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PSA Book of Mormon

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Meh. Guess I'm one of the minority that was not impressed by BOM. I like crass jokes, southpark, etc. But I did not find it funny at all.
 
i haven't seen book of mormon yet, but i certainly enjoyed the following:

irishScott said:
So I guess we can add The Book of Mormon to the list of wildly popular, critically acclaimed, intellectually appreciated works of art that ATOT is superior to. 😛
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gorcorps said:
no, just ignore that particular dimwitted twat in the future and you should be good :awe:
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disappoint said:
That's a whole lot of rage over choice of entertainment. Got to be mental illness behind that.
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I enjoyed it immensely, but I'm not sure if I would have bought the tickets myself (I think we spent around 150-175 ea to see in SF)
 
not bad, only $90/ticket when I saw them in LA

Seat location: section MEZZRC, row A, seats 207-208
Total Charge: US $ 181.15
 
Saw it twice on Broadway, saw it once off Broadway. I actually enjoyed the guy who played Elder Cunningham in the off Broadway showing better than Josh Gad. Unfortunately can't remember his name. Overall, though, LOVED it.
 
poofyhairguy said:
It has a good message about the practical benefits of Mormonism.
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You're joking right? Those "practical benefits" are things that you don't need Mormonism in order to benefit from. In fact, the point was, that while others focused on the ideological horseshit, those people were actually just focused living as a happy family. Very little of that episode specifically involving the family and not the segments pointing out the L Ron Hubbard level of laughably hilariously silly ideology, had anything to do with specific Mormonism. You don't need to be a Mormon to have a family game night, or be effusively positive in light of people not liking your beliefs.

There's a lot more that could be said as well, like how being a white middle class American family, they're going to have a pretty good life relative to just about everyone on the planet (so again Mormonism really wasn't the source of that). Kinda like how the Marsh family didn't end up better off after converting, they got convinced they weren't as happy and tried to change.

Plus even taking into account the end message about judging people for ideology and not them as a person, you have to ignore all the other times when South Park did explicitly that (Scientology, the fact that they've levied similar levels of derision of both should be telling in and of itself). Hell, if you have very different things that you like to do (as Stan did not enjoy doing things how the Mormon family did), there's no reason to feel bad about not being good friends with someone. The issue is that Stan took it to the level of bullying the kid over it (or rather being different since that's actually the point of that and not specifically him being Mormon).

And that's before you even get into the validity of the caricature of the Mormon family, or how that can actually be a negative thing (i.e. the delusionally happy people turning a blind eye to any negativity involving their religion).

Rage187 said:
seriously, yes.
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Considering the episode, I can only laugh. You literally did something that Randy Marsh did.
 
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