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The most 'liberal' movie I have seen in a while

posted 12 years ago by whimsicg
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1. Blast white people -- check
2. Make the antagonist white -- check
3. Have minority outshine white person -- check
4. Show more respect towards prostitute than conservative white woman -- check.

Is this movie funny? Meh. It has it's moments. Indie humor... it's not laugh out loud funny, it's smug funny.

Cinematography, lighting, score, directing.... meh....

The best actress in the movie is that gorgeous young black girl. I have a feeling she will go far in the industry. Very talented young woman. Jennifer Garner was pretty decent too. Hugh Jackman... meh. That guy who played the sex offender on Curb Your Enthusiasm... meh. The plot, buildup and climax.... meh.

Meh.

4/10

[–] Johan1989 12 years ago

The little girl was terrible. There was some very forced unnatural acting choices by her, IMO.

[–] fiji5555 12 years ago

The girl was great. She acted the part as it was written and how the director wanted, otherwise it would have been done differently.

[–] curl-6 12 years ago

"Show more respect towards prostitute than conservative white woman"

I'd show more respect for someone sexy who wasn't afraid to use this trait to her advantage than someone trying to push archaic policies on others.

[–] fiji5555 12 years ago

1.Show just how silly SOME white people can be.
The teacher and white kids in her class were fine. Destiny's white parents were fine. The stripper ends up being fine.I would say 50% or more of the white people were portrayed in a favorable manner.Rednecks and ignorant white people do seem abundant in real life.

2 Make the idiot white
Well what's wrong with that?

3.Destiny happens to have more talent and heart than the idiot white person
Yeah so?

4.Show both the prostitute and the idiot white woman as having faults that are not evident to themselves but the prostitute learns more in the end. I wasn't aware that conservative white women deserve more respect than anyone else.

Is this movie funny? HELL YEAH!!! I laughed out loud a LOT.

[–] whimsicg 12 years ago

I wish I had your sense of humor because I love comedies and movies with sarcastic and cynical humor but barely smiled through this one.

Keep on defending this movie as though your life depends on it though, it's your loss.

[–] fiji5555 12 years ago

Like my life depended on it? Grow up and stop being so whiny.

[–] whimsicg 12 years ago

Dude, you're the whiner here in case you haven't noticed :/

[–] DaliParton 12 years ago

Repeatedly writing "meh" doesn't make a thread-starting post any less whiny.
Especially one that practically drips with the pathos of lost unearned privilege.

[–] whimsicg 12 years ago

Calm down, petulant teenager.

[–] DaliParton 12 years ago

Calm down, petulant teenager.

Meh.

[–] priestly-nichols 12 years ago

You are getting quite defensive over this entire thing. Someone simply responded to your post and with that ONE reply, they are "defending this movie as if their life depended on it"? Riiight...

Then you resort to name calling? I wouldn't say you are whiny, but you seem to be taking this very personally for some reason...

[–] bvsfan 12 years ago

I thought the movie was pretty much on point in terms of some of the narrow views that Jennifer Garner's character displayed.

[–] acb132 12 years ago

It got a lot of laughs in the theater when I saw it.

[–] priestly-nichols 12 years ago

but the prostitute learns more in the end.

How do you figure? Laura learned that she has more in her life than just butter carving and went as far as running for governor. By the end of the movie, Brooke learned nothing; throughout the movie she just wanted to beat Laura, so when her only hope of doing that was supporting Destiny, she supported Destiny. Then in the end she got what she wanted, then went back to stripping. She learned almost nothing.

I wasn't aware that conservative white women deserve more respect than anyone else.

Of course they don't deserve more respect, but they also don't deserve to be disrespected just because they are conservative white women. She had a point in her little "what I should have said" flash away. Is it her fault she was born a white woman? Should she be punished now for having a good life and not being disenfranchised? And she was right that Destiny was playing the race card; not with her sculpture, with her speech. Her entire speech was pandering. Granted I like Destiny's sculpture better, I totally understand Laura's irritation.

Sometimes it seems like the nation's mentality is that if you were born to privilege or even if you lived an easy, comfortable life, you should be ashamed of that for some reason, while poor, less-fortunate people are put on a pedestal for some reason.

[–] jedl24 12 years ago

preistly-nichols,
Good commentary....... thoughtful. Many people I know and interact with, have
said similar things in general.

[–] sydnee_man 11 years ago

I thought it was very funny and cute! I gave it an 8. :-) Some people just don't get it.

I think Ms. Pickler was made out to be the bad person because she took something so unimportant and made it her whole life - which in and of itself is silly. But she was able to turn that passion into something that was more worthy of her talents.

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[–] lewiskendell 12 years ago

Check out God Bless America, it's a thousand times more liberal than this. I liked Butter, but I don't really get offended at having my beliefs or values poked fun at or criticized (especially in comedies; I mean, mockery is one of the foundations of the genre). I understand that some people are more sensitive about these things, but I guess I just don't get why they care.

[–] Jimbo_BSD 12 years ago

I love that conservatives have become such whiny little babies lately. It amuses me.

[–] garriotts 12 years ago

I am a liberal (sort of), but I too found the liberal slant in this movie obnoxious, mostly because that aspect felt stale and forced. Thought the movie wasn't as clever as it wanted to be and was pretty average overall.

"I don't consider myself outside of anything. I just consider myself not around."

[–] ChristmasStan 12 years ago

If you don't like it then eat some pork grinds and make your own movie

[–] MTulliver 12 years ago

You're kidding, right?
This has got to be one of the shallowest "reviews" of a movie I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

And this?!

"4. Show more respect towards prostitute than conservative white woman -- check. "

Because god forbid someone show respect to a prostitute, right?

Gain some perspective.