Indie queen Parker Posey is trying to start some shiz with director Judd Apatow, who probably can’t hear her from inside a money vault that would make Scrooge McDuck proud.
Unimpressed by his directorial hits Knocked Up and Superbad, she says:
“There’s so much frat boy humor out there now. This whole Judd Apatow craze — I don’t like it. It excludes girls, and it doesn’t do anything particularly great for our culture. Getting wasted, throwing up, ignoring your girlfriend, who gets that? I consider myself funny, and I don’t (get it).”
What I don’t get then is why she took a role in Superman Returns — was that truly a cultural touchstone for our time? Or for that matter, why she appeared on Boston Legal, alongside characters are as sexist as they come.
And hello, Josie and the Pussycats? Its name alone beats McLovin’s.
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There’s a lot of frat boy humor out there NOW? What, the last 30 years?
She is right, enjoy the ride to hell my children!
Muahahahahahaha…
Getting wasted, throwing up, ignoring your girlfriend? Apparently she never saw Dazed and Confused. But why would she? She was only in it for, oh……. most of the movie. She’s perfect for this site.
Ooh, good one Pastafarian. I had forgotten that.
Is that what Dazed and Confused was about? I never did understand why people liked that movie.
hey im a girl and i LOVED superbad and knocked up! and superman?? snoozefest! she should get over herself!
Aghhh the feminist backlash to Superbad is driving me insane because it’s such a good movie, and as someone in high school, it’s almost painfully relatable to watch.
Ah-ha.
I still don’t understand the so-called “feminist” criticisms of Superbad. And if she really watched and processed “frat boy” films for what they are instead of what they aren’t, she’d see that women do play parts in those films, and they aren’t throw away. Sure the women are sex objects from time to time, but they are also love objects, caretakers, and often redeemers who are brighter, more patient, and more sensitive than the male characters in whose bildungsroman they play a critical part. But they’re not the main characters, or quirky bitches, so Parker thinks those are bad roles? Of course the women are only shown in relation to the men: these are movies about male characters. All the characters are shown in relation to the main characters, who, I say again, are men. It’s called narrative structure, dumb*ss.
Every male in Superbad was pathetic in some way. The women in Apatow’s movies and TV shows tend to have it a lot more together than the men.
parker posey is great. hello? dazed and confused?
I feel exactly the same way about Chick Flicks: they are totally unreal, transparently contrived, emotionally manipulative in a breath-takingly cynical way and oriented exclusively toward females; the men in them are all hunkey, personality-free stereotypes that only serve as props for the feminine wet dreams that unfold on the screen.