re: Will Farrel's movie Get Hard criticized for being racist and homophobic

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But do you realize how silly that sounds. Not criticizing you, just that concept.

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I don't think you can just say "Oh well this is a comedy so you shouldn't be offended."

shite, the entire premise sounds a bit racist.

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Ferrell plays a wrongfully convicted investment banker who hires the nearest black guy -- who ends up being the guy who washes his car (Hart) -- to prepare him so he won't be raped in prison.

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With a premise like that I wouldn't be shocked if many of the jokes really do go way over the line instead of achieving legitimate social satire that they apparently were aiming for.

It's kind of like that movie My Super Ex Girlfriend.

They wanted us to laugh at Luke Wilson getting his arse kicked by Uma Thurman but really all I could think while watching was why the frick did they think that flipping the script on spousal abuse and stalking would be a great idea for a comedy.

Hell, just look at that "act" Kramer was trying to pass off as a comedy bit. Dude was all like "Its just jokes" but he really just sounded like a crazy bigot b/c the "jokes" flat sucked.

I hate this new liberal America

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To be fair, the first viewing of most of Will Farrel's movies usually do suck.

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that's a fact, they just don't get better to me, he looks like he could be a funny mofo but just never seems to come through, don't know if it's the writing or what, his funniest movie to me is the dragon scene in "Starsky and Hutch"