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Mr. Beaks Is Raped In The Face By HAMLET 2!
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Once upon a time, Andrew Fleming co-wrote and directed DICK, an unusually smart political spoof in which two bubbly teenage girls (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) bring down the Nixon administration. It was an distinct change of pace for the man who'd previously brought us BAD DREAMS, THREESOME and THE CRAFT, and it was especially welcome at a time when the gross-out comedy was beginning to dominate production slates at every major studio (provided they weren't jammed up with Freddie Prinze Jr./Matthew Lillard two-handers - those were the days!).
Sadly, the rest of America had no use for a retro Nixon parody in 1999 (perhaps if he'd been into chunky interns...), so when DICK grossed a total of $6 million at the domestic box office, it was off to the salt mines (i.e. TV) with Fleming. He didn't resurface with another big screen effort until the 2003 remake of THE IN-LAWS, which I paid to see out of respect for his one good movie. Ow. Another four year hiatus ensued, and I made a point to not bother with last year's poorly received NANCY DREW. Clearly, DICK was a fluke.
Well, not quite. Though far from a return to form, HAMLET 2 has enough flashes of near-inspiration to suggest that Fleming isn't entirely out of good ideas; it's just a shame that you have to endure the film's crushingly unfunny first two acts to get to the laughs. Co-written with SOUTH PARK secret weapon Pam Brady, HAMLET 2 would like to be both a scabrous attack on red state ignorance and a snide tribute to the transformative power of sheer creative bankruptcy. Mostly, though, it comes off as a mean-spirited swipe at unsophisticated small-town folk by people who were too good (i.e. lucky) to ever earn a living outside of a major media center.
This venom is new for Fleming. Whereas DICK was a good-natured ridiculing of everyone caught up in the Watergate circus (including the glory-seeking duo of Woodward and Bernstein), HAMLET 2 is a vindictive knee to the nuts of every failed performer who ever settled for a meager paycheck as a high school drama teacher. On the plus side, said drama teacher is played by Steve Coogan, who's one of the most brilliant and versatile comedians on the planet. So while Fleming and Brady are greedily scoring goals on an empty net, Coogan, as the cuckolded Tucson educator Dana Marschz, is resourceful enough to keep you emotionally invested as his character spirals downward from a depth that would drive most normal people to suicide. Obviously, the role wasn't written with an eye toward nuance, but Coogan is relentless in his attempts to find something redemptive in the defeated soul of a jackass who lives and dies on the (ever disapproving) reviews of a fourteen-year-old theater critic (who fails to see the genius in Dana's staged recreations of Hollywood blockbusters like ERIN BROCKOVICH).
What could the woefully untalented Dana possibly do to impress this pint-sized Frank Rich? Probably nothing. But when the kid suggests that Dana try writing an original work, he creates a monster: "Hamlet 2". Ostensibly a sequel to the greatest play ever written in the English language, "Hamlet 2" is really the unfocused product of Dana's pent-up daddy issues. But the only way he'll ever get it produced is through the game efforts of the displaced hispanic students who've inadvertently fallen into his unpopular drama class. Obviously, they think he's a fool at first, but he eventually wins them over by appealing to their vanity - i.e. giving them meaty roles in the production. This preferential treatment cheeses off one of Dana's longtime students (Skylar Astin of SPRING AWAKENING), so, as payback, he slips the highly inappropriate text to the school's principal (the great, undervalued Marshall Bell). When the production gets shut down, Dana finds himself thrust into the middle of a First Amendment issue (and backed up by an opportunistic ACLU firebrand played by Amy Poehler).
Most of the controversy surrounding this musical sequel to HAMLET has to do with its portrayal of Jesus Christ, who's barged his way into the narrative as the literal representation of Dana's persecution complex. Aside from his failure as a dramatist, Dana must also contend with his emotionally abusive wife (Catherine Keener), who sees nothing of value in anything he does; basically, she's only hanging around because she finds Dana's colossal ineptitude amusing. In a way, she's a stand-in for Fleming and Brady, who seem to be getting off on the earnest incompetence and/or idiocy of their characters. This points up one of the screenplay's most annoying traits: as written, Dana is a hoot because he's untalented, not because he's sincere.
