The Movie 'Good Boys' is Child Abuse and Currently Number One at the Box Office
Yet another example of how our country has lost its mind and any thought of a moral compass.
The movie Good Boys came in at first place at the box office it’s opening weekend, grossing nearly $42 million to date.
Good Boys is a “comedy” meant to be a coming of age moving about three 6th grade (12-year-old) boys who get invited to a middle school “kissing party.”
The official Good Boy website describes the movie this way:
“After being invited to his first kissing party, 12-year-old Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is panicking because he doesn’t know how to kiss. Eager for some pointers, Max and his best friends Thor (Brady Noon, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams, Fox’s The Last Man On Earth) decide to use Max’s dad’s drone – which Max is forbidden to touch – to spy (they think) on a teenage couple making out next door.
But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace it before Max’s dad (Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth) gets home, the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of epically bad decisions involving some accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball, and running from both the cops and terrifying teenage girls (Life of the Party’s Molly Gordon and Ocean’s Eight’s Midori Francis).”
In fact there is nothing funny about this movie. While seemingly intended for an adult audience to trigger some sort of nostalgia and laugh at the antics and drama of middle schoolers, the movie is in fact nothing more than the exploitation of three young actors, Jacob Tremblay (11 while filming), Keith William and Brady Noon as revealed by the official trailer and not one, but two red band trailers.
In the course of this movie these boys steal a purse containing illicit drugs, steal and drink beer, engage with others doing drugs in front of them, play with real sex toys, fondle a sex doll, ride a sex swing, watch an orgy porn scene on a laptop and drop the f-bomb 66 times.
It is perplexing that adults find this funny. Would it be funny if it were their children engaging in these activities?
What about the director, writers and producers of this movie who coached these kids in these scenes? How was it directing children to describe a gangbang porn scene. If he boys actually watched the scene the director and any other adults present would complicit in disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a law in many states carrying different levels of severity (misdemeanor to felony) and punishment.
What about the actor’s parents who chose money over morals, willing to expose these kids to all of these things at the expense of innocence.
If this were a real story, these boys would be in real trouble. Instead, their hearts and minds have been forever altered.
Remarkably, critics describe the movie this way:
“The movie’s charm comes from its ability to conjure up the innocence of the twilight of childhood; its humor arises from the adult perspective of certain not-so-innocent things. Good Boys may not be for everyone but my funny bone was tickled.” James Berardinelli, ReelViews.com
“Yes, it’s a raunchy, edgy, hard-R comedy about a trio of 12-year-old boys who drop the f-bomb every other sentence and get involved in all sorts of predicaments featuring sex toys and beer and molly — but even the most hardcore jokes have a good-natured and even sweet larger context.” Richard Roper, Chicago Sun-Times
“There’s an honest heart beneath the racy laughs. If only sixth-graders themselves could actually see it.” Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
This is just another step in normalizing illicit drug use and carnal pleasure at any price. No sixth grader needs to be exposed to these things. No adult should find this funny. We should be finding this very disturbing.
