Posted on 03/27/2015 12:04:40 PM PDT by drewh
Go to Starbucks and order a “tall blonde, black” and engage your barista in a serious conversation about race. Once you’re feeling adequately entitled, head over to your local movie theater, and go see Get Hard, the new comedy out Mar. 27 featuring Will Farrell and Kevin Hart–preferably after midnight, when the audience will be (ahem) more inclined to talk back to the screen. And laugh the P.C. police away.
Get Hard is a genuinely funny movie. It pokes fun, mercilessly, at America’s racial politics–which is precisely why the left is telling itself to hate the film. At the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, one audience member–evidently in need of a humor transplant–arose during the Q&A to offer the enlightened opinion that “This film seems racist.”
Really? And in related news, a teacher in L.A. was suspended for using the “n-word” in appropriate historical context. We’ve come that far.
There is nothing racist about the film–though it satirizes racial stereotypes, as well as the absurd racial and class themes of contemporary politics.
The story is about a white fund manager (Ferrell) who is sentenced to maximum security prison for fraud, and asks the car wash attendant (Hart), whom he assumes has already been to prison, to help him prepare. His fear is being sexually assaulted in prison–which leads, yes, to some edgy gay humor.
For daring to tackle these politically-charged themes, debut director Ethan Cohen has, ridiculously, fallen under a cloud of suspicion. The Associated Press notes that Cohen co-wrote Tropic Thunder–“a film that memorably flirted with racially sensitive territory.”
Cohen’s film also includes a (funny) joke that compares a Compton street gangster to a “young Ronald Reagan.” If I should have been offended, as a conservative, I forgot to notice. I just laughed.
You will, too.
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Will Ferrell is about as funny as a root canal.
THANK YOU!
I give the root canal a slight edge here..
I don’t understand why he is so popular. Not funny at all to me.
He gets into movies with a good supporting cast that carry the films.
he dooes a pretty mean Robert Goulet... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duOOkm15-lc
thew only reason that will ferell isn’t the worst actor on the planet is because seth rogen isn’t dead.
Black sheep, Tommy boy, and The Nutty Professor, good god I almost died watching those.
Tropic Thunder - dreadful film.
The Robert Downey character was the only entertaining thing in it.
The last funny movie that took a laugh at racism was Blazing Saddles.
That movie could/would never be made today.
And I doubt Get Hard will be anything but a weak non-funny “whites are stupid” flick destined for the trash heap.
That was the funniest part! When he was arguing with the other brother, Great!
And, I thought I was the only one that thought that.
Even watching shows like “In Living Color”, there’s a lot of stuff on those shows that could never be made today.
> Will Ferrell is about as funny as a root canal.
The man is just weird. He’s like a cross between a comedian and a serial killer. If you’ve watched any of his interviews you’ll know rxactly what I’m talking about.
He is not in any of those movies...
Are you thinking of the late Chris Farley?
I give the root canal a slight edge here..
It’s a tough choice, root canal, toenail extraction
or Farrell movie. I have a bad tooth and an ingrown
toenail, at least afterwards some good will come of it.
I can see the confusion. A fat guy who has been dead for 18 years vs. Will Ferrell...
I remember In Living Color. Back in the late 80’s. Gave Jim Carrey his start.
The Wayans brothers did some funny stuff.
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