Utah Movie Theater In Trouble For Showing ‘Deadpool’ Because Of All The Nudity

Utah’s liquor control authority is threatening to pull a movie theater’s liquor license because they showed the movie Deadpool while also serving alcohol. Yes, this is the year 2016. Yes, this is an actual real thing that’s happening.

Brewvies Cinema Pub, the theater in question, also faces a potential fine of somewhere between $1,000 to $25,000…for showing Deadpool.

According to the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has a law that prohibits the showing of nudity, sex acts and alcohol all in one location. Yes, we’re still in the year 2016.

The theater is threatening to sue stating on grounds that the law is unconstitutional. (And stupid.)

“This isn’t supposed to be the Taliban,” Brewvies lawyer Rocky Anderson told FOX 13 on Monday. “This is supposed to be a state agency!”

Apparently the theater got “busted” when two undercover cops attended a screening of the film. Seems like a wise use of police and tax dollars, no?

Check out the report the cops gave and try not to laugh…

“The main character (male) in the film is shown numerous times engaging in acts or simulated acts of sexual intercourse with the female counterpart during a holiday themed sex-montage,” Agent Bradley Bullock wrote, detailing the sex acts.

“An example of this is during ‘International Women’s Day’ Vanessa looks to be sodomizing Wade in their bed,” Agent Sean Cannon wrote in a supplemental report. “Later in the movie, Wade gets into a fight with another character – Ajax played by Ed Skrein. During the fight, Wade’s clothing comes off. Wade shows full frontal nudity during the fight scene.”

The agents wrote they also observed a fully nude stripper in another scene in the movie.

Agent Cannon wrote in the report he’d seen the movie twice before, so he knew Brewvies had not altered the film to obscure the nudity or sex acts.

So, he’s seen the movie three times now and yet there’s a problem? This is all so Twilight Zone-style bizarre.

Brewvies lawyer Rocky Anderson told FOX 13 it was “‘laughable’ that the DABC would send undercover agents to buy beer and watch a movie on taxpayer dollars.”

So I wasn’t crazy for thinking that. Thanks, Rocky. Good luck in your lawsuit.

Now watch “A Look Back At The Curious Rise Of Deadpool” (No, not that kind of rise, Utah. Sheesh.)


[FOX 13]

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