Monday, January 15, 2024

40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

Happy MLK Day!  Here's a completely unrelated movie featuring not a single Black cast member even in 2002.   This movie fucking sucks for a host of reasons, lack of diversity being just one.  Content warning:  rape, sexual harassment

Matt (Josh Hartnett) decides to give up all forms of sex for Lent in the hopes it will help him get over his break-up with Nicole (Vinessa Shaw).  Almost immediately, he meets Erica (Shannyn Sossamon) and horror of horrors, is forced to actually date her instead of immediately having sex with her.  Plus, his roommate (Paulo Costanzo) told his asshole co-workers about his vow of celibacy and now there's a bet going.

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If you are a hetero cis man, you should be fucking embarrassed there are movies like this representing your people.  It basically gives you no agency and claims you are utterly dependent on your dicks with zero capacity for willpower or higher thought.  Get it together, men.

Besides the pathetically outdated gender assumptions, this movie is painfully unfunny and a complete waste of your (and more importantly, my) time.  But if you must, it's streaming on Paramount+.

1 comment:

  1. I saw this a few year after it came out, based on a cis man's recommendation. I hated it then.

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