Badly marketed to the american pie generation

(posting year - 2004)

I can't say anything about the marketing since the first I heard of it was in the listings for today on TV. And I can't say that, after viewing the TV version, I share any of your feelings about it, either.

But by the end I was left with the impression that the film-making end of it was at least serviceable. I have no complaints about any of it, from acting to directing, etc. As a matter of fact, I thought the "interview" style of character development made the movie rather smooth.

My problem is with the story and its characters. The story crossed my reality barrier; issues surrounding date-rape are in the news all the time, so I don't see them as entertainment. And I thought each character displayed just enough plain ignorance, bad judgement and/or general stupidity that he/she could just as well get strapped to a rocket and launched into the sun without ever being missed by the rest of Fiction Land.

If I were going to make a guess about marketing I'd say this was targeted toward a segment of society to which I do not belong. I certainly won't watch it again.

How can you say that this was marketed as anti-female?!!
The guys in it hardly get a good image what with Mike and his claerly chauvinistic ways (I also think that the trial part focuses more on Mike being in the wrong when I personally think Sara instigated it, and I'm a girl!), Trent's just plain weird and Shawn is at first totally limp and pathetic, then he is portrayed as using Emma cos he has been rejected. Call me strange but with the exception of Rick, it seems more anti-male to me.
Just a thought.