sinister teeth…. WTH???
Posted on 05/14/2017 8:54:48 AM PDT by drewh
Hollywood's highest profile feminist gets smacked around by film critics for some surprising reasons.
It isn’t easy being a woke celebrity. You try. And you try. Yet it’s never good enough.
Katy Perry attempts to turn her grrrl power shtick into a political movement and gets popped by a withering op-ed in The Daily Beast.
Will Ferrell does everything humanly possible to support progressive causes. What happens next? he gets dubbed a racist for a comedy co-starring a black superstar.
And now there’s Amy Schumer’s Snatched.
The new comedy stars the uber-progressive comic and Goldie Hawn in a mother-daughter adventure. Schumer’s influence on the film is palpable. She didn’t just famously nix a gun-laden sequence (she’s for gun control in real life). The screenplay also has her fingerprints all over it.
Her character notices, and mocks, how a tribal family in Colombia treats women like second-class citizens. There’s plenty of female empowerment chatter through and through. And it’s the women who must save themselves.
It wasn’t enough, apparently.
Here’s The New York Times “destroying” the film’s lack of insensitivity.
Snatched is one of those movies that subscribes to a dubious homeopathic theory of cultural insensitivity by which the acknowledgment of offensiveness is supposed to prevent anyone from taking offense. The idea is that if you use variations on the phrase “That’s racist!” as a punch line a few times, nothing else you say or do could possibly be racist. Including, say, populating your movie with dark-skinned thugs with funny accents and killing a few of them for cheap laughs.
Ad Feedback TheWrap.com hints at outrage but doesn’t go the full scold:
The trip is a trap, however, and the women are summarily kidnapped, thrown into a dingy cell, and held for ransom by a ruthless sort named Morgado (Oscar Jaenada), who — if we’re keeping tabs on Hollywood’s representation of foreign lands — is the first native character, and one of the only ones, with more than three lines.
The Hollywood Reporter hits harder:
There’s one extremely bizarre gag involving the manual extraction of a tapeworm, and also some unfortunate cultural stereotyping in the form of gun-toting Colombians with long hair and sinister teeth….
[Director Jonathan] Levine … isn’t a deft enough director to overcome the optics of yet another film about white characters finding themselves thanks to their experience in a problem-plagued developing country.
The Village Voice shares its outrage in the headline: Snatched Is Perfect for Mother’s Day if Mom Hates and Fears Other Countries
In a scene that signals the soft racism to follow, Linda mishears the standard English greeting of the Ecuadorian concierge, handing out a complimentary drink, as “whale cum.”
Then, the reviewer goes for the jugular by comparing the film to Monster in Law.
That film traded in casual misogyny, Snatched in offhand xenophobia. Happy Mother’s Day.
Sorry, Schumer. All of your liberal virtue signaling isn’t enough. Your new film simply isn’t woke enough. And today’s film critics, who increasingly resemble Social Justice Warriors, are all too eager to say so.
Who is going to plunk down cash to see a movie with an unfunny double entendre title and featuring a fat, skanky whore and an old, shriveled up whore?!
Goldie Hawn was juicy in her Laugh-In days, but folks that literally was a half century ago. Chuck Schumer’s cousin always has been a fugly mess.
Amy was a one hit wonder...the only way she got in to the club is that she is chucky's niece!
And now there’s Amy Schumer’s Snatch
Gross
Chuck Schumer’s cousin always has been a fugly mess.
yeah, that would be tough crack to nut...
These aren't "developing countries". They are UNDERDEVELOPED countries. And they are backwards because the Left said it was imperialist to promote advancements of technology, industry, and Western civics. The Left was ok with global Communist imperialists poisoning their cultures, however.
LOL!
And as for the second, I will post it momentarily because I am on a laptop and not particularly skilled at cutting and pasting on it . ;)
Dude, I’m eating breakfast.
For any female lead to be enjoyable she has to be hot, or extremely talented. Shumer is neither. She is up there with Roseanne Barr without the looks or class.....
Goldie Hawn has been with Kurt Russel for 30+ years now... she may be a liberal (ie...someone with a different opinion than you) ... but I don’t think she deserves to be called a whore...
Yes, chucky and chunky.
My gosh. First of all Goldie Hawn is most likely a Republican. Kirk and family are at least very pro-2nd amendment among other things. Secondly she’s 70 years old with a man for close to 40 years and you call her a whore? Good grief liberals call conservative woman whores all the time specifically the First Lady at the moment and you support that?????
The trailers on tv showed what the producers thought were the funny scenes but they were not funny. They broadcast different scenes as they tried to get people to think it was funny. If you were to run all the trailers at once it would be most of the movie.
Kurt Russell was in two films that made over $1 billion this year. Goldie Hawn is in a bomb.
In every variation of the Frankenstein tale ever told, the good Doctor ALWAYS seemed surprised when his creation turns on him!
sinister teeth…. WTH???
I love Kurt Russell, but let’s not pretend he’s not showing every bit of his age.
I also like Goldie Hawn.
I like the movie, Overboard, that the two did together.
That's more consistent than most gun-banning celebrities.
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