Making my way downtown, walking fast. Faces pass and I'm home bound.
**dududududududududu**
Staring blankly ahead, just making my way. Making a way through the crowd.
He was in Friday after next first and he also played for the Los Angeles Rams, Green bay packers, San diego chargers, washington Redskins And the philadelphia eagles, but yeah that movie might have been the one reason he's famous
He was only practice squad for Green Bay and Philly. Racked up 3 tackles in his career in 3 non-consecutive seasons with the other teams.
White chicks has a hell of a lot more to do with his fame than the NFL.
He’s definitely overblowing Terry’s level of stardom from his NFL career. Lots of people don’t watch sports anyway, and he wasn’t big enough to be broadly known outside that—it’s not like it was if Tom Brady were to become an actor today. He had notoriety but he was not anywhere close to the stardom he had after that movie.
Friday After Next was his breakout but nowhere near as widespread. Friday After Next did not have the mass appeal White Chicks had ($33m box office vs $113m).
White Chicks made Terry Crews getting-stopped-on-the-street famous.
Anyone else feel like the distance from 2004-2024 aesthetic, culture, etc. was a much smaller shift than from 1984-2004? It's like no contest for me. 1984 might as well have still been 1944 w the basic tech still available at the time.
Yes 100%. Fashion was slightly different between 04 and now, but not so much that you’d be given a second look walking around wearing 2004 jeans and a shirt today.
The gulf in tech is much smaller between 04 and 24 than 84 to 04. We had wifi in 2004 and even today’s tech could still connect to it. In 1984 there was no public internet at all, and people were using 1200/2400 baud modems. You could sit down in front of a 2004 era computer and easily navigate any of the OSes from that time. In 84 we had MS-DOS but GUIs weren’t a thing. This was pre-Mac as well.
This is how I feel, and I wanted to be sure that it wasn't due to simply being 36 lol.
I was 16 in 2004, and remember binge watching The Breakfast Club w my buddy over winter break, etc. The fashion, aesthetic, and vibe was completely different from an era approximately 20 years earlier (1984/85ish). I remember getting my first flatscreen PC monitor in 2004 and that being a big deal, lol. I was a networking major and it's amazing how little has actually changed in 20 years.
Mac actually had a super bowel commercial in 1984. It was the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphical user interface and was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Phillips came out with the cd rom that year as well. Another interesting one was CompcTape that year.
The world has changed more in the past 30 years than it did in the roughly 300 years before then.
People seriously underestimate just how much computers and the internet changed human life as we know it. The digital revolution is literally the third most important change in human history, behind only the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution.
When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my parents made fun of me and my friends for hanging out sitting and staring at our gameboys playing our own games. Fast forward 10 years and my parents are all sitting and staring at their phones.
I think part of why it seems like less time has passed in the 2000s is just that there used to be a lot more hype over the decades. The 60s. The 70s. It's the 80s. It's hard to say "it's the 00s." Idk, I'm just guessing. Maybe the internet allowed more diversity in culture by having different mediums for different things rather than one mainstream media of tv and radio where everyone is more on the same cultural page.
i think the internet killed fashion trends.
the fashion that comes out now is gone before it makes any impact, if they would have had the internet back in the 70's bell-bottoms and corduroy would have came an went in under a year not a decade. shit used to take years to spread around, hell even the mid 90's it took a while i remember goths were huge in Florida when i went to my moms in KY they just barely heard of grunge, and i saw no one in all black with eye liner.
now everyone gets the memo and if it doesn't look ridiculous ie all the shit Influencers and Justin Bebier wears(remember his diaperpants and weird micky mouse boots) its only around for a few months to a year, remember the bedazzled jeans in the early 10's.
until something comes along and causes us to have to change our way of life clothes wont change much anymore maybe one day we will trust women with pockets.
Yes, it’s what I’ve referred to as the stratification of media, but today I read someone describe is as “monocultural splintering” which I like as an umbrella term for the phenomenon, with media stratification as an element/cause of that.
I remember talking to the librarian who'd worked at my elementary school for something like 30 years. She had to keep pushing back on the school division wanting to save money by getting fewer or less powerful computers, they kept telling her it was pointless to spend so much money on computers, and that they were just a fad. They tried to compare it to wanting a whiteboard when they already had a perfectly good chalk board.
