[kj] OT Boycott the film Tropic Thunder

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The folk wot make them movies is retards, y'all!



--- On Fri, 15/8/08, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:


> From: Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT Boycott the film Tropic Thunder

> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

> Date: Friday, 15 August, 2008, 6:29 AM

> I've scratched my head (figuratively) every time

> I've seen the previews

> for it, the only funny thing I've noticed about it is

> the apparently

> unintentional resemblance Jack Black bears to Brian

> Dennehy. (I reckon

> Dennehy needs to be sent up the way Shatner, Hasslehoff,

> and Norris have.

> And Busey. Imagine having Dennehy for a Dad...you'd be

> fucked.)

> 

> Other than that I just don't get the joke, and comedies

> are generally my

> favourite movies. If what they have shown on the shorts are

> the pick of

> the bunch...hrm. I tend to agree with the comments about

> the offensive

> portrayal of intellectually disabled people.

> 

> PS: Talking about offensive comedy, was pleased to see

> George Carlin

> discussed in glowing terms during an interview on Letterman

> last

> night...and even more pleased to hear how many albums he

> has done, I only

> have a few.

> 

> > Robert Downey, Jr., who utters the objectionable word

> in the movie

> > ("retard") has even been mentioned as

> Academy Award material for this.

> > (In Tropic Thunder he plays a famous Australian actor

> who undergoes

> > radical cosmetic surgery to make himself into a US

> black man, and

> > changes his manner of speaking, etc., to make himself

> seem truly black,

> > unnerving his African-American co-stars). This plus

> Downey, Jr.'s

> > performance in Iron Man may make this his year...

> >

> > I am not sure how objectionable to find the movie yet,

> but from the

> > previews and reviews I have to admit it seems pretty

> funny, and I am

> > curious to see it. Anything that sends up the

> hackneyed conventions of

> > US war movies automatically makes me wanna see it.

> "Don't you die on me,

> > son!!" "I can't feel my legs,

> sarge!" and all that.

> >

> > -Oliver

> >

> >

> > Leigh Newton wrote:

> >> I'm kind of looking forward to checking it

> out. I like that it falls

> >> into a very exclusive and rare sub-sub-sub genre

> of movies which involve

> >> people in situations which they believe to be

> fabricated when they are,

> >> in fact......very real. See also: the Three Amigos

> and The Man Who Knew

> >> Too Little.

> >>

> >> Leigh

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >

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