I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting tired of these stupid jokes of older white "un-hip" people dancing to rap music. This has been done so much in the past Scary Movie 2, The Black Night, Down to Earth, ect, ect. Anyone else getting tired of the same joke that really wasn't funny to begin with?
shareI agree, this so called "joke" is just not funny, it never was and it never will be. It is just a stupid joke to make cheap laughs, i mean come one, rich and upperclass white people dancing to rap garbage. This joke is crap and this movie will be crap. Period.
shareAs a successful business tycoon, I myself am happily old, wealthy AND white, and I can confidently say I adore jerking arrythymically to what is considered 'urban music'. And my wealthy dowager of a wife whole-heartedly concurs. "Rock on", as my grandson says.
sharelol... You're not serious, right?
shareYes, this is a terrible joke, but for some reason it sells tickets...I just don't get it.
shareLet's assume Person A is your average intelligent guy. Half of the people in the US are dumber than him. Half of the people in the US are brighter than him. You can see that half repesents ALOT of people. That's my only and best explanation. =)
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Once, at a club, I got drunk enough to let my girlfriend talk me into dancing. A few minutes into it, I saw myself in a mirror. Ridiculous.
This is one white guy who can't dance.
Ok, I am FAR from stupid, and I found the white people dancing to urban music to be funny. Maybe it's because I'm black. Maybe not. The joke is repeated, but here's a newsflash: There's nearly nothing new under the sun. Lighten up. If you don't think it's funny, fine, but chill out and just take it at face value. It's just satire.
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I wonder, though, if these actors who are participating in the "dancing," recognize that they are encouraging a mockery of their race. The joke isn't funny. It is excessive and patronizing, in my view. I love that Hollywood can't stifle it's appetite for producing films which portray older white people as the stereotypical: "Muffy, let us go bust a move on the ball room dance floor, shall we?", pretentious, well-to-dos. Chris Rock is simply reassuring this ignorant interpretation of caucasians.
shareFairness is the name of the game.
If a predominately "white" movie debuted with black people (old or young) trying unsuccessfully to do anything construed as a white activity (none come to mind now, since tennis is dominated on the female side by the Williams Sisters) there would be such a cry of outrage that we wouldn't be able to hear the crunch of popcorn in our mouths.
If we're going to be Politically Correct, let's respect all parties equally. What we have -right now- is an affirmative action form of racism wherein it is hunkey dorey to ridicule white people but black people are off limits.
All or nothing.
Btw - I'm not white
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shareHey now... Before this topic goes on any further, I'd like to point out one thing.
They used the exact same joke, making old white people do funky dances, in "What A Girl Wants." (Why I watched this horrible piece of flick in the first place is beyond me). I do not recall a single black person in the movie, yet the lead character manages to make a ballroom full of snooty British upper-class dance to a different music. And itwasn't rap. Same joke, different movie. You guys need to realize that the MAIN part of the joke revolves around making uptight people loosen up, NOT making white people act black. Why pigeonhole this debate to race only?
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Well I don't think its funny... It's a disease!!
I CAN'T DANCE!!!AAGHH!!
Does anyone have a copy of "Darren's Dance Grooves" I can borrow?
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well do you know the name of that song that was playing when they were crip walking or something???
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The song was "Nothin" by Noreaga.
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Minority is YOUR word for US! We never liked it. You want to talk about over-done race jokes? I got a few. How about the all-black-women-have-to-be-sex-addicts joke that appears in most of your Hollywood films? How about the "white-big-hearted-megastar-has-to-help-the-poor-black-athletic-team-beat-the-rich-running-champions-of-last-year" joke that you jokers love to put in your sports films? What about the "we're-gonna-say-the n word-once-and-for-all" joke that Tarantino loves? The dance joke is not nearly as old, tired, and unfunny as those classics, I just named. You said, "I like being portrayed as a complete idiot". Too easy!
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First of all, the word "minority" isn't just for you. It refers to Mexicans, Asians, homosexuals, etc. If it's used in Africa, it refers to white people. I can understand getting offended by "black" or "African American," but minority is completely harmless. It says nothing more about you than that you're not a member of the most populous race in the place you live. If you don't want to be referred to as minority, find a place populated mostly by people who look like you, then you can be "majority." And for the record, I am neither white (more of a peach color), nor do I have relatives from the Caucus mountains. But guess which two terms people use to refer to me. That's the problem with grouping people and trying to describe them with only one or two words.
Now which all-black-women-are-sex-addicts movies can you think of? I believe you that there are some, but the only ones that come to my mind are Wayans brothers movies. I wonder how many I've seen that portrayed that stereotype that I didn't recognize. And which white-big-hearted-megastar-has-to-help-the-poor-black-athletic-team movies can you think of? There's Bad News Bears and the Mighty Ducks movies and The Rookie from a couple of years ago. But, to me, those are about a white guy helping poor kids, not necessarily poor black kids. I guess there was that TV show from a while back -- White Shadow or something -- but I've never really watched it so I can't really say if it qualifies. I agree that a few more of these movies should have black coaches, though. Remember the Titans was a good one.
But, anyway, the biggest reason for this post: why does it offend you that white people don't like to be made fun of for being unhip and lacking rhythm? Do you feel that white people haven't earned the right to complain about racism or something? Tolerance is a two-way street, isn't it? That last statement you made, which seemed to imply that white people are easy to make look idiotic, struck me as racist.
i thought it was "The Next Episode", Dr. Dre.
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