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Shrek 2 Movie Review Bashes President Bush
Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 | Christopher Kelly

Posted on 05/21/2004 10:41:34 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry

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To: Licensed-To-Carry
In this year when a certain head of state seeks to write an exclusionary definition of "marriage" into the U.S. Constitution, Shrek 2 contends otherwise: No one has the right to tell you whom you can love; those who preach the loudest about the right way to live are often the biggest hypocrites.

Classic case of liberal illogic here. No one is trying to tell anyone whom they can or cannot LOVE, just whom they can and cannot marry. Note to liberals: marriage is not a "right"!

41 posted on 05/21/2004 11:23:31 AM PDT by Sicon
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To: Howlin
"Mine."

"Mine".

42 posted on 05/21/2004 11:28:06 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
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To: Sicon

a gay childrens movie?? and i though pokemon was bad.

The orginal was okay , i didnt care for the attack on Eisner (head of disney) they made him a midget yet he is clearly taller than the people who run the company who came out with shrek.
Also I dont get how this has anything to do with being gay? its a male and female ogre. They might have had a point if the princess was still human and then it could be close to inter racial marriage.

Shrek is one of those classic "eh" films. You hear everyone talk about how awsome it was, then you go see it and you say "eh"

also as another person said "its a seinfeld joke"
what a maroon.


43 posted on 05/21/2004 11:30:19 AM PDT by captaindude2 (Soon to be banned again!)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I always thought that Seinfeld tagline "not that there's anything wrong with it" was more a spoof of PC CYA crap than an actual endorsement of any lifestyle.

It was tacked onto the end of any discussion or statement about someone being homosexual so as not to be perceived as bigoted or prejudiced...either by the other party to your conversation or statement or any nearby PC-Nazi.

44 posted on 05/21/2004 11:30:24 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
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To: Sicon

Here Here


45 posted on 05/21/2004 11:31:53 AM PDT by Max7
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To: Howlin; FormerLib

"Barbara Manatee...you are the one for me..."

was once a tagline of mine.

Our 4 year old loves the VeggieTales, and I'll admit I love them too. Nearly each morning, she races down the stairs ahead of me, and puts on her VeggieTales CD. If I had a nickel for each morning I come down the stairs to:

"If...you...like...to...talk...to tomatoes..."

I'd have a lot of money.


46 posted on 05/21/2004 11:54:35 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("A sword day! A red day, 'ere the sun rises!")
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

HAving seen Shrek 2, I can categorically state that Shrek and Fiona are male and female Ogres... not two GAY ogres... not two LESBIAN ogres.

Sheeeesh...


47 posted on 05/21/2004 11:56:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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To: MississippiMan

I can't imagine anyone staying in a chat group with individuals like that. Not just because it's so repulsive, but the people you describe aren't worth your time.

You're not alone in your convictions.


48 posted on 05/21/2004 11:58:22 AM PDT by RepublicansForDean
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

These people are pathological.


49 posted on 05/21/2004 11:59:42 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: Sicon
Not to mention that this moron knows nothing of the Constitution. Ok...one more time.... THE PRESIDENT HAS NO SAYIN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. If it happens, which I think it won't, it will because of an overwhelming approval by the Congress and the state legislatures...
50 posted on 05/21/2004 12:01:44 PM PDT by Keith (IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES)
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To: captaindude2

The movie is great.

There are no Gay references.

See the movie. You will have a good time.

I think the last paragraph says it all. Specifically where the "reviewer" mentions "choice". Who in their RIGHT mind would spend a lifetime chasing after the ideals Hollywood perscribes? I don't believe his reference to "open-mindedness" is the same as mine.


51 posted on 05/21/2004 12:02:45 PM PDT by ccanada
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All that said, the bartender at the local pub was a crossdressing male with a deep masculine voice, something for which I see no place in the movie except to foster acceptance of the bizarre in kids, and once again, I think the movie could have been done just as well without this as part of its agenda.

Actually, that was one of Cinderella's "Ugly Stepsisters" - you may have missed that line in the pell-mell scene of the Poisoned Apple bar.

As Private Ryan put it - she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

She was voiced by Larry King.

52 posted on 05/21/2004 12:10:00 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: wayoverontheright
All that said, the bartender at the local pub was a crossdressing male with a deep masculine voice, something for which I see no place in the movie except to foster acceptance of the bizarre in kids, and once again, I think the movie could have been done just as well without this as part of its agenda.

She was not a male crossdresser... the King of Far, Far Away came in looking for "the Ugly Step-Sister" and the bar tender admitted that was she... very ugly.

53 posted on 05/21/2004 12:10:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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To: ccanada

Ya i figured that thier wasn't any gay references in a childrens movie.


54 posted on 05/21/2004 12:12:02 PM PDT by captaindude2 (Soon to be banned again!)
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To: RepublicansForDean

Thanks. And no, I didn't stay. I've removed the site's bookmarks from my machines, and haven't been back since. It's a shame, because it's a rare site in that an unproduced screenwriter can hang out with and make friends with highly successful screenwriters. Success and connections just aren't that important to me.

MM


55 posted on 05/21/2004 12:21:45 PM PDT by MississippiMan
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Actually, that was one of Cinderella's "Ugly Stepsisters"...

Could she have been just as ugly without the male voice?

In the end, maybe it's not harmful to a six year old, but to me it evokes questions which I would rather deal with later.

56 posted on 05/21/2004 12:22:19 PM PDT by wayoverontheright (Hidetheweeniespeak-the native tongue of liberals.)
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To: bpjam

bpjam wrote:


Actually, the movie isn't pushing a gay agenda. The review is trying to hijack a movie to promote a gay agenda he would LIKE the movie to be promoting. Its somewhat akin to when gay groups go back in time and label every famous person is history as being secretly taking it in the *ss. Its revisionist history, but its not true just because they say it is.





THANK YOU!

As regards the first Shrek... gee... I'm seeing a movie that talked about the sanctity of marriage, and True Love, and fighting for one's home and doing what's right.

Yeah, sure. There's some fart jokes. And som inuendo that nyone under the age of 14 is NOT going to get. It was still great fun, and I am not getting my panties in a wad over it.


Besides, since FR is supposed to be down on all things Disney, and since Shrek put it to Disney so hard and so often, well, it's gotta be a GOOD thing, right?






57 posted on 05/21/2004 12:34:32 PM PDT by tiamat ((It's not Bush's fault.... It's the media's fault!))
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To: MississippiMan

I think my comment "I can't imagine anyone staying in a chat room with individuals like that" was a little ambiguous.

I meant to say that the reason no one in the discussion sided with your assertions of morality might have been that anyone with convictions similar to your own was unlikely to have remained in the discussion for long, and hence would not be present to back you up.


58 posted on 05/21/2004 12:48:36 PM PDT by RepublicansForDean
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To: Howlin
Oh, we LOVE "Veggie Tales!" I cannot get that song "Oh, where is my hairbrush" out of my mind!


Oh thanks, now that song's stuck in my head too :-)
59 posted on 05/21/2004 12:57:13 PM PDT by denfurb (proud Mama, 4 girls and 1 baby boy)
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

Mark Davis (WBAP 9am-noon) said he will try to get this clown to come on his show next week and explain himself.


60 posted on 05/21/2004 2:16:11 PM PDT by jtminton (<><)
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