Shoot me now
My husband is watching this stupid movie again! He's actually laughing and explaining it to me- 'cause I might not get it.
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MovieChat Forums > The Replacements (2000) Discussion > Shoot me now
and you're on the internet whinng instead of talking about it with him.
And den?
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and remember, always take marriage (and shooting) advice from someone named "murphtones"
What the $%*& is a Chinese Downhill?!?
Women never get movies made for MEN
Roughness, Chicks, Leadership, Team, Second Chances?
Stupid movie we know, but it IS a Great Stupid movie!!!
my guilty pleasure too
Come on, go and see Brad Pitt's movies, they are made for you
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i complety agree with jjaxotla becuz dis movie was not made for women cuz the kind of jokes dat they make are really funny but for guys so stop complaining
me and my bro watched this again after like a year and we were laughing our asses off lol
i really want to watch this again, i saw it years and years ago and have been dying to watch it since but cant find it anywhere:(
oh and why do people type "this" and "that" like dis and dat, its depresssing:(
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You can buy the DVD for a penny on Amazon...I did.
(btw, LOVE this movie!)
i complety agree with jjaxotla becuz dis movie was not made for women cuz the kind of jokes dat they make are really funny but for guys
Jokes are jokes.
Some people just don't have a sense of humour. Their sex has nothing to do with it.
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Why aren't you in the kitchen making him a sandwhich?
That's where you belong.
No one cares about your opinion.
"Why aren't you in the kitchen making him a sandwhich?
That's where you belong.
No one cares about your opinion."
Now that's^ funny!
There you go OP, this is called "humor". It's obvious that you don't have a sense of "humor". Otherwise, you'd like The Replacements.
Now go make that sandwich.
Anyone who thinks Necessary Roughness was in any way a good film is pathetic, The Replacements was far better (And Rudy wasn't much better). Anyone who thinks that turd Sandler made is better than the real Longest Yard should have their head examined.
And to the women who don't have humor, those dishes aren't going to wash themselves.
Now that's^ funny!
How so? It struck me as an insult more than a joke, and if you find that funny, ok. I continue to fail to find the humour in sexist/racist/homophobic statements that are not even written as jokes.
You want funny, read Douglas Adams' books.
Americans - as you obviously are from you spelling it 'humor' - apparently have seriously low standards of humour. You find anything funny. Which would actually explain the bulk of comedy films that come out from your country. Scary Movie, Epic Movie, all #1 box office at their release...
Now that's funny.
I feel sorry for you.
This whole thread doesn't even make sense. The OP said she doesn't like the film; how does that somehow make her representative of the entire female population?
There are men who don't like this film, and women who do; there are men who don't find it funny at all, and women who find it hilarious. What's the explanation for that?
If the OP had been male, how would the excuse "Women never get movies made for MEN" work in that case, seeing as how the entire gist of this thread seems to be that the humour in the film is targetted towards a male audience?
Some explanation would be nice.
(Here I will admit that I have a tendency to over-intellectualise things and spent a fair amount of my childhood having people compare me to Spock. If I'm doing that again, sorry. I'm just trying to understand people.)
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You just F'in contradicted yourself. Here you are saying that Americans have a low standard for humor (or shall is say "humour"? because it matters sooo much.) and right above you posted:
"Jokes are jokes."
It's all subjective. You are an uptight self important old biddy. Female comedians here have a sense of humor. You don't. What a retarded arguement you make in the first place. Laughter is an audible expression of hapiness. So what does it mean anyway? Americans are generally happy. Happy people laugh. Depressed people don't.
"(Here I will admit that I have a tendency to over-intellectualise things and spent a fair amount of my childhood having people compare me to Spock. If I'm doing that again, sorry. I'm just trying to understand people.) "
And this F'n qoute rich. You obviously don't value self depricative humor either, do you? People in your life can't possibly stand you. It's not because you are this calculative "Spock"-like perona you fancy yourselfnas. It's because you are a boob. I don't know this Douglas Adam's guy from a hole in the wall but if he is at all funny to anyone other than self professed intellectuals like yourself than he probably wouldn't care for you either.
Uh what?
Female comedians here have a sense of humor.
What's this got to do with my post? It was the other people who said that females have no sense of humour, not me.
You obviously don't value self depricative humor either, do you?
Wasn't that whole bit self-depreciative?
you fancy yourselfnas
I don't.
I don't know this Douglas Adam's guy from a hole in the wall but if he is at all funny to anyone other than self professed intellectuals like yourself than he probably wouldn't care for you either.
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And you just described yourself as Spock. What the hell did spock know about human emotion or laughter at that? If you really are "Spock" like and I say that with the deepest sarcasm then your opinion on whats funny is worth as much as mine on this Douglas Adam's character.
