Posted on 11/24/2016 12:19:17 PM PST by heterosupremacist
It’s a hard call which is worse: “Bad Santa 2” or its juvenile fans. By any measure, the movie, and its reception in many quarters, is proof positive that American culture is witnessing a race to the bottom.
When the first “Bad Santa” was released in 2003, I described Santa as a “chain-smoking, drunken, foul-mouthed, suicidal, sexual predator. He is shown soiling himself in Santa’s chair, vomiting in alleys, having sex with a woman bartender in a car, and performing anal sex on a huge woman in a dressing room.”
Nick Schager, writing for The Playlist, notes the “narrative purposelessness” of the film. Similarly, Colin Covert of the Chicago Tribune says “the plot is so muddled it seems to have been stitched together from the dregs of multiple ditched drafts.”
The Hollywood Reporter likes the movie because it is “Raunchy, rude and politically incorrect.” The latter observation, which was made by many reviewers, is factually incorrect: it is politically correct to trash Christian teaching, values, symbols, and holidays. It is politically incorrect to trash Judaism or Islam, which is why it is rarely done.
Juliana Roman of movieweb.com is happy that “Bad Santa 2 is as gloriously raunchy as the original. Bravo to the filmmakers for having the guts to make it just as ribald and patently offensive.” Sorry, Juliana, it takes no guts in Hollywood to offend Christians, especially this time of the year. Once Hollywood makes a movie doing to the LGBTQ community what it does to Christians—it should be released during Gay Pride Month—then Tinseltown can be heralded for its courage.
“‘Bad Santa 2’ is vulgar, nasty and offensive, but it has flawed aspects also.” It would be hard to beat this inane comment, courtesy of Kyle Smith of the New York Post.
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It’s not a cultural marker. It’s a movie. A profane movie, but a movie. Someday people will understand not everybody is into the holidays. Some folks lives didn’t work out in that Norman Rockwell way. For them there are movies like Bad Santa. And if you’re not one of those folks, good for you, enjoy your sappy happy holiday movies, we’re not interfering, so leave us alone as we enjoy our profane holiday movies.
John Ritter is a hidden gem in several movies including Sling Blade. Billy Bob must have valued him. As for Bad Santa it is a true black comedy. Can’t deny the criticism but hey I almost had a coronary laughing at Andrew Dice Clay’s first HBO special.
No, not at all. There’s no doubt in either movie that Billy Bob’s character is not Santa. He’s a mall Santa in the first one, a bell ringer for a charity in the second. No part of western culture is losing a leg.
Well I enjoy Frank Capra and Bad Santa. There is a place for both.
All my Christmas movies are “improper”. Except Christmas Story, I think that’s my only “normal” Christmas movie. I’m a Die Hard, French Connection, Gremlins, and The Ref kind of Christmas movie guy. Force fed way too many of those claymations as a kid, put me off the whole idea of Christmas movies until I discovered the weird side of the list.
The first Bad Santa is unwatchable as far as I am concerned. I am not surprised however there would be a second one. I know I am out of step with large numbers of the masses and I guess that’s OK.
I said I would not watch the first one but I was bored one day so I rented the “Bad Santa badder version”. The one with the cut scenes. I almost feel off the couch laughing.
I switch channels when the trailer comes one ... can’t stand it.
I saw the first one, and the only time I laughed was when Bad Santa beat up the bully kid. I’ll probably watch the second one in a year or two on free TV, but I rarely pay to see movies in theaters.
“One of the all-time funniest movies ever.”
Kyle Smith actually says that in his review. Well, I think he says funniest of the 00’s or something like that.
Jack Hammer enjoyed ‘Bad Santa.’
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