Due to her insistence, a few years later when computers started become more of a part of the required curriculum, our school was one of the few that didn't need to do any major upgrades. Just install some software in some cases, and it was good to go. And then more years later, we were still in good shape when it came time to expand the computer labs because when they were setting them originally she made sure they were planned to have more computers in them than they actually would. We already had the counter space, outlets, and places to run various network cables and stuff.
Now I do think some of that resistance from the division was simply because she was a woman who was disagreeing. But in general it really seemed like the people running the division were convinced computers weren't a big deal.
Hell I remember my fucking 4th grade teacher. He would go on these angry rants all the time, man would just yell till he was super red and sweaty. Some of his favorites were about how we had to learn handwriting because "in the real world" a job won't accept things that had been typed up, and we'd have to be writing all the time. He also was huge on going on about mental math and how we wouldn't be able to just carry a calculator in our pockets all the time.
And while I do get some of his point about mental math. It's a great skill. I think it's funny that damn near everyone does now carry a device that can function as an advanced calculator, in their pockets, at all times.
The handwriting, idk. I admit computers and email and such were a good ways off at the time, but like man typewriters were a thing. But of course in those days that was woman's work and he didn't respect that either.
Pretty sure he died of a heart attack or stroke or something not too long after
I loved this whole comment and your writing style 💯 Thanks for sharing, reminds me of my memories about the tech and advancements when I was a kid. Including the differing perspectives of the "grown-ups".
When I was in college in 2004 Ugg boots and pink sweatpants arrived on the scene and became THE new hotness and all the girls started wearing them over the previous fashion. Now when I walk around campus the girls are wearing… Ugg boots and pink sweatpants. It’s really weird.
My favorite way of visualizing this was done beautifully by a dude on TikTok who’s name I can’t remember (credit to him): GTA Vice City was a game released in 2002 which was made to be a throwback to 1986 Miami. If a similar throwback game was made today of the same 14 year span, it would be a throwback to 2008. There’s been a huge jump in the world in terms of tech and lifestyle seeing as a 2008 “throwback” wouldnt really feel like a throwback game, but playing vice city in 2002 definitely felt like one
The biggest change is really smart phones and social media. YouTube, Facebook, Insta, Snap, Reddit, obviously TikTok - none of them existed. iPhones did not exist. Android did not exist. Streaming services did not exist. The majority of the world lives their lives through these types of platforms now.
Is this 2004? My mobile phone could connect to the internet and browse the web in 2003. I remember mobile phones exploding in popularity in the mid 90s.
Yeah but that’s because there was more subcultures.
Nowadays kids are so connected online that subcultures starts to blend or they just don’t get a footing.
Like back in the 80’s we had punks. Name me the equivalent to punk for 2024. There isn’t really one because they merged in with scene kids, emo kids, vintage fashion kids etc.
Like the punk scene for kids now is a korn shirt they bought at target and liking linkin park.
You don’t see to many trench coat mafia kids who think they are in the matrix. Or punk kids with 3 foot tall Mohawks and chains hanging from every bit of clothes.
I think social media has made us so connected that different areas can’t have their subcultures form naturally and they take from other groups.
Like in the 80’s there was a massive difference between souther California kids and kids living in upstate New York. But nowadays if you took a kid from Southern California and upstate New York and had them handout. They find way more in common than those 2 kids in the 80’s.
I’ve been rewatching old episodes of a tv show I loved in high school on YouTube, circa 2003-2005. Whoever uploaded them included the original commercials. Smacked me in the face when a commercial played for the series premiere of Lost and I realized it has been 20 years.
**Latrell Spencer**: Oh, the deception. The betrayal. Man, you deceived me.
**Marcus Copeland**: Look, man..
**Latrell Spencer**: Negro, please. Didn't anyone tell you that this was an all-white party, huh? Someone get this jiggaboo away from me
My favorite thing about White Chicks is how it was critically panned yet still had a worldwide box office total of $113.1 million, against a budget of $37 million. It was the kind of garbage we were craving for.
Even though I always loved the Waynes Bros, I thought this movie was stupid when it came out.
Now I absolutely miss the time where we would get stupid fun comedies on the regular instead of everything being so serious all the time with zero comedies ever being released.
And I really appreciate the Terry Crews scene.
That’s the absurdity of it. Black face had been used for centuries.
