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Headline: "What DOES it take for a film to get banned these days?" Intro: "As censors approve a movie that plumbs grotesque new depths of sexual explicitness and violence, one critic (who prides himself on being broad-minded) despairs.." Moment of fail: (5th paragraph) "I haven't seen it myself, nor shall I - and I speak as a broad-minded arts critic, strongly libertarian in tendency. But merely reading about Antichrist is stomach-turning, and enough to form a judgment." |
The Daily Fail fails again! • Page 6
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sam_spade 15,745 posts
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terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agosam_spade wrote:
Headline: "What DOES it take for a film to get banned these days?"
Intro: "As censors approve a movie that plumbs grotesque new depths of sexual explicitness and violence, one critic (who prides himself on being broad-minded) despairs.."
Moment of fail: (5th paragraph) "I haven't seen it myself, nor shall I - and I speak as a broad-minded arts critic, strongly libertarian in tendency. But merely reading about Antichrist is stomach-turning, and enough to form a judgment."
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PanStre 425 posts
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Registered 14 years agosam_spade wrote:
Headline: "What DOES it take for a film to get banned these days?"
Intro: "As censors approve a movie that plumbs grotesque new depths of sexual explicitness and violence, one critic (who prides himself on being broad-minded) despairs.."
Moment of fail: (5th paragraph) "I haven't seen it myself, nor shall I - and I speak as a broad-minded arts critic, strongly libertarian in tendency. But merely reading about Antichrist is stomach-turning, and enough to form a judgment."
That word he keeps using, I do not think it means what he thinks it means. -
sam_spade wrote:
Brilliant. Utterly priceless. Do they ever read this stuff out loud to themselves before submitting it?
Headline: "What DOES it take for a film to get banned these days?"
Intro: "As censors approve a movie that plumbs grotesque new depths of sexual explicitness and violence, one critic (who prides himself on being broad-minded) despairs.."
Moment of fail: (5th paragraph) "I haven't seen it myself, nor shall I - and I speak as a broad-minded arts critic, strongly libertarian in tendency. But merely reading about Antichrist is stomach-turning, and enough to form a judgment." -
AliRay 181 posts
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Registered 14 years agoCan I ask what this film was? Just want to see what all the fuss is about!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN etc etc... -
Google it? Quicker than waiting for one of us to reply. And let me know what it says, will you? Don't know much about it myself. -
Whenever the Daily Mail is outraged about a game/ film/ book/ tv show/ play, my interest in the title in question increases exponentially. I'll be watching Antichrist at the first opportunity! -
MrED209 wrote:
Fuck me that is bad.
sam_spade wrote:
Brilliant. Utterly priceless. Do they ever read this stuff out loud to themselves before submitting it?
Headline: "What DOES it take for a film to get banned these days?"
Intro: "As censors approve a movie that plumbs grotesque new depths of sexual explicitness and violence, one critic (who prides himself on being broad-minded) despairs.."
Moment of fail: (5th paragraph) "I haven't seen it myself, nor shall I - and I speak as a broad-minded arts critic, strongly libertarian in tendency. But merely reading about Antichrist is stomach-turning, and enough to form a judgment."
I've read about it but nothing that looks too shocking tbh. -
PatrickEwing 2,553 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAliRay wrote:
Can I ask what this film was? Just want to see what all the fuss is about!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN etc etc...
Antichrist
here's how it goes down, more or less: After knocking him unconscious, Gainsbourg bores a hole in Dafoe's leg with a hand drill and bolts him to a grindstone to keep him from escaping. Then, she smashes his scrotum with some sort of blunt object (the moment of impact happens slightly below the frame). We don't actually see his testicles become disengaged from this body, though it's apparently implied. Next, she brings him to a climax with her hands and he ejaculates blood (yes, it's shown). But that's not all! Later, in an extreme closeup — lensed by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle! — Gainsbourg cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors.
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steve1979 2,105 posts
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Registered 14 years agoAntichrist
from it's wiki page (which won't access at the moment) i get the impression the problem is the torture and sexual context that comes with it. Personally i have no intention of ever watching it as it's not something i would enjoy but if you're a film critic then you can't just say what the Fail has without ever actually seeing the film. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI often like Lars Von Trier's work, but I think I'll be giving this one a miss. Sounds unpleasant. However, to call yourself broad-minded and deliver a firm 'judgement' without seeing the flick is utterly retarded. -
President_Weasel 12,355 posts
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Registered 17 years agoA visible ethnic minority?
Damn those bastards, they're discriminating against poltergeists and the Invisible-ese again! -
Carlo 21,801 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPresident Weasel wrote:
As one reader put it "You've got to look foreign, darling!".
A visible ethnic minority?
Damn those bastards, they're discriminating against poltergeists and the Invisible-ese again! -
DFawkes 32,785 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe criteria are:
To be under 30 on 15th September
To be from a visible ethnic minority
To not sue us for the above. Please, please don't sue.
Depends Smuggo, are you ginger, wear a kilt all the time, eat nothing but Haggis, and can play the bagpipes? I'd say that's "visibly ethnic minority", insofar as you'd be a visible stereotype of a Scottish person, who are a minority relative to the number of English people in the UK. If they refuse that logic sue and everyone wins \o/ -
Fucking hell. That really is the corporate equivalent of "I've got black friends you know". -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'm Swedish. There are only 8.6 million of us in the whole world. That makes me a minority doesn't it? -
dufftownallan 4,723 posts
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Registered 15 years agosmuggo; did you steal an englishmans job and/or house?
tonka: i just did a wee wiki search on scots, i knew there was only 5million of us in scotland (apaprently its only four and a half million), but apparently theres twice that living in yankland and just under 5million in canada! we total 30'000'000 all told. fancy a war...
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I'm game. But I need to borrow a kilt. -
Err, can they even do that? -
dufftownallan 4,723 posts
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Registered 15 years agomaybe theyre just after their contact details so they can sell them to the bnp... -
dufftownallan 4,723 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSmuggo wrote:
you scum...
dufftownallan wrote:
smuggo; did you steal an englishmans job and/or house?
Well I work in London and live in Kent, so yes, I did steal those from the poor indigenous peoples of England. -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPresident Weasel wrote:
A visible ethnic minority?
Damn those bastards, they're discriminating against poltergeists and the Invisible-ese again!
It means the likes of me. I'm white, though not ethnically English. -
terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agomowgli wrote:
Fucking hell. That really is the corporate equivalent of "I've got black friends you know".
Surely it is the corporate equivalent of "Please be my black friend! I'll pay you £500!" -
Smuggo wrote:
I also claim benefits and get to the front of council housing queues and have forced my local library to only stock books by Scottish writers.
Hah! Your lies are uncovered.
As if the Scottish ever wrote any books...
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