Amazing how few comments there are in some movies 6/10
I just watched this on HBO online.
Cummings is interesting. The bio says she is in her early 30's ... and
seems to me like she is older than that. Not that I care, she just appears
a bit plastic with all that makeup, but she is on stage and has to look a
certain way. Whatever.
What I find interesting is that her comedy routine here is kind of a lecturing
tone to today's men. Most comedians do this in a self-deprecating way
when they do it at all, but Whitney is pretty tough. Yet, mostly she makes
that work. Reading some of the review she gets called names, yet when you
see men do some really hateful stuff on women ... it's hilarious. So ... she
has a difficult line to walk, so this seems sort of experimental. I think it was
good ... a little bit of scolding, but not too much, some humor, some self-
deprecation.
The thing with sex is that men and women are the way they are and so is
society. It is good to point it out, because it is absurd, and yet ... we guys
do seem to take it seriously, and we do push the line like she says. What
does it all mean ... it was there that Whitney did not have many answers, just
how she felt about things.
I found it odd how often she would kind of pick on people in the audience.
Maybe that is a tactic to make people anxious so they are on edge and have
more laughter to release.
So, people watched the show, and at first they laughed out of politeness
it seemed, then it seemed the laughs died down as Whitney got more lecturing
and more of a kind of cold hearted bitch, a kind of all about showing the
men in the audience what a jerk most of them seem like to her, by being
that which was offensive to her.
It was not so much insightful as it was her dumping a load on the audience.
So, that was interesting. She had some pretty clever jokes, but a lot of it
was not so funny. Jokes about birth control ... maybe that is a girl thing.
Jokes about men calling her baby ... and how it would be inappropriate to
call her a toddler, or preteen ... kind of predictable and not so funny. Women
call guys baby too ... it is somehow an expression of caring, but Whitney's
attitude seems to be all about kind of oppositional sex.
Lots of jokes, but to really be poignant on a subject one has to be sort
of truthful, and that is the one thing you don't know what to think about.
So ... she skims the surface .. which is fine.
I think I laughed a few good times. Maybe she should do a documentary.
She was funny, and had a good personality, so it did not resent watching it
or turn it off halfway ... I give it a 6/10 ... which is good for me.
It means I watched it and liked it. Finished it. Might recommend it, but
probably would not see it again. It was a good comedy special and I think
this lady is intelligent and creative so will probably see better stuff from
her in the future at some point.