Loqueesha trailer turns to be viral marketing for new Boots Riley film

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Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

Blast Fantasto posted:

What time machine set to 2006 did I accidentally turn on that made this thread exist

You went to somethingawful.com, hth

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 01:05

Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

Yoshi Wins posted:

I think you�re thinking of The Ballocaust.

lmao, I loving love Frisky Dingo

# ¿ May 28, 2019 19:33

Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

Kangra posted:

Even if it were somehow a massive troll, the existence of this movie is astounding.

You'd think that some part of that would make it funny, but no. It's a profoundly unfunny movie that is basically Jeremy Saville sucking his own dick for 90 minutes.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2019 19:47

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General Dog posted:

Ever since he got canned by AV Club and/or Trump got elected, Nathan Rabin is way too angry to be enjoyable anymore.

It shouldn't affect this review because watching Loqueesha should make anyone justifiably angry.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 19:46

Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

K. Waste posted:

Except it shouldn�t because it�s just some self-produced, vanity project, dtv garbage. It is literally just a window into the insane narcissism of a completely unremarkable performer. It�s also tremendously informative as an example of a modern Randian objectivist film.

The precise wrong way of going about it is to try to raise its political profile as being somehow particularly emblematic of racism or transphobia or whatever. Saville�s politics are not nearly as problematic just because he decides to affect a fat sassy black woman as, say, Zoolander 2, which is obviously not an �alt-right� film. The movie is about a gen x crank who revived the mammy to spin down home, �tough love� wisdom. It�s at least interesting as a premise, it�s just realized with maximal horror.

The essential double feature is Brawl in Cell Block 99, another unbearably bloviated movie about an arch-egoist who is indisputably just absorbed in a racist, misogynistic fantasy, but constantly qualified with post-racial/feminist memes. A big part of 99 is that Vaughn just brutalizes and kills minorities to save his wife, but tells his drug dealer boss not to say the N word; and the parallel narrative of Loqueesha is that Saville really does feel like Loqueesha is a part of his �identity,� which should be tolerated implicitly. It�s insane, but it�s much more fascinating than it is offensive, like The Room.

It should, though. The entire plot device used to drive Joe's decision to create "Loqueesha" is the concept of affirmative action, and that he did not get his fair shake because he's just a white guy. It's something that is also immediately contradicted by the radio station being desperate for anything to increase ratings, and then never brought up again.

The movie doesn't have to be explicitly about "alt-right" politics to justify making people angry. it's movie with a South Park-level understanding of race, society, and discrimination that that offers a dumbass opinion on how it affects people like Saville. It's a bad opinion to have, and the idiot made a movie to hammer it home.

The only good thing this movie has going for it is that it will pass into the oblivion of forgotten garbage because it has the decency to be insipid and boring as hell. The Room, however, is a masterpiece of art poorly put together under one man's vision, and shall live on forever.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2019 18:06

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