Full Retard - I Am Sam (2002) Discussion

[–] sermantje-1 16 years ago

bahaha Yes look at tom hanks in forrest gump he went half retard won oscar or dustin hoffman in rain man also half retard (autist).
im sure theers more examples of half retard roles winning oscar

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[–] fox_trooper 16 years ago

I think that you both are using completly disrespectful language and should be ashamed of yourselves.

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[–] rebratka 16 years ago

I agree.
It's nomination, not nom.

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[–] justinshere 16 years ago

aren't you just a sarcastic little ray of sunshine who attempts clever humour? :D:D:D:D

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[–] Stunechoppa 16 years ago

This isn't Nom, there are Rules!

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[–] Issapunk 16 years ago

HAHA, I just watched Lebowski last night. That is one of the best lines.

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[–] bballfeenom24 15 years ago

it's a league game, smoke

Zapp: Kif, I'm feeling the captain's itch.
Kif: I'll get the powder, sir.

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[–] gcarras 12 years ago

To Fox Trooper:
I think that you are right.

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[–] gcarras 12 years ago

PS to foxtrooper: Ever notice that the first two posters, especially that second, didn't even uzze prapir spelling?Or Grammer? UPDATE: And that Miranda Sings, silly mispelling was for your ohn gud, a taste of your OWN meds LOL!

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[–] jeobtase 16 years ago

You never go full retard

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[–] gcarras (2770) 6 years ago

If Frank Fontaine had spun off Crfazy Guggenheim from THE JACKIE GLEASON American Scene Magazine into,say, a 1960s flick, d'/ya think it woulda won the Oscar? (I saw, y, 60s due to that being the heydey and Frank died 1978.)

Or the original THE HONEYMMONERS had a movie spinoff, maybe he would've won (like he did for a similiar chaacter in HARRY AND TONTO in 1974.More on the serious side,though..)

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[–] dogma867 16 years ago

or look at Peter Sellers in Being There. Infantile yes, retarded no. Sean Penn went full retard.

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[–] lucy-r-wills 16 years ago

do you realise that the word "retard" is completely offensive, or it is in Britain anyway.

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[–] rock_musiq5 16 years ago

Do you "realise" that in America, "realise" is spelled realize? And retard was a term used in Tropic Thunder directed by Ben Stiller. If you watched the movie you would understand that this entire forum is based on part of the script off that movie.

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[–] 5thHobbit 16 years ago

Do you "realise" that in America, "realise" is spelled realize?

...And in Britain it isn't. Lucy-r-wills is obviously British. What does that have to do with anything?

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

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[–] mudshark-4 16 years ago

Well I hate to upset anyone but in Britain both forms are fine - indeed using a z would be considered 'more correct' by many traditionalists.

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[–] 5thHobbit 16 years ago

I think the third answer here is pretty good: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Literature/Question93903.html

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

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[–] BronaghMcA 15 years ago

omg i love your respone! the language you speak is ENGLISH! so i would assume that the correct version would be the one that the ENGLISH use!! for some reason this would make sense to me...

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[–] King-Stannis-Baratheon 16 years ago

Continue to be offended.

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[–] deathbecomesyou 16 years ago

best thread on all of IMDB right now

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[–] stayup_all_night 16 years ago

Ok, I gotta see this movie now. It's available on my cable box, so I'm gonna watch it and tell you what I think.

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[–] stayup_all_night 16 years ago

Good movie. Great acting by Penn. Good drama and had some very funny parts. Definitely much more difficult of an acting role that some of the "less retarted" roles.

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[–] rob-1356 16 years ago

He did get an Oscar nomination, you retards! If he hadn't gone full retard he might have won. Leo was nominated but didn't win when he went full retard in "Gilbert Grape."

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[–] HmmmOhkaee 16 years ago

He should have won, going completely retarted is much more challenging than going half like Tom Hanks did in Forrest Gump, I think Sean was more deserving of an oscar than Tom Hanks was.

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[–] GoldenEye 16 years ago

Ah yes, but look at Cuba Gooding in Radio. He cranked the Retard-o-Meter up to 11, and look what happened. Didn't even get nominated.

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[–] ancientanguish 16 years ago

hahaaa, Tropic Thunder.

:P

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[–] lilmisheartz 16 years ago

That's not funny... but, I guess you sort of made a point. I guess he just made too much of a effort.

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[–] ChuckieFinster4 16 years ago

you guys take this Tropic Thunder thing WAAAAYYYY too seriously

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[–] HmmmOhkaee 16 years ago

i've never seen tropic thunder, is it good?

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[–] parisaniee 16 years ago

tropic thunder is hilarious!
and very well made, at least i think so

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[–] trada122 16 years ago

hahahahahahahahahaha
I KNEW someone was going to post a thread about this

yup, Sean Penn DID go full retard in this movie

NEVER GO FULL RETARD

I'M A LEAD FARMER MOTHERFU*KER

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[–] philliprostron 16 years ago

yes This Ssam had a midleadingly low iq that was why he was given minimal tasks to do like I have quite bad mental retardation and slight autism and find it very difficut to self direct. I can do things with support but that just proves how badly in the moderate range I am.

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[–] Marxist_Bros 16 years ago

O man, I was just coming here to post the same thing.

I mean- you never go full retard.

