well yeah the setup itself is insanely mysognystic. but it's okay cuz Jake is so DREAMY
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, he totally did which is completely fucked up but something I never really noticed the 3000 times I watched this when I was younger. Messed up.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
TBF Michael Schoeffling was incredibly handsome.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Which is, of course, not to say it was OK just that it's a shame that he only ever made like 3 movies.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Mr. Wang from Caddyshack: a relatively benign racist caricature?
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/5035/mrwangr.jpg
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6002/boatdude.jpg
^ compared to this dude, at least.
― hooked on ebonics (Pillbox), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
I watched stupid Vision Quest just for him and the Madonna song, I didn't really notice the fucked up things his character did in 16 candles until much later. xp
― Nicole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
does Wang even get any lines in Caddyshack?
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
x-post -
I just saw that on IMDB! I watched Vision Quest for Matthew Modine (<3 <3) and the awesome training montages. I don't even remember MS being in it!
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
But MS is definitely the reason I have seen Mermaids more than any one person ever should although I think maybe Mermaids was actually an OK movie? Again that's another that I haven't seen in at least 10 years so I could be wrong.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
you're also allowed to dislike it because of the whole rape thing fyi
uhhhh
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
He had a mohawk, it was awesome. xxp
I remember loving Mermaids, but I haven't seen it since it came out and don't even really remember the plot?
― Nicole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Here you go, ladies:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LikzyndVj-g/S2RthhcDK0I/AAAAAAABV-E/1tcNFHK0jBs/s400/eeeee.jpg
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Guys do we really want to encourage frogbs to expound more on the relative "correctness" or rape scens in movies?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
p sure its implied that he knows no english. he makes up for it w/ toothy grins & the perpetual auto-shutter of his Nikon.
― hooked on ebonics (Pillbox), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - Basically Winona Ryder loves him and lusts after him the whole movie until finally they do it in a bell tower while her sister (a very young C. Ricci) nearly drowns and then Cher calls her a whore but then they all dance around the kitchen to a good song and I think it works out OK. Or something like that.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
x-posts - damn!
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
re: breakfast club vs. sixteen candlestotal assimilationist bullshit in breakfast club with the ally sheedy makeover. also anthony michael hall ends up doing all their homework.vs.the donger triumphs while maintaining his essential donger-ness. anthony michael hall elopes with the prom queen.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
can someone remind me what the rape scene in 40 Year Old Virgin was, or at least admit that they got two separate movies mixed up
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
no rape scene, but the whole thing about trying to find a girl drunk enough to fuck and then driving home with drunk leslie mann with intent to fuck is as rapey as it gets
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
really- as rapey as it gets?
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah tbh when you kind of chastised me for not calling that out I assumed I had missed a big chunk of the movie
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
xp isn't that that Jack Nicholson/Helen Hunt joint?
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure I can think of some rapier scenarios
also the suggestion that Carrell's character would have even gone through with it is a bit suspect imho
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
if we wanna talk rapey/mysogyny movies featuring Jack Nicholson, look no further than Art Garfunkel's star turn opposite him in Carnal Knowledge
rapier wit
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
how is "targeting mega-drunk girls for sex" not mega-date rape
and the movie portrays it like normal acceptable male behavior which is only deterred because of a comical amount of vomit. even if carrell's character wouldn't have gone through with it (which i believe) it still normalizes date rape through the other three characters that were pushing him to do it. i can believe that apatow and co were following the status quo of not knowing that date rape doesn't always involve roofies, but that doesn't make it any better
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Flower Drum Song was praised for being super progressive in the 60's (mainly because of an almost all Asian cast) but it feels so awkward and weird watching it now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvLUKmprbSU
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
zachylon you are a) criticizing a movie for an event which does not happen and b) totally ignoring the fact that the movie makes the three other men pushing the "tackle drunk bitches" angle look like fools, liars, and fuckups
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
simply because a movie depicts a date-rape scenario /= endorsement of date rape
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
every single one of those three other guys gets a scene where they confess they are afraid of women, inexperienced with them, psychotic in their relationships with them, etc.
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
whereas 40 Days and 40 Nights implies that it's kind of the guy's fault if he gets raped
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
i am criticizing it for an event which DOES happen, which is "treat targeting drunk girls at bars as acceptable behavior"
at no point in the film, that i can remember anyway, does anyone actually mention that that goal in itself is fucked up
this is the same argument people were using to defend observe and report: seth rogen's character is a big doofus, therefore the rape scene = funny and insightful. ALL male apatow characters are ridiculous manchildren, that does not mean his films are exempt from this line of criticism
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
uh the MAIN CHARACTER
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
seriously do you even watch movies
Observe and Report is a good movie, Rogen's character is way beyond doofus (he's a fucking psycho!) and I can't believe anyone thinks a movie depicting something = an endorsement of said action in this day and age
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
you're talking about these characters as if the majority of audiences watching them left the theater thinking "man, what sad, unfortunate cases!" rather than "FUNNY GUYS ARE SO FUNNY WISH MY FRIENDS WERE LIKE THEM"
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
man frogbs, let me guess, you were the kid in high school that would always be like, "but what about if a woman rapes a man??!? it can happen!"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
what if I left thinking, "FUNNY GUYS ARE SO FUNNY, thank god they are fictional characters because I would hate to know them irl"?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
long duk dong
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
when does carrell say it's fucked up? did i forget? or are you just referring to the fact that he got puked on instead? i don't think we were supposed to read that as him suddenly having a moral change of heart. it was "i got puked on and i don't want to have sex anymore."
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
are you serious
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
jon, i enjoyed 40 yo virgin and found the characters funny, but it is possible to do that and also accept that it had a fucked up scene
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
really did not expect this to be so controversial, i'm just going to stop posting about things forever because jesus
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
thx
― bomb.gif (dan m), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Uhhh, where am I implying this? I'm saying the same thing that I say in other threads, that if the roles were reversed and the result winds up being something totally fucked up, then the idea is probably not a good one in the first place
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
Observe and report was not actually that good. I have never seen 40 yo v in it's entirety but - wait - is this covo really still happening?
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
What did you guys think about the woman-on-man rape in Get Him to the Greek, not to mention the anal violation by Russell Brand's character? (Hill's character's friends actually laugh when he tells them "I was just raped".)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
a rape in cinema thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Also 16 Candles is all kinds of fucked up. Before the jock passes off his gf to AMH's character, doesn't he actually say something like "--- is upstairs passed out right now. I could have my way with her six different ways if I wanted."
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, yeah, I guess we deviated from the original point. I hated Borat too?