It's shooting gallery satire, and it's frequently dragged down by some very rough filmmaking (Fleming's tracking-shot attempt to capture the freneticism of rehearsal is a standout botch), but Coogan's such an inventive actor that you can't help but stay with the movie through to its final act - which is where it really starts paying off. The opening night performance of "Hamlet 2" is as bizarre and wonderful as a musical about a time-traveling Danish prince - who inexplicably crosses paths with the son of God - should be. The musical numbers are particularly infectious: "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" is a bouncy, "Greased Lightning"-inspired bit of blasphemy, "Raped in the Face" is a grabber for obvious reasons, and the climactic, gay male chorus warbling of Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (as Hamlet and Jesus set the world aright) is hysterical and oddly touching. It's one of the few moments where you feel the filmmakers trying to connect with their characters and, by extension, the audience; surprisingly, it's not too little, too late at all.
Cap it off with the best final line of any movie this year (hell, of any movie this decade), and you just might leave HAMLET 2 beaming. Welcome back (kinda), Andrew Fleming.
Faithfully submitted,
Mr. Beaks
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Idiot.
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And it's irrelevant if that's a song title from the movie. The article header is crass, stupid and unfunny, and you didn't even pretend to quote by sticking it in inverted commas as a get-out. You're better than this, frankly.
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Despite the word of mouth I keep hearing. I just don't care. The trailer kinda looked like crap.
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The Bard must be spinning in his grave right now.
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I have just senn the new Tom Cruise/Bryan Sanger film due Dec. 26th. Would Harry be interested in an opinion?
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Yeah that'll get'em into the theaters. Last thing anyone wants to think about is Hamlet. Hamlet is lame and boring and it reminds you of school.
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Are two missed paychecks away from doing porn...
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woah
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nevermind
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But how come I haven't heard anyone complaining about how they portray Jesus in this thing, but there were people all over Tropic Thunder because of "Simple Jack"?
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perhaps you should write an open letter to someone about it. That will fix things right.
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The reason nobody is out protesting Hamlet 2 is because when you protest Tropic Thunder, everyone immediately knows what movie you're talking about, whereas, if you protest Hamlet 2, everyone looks at each other, shrugs their shoulders and says, "errr... what?"
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are awful, no desire to see it beyond the suprisingly good word of mouth its been getting, who is steve coogan and why is he funny? he was the least funny thing about Tropic Thunder (small role granted)
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idiot
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...you would have a whole bunch of "unsophisticated small-town muslim folk" rioting and killing people in the middle east.
But nooooo...it's just Jesus. They can say whatever they want.
"Cough, DOUBLE STANDARD, Cough..."
That being said...I think Steve Coogan is one of the most brilliant comedic actors that I've seen come along in quite a while.
When people say, "Steve Coogan is great..." I get it. When people say "Danny McBride is great..." I don't get it. -
Are we gonna hear negative reveiws from every movie he sees because he thinks he can write it better at a failed script-writing career?!!
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Gangbang Flemming wrote the script for Nancy Drew? How lame is that?
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Aren't we talking more about Josh Flitter (Star of Nancy Drew) upcoming Ace Ventura sequel?
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There's no "Double Standarad" - I'd be happy to think it's a sign that the Christians around here simply aren't as trigger-happy as yer standard religious extremist (Insert your current most-despised Religious/Ethnic group here), and can tell when something was designed to be truly offensive, as opposed to just deliberately idiotic.
Although, we are still living in the same universe as dingbats that go boop-shooby over "Tropic Thunder" or "The Last Temptation of Christ".. -
Isn't it time to grow up a little? Does this film deserve an ugly line like that?
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the raped in the face line is from the movie, dumbasses.
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I sent the reveiew to Harry about the movie Valkyrie. Hope he prints it.
