You should see it! It's hilarious and brilliant on many levels. Very well written and very well acted. I'm surprised (not really) that Droopy would show his ignorance on a public forum this way.
Let me reorient you to the fundamental aspect of this film and those who find entertainment value within it, by restating my salient question:
At what point in adolescence need one's maturity have ceased developing to find entertainment value in such an pruriently puerile romp?
Do you suppose Droopy didn't realize that this was a comedy?
Of course I do - a deeply juvenile, nihilistic, pornographic, dark comedy.
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I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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Doctor Scratch wrote:I bet Droopy hasn't even seen the film.
Correct, but I've read numerous reviews and descriptions, which is all that is required given the subject matter.
I grew up some time ago, Scratch. If most liberals could do the same it would make the world a much nicer...and safer...place.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Doctor Scratch wrote:I bet Droopy hasn't even seen the film.
Correct, but I've read numerous reviews and descriptions, which is all that is required given the subject matter.
I grew up some time ago, Scratch. If most liberals could do the same it would make the world a much nicer...and safer...place.
I'm appalled! You're opining on this film without ever having seen it!? You're truly showing your bias (and foolishness).
The movie is about redemption. The main character is a morally bankrupt con man who finds his humanity through relationships with a young boy and a young woman.
What could be wrong with that?
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Droopy wrote: Its a deeply juvenile, nihilistic, pornographic example of just the kind of cultural terrorism Hollywood has come to exemplify just within my lifetime.
This is one of my all time favorite posts of yours Droopy. Awesome stuff. Incidentally, while the main character of the film is nihilistic for most of it, the film itself is not. You can read Lolita and understand that Humbert Humbert is a monster without feeling the narrative approves of him.
Anyway, I love that cultural terrorism line.
At what point in adolescence need one's maturity have ceased developing to find entertainment value in such an pruriently puerile romp? But psychologically and morally healthy adolescents (and they do exist) would have nothing to do with such a civilizational gaff as this in any case.
Yes, whether someone likes a commercial and critical success like Bad Santa is a good arbiter of mental health.