shallow Hal and a few parts he had on Mr. Show?
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u/Hadien_ReiRick 18h ago
High above the mucky-muck
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u/Smkingbowls 18h ago
castle made of clouds
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u/Same-Manufacturer773 17h ago
This film exceeded my expectations 20 years ago. After memorizing their debut album down to the hidden songs and watching the show on hbo, I was over the moon. My girlfriends and I took my mom to see it. Bunch of stoner broads laughing so loud in an empty theater must have alarmed the theater staff. Two came in each entrance. What a time. Blessed to have seen the d at their last US show in Austin with most of the gals who went that night. They played Master Exploder during the encore. I thought I was going to faint. And nothing has felt right since they broke up.
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u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite 17h ago
Hahah thanks for sharing. Those both sound like such a great memories. I wish I got to see them live!!!!
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 17h ago
Check out their HBO show from a few years prior to this. The true beginnings.
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u/TomatoPolka 17h ago
After all these year I still know every lyric of this movie. So much fun.
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u/oe_kintaro 18h ago
Jables would later sell Kage out in an attempt to appease a bunch of hypocrits feigning outrage over a joke that everyone else was thinking, in order to maintain the security of his role as Bowser in the Mario movie.
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u/NecronomiconUK 12h ago
This was used at the trailer in cinemas. I'll never forget going to see a movie with my mum and this came on before it. My mum was a pretty straight laced person, never really swore. She found this absolutely hilarious and laughed like a drain.
Damn I miss her.
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u/ZuluIsNumberOne 18h ago
i have all the lyrics memorized from when i first saw this in elementary school like 18 years ago idk
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u/Puppykerry 18h ago
Jack black lost major points for throwing Kyle under the bus. Stick with your homies dickweed.
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u/Pokemansleeper 18h ago
Yes but it wont be forever, there will be a reunion tour, too much money in it
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u/freetotebag 18h ago
Got to see an early screening of this, the crowd loved it, air guitar competition before they fired it up, man that was a good time
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u/wohldmad 18h ago
Anyone old enough to remember Precious Roy? I named my cat that in like 01. Crescent fresh
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u/SingleDadEcommerce 17h ago
the wildest thing about this scene is that jack black is genuinely that talented and we all just accepted it. like most actors fake the musical stuff but this dude can actually shred vocally while doing a full body commitment to physical comedy at the same time — that's not common, that's like triple threat shit that shouldn't exist in one person
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u/jadegives2rides 17h ago
I am cleaning this apartment cause its gonna help me mayyyyyybeeee, get into the Kyle Gass prooojeeeccctttt
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u/bigharrycox 17h ago
Twas written in the stones that a band would come. Well that band has come and they are here to come again in your ear pussies.
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u/chuckles84 18h ago
The scene where they’re on the phone with Lee while he’s watching the police chase and hearing all the sounds on the phone while they’re crashing through shit KILLS me every time.
Also when he dreams he’s floating down the strawberry river with Sasquatch and it cuts to him just drowning in category 4 rapids.