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Despite the fact it's a song in the movie, I'm gettin so fuckng tired of these rape-implying, "cum-bursting", goat-blowing, shock-effect titles of reviews. What are you people, fucking freshman in high school?? They're not fucking funny, they're just fucking disturbing. Just tell us it's a review, we'll click on it...or else get a more sophisticated sense of humor. (I hear they're on sale at Target)
I can't wait for your next review..."Quantum Of Solace fucks Beaks up the ass and leaves him for dead in Central Park". Ahhh, isn't that a nice title?
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Aug 22, 2008 3:33:40 PM CDT
seriously, the most unappealing trailer ever... well almost
by turketron
That crown goes to anything showing footage of DISASTER MOVIE. But the Hamlet 2 previews haven't made me interested in seeing this AT ALL. This is gonna flop hard at the box office regardless of how good it really is.
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Is her cameo just that? I've wanted to rape her in the face since Adventures In Babysitting...
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Agree it might suck, but Hamlet 2 is - objectively - one of the funniest titles I've heard in a long time. Hamlet is arguably the greatest story ever written, and everyone dies in the end. So the idea of a sequel is funny already. I just wish they'd gone all out and made an actual sequel/satire instead of wrapping it in what sounds like a mediocre movie...
Also - Raped in the Face is funny. It just is. It might not be right - but those are four words that, when you put them in order, they're funny. It's not Beaks fault, it's the fault of the English language...
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I was in a test audience for this flick back in April or May and I really enjoyed it. It's absolutely true that the musical performance is the best part of this film but I don't think it's fair to label the first two acts as completely unfunny. No one knew what they were going to see before the movie started at the screening and at the end most of the audience applauded. This was in NJ about 15 minutes from NYC, most of the audience seemed to know movie musicals. At the q&a my friend brought up Rocky Horror and Reefer Madness and a lot of people jumped on that bandwagon with her. For some kind of reference that this board may recognize Hamlet 2's musical performance kills the one at the end of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I thought that one was hilarious. I'm not sure what survived the purge but Elizabeth Shue is fantastic in this as well, playing a cracked version of herself. It's likely to be a more enjoyable experience than Death Race from the reviews I've read so give it a chance.
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This movie blows. Completely. I was worried for a while because the rottentomatoes score for this thing was unreasonably high (100%) for a while. Now, it's settled into the mire where it belongs. Good to know that I'm not crazy.
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I'm tired of indie comedies that have no comedy. You can have your Napoleons, Junos, or whatevers. I will take my Stripes, Vacations, Plains/Trains, and Caddyshacks any day.
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The Shue bit is basically stolen from that 90s sitcom in which Jennifer Grey played herself. Shue's a good sport for showing up, but the gag goes nowhere.
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That was the great Dan Hedaya as Nixon in DICK. Another one of those character actors (like Marshall Bell) who improves every movie just by showing up.
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We can't take it out on every Hollywood remake, nor should we. But we can surely make a red-headed stepchild out of the POLTERGEIST remake. Stand strong, brothers.
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"raped in the face" is a song from the movie, so if your upset thinking Beaks or Massawrym are being "immature" your directing your anger at the wrong person, take it up with Pam Brady (writer of the South Park movie and Team America) she wrote the script so I guess your mad at her?? get your facts straight.
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What's up with the ads for skankwear on this site?
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The trailer made it look like crap? I thought the trailer was really funny. This film looks funny. It feels like it would make a good double feature with Waiting for Guffman (another very funny movie that skewers the amateur theatre crowd).
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if Dick (and by extention and your own admission Beaks) weren't elevated by the performaners who signed on rather then any brillance by Fleming. If Hamlet 2 and Dick are his 2 good movies hten we look to the cast, Marshall Bell, Steve Coogan in H2 like half the cast of Kids in the Hall, plus Dan Hedya and to a lesser extent Williams and Dunst (who both have been good to decent (not great) in both drama and comedy) and Beaks, I was just thinking about the Jennifer Grey sitcom the other day slightly wondering if they were ever going to release it on DVD, it's was called "It's like...you know"
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And I remember it being a quirky Seinfeld/Friends wannabe, but with a real California sensibility. And the bald dude from Sex And The City and Californication was hilarious.