-Everybody! Get this! Did you hear this thing about Scientology? Turns out it's bad...

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[–] tallpall 16 years ago

Sean Pean 2001 I Am Sam went full retard, went home empty handed. Never go full retard man

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[–] PizzaGuyLOL 16 years ago

Ok fine you want a REAL criticism of the movie?

The acting sucked, the camera angles were horrible, the plot makes no sense (there is no way a fully retarded man would get custody of that child, just no way). And yes, SEAN PENN WENT FULL RETARD. You NEVER go full retard, man!

So there. The cinematography sucked, the acting sucked, and the story sucked. You might even say the writers went... FULL RETARD!

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[–] Craytonus_AP 16 years ago

"The acting sucked, the camera angles were horrible, the plot makes no sense (there is no way a fully retarded man would get custody of that child, just no way). And yes, SEAN PENN WENT FULL RETARD. You NEVER go full retard, man!

So there. The cinematography sucked, the acting sucked, and the story sucked. You might even say the writers went... FULL RETARD!"

lol that's a lot of 'tard for just one movie!

p.s. : PC is a type of computer, get off my ass tight-butts

"Life's like a dick; when it get's hard, it takes you quail hunting and shoots you in the back."

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[–] rodsta69 16 years ago

PizzaGuy, if you really think the acting sucked in this movie, then you, sir, have gone full retard.

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[–] johnsbreasts 16 years ago

So what does that make you? Seen as American ancestral history is a big part of Britain. Goddamn retard.

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[–] Perpetual-Rage 16 years ago

Im sorry... in response to the comment about british people by Tav-El I would like to say:

Firstly mate the language you are speaking is ENGLISH therefore by claiming that spelling realise with a 'z' is right you are making yourself sound stupid, english language comes from england wheres england hmmmm in britain who live in britain, oh yeh the british, and you claim we are spelling it wrong

If you are an american claiming that the british are not entirely human you might want to look at your own lineage mate. You have probably deascended from the germans, the italians, the irish and the naive indians.

Which would make you an anal fixated, fat, drunk, red skinned inbred hick.

I could go on but your brain might overload by reading all the ENGLISH.

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[–] im-confused81 16 years ago

and Dustin Hoffman didn't go full retard, remember he was amazing with numbers and ended up winning tons of cash with his brother?

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[–] JackDnCoke 14 years ago

Wow... you just went full retard in a thread warning you of the dangers of going full retard. Congrats tard

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[–] gcarras 12 years ago

Taw-El said on my brithday, Dec.8, 2008, the FOLLOWING:
"The word "realize" is spelled with a "z". Who cares what people in Britain do?"

So do Canadians, AUstralians, the Sotch, the Welsh, and the Irish, bigot.

"They're not really fully human."
Oh? I saw "The Best Esxotic Marigold Hotel" today with my mother and the British there were VERY FULLY human.

"And like the others, I agree, you never go full retard. "

Well, we agree there!

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[–] laura_papicha 16 years ago

Wow, theblur3419, looks like you've learned your lesson from "Tropic Thunder".

Firt, you should learn how to speak out your OWN opinions, and not the opinions of the writers of "Tropic Thunnder".

Second, your post makes NO sense at all and you should rewatch the movie with a more objective way and a new eye. Sean Penn didn't get FULL RETARD AT ALL, simply because the caracters he plays realized on HIS OWN, that he needed help to raise his daughter. Someone fully retard couldn't have realized that.

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[–] somecontagiousthing 16 years ago

guy, chill out. its just a thread for fun. you're like the kid on the playground that nobody wants to play with because you have lice.

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[–] karana_geldar 16 years ago

By the way, anyone bother looking up who was nominated that year to see what sort of competition Penn had?

Training Day - Denzel Washington
A Beautiful Mind - Russell Crowe
Ali - Will Smith
I Am Sam - Sean Penn
In the Bedroom - Tom Wilkinson

And it was Washington that won! IMHO, it should have been Russ had he not gone violent with a phone.

As for Penn not winning an oscar for being "full retard", something that I find rather offensive too, that's complete and utter crap.

Take a look at these films and actors

Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson

What do these actors and films have in common? They ALL were about people who went "full retard" (and Sam was tame compared to Jolie's Lisa) and they all WON!

So the proper question is: why did Denzel Washington win?

Oh, and the Oscars are usually not about the best films, actors etc. Hollywood is VERY political

Obi-Wan is my hero!

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[–] imdrunkrightnow 16 years ago

Jack Nicholson and Anjelina Jolie didn't go full retard. They played crazy people, actually Jack played a guy pretending to be crazy. So 2/3's of your point is invalid. The last third would also crack under intense scrutiny......

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[–] julz454 16 years ago

first of all have you ever seen Training Day?
Denzel Washingtons performance as Alonzo was not only the best of the year but one of the best of the decade so far

Sean Penn, as good as he was wasnt as good as Denzel
Russel Crowe, not as good either, but better than Penn
Will Smith, kind of overated performance, his serious role just struck people by suprise thats why i believe he got nominated

other guys had no chance against Denzel

but think about this, both, Sean Penn & Russel Crowe in their movies were Full Retard & Full Crazy.
So never go full anything, only half. Like Denzel in training day, half normal guy half psychotic killer

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