Whenever I think of the Exorcist, I can't help but think of Richard Pryor on SNL as the priest and Regan saying to him "Your momma sews socks that smell!!"

NDRU said:

Yes!!!!!

abierman said:

if this movie is ANYTHING like Team America, i'm there!

Anxiety said:

I totally hear you.

I read the book when I was like 10 years old. My teachers kept saying "Um....I don't think you should be reading that...."

I wouldn't see the movie. I used to hear the commercials come on (the song Tubular Bells) and I would run out of the room.

It's funny 'cause my late best friend Francisco and I used to watch this movie over and over. We were obsessed by it. My friends and I say that Francisco is still around watching over us. This was definately the case when I went to London 3 months ago. I was going to my plane boarding gate and there it was. VIRGIN AIRLINE - Tubular Belle. They name all of their planes. I was like "Yep, Francisco's joking with me!"

Needless to say there was turbulence the ENTIRE trip.

I'm sorry to ramble.

Anxiety said:

same.

i do get some sense of being creeped out, but mostly by the MOOD of it and the cinematography.

the actual "scary" stuff doesn't really bother me too much. like you, i wasn't allowed to watch it for years, and when i finally did i wasn't that scared by it. could be that i imagined it being so much worse than it was. or it could be that by that point, it had been spoofed so much that heads spinning around and the pea soup super soaker scene were just silly.

meow85 said:

AnckSuNamun said:

And that makes it more right to him to insult other jews?

I like you buddy, but I think you are being a bit too sensitive on this one. Parody is supposed to be polically incorrect. I haven't heard anything racist about the film and it has gotten decent reviews.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

I'm with you. America, FUCK YEAH!

seems like ben stiller jumped the shark after the The Cable Guy.

I was greatly disappointed by Tropic Thunder.
Not for being offensive, but just not being that funny.

HiinEnkelte said:

THANK YOU!!! I don't really care about the supposedly offensive bits, ofending for the sake of trying to offend, the movie just wasn't fucking funny to me.

Stymie said:

i really didn't want it to be so,
but i got to admit i thought is sucked.
good ideas ruined, a potential funny moment destroyed by the bordering crap moments.

jack black was just wasted.

Gimmesomehorns said:

no, but it helps to take the pressure off of the lit. I believe in this day & age it is alright to approach cerain things with a comical view on it, religion is one of those. Stiller is a product of Hollywood and therefore pretty mainstream. Heck, Hollywood is full with jewish executive people, do you think they would give him the money to make a movie that is truely insulting the jewish religion & culture??

People should lossen up a bit! Jewish people have a great sense of humor, the best jokes I have heard about jewish people were told by jewish friends of mine!
[Edited 8/26/08 2:11am]

Am I a bad person because I thought there were many funny moments? I think thre were so many UN PC moments, but that was the point. I didn't take the movie seriously at all.

abierman said:

Exactly, it does make a difference if you're poking fun at yourself or at someone else. Some of Chris Rock's jokes might be really offensive if they were told by a white guy, but funny as hell when coming from him.

Or Homer Simpson watching the Def Comedy Jam and laughing hysterically at a joke about how white people drive and saying "It's true, we're so lame!!!"

Maybe the movie is not funny, but I'll take my humor tasteful, tasteless, shallow, deep, offensive, innocent--as long as it's funny!

Anxiety said:

I'd say it's almost in the same vein. I think that people find the Black Face and the Retarded bits to be pretty offensive, though I don't feel they are projecting it in an offensive way. The Black Face is done with Robert Downey Jr who is considered to be the accomplished/skilled actor they are bringing in to add credibility to the movie they are making which stars the Jack Black character who is a train wreck with boozing and drugs and Ben Stillers character who hasn't had any good roles since the one in which he played a retarded guy. Downey Jr's character is "getting into character" for the role. And to some funny moments NEVER leaves it (actually says he stays in character until the movie comes out on DVD. Sure there are jokes that are bounced off of these situations, but the UN PC moments come from the plot are are really not offensive once you get past whats going on.

At least that's my take on it.

superspaceboy said:

yeah, haven't seen it, but the concept to me is to make fun of hollywood actors and hollywood in general. Instead of casting a black man they would let a white man play a black man in a "triumphant" role ala Meryl Streep and her accents, or the ubiquitous "retarded" role that Tom Hanks, Sean Penn, Leo Dicaprio (who's cred is totally base on that role) have made so goddamn annoying

83% per Rotten Tomatoe, not too bad.

NDRU said:

There's great line from the Black Actor who co-stars with them that speaks to this. I actually think Tom Hanks is brought up as well.

TMPletz said:

Me too!

beats Stiller any day.

NDRU said:

To be fair to DiCaprio, roles in movies like the Basketball Diaries and Total Eclipse bring him a fair amount of cred too, not just Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

meow85 said:

yeah, and he was in some movie about a boat or something what did pretty good.

Anxiety said:

haha, I don't mean he hasn't had success. But whenever anyone talks about him as an actor of note, they say "he was great in Gilbert Grape!"

Otherwise, he is Sorsese's babe, but I haven't loved him in anything. He's making good choices as an actor though. He' wants to be great.

Yeah. The movie was totally boring (except the opening ads, that was pretty brilliant). It wasn't even very politically incorrect.

Anxiety said:

Yeah....pretty sure that one didn't fetch him any cred.


"You jump, I jump, right?"


God, what a silly movie.

meow85 said:

Keanu Reeves has had great success, too. Did you think Leo was great in Titanic? Or was he just good enough?

NDRU said:

I loved Titanic when it first came out, but looking back the whole thing is just dumb. Leo's okay in it, but the material's not that good to start with.

meow85 said:

yeah it's a good movie like terminator 2 is a good movie.

Obviously Leo has some cred as an actor, he's okay and does decent (very successful) movies, but I think for a long time people remembered that he was so great in Gilbert Grape & overlooked that he's only been movie-star good since then, not amazing performance good.

But that's just my opinion of course. Martin Scorsese seems to like him. But that makes me wonder if he's lost it

NDRU said:

Who? Scorsese or DiCrapio?? Scorsese is trying to do with Leo what he has done with DeNiro or Harvey Keitel a long time ago. I doubt that it will work as nowadays the climate in Hollywood has changed, with its mass output of movies and the gazillion stars that are walking around.....

on paper it looked like great fun, but then I saw the preview
before The Dark Knight the other day and unfortunately it seems
totally unfunny, so I´ll pass