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No, I didn't. Other people did. If I call you an idiot, does this mean that you just described yourself as one? Do you lack basic reading comprehension skills? Seriously?
Okay then, you're an idiot.
Wow, you just described yourself as an idiot. You must have some major issues.
on this Douglas Adam's character
Show some respect for the dead.
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That's why you should'nt be talking about comedy. Your barking at a perfect stranger to respect the dead about some guy I just said I don't even care about...
shareHow on earth did he disrespect Mr. Adams? Man, you must be soooo much fun at parties.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
Some of the greatest comedians were the ones who pushed limits, pressed buttons and broke cultural boundries. Racism and sexism are funny because they are taboo. It's not meant to be taken seriously...I hate explaining comedy because then I sound like people like you but whatver...You are the type of high brow boob who over complicate comedy.
And I don't see calling oneself an intellectual is self depricating at all.
I like how you call it a "bit" too. Like your a comedy writer. What was that your Schtick???
Racism and sexism are funny because they are taboo. It's not meant to be taken seriously
Some people mean it seriously. I've seen lots of people on the Internet who mean it very seriously. Ever visited Stormfront.com? I bet you find it hilarious. It's got posts like:
"Not being educated about Jews is what got us into this mess. because from the Jew stems every danger we face as a race today."
and
"Don't you hate it when your walking around your school and you see all the white kids dressing as if they're black?
Honestly it just sickens me, why would you want to degrade yourself like that?"
I bet you find it really funny.
You are the type of high brow boob who over complicate comedy.
And you're obviously the type who go around insulting random strangers on the Internet.
And I don't see calling oneself an intellectual is self depricating at all.
I didn't call myself an intellectual. I said I have a tendency to over-intellectualise things. People usually don't use that as a compliment.
I like how you call it a "bit" too. Like your a comedy writer.
bit
–noun
1. a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
Read a dictionary.
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OMG! You so don't get anything! Those arent jokes on that website. Their peoples opinions. How would you ever consider those jokes? I'm really starting to believe you are spock like because you really don't get humor at all. You definitly know the lingo. And don't try and back out of that bit comment. You didn't mean it in the context of a piece of string you meant it as "4. An entertainment routine given regularly by a performer; an act.". Hahaha you are incredibly pathetic. I'm thru agruing with you. If you don't seriously go away from this little interaction we had here and have some serious self contemplation than I'm afraid your hopeless.
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And those are the kind of people who make 'jokes' like that.
because you really don't get humor at all.
Okay. People would disagree, but okay.
And don't try and back out of that bit comment. You didn't mean it in the context of a piece of string you meant it as "4. An entertainment routine given regularly by a performer; an act.". Hahaha you are incredibly pathetic.
No, I did not mean it that way, and I don't know what gives you the idea that you can read my mind, because you're not very good at it.
I didn't even know of that definition of 'bit'. I'm from Asia. Our English is slightly different.
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That website premise is weak. When people make jokes they are usually being sarcastic or ironic. These people are just stating their seemingly honest opinions.
Lastly, I really don't understand the major difference between generalizing all Americans as having a simpletons sense of humor and this guy saying all women have no sense of humor. I don't generalize you because your from Asia.
When people make jokes they are usually being sarcastic or ironic.
Never a truer word was spoken in jest.
Many times there are hidden motivations behind jokes, whether intentional or not. Generally speaking, a gay person for example probably wouldn't make a joke about killing fags. Those who do come across as wanting desperately to fit in and look cool to straight people.
It's only those in a certain privileged part of society who are able to joke about racism and sexism. There are many more people who live in conditions where these are very real issues, and they wouldn't find it funny.
Lastly, I really don't understand the major difference between generalizing all Americans as having a simpletons sense of humor and this guy saying all women have no sense of humor.
Okay, I'm sorry for that. It was more a reaction to the other poster than my own opinion, and was meant mostly to show that if someone could generalise all women based on one person, then I could just as easily generalise all Americans based on another person.
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I have a friend who is gay who is constantly saying "That's gay" or "Your being gay" in a jokingly and yet still derogetory fashion. It doesn't mean he is a self hating gay or wants to fit in (because you know how openly gay people all just want to "Fit in"...Sarcasm..I'll ring a bell when I'm joking from now on.) it just means he is not uptight. It means the oposite of self hating it means he is comfortable with who he is and how hes different and isn't offended easily. If I say a sucky movie like the replacements was gay he won't call me a gay basher and never talk to me again.
It's too late now. Your hate for American's has been shown. Your just as bad as those sexist and racist people you rail against. If it makes you feel any better I won't generalize all Asians based on your burning hate for Americans.
