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  VIA Hollywood Reporter quote:The much maligned trailer for "Loqueesha" in which a white man pretends to be a black woman to get in on a radio gig, was revealed this morning to be part of an elaborate viral campaign for Boots Riley's upcoming sophomore film project "Jeremy Saville wins an Oscar." You can check the trailer for the "real" movie below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ So what do you think? Viral Marketing gone too far? A good prank?
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I don't know what's real anymore.
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May 13, 2019 19:10
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What time machine set to 2006 did I accidentally turn on that made this thread exist
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May 13, 2019 19:25
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if only
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May 13, 2019 19:28
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May 13, 2019 21:43
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Blast Fantasto posted:What time machine set to 2006 did I accidentally turn on that made this thread exist You went to somethingawful.com, hth
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May 13, 2019 22:30
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Laqueesha is this generation’s Jud suss
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MotherFUCKER you got me excited there. I guess I should have realized from the beginning that Boots Riley would be the last guy to ever do viral marketing. Pirate Jet fucked around with this message at 00:54 on May 14, 2019 |
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Pirate Jet posted:MotherFUCKER you got me excited there. Yeah but it would be something where he'd potentially say exactly what he was doing on his message board and just quietly released the trailer and fake website, and just it took the internet a while to figure out it was more meta. That trailer just doesn't seem like it would be real, but uh here we are.
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May 14, 2019 02:49
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I like that the voice he does for Loqueesha isn't convincing at all. As if the execution could have saved it. Lol
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May 14, 2019 02:55
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God dammit this was well done, bravo OP. Still, can't wait to see Loqueesha on opening day!
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May 14, 2019 03:03
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Just Chamber posted:God dammit this was well done, bravo OP. Hope you can get to that one indie theatre in Beverly Hills on July 12 because that's the only screening it has scheduled!
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Thinking of re-editing the movie if it comes out into an art piece like one of the Cremaster cycle films
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I thought the title was Jimmy Saville wins an Oscar, which would be a more interesting movie IMO
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Pedro De Heredia posted:I thought the title was Jimmy Saville wins an Oscar, which would be a more interesting movie IMO There was a documentary on him called Diabolical Bastard from a few years ago, but all traces of it are gone from the internet. 
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May 15, 2019 11:46
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hope you can get to that one indie theatre in Beverly Hills on July 12 because that's the only screening it has scheduled! UPDATE: it seems that they've very quietly removed it from their 'upcoming films' list.
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May 15, 2019 12:45
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Wasnt this from Frisky Dingo
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Uncle Wemus posted:Wasnt this from Frisky Dingo Nope, was actually the original cover for Party Music, announced on the morning of September 11th 2001, no less. The album was released in December with a different cover.
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Uncle Wemus posted:Wasnt this from Frisky Dingo I think you’re thinking of The Ballocaust.
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Yoshi Wins posted:I think you’re thinking of The Ballocaust.  lmao, I loving love Frisky Dingo
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Bogus Adventure posted:
Looking at how poo poo Archer is now, I'm kind of glad it only got two seasons.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:I thought the title was Jimmy Saville wins an Oscar, which would be a more interesting movie IMO  Does Jeremy Saville not have an agent advising him to consider adopting a stage name?
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Kangra posted:
He made & released Loqueesha so he's clearly never sought or listened to any advice in his entire life, why would he start now?
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Did anybody actually watch this movie, now that it's been out on Prime for like a week?
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General Dog posted:Did anybody actually watch this movie, now that it's been out on Prime for like a week? There's been a few youtube reviews and someone in the GBS thread watched at least half of it. It's real bad!
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Nathan Rabin wrote a really in-depth review https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2019/6/3/birth-of-a-soul-sister-case-file-127my-year-of-flops-ii-24-loqueesha
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I have seen this movie, here are my thoughts: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2/status/1136821876414697473
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K. Waste posted:I have seen this movie, here are my thoughts: Your anguish was palpable CD salutes your valiant sacrifice 
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K. Waste posted:I have seen this movie, here are my thoughts: You're a brave person, in many senses braver than an astronaut or somebody who fought in a war
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Nathan Rabin posted:“Who even knows about Gandhi? He probably lied to his wife too!” Rachel protests, which prompts Saville to break into an imitation of a cheating Gandhi running around on his wife in a thick Indian accent as uncannily exact as it is culturally sensitive and historically accurate. Nah, I’m just kidding. It’s loving terrible. Offensive as gently caress. In Saville’s mind, every Indian person is clearly Apu. Even if it were somehow a massive troll, the existence of this movie is astounding.
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Kangra posted:Even if it were somehow a massive troll, the existence of this movie is astounding. You'd think that some part of that would make it funny, but no. It's a profoundly unfunny movie that is basically Jeremy Saville sucking his own dick for 90 minutes.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Nathan Rabin wrote a really in-depth review This is a pro-click and a worthwhile read, even at its length. It's amazing that, no matter how bad you thought this movie was going to be when you heard about the premise, the finished film is much, much worse
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Ever since he got canned by AV Club and/or Trump got elected, Nathan Rabin is way too angry to be enjoyable anymore.
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I am glad I made this thread because I found out Nathan Rabin is still doing his flops articles and I now have a huge backlog to enjoy
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General Dog posted:Ever since he got canned by AV Club and/or Trump got elected, Nathan Rabin is way too angry to be enjoyable anymore. It shouldn't affect this review because watching Loqueesha should make anyone justifiably angry.
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Bogus Adventure posted:It shouldn't affect this review because watching Loqueesha should make anyone justifiably angry. Except it shouldn’t because it’s just some self-produced, vanity project, dtv garbage. It is literally just a window into the insane narcissism of a completely unremarkable performer. It’s also tremendously informative as an example of a modern Randian objectivist film. The precise wrong way of going about it is to try to raise its political profile as being somehow particularly emblematic of racism or transphobia or whatever. Saville’s politics are not nearly as problematic just because he decides to affect a fat sassy black woman as, say, Zoolander 2, which is obviously not an “alt-right” film. The movie is about a gen x crank who revived the mammy to spin down home, “tough love” wisdom. It’s at least interesting as a premise, it’s just realized with maximal horror. The essential double feature is Brawl in Cell Block 99, another unbearably bloviated movie about an arch-egoist who is indisputably just absorbed in a racist, misogynistic fantasy, but constantly qualified with post-racial/feminist memes. A big part of 99 is that Vaughn just brutalizes and kills minorities to save his wife, but tells his drug dealer boss not to say the N word; and the parallel narrative of Loqueesha is that Saville really does feel like Loqueesha is a part of his “identity,” which should be tolerated implicitly. It’s insane, but it’s much more fascinating than it is offensive, like The Room.
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