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It looks funny.

That being said, I don't think I'll be able to watch it. The subject matter is deplorable and tasteless. Frankly, I'm shocked it's found a place on this website.

Next we should take a nice comedic look at pedophilia from the perspective of a pederast. I can just see him clumsily mixing the Jesus cocktail that will loosen little Billy's pants. What laughs! We should humanize a rapist by putting him in a romantic comedy with Katherine Heigl; he rapes her and then falls in love with her, then rapes her again. But she'll learn he's really the man for her because HAHAHAHAHA. Make a wacky road-trip comedy about Joseph Goebbels on a journey to find himself -- and run down some kikes, of course! Whammy!

I'm quickly filling with rage over this, so I'd better stop here.

We should humanize a rapist by putting him in a romantic comedy with Katherine Heigl; he rapes her and then falls in love with her, then rapes her again. But she'll learn he's really the man for her because HAHAHAHAHA.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure this was the storyline of at least one soap opera. Didn't Luke rape Laura or something like that?

Also -- and I say this recognizing how fortunate it is that hundreds of people didn't die -- does it really get much black-comedy-er than a would-be terrorist fuck-up on a plane setting his underwear on fire trying to light the explosives?

That's gold, right there.

And when did "tasteless" ever stop anyone from making a movie? Don't make me mention the Human You-Know-What.

@superasente.It does look funny. I've been checking it out on youtube for ages and there are some good clips. The subject is great and I can tell you one thing,compared to the typical squaddie (soldier) humour, it is anything but deplorable and tasteless. So are you also knocking Black Adder Goes Forth? Which is a great piss take at the complete ineptness of the powers that be during the Great War, which is still a very sore subject to this day. No subject should be beyond reproach. Four Lions is not humanizing suicide bombers (there are plenty of documentaries out there doing that), its taking the piss out of them. So your comparison seems a little out. Its not a recruiting video, it is quite a parochial piss take and it looks damn funny.

bob,
I believe your post broke the long-held Pajiba record for usage of the word "piss" in one post. Congratulations. You're British as all hell.

Reminds me of the inept Pakistani-Yorkshire terrorists sketches on the Monkey Dust( A heavily satirical cartoon sketch show). They were always planning on blowing something up, but got distracted by the footie (soccer to you Americans)

I don't know if Chris Morris was involved in Monkey Dust, but it was certainly close to his style. The funniest sketches have to be the ones with the Paedo-finder general.

I must admit that I laughed more than once. And I didn't feel guilty about it. Funny is funny to me, y'all.

What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing; you already told that bitch twice.

Why did the woman cross the street?
Who the fuck cares; why isn't she in the kitchen?

What is the worthless piece of skin called which surrounds the vagina?
A woman.

What is the fastest way to a woman's heart?
Through her sternum with a knife.

See that? Those are inappropriate, misogynistic jokes. I've been coming to this site to know how unwelcome sentiments like these are around here. I've seen people get their heads chewed off for less. Does it make it okay for those sentiments to come in joke form? HAHAHA, she has two black eyes because I beat her! It's funny, right?

Here's the thing; I like inappropriate humor. Love it! I do. However, there has to be a line somewhere between what is bending the rules of taste and what is breaking those rules. Jokes about race? Jokes about misogyny? Sex jokes (why do you wrap duct tape around a rat? so that when you fuck it, it doesn't explode)? I'm cool with those. Jokes about Haiti? Jokes about rape? Jokes about car-bombings? Not as cool. I get them -- they're funny. But that doesn't mean I'm going to approve of them or promote them.

So listen, you don't have to agree. I have an disagreeable tone, certainly. And that's cool. I'm not out to change anyone's mind, just to accurately express why this movie makes me so uncomfortable.

Best wishes to all.

Well, if it makes superasente angry, then I KNOW I'll have to watch it.
Speaking of which, superasente, thank you for giving me the inspiration to finish my new song. It's an homage to the great cars-themed songs of the 60's, and it's called "Rape Van a Go-Go".

superasente, you're perfectly entitled to feel that way, and to express that, and to not see this movie.

But just because someone doesn't feel this way, and might watch the movie, doesn't make them a horrible person.

Oh man. If it seemed like that's what I was saying, that wasn't my intention, MM.

Skewicide Blonde, please don't infer that because I am surprised to find this movie promoted on Pajiba that I would accuse the readership or TK of being "horrible people." I think it's a bit of a leap, but its a leap you've made so let me clarify: You're all wonderful people. TK, if you ever want to try the dude side of things, you call me first -- I am your willing submissive.

