Reason #87858 that the world still needs Buffy The Vampire Slayer
There are two new Uwe Boll films coming out: one is a documentary on Auschwitz and the other? I am not making this up: “a film about an overweight half-vampire who takes her hungry vengeance out on Hitler and his band of Nazis.”
You’ll love the title.
Without further delay, I give you the official trailer for Blubberella.
(Safe for work but probably not safe for potential body image triggers)
Io9 called it “ridiculously offensive fatsploitation” and judging from its tagline (“She will kick major ass – with her major ass”) it’s hard to disagree.
In case you’re wondering who the cute-as-sin actor is in the title role, it’s Lindsay Hollister who you may remember from Joan of Arcaia and the dance scene in Get Smart
It’s important to note that she is still listing the film on her resume as “Untitled Spoof Movie”. She had this to say in an interview over on Big Fat Blog:
What challenges have you faced in your career due to your size?
I am definitely bigger than a size 10 and have lost out on several big parts because I’ve been too fat to play the “fat woman”. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful. My career began because of my size (playing an overweight student on Boston Public), and I’ve been able to play some amazing roles because I am a character actress. But I’ve also hit a lot of walls because compared to the average size of an actress in Hollywood (size 0/2), I’m gigantic! It’s a double edge sword and I think that networks/producers just don’t want to take the chance on me. Like casting me as a love interest for example. Again, they play it safe with an actress who is a size 10 or 12. It’s frustrating because I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want to shake it up a little bit. Make a statement. I think people would watch. And love it!
Blubberella is definitely a statement, Lindsay. As is that hot corset number. I’m going to focus on that instead of the food jokes, m’kay?
But this brings about another question: Boll is claiming to have the first supersize superhero (which, no). I somehow doubt that Blubberella will represent the hope of the fatosphere quite the same as the X-Men’s Storm or John Stewart from the Green Lantern are role models as black superheroes. In fact, I think if I had to pick from the options offered, I’d exchange Blubberella for Fat Momma, doughnuts and all.
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*sigh*
That could have been SO FUCKING AWESOME if they didn’t throw in all the “OMG FAT PEOPLE EAT SO MUCH!!!” bullshit in there.
shame.
*groan*
This looks awful. I really, really want there to be fat superheroes and fat love interests, but this? This is worse than being ignored.
What makes me the most angry about this is that it could have been so cool…
Wow, so basically all he did was take the real plot from Blood Rayne ( half vampire who goes after nazis) but decided it would be soo much cool with fat jokes.. WHY oh WHY is this horrible little man still allowed to make movies….
Best fat superhero ever: Amanda Waller from DC comics (political genius, machivellian schemer, only person who scares Batman). She’s going to be in the Green Lantern movie, played by Angela Bassett. For force of personality, Bassett is a great choice, but I hope they bulk her up.
I love Fat Momma lol. but yeah although I kind of love the title of this movie and how amazing the actress looks in it, everything else just makes me shake my head and say uh nooo. It looks like the type of movie that will go straight to video and hopefully no one will give it the time of day.
I actually thought that preview was pretty funny. Isn’t it possible that they’re poking fun at the idea that fat women eat massive amounts of food all the time? And that we want to dominate the world, especially men. I mean it’s so over the top. I don’t know anything about the director, so maybe it’s not. If it is parodying our culture I think it could be pretty awesome. Give me your sandwich! Yells the crazy fat vampire. That’s pretty funny.
I’m a bit torn here,it does look like an amusing film. I think Uwe is making fun of the people who say, “Well there were no fat people in the concentration camps, were there?”
However he did over do it in stereotyping the main character, maybe he was trying to go for a cheap B-Movie atmosphere for the film. The thingis this filmhas 2 things going for it in my opinion:
1. A fat girl kicking ass
2. Nazis being ridiculed and humiliated, which as someone Jewish, I absolutely love seeing scum like Hitler being portrayed as the hysterical nut case he was.
So I’m kind of 50/50 here. Maybe a goodcompromise would be to order it from Netflix. i agree with the other Jackie above me, I think they’re making more fun of the fat haters than fat people.
