I haven't seen it. I don't get to the movies often, and if/when I do, it certainly wouldn't be piffle like this. But a friend of mine just saw it, and e-mailed me asking if I knew what "Salt'n'Pepa-ish hip hop track" played during the opening of the movie. It ain't on IMDB. I know someone out there in ILX land knows.
Anyone?
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 23 July 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)
why are you friends with someone who saw it
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)
From wikipedia: "The popular musician Dave Matthews appears as an overtly homosexual salesman mid-way through the movie."
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)
that's a stretch.
rob schneider plays a chinese guy
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)
Hahahaha. I was as shocked as you were.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)
fuck's sake: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boxoffice23jul23,1,7092929.story?coll=la-headlines-business
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
- H. L. Mencken
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)
"The gay subject matter may have turned off filmgoers 'at the outer edges' of Sandler's fan base, one Universal executive acknowledged."
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)
That movie would be awesome if they actually fell in love by the end, and there was a slow, steamy makeout scene.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)
As in, "I love that guy, but <i>just not enough</i> to see him pretend to be gay"? x-post
― Erroneous Botch, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)
hahaha.
That's what blows my mind. The movie only succeeds by playing to America's homophobia.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)
the voice review is hells funny. "this sodomite had a gay old time."
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)
I had a really hard time figuring out how serious he was in that review.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)
"I mean, I'm homophobic and all, don't get me wrong. But seeing someone pretend to be someone pretending to be gay sounds pretty gay to me"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)
Also, select theaters have dicks in the seats.
Seriously, though -- anyone know which song we're talking about?
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)
Alex - According to Hollywood.com, Fannypack is credited as one of the song performers for this movie. Might be what you're looking for.
Here's a link to the credit info:Chuck and Larry
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 July 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)
I'm kinda nonplussed by this movie, because (and in posting this, I out myself as someone who saw an Adam Sandler movie in theaters) Big Daddy was pretty evenhanded and positive where its gay characters were concerned. Two of Sandler's character's college roommates were portrayed as being in a gay relationship, and when another character expresses discomfort with their gayness, Sandler asks him, "So, what time do you have to be at your Klan rally?" or something similar. And that was the extent of it; the characters are introduced as gay, and then the issue is dropped. So it's a little weird that this movie seems to dive headlong into the screaming-queen stereotypes.
― unperson, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)
Personally, I think this would have been even worse, in its way...
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/07/a_peek_at_the_movie_chuck_larr.html
― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)
Did we figure this out?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)
having not heard the song, my guess is this --> Fannypack, Song Performer (“Seven One Eight”)
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809761688/cast
oh you were the one that suggested Fannypack in first place. "Salt N Pepa-ish" seems to fit.
― dmr, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
I've never actually heard Fannypack. I remember some small hullabaloo about them a few years ago and thought the term "old school" was bandied about, so I guessed.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)
they (are trying to) sound like L'Trimm
― dmr, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)
Your "friend" emails you, who clearly "would not see a movie like this", to ask what song plays in the opening credits. Right...
― Reatards Unite, Thursday, 26 July 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)
oh god
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)
-- marmotwolof, Monday, July 23, 2007
one of my favorite posts ever
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 25 December 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)