“BAD SANTA 2” IS A CULTURAL MARKER

http://www.catholicleague.org ^ | 11/24/2016 | Bill Donohue

[discostu]

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.

[Williams]

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.

[discostu]

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.

[Williams]

Well I enjoy Frank Capra and Bad Santa. There is a place for both.

[heterosupremacist]

Re " Post #21 "... so leave us alone as we enjoy our profane holiday movies." I will leave you alone, you can bet on it! distcostu ~

[discostu]

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.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.”

All that, and it was funny (and featured a great performance by the late Bernie Mac). The movie didn't hide what it was intended to be - raunchy humor for adults. No one was forced to go see the movie and it isn't going to be broadcast into anyone's home unasked. I don't understand people who object to a movie's existence simply because they personally don't like it.

I have no idea if the sequel is any good (as others have pointed out, sequels usually aren't), and I won't be going to the theater to find out, but I might watch it on PPV some time.

[plain talk]

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.

[BBell]

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.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I switch channels when the trailer comes one ... can’t stand it.

[ozzymandus]

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.

[jocon307]

“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]

Jack Hammer enjoyed ‘Bad Santa.’