http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:25:58 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69690 I've seen this movie discussed before but never braved it as a rental. 69690@blogcritics.org Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:25:58 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69637 I understand - he needs help AND needs to be vilified for not getting it. Just because someone is nuts doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. 69637@blogcritics.org Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:30:00 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69599 Thanks fellas. RJ, i just hope Roger Ebert sees fit to use that expression in his future reviewing malarky. Jim, spot-on about the Kung Fu, although i haven't yet saw BASEketball, so i'll have to reserve judgement, by which i mean, wait till i do, in fact, see the film what goes by the name of BASEketball. Eric, thanks, man! Nice words are always appreciated. As for Michael, i realise that right there is a pretty contentious topic, but i guess i just mean that for a show such as south park, it would have been easy to do what everyone else was doing, ie, go for cheap laughs and nothing else. It certainly had plenty of cheap laughs, but also looked on the matter sympathetically. Whilst it didn't excuse jackson, it saw that there was probably a mental illness at work there that caused him to act in what might seem like a malicious nature, but was probably genuinely innocent. He needs help, is what it seemed to say, not to be vilified. Thanks as ever, folks. 69599@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:28:43 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69591 Oh, by the way, I'm not sure understanding is what Michael Jackson needs - he may have received altogether too much understanding over the last 20 years or so. A person with less cash, power, and understanding over that time might have had to reconcile his internal world with the external one filled with actual real living people 69591@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:46:52 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69588 the back-alleys and rusted dumpsters of popular culture have rarely had a more charismatic and empathetic explicator - thanks Duke, you make it all seem almost noble. 69588@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:30:48 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69581 Good movie, great review. Two dicks up! :-/ 69581@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:30:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/142549.php#comment-69531 What you missed was that "Orgazmo" is primarily a kung-fu movie in structure and plot points. The stunt cocks and double-vaginal - double-anal action are just the set dressing. And in addition to a kick ass soundtrack, it has one of the best superhero rallying cries after Ben ("It's Clobberin' Time!") Grimm : "Go In The Front, Come Out The Back and Fuck Their Shit Up!" Plus it Jesus Approved (tm), He gave it the thumbs up, right there near the end. I think "Orgazmo" is a better movie than their tribute to Zucker-Abrams-Zucker "Baseketball". 69531@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:47:35 EDT