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DOOM thinks a nerve was struck and perchance Palimpsest was raped in the face!
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I think it was just too...strange for your typical Friends auidence and too normal to real differentdid Joel Grey (Jennifer's dad) ever make an apperence, I seem to remember him making one, but I could be wrongand speaking of Joel Grey I saw an episode of Touched By An Angel with him on it...very strange
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Don't recall that, but do remember seeing Joel Grey on Buffy, as a demon in the episode that Buffy "dies". Remember his Asian "ObiWan" in Reno Williams...?
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scroll up and read it!!it's either the funniest post in the thread or the dumbest...you make the call.either way, someone needs to laugh OR rip him a new one
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Try reading the article, its the title of a song in the movie.
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If it was intentional then it's hilarious. If not then Mr. Saxon is officially the Gary Busey of this talkback.
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Still do, but in a different way.
Seriously, Dick was the bomb! Awesome cast, so sad it bombed at the box office. The Craft was a hit, and it wasn't nearly as good. I kind of like Threesome, too. Fleming seems to have some level of talent. That said, this movie shall tank. -
"Last thing anyone wants to think about is Hamlet. Hamlet is lame and boring and it reminds you of school." The words of a man who will no doubt endure hundreds of years and have his worked translated in every language known to man.
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At least he didn't say he likes his with diced onion and cheese.
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and leaves him for dead in Central Park" would be a terrific title for a review
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and I was trying to think "Did Ben Stiller ever do Hamlet?"
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And was he referring to "Simple Jack" with the horse singing-to?Maybe Stiller did a Hamlet parody on his series..Maybe we're spending WAY too much thought analyzing Mr Saxon..
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Vern is going to give you shit. Rape isn't funny, ya know. (He was in prison .)
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God, I want her...
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I think it's kind of weird that you're biggest complaint about the movie is the snide cheap-shots at simple, untalented American people in small towns, etc and then praise the final line so much. The line is basically the ultimate cheap-shot and complete slap in the face to those same people. I'm just saying
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Aug 23, 2008 12:17:53 AM CDT
Yo Beaks, some dude gave you your title to a Bond review
by applescruff
If you like the movie, you should totally make the header of the review:
"Quantum Of Solace fucks Beaks up the ass and leaves him for dead in Central Park"
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I'm ashamed to admit but if I saw the headline:."Quantum Of Solace fucks Beaks up the ass and leaves him for dead in Central Park". I'd probably read it. I probably need therapy.
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Rebeck, that's the best name for a headline ever! Genius!
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It also works if he didn't like it, I'd wager.
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apparently my parents' home town of circa 17000 people in NE Missouri protested the "Simple" character in Tropic Thunder. Which makes it all the funnier in my mind. Ps to all Christians in the crowd: Don't protest Hamlet 2. Just don't see it and explain why to your friends. Protesting makes it look like we care. And/or like we take Hollywood's views on religion seriously. Done
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that was the one where they got stoned and started singing Hello Dolly, yeah? very funny film.
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what was the zenith of Gary Busey's artistic output? my immediate call would be as Mr Joshua in Lethal Weapon, but let's hear what you think. applause to anyone who recognizes his fine work in Predator 2.
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You are a fucking idiotic twat. I guess you thought it would be edgy and cool to use such a line. What a pathetic...insensitive-to-anything-outside-of-movies arsehole you are.
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You surely don't need to have the concept of CONTEXT explained, do you?
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biased. If they had a number like Rock Me Sexy Mohammed, and had his picture it wouldn't get off the storyboards. Attacking Christians is okay, but you can't say boo about Muslims.
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or in prison. Hence the lack of chuckles.
