Ebert hit it on the head when he said they both acted like they were still in High School. She was a b**ch, he was an a**hole. They were both despicable. They deserved each other. What galls me is that the movie actually expected us to like these people and sympathize with them. I would have enjoyed the movie more if they were both turned into road pizza by an eighteen wheeler.
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The movie was about the confusion of dating/relationships and guess what, it was a comedy. Of course the characters were idiosyncratic and dysfunctional.
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I wasn't that crazy about the movie, and I could understand it if someone called it "crap"--but "Yuppie crap"? What was particularly Yuppish about this movie? The female protagonist was a writer who seemed at least semi-Bohemianish. The only thing Yuppish about her was her careerist approach to her writing, writing what she considered junk for the sake of pleasing her editor; but she gave that up eventually.) The male protagonist was an artist. True Yups of my acquaintance would probably see them both as losers because they didn't get into investment banking or some other lucrative field.
shareExactly!! I happen to love this movie and think it's hysterical but I too can understand how someone could have negative feelings about it. "Yuppies" is just such a ridiculous term though....they're not accountants scheming to make a buck for godsake.
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It would take too long to explain my use of the word Yuppie, however it pissed me off when they made a big mess in the video store for the fun of it, leaving it all for someone else to clean up. Also, when they both insulted and humiliated her date, the comedian who lived with his mother, at the art show.
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Here is the definition for you:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yuppie
yup⋅pie   /ˈyʌpi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [yuhp-ee] Show IPA
–noun (often initial capital letter) a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.
By Yuppie, I meant that they acted like yuppies: self centered, rude and demanding and insulting, even if they didn't work on Wall Street, etc.
I understand about the infatuation period, but my issue is with the sensibility of the movie. It seemed to me their negative traits were celebrated. These are the kind of people I avoid in real life. I wanted to jump into the screen and wipe that smirk off of Adams face.
Yes, the date was a whiner and I don't blame her for getting tired of him, but as I said, humiliating him seemed to be the point of the scene. If I was in his shoes, I would have wasted Adam on the spot.
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"By Yuppie, I meant that they acted like yuppies: self centered, rude and demanding and insulting."
I've seen some Yuppies act like this but in my experience (and I live in a city that has both one of the highest poverty rates in the country, along with a high concentration of Yuppies--"rude and demanding and insulting" are traits I more often find in the urban underclass on public transportation.
True, but if you work in a job where you have to cater to them, you see alot more of that.
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