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Post by LurkerNan on Feb 18, 2011 13:41:48 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood,
A Boob by any other name is still a Boob. Can we do something about this weird double standard that allows fat men to let their chesticles hang right out there unblurred on television, but anything resembling a nip slip from a girl causes panic among the censors?
I see the male contestants on The Biggest Loser walk up to that scale with mammaries bigger than most starlets, and week after week their bodies get smaller and their droopy boobies get longer.... completely out there for the world to see. The only time the men get to cover up is when they lose so much that their skin sags all over, and then they get girdle shirts. They are contractually obligated to let their boobs fly free on my tv set.
Then I see the contestants of Ru Paul's Drag Race get their fake plastic breastplates blurred out, but the one (assumedly) male contestant whose boobs are so natural-looking that he emphasizes them does not get his boobs blurred out. Wha? You'll blur the plastic, but not the real boob? When the plastic boobs are the same size as the real ones?
In public, you have people freaking out at the thought of getting a peek at a nipple when a baby is getting fed, but some fat guy can walk down the street all jiggly... How can that not be a double standard? Why are men's boobs not naughty, but women's boobs are?
Isn't it time that America give equal opportunity boob freedom for men and women - on television and off?
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Mar 15, 2011 7:15:20 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood,
Well, I finally saw a trailer for the new Arthur remake. Screw you for taking a hilarious, touching movie and turning it into yet another brotastic shitfest to pander to 13-year old frat boys in training. Then again, I should have expected this when I saw that Russell Brand was cast in the lead role. Even Dame Helen Mirren won't be able to class up this stinker.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 11:13:12 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood, Well, I finally saw a trailer for the new Arthur remake. Screw you for taking a hilarious, touching movie and turning it into yet another brotastic shitfest to pander to 13-year old frat boys in training. Then again, I should have expected this when I saw that Russell Brand was cast in the lead role. Even Dame Helen Mirren won't be able to class up this stinker. Perhaps this should go under Unpopular Movie Opinions, but I thought Dudley Moore was miscast as Arthur. He seemed a bit too old to be playing a carefree playboy who still needed adult supervision. The only thing I like about him was his laugh, but I felt a bit creepy watching a near 50-year-old man playing someone who should be in his early 30s. Needless to say I won't be seeing Arthur. I like Russell Brand in spurts, but not for a whole movie.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 11:19:15 GMT -4
Ditto. I wish Hollywood would stop trying to make Russell Brand happen. Two hours of just him is way way way too much.
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Post by OnyxRose on Mar 15, 2011 11:41:35 GMT -4
Russell Brand annoys and he's never going to happen here. I like my British men charming and he's just a pig.
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Post by eclair on Mar 15, 2011 12:24:02 GMT -4
The ad I saw also played Bowie's Rebel Rebel, and in no way is Arthur a rebel. I also will not be seeing this.
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Mar 15, 2011 12:39:24 GMT -4
Talk about Dawson Casting. In the 80s, I didn't even realize what his real age was. Then again, I was barely a tweener when the movie came out, so everyone was "old" to me. He did have some awesome lines, though, and he delivered them beautifully.
Susan: "A real woman could stop you from drinking." Arthur: "It'd have to be a really big woman."
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Post by Witchie on Mar 15, 2011 19:04:54 GMT -4
Ditto. I wish Hollywood would stop trying to make Russell Brand happen. Two hours of just him is way way way too much. Yes! Goodness. He's not charming, attractive, or funny enough to watch in a 2hr movie. When I heard he was cast as Arthur, I shuddered to think how the movie would turn out. The trailer has convinced me my fears were valid. Dreadful!
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Post by Peggy Lane on Mar 15, 2011 19:21:38 GMT -4
Arthur worked because Dudley Moore was charming and charismatic. Russell Brand is neither.
Although the bath scene might result in him being cleaner than he's been in years.
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Post by sueli on Mar 15, 2011 21:54:13 GMT -4
Susan: "A real woman could stop you from drinking." Arthur: "It'd have to be a really big woman." The only actor today I can see pulling off Arthur's lines is Matthew Rhys.
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