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Aug 23, 2008 9:56:32 AM CDT
Grammaton Cleric Binks, and all of the other...
by half-baked-goggle-box-do-gooder
...Chest-Beating Legion of Christian Decency Stalwarts:
REPEAT:
There's no "Double Standarad" - I'd be happy to think it's a sign that the Christians around here simply aren't as trigger-happy as yer standard religious extremist (Insert your current most-despised Religious/Ethnic group here), and can tell when something was designed to be truly offensive, as opposed to just deliberately idiotic.
Although, we are still living in the same universe as dingbats that go boop-shooby over "Tropic Thunder" or "The Last Temptation of Christ"..
It's interesting that I've had to repeat this from the first time that Rootskibango got all righteously huffy yesterday.....What, the Omnipotent Guardians of the Moral Universe can't be bothered to brush up on a measly 100-post thread? Hmm...That would explain a lot of other things, now wouldn't it? -
You must be an ignorant piece of shit if you think it's funny to use the word rape lightly.
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.....but only if you're raping a clown.
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Hmmm, that's a thought. However, the extremists do cause people not to speak their minds for fear of repurcussions. I'd rather have society call their bluff, and tell them to shut up. As a Christian I don't appreciate a lot of the humor, but I'm not going to strap a bomb on my chest and walk into a mall of innocent people because I feel someone somewhere insulted me.
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I just saw your other comment on rape. A family friend was raped and tortured for 19 hours, tied up, and left to burn and die. No it is not funny. If anyone were to make a joke of it in front of me we would have a serious talk. I hope I would have enough restraint not to let it get physical.
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I always get a kick out of people who align themselves with political parties and education status. The swipe in this review implying people in red states are uneducated is just as ignorant as the right-leaners implying inner cities lean toward the left because they are uneducated.
Isn't that that worst kind of elitist attitude regardless of the side you're on?
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Your friend probably shouldn't have been dressing so provocatively...
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when do right wing demagogues make claims about ignorant inner city people? When's the last time a conservatively slanted movie made such suggestions? Check that, when's the last time a conservatively slanted movie was made PERIOD? Meanie, you are aptly named.
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Aug 23, 2008 2:46:08 PM CDT
That's what I love about this site...
by half-baked-goggle-box-do-gooder
Somebody calling himself "igotbigballs" accusing other folks of "Typical" talentless writers.
And Grammaton.....I truly do feel a bit of compassion for your assaulted relative. But you must admit - there's so much horror to go around, who's to say where everybody has to draw a line? Does this mean that as long as you yourself may live, you can never, ever make a joke about oh, say...a house burning down, just because somewhere in the world, houses burn down for real?
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I got banned a few years ago for saying "raped with a tire iron" in a thread (it was a play off an AICN expression, like 'bomb in ribcage'). Now it's headlines.
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would have been somewhat understandable if he had made some sort of reference to it in the actual review other than reveal it is a song title in Hamlet 2. i mean, he just mentions that it is an attention grabber "for obvious reasons". there are some posters here who are far too sensitive and delicate, but in this case it's rather difficult to be critical of the abuse thrust at Mr Beaks, or whoever came up with the irrelevant title for the review.
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Aug 23, 2008 4:49:43 PM CDT
Herein contains the reason why ALL the AICN updates are so juven
by arcadiands
They really dont want us to discuss the movie. They want us to discuss THEM. So they throw in all sorts of juvenile references to female genitals, excrement, and sex acts in order to draw us away from talking about the movie, and to get us all talking about them.
classic example of a lousy journalist is one who insists on making himself the story. Thats why this site's glory days are behind it. -
It wasn't a relative, but at least in your case I sort of see your point to some extent. And, you're trying to discuss varying opinions in an intelligent manner. Mr. Meanie on the other hand is beneath contempt to say the least. I'd go on, but it would just invite more drivel from them. Maybe Harry can ban him. igotbigballs, I think you're confusing comments Half-baked is making toward a family friend of mine. He wasn't talking about your family, I don't believe. All I can say is if I met someone in person who made a rape joke, then continued to joke after I explained what happened to a family friend, it would take all I have to restrain myself from kicking the crap out of that person.
