Posted on 03/31/2011 2:20:51 PM PDT by patriotgal71
With R-rated romantic comedies featuring such wholesome themes as casual sex among acquaintances, marital infidelity, oral sex jokes, friends with benefits, and random hooking up, the Hollywood assault on America's traditional values is alive and well.
2011 is the unofficial year of the raunchy Hollywood movie in which loyalty, sexual self-control, and marital commitment are fodder for comedy and where the idea of f**k buddies reigns supreme. "Love and Other Drugs," "No Strings Attached," "Hall Pass," and "Friends with Benefits" are four Hollywood creations in late 2010 and early 2011 in which attractive 20-somethings were cast as glorified sluts and man-whores, leading mostly consequence-free lives.
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I’ve been noticing recently, in songs and tv programs, how immature the relationships are. Maybe it’s just that I’m getting older.
“Current” romantic comedies? This is one of the rare occasions where Hollywood may have actually cleaned up its act a little. Anyone remember the teen sex comedies of the late 70s and early-to-mid 80s? Those were much worse than what we get today. At least now you don’t show naked people having sex who are portrayed as being teenagers.
Sadly, they are congruent with the culture. “Hooking up” is no big deal nowadays.
Two college kids were photographed shagging on a rooftop at USC yesterday.
I recall a story last fall about a slut from Duke that created a power point presentation in which she rated the 12 Duke males she’d “hooked up” with during her four years in college.
Feminism’s greatest beneficiary has been men. It’s a lot easier for young men to get laid now than it ever was...and they don’t even have to pay.
With even limited effort, any of these films could have dropped the bathroom humor and gratuitous sex scenes and created a watchable movie. I also shudder at the notion that sex=love that seems to be continually promoted. That is one pretty good reason why so many marriages end early. There can be no love without commitment and no commitment without love.
No Strings is the only one I have reluctantly seen - I have been a fan of Portman, but that relationship is quite strained lately. There was the seed of an interesting love story. Instead, the writers/director/producers/studio focused on the “hooking up” angle along with some way overdone sex montages. Even the marketing of the film was exclusively slanted towards the tawdry.
Both characters had potential for exploration and development - the sibling conflict between Portman’s character and her sister. The father/son dynamic of Kutcher’s character. The challenge of relationships for people early in their careers and in different industries. There were brief moments I liked both characters. Unfortunately, at the end of the film I was simply disappointed that two people can be so vapid
You have to be careful about the movies you see. R-rated means every other word is F***, or it means you have to watch gross violence.
Even in the movie “Knocked Up”, when the mother-to-be even mentioned getting an abortion, everybody was appalled that she would even think of aborting the baby.
I loved The King’s Speech, even though it was rated R. It had a brief time of bad language. I would like to see that movie again.
Yes, that’s a totally different kind of film. Language or violence in itself doesn’t make a movie “bad,” although I avoid graphic violence because I personally don’t want to see it.
I need to get “The King’s Speech” on my Netflix list as soon as it comes out on DVD.
There's a borderline category of guy or dude comedies that may or may not have a romantic component. Think Will Farrell or Seth Rogan or Steve Carell or Jack Black flicks or "The Hangover." Romance isn't the main thing in those movies -- and neither is sex, when you get down to it.
I enjoyed ‘Burlesque’ and thought it was entertaining. We have a $3 theater nearby, which plays movies after they leave the multiplex.
‘Red’ was also good, and I liked ‘Unstoppable’ too.
Is this a Jennifer Anniston thread?
They are known as formula movies so in 2010 we had a choice - 3D bombs or buddy sex movies with no personality. We also are getting ready for “Arthur” with the comic they keep forcing on us Russell Brand. Sad to say Dame Helen Mirren will not save this loser. I have some hope as Hanna and the Lincoln Lawyer look good. We watched Reds, The Town and The Fighter which are really good films. The Next 3 Days dragged on which was surprising. As for the “formula” Jen Anniston, Katherine Heigl, Anne Hathaway and Natalie Portman love outputs - that’s all they are - putting out and not much acting.
I watched “Chicago” on the streaming vid the other night with my 14-year-old. It was cool. He got into the true-crime aspect, but not the dancing so much.
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