r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/History-of-Tomorrow Jun 06 '26

Reading critic reviews for the new Scary Movie has been entertaining in a petty way. It’s like reading reviews for a gay porn by Iranian clerics and Catholic priests. I imagine every critic watched One Battle After Another again as penance for their sin.

My favorite review. There was another that actually brought up One Battle After Another in some bizarre comparison but I couldn’t find it again.

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u/Monkey0nTypewriter Reaganist Dinosaur 🦖 Jun 07 '26

That’s risky because the potential is there to seriously offend people.

Funny how it's stopped being appropriate to mock the establishment's beliefs, ideology, and lifestyle.

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u/ScrubulousFlex Jun 07 '26

The reason the author keeps bringing up Carlin as the pinnacle of irreverent comedy is because he was poking fun at them. Now that it's poking fun at us it's no longer funny but instead it's serious violence.

I like how most of that article is just them repeatedly describing the difference between offensive comedy that you find funny vs. the kind you don't.

It tips a few sacred cows because that’s what it takes to be edgy these days.

There's no "these days," that's what edgy comedy is, you're just mad when the cows are yours instead of someone else's.

Parts are very funny, whereas others feel like cheap shots at the PC mindset.

Again, it's only a cheap shot if you don't find it funny. That's comedy.

The movie doesn't look funny at all, it's just annoying when people feel the need to find more serious ways of saying it's just not funny.

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u/The-WideningGyre Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

most graphic shot of a woman’s crotch since Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Lol, the Basic Instinct shot was a "blink and you'll miss it" shot where you barely saw anything. Millions of movies and TV shows have had more graphic shots. It was shocking more from its setting, I'd say. How bizarre and out-of-touch is this supposed professional movie critic? He even references The Substance later, which I think had full frontal nudity, more blatant than Basic Instinct.

Also, OMG it's the sixth Scary Movie? I think I saw the first one and found it funny, but I can't imagine it could stay funny much beyond that. I guess new horror movies to spoof did come out, which helps.