So they’ve gotten to you too!
Quite honestly, the first time I saw the trailer, it didn’t even dawn on me that it was leaning one way or another. That is, I certainly didn’t see it and say, “aha, those dirty conservatives …”
I saw the obvious spoof of Michael Moore, but I took it as more of a spoofing a spoofable public character, like Paris Hilton or OJ Simpson or something.
The only knee-jerk opinion I formed was what I said before – another fucking A Christmas Carol re-work?
Not to mention that my kids loved the original Scary Movie spoof and they made me watch it (and actually the first one wasn’t that bad, only because it hadn’t really been done like that in quite a while). And now there is this myriad, legion, plethora, sea, ocean of really bad spoof movies and I’m getting sick to death of them on that criteria alone.
Politics didn’t come into it for me when making a snap-judgment. It was my anti-shitty-spoof-movie nerve that was struck
It really is a tired genre, isn’t it?
It’s just so laughable that conservatives can find so little to criticize that they have to go after Michael Moore again and again, ad nauseum.
Not just Spike Lee. It happened to Howard Stern’s Private Parts (pretty sure this was proven somehow but I wouldn’t even know where to start looking for a cite) and ISTR it happening to Fahrenheit 9/11 (ditto re: cite.) It’s not that uncommon. I think we’ve even had threads around here where cinema employees have said it happens. It doesn’t even have to be out of politics - the theatre gets a different take on different movies at different times in their run.
No, by his logic they should have declared war on Canada and treated Canadians like they wanted us all dead. They should have extended most privileged nation status to us.
The good news is that forcing laughter is a very good way to build lung capacity. Why, Sean Hannity can inflate a hot water bottle.
This Texan isn’t angry with Moore at all. And shares Natalie Mains’ opinion of W.
And is really amused when the usual rightwing dunderheads froth at their mouths about successful filmmakers & musicians who don’t share their reverence for idiocy.
Read more about Texas here…
As opposed to unique and creative ways to misspell “Bush” and “McCain”?
Sampiro pointed out your error in #34, but apparently you missed that post.
If you’re going to use an historical example, getting the dates wrong by several decades doesn’t help your argument.
Yeah, anger at a filmmaker is exactly comparable to anger at the people who are actually running the country. This is just another arm of the culture war. Don’t look at the man behind the curtain – the guy who is really affecting your life; instead, froth at the mouth over someone who hates America.
I saw it. I smiled a lot. I laughed some. I cringed during the 1968 musical number. I wish it had been a better movie. It was OK. Wait for the DVD or a TV showing.
Judge Dennis Hopper blasting away at Zombie ACLU lawyers trying to tear the Ten Commandments off the courthouse wall was pretty cute.
Leslie Nielsen is showing his age. Thinking I may put him on the 2009 Celebrity Death List.
Or come up with a zinger that you think is clever but everyone else rolls their eyes at? Is that what you mean? 'Cause that’s what I mean.
Wassa matter? No sense of humor?
Gads. I watched the entire Naked Gun trilogy (which had a ton of politically incorrect, scathing, and just plain friggin’ weird moments), and I found them all dependably funny. Now the same creative team has come up with…this.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to watch it if I thought it’d be any good. I’ve always been a sucker for parody. But everything I’ve heard about this has set off my alarm bells:
- Michael Moore (Malone). Total, total cop out. They picked someone who they knew conservatives would despise and loathe and hate and believe any and all bad press about despite anything he’s actually done.
- And they may as well have gone with a generic liberal or even an outright strawman, as Moore has never been blatantly anti-American. The idea that refusal to see any kind of flaws with one’s country is treasonous, or even at all wrong, is utterly ridiculous and should’ve been dead and buried even before Dubya’s reelection. (Also echo Cisco’s sentiments here.)
- What’s with the extremely tired victim mentality? Dubya has been in power since 2000, and until 2006 has been aided by a compliant Republican Congress. THEY were the ones who got us into an unspeakable boondoggle in Iraq, didn’t do a thing to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice, set up illegal wiretaps, torture rooms, Guantanamo etc. etc., not a filmmaker who’s done more to improve peoples lives than all these reporbates put together. Isn’t it time we all realized that in the grand scheme of things, slightly slanted documentaries and badly run colleges just aren’t that freaking important?
- Bringing up World War 2, and seemingly ignoring EVER DAMN WAR America has been in since. This smacks of not only laziness, but utter cowardice. Yes, I think almost all of us can agree that World War 2 did a lot of good (and I’d also argue that the Korean War was positive on the balance). This isn’t the war millions of liberals have protested, let alone are protesting now. You want a conservative viewpoint? Bring Iraq into the picture. Explain to Mr. Malone how the lives that were lost and the billions spent were worth it. Turn him on THAT (and make it funny!), and you’ll have said something meaningful. I’m not paying seven bucks for a bunch of freakin’ motherhood statements.
I dunno, guys…I’ll forgive a lot in a movie for the sake of entertainment (note the positive reviews I gave to the Fast and the Furious movies on imdb.com), but it looks like this movie simply doesn’t have a clue. Frankly, I don’t think conservatives really have anything to work with on the humor front (a belief began, of course, with Mallard Fillmore).
Bargain bin pickup? Wait for a Blockbuster Video special? What do you think?
I think I’m going to watch the recently released DVD, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay rather than see this, it sounds like it’s actually funny and apolitical.