Boring ass male centered drama with massive homophobia coated in sympathy for the gays. I remember those dark times, Philadelphia and all that bullshít of being sympathetic to gays but at the same time massively homophobic. Good times.
shareYoure retarded i believe it has aged so well, great performances by all actors. Hell i even felt a lot more identified with the characters than i did 8 years ago when i watched it as a teen. And theres nothing homophobic, Melvin was just mocking him to feel better and all. But if he was homophobic he would have left the guy in the street. I have gay friends and i call him a fag everso often and even tell him mean jokes, but he gets it. Go back to watchibg transformers, may be your movie type
sharemoron.
the true point of the movie has nothing to do with gays. only a moron like you miss the message of the movie. This is about the health care system of the time.
Carol unable to get proper medical care for her son due to the *beep* HMO.
Frank broke due to excessive medical bills without health insurance.
again you're a moron that only saw the 1 gay couple. i wonder why is that?
Ideology and perception wise it hasn't aged very indeed. But then neither have most 90s movies. But I for one do not enjoy it (at least once a year) for it's political correctness. I enjoy it because of its quirky characters, subtle humor and excellent cast.
Perhaps we should accept that art, no matter the variety, doesn't necessarily have to abide by contemporary moral standards to be enjoyable.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
I wouldn't call it art though.
shareIt's a gem from a pre-woke golden age when jokes could be made about anybody. It's not about homos, and it's not about the health care system. It's about human relationships, and it's timeless and un-dated.
shareAmen. Well said. 👍👍
shareYou are 100% right
shareExactly. Jack Nicholson's character and his lines are more entertaining and funny than the entire collective wit of OP and his kind.
They are boring and miserable, with zero personality. Think they are smart because of their mostly worthless college degrees, even though all they do is just parrot the mainstream narrative and have a very primitive, tribalistic group-think mentality that is devoid of originality or even variation. The hallmark of their character is whining (and attention whoring), so they go out of their way to look for social injustice and politically incorrect speech / behavior everywhere, because it's so much easier to criticize others than to be witty or creative themselves.
It's how they deal with their guilt. But perfect, you said it all.
Bravo 👏🏻
shareNo, it’s aged beautifully, and is still a funny, entertaining, and thought provoking film.
Every time today when I see someone who says something has “aged terribly” I usually think “oh, here we go again with another white liberal virtue signaling overly sensitive crybaby without a sense of humor who can’t handle any form of medium pre-2020.”
You fit that perfectly.
Yet they'll continue to watch it, because they actually like it, just to come here to (as you said) virtue signal. People who need this kind of validation, and there's plenty of them on here, are just pathetic.
share' another white liberal virtue signaling overly sensitive crybaby without a sense of humor who can’t handle any form of medium pre-2020'
I like that description.
Boring? Wth, there was nothing boring about this movie, at least not to me. It was so funny at times. Yes, it took cracks at homophobic and misogynistic jokes, which are considered a little dated now, but they were done in a way that was meant to make us laugh, (you're supposed to be able to tell that). And I think it's held up very well over the years. I really don't think you got what the movie was about. Melvin started out that way (not sure if it was due to his mental illness or not), not a very good guy, but was able to change, almost completely. He even started taking his pills again, due to Carol. By the end of the movie, he had Simon living with him. Huge changes like that must be very difficult for someone to deal with, with Melvin's disorder, but he slowly did. And I think at the end, we were meant to believe he would continue to improve.
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