Remember when all the retarded groups protested Tropic Thunder for that ‘Never go full retard’ line? All of a sudden that seems like a solemn and serious social statement in the light of this news: blind people are pissed off about the movie Blindness.
Seriously. They’re enraged about the adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s book, and not due to the fact that by all accounts the movie ain’t that good. No, they’re pissed off that the movie depicts a society that falls into mass chaos when a contagious blindness epidemic sweeps a city.
I had to double check to make sure these weren’t angry retarded people again.
Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, is organizing 75 protests around the country, which should be worth gawking at. Blind people attempting to march should be amazing. Too bad they won’t be able to see how stupid they look.
Or see the movie! I can’t imagine anybody gives a shit about this protest, since a) it’s so, so dumb – the blindness is metaphor, not some bizarre statement that blind people are inherently evil – and b) since not that many blind folks are cineastes. The sightless is likely to not be the target audience of ANY movie.
To read all of Maurer’s successful attempt to humiliate himself and throw his cause into disrepute, click here.
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They protest this, but they didn't say one word about 'Daredevil' a few years back. If I were blind, I'd be more offended by THAT film!
How hard have they been trying to get Day of the Triffids off the shelves for the last 55 years I wonder.
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed danny glover is king
I don't think they should judge this movie until they've seen it.
You know the best way to resolve this.. They could slap a "for the visually impaired" special feature on the dvd, like the one on the Daredevil special edition, with the narrator explaining just how nice and pretty all of the blind people are in the film.
How exactly are blind people going to "see" this film?
Juliane moore looks pretty fucking ugly in that poster. She could use a push-up bra or something cuz those tits look droppy as fuck. Just because you're blind doesn't mean you let your looks fall apart, Juli.
I'm blind and I'm offended after having read this article
"Blind people attempting to march should be amazing. Too bad they won't be able to see how stupid they look. Or see the movie!"
Even more ignorant than usual. Bravo. Blind people can walk in a straight line, you know, and they can also enjoy movies (there's a little thing called audio description). Some of them can even use computers!
A better title for this article would've been, "Blind Blind With Rage Over Blindness!"
You'd think that the situation being what it is right now, people would actually have more serious stuff to be angry about. But hey, if it gets a few more donations through the door why not give it a try?
They should just read the book instead. Oh, wait…
;yes, I have made the easiest shot ever despite the fact that companies spend fortunes creating brail books and audiobooks for the visually impaired.
They should be protesting how fucking big Mark Ruffalo's forhead looks in this poster.
if i understand the premise of the movie correctly, it's what happens when an entire society becomes blind in a short period of time. yeah, without time to adjust to the malady i am sure chaos would ensue. i don't know how to read braile or walk to the mailbox in darkness and with no one to help me, i'd probably go downhill pretty quick.
these are the kinds of people who protested SHALLOW HAL for making fun of fat people when really it makes fun of, wait for it, shallow people. the same people who protested ME, MYSELF AND IRENE for its depiction of mental illness. if you get your understanding of mental illness from jim carrey movies you're more than an idiot than you let on.
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I went bald when I was 17 – any films I can complain about in order to get ten minutes of fame – years of ridicule?
Daredevil – the bad guy was bald
BASTARDS! How dare they
Stop eating, Large One.
I applaud the NFB for brining this movie to my attention.
For all of you, blind people go to the movies; march in protest, teach, hold degrees, form movements to protect and serve, and support and employ the sighted. Like most people you are only sensitive to injustices when it effects you personally. Otherwise, you pretend to care about someone you think is less fortunate than yourself.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
I would like to know just how many of you people are blind or have a blind person in their family? Blind people are just like anyone else they have feelings want to be treated as everyone else is. instead people steal from them, hit them in the back and run away. How would all you people like to have a movie made about someone you love and fun of them. I will be at that protest and so will my blind grandson who by the way does karate, weight lifting and wrestling so you see they can do anything they want just like you. Oh yeah, they can't see all of the insensitive people out there. Thank God for that.
Devin should start a new feature called "Why The Fuck Do I Care About This Shit?" when he rants about stuff like this. Ooooh, blind people are protesting! Bitter Third Rate Internet Critic to the rescue!
The Pulitzer Prize winning book has been out for more than a decade. If it were actually offensive to the blind, I would think someone would have made a stink by now.
in related news, children are now refusing to read 'lord of the flies.'
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