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post #51 of 73
11/16/10 at 3:57am
All the Batman/DC haters can say what they want but thank god we will never see him ruined like Spidey is here.
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post #52 of 73
11/16/10 at 5:20am
I've met the guy starring in Priscilla. Sang with him. Nice enough guy. I had friends in a show with him and his ladyfriend Audra MacDonald, but he's not playing Stamp's part. I think it's Hugo Weaving's.

Across the Universe has some interesting stuff, but the end result? I've got to agree with Greg. But Titus? That worked incredibly well. She's just reeeeeeally hit and miss.

As far as Pumpkin Predator's little meltdown, I don't think the headline is put in purposefully as a page view generator. If you find the joke tasteless or not, that's a different story, but used to just get more people here by "generating controversy?" Nah, I don't buy it.
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post #53 of 73
11/16/10 at 5:23am
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Originally Posted by Johnny Daywalker View Post
All the Batman/DC haters can say what they want but thank god we will never see him ruined like Spidey is here.
Enjoy.
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post #54 of 73
11/16/10 at 5:33am
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Originally Posted by J David Rhodes View Post
Alex, I thought the headline was kinda tasteless too. Not in an "I'm offended" way, but in a "I'm pretty sure he could have come up with something funny instead of just incendiary" kinda way. It's the kind of desperate-to-be-edgy quip that makes CHUD look bloggy and low-rent. Of course, one lame headline doesn't negate all the good work you do here (and I don't think you're hit-hunting), so I'm not going to be a jackass ("Osama Bin CHUD" was pretty lame, too) or lose any sleep; just registering my two cents.

Okay... three cents: picking on Blair because you don't feel like Blair has enough of a stake in the tragedy to be offended (because he probably doesn't know anybody who died) is sort of silly. When you aim low with a joke that you know is gonna offend people, attacking them when they express the offense amounts to entrapment. And since not all of us are here to high-five each other when someone scores a good burn or types the word vagina, it's just kind of childish and depressing to read through and/or avoid reading.

Now for the flip-side, for people who are losing their mind in offense at the headline: every year about ten times as many people as the 9/11 victims' list are killed in car crashes, but you didn't take MrSaxon's "car crash" comment to task for dishonoring their memories. A bit of perspective...

Hopefully that sounded more like constructive criticism and less like me being prudish and preachy (because trust me - I'm neither). Like I said, I like CHUD and its contributors/community, so I'm just registering my opinion.
See, this is the kind of response I can appreciate. Thanks. To be completely honest I wasn't aiming for anything at all with the headline! It was the very first thing to pop in my head and it made me chuckle, so I wrote it down. That's it. I wan't trying to piss people off and while of course I knew it wouldn't be everyone's idea of humor I certainly didn't expect such bile. Especially at this site, which is fairly well known for its irreverent humor. I expected groans, sure, but that's it. Didn't even bring it up in the article...

I'm also just a little confused why someone would bother clicking the link if they were so offended. Righteous indignation is fun, I suppose.

Don't know why I feel the need to explain myself here, but there we go. It's simple really- like many people I tend to cope with tragedies with really dark humor. I saw the destruction from 9/11 first hand and it took me a while to get over it, but I never liked people co-opting it as "their" tragedy (especially if they were nowhere near), myself included. Hence getting pissed when idiots like this Blair Russell character decide they're going to defend the dead from my hurtful comments. I also firmly subscribe to the thought that there is no subject that's taboo in humor and can only hope that people realized that that's all it was.

But anyway. I thought it was funny, sorry it got blown so out of proportion, but I'm not sorry if I offended. Back to the silly spidey musical?
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post #55 of 73
11/16/10 at 6:13am
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Originally Posted by Johnny Daywalker View Post
All the Batman/DC haters can say what they want but thank god we will never see him ruined like Spidey is here.

I was actually waiting for somebody to bring up the big Batman Live show that's been announced for next year... seems like it's gone totally under the radar for some reason.

www.batmanlive.com

I've got my tickets already... it can't be that bad, right? (bites knuckles)
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post #56 of 73
11/16/10 at 7:33am
Don't they have a live Batman show at Six Flags?
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post #57 of 73
11/16/10 at 7:45am
It looks awful. Especially that last photo.

And 9/11 jokes can be funny. On the CHUD podcast once Steve Murphy, while talking about Oliver Stone's WORLD TRADE CENTRE, said: "It was worse than the event".
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post #58 of 73
11/16/10 at 8:56am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Back to the silly spidey musical?
(Thanks for taking the time to respond to my self-indulgent filibustering)

and now, my lame quip:

I admit to getting a good "power rangers" chuckle out of these pictures - especially the Green Goblin, who looks like Priscilla Queen of the Desert mated with Mad Max (hooray for fertility science!). Any production who has a character called the Swiss Miss you would think would have a sense of humor regarding itself, but this is Julie Taymor we're talking about after all, who, by the way, I have never forgiven for giving Salma Hayek a unibrow (I still would) OR for the first 133 minutes of Across The universe.

The addition of U2 doesn't dispel my fears.
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post #59 of 73
11/16/10 at 9:14am
I'm not even sure how the headline makes fun of 9/11. It's making fun of this musical, sure, but I don't see Alex disrespecting the dead anywhere.
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post #60 of 73
11/16/10 at 10:23am
Obvious joke that no-one has made yet: The Goblin STILL looks better than Raimi's version.
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post #61 of 73
11/16/10 at 11:07am
This cost sixty million? It looks like a bad theme park show, not a Broadway hit. I wonder if the producers are trying to pull a Producers.

"Sprinnnngime for Spidey.....in N Y Ceeeee! Winter for Goblin and....."

