Posted by Jon Enge at cache-df01.proxy.aol.com on August 17, 2001 at 16:12:31:
In Reply to: Bubble boy controversy posted by will s on August 17, 2001 at 14:10:29:
Well, you know... Yes, it's sad that there are people who must live in the clean environment of a plastic bubble, it's always good to laugh at our own mortality. Will you laugh at this movie? Maybe not, but really it looks like just the kind of purposefully offensive claptrap that I could really bust a gut on.
Why would I go see this film? for the same reasons I'd go see J&SBSB... well not ALL of the same reasons. I don't know or care who the director or writers are, (though at least one of them has some good stuff under his belt) but it looks like it's just going to be a funny romp that doesn't take itself seriously... Now, don't get me wrong. This isn't a full pricer... I'll probably catch it on a matinee, but Jesus... life's too short... I just can't be bothered to be offended.
Jon
: Though I would say no movie escapes the can without at least someone being offended, this case kinda feels different.
: http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=ARTS&STORYID=APIS7DUIRMG0
: This is not the kevin smith kind of controversy, where it was perhaps a misunderstanding or a misjudgement. This isn't the eyes wide shut kind, where it makes the film seem extraneously racy, forcing theater owners to card at the theater entrance. It isn't even the There's Something About Mary controversy, where the mentally disabled kids were blatantly set up for humor, but so was everyone else. It's not even the warholian fantasy where someone just wants the spotlight and gets it by complaining.
: From what the previews reveal it seems the issues raised are actually valid. I get kind of sick to my stomach thinking about a whole movie making fun of someone who is confined and whose real life counterpart could die at any minute. Their point about aids seems true. Try making gia a comedy and coming out human.
: Now, I'm not one for boycotting or censorship, so I will in no way try to block it's way, but I just wanted to see if anyone is as offput as I am now by this movie's previews. I'll end up seeing it one day for fairness sake, but second run video seems like the best time right now.
: And to think, jasb get's all this flack for possibly negatively effecting the perception of homosexuals, while bubble boy gets a quiet hissing for making fun of a deceased little boy.
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: will s