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Anonymous wrote:Friends wasn’t funny or witty.

The entire cast stayed together until the end. No one tried to cause strife or drama. No one tried to pull ahead of the others to be the star of the show, demanding more money than the others. Typical Gen-Xer philosophy.

If you hate Friends, you're not a true GenXer.

None of that makes up for it just not being a very good show.

Considering it was a very successful show just means you are in the minority not that it wasn't a funny show.

You seem to be having some trouble with the very concept of this thread.

Anonymous wrote:Four Weddings and a Funeral was great but Andie McDowell was AWFUL. Why could they not give Hugh Grant a better American love interest? One who could act?

This is not an unpopular opinion. It’s a widely held belief that she was awful in the film, no one really likes her character and her “is it raining” line is one of the worst lines ever written or delivered. Nonetheless, it’s a great movie, one of my desert island pics.

You don't like Friends because this about some ridiculous Friends vs. Living Single debate?

Friends didn't have a star. It was not stolen from Queen Latifah.

Living Single was the Queen Latifah show (originally titled My Girls about Queen Latifah and her girls).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friends wasn’t funny or witty.

The entire cast stayed together until the end. No one tried to cause strife or drama. No one tried to pull ahead of the others to be the star of the show, demanding more money than the others. Typical Gen-Xer philosophy.

If you hate Friends, you're not a true GenXer.

Not the PP to whom you're responding, but....

You do get that the poster above is referring to the show, and not to the cast, right?

The cast can be lovely human beings and consummate professionals but still in a show that isn't particularly witty or smart, and which has not aged well. It's OK if someone else dislikes the show. I dislike the show (back in the day and now, too). But yes, I've heard that the cast were pretty classy regarding the work. Let's not conflate the cast with the characters they played....

annnnd if you are a 'real' gen Xer who wasn't banally racist you'd've watched living single and known that it is a much better show - and im not black and was raised in Potomac/Bethesda and listened to nirvana pearl jam so not some great connesuer (spelling?) of Black pop culture.

Friends was original because there wasn't a "star." That's what made the show work so well. Three men in one apartment, and three women in another.

Should we look back at The Cosby show and discuss how he was a repost in real life?

I watched Living Single, but it was clearly Queen Latifah's show. The title was supposed to be My Girls. The photo on the first season cover is Queen Latifah and her three girls.

Queen Latifah and Kim Coles both had development deals with Fox.[1] In March 1993, Fox announced that Queen Latifah and Coles would star in a comedy sitcom called My Girls, about roommates in New York City.[2] The character of Khadijah was created for Queen Latifah. The character is an entrepreneur who started a magazine, and Latifah is an entrepreneur who started her own record label.[3] Fox changed the show's name to Living Single three weeks before it first aired.[4]

Anonymous wrote:Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler are not funny.

Neither was Home Alone.

+1
I feel like you have to still find it funny when someone makes fart noises with their armpits to enjoy this kind of "humor".

Anonymous wrote:Tina Fey is not funny.

I agree she isn’t funny as a performer. But her writing is hilarious! Her humor just works better when someone else delivers the lines. Something about her facial expressions and timing just don’t work.

Anonymous wrote:Four Weddings and a Funeral was great but Andie McDowell was AWFUL. Why could they not give Hugh Grant a better American love interest? One who could act?

Ugh I can’t stand her in that either. She is insufferable. And only slightly more tolerable in Groundhog Day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friends wasn’t funny or witty.

The entire cast stayed together until the end. No one tried to cause strife or drama. No one tried to pull ahead of the others to be the star of the show, demanding more money than the others. Typical Gen-Xer philosophy.

If you hate Friends, you're not a true GenXer.

None of that makes up for it just not being a very good show.

Considering it was a very successful show just means you are in the minority not that it wasn't a funny show.

Rachel, Chandler and Monica reminded me of the people I hated in high school. Chandler was a looks and personality Doppelganger of a guy who bullied me, so I could never really get on board with the show.

But were their HIGH SCHOOL personas reminiscent of those people you hated in high school? Or were their 20-something characters more like the kids you hated in high school? (Bc they were v different! And I always found it completely unbelievable that those three in high school would have transformed into those three in their 20s without completely changing friend groups!)

