" Weird to think that sh*t was just played off as mirthful in the mid-2000s , and we all just went along with it . "
Recently, Reddit usermnightshamalama2askedinr/moviecritic, “What movies from the 2000s have already aged poorly?” Well, I’m thinking pretty much all of them, but here are the ones people truly cannot bring themselves to appreciate anymore.
1.“40 Days and 40 Nights.A woman wins a bet with his friends that her ex-boyfriend can’t go through the titular amount of days without sex by raping him. She collects the winnings and struts off into the night. Meanwhile, the male rape victim ends up begging for his new girlfriend’s forgiveness for ‘cheating on her.'”
2.“The Blindsideis probably the worst example of white saviorness in Hollywood. What a mess.”
3.“In the vein ofThe Blind Side, Radio.”
4.“Frankly, I’m a little horrified that I ever foundAnger Managementeven slightly amusing. Sexist, anti-LGBTQ, and treats sexual assault like a joke. That film is fucking disgusting.”
5.“Super Size Me, when it wasrevealedthat Spurlock had a raging alcohol addiction during filming.”
6.“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.Adam Sandler plays an Israeli counterterrorism agent who fakes his own death and moves toNew YorkCity to become a hairdresser. He saves a struggling salon by banging old women in the storage closet until experiencing erectile dysfunction due to falling in love with the salon’s owner, a Palestinian woman.”
7.“Freedom Writers.The only thing stopping these ghettoized students from academic excellence was a well-meaning white woman telling them to believe in themselves.”
8.“I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry— it is just tons of ‘making fun of gay people’ jokes.”
9.“Captain Phillips, after it wasrevealedthat he actually never followed any precautions and was actually warned about the pirates and brushed them off. Besides also being a total dickhead, he wasn’t the one that left the boat and risked his life.”
10.“Speaking of Tom Hanks, it was revealed thatCatch Me If You Canwaslargelybullshit. Frank Abagnale Jr. basically made up his entire story when he wrote the book, and Hollywood bought that shit up for a movie deal. Frank was in prison for most of the time that the events of the movie supposedly took place.”
11.“DefinitelyHop. Now you might think to yourself, ‘How could an Easter movie about the Easter Bunny taking back Easter age poorly?’ The bunny originally didn’t want to be in charge of Easter, but the baby chickdidwant to be in charge of Easter. HOWEVER, the head bunny that was then in charge of Easter said he would NEVER put a baby chick in charge of Easter. The movie then goes on to say that the baby chicks are ‘overrunning’ the Easter holiday and it’s the bunnies’ job to ‘take back’ Easter from the baby chicks.”
12.“Shallow Hal.”
13.“Get Him to the Greek,unfortunately. Jonah Hill, P Diddy, and Russell Brand. All shitty for unique reasons. Also, Jonah Hill’s character gets sexually assaulted in one scene, and it’s played as a joke. Yikes.”
14.“I used to teach on a Rez. One time, as a reward, I let the kids in my mentoring period pick out an approved movie from the library. They pickedWindtalkers, which I had never seen. I was like, work. Nic Cage, Christian Slater, AND Adam Beech? Hell yes. That movie was straight white savior trash. The whole thing was about how hard it was for the white soldiers to maybe have to kill their windtalker interpreters if it looked like they might get caught. Such shit.”
15.“Avatar— we were wowed by the visual effects so much that the generic story with its white savior narrative didn’t get the criticism it deserved.”
16.“Waiting.I loved it in college. Now I don’t think I can watch it again. I think a lot of the humor will just seem dull and cringey (maybe besides Luis Guzman), but especially the entire bit about Ryan Reynolds being a child predator and having to restrain himself from having sex with a girl under 18 until her birthday in a few weeks…pretty ew. Weird to think that shit was just played off as funny in the mid-2000s, and we all just went along with it.”
17.“What Women Want.”
18.“Love Actually. …Anyone defending this movie should be ashamed. The way they dressed Emma Thompson as a frumpy frump and then had her stay with her trash, cheating, Snapey husband is the only reason you need to throw this film in the garbage — but you can also choose one of the other 739 problematic things in this movie.”
19.“I don’t know howCrashwas ever okay.”
20.“I always get flack for saying this, butVan Wilderis basically unwatchable to me now. That scene where he jerks off his dog and fills donuts with its semen, then feeds them to Tara Reid’s boyfriend’s frat…what a fun prank, right? There’s plenty more to say about the movie and the constant ‘the woman is the prize’ theme, but the dog cum scene alone just makes me never want to put it on again.”
21.And finally…“TheFat Albertmovie — for obvious reasons.” (aka, Bill Cosby.)
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