His dad was so ronery.
If I was anywhere near this theater I would go and buy $50 worth of popcorn and soda just to thank them.
Or maybe I’d spring for the large sizes...
Excellent!
Rog was not amused. Took too many of his sacred cows to the slaughterhouse.
Ebert Review: Team America
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 10/15/2004 | Roger Ebert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1245726/posts
1 Star
“What are you rebelling against, Johnny?”
“Whaddya got?” )
-Marlon Brando in “The Wild One” If this dialogue is not inscribed over the doors of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it should be. Their “Team America: World Police” is an equal opportunity offender, and waves of unease will flow over first one segment of their audience, and then another. Like a cocky teenager who’s had a couple of drinks before the party, they don’t have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible...
...Opposing Team America is the Film Actors’ Guild, or FAG, ho, ho, with puppets representing Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn (who has written an angry letter about the movie to Parker and Stone). No real point is made about the actors’ activism; they exist in the movie essentially to be ridiculed for existing at all, I guess. Hans Blix, the U.N. chief weapons inspector, also turns up, and has a fruitless encounter with the North Korean dictator. Some of the scenes are set to music, including such tunes as “Pearl Harbor Sucked and I Miss You” and “America — F***, Yeah!”
If I were asked to extract a political position from the movie, I’d be baffled. It is neither for nor against the war on terrorism, just dedicated to ridiculing those who wage it and those who oppose it. The White House gets a free pass, since the movie seems to think Team America makes its own policies without political direction.
I wasn’t offended by the movie’s content so much as by its nihilism. At a time when the world is in crisis and the country faces an important election, the response of Parker, Stone and company is to sneer at both sides — indeed, at anyone who takes the current world situation seriously. They may be right that some of us are puppets, but they’re wrong that all of us are fools, and dead wrong that it doesn’t matter.
F yah!
I have this movie on VHS tape..yep VHS tape, LOL those were the days..this movie was HILARIOUS
-- David Burge (Iowahawk) on Twitter
BRAVO!
Hollywood should not be making films about the assassination of foreign leaders. That goes for films like The Equalizer where Denzel Washington’s character infiltrates the Russian Presidential Palace and assassinates the Russian leader named Pushkin, a thinly-veiled substitute for Putin. Did the film company run that one past the Rand think tank and the State Dept too, and did they give their approval hoping copies would leak into Russia and destabilize the country and that the people would assassinate their own leader.
And if you don’t put in your Buck-o-Five, who will?
We’re going to need a MON-TAGE!
Even Rocky had a MON-TAGE!
I hate you, Hans Brix!
Think theaters should pull all Sony films, they were all put out by racists according to hacked info, let’s see how that goes over to coward SONY CORP!
Another reason to love the Drafthouse. I haven’t seen a movie in a regular theater in years.
I noticed that ads for The Interview are still running this evening on cable (SyFY channel). The advertising is for Christmas Day release.
Way to go Alamo Drafthouse!
Matt Damon
Dirka dirka!
