Comments on: Culture Wars: The Phenomenoming

By: asiangrrlMN

asiangrrlMN — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:29:05 +0000

I saw the trailer of AC, and it wasn’t even stupid funny or insulting or whatever. Give.Me.A.Fucking.Break. If conservatives want to buy seven or eight tickets to that piece of shit, then let them. Idiocy at its finest.

By: humboldtblue

humboldtblue — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:08:46 +0000

Was this review written by Chief Editor Korir?

By: ignatov

ignatov — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:54:18 +0000

The AV Club reviews the commentary track from the American Carol DVD. Sample:

[Co-writer/producer] Friedman says, “You kind of yelled a lot.” Zucker: “Well, directing’s tough.” Friedman: “It is tough. And if you have to direct and you’re a dick, it can be so much tougher.”

By: ignatov

ignatov — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:38 +0000

Dirty harry sez, “sacred cows like the ACLU and Islamic-terrorists finally get the good, solid satiric going-over they so richly deserve”

Terrorists? Oh, come on! Who considers violent criminals to be sacred cows?

And the comments are well worth reading:

“I’m definitely going to go see it this weekend. I’m also going to buy 3 or 4 additional tickets, just to boost the box office for the weekend in my small way. And then I’ll do that again the next weekend.”

Oof. Makes that $7 mil box office take even more pathetic.

“If it makes more than all the Hollywood Bombs For Terrorists[?] combined, and McCain/Plain [sic] win….. expect to see heads exploding like Mars Attacks! Order popcorn early, there’ll be a run.”

Welp, heads are exploding alright, but not the liberals’ heads!

“In our area, Regal has two cinaplexes within 1/2 mile of each other — one with stadium seating, the other old and decrepit still smelling of cigarette smoke. Guess which one ran An American Carol.”

I’m guessing the shitty one, what with the well-known liberal bias of movie theater owner/operators.

“I would like to congratulate the people who’ve bought tickets without showing up to the cinema, though. A thorough round of applause to you guys for tackling our current economic problems head-on. I hope you congratulated yourselves by reclining and lighting a cigar with a hundred dollar bill.”

Ooh, snap!

By: captphealy

captphealy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:28:57 +0000

Being a film critic is the best job in the world. As a former semi-pro in the field, I got to see all the movies I could eat, got to meet a lot of very cool people, got some good swag, a (small) payment for service rendered, and got to spend a few minutes on the radio each week delivering my opinions. To paraphrase Bonnie Raitt at the Lowell George memorial, I miss that job more than I miss being five years old.

By: InspectorDim

InspectorDim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:20:58 +0000

If this is the quality conservatives demand for their buck, anybody who wants to amuse them has a ridiculously easy job. This wasn’t so much a movie as it was 80 mins. of conservatives lining up to take a whack at a picture of Michael Moore taped to a pucnhing bag. An American Carol was not a movie on par with Airplane! or Naked Gun. It was on par with Meet the Spartans or Date Movie. David Zucker was only one-third responsible for Airplane!, by the way, so it annoys me that he gets to ride 100% of the coattails when he directs another Scary Movie sequel or crap like this.

Did I mention that I disliked this movie? I’m afraid a nuanced point like that would have gotten lost.

By the way, remember when the box office returns were so awful, the filmmakers cried “CONSPIRACY”? Best part of the movie, hands-down.

By: HalloweenJack

HalloweenJack — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:12:16 +0000

Oh, and pursuant to my second para above, I noticed that, on the Timothy Plan site, they use the spelling “pörnography”, probably to get around text-based web filters. It’s not just porn, it’s metal porn!

By: HalloweenJack

HalloweenJack — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:10:19 +0000

It’s the same line of thinking which insists that, because McCain-Palin got any votes at all, Obama must be quaking in his loafers at the thought of Caribou Barbie running against him again. If the GOP literally went bankrupt, they’d insist that they were “going beyond traditional politics.” Big Brother’s got a new motto: DEFEAT IS VICTORY.

BTW, Tbogg, Google Ads served up a link to Timothy Plan just now; I assume that the connection was the ad banner, which talked about “X-rated” investments. Most amusing.

By: HammerinHankScorpio

HammerinHankScorpio — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:38:39 +0000

A fair point re: cultural references. Also, it’s worth noting that $127M domestic is pretty damn good for an R-rated movie.

By: TheKenoshaKid

TheKenoshaKid — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:34:25 +0000

For the record, the cut I saw of An American Carol was not the finished cut. As a matter of fact, I was told it was the first cut.

Yeah, this is a guy who should be writing about Hollywood and the film industry.