Just sayin'

[rispacooper]

I HATE Judd Apatow.

I HATE his movies. They are not funny. They insult women and men, and every idiot who thinks there is some sort of universal truth in his crappy sad-sack modern American male angst is full of shit and more ignorant than the average Marin County resident (which is, sorry Marin, pretty ignorant).

Knocked Up was possibly the most insulting piece of shit I've seen since Sorority Boys, though at least SB had Michael Rosenbaum to soften the blow. And Superbad, you know why the boys in that movie couldn't get laid? Because they were assholes. People like that movie for McLovin, the rest of it is utter garbage.

Whatever depth Apatow may have had in Freaks and Geeks has long since been pushed out in favor of dick jokes and fat, slacker losers once again somehow attracting hot, successful (yet somehow still portrayed as crazy, irrational bitches) women.

His men are unlikeable (oh, feel sorry for them, for they are stuck in a perpetual adolescence of their own making). His women are two-dimensional responsible boring citizens sent to redeem and tame they little boys and turn them into proper grown up husband material--and then have the husbands hate them for it. It's annoying and repetitive (Anchorman is saved mostly by Will Ferrell and Steve Carell) and I really, really don't get America's fascination. (But then, America hasn't had a strong woman lead actress since...um...well in a while, so I guess that says clearly who the audience for movies is).

One more stupidly excited Apatow fan is going to make me lose it.

(And even though Apatow didn't make it, don't even get me started on the problems with Juno).

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pandemonium/]

THANK YOU!!! If I have to deal with another person saying how Knocked up is a "sweet, heart-warming romantic comedy" there will be blood. much, much blood.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

inorite? Yay!! that someone else agrees with me. Oh my GOD, there's so much social pressure to say his movies are awesome when they're not.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Did you like Wedding Crashers? God that was completely tasteless, and except for the fact that they chickened out and made the last third predictable, I laughed my ass off.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch it, but Owen Wilson is generally pretty awesome...

[utterfrivolity.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've only seen The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Anchorman. I thought Anchorman was hilarious if pointless, and actually loved The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I've only seen it once, but I remember finding the characters quite likeable. *shrug*

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I think when Apatow works with talented strong people (Ferrell, Carell, even Owen Wilson) who are used to doing a lot of their own writing and improv, his work comes out better through their influence. When it's just him and his group of friends collaborating, it turns into shiite.

[utterfrivolity.livejournal.com]

Sad. Decent comedies are few and far between, even on tv these days.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

You know, I think a lot of my issues with his work are just his fans and the almost total attitude that everything he does is golden. Maybe without that I'd be less...touchy...about it.

And I love Paul Rudd. Can't get enough of 'im.