Anonymous wrote:-Bruce Willis should never play a movie where he is in "sensitive mode". It just doesn't work.
-Kevin Spacey was a brilliant actor who absolutely deserved to get canceled for what he did, but he wouldn't have gotten canceled if his victims were female. This is maybe not an unpopular opinion, actually.
-Cuties is less offensive than Dance Moms or Toddlers in Tiaras.

Ooh this is a godd one! Made me think though....I think the optics of all three of those shows are the same, honestly. But with Dance Moms and Toddlers &Tiaras no one ever mentioned the elephant in the room....like we were all supposed to pretend we didn’t notice that the outfits were too skimpy, the dances were sexually suggestive (or at least sexualized) and the makeup made them look like little “baby prostitutes”—because noting any of those things would be the same as the kid who pointed to the empororer and shouted out “but he’s wearing no clothes!!!”.

With Cuties, the focus is the “deep dive” into the sexualization of children. It’s literally in the description so there can be no denial that the movie is ABOUT that (even if/when it’s claiming yo condemn it). So there is no groupthink that reinforces that watching this is “just fine” and it leaves you feeling gross. Also, despite the fact that the focus of the director was to create a film that exposes this world, she actually had to CREATE this world for the underage child actors who were cast in the film. And with the full acknowledgment that she was doing that and directing/choreographing dance moves for the purpose of eliciting that reaction from the viewer. So, for that reason I do think it’s worse.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friends wasn’t funny or witty.

The entire cast stayed together until the end. No one tried to cause strife or drama. No one tried to pull ahead of the others to be the star of the show, demanding more money than the others. Typical Gen-Xer philosophy.

If you hate Friends, you're not a true GenXer.

Not the PP to whom you're responding, but....

You do get that the poster above is referring to the show, and not to the cast, right?

The cast can be lovely human beings and consummate professionals but still in a show that isn't particularly witty or smart, and which has not aged well. It's OK if someone else dislikes the show. I dislike the show (back in the day and now, too). But yes, I've heard that the cast were pretty classy regarding the work. Let's not conflate the cast with the characters they played....

annnnd if you are a 'real' gen Xer who wasn't banally racist you'd've watched living single and known that it is a much better show - and im not black and was raised in Potomac/Bethesda and listened to nirvana pearl jam so not some great connesuer (spelling?) of Black pop culture.

Great to see Living Single get some love on DCUM

Anonymous wrote:SNL isn’t funny.

+1. So cringe. Female comics in general aren’t funny.

Sex and the City is degenerate filth.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friends wasn’t funny or witty.

The entire cast stayed together until the end. No one tried to cause strife or drama. No one tried to pull ahead of the others to be the star of the show, demanding more money than the others. Typical Gen-Xer philosophy.

If you hate Friends, you're not a true GenXer.

None of that makes up for it just not being a very good show.

Considering it was a very successful show just means you are in the minority not that it wasn't a funny show.

Rachel, Chandler and Monica reminded me of the people I hated in high school. Chandler was a looks and personality Doppelganger of a guy who bullied me, so I could never really get on board with the show.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friends wasn’t funny or witty.

The entire cast stayed together until the end. No one tried to cause strife or drama. No one tried to pull ahead of the others to be the star of the show, demanding more money than the others. Typical Gen-Xer philosophy.

If you hate Friends, you're not a true GenXer.

Not the PP to whom you're responding, but....

You do get that the poster above is referring to the show, and not to the cast, right?

The cast can be lovely human beings and consummate professionals but still in a show that isn't particularly witty or smart, and which has not aged well. It's OK if someone else dislikes the show. I dislike the show (back in the day and now, too). But yes, I've heard that the cast were pretty classy regarding the work. Let's not conflate the cast with the characters they played....

annnnd if you are a 'real' gen Xer who wasn't banally racist you'd've watched living single and known that it is a much better show - and im not black and was raised in Potomac/Bethesda and listened to nirvana pearl jam so not some great connesuer (spelling?) of Black pop culture.

Anonymous wrote:I did not care for The Godfather. It insists upon itself. It takes forever getting in; you spend like six and a half hours... You know, I can't get through, I've never even finished the movie. I've never seen the ending. I have tried on three separate occasions to get through it, and I get to the scene where all the guys are sitting around on the easy chairs. I have no idea what they're talking about. It's like they're speaking a different... You know, that's where I lose interest in it.

Godfather 2 is better.