wonderbunny wrote:I have a fondness for this movie as a great way for Hollywood to realize the difference between the two. Charlie was given medication for a disorder, and Psychopath Hank emerged.
I think you got this backwards, Charlie supressed his anger until he hit his breaking point and Hank emerged. The medication was taken to keep Hank at bay. So they were treating the disease with drugs, not creating the monster with drugs. Once Charlie left the hotel without his medication did Hank's truley evil side emerge in a cartoonish character.
This is a Farrelly Bros movie. Personally, I would never take a kid under 14 to see one of their movies, they always go beyond good taste in their films. They make adult oriented comedies (There's Something About Mary, Kingpin, Dumb & Dumber, Shallow Hal) That's why I go see them. I also don't think a teeneager who sees this movie is going to be influenced to the point to jump a train and beat people unconscious with dildos. The responsibilty is not of the movie makers, but the people around the teens creating an example of what acceptable behavior is. If they are recreating something, it's because they want attention... food for thought. I think MTV has greater influence in bad behavior than a film like ESOTSM. And no teenager I know would sit through ESOTSM, it is too cerebral and does not have enough action or CGI effects.
...but as for recreating scenes from the Me, Myself & Irene, I call the sleeper car make out session before the dildo clobbering.