The office meeting scene is one of the funniest moments ever caught on film, thanks to Parsons keeping her composure. In some aspects the movie is way out of line, in that it seems like some people wanted to do a “period piece” as an excuse to be racist/misogynist/antisemetic on-screen. Stuff like the small-town corruption is still painfully relevant today. And even the less savory stuff can be informative from the perspective of it being a snapshot of a snapshot of prior cultural norms. That doesn’t make it okay. But the context does matter. (See also to a lesser extent the cringy casual misogyny permeating TOS.)
I was watching a Con Panel with most of the original cast and Timothy Busfield defended the movie saying far more vulgar comedies are still being made today; he specifically mentioned the Deadpool movies. But that still glosses over them treating outright sexual assault as a funny happenstance, watching voyuer porn with a 12 yr old Wormser, and selling nudes of students on campus and all it did was make the jocks mildly mad.
Holy shit people still watch this??
Hasn’t aged well at all (see also Revenge of the Nerds), but it still feels like some twisted rite of passage to at least watch.
Edit: my grasp of grammar
The office meeting scene is one of the funniest moments ever caught on film, thanks to Parsons keeping her composure. In some aspects the movie is way out of line, in that it seems like some people wanted to do a “period piece” as an excuse to be racist/misogynist/antisemetic on-screen. Stuff like the small-town corruption is still painfully relevant today. And even the less savory stuff can be informative from the perspective of it being a snapshot of a snapshot of prior cultural norms. That doesn’t make it okay. But the context does matter. (See also to a lesser extent the cringy casual misogyny permeating TOS.)
also
Rite of passage
An agreeable perspective on the medium and time.
Also, my grasp on the English language , despite it being my first learned, is and shall always be tenuous at best.
I was watching a Con Panel with most of the original cast and Timothy Busfield defended the movie saying far more vulgar comedies are still being made today; he specifically mentioned the Deadpool movies. But that still glosses over them treating outright sexual assault as a funny happenstance, watching voyuer porn with a 12 yr old Wormser, and selling nudes of students on campus and all it did was make the jocks mildly mad.
No idea, I saw it when it first hit VHS… and I was maybe 10.