[Simpsons] "I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's!" [/Simpsons]

I concur, only Mann could get me to have that douchebag in my house.

Pure. genius.

Ah, good show then

I generally think boycotting movies is silly, though I have boycotted "The Motorcycle Diaries" and will boycott Soderberg's big Che movie because these guys are just mindlessly glorifying a mass murderer. Imagine a glowing heroic movie about one of Hitler's main executioners? They think he's "rock n' roll" when he was busy signing death warrants for the "crime" of listening to rock n' roll.

Someone in an interview actually asked Soderberg why he omitted Che's horrific persecution of gays, and Soderberg said "nothing I put in the movie would please those anti-Che people". Thanks for just dismissing people in my family who were tormented and tortured and executed by that motherfucker. The truth would please "those people". If this thing were balanced with the good and the bad, I'd give it a chance. But the movie sounds like a direct insult to my family and many thousands of Cubans who paid the ultimate price for his "ideals".

I also "boycott" political movies I find biased against my own beliefs or movies that are clearly anti-Christian. I do not see any reason to spend money to be subjected to offensive propaganda.

What about free offensive propaganda? I get that on TV all the time. Mostly from pro-Christians.

Feel free to boycott it.

Yup, he basically owns Cannibal Holocaust and, uh.. Flicka (2006).

At least it's free. It's called freedom of speech, and you can turn it off if you'd like. Don't see a problem with other people's opinions, but I just don't want to pay to be subjected to it.

There are definetely two issues here, it's a bit strange.

1. There are people who "boycott" things because it is a different view point than theirs. This is odd to me. "I don't like that movie because it says things opposing my view point". Shouldn't you challenge your view point? See the other side of an arguement? Aren't you curious as to what they think and how they present it? It's weird to me when people only want to watch things that reaffirm their belief system. It's like the weirdos who only watch those Christian movies like "Left Behind". I like watching stuff with all kinds of viewpoints. It seems this form of "boycott" is less a statement and more of a "I want to be sheltered from things that may not reaffirm my beliefs"

2. People who feel like the movies aren't a viewpoint but are made by people who we dislike, or are criminal and don't want to support. Such as Victor Salva. This is more of a boycott, don't financially support someone who has done actual terrible things. Touching kids isn't a view point or a political belief, it's a terrible crime, and his making of movies that constantly glorify that sort of thing is a good reason to boycott.

It just seems silly and paranoid and weird, it's like those people who say "I don't shop at Target, they are a French company"

Personally, I hate religion. A lot. But I didn't boycott Superman Returns because it was all one ridiculous Jesus metaphor.

I'm going to flip that on you. Have you seen Left Behind? Or Expelled? Or Passion of the Christ?

Yes I have, they are awful movies.

I never saw Expelled, but saw Passion of the Christ, and Left Behind. I've heard a lot of "Christian Music", I ocasionally watch the 700 Club or listen to Rush Limbaugh. I like to see what other people think. I almost NEVER agree with it, but I still check it out.

It's just weird to me that people like to insulate themselves and anything that is not their opinion is "propaghanda"

Movies are art. Art is made by an individual (or individuals) with a personal opinion, viewpoint and experience, otherwise it's boring, vanilla garbage. It's not all black and white either, people are complicated and art is complicated. I don't go "That's a Liberal movie! I'm not seeing that" it's a weird "us vs them" sports mentally applied to everything now. You either like this team or that team, you can't like some of the players on both teams for different reasons.

I look at it like this, if you ONLY like chicken, you feel that chicken is the only meat that tastes good, it should really only be the ONLY meat, do you ONLY go to KFC? And if you go to another restaraunt and the chef serves you beef, because he feels it's a great dish and he has come up with an intersting dish based on his tastes and experience do you not only not even try it, but also consider it "propaghanda" against chicken? It's a weird persecution/victim mentallity (that seems to be very common amongst the religious in particular).

Anything with Rob Schneider

I actually don't like Will Ferrell either ...

but I've seen enough of his work on SNL to appreciate his talent. Just not my brand of humor most of the time.

I boycott Peter Jackson movies because he's a no-talent hack.

You might want to check your collection to be sure about Caroline Rhea. I don't have anything with her either, and I don't boycott any DVDs.

Making those movies is objectionable enough.

For a long time, I was boycotting Sean Penn, just for being a mean, nasty human being, culminating with his statement that he wished Michael Bay would get cancer (an appallingly cruel and inhuman thing to say because you don't like someone's style of filmmaking).

Anyway, I finally stopped because, well, whether I do or don't watch Mystic River isn't gonna effect Sean Penn's life in any way. But wow is he really a piece of crap human being, and a fairly good but very overrated actor and an awful filmmaker as well.

I understand this was done tongue-in-cheek, but I do refuse to buy anything by Victor Salva. As has been stated before, his crime was directly related to his profession as a director, and his films still reflect his attraction to young (semi-)naked boys. After I saw Jeepers Creepers I read about him and then I literally threw up realizing the symbolism of what I saw.

Everything else is another matter.

Not necessary? You do realize there was a time in which horses and boats were the primary methods for long-distance transport? What do you want filmmakers to do, not make films set before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, or have the actors clap coconuts together like a Monty Python movie?

And too, if people don't use horses as beasts of burden, they have no reason to keep them. If that happened, the only horses you'd find in America would be on Assateague Island.

So you just own Cannibal Holocaust and Apocalypse Now?

No, he must own Cache as well. The cutting the head of a chicken scene still creeps me out.

Well put. I heard about that perv when Powder came out and vowed not to ever see any of him films. Pedophiles should be put down.

Excellent post. The vast majority of people know nothing of the real Che and pop on a T-Shirt of his just as they would their Bob Marley one, with no real knowledge of what they are supporting.