I got nuthin'.
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post #62 of 73
11/16/10 at 12:37pm
when I was very young I went to see a large scale musical adventure starring Batman and Robin, his rogues gallery, Bugs Bunny and a host of WB cartoon characters. It was set in space. It was terrible.

This looks worse.
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post #63 of 73
11/16/10 at 10:13pm
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I've never seen a Broadway show in my life, so I dunno about there, but let's not forget how terrible Across the Universe was.

In case you forgot: it's terrible.
So damn terrible.
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post #64 of 73
11/18/10 at 4:38pm
OK.

Sure, I got too excited about this topic and I appreciate that I didn't get banned, although it would have been more than understandable.

But, I am still not excited with the whole headline thing. It was not needed. It was like a cheapshot at a horrible tragedy and I don't get why it was made. On a fun movie site like this, I don't think anyone needs to be reminded of something so terrible via a crass joke. I was just fired up at the time as at the time, some people I knew lived and worked in the city. None of them got hurt or injured with what happened, thank God, but I could not believe shock humor was used on this site.

I really do expect more than that from CHUD and I will be extremely disappointed and in fact turned off if stuff like this happens more often. The site should be better than having to use "controversial" headlines to get attention and eyeballs on an article.

So, this is the last I'll say on the topic and I promise that I won't lose my mind to this degree again and risk getting banned. My apologies for getting so angry on Monday but like I said, I've posted on the boards and looked at the articles for more than 2 1/2 years now and I hope the headlines to articles do not sink to the point of inflammatory comparisons or any sort of "cheap heat".
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post #65 of 73
11/18/10 at 4:47pm
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I raped and strangled Jonbenet Ramsey before burying her in her parent's basement? Boy, we had some fun times. Well I did, anyway.
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post #66 of 73
11/18/10 at 4:53pm
That reminds me of the time I raped Marlee Matlin, and then cut her fingers off so she couldn't tell anyone.
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post #67 of 73
11/18/10 at 4:56pm
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That reminds me of the time I raped Marlee Matlin, and then cut her fingers off so she couldn't tell anyone.
That's the most I've ever had to hold back from sheer audible laughter at my desk. Well played Patrick, well played.
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post #68 of 73
11/18/10 at 5:15pm
Spider-man Musical is one thing that I don't need to see to know that it will be terrible. Spider-man and Broadway musical go together about as well as Randy Quaid and court dates.
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post #69 of 73
11/18/10 at 5:16pm
Does Alex gets a pass since he's from New York? The "I have black friends" defense?

CHUD's often tasteless, no matter how many times the word "gentleman" is randomly used in articles. This is not news to anyone who's been coming here for a while.

Also, the kid who sat next to me in 8th grade died in the towers that day. Please check this space for the knock knock jokes I am furiously working on.
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post #70 of 73
11/18/10 at 5:26pm
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Originally Posted by jhp1608 View Post
when I was very young I went to see a large scale musical adventure starring Batman and Robin, his rogues gallery, Bugs Bunny and a host of WB cartoon characters. It was set in space. It was terrible.

This looks worse.
I'm pretty sure that you most likely tripped acid while watching a double feature of Batman & Robin and Space Jam.
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post #71 of 73
11/18/10 at 5:33pm
Check out the pictures of Swiss Miss and Green Goblin here, and take a listen to the featured song from the show. While it isn't WORSE than Flight 175 ...

http://www.collider.com/2010/09/10/s...song-costumes/
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post #72 of 73
11/18/10 at 5:35pm
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Originally Posted by The Perfect Weapon View Post
. I was just fired up at the time as at the time, some people I knew lived and worked in the city. None of them got hurt or injured with what happened, thank God, but I could not believe shock humor was used on this site.
Momentarily staying wildly off-topic--there's a significant working-and-living-in-NYC contingent on CHUD, one of whom made the joke in the first place and who, like the rest of us, breathed in carcinogens and human remains for months (and believe me, you could smell it). None of whom appear to have chimed in about being particularly offended. (For myself, I just thought the joke was a little hacky. Sorry Alex!)

And that is of course nothing compared to anyone who actually suffered a loss. There has always seemed to be a competition to own the tragedy by the entire country that comes across as something less than sympathy and more like some weird disaster-envy, which is moderately annoying to the people who lived through it and must be utterly infuriating to the actual victims and their families. So you can see why it chafes a bit when someone gets offended by a joke made by someone who by "rights" should be more offended.
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post #73 of 73
11/29/10 at 10:15pm
Spider-Man in a tangle after disastrous Broadway opening

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Spider-Man, Broadway's most expensive show ever, caught audiences by surprise in its first preview performance overnight, when its high-tech flying sequences became stuck, leaving its stars suspended mid-air.

The $65 million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, with music created by U2's Bono and The Edge, was stopped at least five times, including while actors were flying above the crowd at the show's preview, US media have reported.

In one of the major sequences, Reeve Carney, who plays the title character, was left helplessly dangling several metres up and over the audience as crew members intercepted and attempted to grab his foot to pull him down, leaving the audience laughing.

The problems attracted catcalls from the audience, including one woman who heckled: "I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I feel like a guinea pig today -- I feel like it’s a dress rehearsal."

The three-hour show is the most expensive stage production ever made, costing double that of its nearest rival, Shrek The Musical.

The production has had its opening delayed several times after running out of financing and experiencing technical problems. It does not officially open until January 11, and while previews generally are a time for shows to fix problems, most do not experience as many glitches as Spider-Man.

Despite some major technical glitches, a spokesman said the show would go on.

"There will be no delays in performance schedule. Previews will continue as planned," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
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