Posted by Neil at 205.163.142.226 on December 21, 1999 at 18:02:33:
In Reply to: Mallrats on Fox posted by myxlplyx on December 21, 1999 at 12:38:59:
: Fox 44 (Waco,Tx) recently aired Mallrats. Some little squids I know of that love Mallrats work there, and I was trying to figure out if THEY were responsible for airing it or if it was nation-wide. The editing sucked a big fat one, though I enjoyed the extra Brandy-as-Clark Kent bit, I think the voice-overs (who sounded suspiciously like the squids) would have been better as bleeps (though that would have made most of Jason Mewes' lines a big long bleeeeeeeeep). Who was responsible for the editing? He/she/it should be lynched!!! I sincerely hope this was a localized display of crapulence. A truly wonderful movie was defamed.
It is the source of much controversy. Personally, I think it is a sublime piece of absurd art. It is like a deconstructionist interpretation of a broad sex farce. The very fact that it's ignorant of its result makes the result the tastier and wiser.
Lines like Brodie's rant about "puking" while "making out" because "making out" makes him feel relaxed are so far out in the distance of plausibility as to have a special kind of beauty. Or the pretzels suddenly being revealed to be "moldy" without prior warning.
I don't know what those of you who bitch were expecting. It is a broadcast television edition of a movie that's rated R almost entirely for graphic language that itself carries the story. To expect the broadcast edition to have a particularly strong resemblance to the original doesn't take into account the realities of the fact that we live in the US. Accepting that an extrordinarily peculiar is the next best thing... if not a slightly better thing... is the only reasonable act in my mind.