Weekly Ketchup: Alice in Wonderland Sequel Planned
SummaryThis was a relatively slow week in the realm of movie development news, as most sites were busy covering the various awards season nominations, or providing links to any of the various trailers that will be in theaters this weekend with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. What did get announced this week includes sequels for The Adventures of Tintin, Alice in Wonderland, The Muppets, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Transformers, new movie adaptations of Angry Birds and The Equalizer, and new roles for Glenn Close, Will Ferrell, Nick Nolte, and Michael Shannon. Back to Article
Lars Ronin
"KEVIN HART TO HELP WILL FERRELL GET HARD" GAY!
Dec 14 - 05:14 PM
Jackie Anaya
Haven't "humans" evolved past the need to use the term gay as a negative?
Dec 14 - 07:39 PM
ahungerartist ahungerartist
The answer is obviously no.
Dec 15 - 12:54 AM
todd alexander
Who used gay as a negative? Its usage here was not in the slang pejorative but in the accepted colloquial meaning homosexual.
Dec 15 - 07:03 AM
Bradly Martin
How do you know he was using it as a negative? Other than the fact that it was posted on a message board on the internet. Maybe you perception of the word gay is always negative because it's been used in a negative connotation for so long.
Dec 15 - 07:09 AM
Luke Rushing
I don't know what you think 'gay' means but Kevin Hart getting Will Ferrell hard would be pretty much on par with the literal definition.
Dec 15 - 12:48 PM
Corinna Kauffman
That is eloquently and aptly put.
Dec 16 - 06:33 AM
Bradly Martin
In all seriousness though It is awesome of you Jackie to stick up for somebody. I looks like more people than myself have given you a hard time for it though and I do think we have heard that word in a condescending way so often that there isn't many other ways to take it but still good on yah standing up to bully statements.
Dec 15 - 01:28 PM
Jacob Torello
Interestingly enough, there are many levels of this expertly crafted joke.
One being the literal, that the two actors in question are in a film called "Get Hard" which may be a simple innuendo or it may be in reality a film about the two being homosexuals in this film. Therefore the observation is quite correct.
However, another probable explanation is the usage of the title, "Get Hard" and the term gay to do a play on words with the popular Japanese comedian and sometimes internet meme "Hard Gay"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaki_Sumitani
In which case it also works.
The third is the idea that in prison, homosexual sex and/or rape is fairly commonplace in the American prison system and therefore it works on that level because in prison you can â??Get Hardâ?? as in toughen up from defending yourself and your buttocks, or the other inmates can â??Get Hardâ?? as in getting ready to make you their boyfriend at the sight of your fleshy buttocks.
So to sum up:
Gay in a literal sense it works.
Gay in reference to Hard Gay it also works.
Gay in reference to the general homosexual atmosphere in prison it works as well.
Plus it made me chuckle.
Dec 16 - 05:46 AM
Mike Farron
The joke is already implied by the title of the film. Lars pointing it out to make his own joke about it doesn't work. It's simply redundant and takes away and subtlety--not that that was very possible.
Dec 16 - 09:55 AM
McLain Antrim Chadsey
Don't you get offended when people use the word "idiot" in a derogatory way Lars? I mean, being an idiot certainly isn't a choice. You were born this way.
Dec 14 - 07:59 PM
Lars Ronin
Im surprise that there would be a debate on what i thought was a funny statement. But ive enjoyed reading the comments. To McLain Antrim Chadsey, im not an idiot.
Dec 17 - 05:48 PM