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Kudos. It's not that tough to start eating better and becoming more active.
All I got out of that article was cry me a river of lard.
Obesity is mainly only a problem cause lazy Americans don't want to change their lifestyles. Although I guess they could all stay fat, seeing as how they could survive longer once the Zombies take over....then again they'd be just as slow as said Zombies.
cheers.
"Think of what happens when young children see Tropic Thunder… or even the trailer that features this sequence. The message is delivered to them that it’s okay to ridicule anyone who does not fit the appropriate body image set forth by people like Ben Stiller. How long until kids start chanting “Fatties! Fatties! Fatties!†on the playground?"
This movie is rated R. Any child that goes to see it would probably ridicule children unlike themselves anyway, as their parents more than likely will not have sufficiently provided the children with tolerance.
I'm sure this movie is extremely offensive. I'm a black woman, and I think it's off the wall that there's a modern film with a prolific actor of our times in black face. There are many racist references made in films, and rarely are they laughed off.
Regardless- In a society that is more and more concerned with not offending every group, and obesity becoming more and more commonplace. Should we focus on the homes that encourage appropriate behavior via rewards made of cakes, pies and ice cream?
Are we not addressing that being overweight due to overeating is simply an addiction, it's rarely a genetic issue due to not being able to process carbohydrates appropriately? Obesity and depression or other necrosis are often linked very closely, and recovery of the mental disorder often results in weight loss.
There are two roads to each street, and unlike race, cognitive issues, height or religion, weight is a reversible issue just like alcoholism. In short, I have little or no sympathy for this topic, as the Nutty Professor films made the all the same jokes you described. America laughed at these jokes, and no one wrote articles about how it was offensive.
Perhaps this movie made you wake up about how you're being underhandedly ridiculed in films released wide without controversy?
Nice. Subtle, but nice.
"People, time to lighten up."
I see what you did there.
Movie Review
If You Don’t Get the Jokes in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ You Don’t Deserve to Laugh
Posted by Kevin Carr (kevin@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 13, 2008
i'd hate to reiterate it but....does this mean the nutty professor was ok then? i havent seen tropic thunder but please stop taking things so seriously. its a MOVIE. a comedy movie for that matter. please lighten up.
i kept waiting for the punchline but it never came.
and as for your question about child molestors in a movie: kevin bacon in the woodsman. the father of kaylee in the butterfly effect. every other episode of law and order SVU. patrick wilson in hard candy.
and i honestly can't think of a single one with a fat pedophile in it. so check your facts next time. and its helps your statement if you don't give an example of the opposite and then say that it doesn't count (jackie earle haley)
Also, in Law and Order SVU, its either a Preppy High Powered Lawyer or a Fat Guy with a Beard. 50/50 chances.
Read this first: http://tinyurl.com/JSModProp. You all need a history lesson in sarcasm.
Then come back here and re-read this article.
Everything wouldn't be so offensive if people would just stop being so easily offended.
I know; I've been obese for 20 years of my life, but have spent the last 8 years at below average BMI simply by rigorously controlling diet and exercise. Metabolism is changeable.
Obese people should be able to take flak for their lack of discipline and eating habits.
actual films that exploit these types of cliché/offensive situations. The sarcasm in it was so
strong that I won't believe that it flew over your head... surely this article is just another
layer of sarcasm?
ahahaha. Now, THAT's funny.
Fattie
Fattie
Fattie.
Get off your fattie ass and run around the block you fattie.
Fattie Fattie Two By Four.
well yeah being FAT shouldnt be appropriate...!
There are a lot of ways you can lose weight (put that piece of pizza down as you read this, dammit!), please don't try to elicit pity when your state is caused by your laziness.
That said, where would we be if we can't learn to laugh at ourselves?
However, you're retarded.
Me and my roommate, who is overweight, were cracking up at the farting.
I wasn't sitting their thinking, "OH THEIR ALL FAT >...HOW HILARIOUS !!!"
I mean seriously.
