@czechitout so if someone hates this they're stupid? You seem defensive.
@moonkodi no, i mean you can go ahead and hate a movie, but to claim it's stupid because you don't understand it, is .. stupid. first time I saw Big Lebowski, I hated it. I, being quite stupid at the time, stupidly thought that it was stupid. Then I saw it again, and got it. I realized what it was, and how I failed to appreciate it the first time around. Now, if someone hates a movie, I'm like, alright, that's cool. But if they say a movie is stupid, and it's actually a good movie, well, they're the ones that are being stupid. Ya dig?
@czechitout Um, yeah.. but it's also a movie that features Seth Rogen as a sausage having sex with his bun girlfriend and other various pastries. It's kind of stupid either way. (And that's ok).
I mean you've made a couple of good points, but there's really no need to take this too seriously. Nobody saying "this is a stupid movie" is wrong.
You can still enjoy (and perhaps even learn?) from stupid movies. And while you're maybe right that this is more than a run-of-the-mill toilet humor comedy, why are you so eager to shoe-horn this movie whole experience into the "some people are stupid, they obviously don't get it" discussion?
Some people won't like this movie simply because of Seth Rogen's annoying voice or something - and again, that's ok. Everybody's free to like or dislike whatever they want and everybody's entitled to their own opinion. Aggressively pointing out ways in which other people are "stupid" for not sharing your own opinion is pretty childish.
If you think this movie some kind of unsung masterpiece that's fine (and interesting) - but please stop trying to shove it in our faces like it's absolute truth.
Review by czechitoutBlockedParent2016-08-24T08:24:14Z
I went into this expecting a stupid movie with hopefully a few laughs. I was blown away by not only how funny the movie was, but how well it deconstructed religion, faith, and reason, and how those all need to work together to make our lives better.
For people who thought this movie was stupid - sorry, but you're stupid. If you couldn't appreciate how well this movie showed the uncaring, awful universe - and why we need to tell ourselves stories that make us enjoy it for as long as possible - then you're just stupid. If you didn't see how this movie talked to atheists, how it presented a convincing argument for faith and religion, alongside the perils of both, then you're the one who missed something. If you couldn't see how this movie demonstrated science, reason, and skepticism, and why those are still not enough, then you're just stupid. It showed, beautifully, the power of mind altering drugs, and how some folks are just going to go ahead and do the worst of them, with no regard as to what others have to say about it. That's a reality that we need to accept, and need to stop pretending that we can make go away just by wishing it so.
Within this cartoon universe, the creators of this movie explore themes in a way that I've not seen done before, demonstrating the power of animated story telling applied to adult themes. Yes, the movie has crass humour, some of which falls flat but some of it is tear inducing funny. But if this movie doesn't make you think, it's because you're stupid.
Go see this movie.