Gone with the Wind Cancelled

Silentcorner · 11-06-2020 10:17PM

People didn't pay enough attention when US comedians started avoiding the college circuit five or six years ago....

This is the most culturally bland era in my lifetime, nothing that has been created in the last 5 years will be watched, movies, music or tv will be listened to or appreciated by any generation in the future....it will be available in the €2 bargain baskets of stores of the future.

This era is a stain on human creativity.

Shaney Boy · 11-06-2020 10:18PM

On the music front, I doubt Randy Newmans's Rednecks will ever get a airing again. One of the greatest satires of all time.

FarmerBrowne · 11-06-2020 10:18PM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

I love a woman with spirit, Mrs. Fawlty

I do, I do, I do, I do

O'Reilly was a great character.

The episode with the Major talking about the West Indies cricket team.... heads will explode

Overheal · 11-06-2020 10:24PM

Silentcorner wrote: »

People didn't pay enough attention when US comedians started avoiding the college circuit five or six years ago....

This is the most culturally bland era in my lifetime, nothing that has been created in the last 5 years will be watched, movies, music or tv will be listened to or appreciated by any generation in the future....it will be available in the €2 bargain baskets of stores of the future.

This era is a stain on human creativity.

Wild exaggeration. I know episode IX was hot beetle-ridden dog **** but there’s other stuff out there

Silentcorner · 11-06-2020 10:26PM

Overheal wrote: »

Wild exaggeration. I know episode IX was hot beetle-ridden dog **** but there’s other stuff out there

Freinds is the most watched comedy on Netflix...it's 20 years old.

It's no exaggeration, no one gives a f##k about comedies, movies or tv shows infested with this suffocating nonsense.

tobefrank321 · 11-06-2020 10:28PM

"Don't mention the war" fawlty towers episode removed by uktv. This is getting daft.

mick087 · 11-06-2020 10:32PM

Silentcorner wrote: »

People didn't pay enough attention when US comedians started avoiding the college circuit five or six years ago....

This is the most culturally bland era in my lifetime, nothing that has been created in the last 5 years will be watched, movies, music or tv will be listened to or appreciated by any generation in the future....it will be available in the €2 bargain baskets of stores of the future.

This era is a stain on human creativity.

You have a point here, im struggling to think of any new comedy shows in the last few years that might last the test of time.

There does seem ro be a lack of creativity new ideas in film and comedy.

Richard Hillman · 11-06-2020 10:33PM

Even Owen Jones is saying its gone too far. Owen ****ing Jones :pac:

I think the usual voices are starting to realise that the cancel purge linking with the whole BLM debacle, isn't going to resonate with the general public.

We are seeing a turn. There's rumblings about the Inbetweeners now. That's really going to piss off a large section of the ages 20-40 crowd. Then they'll go for the episode of Father Ted.

As the Great Troopz from Arsenal Fan TV once said "It's turnin blud, ya hear me, its turnin"

Silentcorner · 11-06-2020 10:36PM

mick087 wrote: »

You have a point here, im struggling to think of any new comedy shows in the last few years that might last the test of time.

There does seem ro be a lack of creativity new ideas in film and comedy.

You can have creativity or diversity, but you can't have both.

The BBC used to make a fortune creating comedy series and selling them to international TV stations, flogging boxsets....Mrs Browns Boys was they're last "Hit".

The movie business is the same, these movies typically flop when they hit the theatres....who knew people have no interest in gender swapping old movies.

Overheal · 11-06-2020 10:43PM

Silentcorner wrote: »

Freinds is the most watched comedy on Netflix...it's 20 years old.

It's no exaggeration, no one gives a f##k about comedies, movies or tv shows infested with this suffocating nonsense.

Oh comedies specifically. I guess I can’t point to any cult classics birthed in the last 5 years. I’d have to think about that.

Plasandrunt · 11-06-2020 11:08PM

I can safely say in my 33 years on this earth I've never felt so detached from the world.

MisterAnarchy · 11-06-2020 11:16PM

Its all getting ridiculous,people need to start growing a pair of balls and just saying NO.

Chart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era.
The Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top 10 albums, including three number ones.
The word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the US South before the Civil War.
They say they took the name from the architectural style, but are "deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused".
In a statement on Twitter, they said their eyes had been opened to "the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced" and "blindspots we didn't even know existed".

the purple tin · 11-06-2020 11:34PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Jaysis! I suppose Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is Right Out(TM)! :pac:

I think those books are edited now, certain words have been changed. Daft really because Twain was making a statement about how ridiculous slavery was, he was way ahead of his time.
I think I heard also that any kindle versions were switched for the new edited version without the owners knowledge.

Dr. Bre · 11-06-2020 11:37PM

Plasandrunt wrote: »

I can safely say in my 33 years on this earth I've never felt so detached from the world.

I feel sorry for the younger generation. At least we had it good.

Moghead · 11-06-2020 11:43PM

A lot of overreacting on this thread, you'd swear you all watch the film every weekend.

