My first regret is that I didn't see this movie with a big sack of rotten tomatoes in a real theatre. My second regret is that I saw this movie at all. Now that I had to sit through the horrible experience, I might as well write something about it to warn others. Not that it's going to work, because this is a slick enough super con movie. So there is no way I can expect the majority of people to not see it. Or to see through it in case they do see it.
This is the ultimate dishonest movie. It has everything that is supposed to be 'politically incorrect', although it doesn't actually use any politically incorrect words. There is racism, there is dangerous stereotyping, and of course there is sexism. And all this in that very familiar but not-talked-about style where someone makes a nasty racist comment in such a way that if someone else points it out, the offender can innocently turn back and say, Oh I didn't mean it that way at all!
There is one reason you might want to see this movie: To check out how a movie can be extremely exploitative as well as a movie with a message. The exploitative part is not difficult to see through if you are interested in seeing at all. The message part is slightly covert. It can be summed up as: Beware of single working cunts (especially those educated ones who can be found in weird weird places like a gook restaurant) on the prowl for innocent white Christian married manly males.
If you find my opinions hard to digest, consider these trivia listed on the Wikipedia:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Attraction)
- The film gave rise to the term "
Bunny boiler", as the scorned woman (Glenn Close) boils the pet rabbit belonging to her ex-lover's (
Michael Douglas) daughter.
- On the
History Channel show "Hollywood's Greatest Villains,"
Glenn Close said that she asked a psychologist to analyze Alex Forrest's character. The psychologist concluded that Forrest must have suffered sexual abuse as a child.
- In an episode of
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Will has to deal with a pushy woman. He refers to the film by saying "I am telling you, if we owned a pet rabbit, the dude would be on the stove by now!"
- In the television show
Friends Phoebe makes fun of Ross' girlfriend by asking, "How's Crazy doing? Has she boiled your rabbit yet?"
- In the movie
Sleepless in Seattle Tom Hanks' character asks his son during an argument if he has ever seen the movie
Fatal Attraction. When his son replies that he hasn't because he wasn't allowed to, Hanks' character responds "Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me. It scared the shit out of every man in America!"
But this one takes the cake in the light of what I have written above:
- In an episode of puppets who kill, Dan's obsession with Buttons was based off fatal attraction, he even boils Button's pet rabbit, when Buttons questions Dan about that, Dan say "Oh that wasn't because of you, I just like eating rabbit stew."
This must be Junior You Know Who's favourite movie.
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