Please. Now that everyone knows how the stupid "retards" are getting away with protesting as well as some African Americans, you feel you can pull the "fat" card now? Why don't the gays go after "Satan's Alley" then? Or better yet, how about the morons who love Steven Segal & Co. get on "Scorcher 1-19328292?"
So you're fat, get over it. Fatty.
Honestly, that was your example? DODGEBALL? He's really not making callous fun of obese americans in that role. That's the best you could do? You've never seen HEAVY WEIGHTS? I mean, if you're going to write something condemning an actors career of callous, bigoted humor, at least do some homework. Fattie.
You're argument is needless and utterly flawed. I myself clock in at 18 stone on the scales and have no problem with this movie's jibes at being overweight.
I could blame upbringing/genetics or whatever you want but to tell the truth if I layed out a weeks worth of food on a table it'd probably break in half. I could half it, hell I could quarter it if I had to but I don't because I like food but I don't sit and whimper about it. If I want to lose weight I stop applying food to mouth and in the meantime I'm gonna keep on laughing at films like this because they are funny.
Futhermore as a sidenote I think you've seriously missed the angle of the jokes anway. The parody is, more than an attack on fat, an attack on the lame standard of Eddy Murphys terribly terribly unfunny body humour flicks of recent years.
Before you ask for an apology you might think about asking the rest of us if we want one.
And yes, families should be made fun of, because is their fault, after all, that the child is fat... if the parents are fat and used to complain about how they are treated while they stuff the child with junk and fat food, there is very little chance for the child to be a sport star... or a normal human being!
The "Fatties" trailer in particular, was not poking fun at fat people. If anything, it was making fun of the ridiculous movies that are being made that DO make fun of fat people (basically, every movie that Eddie Murphy has done for the last ten years -- "Norbit" comes to mind, ugh).
"Tropic Thunder" is satire, and it's gone over everyone's head for some reason. Lighten up. I'm fat too, but I'm not pissy about it.
have control over what they consume, no one has a gene that just makes them fat. It's all
just another bullshit excuse so someone can sell their sob story, grow a sack and deal with
life. Unless this is all a joke, I'm pretty sure I hate you.
you get offended at that????!
What about their making fun of mentally retarded people?? What about their making fun
of gays? What about their making fun of African Americans, pyromaniacs...? I mean,
come on. They make fun of EVERYONE.
Personally, I felt that "The Fatties" was more about making fun of how stupid Hollywood
has gotten-- all fart jokes, etc. "The Fatties" I definitely felt was geared towards pointing
out how dumb Eddie Murphy's "Norbit" and "The Klumps" were.
The "Simple Jack" thing was far more offensive in my opinion.
I feel like an idiot....
This article was a joke.
LOL! Sorry.
I'm suprised by how many people don't seem to think about what's offending them, and ask themselves a question. 'Am I offended because whaat I'm seeing reminds me of myself?'
Obesity is not a disease, it's not an affliction. It's an excuse. Obesity is a simple case of lacking self control.
This politically correct thing has gotten completely out of control. I saw no reference in that spoof that indicated all obese people fart, blah blah blah.
It's called a parody for a reason. Did you gripe about DUMB AND DUMBER because it made a parody based on simple dog groomers? Was the dog grooming community up in arms over the portrayal of a couple of dimwits? Did that represent dog groomers worldwide?
Piece of advice? Find a real cause. Perhaps you could think of a solution to the failing global economy instead of whining about some politically correct cause-celeb. Because it's useless, annoying, and smacks of censorship.
I honestly never found this movie (tropic thunder) to be offensive, it was simply a bunch of people expressing their views the way they see things. Sure there might've been a few racial things going on, it was all light hearted, it wasn't serious to the point where a certain group of people will jump on the band waggon to get the film destroyed and Stiller a lynching.
Personally I think this is one of the best movies I have seen. It's about time somebody had the balls to make a movie where they wasn't afraid to speak their mind.
Funny....I have a fat niece that lives in Florida who looks just like the pink haired thing. Same attitude and face and just as fat...LOLOLOL
Do you understand what sarcasm is?
You should be applauding Jack Black for showing the world what Eddie Murphy's career has boiled down to, fat and fart jokes.