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Interesting that they would use a real-life premise that resulted in the death of the pizza-guy.  Takes some balls. Or the execs that green-lit it are too stupid to google. Not sure which...

Well, wasn't the real-life guy totally in on it?

I dunno, if we start saying it was a bad idea to use that story as inspiration, we get into "X topic shouldn't be a movie" and as long as the story has an innate honesty, everything should be a movie. Would be lying, though, if I said there wasn't something queasy about screenwriters hearing the real-life story and thinking, that would be a great blockbuster comedy!

Why? Who gives a shit?

Because it was a horrible horrible death?

It doesn't bother me to the extent that I wouldn't enjoy the movie, but on a personal level, I am curious about the leap the screenwriters and the producers made from awful incident to Hit Comedy.

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

Because it was a horrible horrible death?

 

It doesn't bother me to the extent that I wouldn't enjoy the movie, but on a personal level, I am curious about the leap the screenwriters and the producers made from awful incident to Hit Comedy.

Motherfucker was in on it to rob a bank. Yeah, bomb was supposed to be fake, but regardless- what about this particular incident incites such sensitivity? There are episodes of South Park more immediately callous than this.

As I understand it, he was also mentally disabled. Someone might want to correct me on that, but that's what I had heard.

Just playing devil's advocate, really.

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Originally Posted by Renn Brown 

Motherfucker was in on it to rob a bank. Yeah, bomb was supposed to be fake, but regardless- what about this particular incident incites such sensitivity? There are episodes of South Park more immediately callous than this.

 

I didn't mean to imply any over-sensitivity, merely curiosity.