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IMPORTANT: Requirements to Enjoy this Movie

posted 10 years ago by shdwfthsun
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#1. You like Aubrey Plaza
#2. You enjoy RAUNCHY, vulgar comedy
#3. SLUT and WHORE are NOT in your vocabulary

I cannot stress that last part enough. If you have ever considered using these words to describe anyone, this film was never intended for you and you will hate it (though you could learn from the message).

This isn't high-brow humor or anything, but I thought it was the funniest film of the year. There are so many jokes I couldn't stop laughing. Full disclosure: I am a feminist and thoroughly enjoy absurd humor. Also, based on your knowledge and views of sex it seems your mileage may vary.

You have been warned!!!

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[–] gilbert_gumphrey 10 years ago

I think the only huge requirement to enjoying this movie is not having seen ANY other raunchy high-school sex comedies before. If I hadn't seen this exact same movie 100 times already, I might've really enjoyed it.

But I have, so I didn't.

[–] youngexec 10 years ago

Naaaa. You are trying to oversimplify.

Lots of people who enjoy this film have seen those raunchy HS sex comedies, but this one doesn't demean and objectify women like all those SEXIST ones written for males....

You have to have "special" politics to enjoy this crappy film...not unfamiliarity with the genre.

[–] gilbert_gumphrey 10 years ago

...Are you Aubrey Plaza's ex-boyfriend? I can't think of any other reasonable explanation for your endless tirade against this movie.

Dude, I'm AGREEING with you. I think To-Do List sucks. And you're still gonna argue with me, on this post and others???

I guess I was oversimplifying, in order to make a joke/point. The film is redundant, predictable, cliched. Take your irritating politics (which have also rapidly become redundant, predictable, and cliched) out of it, and this is the biggest problem about the movie -- despite their role reversal, this is a tired screenplay, from start to finish.

Again...if you wanna argue with fans of the film you hate, fine. But don't argue with people who share the same opinions of you. That's hilariously idiotic.

[–] DeusExKatrina 10 years ago

I think the only huge requirement to enjoying this movie is not having seen ANY other raunchy high-school sex comedies before. If I hadn't seen this exact same movie 100 times already, I might've really enjoyed it.

But I have, so I didn't.

That's interesting. I don't think I would have appreciated the movie much at all if I hadn't seen other high school sex comedies before.

It's a satire. Without the frame of reference, most of the content would have lost its perspective.

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[–] lola_mento 10 years ago

You're goddamn right

[–] corpus_callosum 10 years ago

it might also be important to not hate the concept of anal sex.