And Branded, it is not that I reject the notion that movies should be made about car-bombings. It is that they shouldn't be made into comedies. If Precious had been a COMEDY about a man who rapes his stepdaughter and get's her pregnant, while her own mother abuses her, I don't think anyone would've been laughing.

Didn't Luke rape Laura or something like that?

Well, ,, I never was a big General Hospital fan, so I can't say there. But I do recall that being a storyline on ... um, One Life To Live, maybe? Blair and Todd? Is this ringing any bells for any soap fans? I only watched any soaps for a brief period in the late 80s/early 90s (oh, and Ryan's Hope with my mom through most of the 70s, whenever she was pregnant or nursing, which was most of the decade). I seem to remember that he was hot for her, then became obsessed,then he raped her and went to jail, and then years later I caught an episode and they were dating or married or something, and I was all, "What-what?!"

Anyway. FWIW, I believe superasente simply had a very strong reaction to the subject matter and its presentation in the film; I really didn't get that he was calling anyone a bad person, or the site bad for including the trailer. He only said he was surprised, which is a reaction other people have had to other trailers. Different people are triggered by different things, and express those reactions in different ways.

AvSbp,

Though I don't doubt that about Blair and Todd, wiki says:

The supercouple pairing of Luke Spencer and Laura Webber would eventually become the most popular storyline in soap opera history. Their November 16/17, 1981 wedding was watched by about 30 million people, making it the highest-rated episode of a soap opera in American television history. ... Luke and Laura's relationship was not without some controversy, as Luke had raped her in 1979. Laura was traumatized and went to counseling, but after her popularity with Luke flourished, she claimed the rape was "seduction." In 1998, the issue was revisited and Laura finally admitted to herself that Luke had raped her.

If Precious had been a COMEDY about a man who rapes his stepdaughter and get's her pregnant, while her own mother abuses her, I don't think anyone would've been laughing.

We understand. This would not be your cup of tea. Mine was a repeated joke about Prisco's reviews being far more deplorable and tasteless than this (hint: his are actually some of my favorites).

I'm back to say that my comment was only meant to make a general point, not to say that superasente called all of us horrible people and I'm deeply wounded and offended. ('Cause I'm not.)

However, apparently people sometimes feel that when they express a lone (or mostly lone) dissenting opinion on ol'Pajiba, everyone gangs up on them and does that thing where they all hit a guy with bars of soap in tube socks. Or something. I was just trying to say, "Hey man, that's cool if you think a movie like this is full of shit, but don't hit US with the soap."

And when I say "us", I don't really mean me, because I didn't watch the trailer and don't really care about this movie.

Ahhhahahahahahah...(breathes)hahahahahaha...(breathes)hahahahaha.

I love how everyone jumped on someone for saying a movie was shit because of the subject matter. Then you said that it was ok because everyone has a different opinion. That said opinion was not to be judged. "But just because someone doesn't feel this way, and might watch the movie, doesn't make them a horrible person." Man...am I having flashbacks or what.

That being said. The humor with a suicide bomber has already been done in Wristcutters: A Love Story.

Everywhere I see this thing mentioned people say it looks funny.
It does not look the least bit funny to me.

And not because of the subject matter. I'm one of the people who giggled at the terrorist jokes in Postal, for Christ's sake. I love transgressive humor.

But that's the problem. I see no humor, just that tiresome "characters having petty arguments" and "whoops, monkeywrench in the plan" business that some writers, apparently, think is funny. I don't find it funny in the least. It bores the hell out of me.

That trailer bores the hell out of me. And somehow I don't think they cut all the funny bits out of the trailer, knowwhatImean?

Pass.

A straight suicide bomber comedy is probably the least subversive and least controversial work that Chris Morris has done in a long while. Heck he famously did the paedophile special of brass eye that claimed that a paedophile had been sent on a space ship with a child and then had a Pop Idol (the original American Idol) judge claiming that paedophiles have as much scientifically with crabs as they do with people.

He even wrote Nathan Barley which had a journalist getting involved in an undergroud ring of men wanking each other off in toilets because his boss thought that it was keeping familys together. The paper he worked for was called Sugarape.

next we should take a nice comedic look at pedophilia from the perspective of a pederast.

no, mister, don't take me into the woods!

what are you crying about kid, i'm the one that's got to walk back!