If I say a sucky movie like the replacements was gay he won't call me a gay basher and never talk to me again.
Then good for him. But that doesn't mean that there are gays who won't take offense, because there are. Why call a movie gay if you think it was bad? That already makes the connection between gay = bad, whether you intend it that way or not.
Your hate for American's has been shown. Your just as bad as those sexist and racist people you rail against. If it makes you feel any better I won't generalize all Asians based on your burning hate for Americans.
Please point out where I showed any 'burning hate for Americans', because I'm not aware I had any. Towards a single American poster, maybe. But not all Americans.
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"Americans - as you obviously are from you spelling it 'humor' - apparently have seriously low standards of humour. You find anything funny. Which would actually explain the bulk of comedy films that come out from your country. "
RIGHT THERE YOU IDIOT. I'm ripping my hair out right now. I can't argue with you. Your not intelligent. Your just not.
There is one good thing that came of this interaction. You constantly here that their is an anti American feeling out their. That were fat, ignorant, we have no culture and so on and so on. If those feelings are attached to complete bufoons such as yourself than we have nothing to worry about. Because self righteous hypocritical fools like yourself are the exact people we don't want liking us.
1. That was done in response to:
"There you go OP, this is called "humor". It's obvious that you don't have a sense of "humor". Otherwise, you'd like The Replacements."
Generally I don't mind insulting people who start it first. I apologise if you took it as directed to all Americans.
2. Even then, I don't see how it qualifies as 'burning hate'.
3. I didn't know that other definition of 'bit'. I use the word 'bit' all the time to refer to small chunks of text, and a lot of other things that aren't the whole. Like 'that bit of food' or 'that bit of music'. I don't know why you're still harping on about this.
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You are backing out of soooo many things you said right now that I can't even argue with you anymore. You have no credibility.
And again I have to explain that I was being sarcastic about the burning hate because you seem to throw around hate constantly. I don't think it's hate I think its a sense of superiority. Apparently a falsly preceived one.
Your precious Douglas Adam's books are constantly on the New York Times best seller list. Are those not Americans who are reading those books? Americans with their simple sense of humor.
"Americans - as you obviously are from you spelling it 'humor' - apparently have seriously low standards of humour. You find anything funny. Which would actually explain the bulk of comedy films that come out from your country. "
RIGHT THERE YOU IDIOT. I'm ripping my hair out right now. I can't argue with you. Your not intelligent. Your just not.
There is one good thing that came of this interaction. You constantly hear that their is an anti American feeling out their. That were fat, ignorant, we have no culture and so on and so on. If those feelings are attached to complete bufoons such as yourself than we have nothing to worry about. Because self righteous hypocritical fools like yourself are the exact people we don't want liking us.
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No, you didn't show "burning hatred", but you certainly showed your contempt.
"Americans - as you obviously are from you spelling it 'humor'(a regular Dick Tracy, aren't you)- apparently have seriously low standards of humour. You find anything funny. Which would actually explain the bulk of comedy films that come out from your country."
"Americans", not "one single American poster". Face it, you have a seriously stunted, over-sensitive sense of humor, and I'm using that in the broadest meaning of the word, and a bias against Americans.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
whoa, where did this thread get resurrected?
No, you didn't show "burning hatred", but you certainly showed your contempt.At the risk of sounding immature (hey, I was a teenager when I first made those posts), he started it first, and I was pissed off enough to want to return the favour. The offensive sweeping paragraph on Americans was meant as an (admittedly poor) parallel to the offensive sweeping paragraph a poster had made about women:
"Women never get movies made for MEN
Roughness, Chicks, Leadership, Team, Second Chances?"
I'd say it's highly insulting to women to claim that they don't understand things like leadership, teamwork and second chances; and, in some cases, roughness and chicks as well. The former at least are universal human values that transcend gender.
So I don't actually believe what I said about Americans (great country with great people; one of the best periods of my life was spent there). I just thought that this thread was about making offensive generalisations about people, and thought he might want to know what it was like being on the receiving end of it.
In context, I said:
"I continue to fail to find the humour in sexist/racist/homophobic statements that are not even written as jokes.
... Americans - as you obviously are from you spelling it 'humor' - apparently have seriously low standards of humour. You find anything funny. Which would actually explain the bulk of comedy films that come out from your country. Scary Movie, Epic Movie, all #1 box office at their release...
Now that's funny."
The last line was meant to be sarcasm (which failed), and it was precisely meant to illustrate that such kinds of humour (based on insulting a group of people) are not funny, at least not to the ones they are targetting. I realise that this works terribly in written form, and I'm sorry that it got misinterpreted.
