Dean's World

I predict it becomes a cult classic.

Its looks just about stupid enough to entertain me....

You know, I'm all for bitch-slapping the Hollywood left, but I think America needs to take these issues more seriously. In fact, I think we need to spend less time bitch-slapping each other and more time paying attention to the world. I ain't humorless or nuttin. That's just my belief. I do think some things are important, and I saw an interview with these guys. They say say Americans need to take themselves LESS seriously. What? Americans barely pay attention to anything as it is. I haven't seen the movie, so it's not fair to criticize it. I'm just criticizing an idea, based on what I know.

Free speech, of course. But I don't necessarily think this is the sort of stuff we need right now.

I also don't think we should pay any attention to what Alec Baldwin thinks. For instance, just because Alec Baldwin says the war is wrong doesn't make it right. It doesn't really mean much of anything, in my opinion.

What I really think is that we need to stop attacking people and start examining IDEAS. This country has stopped doing that, and this is very dangerous. You know, in a democracy, the people have to arm themselves with knowledge or it all falls apart.

Ikr: You understand nothing about America.

I'm not a movie person, but I guess I'll see it. Anything that has villians dumping people into shark tanks has got to be good.
Good, as in "that's entertainment!"

By the way, lkr, when, in the 10,000 years of recorded human history, was there a time when people only discussed ideas as opposed to going for each other's throats? I'd really like to know when the golden age was.

The best we can do is be polite when impaling our enemies. ;)

Stone and Parker will never eat lunch in Hollywood again. Not that it'll bother them.

They went overboard with the gross-outs (no surprises there) but otherwise it seems like a potential classic - something you can see again and again, quote from, etc.

Loved the panthers..

I saw Ebert and Roeper's review of this film. Roeper liked it. Ebert felt that terrorism wasn't a subject to joke about right at this moment. Roeper maintained that it's only incidentally about terrorism and more about the self-righteous Hollywood elite. And gross-out jokes.

It's not often that Ebert doesn't "get" a movie, but... from the comments here, it sounds like he didn't really "get" this one.

Ebert's a far-lefty. Like most of them he's only "gets" humor when he dislikes the target.

Mary: Rosemary laughed so hard at the puking scene I worried that she was going to give birth right then and there. :-)

Dean - the puking was very expertly done. I heard that they did many retakes over several days to get it right.

Overkill is part of what makes South Park great. My favorite South Park is the crazy Mel Gibson one. I wonder if they were exaggerating..