God Bless America

Not sure how I feel about this one. There seems to be a certain satisfaction to this movie but it also makes me uneasy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1-NRmuXTls

Oh wow and they never get caught.

So this is basically a Breaking Bad rip-off?

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:01 PM, Dropp said:

So this is basically a Breaking Bad rip-off?

What?

Bobcat Goldthwait? this looks quite entertaining though highly sadistic.

wat

I love how this movie criticises society for being mindless idiots by glorying murder and cheering every kill (making them mindless idiots as well)

Looks like a sequel to 'Super', can't wait for the unnecessary violence! Bobcat is a sick fucko!

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:03 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:01 PM, Dropp said:

So this is basically a Breaking Bad rip-off?

 

What?

You didn't see any similarities at all?

Normal average guy gets a tumour. Goes crazy. In this case the guy is just a serial killer instead of a drug dealer.

A more violent and a dumper version of Breaking Bad. That's the impression I got from that trailer.

Falling Down + Idiocracy + Breaking Bad + Natural Born Killers==what's not to like?

yo303 - obviously without having seen the movie yet I can't say for sure - but it looks like they'll deal with that particular trope at some point in the movie.

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:19 PM, YO303 said:

I love how this movie criticises society for being mindless idiots by glorying murder and cheering every kill (making them mindless idiots as well)

This. It's like a cartoon. There's another layer to its criticism, just like with Idiocracy.

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:26 PM, Dropp said:

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:03 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:01 PM, Dropp said:

So this is basically a Breaking Bad rip-off?

 

What?

 

You didn't see any similarities at all?

 

Normal average guy gets a tumour. Goes crazy. In this case the guy is just a serial killer instead of a drug dealer.

 

A more violent and a dumper version of Breaking Bad. That's the impression I got from that trailer.

I'm kind of getting the impression that you didn't actually watch Breaking Bad. Walt certainly didn't "go crazy". He weighed his options, albeit hastily, and determined that the quickest and most effective was to become a drug dealer. Just because it was socially unacceptable and had some serious side effects doesn't mean it was irrational.

I do see the similarity of a fairly typical middle-class middle-aged white guy getting fed up with playing buy the rules and deciding that he's not going to anymore. That aspect of this movie I find refreshing. It's good to see more of that, because apparently the rules aren't doing anything to discourage good people from getting shat on.

Oh, yeah, and the tumor. Duh. Somehow I forgot that part of the trailer. :P

The unfettered violence is what freaks me out, but hey, if that's what you have to do (CINEMATICALLY!) to get assholes' attention...

I would argue that Walt in the latest season of Breaking Bad, has gone crazy.

Anyway. As I said, it's just the impression I got from the trailer. Just because it's more violent/dumb don't necessarily have to be a bad thing. It could be fun.

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:44 PM, Dropp said:

I would argue that Walt in the latest season of Breaking Bad, has gone crazy.

 

Anyway. As I said, it's just the impression I got from the trailer. It could be fun.

Yeah, it looks fun but an unsettling sort of fun.

.. and i don't have a problem with depictions of murders in movies, but it gets weird when the goal of the movie is for us to cheer every kill.

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:53 PM, YO303 said:

.. and i don't have a problem with depictions of murders in movies, but it gets weird when the goal of the movie is for us to cheer every kill.

Yes, and it's even got that smarmy Apple fauxlk music in the background, and it seems to be doing so without implied cognitive dissonance (like in a Kubrick movie, e.g. the Mickey Mouse Club theme song at the end of Full Metal Jacket). It's just like "Hey, with the new iPhone I can video chat with my family!" to "Hey, with this gun I can exterminate all the selfish assholes I encounter!"

I actually had a dream a few years ago that had a similar glorification of violence and it really unsettled me. But yeah, this is even creepier, easy breezy fun happy folksy violence.

I think a comparison to hobo with a shotgun is more fitting.

that was

really unsettling

kind of want to see this

I am looking forward to seeing all of the things I hate get shot in the face.

Might be good, but most of the trailer struck me as HEY HERE'S SOME THINGS PEOPLE TAKE PRIDE IN DISLIKING, GETTIN SHOT!

shut up, girls!

  On 1/29/2012 at 10:17 PM, W32MyDoom said:

I am looking forward to seeing all of the things I hate get shot in the face.

Is that a quote from mein kampf?

  On 1/29/2012 at 10:28 PM, YO303 said:

  On 1/29/2012 at 10:17 PM, W32MyDoom said:

I am looking forward to seeing all of the things I hate get shot in the face.

Is that a quote from mein kampf?

For reals...

hitler probably wouldn't like skrillex either

  On 1/29/2012 at 9:23 PM, Atop said:

Bobcat is a sick fucko!

this...what was that previous movie of his with Robin Williams? Where his son kills himself during autoerotic asphyxiation and then he makes it look like suicide to get people's attention? Actually I had no problem with the premise, but there was a weird vibe to the film overall...

frustrating.

i mean, he could turn his TV off for one... move to Australia or something. this isn't the only place in the world