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while others are just spewing garbage. I can have a difference of opinion with someone without making stupid comments. That it what half-baked is doing, and not in malicious way. I can respect that.
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Aug 23, 2008 9:25:02 PM CDT
George Carlin said that rape could be funny and could prove it..
by nyj_et
"...just imagine Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. Why do you think they call him 'Porky'? I know what you're thinkin'. Elmer was comin' on to Porky. Porky got a hard-on and couldn't control himself." Funniest bit on rape ever. Not that there are many. Oh, Grammaton Cleric Binks, that sucks about your friend. Sincerely.
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He stinks! He's ugly, he's totally unfunny and without any redeeming values! And please, don't say he was funny in Tropic Thunder - ANYONE could have played that role. Every movie he's done here tanks unless he has a tiny part - when will Hollywood get the clue that he's the UK's Dane Cook? I mean, even Russell Brand is starting to grow on me, whereas I will always think Coogan is a mirthless, preening, self-satisfied a-hole.
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I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one trying to analyze that mysterious enigma-wrapped riddle of a post.
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It was kind of funny.
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They should've put an embargo on this film
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They ran with the annoying perfection of the character and placed her in the "real world," where everyone thought she was kind of nuts. Anyone who hasn't seen it should check it out.The scene where she performs an emergency tracheotomy on one of her friends during a party is PRICELESS! :)
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I imagine your balls are so big from you constantly licking them in front of the mirror. Bring It, Tough Guy.
What I was referring to when I mentioned you was how a guy with your user ID has a lotta nerve, claiming that other TBers as being juvenile and pathetic. Capice, spud? Grasp the concept of "hypocrisy"? -
Aug 24, 2008 4:46:32 AM CDT
Besides, anybody that wants to hear a rape bit that'll crack you
by half-baked-goggle-box-do-gooder
....Needs to hear Richard Cheese cover Nirvana's "Rape Me". Play it for your stuck-in-the-90's grunge fans, or for our big sister. They'll LOVE you for it.
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Selah.
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it worries me that Beaks has blackboxed to address peripheral issues, but not address the originl concern (which has become a talkback theme here). Now Beaks is usually a level-headed type and his reviews have an element of rationality about them. To wilfully ignore the issue at hand redoubles the crassness previously identified. Ah well. Lesson learned, and all that...
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I have no problem with the term "rape" being used in a humorous manner. And I think the context the movie puts it in... a high school drama production featuring a musical number called "Raped in the Face"... has solid potential for black, absurdist humor. In the film, the humor is probably derived from how people would react to such a number (just a guess of course, having not seen it). But "Raped in the Face" isn't going to be taken out of context even by the film makers and marketing people who created the film. Why? Because there's a high likelihood they aren't complete morons. I'm sorry, the use of the phrase in this review is insufferably brainless. Beyond the obvious point that it takes it completely out of context, the headline would seem to indicate a negative review when in fact it's a mildly positive review. I can only hope as little thought was put into using the title as a headline as it seems. Mr. Beaks, I'm sure you're a decent feller. Just wise up.
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I hit the return key instead of delete. Anyway I was going to say that the Nancy Drew DVD was one of the worst looking movie transfers in the history of DVDs. What happen? My wife wanted to watch it and it looked like an EP VHS dub. We ended up watching the full screen as the Widescreen was awful but the full screen was not much better. I hope they do a better job on Hamlet 2's transfer as it will be another DVD rental for me. sorry about the double posting when I tried to delete the "S" on DVDS ... strange.
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Had I just taken a look at the title, I would have gotten the impression that Beaks absolutely hated the movie. After all, getting raped in the face probably isn't the most pleasant thing in the world. So, he utterly failed in that sense also when deciding on a title for his borderline positive review.
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Herein lies the crux of the problem which so vexes the scribes attending this thread: CONTEXT.
