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fusskins's rating
I am a 23 year old single woman living in Manhattan and I love and relate to this show. All though I am younger and poorer than these women, and I don't get nearly as many men as they do (not to mention the fact that I'm Black!), I think this show has alot of insightful and funny things to say about being a woman in New York.
And to address the sex issue...I am so tired of the Madonna/Whore complex everyone in the country seems to be up to their eyeballs in. Get over it! Women like sex, they have sex, and they have sex with men they don't like. So what? And so what if they continue to look for Mr. Right even when they're with Mr. Right Now. What person man or woman hasn't consistently done something, seemingly at cross-purposes with their intended goal in the name of love, lust, or companionship? Stop with the tired double standards (that includes HBO's ban on full frontal male nudity on the show!)
Let's address the real issue: We all wish we were getting it as much as Samantha--even it's from just ONE person!!!
And to address the sex issue...I am so tired of the Madonna/Whore complex everyone in the country seems to be up to their eyeballs in. Get over it! Women like sex, they have sex, and they have sex with men they don't like. So what? And so what if they continue to look for Mr. Right even when they're with Mr. Right Now. What person man or woman hasn't consistently done something, seemingly at cross-purposes with their intended goal in the name of love, lust, or companionship? Stop with the tired double standards (that includes HBO's ban on full frontal male nudity on the show!)
Let's address the real issue: We all wish we were getting it as much as Samantha--even it's from just ONE person!!!
This movie sucked and that's all there is to it.
I wish people would stop making spoofs/parodies until they learn how to do it right. Message to the Wayans: rent Austin Powers or even Don't Be a Menace...
As another poster said, comedy can't be simply referential. That is an all too disturbing trend in our culture today. People think they are funny just because they can regurgitate something funny that was already said. For comedy to work, it has to turn its subject on its head, play with it, breathe new life into it. This movie was filled with dead-on replays of crap we seen done before...and done better.
The only truly funny scene was the movie theatre scene (which was also the only good scene in Scream 2 by the way) and it resonated even more for me cause I saw it with a mostly black preview audience.
I think one of the major flaws of the picture was the fact that it parodied movies that were supposed to parodies themselves. The only problem with that? The Scream movies sucked too! I didn't think they were all that clever; again, kids referencing something is not the same as making fun of it or making a joke out of it. And I just saw American Pie so I just got the chick slapping the guy "JOKE", if that's what you want to call it. It was the same damn scene.
The thing that pisses me off is I can't tell if people are dumbing down movies for the teen set or if people are really just getting dumber. I know for a fact that the Wayans can be funny; as I said earlier "Don't Be Menace" was great. It didn't recycle earlier jokes, it was clever, it struck a chord, and it didn't have to be nasty as hell to get a laugh out of me.
I hope that teenagers today (by the way I'm 23) aren't stupid enough to let Hollywood keep feeding them this type of crap. How will they ever write a decent comedy film? We will end up with a generation of people who don't know what funny really is; they'll just take their cue from laugh tracks or the idiot sitting next to them in the theater.
BTW - Anna Faris was great!
I wish people would stop making spoofs/parodies until they learn how to do it right. Message to the Wayans: rent Austin Powers or even Don't Be a Menace...
As another poster said, comedy can't be simply referential. That is an all too disturbing trend in our culture today. People think they are funny just because they can regurgitate something funny that was already said. For comedy to work, it has to turn its subject on its head, play with it, breathe new life into it. This movie was filled with dead-on replays of crap we seen done before...and done better.
The only truly funny scene was the movie theatre scene (which was also the only good scene in Scream 2 by the way) and it resonated even more for me cause I saw it with a mostly black preview audience.
I think one of the major flaws of the picture was the fact that it parodied movies that were supposed to parodies themselves. The only problem with that? The Scream movies sucked too! I didn't think they were all that clever; again, kids referencing something is not the same as making fun of it or making a joke out of it. And I just saw American Pie so I just got the chick slapping the guy "JOKE", if that's what you want to call it. It was the same damn scene.
The thing that pisses me off is I can't tell if people are dumbing down movies for the teen set or if people are really just getting dumber. I know for a fact that the Wayans can be funny; as I said earlier "Don't Be Menace" was great. It didn't recycle earlier jokes, it was clever, it struck a chord, and it didn't have to be nasty as hell to get a laugh out of me.
I hope that teenagers today (by the way I'm 23) aren't stupid enough to let Hollywood keep feeding them this type of crap. How will they ever write a decent comedy film? We will end up with a generation of people who don't know what funny really is; they'll just take their cue from laugh tracks or the idiot sitting next to them in the theater.
BTW - Anna Faris was great!