10000maniacs · 11-06-2020 11:47PM

The middle ground continues to be eroded away by fruitloops.
The issue isn't the offence Gone With The Wind did or didn't cause. Its the change that "someone" has made to take it from acceptable a week ago to unacceptable today. It didn't get thousands of complaints two days ago, that's for sure.
Any content like that is of it's time and of it's context.
I mean then we have Bo Selecta... FFS? Leigh Francis was ridiculing everybody in that series, not only black people.
Ozzy Osbourne, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jade Goody, Kerry Katona, Davina McCall, numerous X Factor winners, almost everybody in the public eye were given the treatment at the time, and it was damned funny.

Jinglejangle69 · 11-06-2020 11:49PM

Is there anything to be said for a link to blazing saddles?

Silentcorner · 11-06-2020 11:51PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Even Owen Jones is saying its gone too far. Owen ****ing Jones :pac:

I think the usual voices are starting to realise that the cancel purge linking with the whole BLM debacle, isn't going to resonate with the general public.

We are seeing a turn. There's rumblings about the Inbetweeners now. That's really going to piss off a large section of the ages 20-40 crowd. Then they'll go for the episode of Father Ted.

As the Great Troopz from Arsenal Fan TV once said "It's turnin blud, ya hear me, its turnin"

Does anyone still really believe this is or was all about BLM?

SharpshooterTom · 12-06-2020 01:32AM

Overheal wrote: »

“Canceled” ie. They will put a disclaimer ahead of the film that it was a product of its time.

So basically its not being cancelled then? A whole lot of fuss about nothing.

TomTomTim · 12-06-2020 07:35AM

I remember people joking about them removing Faulty Towers episodes only yesterday https://www.thejournal.ie/fawlty-towers-uktv-5120911-Jun2020/

facehugger99 · 12-06-2020 07:40AM

IMO the seeds for this nonsense were sown a number of years ago when it became fashionable for political leaders to 'apologise' for historical events.

Whether it was the slave-trade the potato famine or some other issue. It may have been well-intentioned but it has fed into the narrative that previous cultures must be judged by the standards of today. The next logical step in this thought-process is to excise the parts of the past deemed to be unacceptable by today's standards.

Any individual or corporation that stands up to this nonsense is being mercilessly targeted on social-media and you can see that there are fewer and fewer willing to stick their heads above the parapets.

It is a dangerous road we are heading down.

TomTomTim · 12-06-2020 07:44AM

Gone with the Wind is now a best seller on Amazon https://i.redd.it/laed9yj5oa451.jpg

kildare lad · 12-06-2020 08:16AM

skooterblue2 wrote: »

They are learning this rubbish on stupid courses like Social science, gender studies and other stupid courses at universities where rich kids have nothing to do for 4 years but develop mental health problems and blame everyone else for their problems. Put them on real courses like Science and Business and they will be run off their feet.

A lot of science wouldn't agree with their way of thinking. Science deals in facts which they find it hard to understand. Could you imagine them in biology when the topic of sex comes up. There's 96 types of gender, trans women are real women etc

ted1 · 12-06-2020 08:47AM

mick087 wrote: »

Fawlty towers dont mention the war removed from UKTV

Should we here in Ireland complain about the Builders episode?

What about the spainish? “He’s from Barcelona, he knows nothing”

circadian · 12-06-2020 08:55AM

Love all the right wing posters losing their minds and calling everyone else "the permenantly outraged" despite not being able to find anyone online calling for private companies to pull shows from their platform.

mick087 · 12-06-2020 08:58AM

ted1 wrote: »

What about the spainish? “He’s from Barcelona, he knows nothing”

What about the loud arrogant american who wanted a waldorf salad.

What about the posh English people on gaumont night, where no working class riff raff was allowed.

All these this characters was over the top ridiculous and IMO bloody funny.

ChelseaRentBoy · 12-06-2020 09:02AM

TomTomTim wrote: »

I remember people joking about them removing Faulty Towers episodes only yesterday https://www.thejournal.ie/fawlty-towers-uktv-5120911-Jun2020/

Leftist facism continues.

mick087 · 12-06-2020 09:06AM

ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »

Leftist facism continues.

Id disagree id call it the idiotic middle class once again thinking they know whats best.
10 years time these so called left activists will be fully payed up members of the UK conservative party and or running daddies company.

tobefrank321 · 12-06-2020 09:36AM

TomTomTim wrote: »

I remember people joking about them removing Faulty Towers episodes only yesterday https://www.thejournal.ie/fawlty-towers-uktv-5120911-Jun2020/

Cleese himself said he always got a good reception in Germany, and a guy there said to him once as a joke, "Don't mention the War".

Its one of the most famous comedy catchphrases of all time.

Germans can hardly be described as an oppressed minority.

This is white Europeans making jokes about other white Europeans.

ArmaniJeanss · 12-06-2020 10:04AM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Cleese himself said he always got a good reception in Germany, and a guy there said to him once as a joke, "Don't mention the War".

Its one of the most famous comedy catchphrases of all time.

Germans can hardly be described as an oppressed minority.

This is white Europeans making jokes about other white Europeans.

The issue isn't with the Germans or the war in that episode.

Its the Majors comments about 'Indians are w-gs, West Indians are n-ggers' that's the problem surely.

A pity it overshadows the best line in the episode.

Major: I took her to see India.
Basil: India, Major?
Major: At The Oval.

Gone with the Wind Cancelled

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