Kurgan - you, me, NOBODY can know what Beak's "context" was when he began writing the review. We know that Beak's INTENT was to get us to read a review he had written about "Hamlet 2", but without either
A) Actually discussing the matter with Beaks himself, or
M) Telepathy, I'd have to say that the only definite thing that Beaks actually succeeded in doing was in getting people to read the review, our own decontextualization of his possible philosophical intent notwithstanding. We can only speculate if Beaks also intended to kick a hornet's nest, or we can speculate about his possible motivations for such an act of provocation.
But I'd say that many of us have certainly reached the pathetic stage of instead of discussing the matter itself, we are bickering about what we're bickering about.
, Therefore, Fuck This. I'll go see "Hamlet 2" if somebody I know says, "Hey - Wanna go see "Hamlet 2?" and I am in the mood to watch what, if I go by what several other reviews have written about it, sounds like an average movie about deluded, self-important Experts on the Arts - chuckleheads a lot like many of the posters in this site. If I'm NOT in that sort of mood, and would prefer to, oh, say, stick my dick in a meat grinder, then I'll do that instead. I win either way, and That's That. Selah. -
It was fucking TERRIBLE. I love all smart and stupid comedies, but this movie didn't know what it was.
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Hmmmmmm.....
"You are an idiot for using that line. Granted that is very typical of this site and you MrBeaks, being the follower that you are, just step into line like the rest of the talentless writers."
Okay, if you want to get defense-attorney-scrambling-for-a-technicality loophole, you never actually used the words "pathetic" or "juvenile" - but I think most readers wouldn't take that post of yours that I just quoted (As well as it being the none that I was originally responding to) as being anything complimentary. It's sort of like you calling a somebody a "Knob-Gobbler" or a "Ass Boy", and then you defending yerself by saying, "But I never actually used the word 'Queer'".
Now, where was I? Oh, yeah: "I do sympathize with you sir, were I in your shoes and half-baked standing in front of me, he would not be a very happy man."
I SEE now, you were offering to buy me a drink with a little umbrella in it, not at all agreeing with someone who had just expressed an urge to kick the crap out of somebody. (Not to mention that little sticking point of yours, the one about accusing somebody else of "acting tough on the internet".)
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Yeah, so AICN is hypocritical.
I sure as hell don't come here to brush up on my views on journalistic ethics and responsibility, I come here to catch up on the random flame war, check out some industry rumors, maybe steal a good line from Bringing Sexy Back and occasionally to drop a deuce on some of the knuckle-draggers.
I take this site with a whole SHOVEL of salt, not just a grain of it, just like when I catch the newest bit of political assassination on Fox News. It's not about the cheap, sensationalist headlines, it's about studying the trajectory of the slanted, biased horseshit that follows...Seeing where your opponent is coming from can help you prepare a counter-strike, if you know what I mean.
AICN, on the other hand.....I NEVER assume that there are any Hidden Agendas on a site where the phrase "Chocolate-Covered Pussy Juice" is the ne plus ultra of High Praise. Subversive ideological manipulation ain't these guys strong suit.... -
Thanks for parotting what every conservative radio station has been saying for years. I think the simple idea is that parodying Jesus is funnier to Western audiences than Mohammed as more people are familiar with the Christian religion (even atheists and agnostics). Islam does not register with the majority of the Western (Judeo-Christian) world unless there is strife.
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I thought that even if the first couple acts weren't great that the third act would be worth it, but I was wrong. This movie sucks Jesus' cock. They just don't make good comedies anymore and haven't for years. But seriously, if you laughed at the commercial, leave the table now with a little of the casino's money. There were no other laughs to be had.
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I apologize for my weak attempt at cracking jokes on others and having to double talk my way out of the corner I was backed in. I would also like to add that I do enjoy a stiff one in my ass every now and then.
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Imitation IS the sincerest form of craven, imagination-free worship, you know.....
So, igotbigballs......you ARE a lonely little boy, aintcha? -
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