Now the question of whether Dane Cook is starring in this movie because its what people want, or people want it because that what media is shoving down their throat is another matter…

I still think the movie sounds boring, lazy, and offensive, and personally, I plunk the blame on the producers and writers. That said, I don’t think a comedian would stand behind a script he really thought was horrible, since that would affect his future career. So while the other stars may just be collecting a paycheck, I tend to think the headliners (Cook AND Alba) do hold some responsibility for their choice of films, and we can make judgements of their relative intelligence/integrity based on this. It’s not like either of these stars are “starving artists” desperate for work.

Eddie Murphy, I’m looking at you, too.

He was in another movie with Kevin Costner. It was called Mr. Brooks. Strike my previous point about him only getting silly comedy movie roles! My bad.

Hopeful, though, is the existence and popularity of http://www.danecooksucks.com and that the thrust of his suckdom apparently is that he is quite unoriginal, and has been accused of what amounts to plagurism (I’m a spelling brontosaurus this morning, eh?), while he is known to be fairly litigious (OK, I should install a spell check) when anybody references his material.

So I stand under the title of this thread: Dane Cook sucks. He didn’t just “act” in this movie, it was written with him in mind and he embraced it. Oh, and I saw the poster for it, and I’m sure Leibovitz, Ono, and Lennon are respecively throwing up, screeching in pain, and spinning in grave over it. Then again, from the buzz I hear, it’s not like Cook could have come up with anything artistically striking on his own.

I for one, will not go see this movie, and to be honest I dont need a further reason than Dane Cook is in it. The trailer upset me and I think only the most childish sense of humor would find that whole concept, much less the fat jokes, utterly hilarious. I think it is interesting that Tara and someone else said they dont feel upset by this image because they dont behave that way. That implies either that there is some belief out there that there are people who behave that way or that the fact that its an exagerration makes it compeltely innocuous, neither one of which rings true. Once again, the media is telling people that women’s value is defined by their outward appearance and deviation from those norms gives others the right to laugh at you, ostracize and marginalize you. It’s not the fact that this particular woman is fat and therefore isnt going to lead the happy life of a thin woman, its that she represents the kind of women who do not subsribe to society’s ideals, whatever they may be and to whatever degree, and therefore is allowing herself to be the subject of ridicule and if shes not happy, she has no one but herself to blame.

Now I kind of want to see it so I can get even more angry. Grrrr.