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1 posted on 07/06/2012 5:45:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Must we ruin every dang movie? It was a funny movie that I enjoyed. Everything does not have to be some conspiracy theory. It was a simple very funny movie. Kids did NOT go just for info. Wife and I had a pleasant time going to dinner and a movie for a change. If you don’t like it, don’t go....simple as that.


2 posted on 07/06/2012 5:49:48 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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Lighten up Brent, it was a funny movie.


3 posted on 07/06/2012 5:50:40 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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I’m as red-blooded a Conservative as anyone, but MacFarlane is an entertainer, pure and simple. I don’t watch him Maher, I don’t care for his politics one whit, but some of his stuff, esp. his commentary on pop culture, is downright funny.

Family Guy is vulgar. Cleveland Show is vulgar. American Dad is vulgar. I would expect that Ted will be vulgar, but like all the other primetime Fox cartoons, I’ll likely see this movie at some point in the future. From the people who I know who feel the same about MacFarlane as I do, they say this movie is a laugh-a-minute.

Again, I’m not saying MacFarlane is right to espouse atheism, but to deny him his right to make this “cultural garbage” is to deny him the same 1st Amendment rights that any of us are entitled to. People will pay to see this movie, and he will continue to make Family Guy and others. Denigrate him all you want, MacFarlane isn’t going anywhere.


4 posted on 07/06/2012 5:52:23 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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My kids won’t even know this movie exists, but I defend MacFarlane’s right to make it. Bozell needs to lighten up.


5 posted on 07/06/2012 5:55:59 AM PDT by montag813
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Seth's sick after school homo love specials are not entertaining.

FG was great till the perv moralizing became the main plot. Same with American Dad. The Cleveland B show? Who cares?

Faux should have cancelled Cleveland and got Futurama back. They snoozed they loosed. Now they have 3 identical SMcF toons. Blah.

As far as movies. No way no how will I financially support murder lust and perversion! Just because they call it entertainment, doesn't mean it is!

6 posted on 07/06/2012 5:58:01 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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Support garbage and garbage will continue to be made. I just saw Madea’s Witness Protection and loved it. Tyler Perry supports Obama but he is a very funny guy. A person’s politics are of no concern to me. If a person wants to make vulgar, anti-Christian movies, that is their right. I protest by not spending my money to see them.


9 posted on 07/06/2012 6:01:22 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Here’s the movie I’m waiting for this summer.
Obama 2016 http://youtu.be/vtv6XUT-hno


10 posted on 07/06/2012 6:02:48 AM PDT by sunny48
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1) I don't want to pass a law banning bad movies.
2) If Scott MacFarlane is an atheist, it's his business. That information is of limited importance to me.

I think our culture has gone very far downhill. We benefit from moral, insightful literature, plays, discussions. Crappy TV shows and crappy movies do not help our society; they hurt our society. The prevalence of irony within our culture is debilitating because it encourages the idea that nothing really matters, it's all good, and who the heck cares anyway??

People who care about government corruption, government tyranny, financial system shenanigans, and welfare parasites, should also be concerned about the state of our artistic culture. Social Conservatism is inextricably linked with Fiscal Conservatism. Really bad movies are not harmless. They contribute to social breakdown. And the breakdown of society costs you in multiple ways.

13 posted on 07/06/2012 6:07:13 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
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What does the author here expect from Hollywood? Their job is to make films and entertain. I'd rather have a film like ‘Ted’ any day over the standard liberal revisionist history Hollywood churns out. Che anyone?
14 posted on 07/06/2012 6:07:13 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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The public has gotten numb to the sewage that Hollywood puts out.
Time travel back to 1965. How would this work be viewed then?
We are the frog in the pot with the heat slowly turned up. The water is about boiling.
20 posted on 07/06/2012 6:13:09 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("The writing is on the wall - Unions are screwed. reformist2 10:04 PM #27")
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There’s an article above this which asks, “Is It Too Late To Save America?”

I think the answer is found right here.


22 posted on 07/06/2012 6:15:45 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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Don’t get down on Bozell- he is reviewing it- not declaring that thg government should have stopped him from making it

MacFarland has one of those twisted pathetic lives that makes money and a living off of being vulgar and stupid, kind of like Jerry Springer or Howard Stern.

I just wonder if at the end of their days they will think back to what disgusting filth they accomplished in life and live the remainder of their existance in mortal fear of the warm place that is certainly going to come next for a life so wasted.


24 posted on 07/06/2012 6:21:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (OBAMA MUST BE STOPPED ROMNEY/GINGRICH)
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the summary essentially describes a bunch of unlikable characters lost in pot smoking, cocain use and deviant behavior.

it is not even worth watching on free tv.


28 posted on 07/06/2012 6:43:59 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Ted’s hilarious, yeah it might drag a little in the third act as Seth seems to be trying to prove he can do something other than fart jokes, but the fart jokes are awesome. And there’s nothing wrong with a sentimental ending once in a while, it is after all a movie about wishes coming true, kind of sentimental to start with.


29 posted on 07/06/2012 6:45:51 AM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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I thought the idea of a magical Teddy Bear growing up and hanging around was inspired, but the trailers left me cold. A good idea wasted as just another Adam Sandler clone.

The guys at South Park had it right. Seth can tell a joke but not a coherent story.

He is the Henny Youngman of his generation.


34 posted on 07/06/2012 7:15:40 AM PDT by eddie willers
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Seth McFarlane is an unbelievably talented freaking genius.


35 posted on 07/06/2012 7:18:05 AM PDT by Maceman
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My daughter and boyfriend went to see this and loved it! Both are good conservative freshman in college, state champion tennis players, “A to B” students in engineering and laughed so much it hurt. I trust their opinion and they said it was a harmless, funny movie.

Not every movie is good guys shooting bad guys. Are we supposed to boycott the movie? Hold a candlelight vigil outside the theatre and pray for the people coming out?


37 posted on 07/06/2012 7:30:25 AM PDT by albie
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"NPR's Bob Mondello would actually say he made a "date movie"?"

Because, as you can see from the replies on this very thread, people are so desensitized that they can actually relax to vulgarity.

45 posted on 07/06/2012 8:52:48 AM PDT by StAnDeliver
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OK, I admit..I saw Ted and loved it. Crude but very funny.

And I am still a Conservative

Oh, and the “thanks for 9/11” line had me in stitches. For a liberal, MacFarlane has no problem with being not politically correct

It should be noted that, the same people who run the allegedly “conservative” Fox News, are the same ones paying MacFarlane 100 million for his services

I usually avoid films that are patently offensive...but Ted was just too funny.


46 posted on 07/06/2012 9:12:30 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Sad....George Zimmerman is in jail for rightfully defending himself...while Eric Holder walks free)
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I always wondered who the market was for McFarlane's puerile, stupid crap.

After reading this thread, I guess now I know.

51 posted on 07/06/2012 10:22:22 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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