Comments on: United 93 Comedy? Should Such a Thing Be Made?

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:00:33 +0000

Here’s the Brass Eye pedophilia episode on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jVnrfoZD8

I think it’s worth linking to because I imagine most of the people who have commented on this aren’t familiar with Chris Morris, and hence are understandably hostile. Pedophilia is surely as sensitive and un-funny a topic as 9/11, and yet I think this is more or less undeniably successful, both as comment on media and public hysteria and simply as an exercise in absurdity.

Of course I appreciate the concerns raised above, but if this film does get made then I’d expect it to be important, thought-provoking, hilarious and respectful (which doesn’t mean bending over backwards to make sure no one gets offended), and the assumptions some people have made about Morris’ motivation are baseless and absurd.

There is, in my opinion, something not right and even dangerous about declaring certain topics as off limits for any kind of comic treatment, and personally I think John’s guarded wariness is far more appropriate than some people’s head-in-the-sand refusal to entertain the idea.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:59:23 +0000

I support freedom of expression wholeheartedly. However, I find myself in agreement with a majority of the commenters on this page. I won’t see this film; however, if someone wants to create it, though it is tasteless in my opinion, they have every right to.

By: someone

someone — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:08:07 +0000

Why in the fuck should a fucking British comedian be able to make a joke out of an American national tragedy? This is a horrible fucking idea, and I’d like to see him shot. Way out of line, and in horrible taste. What nerve.

By: DarkKinger

DarkKinger — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:51:56 +0000

And people thought Ang Lee’s Hulk was ridiculous! Spielberg got away with 1941 because its time has passed for decades. We haven’t passed a decade, and as good as those films are, we are already having 9/11 movies.

By: Norddeth

Norddeth — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:35:02 +0000

What a rediculous idea. He will never get this film made, what he will get is attention for even suggesting it. I’m usually the first one to find something funny in something, but there is ZERO room to find anything funny about what hapened that day.

Nevermind the fact that it is too soon? how can it be too soon you ask? BECAUSE IT IS STILL GOING ON!!!! The war in Iraq is a direct result of 9/11, without 9/11 Bush would never have been able to justify the invasion, so yeah, lets all yuck it up in a theater while a young man dies in the dessert half a world away.

Nord

By: xpgeek

xpgeek — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:53:12 +0000

NO.

Thats just wrong. Its definitely going to offend me. I can take a joke and seen some pretty out-there comedys, but, this really happened. Just, as said a comedy about holocaust victims, Hiroshima victims, Oklahoma City bombing, would NOT be funny either. This idea is in completely bad taste.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:23:49 +0000

Different strokes…as the old saying goes. Personally, I find the idea of protesting or condemning any work of art to be fruitless and ill-conceived. The idea might be repulsive to you, but that doesn’t mean everyone else feels that way or even should feel that way.

By: Matt Holmes

Matt Holmes — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:07:24 +0000

I don’t think I will ever be ready for this type of thing.

A one line joke I could probably handle, but a whole film which satires the whole events… I don’t think should ever even be contemplated to be made.

By: darren j seeley

darren j seeley — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:06:24 +0000

Glad to know that a line has been drawn in the sand for most people.
What is worse than a bad idea is those that might support it.

By: Kaneda979

Kaneda979 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:01:54 +0000

Ya, I think it’s a bad idea too. Unless maybe, like said above, it just pokes fun at the Taliban and people’s hysteria over the whole thing, although the media already does a pretty good job of that now.

But ya, it is still too early for this kind of thing. And also, on the subject of South Park, they’re was a great episode on how somthing tragic or sad doesn’t become funny until atleast like 23 years later. LOL, and the more and more I think about it the more true that is…

By: saint1

saint1 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:53:29 +0000

:S i don’t find a single possiblity for tragedies to be taken as jokes

it’s rude… althought many american tv shows and films do this ;)

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:49:05 +0000

Think of this news if it was about another film. Another tragedy that happened and there has already been a major film about it and several other lower budget films. TITANIC! If someone asid the diea of a comedy version of the Titanic, would you be happy? Would you be ready to see THAT? Personally I wouldn’t, I don’t think it’s right to make a comedy of a disaster that affected a lot of people, where people lost their lives for christ sakes. The Titanic sunk almost a hundred years ago now and I STILL don’t think it would be right to make a ‘spoof’ of it, so NO WAY is the world ready to see a comedy of 9/11, something which happened less than 10 years ago.