Token black couple should not have been included in film
their characters were useless and their existence pointless in the story.
sharetheir characters were useless and their existence pointless in the story.
shareHad it not been for them the plot would have never made it to Eden East.
sharethe girlfriend chick was the best part of the movie, in my opinion. she made me laugh. she and that kid. the rest of it was pretty bad.
Coach McGuirk: All right, listen up, that was a good game. We all showed up, and I'm proud of that.
She was completely annoying, unfunny and ridiculous for the 2010 era.
The fat dude has been Favreau's friend since they did Rudy together, that's why he shows up in most Favreau/Vaughn movies. Hollywood is just about the business deal now...not entertainment.
She doesn't even speak like that in real life. I think someone told her that was comical.
Actually, Faizon Love was not in Rudy. If you listen to the DVD commentary for Made, Favreau says that Friday was one of his favorite movies of the 90's to watch and he enjoyed Faizon Love's performace as Big Worm so much, that he wanted to work with him. Made was the first movie that they did together.
L: I'm talking about a little place called Aspen
H: I don't know Lloyd, the french are a ssholes
You're complaining about the black couple in this movie? Every character is a clown or stereotype of one kind or another. No reason to single out the black couple. give it a rest.
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I don't know if they are relevant to the plot line, what I do know is hollywood need to fire ALL of their movie writers, if they do not have any real world experience with Black people. IN REAL LIFE Black women would become stereotypes, if they knew exactly who continued to write characters like his one. It is insulting! When she opened her mouth it answered the question I had as to why she had not been included in the initial discussion regarding the taking of the trip. I was horrified and saddened that even now, this stereotyping of Black women continues. The Black guy was "allowed" to be mainstreamed, but damn...Even with Michelle a Harvard law degree graduate, the writers still feel the need to marginalise Black women. Still so far to go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc
I agree with the op they were just the token black faces in a movie THEY just weren't necessary except as a clown couple.
share"I agree with the op they were just the token black faces in a movie THEY just weren't necessary except as a clown couple."
Which couple was necessary other then the couple that was having problems??? If you're going to make that statment about the black couple it applies to the other couples as well. I didn't kind any of the couples to be funny, the movie was boring.
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Although the movie wasn't fall down laughs it was entertaining. The black couple was stupid, the female was a sterotypical home girl and the black man was just a fat clown. Why not have a decent black couple instead of falling into sterotypes.
shareFirst of all why were they there, it seemed like the retreat was for married couples having problems. The black couple was not married, it would have made more sense for the writers to have the black guys wife there, not his girlfriend. I didn't really find any of the couples funny, all of the guys except one (but still not very attractive) were fat clowns married to or dating hot (or younger) women.
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I'm a sistah. I agree w/Krisluv. Love the diversity, but this couple (poorly written caricatures) made me cringe. I know NO ONE who acts like this girl. Embarrassing! If they need ideas, holla @ me, or somebody, PUH LEEZE.
shareI agree with everyone. I was offended by the way the black couple was written. Oh har har, let's all laugh at the fat black man and the sassy, "ghetto" black girl. So sterotypical and offensive to blacks! (and I'm not black but it really bothered me) The writing in this movie was horrific in general, and the characters were just awful, but I especially felt bad for those black actors, having to play such offensive, clown-ish characters.
shareI agree with the poster who said that Vince Vaughn only hired these two token black characters because of nepotism. It ain't WHAT you know, it's WHO you know.
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I agree. She annoyed me to nooo end. Hollywood has a monolithic view of Blacks. And I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees it.
The stereotypes aren't even funny anymore. The Black couple was a modern day minstrel show.
Having been an actor, I can say for me, playing broad characters is fun. But that aside, every one of these characters was broadly written. Broad writing is standard for comedies. Otherwise you get "sophisticated" comedy that festers like a social commentary instead of something like "Blazing Saddles" that lights up the sky!
I'm holding everyone to a higher standard- a standard much higher than my own
all i have to say is how are you all going to sit there and hate on the legendary big perm i mean big wormmmmmmm
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OP is racist. All couples had their own problems. Vince & his wife didnt even have problems yet they stayed or should they have not been included?
shareThe black couple was awful. Trudy had a few funny moments, but Shane was annoying as hell. And the ending with Shane reconciling with the promiscuous ex-wife who divorced him was as stupid and desperate/emasculating as it gets. The character had no self-respect, on top of being a pain-in-the-ass whiner who was constantly out-of-breath and idiotically bought motorcycles he couldn't afford and went on expensive exotic vacations with a woman he had been seeing for all of two weeks.
The token black couple - and that's exactly what they were - definitely should have been left out of the film.