I just found this while searching Uwe Boll on Google:
http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/
It’s an online petition to have him be made to stop film making, thought you might be interested.
Yes, the title is a little off-putting BUT…the idea of an oomphy blonde uber-frau
whacking away at the bad guys while chomping on a wurst is hysterical. Also, the actress looks like she’s having a ball doing it — all I’ve ever seen her do is really serious stuff.
Hey – it’s what the world needs now: a big, ballsy blonde bashing baddies! The picture won’t make twelve cents but it shows somebody’s being creative, rather than saying “all parts for fat actresses should show them as slovenly, depressed lumps”.
I dunno, I kinda love that trailer. I hate Uwe Boll .. like really hate him so when you said it was his film I was prepared for all kinds of terrible. But I actually smiled and laughed at few parts. I think what Carol said is partly why.. because she looks like she is having an obscene amount of fun! I don’t know, there is something in my head I want to say about having a sense of humor and being able to laugh at yourself and stuff, but I can’t quite figure out how to put it in the proper words. All I will say though is uuhhhh.. hot fracking HOT is that actress? She could take my sandwich any day!
I SO want this movie to be made without the fat = gluttonous pig stereotypes. It could be done so awesome, but why take it down a road that has been done so many times before??
I dream of being thin. I’m a size 24 and seriously thinking of bariatric surgery. I’m tired of being single and being fat and proud just doesn’t cut it anymore. Sorry, girls, but I have to face reality. In the black community, the pickings are slim and there are very few white guys that I know of that are open to interracial dating. Maybe it’s time for you to give a reality check to your readers instead of feeding them fluff day after day. I wish I was smaller!
First of all, can we PLEASE leave the “black community” out of this? I’m so tired of people making black people out to be the automatic fat lovers. There ARE black men out there who do not like fat women.
Second, just because you feel that you cannot find someone who loves you because you are fat does not mean that everyone else on this site is denying reality. The fact that you say we are just being fed “fluff” tells me you’re subscribing to the Fantasy of Being Thin. Your reality is not mine, and I’d appreciate it if you kept yours to yourself.
I believe that the ability to get a partner has less to do with your size and more to do with your attitude. I weigh close to 300lbs, I am a size 24-26, there is no denying I am fat. However, I have a fantastic partner at the moment and the longest I have ever been single is a year and a half and that was because I chose to be. Now I am not saying my life is your life and that you should expect to have my experience at all. But I am saying that maybe you are not single because you are fat. Blaming the fat is an easy scapegoat for a lot of people, especially women, to explain why they can’t do this or that. While you are getting sick of being fed fluff and being single, I am getting sick of women blaming their body size when they are not getting what they want out of life.
I’m so very conflicted with this. I think parts of it looked genuinely funny, but then all the “OMG! She just eats so much! Just watch her do it!” parts came up and I sighed and died inside. The actresse is really hot though, especially in that corset. :D
I’m inwardly fearing that there will be the ‘oh she’s just so disgusting because she’s fat, so therefore she’s ugly!’ type joke or whatnot in there.
But it is suppossed to be a spoof, so….*shrugs* maybe I should lighten up. It’s just tiring seeing the same fat jokes over and over. Even if there is the possibility that it’s such a spoof they’re a subversion of the stereotypes we know.
And holy schniz! I remember Fat Momma!!! I miss that show so much! I wish they would have brought it back.
I believe that the ability to get a partner has less to do with your size and more to do with your attitude. I weigh close to 300lbs, I am a size 24-26, there is no denying I am fat. However, I have a fantastic partner at the moment and the longest I have ever been single is a year and a half and that was because I chose to be. Now I am not saying my life is your life and that you should expect to have my experience at all. But I am saying that maybe you are not single because you are fat. Blaming the fat is an easy scapegoat for a lot of people, especially women, to explain why they can’t do this or that. While you are getting sick of being fed fluff and being single, I am getting sick of women blaming their body size when they are not getting what they want out of life.
Wow that was… strange, odd, interesting and disturbing.
But I have to disagree that the world needs more Buffy only because the freakin’ Joss-less, BTVS-TV-cast-less, BTVS-or-Angel-TV-writer-less Buffy redo that is in the works sounds like a horrible idea.
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