LONG DUK DONG

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So back to my horrible Farrely brothers point: this movie I watched because I was lazy had an honest-to-god moment where Owen Wilson's character is saved from a hot tub he fell asleep in by two naked dudes who run out of a sauna, and there is a "lol black guy has a huge penis, Irish man has a tiny one" joke

mh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link

lol that's ridiculous everyone knows irish guys have problematically enormous members wtf

til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

I <3 threads were we can get frogbs' incredibly nuanced take on racism. Dude should write a newsletter. Wait.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link

I agree there are reasons to point out race that aren't racist, but the premise of the film pretty much made their ethnic backgrounds a real thing, not a crazy stereotype. The ad campaign is racist, but kind of ironically?

right. I do kinda feel like H+K dealt with race in a way that was a lot smarter than most similar movies (like all the ones mentioned above).

frogbs, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link

its basically an entire cast of long duk dongs but instead of being funny you're supposed to marvel at how normal they are and how they have hopes and dreams and trials and tribulations just like white ppl

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

long duks dong imo

ah, how quaint (Matt P), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link

did I mention since it's the Farrelly brothers I assume they had comedic penis prosthetics or animation or something? And that said penises were on camera way too long?

mh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link

farrelly bros seem kind of too tasteful for that. maybe it was wachowski bros?

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link

look, criticise the present day Farrellys all you want but their initial three film run rivals any in the 90s.

Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link

farrellys definitely on the progressive axis of grossout humor (versus say weirdly conservative christian producers of american pie)

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link

Kevin Smith having Randall's face get splattered with a gallon of diarrhea was pretty progressive too

frogbs, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link

I don't think I'd sit through any Farrelly film from the 90s as an adult! Maybe Kingpin, but they only directed and did not write that one.

mh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

Kingpin is amazing

locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

yeah <3 kingpin. i was unaware they had not written it. i guess that makes sense

2012 republican presidential nominee II: Hot, Ready and Legal! (will), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link

Bill Murray's character in that movie was so incredible. Only Nic Cage himself could have done it better

frogbs, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link

no he couldn't

Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link

they didn't write it? kingpin seems sentimental enough to be them.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link

Anyone who hates Kingpin hates life.

Nicole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link

have to rep for dumb and dumber tho

til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link

i've noticed people kind of repping for Kingpin as the "underrated" one in the early Farrelly's canon but Dumb and Dumber is a modern classic

Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

yeah but everyone thinks that, while Kingpin still feels kinda underground

frogbs, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

kingpin snuck under the radar a little and is more adult in humour, maybe, but agree

til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link

ilx y'all on a serious racism binge at the moment

flopson, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link

?
kingpin's way less racist than some other bill murray movies about sad, broken people.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

*barfs up racism*

ah, how quaint (Matt P), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

racist, not funny, but the racism isn't why it's "not funny"

― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Monday, January 9, 2012 9:46 PM (2 days ago)

^^ this

also "the party" is such worthless druggy slogging crap that the racism is just one of its many awful parts

blurgh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link

<3 kingpin <3

☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link

lemme save potential the party viewers some time - peter sellers in bad makeup, someone sings a song, flower children and hanger ons fall in a pool while a painted elephant runs around FOREVER

blurgh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

sounds fucking rad

⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link

Hall Pass was so boring. Their new movies are all so fucking boring.

Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

The Dumb and Dumber sequel is gonna be so terrible :(

Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

never forgave kingpin the hoars feet

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link

The Dumb and Dumber sequel is gonna be so terrible :(

Another one? The prequel was so awful too.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, the Farrelys, Daniels and Carrey are doing it though

Number None, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah just read up on it via wiki. Not too promising to see the scriptwriters are also churning out latter day Adam Sandler scripts.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link

Scratch that. Directing latter day Sandler films.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link

Like many itt, I'm shamefully weirded by my blithe, teenage enjoyment of the Donger and his devotion to his new-style American girlfriend. I remember being called on the glaring racism a few years later when professing my Hughes-love to a more politically astute college acquaintance and struggling to justify it as "ironic" or some such bullshit. For an era so devoted to subversive faux-naiveté, the 80s were awful goddam naive.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link

Bill Murray's character in that movie was so incredible. Only Nic Cage himself could have done it better

Nothing Bill Murray has ever done could ever be done better by anyone, ever.

Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link

not to mitigate anyone's shame, but the donger's 80s naive exceptionalism is still better than, say, star trek voyager's 00s condescending tokenism. i guess what i'm saying is to think about rebalancing your shame portfolio. i don't know if anyone ever enjoyed star trek voyager, though.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link

Really loving the "I can't be racist, I'm gay!" argument being posited here.

Nicole, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link

next up: the jive talkers in "airplane!"

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link

nakh posted this in the rolling china thread

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/11/british-chinese-racism/print

on point imo.

bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link

hooooly shit

I feel like I'm spoiled by my group of friends and immediate family because when anything resembling any of that comes out of a coworker or acquaintance's mouth I almost blurt out "WHAT THE FUCK"

mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

Ha, I just added The Party to my Ziplist. The discussion made me intrigued to watch it again. I think I was 10 the last time I saw it and I did think it was funny. I've also been going through a weird phase of thinking that my Dad might have occasionally got something right.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 13 January 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link

going to watch the breakfast club right now for the first time

dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link

their high school is so nice

dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link

Iiiii KNOOOOW! I've always been fascinated by high schools that have more than one story, for one thing. Two floors!!

It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link

what! mine had several.

mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link

so is the whole movie just twelve angry teens?

dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link


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