the continental ([info]saltine) wrote in [info]ohnotheydidnt,
@ 2008-06-02 00:23:00
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Audience walks during 'Postal' screening
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HOBOKEN -- About 200 people were present Friday night at the start of the free screening of Uwe Boll's "Postal" at Pier A Park, but three-quarters walked away long before the closing credits.

Mat Levy -- who had his 15 minutes of fame as "Cheezy" on season two of VH1's celebrity dating show "I Love New York" -- was one of those who found the movie in bad taste.

The last straw for Levy was a scene in which two terrorists hijack a plane in a 9/11-style attack, but then decide to abandon the suicide mission and fly to the Bahamas instead -- only to wind up crashing into a building after the passengers storm the cockpit.

Mayor David Roberts, citing the same scene, refused to attend Friday night's premiere.

"I did not like Uwe Boll's perception of 9/11," Levy said. "It's too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center. Do you not think there are families out there that had their loved ones killed on 9/11? It really upsets me that he couldn't care less.''

dave foley's in this stupid movie? bummer for him

now with source! sorry!

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[info]damndavestfu
2008-06-02 01:25 pm UTC (link)
uwe boll is so talented the hits just keep on comin


i want to fight him i think...

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[info]thies
2008-06-02 01:26 pm UTC (link)
"It's too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center"

what an emo crybaby

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[info]arsenicxglitter
2008-06-02 02:17 pm UTC (link)
Seriously! My God, it was tragic, but it was nearly a decade ago! What happened to that whole "get-over-it-or-the-terrorists-really-do-win" thing? gtfoi. now. Jesus.

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[info]childish
2008-06-02 01:26 pm UTC (link)
I don't understand how they're able to put another work right on the poster - South Park - when the two aren't linked in any way. If I were the creator of something, and it got linked to a piece of shit by some unknown blogger and then they put it on the poster? I'd be totally furious.

Unless it is linked in some way that I don't know.

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[info]slutdrunkmystag
2008-06-02 09:05 pm UTC (link)
It's a quotation from a critic making a comparison between the two, so it's not like the movie is saying that it is affiliated with South Park.

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[info]decivitatedei
2008-06-02 01:26 pm UTC (link)
I don't think there's ever a right time to mock major tragedies like that. -_- There's much in human beings that can be riddiculed, so why resort to this?

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[info]freeko
2008-06-02 01:36 pm UTC (link)
"Comedy is tragedy plus time"-Spoken by Alan Alda in the Woody Allen film "Crimes and Misdemeanors"

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[info]ecstaticfoil
2008-06-02 01:26 pm UTC (link)
but it wasn't too soon to make a movie reminding family members and suvivors their loved ones died in a more realistic film?

neither is/was appropriate imo.

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[info]laurynx0
2008-06-02 01:38 pm UTC (link)
I know. My history teacher, his dad was on the first plane that crashed into the WTC. His family was contacted about the Oliver Stone film but they did not endorse it nor support it in any way.

Edited at 2008-06-02 01:38 pm UTC

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[info]boomstick
2008-06-02 01:35 pm UTC (link)
This movie looks stupid. I'd probably walk out too...not because I'd be offended by 9/11, but because I'd be offended by the shitty humor in general.

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[info]freeko
2008-06-02 01:35 pm UTC (link)
I got a feeling that this will be a cult hit years from now.

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[info]beetlebummer
2008-06-02 01:36 pm UTC (link)
Poster by Bargain Poster of Hollywood!

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[info]bunnykittycoat
2008-06-02 01:38 pm UTC (link)
I really hope the money was worth parting with your soul, Dave Foley.

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[info]dss1984
2008-06-02 01:41 pm UTC (link)
"It's too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center. Do you not think there are families out there that had their loved ones killed on 9/11? It really upsets me that he couldn't care less.''


So when exactly is the proper time to mock that event?

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[info]de_wood
2008-06-02 02:01 pm UTC (link)
March 26 of 2017

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[info]radared
2008-06-02 01:43 pm UTC (link)
People are sick.

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[info]__nocturna
2008-06-02 03:00 pm UTC (link)
Seriously. Sorry if I don't think parodies of tragedies are funny, guess I just don't have a ~sense of humor~

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[info]lr489
2008-06-02 01:46 pm UTC (link)
the poster itself looks cheap and crappy. that's enough of a red flag to not see the movie.

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[info]up_and_away1252
2008-06-02 03:48 pm UTC (link)
lol ia

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[info]cleanburritos
2008-06-02 01:48 pm UTC (link)
I only caught a clip on TV Guide channel last night and it looked different o_o

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[info]makidah
2008-06-02 01:53 pm UTC (link)
The poster looks so cheap,ewww.

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[info]de_wood
2008-06-02 02:00 pm UTC (link)
I've heard reviews of this, and I'm not surprised.

I like it when people say it's too soon to make fun of something, as if there's an actually gage of how long it takes until something tragic can be funny. Bad taste is bad taste, but offensive things can still be funny sometimes.

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[info]k_byte
2008-06-02 02:02 pm UTC (link)
hahaha this movie looks so terrible. And I like how the poster prominently displays Uwe Boll's name, like he's some sort of well-respected director whose movies you always want to see.

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[info]catatonique
2008-06-02 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Especially when, for most people, it's the EXACT opposite.

When I see his name, I run.

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[info]britty_stitches
2008-06-02 02:02 pm UTC (link)
Lol my bb Zack Ward!
He's amazing.

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[info]witwicky
2008-06-02 02:07 pm UTC (link)
I'm not gonna lie, I'll probably be dragged to it because I'm a souless creature and would find humor in it

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[info]days_of_magic
2008-06-02 02:09 pm UTC (link)
this reminds me of that Columbine like movie with Misty Mundae

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[info]varookamcsalt
2008-06-02 02:09 pm UTC (link)
I thought that poster was something a first time photo shopper did.. that's the REAL poster for a movie? WOW ....craptacular.

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this the scene?
[info]heislegend
2008-06-02 02:10 pm UTC (link)

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[info]mastodonna
2008-06-02 02:37 pm UTC (link)
Ya.
I like how it says "The last straw for Levy was a scene in which two terrorists hijack a plane in a 9/11-style attack [...]" when that scene is at the beginning of the movie. Congratulations for walking out after two minutes.

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Re: this the scene? - [info]imsodeep, 2008-06-02 05:35 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]andora
2008-06-02 02:11 pm UTC (link)
I'm all for the idea that sometimes people NEED their horizons expanded so they won't be such judgemental twats. But people who feel the need to shit all over the line between bad taste and way too demented (because this didn't come close to even halfway bad) really need to gtfo.

It's like art students these days who pull insane and stupid shit and say it's "all in the name of art, and you are a philistine." Calling in a bomb threat to a museum is not art, and this movie is not provocative. It's just dumb.

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[info]kvetch_kvetch
2008-06-02 02:29 pm UTC (link)
uwe boll is such a waste of space

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[info]pretend_to_care
2008-06-02 02:31 pm UTC (link)
It's not the bad taste/mocking 9-11 that makes me not want to see it. It's the fact that it looks completely stupid.

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[info]mastodonna
2008-06-02 02:37 pm UTC (link)
I saw it after a friend of mine with usually pretty good taste recommended it to me. It was horrible (except for when Uwe Boll himself says his films are financed with Nazi gold.), not because it was un-pc, but because Uwe Boll has the sense of humour of a retarded puppy.

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[info]belley
2008-06-02 08:08 pm UTC (link)
retarded puppies are pretty funny

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