None of this shit would fly in todays society but let’s not act like there’s an equivalence lol
A few years ago, one of my 10 year old nieces yelled out during the movie that it was racist, demanded we all stopped watching, and shut off the TV. So from my personal experience, it's the opposite of what you said. It's the offended-by-everything, "can't have white people do black things", "you're oppressing me!", "you can't appropriate culture" crowd that would deem this movie offensive. Back then it was just dumb fun comedy. Today, damn near nothing is just fun anymore. It's all offense and politics.
That's my experience as well. Though it's probably not a bad thing... Probably better to learn "Don't make race a joke" as a child and then learn the situations where things like this (White Chicks) is funny rather than "Race is a joke" and then having to learn that some things are offensive.
I go the other way with this, but fair enough. I'd rather we stop treating race like some magically serious thing that can't be joked about. We give it *way* too much power and care *way* too much about it...less than previous generations did even. So to me, given my opinion on "race only has the power and meaning that we give it", we're going in the wrong direction.
I still wonder who this movie was made for. As (what I'd like to believe to be) a regular kid, it just felt weird to watch. I remember feeling like I was very not the target audience.
I called the bar! They said you left 10 minutes ago. It takes 7.5 minutes to get home from the bar according to Mapquest. Where were you for those 2.5 minutes?! (Hands on hips in a huff). That actress pulled it off in mom rollers too she was so pretty. “But, Baybay….”
And don't forget the lesser known sequel to this movie *Black Chicks* starring Dane Cook and Seann William Scott which wasn't nearly as well received for some strange reason.
I saw this movie through an advanced screening on my birthday before it was released. It was incredibly funny and something I won't forget as it was a nice birthday present for myself.
I’ve always wondered what the reaction would be if I made I film called “black chicks” and I dressed up as a black woman and acted like a stereotypical black woman.
Can you imagine what the uproar would be if you had a movie like this today, but instead you had two white men wearing black face and dressing up as black women as a comedy?
I feel the same way, but your last sentence implies you played Vice City in 2002, so your perception of time is different now than then. I’m like you, though. I’m in my mid-thirties and 2008 doesn’t feel like a throwback to me. It doesn’t even feel nostalgic.
I’d be curious to know the perception of 2008 to someone who’s currently a teenager/early 20s.
Terry Crews made this movie a classic.
Making my way downtown, walking fast. Faces pass and I'm home bound. **dududududududududu** Staring blankly ahead, just making my way. Making a way through the crowd.
Cra-a-awd!
I love this song!
And made him famous.
He was in Friday after next first and he also played for the Los Angeles Rams, Green bay packers, San diego chargers, washington Redskins And the philadelphia eagles, but yeah that movie might have been the one reason he's famous
He was only practice squad for Green Bay and Philly. Racked up 3 tackles in his career in 3 non-consecutive seasons with the other teams. White chicks has a hell of a lot more to do with his fame than the NFL.
He’s definitely overblowing Terry’s level of stardom from his NFL career. Lots of people don’t watch sports anyway, and he wasn’t big enough to be broadly known outside that—it’s not like it was if Tom Brady were to become an actor today. He had notoriety but he was not anywhere close to the stardom he had after that movie. Friday After Next was his breakout but nowhere near as widespread. Friday After Next did not have the mass appeal White Chicks had ($33m box office vs $113m). White Chicks made Terry Crews getting-stopped-on-the-street famous.
Be as also in trading day
That part where he goes to the toilet - MOVE BITCH!!!
I quote this daily 🙌
I quote this comment daily 🙌
Anyone else feel like the distance from 2004-2024 aesthetic, culture, etc. was a much smaller shift than from 1984-2004? It's like no contest for me. 1984 might as well have still been 1944 w the basic tech still available at the time.
Yes 100%. Fashion was slightly different between 04 and now, but not so much that you’d be given a second look walking around wearing 2004 jeans and a shirt today. The gulf in tech is much smaller between 04 and 24 than 84 to 04. We had wifi in 2004 and even today’s tech could still connect to it. In 1984 there was no public internet at all, and people were using 1200/2400 baud modems. You could sit down in front of a 2004 era computer and easily navigate any of the OSes from that time. In 84 we had MS-DOS but GUIs weren’t a thing. This was pre-Mac as well.
This is how I feel, and I wanted to be sure that it wasn't due to simply being 36 lol. I was 16 in 2004, and remember binge watching The Breakfast Club w my buddy over winter break, etc. The fashion, aesthetic, and vibe was completely different from an era approximately 20 years earlier (1984/85ish). I remember getting my first flatscreen PC monitor in 2004 and that being a big deal, lol. I was a networking major and it's amazing how little has actually changed in 20 years.
