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Fox apologizes for 'X-Men' ads showing a strangled Jennifer Lawrence 4 months later
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Posted on 06/05/2016 3:54:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Fox has apologized for promoting X-Men: Apocalypse with images of Jennifer Lawrence's character Mystique being strangled by Oscar Isaac's Apocalypse with the tagline: "Only the strong will survive."

"In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form," Fox said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter Friday.

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New York blogger EV Grieve posted a photo of the poster last month above a subway station in Manhattan that had been covered with eight pieces of paper that read: "This violence in my kid's face is not okay.”

Mashable has reached out to Fox for a comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at mashable.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: jenniferlawrence; movies; parenting; xmen
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To: Excellence
OMG

BRILLIANT!

21 posted on 06/05/2016 4:10:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin
She's a Hillary supporter?

The add was designed as a subliminal Hillary ad. She's running on the men-are-violent-women-abusers feminist platform. This ad was designed to be a shocking reminder of that oppression - for liberal women tending towards Bernie.

What, you think Hollywood is about movies?

22 posted on 06/05/2016 4:10:26 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: BenLurkin

when you change history with time travel....


23 posted on 06/05/2016 4:11:18 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: moovova
The world today:

24 posted on 06/05/2016 4:11:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The fray guy is a robot cooked up by a supported of Bernie.


25 posted on 06/05/2016 4:13:44 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: BenLurkin
THAT'S RACIST!!!

26 posted on 06/05/2016 4:16:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: BenLurkin
VERY racist!!!

27 posted on 06/05/2016 4:18:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: BenLurkin
Isn’t the blue gal one of the bad guys?

I haven't seen all of the "X" franchise, but yeah, the blue gal is one of Magneto's gang. I seem to remember some episode where she lost her superpower (turned human color) and Magneto turned his back on her, but I don't know if that was permanent.

It looks to me that the actress in the poster is not the same one who played Little Girl Blue in earlier episodes, but I might be wrong. It's just a poster, shrunken on my screen.

28 posted on 06/05/2016 4:28:21 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: BenLurkin
"Fox apologizes for 'X-Men' ads showing a strangled Jennifer Lawrence 4 months later"

Wait:

Are they apologizing for not showing it promptly?

Are they apologizing for showing a four month old corpse? (Yeah, that would be pretty gross, and perhaps they should apologize for that.).

Because that headline by the Mashable people 'mashes' logical sentence structure. I await THEIR apology for strangling the English Language

To convey what they intended they should have said something like: "Four months later, Fox apologizes for showing an image of the character being played by Jeniffer Lawrence being strangled."


29 posted on 06/05/2016 4:30:01 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: null and void

Blue Lives Matter!!!


30 posted on 06/05/2016 4:30:50 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary)
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To: Lazamataz
"Rape culture! Rape culture!"

31 posted on 06/05/2016 4:33:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
She's a Hillary supporter?

"Are you feeling the Bern yet?"

32 posted on 06/05/2016 4:40:30 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: moovova
But in an upcoming movie, who knows.

Upcoming ? I've already seen it 3 times.

Heck, before you know it, there’ll probably be a movie about Batman vs Superman.

Sarcasm, huh ?

You might like this.

Badman The Movie

33 posted on 06/05/2016 4:40:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: trisham
At what age, Mom?

I am not sure. I do remember taking a cross country flight, and there was a kid next to the window, 6 or 7 at the most, and he was pounding on his Nintendo during the whole flight. I think he was killing something. It kept him busy, anyway.

Meanwhile, the buffed up 20 something next to me was terrified the whole flight. But that's another story.

34 posted on 06/05/2016 4:43:08 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: BenLurkin

She asked for it by egging him on.


35 posted on 06/05/2016 4:55:16 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: exDemMom

New York blogger EV Grieve posted a photo of the poster last month above a subway station in Manhattan that had been covered with eight pieces of paper that read: “This violence in my kid’s face is not okay.”

I hope she feels the same way about bj klinton and Hitlary. After all the last time a klinton was in the white house I had to explain about blow jobs to my 5 year old because it was overheard on the news.

That was not ok.


36 posted on 06/05/2016 4:58:27 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: trisham

Saw this yesterday. Terrible.

Two hours of meaningless special effects, lame dialogue and a wandering plot. I loved the X-Men comics but these idiots don’t get it. They make the villains too powerful for the average characters (like Beast or Angel-—who they made a bad guy) to have a chance. They miss that the appeal of ALL Suoer hero groups was that to win they had to be INDIVIDUALS fighting together as a team.

Moreover with villains like Apocalypse, if he’s so powerful why does he need henchmen?


37 posted on 06/05/2016 4:58:46 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Excellence

A PACO LIPS, MANG.


38 posted on 06/05/2016 5:00:25 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: BenLurkin
I'm about as hardened and jaded as anyone, but I would cringe if I saw this image in public, where impressionable very young people, as well as others of dainty sensibilities, would see it. This is fine within a theater or a private screening area such as a family home. Out in public for any and all to be subjected to, eh, not so much.

That having been said, it shouldn't have to have become a "war on women" cause celebre. A seventy-five foot billboard depictiing one male strangling another would have been just as egregious.

39 posted on 06/05/2016 5:04:14 PM PDT by Company Man (Trump towers.)
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To: exDemMom

I remember the old cartoons where people or cartoon animals were often getting bopped on the heads by frying pans etc.

The kids who saw them survived.

.


40 posted on 06/05/2016 5:04:20 PM PDT by Mears
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