Re: Is "Knocked Up" Too Dirty to Take an Older Person To?

On Jun 12, 5:37 pm, Derek Janssen <eja...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Think the F-word has some kind of Uncanny Valley for excessive use,
depending on what it's in front of--
SNIP
While at the same time, I'd run across "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back"
uncut on cable, and maybe it was the dopiness [NPI] of the rest of the
script, but my immediately repulsed reaction was "Kevin, you gave up the
Green Hornet to stay closer to THIS?--Grow the...I mean, just grow up!!"

Can't say where that borderline can be placed, but guess there's a
general framework of "Musical F-use = 'Good', Slacker Frat-pack F-use =
'Bad'."

Smith's male passive-aggression (re: overuse of the F word) used to be
my litmus test for whether or not to take older people to movies.
This decade it's The Matador. Only so many gross-out sex-as-bowel-
movement scenes an older heart should be expected to stand.

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