March 24, 2005

D.E.B.S. This film about schoolgirl super spies opens on Friday (and it's pure campy fun). In the same vein as Charlie's Angels, Aeon Flux or Kill Bill, it deviates from those in that it explores a lesbian relationship between one of the spies and their enemy. Will mainstream conservatism kill the film before it has a chance?
posted by aeonite 19 years ago
  • What is the movie rating? Seems that is where the kill would come from. Your last link involves this picture if children are viewing it at a movie theatre or loacal TV.
  • MPAA RATING PG-13, for sexual content and language
  • I'm more concerned with the fact that it seems to suck. ...but then I'm a little biased; we insufferable geeks already have that kind of stuff all over the place. (neener, neener.) Looks like more fanboy fantasy, not to sound too jaded about it. It might get smacked down, but probably because it's violent and involves the children!!!!!, rather than The Gay. If it is violent; I'm assuming it is, what with the spies, even though the rating doesn't cite violence.
  • I'm guessing the fact that it's gotten poor to middlin' reviews so far will kill it, not mainstream conservativism. If it's a niche film, it's not likely to win any blockbuster awards, no matter what the subject matter or who it offends. I doubt I'd get away with doing a Curious George about whether mainstream liberalism killed the Left Behind movies...can we stop demonizing conservativism for things it hasn't even done yet?
  • I killed the Left Behind movies. It was my decision to cast Kirk Cameron. Muahahaha....
  • God killed the Left Behind movies. More or less, because they sucked.
  • I almost bought the first two Left Behind movies today... they were $5 a piece, and my friends and I have "bad movie night" every so often...
  • ... but then the DVD rapture came, and every title was whisked up to heaven 'cept these pornos. Honest, mom.
  • Meredithea: The Omega Code movies are similarly horrid Armageddony goodness.
  • That Left Behind crap is making millions. Boo hoo for them.
  • My friends and I did one of the sequels to Left Behind for one of our Bad Movie Nights. It was awesome in that the movie sucked but there were tons of jokes, mostly because of Mr. T.
  • By the way anyone know where I can get The Passion of the Christ with a laugh track. I still need to get my kids something for Easter.
  • Wait, wait...Mr. T? I believe that this is what they call an existential crisis. Wait, let me check my pulse...yep, that's what it is, all right.
  • God killed the Left Behind movies. More or less, because they sucked. That would be entertainmental Darwinism, and therefore evil. ;) I kid. I got the point.
  • By the way anyone know where I can get The Passion of the Christ with a laugh track. I still need to get my kids something for Easter. Better yet, a fart track. Jesus hanging on the cross, looking all passion-y, then "FFFRRRRRRRAAAAAAAP!" Or standing in the doorway of the tomb, looking all resurected, and suddenly his burial shroud baloons out... We need more Christian toilet humor.
  • That would be entertainmental Darwinism, and therefore evil. ;) absofuckinglutely brilliant.
  • It's not mainstream conservatives using homophobic rhetoric to attack pop culture -- that's the province of extremely religious busybodies masquerading as 'concerned parents' in order to have their prejudices gain weight in legislature. Unfortunately, too few real conservatives who really are mainstream were able to fight effectively against the marauding hordes of bigots who pushed through a host of scare tactic attacks against marginalised groups so they could save their liitle corner of the world from brown people and people who love members of their own gender and people who choose to worship gods other than jehovah. I'm conservative: I believe in small government, fiscal responsibility (at all levels, from national down to the personal) and letting people have all sorts of fun in their bedrooms, whatever flavour their fun happens to come in. Pop culture isn't my thing, but realistic portrayals of the world are impossible to blackball: if these so-called conservatives want to bury their heads in the sand, let them. People who are willing to micromanage what the local multiplex or tv station broadcasts are not conservatives, they're meddlesome people with an agenda who desire to restrict what others can do, say and experience, and that has nothing at all in common with the true tenets of conservatism.
  • Will mainstream conservatism kill the film before it has a chance> Gosh, let's see. Teenage chicks in extremely short shorts on the posters and ads. A Friday opening without much competition. Suggested lebianism! Yeah, that'll fail.
  • Well said, coppermac.
  • FYI, Entertainment Weekly gave it an F.