Lots of this summer’s blockbusters have moviegoers in stitches with their curious brand of toilet-trained humor. Offbeat or offensive?
Dorine SomenziAge: 28 Resides: Miami, Florida Occupation: Teacher What are you going to see? I want to see Does bathroom humor bother you? I can’t even laugh at it. It’s just not my taste. But I like Howard Stern, so I’m not really offended by it. What movie has offended you? Nothing really. American people— I’m French— get offended too easily. You have a lot of extremes here.
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Anouk De ClercqAge: 28 Resides: Belgium Occupation: Filmmaker What are you going to see? I saw Star Wars, Does bathroom humor bother you? No. I see that stuff when I’m depressed, to make me feel What movie has offended you? There’s this Dutch filmmaker, Cyrus Frisch, who uses real junkies and mentally unstable people in his movies, where they act themselves. He’s using them. They don’t know what they’re doing. That offends me.
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William TaylorAge: 26 Resides: East New York, Brooklyn Occupation: Sales What are you going to see? Definitely Austin Powers. Also Summer of Sam and South Park. Does bathroom humor bother you? No. I like it. Stuff like that is real. Should there be a different rating for tasteless movies? Something like South Park, parents might think it’s for kids because it’s animated. But it’s not. I have a four-year-old kid and he wants to see it, but I won’t let him.
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Charles DeenAge: 35 Resides: Williamsburg Occupation: Administrative aide What are you going to see? The Haunting. I saw Wild Wild West, it was a bust. Summer of Sam, South Park. Does bathroom humor bother you? No. I think it’s brilliant the way they do it in South Park. After the Littleton, Colorado, shooting everyone’s talking about media responsibility, but sometimes those people can be overbearing. Words are offensive but life is offensive.
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Elizabeth FigueroaAge: 20 Resides: Staten Island Occupation: Clerical What are you going to see? Summer of Sam. Good movie, interesting. Austin Powers. I don’t like South Park. They’re making a joke about Saddam and it’s tasteless. Does bathroom humor bother you? Yes. What movie has offended you? Wild Things. They made a joke about people getting raped. For people who really got raped in life,
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William ClarkeAge: 39 Resides: East New York Occupation: Student What are you going to see? Wild Wild West, Big Daddy, The Haunting. Not Austin Powers. Does bathroom humor bother you? No. What movie has offended you? The only thing
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Julie RozzaAge: 29 Resides: Park Slope Occupation: Designer What are you going to see? I might see Summer of Sam. I already saw Austin Powers but I Does bathroom humor bother you? Yeah. It bothers me. Like South Park. I’m more into witty movies. Like Ideal Husband. What movie has offended you? That scene in Austin Powers where he drinks crap. That really offended me. And the whole character of that fat guy was really offensive.
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Crystal BlennAge: 24 Resides: Uptown Occupation: Student What are you going to see? I saw Wild Wild West. I loved it. I’m not really planning on Does bathroom humor bother you? No. A sense of humor is a sense What movie has offended you? I’ve never been offended by anything I’ve seen in a movie.
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Dorine Somenzi
Anouk De Clercq
William Taylor
Charles Deen
Elizabeth Figueroa
William Clarke
Julie Rozza
Crystal Blenn