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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Is The 'Bubble' Popped (for Oscar)? | ||||
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| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 5:08 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00  | As you know I pick out stories regarding censorship and people bitching about nothings and here's another one Group, Mother Protest 'Bubble Boy' By The Associated Press, A foundation for people with immune deficiencies is asking Walt Disney Co. to cancel the release of a movie about a boy who lives in a plastic bubble and planning a boycott of the film, saying it's insensitive. An Indiana family also is urging people not to see ``Bubble Boy,'' a comedy about a young man who has lived his entire life in a bubble and ventures into the world when he learns his childhood sweetheart is engaged to another man. The 15,000-member Immune Deficiency Foundation has asked Disney not to release the movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Marley Shelton, on Aug. 24. The group, based in Towson, Md., says the movie makes fun of people with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, or SCID. IDF founder Marcia L. Boyle, whose 23-year-old son has SCID, said in a July 30 letter to Disney Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner that the movie is a ``cheap slap in the face'' to children who have the disease or have died from it. ``I'm sure that in the politically correct society in which we live, almost any movie you release raises the hackles of one group or another. There's a part of me that almost feels sympathy for the criticism that you must continuously face over good-natured movies that cause protest,'' Boyle wrote in the letter, which is posted on the group's Web site. ``There is nothing good-natured, however, about THIS movie. It's not only offensive, it's positively horrifying.'' Previews for the movie show the boy being run over by a bus and bounced around like a beach ball at a rock concert. The group contends the movie has similarities to the story of David Philip Vetter, a Texas boy who lived his entire 12-year life inside a plastic enclosure because of a disease that made him susceptible to germs. Vetter, who died in 1984, is a symbol for children with SCID, the foundation says, and his lifelong isolation linked the nickname ``Bubble Boy'' with him and the term ``Bubble Boy Disease'' with SCID. ``Disney says the resemblance to my son is purely coincidental,'' Vetter's mother, Carol Ann Demaret, said from her home in Houston. ``But that can't be true if there was only one `Bubble Boy' in history. Did they even think about how this might affect those who have to deal with this life-threatening disease?'' Walt Disney Co. spokeswoman Andrea Marzas declined comment Thursday night. A Fort Wayne, Ind., mother also is urging people to boycott the movie, saying it mocks the disease that killed her two daughters. ``I have a hard time understanding why you would make a comedy out of something serious like that,'' Jennifer Davidson told Fort Wayne television station WKJG. ``They don't make comedies about cancer or AIDS (news - web sites) or anything like that.'' SCID is one of the best-known of 80 related genetic diseases called primary immunodeficiency, or PI, that weaken the immune system. Children with the diseases are born with faulty immune genes, putting them at risk for unusually repeated infections, sometimes death.  The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Brittny | ||||
| IAmMighty | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 8:10 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | They probably just made it the #1 movie of the week. Don't these groups realise these protests just lead to increased sales. "Red Rocket! Red Rocket!" | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 10:20 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | It's not like protests of a person lead to a minor story becoming of AP importance...oh wait. Of course I SO hope that Kevin Smith takes Number 1 next week. He won't since American Pie 2 and Bubble Boy and some romantic comedy opening the day too appeals to larger audiences but something tell me JSBSB will have shitloads of Repeat Business. The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Brittny | ||||
| brodieman | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 10:51 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | well if bubble boy somehow beats jay and silent bob strikes back in the box office you wont be seeing me in here anymore cause i will commit ritual suicide BRODIEMAN...NOOTCH NOOTCH! I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden. And along with the sunshine There’s gotta be a little rain sometimes. When you take you gotta give So live then let live and then go-oooo, I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 11:27 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | Let's see: PG-13 'cute' movie about a kid in a whacky bubble going on whacky misadventures while trying to get the girl he loves. VS. R movie about two drug dealers trying to stop a movie being made about themselves in a satire about Hollywood culture with a lot of inside jokes of movies with a cult following. I have faith that JSBSB might actually beat Bubble Boy but I don't totally expect it to beat it, at least in the first week. However, unlike a lot of movies these days I feel that JSBSB will manage to keep steady as far as audiences go. We see a lot of movies drop off the first week like 50%, JSBSB I think will survive longer and do more consistent business than movies like Rush Hour 2 and AP2 because Smith always more gooder on repeated viewings. The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Brittny | ||||
| 420 | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 11:42 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Mar. 01 | The movie sucked . For the recored . /.  | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 11:52 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | Bubble boy or JSBSB? The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Brittny | ||||
| 420 | posted on 08-17-2001 @ 11:55 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Mar. 01 | Bubble Boy . /. | ||||
| URoverWHEREnow | posted on 08-18-2001 @ 12:18 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | I dont know what all these people are complaining about...Bubble Boy is an uplifting story for other bubble people. He doesn't just stay in his room and say "Damn! Im in a bubble! This sucks!" He does something with his life. I hope they make Bubble Boy 2 where he becomes a doctor. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-18-2001 @ 12:32 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | Actually Ron and Fez made your exact point that they have the BB living a full life, having a girlfriend,m etc. But in today's society everything must be taken seriously and carefully. We can't have humor if it happened to someone a long time ago. As Anthony says "it's always funny until it hits close to home." The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Brittny | ||||
| URoverWHEREnow | posted on 08-18-2001 @ 1:38 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | quote: Where do you think i got it from Ikea? All my orignal thoughts belong to someone else. | ||||
| mrbungle | posted on 08-18-2001 @ 2:25 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Mar. 01 | Would you say the film is...ON THE BUBBLE OF AN OSCAR????? G-G-G-G-G-G-G LOL I apologiiiiza ahead of time for the bad joke :)  It's not funny, my ass is on fire.... Thanks to the lovely Jolene for my sig pic... It's always funny until someone gets hurt, And then it's just hilarious!!! | ||||
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