Chris Tookey

5cc · **Joined:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:46 am **Posts:** 203

I like how he tries to defend himself by saying Roger Ebert hated it too. Thing is, Ebert was concerned that little kids will be watching it (it's rated R in the States, so any kid can see it if they're accompanied by an adult) and he doesn't say a single word about Hit-Girl being sexy.

Tookey says again:

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The movie's writers clearly wanted the audience to see Hit-Girl not only as cool, but also as sexy, like an even younger version of the baby-faced oriental assassin in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

This is the disturbing bit, more than saying that the violence is sexualised. Why does he imagine we're meant to find the little girl sexy? He never says.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:55 am

Judging everybody by his own, er, Glitteresque predilections perhaps?

lord_kobel · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:26 pm

Looks like the comments have appeared now.....

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:27 pm

Sorry if this has already been mentioned

http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/news/daily- ... review.php

5cc · **Joined:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:46 am **Posts:** 203

I done a blog post about this:

http://www.fivechinesecrackers.com/2010/04/why-chris-tookey-is-wrong-about-kick.html

ACG · **Posted:** Sun May 02, 2010 1:15 am

from the comments under his "responce"

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Show me on the doll where the internet touched you.

- Frankie D., Redhill, Uk, 29/4/2010 10:59
Click to rate Rating 19

buy this man a pint!

(yours made it btw andy, and it's in the green)

lord_kobel · **Posted:** Sun May 02, 2010 9:46 am

ACG wrote:

from the comments under his "responce"

Quote:

Show me on the doll where the internet touched you.

- Frankie D., Redhill, Uk, 29/4/2010 10:59
Click to rate Rating 19

buy this man a pint!

Thanks very much! I got bored waiting for my earlier comment to appear so I started taking the piss quite a bit....

ACG · **Posted:** Fri May 07, 2010 5:59 pm

hmm, the four lions review is up, anyone who has seen he film want to take a peak at it?

i started reading, but i've not seen the film yet (and really want to) and it looks like tookey has no concept of how to not spoil something in a review.
i might be wrong, but obviously i don't want to risk it.

LuciusAR · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 am **Posts:** 766

Christ on a bike, he called it too politically correct. FFS.

Incidentally I saw this yesterday and laughed my arse off.

ACG · **Posted:** Sun May 09, 2010 2:09 pm

i went to see it but it was sold out

paranormalhandy · **Posted:** Sun May 09, 2010 10:41 pm

We saw it this afternoon in a cinema with about a dozen other people. It was great!

Waterstones · **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:26 pm **Posts:** 298

On the subject of Chris Tookey,the next movie he will call to be banned will be 'The Killer inside Me' when it comes out on Friday,I can still remember what he did to 'Crash' in 1997,that's when I first knew of him.

ACG · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:15 pm

i really want to see that one, it cause some interesting debate on kermode and mayo (no prizes for working out who took what side over this).

Waterstones · **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:26 pm **Posts:** 298

Just to bump this tread up but can any of you remember his review of Hot Fuzz,in which he got a stick up his ass about the fact that the bad guys where middle-class people,and I think he said that middle-class people don't commit crime? :shock:

LuciusAR · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 am **Posts:** 766

Erm that's half the Gag isn't it? That Sleepy Gloucestershire villages aren't hot usually hotbeds of crime? Unless of course you count Stroud, that really is a shithole.

I do remember him commenting on the fact that Point Break and Bad Boys 2 weren't very good films and because Hot Fuzz references them that must make Hot Fuzz a bad film as well. A frankly bizarre way to judge a film.

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