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I really hate the poo poo out of Hitch for reasons that are hard to articulate. It's mostly a by the numbers "Cool dude and lady too cool for his being cool have a wacky misunderstanding and then hook up at the end" thing. The problem is that the protagonist is portrayed as a really nice person who is maybe 1% too smug for how cool, successful, and kind to others he is all movie. And his love interest is a total psychopath who destroys his life over a really dumb misunderstanding because she's an aggressively evil idiot. Yet he's the one who has to run and grovel to her at the end and I'm vomiting up my appendix again. It's like a white writer imagining the coolest Cool Black Guy they can, only to conclude that it must be destroyed with nuclear weapons.
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Looper posted:Similarly Will Smith is a babe so we can forgive him being a manipulative proto pickup artist I would agree except they really really really really make it insultingly clear that he is totally not a pick up artist to the point where he's unrealistically nice for a human in general. If they allowed him even a little bit of negativity then it might have made any sense for him to get ruined. But the whole thing is framed so the unfortunate implications of even the sanitized relationship manipulation thing he does don't exist, and only appear to exist to his love interest because she is a sadistic dope.
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