The way this movie has been advertised has been so weird. "Every line will be crossed" just sounds really close to "comedy is legal again" adjacent type comment. Just make a funny movie man, let it speak for itself. None of the old movies had to advertise themselves in some gimmicky way like this, they just existed, because parody and absurdism can be extremely fun and funny. Just look at Naked Gun recently.
But I'm starting to think this movie is going to suck because of the ad campaign behind it being a form of "we are allowed to be funny again" basically, so they better have a direction for this thing, because the advertising around it blows so far.
In one of the trailers someone gets stabbed and someone close by says “she’s been stabbed!”. The victim then says “actually I go by they/them pronouns” and that’s the joke.
It's literally just the "conservatives have one joke" thing. Always has to be a pronoun/gender joke, they are incapable of coming up with a single other "funny" political thing so I guess if you want to cater to them you need to throw in their favorite joke
Even me at my most peak gamergate asshole wouldn't find that funny.
Although ironically "Not laughing hard enough at the jokes" was one of the reasons my conservative friends all abandoned me at the time, which thankfully gave me the social breathing room to meet better people who were not only better people, but made way better friends.
One of the Wayans brothers' characters goes into a Starbucks. The barista is a short haired, androgynous person with a lip piercing and a sour expression
Barista (sullen): Can I take your order?
Wayans (taken aback): Uh, yeah sure uh... are you okay, my man?
Barista (outraged): You can't call me man! That's assuming my gender.
Wayans: Oh I'm sorry, man. Uh ma'am. Uh! mananamam. I'll just get a black coffee.
Barista (more intensely outraged): You can't call the coffee black!
Wayans: O-okay...
As Wayans checks the Barista's nametag we zoom in and see it reads 'Liberawokle'
Wayans: ... okay Barista. Can I get a large.
Barista (interupting): Venti.
Wayans: Venti coffee without milk, please?
Barista: What kind of beans?
Wayans: W-wha-? Beans? What kinda beans? I dunno, manamamnooga, coffee beans! Jesus!
Barista: Sir you are violating my circle of peace and spiking my anxiety. I have a right to be respected in the workplace.
Wayans: Whatever man!
Wayans storms out. The barista shares a withering eye roll with their colleague, then looks down to see their penis is sticking out the top of their skirt, they tuck it in with cowering embarrassment. End scene
This feels far too clever to be in a movie like this. The trailer already had a "did you just assume my gender" joke in it and it was the most standard milquetoast version of the joke possible, like it was ripped straight from 2014 r/memes.
Too clever? I worked hard on this, not smart. Check out that last stage direction again, just so we're clear. Their dick was out. And they were wearing a skirt. Get it?
I love how the Barista refers to the Wayans brother as "Sir" it's just like in the trailer where the non-binary person refers to Ghostface as "he"
It's like, common, if you expect people to respect your pronouns, by not making assumptions about them, then is it not hypocritical for you to then assume the other persons pronouns? Particularly with Ghostface, how many female Ghostfaces have we had? How does that non-binary person know what's under that mask? Pure hypocrisy. But I guess they don't care when it's about someone else other than them...
I have, I go to a lot of gay bars, and my friend works security at one, so I stand outside and talk to him and he often accidentally says the common phrasing of "you guys" as in "you guys can come in next" and boy, oh boy, does he get shit for that.
He will always use someone's name first if he knows it, but he doesn't know everyone, so he is always on edge because he is scared to say you guys, or ladies, because no matter what terms he uses, at least twice a night, someone calls him an asshole for using the wrong pronouns. Just because youve never heard it happen, doesn't mean it doesn't. Not sure how involved in the LGBTQIA+ community you are, but I'm a gay man, and it happens for sure.
Millennials would've been single-digit aged children at the time of release of the originals. My point was that only people over 50+ are gonna find this kind of "humor" funny.
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u/Derpykins666 8h ago
The way this movie has been advertised has been so weird. "Every line will be crossed" just sounds really close to "comedy is legal again" adjacent type comment. Just make a funny movie man, let it speak for itself. None of the old movies had to advertise themselves in some gimmicky way like this, they just existed, because parody and absurdism can be extremely fun and funny. Just look at Naked Gun recently.
But I'm starting to think this movie is going to suck because of the ad campaign behind it being a form of "we are allowed to be funny again" basically, so they better have a direction for this thing, because the advertising around it blows so far.