The movie promotes the idea that women are baby making machines that shouldn't be alowed the right to their own bodies and that women shouldn't and should dress modestly.
It also promotes hitting women into submission.
Reviews
4 Reviews
Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar
(2006)
The title should be misogyny the movie.
5 January 2018
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Picket Fences
(1992–1996)
too preachy, hasn't aged well...
4 May 2013
I used to enjoy this show when it first aired.
Watching it decades later I feel that it hasn't aged well. I also find it too preachy, the writers really shove their opinions down the viewers throats. A lot of the subject matters seem silly today, at least to me as a Scandinavian. (but judging by the comments here it seems that this show is still controversial to some people).
Some of the stuff still works, the small absurd things, but all the politics really date the show.
Perhaps interesting as a time document, but to a modern viewer a lot of the show feels awkward.
Watching it decades later I feel that it hasn't aged well. I also find it too preachy, the writers really shove their opinions down the viewers throats. A lot of the subject matters seem silly today, at least to me as a Scandinavian. (but judging by the comments here it seems that this show is still controversial to some people).
Some of the stuff still works, the small absurd things, but all the politics really date the show.
Perhaps interesting as a time document, but to a modern viewer a lot of the show feels awkward.
Like Crazy
(2011)
awkward, boring and not very believable...
15 September 2012
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I just don't see anything that's mentioned in the title in the actual movie. There's no passion between the main characters. They don't act like they're in love with each other. If they're supposed to want, need, love and miss each other like crazy they have a really weird way of showing it. I just don't believe it. Especially since I don't see any on screen chemistry between the main characters. The romantic situations feel awkward, stiff and like they're kissing a cold fish instead of someone they love or are even remotely attracted to. There seem to be much more chemistry with the separate flings.
A more suitable title for this movie would have been "He's just not that in to you" (but that title is already taken) or "Meh". If you love some one 'like crazy' you don't give up as easily as these two did. I know many people who have moved across continents to be with the one they love. If you TRULY love someone you don't ignore the person or cheat on that person behind their back. Because love includes respect for each other, it's not mere physical attraction paired with some form of liking for one another.
If the title had been "Meh" this movie might have gotten a 3 instead of 1. But since I -based on the title and the trailer- expected a movie about two people actually being in love with each other instead of a movie about two boring and awkward persons believing they love each other despite no real chemistry or respect it gets the 1. I just don't see or feel the love at all.
A more suitable title for this movie would have been "He's just not that in to you" (but that title is already taken) or "Meh". If you love some one 'like crazy' you don't give up as easily as these two did. I know many people who have moved across continents to be with the one they love. If you TRULY love someone you don't ignore the person or cheat on that person behind their back. Because love includes respect for each other, it's not mere physical attraction paired with some form of liking for one another.
If the title had been "Meh" this movie might have gotten a 3 instead of 1. But since I -based on the title and the trailer- expected a movie about two people actually being in love with each other instead of a movie about two boring and awkward persons believing they love each other despite no real chemistry or respect it gets the 1. I just don't see or feel the love at all.
Honey & Clover
(2006)
A disappointment...
9 March 2012
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I guess this could have been an OK movie on it's own, but being familiar with the anime and the manga I really don't like this movie. They've taken everything that's good about the original and thrown it out the window. It's not possible to fit everything that's in a 10 volume manga or 26 episode anime into a movie of course. This movie solves this by throwing out the original story almost completely and replacing it with an inferior story instead.
In the anime series people are good friends and their friendships are actually important, not so much here. The characters have had major personality changes, most notably Yamada. She's nothing like her spunky self here, quite the opposite. Mayama is even more of a stalker in this version and since many of his interactions and dialogues with Yamada is still there (despite her huge personality change) he comes of as very conceited. Morita is behaving like a conceited stoner. Shūji Hanamoto doesn't seem to care about Hagu at all and is mostly seen drinking with nameless students. Takemoto for some reason works as that cat-mascot (not in the amusement park) and is a real jerk to Yamada when he's not being a whinier version of himself. Hagu is not her shy quirky self either... she's much more forward than Yamada, which is really weird. In stead of showing us the friendship between Yamada and Hagu, we're simply told that they're friends. Rika doesn't have a back-story, she can walk without a crutch and she's just a normal boring person that feels uncomfortable with Mayama's creepy behavior. He stalks her every day, collect and keep different items she's used while he's working for her. They've chosen to keep the gay twins, here they're gallery owners displaying Morita's art. None of the workers of Fujiwara Design is in this one. This is a strange priority to me, that doesn't make much sense. In the anime the characters talk about going to the beach, but they actually never go... in the movie we get a long and pointless scene with the characters on the beach. The whole Hagu-Morita relationship is completely different here too and most of the story focuses on Morita being a successful artist and Hagu being upset because she feels he is a sellout. They have Takemoto driving around aimlessly on his bike, but it's just thrown in without any purpose to the story or any realization coming out of it. Instead of throwing in random invented scenes that doesn't really flesh out the characters or have any meaning they should have focused on the relationships that are there in the original story. Pinpointing them trough key scenes between the different characters. I liked and cared about all the characters in the anime, in this version I can hardly stand any of them. If you like the personalities in the anime and think their friendships are important, stay far away from this movie.
In the anime series people are good friends and their friendships are actually important, not so much here. The characters have had major personality changes, most notably Yamada. She's nothing like her spunky self here, quite the opposite. Mayama is even more of a stalker in this version and since many of his interactions and dialogues with Yamada is still there (despite her huge personality change) he comes of as very conceited. Morita is behaving like a conceited stoner. Shūji Hanamoto doesn't seem to care about Hagu at all and is mostly seen drinking with nameless students. Takemoto for some reason works as that cat-mascot (not in the amusement park) and is a real jerk to Yamada when he's not being a whinier version of himself. Hagu is not her shy quirky self either... she's much more forward than Yamada, which is really weird. In stead of showing us the friendship between Yamada and Hagu, we're simply told that they're friends. Rika doesn't have a back-story, she can walk without a crutch and she's just a normal boring person that feels uncomfortable with Mayama's creepy behavior. He stalks her every day, collect and keep different items she's used while he's working for her. They've chosen to keep the gay twins, here they're gallery owners displaying Morita's art. None of the workers of Fujiwara Design is in this one. This is a strange priority to me, that doesn't make much sense. In the anime the characters talk about going to the beach, but they actually never go... in the movie we get a long and pointless scene with the characters on the beach. The whole Hagu-Morita relationship is completely different here too and most of the story focuses on Morita being a successful artist and Hagu being upset because she feels he is a sellout. They have Takemoto driving around aimlessly on his bike, but it's just thrown in without any purpose to the story or any realization coming out of it. Instead of throwing in random invented scenes that doesn't really flesh out the characters or have any meaning they should have focused on the relationships that are there in the original story. Pinpointing them trough key scenes between the different characters. I liked and cared about all the characters in the anime, in this version I can hardly stand any of them. If you like the personalities in the anime and think their friendships are important, stay far away from this movie.
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