nhendley-1
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I won't add to the growing chorus of 'boos' garnered by this godawful remake, except to say that I hate movies based on faulty logic.
Without sounding like an economics professor: would the husbands of Stepford really want their wives to abandon their high-paying jobs to become domestic slaves/robots/micro-chip-implanted domestic divas? In a pivotal scene, Nicole Kidman's character discovers that one of the local zombified Stepford women used to be a prominent judge. Bette Midler's character, meanwhile, is supposed to be a best-selling author. Judges and best-seller authors generally make decent salaries.
Now, unless the men of Stepford are all multi-millionaires, would they really be willing to so readily sacrifice their wives' earning potential, just so they could enjoy the comforts of robotic domestic divas? More to the point, could anyone besides Donald Trump actually afford to live in Stepford if they didn't come from a high-earning double-income family? In the 1950s era (which this film is allegedly sending up) it was possible to get by with The Man as sole breadwinner, but methinks such days are long gone, except in ultra-rich communities.
Just one of the many, many, many flaws in this terrible turkey.
Nate H. Toronto, ON
Without sounding like an economics professor: would the husbands of Stepford really want their wives to abandon their high-paying jobs to become domestic slaves/robots/micro-chip-implanted domestic divas? In a pivotal scene, Nicole Kidman's character discovers that one of the local zombified Stepford women used to be a prominent judge. Bette Midler's character, meanwhile, is supposed to be a best-selling author. Judges and best-seller authors generally make decent salaries.
Now, unless the men of Stepford are all multi-millionaires, would they really be willing to so readily sacrifice their wives' earning potential, just so they could enjoy the comforts of robotic domestic divas? More to the point, could anyone besides Donald Trump actually afford to live in Stepford if they didn't come from a high-earning double-income family? In the 1950s era (which this film is allegedly sending up) it was possible to get by with The Man as sole breadwinner, but methinks such days are long gone, except in ultra-rich communities.
Just one of the many, many, many flaws in this terrible turkey.
Nate H. Toronto, ON
Kuffs is a truly awful film that contains one of my all-time favorite show-stopping plot points. Slater's character walks out of a church where his brother is praying. Hears gunshots. Runs back into church to see thug standing over his dead brother, smoking gun in hand. At the police station, Slater is informed that the police can't press charges because-quote-"You didn't actually see the thug shoot your brother. Therefore, he can just claim he saw a gun and picked it up."-unquote. Of course, the police let the thug go...
I know Kuffs is supposed to be mindless, but this scene caused my jaw to hit the floor. Evidently, the San Francisco police have never heard of fingerprints, ballistics and testing for powder burns. Much less, questioning a suspect, as to why he was standing in a church with a smoking gun in hand and body on the ground (with bullets in it that no doubt match those fired from the gun).
I never knew that modern-day police had to rely solely on eye-witnesses to secure convictions.
awful awful awful - avoid like the plague
I know Kuffs is supposed to be mindless, but this scene caused my jaw to hit the floor. Evidently, the San Francisco police have never heard of fingerprints, ballistics and testing for powder burns. Much less, questioning a suspect, as to why he was standing in a church with a smoking gun in hand and body on the ground (with bullets in it that no doubt match those fired from the gun).
I never knew that modern-day police had to rely solely on eye-witnesses to secure convictions.
awful awful awful - avoid like the plague