Maybe Bernie Mac’s character saw Dude, Where’s My Car?. I wouldn’t let my daughter date that dipshit Ashton Kutcher either.
She DID see the movie, and said it was your basic fish-out-of-water romantic comedy. Nothing shocking or original, just a fun spring break matinee. No big whoop.
Sorry about the coding. Dyslexic today, apparently.
I wasn’t planning to see this movie because it looks stupid. If the trailers for a comedy (presumably being the highlights) don’t make me laugh, then screw it.
I frankly don’t give a fuck about the alleged racism.
Thanks.
And if anything, the only stereotype that’s being played out in that joke is the cliche of blacks having financial problems and the ever-present need to be on the look out for the creditor/repo man types. But of course that will slip by the Misperceived Double-Standard Offenderati in their haste to find something that personally insults them.
On that note, I’ll take your Bringin’ Down the House and raise it a Bullworth and Baps. Read em and weep, baby.
From reading parts of this thread, I get the impression that a bunch of people in it are over-sensitive PC dogmatists.
I have met rap listenin, fried chicken eatin’, nappy headed, watermelon lovin’, fake Gold wearin’, thug wanna bes in my life. So what? Making a joke about a stereotype isn’t inherently wrong. It’s applying that stereotype as a universal trait that is MISGUIDED.
Fuck it, I love offensive jokes. I think that this movie just looks really fucking stupid, in the grand tradition of Ben Stiller movies, and I don’t intend to see it, but that’s the most offensive thing about it. Nearly every Hollywood schlock comedy is based on stereotypes of some suburban archetype that apparently a large portion of the populace can identify with. The only reason it bothers people is because this one mixes race.
I’m sorry if 7 figure salary making Bernie Mac is being oppressed by negative stereotypes. One day he’ll throw off the yoke of his oppression, but until then, I don’t think we should deny him his meager wages.
The crime is wasting celluloid more than anything.
Racism will be less of an issue, when people wake up and realize it’s already less of an issue.*
Erek
*Less is not a synonym for Non
I think the OP is crying tears over Ashton Kucher’s opression, not Bernies’s.
monstro, so much of humor is in characterization, but some of it can get right mean-spirited. (I didn’t see Bringing Down the House, but I am suspicious.) If that were a TV series, how would it compare with The Beverly Hillbillies or The Dukes of Hazzard?
Even PBS is guilty. Just once I would like to see the South mentioned without fiddle music in the background. Geez Louise!
Anyway, I’m not afraid of art either – even when it’s pitiful.
Chris Rock was right - white people are apparently really, really fucking uptight. Get a hold of yourselves, guys. Funny how the Offenderati nowadays are always worried about the horrible injustices perpetrated upon white men.
Exactly. It’s tough not to read some of these complaints as anything other than “We have to be all careful not to say anything to offend black people, but they’re perfectly entitled to make fun of us all they want! Not fair!” It’s begrudging tolerance instead of truly seeing it as a non-issue. It’s like complaining about “reverse racism;” it’s technically correct but missing the point. There’s no such thing as “reverse racism,” it’s all the same thing.
I haven’t seen the movie, and don’t intend to, but based on the ads, I’m actually encouraged by it. The original was ostensibly a comedy, but only in that it skewered Spencer Tracy’s character for being an outspoken progressive/liberal who was faced with his own racism – it was way too preachy and filled with long speeches about tolerance and the measure of a man to be actually funny. I like it that Guess Who looks to be a broad comedy with B-list actors instead of Important Stars the calibre of Tracy & Hepburn & Poitier. It means that most of us are finally ready to laugh at stereotypes and how stupid they are, instead of having to preach about how they’re wrong and evil, and pick them apart like scientists in lab coats.
Yeah, where they speak that crazy moon language!
Stop being such a lunaphobe, Sol!
Ahh yes, poor Ashton Kutcher, I felt so bad for him when he played that Stereotypical dumb white guy on “That 70s Show”, that made him a movie star. What a horrible way to be forced to make your fame and fortune.
But that was nothing compared to putting him into the role of a stereotypical dumb white guy in a movie with a BLACK PERSON IN IT!
That’s just beyond the pale! :smack:
Erek