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Does Hollywood only make movies for yuppies now?

posted 12 years ago by roycant07
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Another movie about a group of friends from NYC or LA getting into trouble without major consequences? If any of us pulled half of this crap we'd be in jail.

Seriously, are only thirty something year old yuppies in Manhattan interesting to writers and directors?

The rest of the country is trying to make ends meet and I doubt half of them are trying to watch insufferable trust fund yuppies screw up a bachelorette party.

Mind you, the same tired cliches.

Please, no comments like, "then don't watch it then". You know the market is saturated with these types of comedies.

How are there only rich or upper middle class people in movies now? And insufferable rich people.

[–] zuckerkorn 11 years ago

if i want a long miserable boring pathetic ugly *beep* story i have my life

[–] oceanaire 11 years ago

LOLOL

[–] oceanaire 11 years ago

I think you make a really good and interesting point, but your post does come off as a little defensive. Before you even hit "post reply," you were already preparing for an attack against you.

I don't think I've really given it much thought before, but movies really do target a certain demographic. Movies like this in particular. All I can say is...it's a movie. It's not supposed to be taken seriously. People go to the movies to escape for a couple hours, go into a different world, experience something out of the ordinary. I'm in grad school, when I see a movie I want to be entertained and see people doing things I would never do. A good movie is one that evokes a lot of emotion, in my opinion.

I'd be interested to hear what about those girls makes you think they are rich, trust fund yuppies? Do you think that all girls who do blow living in the city are insufferable rich people? What kind of movies would like to see being made more often?

[–] roycant07 11 years ago

Well first off working class people fall in love, work and live interesting lives too, it's just that Hollywood doesn't think that their lives are all that interesting and only people like the ones featured in this movie are interesting.

These girls were yuppies, not super rich girls, but girls with comfortable salaries that afforded them decent apartments in two high cost of living cities; NY and LA. They have ample time to take off from work, score coke (a really expensive drug), and help pay for hotels and plan parties. The girl getting married clearly comes from an upper middle class background to afford a wedding that lavish.

I mean how are these points missed to you? Most people in the US are scraping by, getting married at courthouses, or borrowing free space at the local civic center, renting cheap churches or other venues for receptions.

[–] MTulliver 10 years ago

"Most people in the US are scraping by, getting married at courthouses, or borrowing free space at the local civic center, renting cheap churches or other venues for receptions. "

No, they're not. The average cost of a wedding right now is $25k. Does that sound like people are scraping by or having to have their wedding in a junk yard or whatever?
Sheesh. You are putting WAY too much thought into this and your bias is showing. Why would anyone watch a movie about someone getting married in a "free space at the local civic center"?
If you want to watch a movie about working class people, watch one! There ARE movies like that out there.