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the thing about this movie...........

posted 21 years ago by TechComm
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what i absolutely hated, is that, all teh racist stuff aside, Martin Lawrence was a complete dick in this movie. Just a complete dick. And then, when they are sitting on the stakeout thing, and Steve Zahn tells him what had happened, etc. etc., and then lawrence says, so, your partner got killed, you went to prison, you gf left, etc. and then he says, oh, well, welcome to the life of a black man - like, what the hell man. Martin Lawrence just took it too far in this movie. And, honestly, if it was the other way around, and some white guy made life hell for a black guy, everyone would be up in arms!! it pisses me off completely. Like, I laughed twice in this movie, once when Steve Zahn kept punching out the guards, and the videotape thing was somewhat laughable. Martin Lawrence should not be the hero of this movie, hell, Steve Zahn didnt even make the front cover of the movie box!! And Martin Lawrence just looks like a fag on the front, oh yeah, your so cool. Fightin the system, yeah man. I just, god, I cant get over it. And, of course the bad guy has to have bleach blond hair.......incredible. And when he said, I dont advocate interracial relationships, but not when the guy is black. LIke, shut the hell up. THis movie was complete racist garbage.

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That aside, I think this movie MUST'VE been making fun of like action type movies, because there was so much stuff in there that was soooo cheesy that I cant imagine how people would act like that unless they were making fun of something. Example, the number of times Steve Zahn yells 'YA!' when hes on the excavator at the end, and the raising up of Martin Lawrence at the end on the cable was enough to make you puke........just....cheesy.

what do you guys think?

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[–] TechComm 21 years ago

True man, soooooooooooooooo true........

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[–] staticcharged 21 years ago

I am truly surprised that everyone got mad about Lawrence's character's racist comments. Even if your brains are so underdeveloped that you cannot detect when even the most common conventions of society are used not-so-subtley to demonstrate just how ridiculous the "'cause I'm a black man?" comments can get, everyone should realize that Lawrence didn't write this movie.

I sincerely hope no one dies from an aneurism developed after reading this revelation.

Also, racism isn't illegal. If the filmmakers wanted to add a couple dozen frames that had nothing but the words "Really, we freaking hate those crackers," it wouldn't have magically become "illegal."

[–] Full_Blooded_Italian 21 years ago

Well if a white character did what martin did to a black, I'm sure you wouldn't be surprised of the racial comlaints that would occur, racism isn't a one way street.

[–] staticcharged 21 years ago

Well if a white character did what martin did to a black, I'm sure you wouldn't be surprised of the racial comlaints that would occur

You're right, I would expect people to complain, but I would not say the complaints would be justified; in fact, I'd be saying those making the complaints are acting stupidly.

racism isn't a one way street.

Yes, I know. There's also no such thing as "reverse racism," in either sense (a. saying something like "Mexicans are cool," i.e. "good" discrimination rather than "bad" discrimination or b. the belief that discrimination towards minority groups is "racism" while discrimination towards whites is "reverse racism".). Racism is racism.

What people don't seem to grasp is that, yes, the filmmakers were making fun of someone, but it wasn't whites. They were making fun of those who are not simply oversensitive to these issues, because oversensitivity isn't really so horrific, rather, they were making fun of those who accuse others of having non-existent problems with people [ex. Earl persistently accusing Hank of having a problem with blacks, which wasn't true, Hank's ex-girlfriend was black.]

So, what the writers were trying to say is that, hey, this "'cause I'm black?!" thing can (and does) get ridiculous.

[–] stupify 20 years ago

lol, yes i found this movie so annoying...not really cause of the white jokes, just cause they weren't funny, and it was suppost to be a comedy wasn't it?
Lawrence and the writers of the movie just went bloody over board with the whole "is it cause im black" crap whenever zahn would ask him if he knew how to hotwire a car etc... it was like "omfg, stfu you f*cking abortion" grow a brain.
And the thing is, before seeing this movie i thought martin Lawrence was funny as cause he didn't have to use white jokes every 5 seconds to try and be funny, unlike chris rock etc. I just hope chris tucker doesn't turn down the same path as lawrence and rock, otherwise i wont bother wasting my money watching black comedies.