Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 7/31/2001 news item <b><a href="" target="_blank">Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) Protests Release of Disney's Bubble Boy</a></b> According to Carol Ann Demaret, whose son lived in a bubble due to immune deficiencies and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), a nationwide patient advocacy group, "There is nothing funny about living with a potentially life-threatening genetic disease, and it is irresponsible and reprehensible of Disney to have proceeded with the making of this film." <small>source: Immune Deficiency Foundation</small>
Originally Posted By cgriggs I understand the feelings about this film and others but some people like myself feel better , by letting me laugh at someone else instead of thinking of myself. The way I think about it is as long as it is not directed at me personal its like them making fun of themself being with that problem.
Originally Posted By tmonee11 I was thinking about posting a topic about this movie....the Buena Vista release "Bubble Boy".... This movie looks VERY dumb to me.
Originally Posted By MickeyMoose15 If they complain about then heck why doesn't some group complain about The Waterboy for making fun of retards or any Adam Sandler movie.
Originally Posted By tmonee11 <<<Okay, who else was reminded of the "Bubble Boy" episode of Seinfeld>> That had to be where the idea for this movie came from.
Originally Posted By TikiRoomer Actually I think the sappy 70s made-for-TV "Boy in the Plastic Bubble" with John Travolta inspired this. Yup, someone who thought that piece of green fuzzy cheese was interesting back then would probably be of age to "pay tribute" to it right about now.
Originally Posted By karen_cloney I would like to introduce myself, i am Karen mother to a pid's child , my son has common variable immune deficiency and suffers every day of his life, he goes every 4 weeks for an infusion of immune globulin.This movie is a slap in my sons face as well as thousand of others it is not a laughing matter, i can't believe that disney would make a mockery out of it for the almighty buck . step into my shoes for a momnet endless bone marrow test,montly infusion, hospital stays to numerous to count, my son crying and pleading for me to make the pain go away,his confusion in why he is so sick, the never endless medicines he has to take, watching my darling little boys suffer, ...ask yourself if your child died from an immune deficiency, or was battling the disorder daily would you find it funny, please as a parent of a pids child i beg of you if this movie is release please do not make my sons life a mockery or david vetters life a mockery i beg of you do not go see this film....thank you for your time..karen mom to tony cvid,severe chronic neutropenia,leukopenia and lymphodenopathy...
Originally Posted By MickeyMoose15 karen_clooney, I'm sorry but if you don't like it don't go see it. I am sorry for your son's condition but really! Do you have to boycott a major corporation for this. I feel sorry for your son, really I do. But being eangry at a movie company for trying to entertain people is horrible.
Originally Posted By Great Stone Dragon I can totally see why someone would boycott a movie in a situation like this. If the portrayal of the syndrome was in some way realistic, that's one thing, but based on the trailers for this movie there seems to be no realism to the seriousness of this forced but unfortunately necessary lifestyle. I think it does show a lack of feeling.
Originally Posted By tmonee11 I think the movie is in bad taste, I do not belive it will be a hit...why make it?
Originally Posted By TheRedhead "I think the movie is in bad taste, I do not belive it will be a hit." Unfortunately, those two statements don't tend to go together anymore.
Originally Posted By TikiRoomer This looks like a rejected Adam Sandler script. Except in this case, Rob Schneider, David Spade and the amazingly unfunny Sandler clone from American Pie (Jason Biggs) must have rejected it as well.
Originally Posted By ToonKirby I don't think this film will have any problem NOT attracting an audience ...
Originally Posted By cstephens I saw the trailer yesterday when I went to see "The Princess Diaries". It didn't look funny to me, but then it's not my kind of film. /cs
