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South Park Creators Have A New Film
Vince C writes "Trey Parker and Matt Stone are back to filmmaking again. No, it is not a South Park movie and no they are not acting. In fact, it is a totally different media... marionettes. Yep! Puppets folks. They are making Team America:World Police. If you liked the original Thunderbirds and hate the live action remake but also love comedy sticking it to our current government then you are going to love Matt and Trey's new project. Trailer and more info at the movie's site."
Just saw the preview. Can't wait! Seems like Matt & Trey love being the only conservatives/libertarians in hollywood. Expect to see a lot of Michael Moore/Barbara Steisand bashing. Should be great
Guess this explains why they haven't produced a damn south park episode in so long!
From the rumors I've heard and interviews I've read, they hardly make fun of Bush at all... most of their sarcasm is directed towards Hollywood celebreties that have "opinions" (err... groupthink) relating to foriegn affairs...
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Actually it's supposed to skew both sides pretty evenly. Supposedly they really stick it to Michael Moore in the film, along with a bunch of other left-leaning celebrities.
As a European, I am all for Kerry's election. That baboon (yes, I do have a visceral hate for his anti-intellectual "folksyness" and I-am-on-a-mission-from-God biblethumping) of a president needs to go NOW. If he and his neo-con treaty flouting, warmongering and prisoner-torturing cronies get four more years, the entire world will be in ruins and what's left is being governed by right-wing militant theocracies.
Too bad we cannot contribute money to Kerry's campaign, but maybe we could gang up and buy internet ads...
Marionette puppets are used throughout the film to mock terror threats, and media figures who dominate the nation's airwaves. But Parker and Stone save most of the mocking for left-wing pundits and Michael Moore.
"Bush is not even in the film," Parker said Sunday night from Los Angeles during the DRUDGE REPORT radio broadcast.
"I would ask that people wait and see it, before passing a judgement."
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Ha! That's actually very interesting because I've actually just begun watching Bullshit in the past few days myself and I was also thinking about the ways they're similar. They cover a lot same ground with a few episodes being almost scarily similar (i.e. the "Talking to the Dead" episode of BS vs. the "John Edwards is the Biggest Douche in the Universe" episode of SP). I was planning on trying to match every episode of P&T:BS with an episode of South Park that covers similar ground to see if it could be done (off the top of my head, they both had episodes which dealt took a similar view about second hand smoke laws). But yes, above those direct similarities, both shows do generally give a mostly balanced view, attacking the deserving shysters and bullshitters of all types. They're two of my favorite shows for sure.
Holy crap man, whoever the fuck decided that the site should play music and have a helicopter flying by at like 200% volume deserves to be shot. I've sat here and checked, the sounds on that page play over twice as loud as any other sounds I can get my computer to play... But that could partly be just because my ears are still ringing...
I wish the blurb would have mentioned the recent dvd release of How's Your News, which Matt and Trey funded. The basic premise is that a group of people with various mental disabilities go on a tour of America and interview people along the way. They're not prompted at all, they and the people interviewed are the only ones you ever see. Which is one of the cool things about it, they're just out there being themselves and having fun. It's really facinating seeing their reactions and those of the people around them as the interviews progress, or they check into a hotel, or pick up a hitchiker. The movie's not easy to describe as much of it comes down to the tone rather than the premise. There's a link to an interview on This American Life on their site which gives a better picture than I'm able to.
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Nerds also often have interests outside computers. This nerd for one appreciated the link.
No more open source/*nix news pls.
As Rembrandt's Nightwatch (Nachtwacht) was showing how people were living at that time ; Southpark is giving a very good contemporary look at today's society.
I'm not saying that a piece of art like the Nachtwacht is on the same levels as Southpark ; but merely the uses and effects of different forms of art , made knowingly , -or- unknowingly so by the creators.
Dude, you do not live in the fucking real world.
There are arguments to be made against Bush and this one isn't it.
Aren't you smart enough to see that the American people as a whole STILL support the way Bush handled 9/11? And when Kerry himself whines about what Bush did for 300 to 420 seconds, it makes him look like a first class asshole. Er, makes him look like MORE of a 1st class asshole since his going on and on about his 16 weeks in Viet Nam twenty years later when many men who served longer and were braver don't breathe a word about it.
Even JFK -- the real one, J. Effin' Scary's hero/idol -- never talked about his experiences in WW II and totally dismissed self-deprecatingly intimations that he, Kennedy, was a hero. That's because the guy had class.
Something your snowboarder who blames his tumbles on the slopes on nearby Secret Service men (everyday folk, them) couldn't even begin to immitate.
Look, boy Kerry is a gigolo, just a gigolo, everywhere he goes, people know the tune he's playing... November's gonna be great.