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I'm currently getting a free preview of a premium cable channel, and two of the films I checked out were TRAINWRECK (Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, 2015) and BRIDE WARS (Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, 2009).
In the broadest terms, both films are about how women have to consciously choose their values and follow a lifestyle path.
I can't help noting that the Wikipedia page for TRAINWRECK says it got a ton of favorable reviews as a great comedy, supposedly hilarious, while BRIDE WARS got terrible reviews and even condemnation from the critics. I find that astonishing and a very sad sign for our culture.
To me, TRAINWRECK was painfully unfunny, unpleasant, even dreary. I had maybe two little smiles in two hours, and no laughs at all. It was a complete waste of my time and kind of a bummer.
BRIDE WARS, by contrast, was very funny and filled with charm. I enjoyed it tremendously.
TRAINWRECK was only a slightly bigger hit at the box office, despite the vast help it got from bogus critical praise-- while BRIDE WARS was being hurt by hateful reviews and doing well anyway. That's the only hopeful sign I can take from this cultural oddity.
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Oct 12, 2016 - 4:13 AM
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MikeP
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I'm currently getting a free preview of a premium cable channel, and two of the films I checked out were TRAINWRECK (Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, 2015) and BRIDE WARS (Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, 2009).
In the broadest terms, both films are about how women have to consciously choose their values and follow a lifestyle path.
I can't help noting that the Wikipedia page for TRAINWRECK says it got a ton of favorable reviews as a great comedy, supposedly hilarious, while BRIDE WARS got terrible reviews and even condemnation from the critics. I find that astonishing and a very sad sign for our culture.
To me, TRAINWRECK was painfully unfunny, unpleasant, even dreary. I had maybe two little smiles in two hours, and no laughs at all. It was a complete waste of my time and kind of a bummer.
BRIDE WARS, by contrast, was very funny and filled with charm. I enjoyed it tremendously.
TRAINWRECK was only a slightly bigger hit at the box office, despite the vast help it got from bogus critical praise-- while BRIDE WARS was being hurt by hateful reviews and doing well anyway. That's the only hopeful sign I can take from this cultural oddity.
Amy Schumer herself is painfully unfunny and tremendously unpleasant, so, there ya go. 
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Oct 12, 2016 - 4:15 AM
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MikeP
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I'm currently getting a free preview of a premium cable channel, and two of the films I checked out were TRAINWRECK (Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, 2015) and BRIDE WARS (Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, 2009).
In the broadest terms, both films are about how women have to consciously choose their values and follow a lifestyle path.
I can't help noting that the Wikipedia page for TRAINWRECK says it got a ton of favorable reviews as a great comedy, supposedly hilarious, while BRIDE WARS got terrible reviews and even condemnation from the critics. I find that astonishing and a very sad sign for our culture.
To me, TRAINWRECK was painfully unfunny, unpleasant, even dreary. I had maybe two little smiles in two hours, and no laughs at all. It was a complete waste of my time and kind of a bummer.
BRIDE WARS, by contrast, was very funny and filled with charm. I enjoyed it tremendously.
TRAINWRECK was only a slightly bigger hit at the box office, despite the vast help it got from bogus critical praise-- while BRIDE WARS was being hurt by hateful reviews and doing well anyway. That's the only hopeful sign I can take from this cultural oddity.
Amy Schumer herself is painfully unfunny and tremendously unpleasant, so, there ya go.
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