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Team America Update (UPDATED)
Posted by Bill
I will see Team America this weekend. And it will be good. Originally, the pleasant woman pictured above was holding a modern day Communist Manifesto titled "Revolution," by Bob Avakian, but INDC contributor Jacques Vanderdreschd spiced it up with a little photoshop fun. For context about moonbat demands for a Bush Puppet in Team America, make sure that you read my previous post about wacky leftist whinging from DU posters and the Daily Kos. Below the fold is an extra special comic:
UPDATE: A review of a review: Don't you just luv the dripping condescension? Translation: Miserable right-wing rednecks! Don't even understand when they're being laughed at! Let me go out on a limb here and suggest an alternate theory based on years of watching "South Park": Stone and Parker are not making fun of "Bushworld" per se. Rather, they're making fun of people like....Hank Stuever, who have created in their own minds the entire concept of "Bushworld". In other words, Stone and Parker are parodying the parody. And I'd be willing to bet a considerable amount of money that this is what is drawing the biggest laughs. Posted by Bill at October 15, 2004 10:05 AM | TrackBack (4) CommentsSorry for the divergence, but I've not seen that charming picture before, and something struck me: You think she's aware that the people on her t-shirt account for nearly 100,000,000 dead? Posted by: Robert Crawford at October 15, 2004 10:37 AM Well ... 100,000,000 "enemies of the people," if that's what you mean ... Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 15, 2004 10:41 AM Of course. How silly of me to forget how they're rationalized. Posted by: Robert Crawford at October 15, 2004 11:06 AM I saw Team America on Tuesday. YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED. I'm only a little frustrated that the soundtrack won't be out until Nov 2. My favorite scenes: Go and enjoy, but be prepared for the language that comes with any Matt Stone or Trey Parker flick. Posted by: Jon C at October 15, 2004 11:27 AM Just bought my tickets online; going to the 9:55 with gf coming down from out of state for the weekend. Can't wait! Posted by: TallDave at October 15, 2004 11:32 AM The comic brought a smile to my face. Thanks for posting it. :) Posted by: Textbook Stupidity at October 15, 2004 11:35 AM Now more than ever I think the Daily Show should be replaced double quick. Worst case: with paid programming. Posted by: Josh at October 15, 2004 11:37 AM At first blush, I was going to take a pass on "Team America", THEN, I read how upset Sean Penn was about the movie. That cinched it. Posted by: Casey at October 15, 2004 12:28 PM Christ only knows when it'll be released in Costa Rica. I'll probably be able to rent it at Blockbuster by that point. Grrr. Posted by: David Gillies at October 15, 2004 12:43 PM Ugghh! I can smell her from here! They should do a show called "Queer Eye for the Socialist Guy" C'mon, turquoise and green? SSSOOOO last season. Posted by: sentinel at October 15, 2004 12:59 PM Is it just me or does the commie in the picture look a bit like a marionette herself? Her eyes are killing me.... Posted by: Senor C at October 15, 2004 01:10 PM Yeah, I'm on my way out to see it now =) Posted by: Sciszor at October 15, 2004 01:31 PM Sorry but I ust can't do it tonight. College Basketball season opens at midnight. Gotta go down to the church (Dean Smith Center) and get me some of that religion. But tomorrow, I think I'll take in the $5 matinee. Can't wait. Posted by: caltechgirl at October 15, 2004 02:56 PM Okay, here's an update. Just saw the movie. Everything I've heard from those who have screened it is true. It rocks from start to finish; you won't be disappointed. Posted by: Sciszor at October 15, 2004 06:26 PM DO NOT TAKE YOUR KIDS!!! i wouldn't take anyone under 16 to see this movie. it was pretty good, but very rough in places. the puppet sex scen is hilarious, but not something i would want a younger teenager or a child to see. make sure to watch all the credits so you can hear the extra Alec Baldwin song Posted by: Sean at October 15, 2004 07:19 PM I think I'll go out to see it tomorrow. Being kind of a cheapskate I always prefer to catch the matinees when prices are cheaper. Some of the reviews from the MSM are priceless. The lead review in today's Washington Post (you must have seen it, Bill) was particularly clueless; the reviewer seems to have thought that Team America was a _left-wing_ slam on "Bushworld" and was perplexed to find the audience at the screening he attended howling with glee at all the anti-Left jokes. Posted by: Joe at October 15, 2004 07:40 PM Of course many in the MSM will pan the film...if it was insulting to Bush and conservatives, they would declare it a work of genius... Well, that's OK...we can still pump up the box office numbers...let's make it the number one movie this weekend...let's send a statement... Posted by: Another Thought at October 15, 2004 09:44 PM I just got back from Team America. I can't believe how funny it is. The sex scene starts off mild and just gets wilder and wilder. It's 90 minutes of your sides aching. Posted by: Hollywood_Freaks at October 15, 2004 10:10 PM Saw it with my brother this evening. What I liked best was not that all the famous members of F.A.G. get killed, it's HOW they meet their demise. The sword fight between Helen Hunt and one of the Team Americans is classic! And getting heads blown off of some very prominent lefty mouthpieces was gratifying. Stone/Parker in 2008! Posted by: toddzilla at October 15, 2004 11:32 PM I should add that I found Ebert's one-star review amusing. I'm convinced a few bold swipes at Bush in the movie would've been worth AT LEAST an extra two stars. He saves the high ratings for trash like Fahrenlies 911. Go figure... Posted by: toddzilla at October 15, 2004 11:37 PM Toddzilla: Roger Ebert has been getting in digs at Bush for some years now in any review that had anything to do with politics. It's not surprising that he only gave the movie one star. It's surprising that the WaPo's reviewer was so dense that he praised the movie to the skies as a slam of GWB's foreign policies. Posted by: Joe at October 15, 2004 11:52 PM Hey! That DVD is a cheap and illegal bootleg. Posted by: bummer at October 16, 2004 01:30 AM I saw the star of this post yesterday on the metro! She was wearing some sort of Peace on Earth sweatshirt. I think that's the closest brush I've ever had with fame. --Jeffrey Boulier Posted by: Jeffrey Boulier at October 16, 2004 02:37 PM Jumping Buddha! That's the spitting image of the MoveOn.org hag Joan Blades. Posted by: Jack Mackenzie at October 16, 2004 03:38 PM Just saw "Team America". The best scene was after Michael Moore blows up the headquarters, Gary asks the computer, "What happened?" The computer responds, "A big socialist weasel destroyed our headquarters!" Sounds like an apt description. The movie did make fun of jingoism and the WOT, but ultimately it did come down on the on the, I guess "Bush" side of the debate. Posted by: Huck at October 16, 2004 06:59 PM That's what satire does - it makes fun of _everybody_. What South Park Republicans love about Parker and Stone is that the duo directs their sharpest digs at the people who _really_ need to have their pomposities punctured. Posted by: Joe at October 16, 2004 08:29 PM I'm not catching the movie until tomorrow...there wasn't a Bush puppet...right? Posted by: jacques at October 16, 2004 09:36 PM No Bush puppet. That's what has the lefties in a tizzy. I watched "Ebert & Roeper" tonight. Ebert panned it. Tellingly, one of his criticisms was that there was "no mention of the White House.." in the movie. Because, of course, to liberals, it's all about Bush. Posted by: Huck at October 16, 2004 11:40 PM Whew. Posted by: jacques at October 17, 2004 12:38 AM I loved it. There's no Bush, because they are puppets. As for the sex scene, same thing. I laughed. Alot. Posted by: ma at October 17, 2004 06:27 AM best movie ever... 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