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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: jamesp on August 05, 2008, 02:11:21 PM
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11959.html (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11959.html)
Yikes, this sounds awful. Their movie, An American Carol, stars Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, and Dennis Hopper.
Zucker had, however, mentioned the project to a handful of reporters and talk radio hosts, telling one columnist at the Wisconsin State Journal, “It outdoes any movie I have ever done in tasteless, offensive, un-PC humor.”
Instead, Zucker (with co-writer Myrna Sokoloff) mocks the usual conservative targets: ACLU attorneys, liberal colleges and anti-war protesters. The movie saves its most severe scorn for the main character, a slovenly documentary filmmaker based on Oscar winner Michael Moore. The attack is literally scorched-earth style: In a climactic scene, Moore’s stand-in (here named “Michael Malone”) finds political clarity at the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center while the admonishing ghost of George Washington (played by Voight) hovers nearby.
Who morons are still seeing the crap put out by the Zucker Brothers and Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer?
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Who morons are still seeing the crap put out by the Zucker Brothers and Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer?
I am. But I'm paying to do so. I just have a thing for appalling comedy movies.
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I am not, but I imagine the rest of the world isn't going to watch this movie either. Spoof movies are popular because they have no viewpoint beyond the idea that references and very broad slapstick is funny.
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Seriously guys - this is going to be at least twice as funny as "My Boss's Daughter".
Also, Kelsey Grammer being something of an FWD - who knew?? He always struck me as being on the same level with Jeff Goldblum, where he thinks that developing the affectations of the smart characters he's played actually makes him smart in real life.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLg6vv34Fs[/youtube]
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My favorite part was when he fell down.
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"I, I think I'm....Wow!" Would make a great movie title.
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"I, I think I'm....Wow!" Would make a great movie title.
Or the name of a Williamsburg artrock band
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Who morons are still seeing the crap put out by the Zucker Brothers and Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer?
I am. But I'm paying to do so. I just have a thing for appalling comedy movies.
Little known fact: Samir is actually responsible for 30% of The Love Guru's total box office intake.
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Matt's right.
http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com/2008/07/summers-worst-movie.html
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He always struck me as being on the same level with Jeff Goldblum, where he thinks that developing the affectations of the smart characters he's played actually makes him smart in real life.
Bingo! Can you name any others?
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kelsey grammer is the most obvious choice.
doi.
that's what you get when you don't read the OPs.
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Morgan Freeman could not possibly be as wise and soulful as his characters are always portrayed.
(But unlike Grammar and Goldblum, I don't think he's trying to convince anyone that he = his characters)
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Anyone who would call themselves a 'September 11th Republican' deserves whatever happens to them.
Tom.
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Who morons are still seeing the crap put out by the Zucker Brothers and Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer?
I am. But I'm paying to do so. I just have a thing for appalling comedy movies.
Little known fact: Samir is actually responsible for 30% of The Love Guru's total box office intake.
It would've been a larger percentage if he hadn't seen it at the dollar theater.
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Uhm, I only just noticed now that I should have said NOT paying to see them.
That's embarrassing.
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Oh! Oh! Trailer! With O'Reilly intro!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CYSGCoflAA
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Looks even worse than I'd imagined. I wonder if people will see it.
Do people really think that the left in general, and Michael Moore in particular, want to destroy America? Weird.
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Do people really think that the left in general, and Michael Moore in particular, want to destroy America? Weird.
There are plenty of dopes who think that is Moore's ultimate goal. The same people who characterize pundits/filmmakers like Moore as "far left" never seem to read much political history or travel beyond the US borders.
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David Alan Grier.
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I'm actually looking forward to this. I was wondering what happened to Rosie O'Connell.
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Uhhhhhhhhh at 1:22, there is a quote that calls David Zucker, the director, "the master of movie satire." The quote is attributed to: David Zucker. He quotes himself in the trailer.
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Nice work, brother of Chris Farley. Maybe you can star in the movie version of The Chris Farley Show next. Dare to dream!
Everyone in this movie is in my hate pit. Dennis Hopper's on the bottom, and everyone else is piled on top of him.
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Oh man, I hope this movie flames out, and flames out hard. That would provide a bracing blast of Sean & Freud for me, yes sir. Remember when Fox TV tried to do a right wing version of the Daily Show? Dead. In. The. Water.
Isn't Zucker a little late to the Moore-bashing party? This film looks like stale toast sopping up thin gruel.
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Everyone in this movie is in my hate pit.
I'd like to file an appeal on behalf of Mr. Leslie Nielsen. Everybody else, no problem. Throw them in!
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Oh man, I hope this movie flames out, and flames out hard. That would provide a bracing blast of Sean & Freud for me, yes sir. Remember when Fox TV tried to do a right wing version of the Daily Show? Dead. In. The. Water.
Isn't Zucker a little late to the Moore-bashing party? This film looks like stale toast sopping up thin gruel.
He wrote it five years ago. It's his Chinese Democracy. Make that RED Chinese Democracy.
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I actually would like to destroy America, but in the form of a giant Hulk Hogan, like that series Erika posted a while back.
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Uhhhhhhhhh at 1:22, there is a quote that calls David Zucker, the director, "the master of movie satire." The quote is attributed to: David Zucker. He quotes himself in the trailer.
That's probably the most depressing part of the trailer. I also love how O'Reilly introduces it by telling us that it'll be in 2000 theaters. How has an indie movie that's not being distributed by any major or well known independent studio already know it'll have a wide release in 2000+ theaters when the movie's not out for another 3 months?
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The Conservative Right have to be Michael Moore's biggest fans, seriously. They spend more time talking about him than anyone else.
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I actually would like to destroy America, but in the form of a giant Hulk Hogan, like that series Erika posted a while back.
You'd have to pull him away from creepily following his daughter everywhere first...
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Uhhhhhhhhh at 1:22, there is a quote that calls David Zucker, the director, "the master of movie satire." The quote is attributed to: David Zucker. He quotes himself in the trailer.
While I agree that the movie looks awful, I think it's safe to assume, given his previous work, that this a Mad-magazine style joke.
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that shit looks pretty funny to me. i like it when he says, 'i'm the angel of freaking death, turd head.' the idea of a man with a turd for a head is very funny. i'll probably spend an hour making sketches of that tomorrow.
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I also love how O'Reilly introduces it by telling us that it'll be in 2000 theaters. How has an indie movie that's not being distributed by any major or well known independent studio already know it'll have a wide release in 2000+ theaters when the movie's not out for another 3 months?
I suspect - just suspect - that he is lying.
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I also love how O'Reilly introduces it by telling us that it'll be in 2000 theaters. How has an indie movie that's not being distributed by any major or well known independent studio already know it'll have a wide release in 2000+ theaters when the movie's not out for another 3 months?
I suspect - just suspect - that he is lying.
Liberal.
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I also love how O'Reilly introduces it by telling us that it'll be in 2000 theaters. How has an indie movie that's not being distributed by any major or well known independent studio already know it'll have a wide release in 2000+ theaters when the movie's not out for another 3 months?
I suspect - just suspect - that he is lying.
Liberal. Terrorist