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So it's a-ok to trash ALL women because "it's just humor!and if you don't get it, you're a stuck-up bitch", but once the "joke" gets thrown your way and you are the one being roasted, suddenly there's a problem, and a "big bias against Americans"...
I lol in you general direction.
Saving GIFs. Insulting things. The trolling business.
And you can't possibly expect me to believe that you were trying to make a point when you bashed Americans. You clearly have an honest disdain for Americans. You are lying just like you lied about meaning "a piece of string". You must really think we are all chumps to buy into your explanation. I mean you must really have a sense of intellectual superiority that you could spew such BS and expect people to believe it.
shareNow I see your problem; you can't distinguish the difference between a joke and an opinion.
Also, a "bit" is a show business term.
Lighten up, Francis, not everybody has your sense of humor, such as it is. And that's a good thing. Can you imagine what kind of uptight, clueless world this would be?
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
You just F'in contradicted yourself. Here you are saying that Americans have a low standard for humor (or shall is say "humour"? because it matters sooo much.) and right above you posted:
"Jokes are jokes."
It's all subjective. You are an uptight self important old biddy. Female comedians here have a sense of humor. You don't. What a retarded arguement you make in the first place. Laughter is an audible expression of hapiness. So what does it mean anyway? Americans are generally happy. Happy people laugh. Depressed people don't.
"(Here I will admit that I have a tendency to over-intellectualise things and spent a fair amount of my childhood having people compare me to Spock. If I'm doing that again, sorry. I'm just trying to understand people.) "
And this F'n qoute rich. You obviously don't value self depricative humor either, do you? People in your life can't possibly stand you. It's not because you are this calculative "Spock"-like perona you fancy yourselfnas. It's because you are a boob. I don't know this Douglas Adam's guy from a hole in the wall but if he is at all funny to anyone other than self professed intellectuals like yourself than he probably wouldn't care for you either
But to me its very funny imagining the look on the OP's face next to her husband completely disineterested.
"(Here I will admit that I have a tendency to over-intellectualise things and spent a fair amount of my childhood having people compare me to Spock. If I'm doing that again, sorry. I'm just trying to understand people.)"
Maybe it's not the "over-intellectualise things" that people compare you to Spock for but maybe the fact that he only feels the need to get laid once a year and must return to his planet to do so.
BTW name one really funny woman, not the occasional funny woman, the piss in your pants funny woman.
Maybe it's not the "over-intellectualise things" that people compare you to Spock for but maybe the fact that he only feels the need to get laid once a year and must return to his planet to do so.
meh. It was my parents who started the comparison thing and joked about it. I seriously doubt they had my lack of sex life in mind, especially since I think I was less than 10 years old.
Meanwhile I'm a virgin, intend to stay that way, and therefore don't get laid once a year. I fail to see the appeal in people sticking genitals into each other. My parents say when I'm older I'll understand. But it'll be awesome if I get to go to another planet.
BTW name one really funny woman, not the occasional funny woman, the piss in your pants funny woman
Mostly people you don't know; some of my friends. But I'm not good at naming famous funny men either.
No comedian has yet succeeded in making me piss in my pants.
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I think she could use some help drying the dishes. Get me another beer(that's a pint to you) while you're in the kitchen.
This coming from a person who, I'm assuming, is from the UK? The land that gave us the high humor of Monty Python, Black Adder and Benny Hill. Pot...kettle...black. I'm not saying these are bad shows, just the poster is being a bit disingenuous.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
hey, I'm a woman, and I laughed with tears watching that movie.
AND I made a few sandwiches, too. (commercial breaks can be useful ;) )
so I win ;) :))
No one cares about your opinion.
err... that goes both ways, ya'know...
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
this is your husband, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich.
nah, just kidding. i'm a chick and i hate this movie. so yeah, guess you can never tell.
Love this film. I must have watched it at least once every year. Don't have to be a guy or an American to appreciate the humor/humour. ;) Every single character is priceless - from Hackman to the commentators to the deaf and dumb guy still dancing after everyone else has stopped. The cheerleaders are terrific, everyone has such great chemistry. I miss this kind of comedy.
I'm not a big fan of Adam Sander, Will Farrell, Steve Carell comedies. They're all funny guys but I can't take 2 hours of them. Their movies have no repeat value for me. Sandler's The Longest Yard may have been showy and slick but it's pure synthetic dreck when compared to Burt Reynolds' original. Movies like Bull Durham and Slap Shot are among my all-time favorites. The Replacements may be more screwball and escapist but it's right up there on my list.
yeah its up there on my list........ my list of movies that never should have seen the light of day.
but seriously i dunno how this movie got snubbed for an oscar.
This movie sure is shown a lot on TV.
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