Hollywood piles on in the ongoing attacks on teachers

[fried eggs]

I just saw the preview for "Bad Teacher."

I'm so disappointed in Cameron Diaz and others who are aiding in the ongoing smears.

http://www.areyouabadteacher.com/

[NYCGirl]

1. We can't make comedies any more? NT

[dsc]

7. from the reviews I have seen apparently not

Here is one example
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/06/22/bad_teacher

Andrew O'Hehir
Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011 16:12 ET
"Bad Teacher": Cameron Diaz's raunchy misfire
The comeback-seeking star lusts after Justin Timberlake in this sordid, random middle-school farce
By Andrew O'Hehir

*

Cameron Diaz

"Bad Teacher" keeps threatening to become entertaining without quite getting there, but it took me a while to realize how truly awful it is. This wannabe-outrageous comedy directed by Jake Kasdan (mostly a TV guy, and also the son of "Big Chill" director Lawrence Kasdan) features an enthusiastic but directionless star performance by Cameron Diaz, who does her best to cover up the inanity of the entire project by blanketing the movie with pep and pulchritude, like a leggy ICBM dropping little nuclear warheads all over the landscape. They don't go off. It's got the wonderful English actress Lucy Punch, trying to rescue her screamingly dreadful role as a perky, New Agey social-studies teacher named Amy Squirrel, who becomes the deadly rival of Diaz's foul-mouthed and venal Elizabeth Halsey. It's got Justin Timberlake in big glasses and preppy clothes, who looks dazed in the headlights while playing a dorky, possibly gay-inflected character meant to poke fun at his own image. It's all just an embarrassment, the kind of pointless slog you'll encounter on Netflix in two years and wonder, How the hell did that get made? At one point I tried to make myself laugh at a scene that features an Abe Lincoln impersonator starting to do the "churn butter" dance.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. "Cameron Diaz"

they still give her movie roles? Suckers born every minute, I guess.

[demmiblue]

2. Nice try. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

3. Is this a joke? nt

[Rebubula]

4. As your attorney

I advise you to go and get a sense of humor.

[NYCGirl]

5. Somebody better go tell Ms. Krabappel about this!

[Kurovski]

10. Pretty much all of Springfield Elementary.

:D

[cliffordu]

6. Humor police, clean up on Isle 2, Humor police, clean up on Isle 2......

[Kurovski]

8. "On-going"? Unrec for the unreality alone.

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[LynneSin]

11. IT'S A COMEDY!!!!

:eyes:

[itsrobert]

12. Cameron Diaz is old

Seen her in HD on Jon Stewart. Whoa, time to hang it up or start playing grandmas.

[SoCalDem]

14. HD is brutal on the women who want to keep playing parts for women 15 yrs younger than they are

especially the close ups.. To be fair, I don't think the makeup people hired by the tv shows understand about HD yet.. Thick make up is NOT the way to go:)

[Whisp]

13. presecution complex much?

o.f.f.s. it's a stupid movie, along with about a billion other stupid movies.

wait, I think there was one about a plumber. yah, must be a secret coded message about anti-unionism... or fucking something.

lol

[fried eggs]

16. I'm glad you find my concerns to be funny

:(

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. It is supposed to be a comedy, but I completely understand

The "myth" it perpetuates sure doesn't help our situation.