America's Sickness
Jul. 17th, 2007 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaOh goodie. Chuck and Larry is opening this weekend. I will be ECSTATIC to quit seeing commercials for this fucking piece of garbage.
If you haven't heard of it, be happy. Basically the premise is that gays get special rights that hard-working blue collar straight men aren't afforded so two homophobic jackasses pretend to be gay in order to get some benefits deal. Naturally of course, a very attractive woman falls madly in love with one of these mono-browed cretins because a disgusting schlub prancing around with a fake lisp is oh-so-sexy.
But you know the part that REALLY pisses me off about this one? It's a fucking PG-13 rating. HORRAY FOR AMERICA!!!!! If this film were about two guys who actually loved each other, it'd automatically get an R-rating dead minimum. THIS IS OUR SICK TWISTED SHITTY AMERICAN VALUES.
Hate and bigotry are for kids! YAY AMERICA! And you wonder why we breed more serial killers than any other nation on the planet.
If you haven't heard of it, be happy. Basically the premise is that gays get special rights that hard-working blue collar straight men aren't afforded so two homophobic jackasses pretend to be gay in order to get some benefits deal. Naturally of course, a very attractive woman falls madly in love with one of these mono-browed cretins because a disgusting schlub prancing around with a fake lisp is oh-so-sexy.
But you know the part that REALLY pisses me off about this one? It's a fucking PG-13 rating. HORRAY FOR AMERICA!!!!! If this film were about two guys who actually loved each other, it'd automatically get an R-rating dead minimum. THIS IS OUR SICK TWISTED SHITTY AMERICAN VALUES.
Hate and bigotry are for kids! YAY AMERICA! And you wonder why we breed more serial killers than any other nation on the planet.
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Date: 2007-07-18 07:10 pm (UTC)What's especially poignant is that the plot makes no sense because of current American attitudes. So I suppose maybe it should be classified as a science fiction comedy.
And oy, there's the expected heterosexual thread. And the expected moment at the end about kids, faggots are just people too. I suppose that this is all so imminently predictable and forgettable maybe makes up for the subject matter being lame as fuck. But it makes me almost as bothered about lame movies as it does about the dismissive attitude towards any minority.
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