Posted on 09/03/2006 8:38:11 AM PDT by pabianice
I'd never heard of it before this post. But apparently Medved thought it was OK, which does make the reviewer in the article somewhat suspect IMO.
It amazes me the people who simply take anything at face value. No one gets satire anymore it seems.
Not a Hollywood movie by the way. It was an independent film that has been picked up by Fox Searchlight for distribution. Completely different animal.
I saw the show...I'm a south park republican...but i thought the show was so tacky and could have been much better...i wished the damn van had blown up and killed everyone in it by the end of the show...granted, it was some good acting, won't deny that....but i didn't connect with a single character.
I saw the movie a few weeks ago and it sucked.It was mean spirited, crass, and disgusting. Rent Down and Out in Beverly Hills instead.
I always figured Alan Arkin was what you would get if you crossed Dustin Hoffman with Donald Sutherland.
Jon Benet Ramsey has done a pretty good job of that.
Sorry you didn't like it...
Didn't they already do "American Beauty"? This sounds like the sequel.
Generalizations about people are always unwise. :)
"I wish the people here at FR would stop being so frigging judgemental about something they have not seen or plan to see."
That'll never happen. You can yell at them and call them names, but they won't change. Too many like being told what to think instead of thinking for themselves.
The storyline is contrary to the values I defend, the content is designed to be cute in its portrayal of degeneracy, and paying to see such filth only supports same. So, what part of degeneracy do you stilll not get?
Why would I even want to go support this garbage, to placate the twisted minds of folks like you who defend and praise this garbage? I hardly care to what depth your mind has been deceived, but I do have a way to avoid throwing into the same sewer ... so I will not go see such crap to be hip or with it. I'll leave such sycophancy to your ilk. Look at yourself, how you are trying so hard to defend this degeneracy. Why? To make yourself feel okay that you can laugh at such filth? Does dragging others into the sewer cleanse your state of existence?
Wow, I saw this movie and enjoyed it.
I hardly thought it pornographic, nor did anything I saw in it strike me as a swipe at red-state America.
If you're considering seeing this movie, don't let this review influence your decision.
Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't. It's offbeat. The humor is sometimes dry, sometimes dark, sometimes a little slap-stick.
I simply don't think it's full of the demons this reviewer seems to have seen in it.
I saw it. A great movie. Two thumbs up!
Some "red state vs. blue state" adherants are becoming a bit too much like the paranoid (or at least cynical) race baiters.
They imagine offences against them where they are not intended, or where they do not exist.
If the family in question is the obvious group of losers it is portrayed to be, it seemingly does the opposite of what this "critic" is crying about.
It makes fun of the VW (so it isn't cool), heroine kills grandpa (so it certainly isn't being glamorized or presented as chic), etc.
Sheesh.
I'm glad you guys came on here to set us straight, thanks.
It can be.
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