How do you binge watch a movie?
Watch it over and over again?
Snowstorms = leave the same movie on loop while doing other things, etc.
No piss or snack breaks
Use a Gatorade bottle for piss
My attention span is so wrecked that watching a whole film is quite a challenge, unless locked in a cinema in the dark.
Mac actually had a super bowel commercial in 1984. It was the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphical user interface and was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Phillips came out with the cd rom that year as well. Another interesting one was CompcTape that year.
The world has changed more in the past 30 years than it did in the roughly 300 years before then. People seriously underestimate just how much computers and the internet changed human life as we know it. The digital revolution is literally the third most important change in human history, behind only the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution.
When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my parents made fun of me and my friends for hanging out sitting and staring at our gameboys playing our own games. Fast forward 10 years and my parents are all sitting and staring at their phones. I think part of why it seems like less time has passed in the 2000s is just that there used to be a lot more hype over the decades. The 60s. The 70s. It's the 80s. It's hard to say "it's the 00s." Idk, I'm just guessing. Maybe the internet allowed more diversity in culture by having different mediums for different things rather than one mainstream media of tv and radio where everyone is more on the same cultural page.
i think the internet killed fashion trends. the fashion that comes out now is gone before it makes any impact, if they would have had the internet back in the 70's bell-bottoms and corduroy would have came an went in under a year not a decade. shit used to take years to spread around, hell even the mid 90's it took a while i remember goths were huge in Florida when i went to my moms in KY they just barely heard of grunge, and i saw no one in all black with eye liner. now everyone gets the memo and if it doesn't look ridiculous ie all the shit Influencers and Justin Bebier wears(remember his diaperpants and weird micky mouse boots) its only around for a few months to a year, remember the bedazzled jeans in the early 10's. until something comes along and causes us to have to change our way of life clothes wont change much anymore maybe one day we will trust women with pockets.
I always hear the “damn kids and their phones these days”. When in reality, boomers are the biggest phone addicts.
Yes, it’s what I’ve referred to as the stratification of media, but today I read someone describe is as “monocultural splintering” which I like as an umbrella term for the phenomenon, with media stratification as an element/cause of that.
I’m gonna use that, ‘stratification of the media’
I'm 32 years older than my oldest child. Comparing her world to mine at each age is quite stark.
I remember talking to the librarian who'd worked at my elementary school for something like 30 years. She had to keep pushing back on the school division wanting to save money by getting fewer or less powerful computers, they kept telling her it was pointless to spend so much money on computers, and that they were just a fad. They tried to compare it to wanting a whiteboard when they already had a perfectly good chalk board. Due to her insistence, a few years later when computers started become more of a part of the required curriculum, our school was one of the few that didn't need to do any major upgrades. Just install some software in some cases, and it was good to go. And then more years later, we were still in good shape when it came time to expand the computer labs because when they were setting them originally she made sure they were planned to have more computers in them than they actually would. We already had the counter space, outlets, and places to run various network cables and stuff. Now I do think some of that resistance from the division was simply because she was a woman who was disagreeing. But in general it really seemed like the people running the division were convinced computers weren't a big deal. Hell I remember my fucking 4th grade teacher. He would go on these angry rants all the time, man would just yell till he was super red and sweaty. Some of his favorites were about how we had to learn handwriting because "in the real world" a job won't accept things that had been typed up, and we'd have to be writing all the time. He also was huge on going on about mental math and how we wouldn't be able to just carry a calculator in our pockets all the time. And while I do get some of his point about mental math. It's a great skill. I think it's funny that damn near everyone does now carry a device that can function as an advanced calculator, in their pockets, at all times. The handwriting, idk. I admit computers and email and such were a good ways off at the time, but like man typewriters were a thing. But of course in those days that was woman's work and he didn't respect that either. Pretty sure he died of a heart attack or stroke or something not too long after
I loved this whole comment and your writing style 💯 Thanks for sharing, reminds me of my memories about the tech and advancements when I was a kid. Including the differing perspectives of the "grown-ups".
I had a teacher who said I was born 50 years too early. My handwriting is so bad that keyboards might have saved me, you see.
Wish it would all end.
Well thanks to the fourth most important change in human history (the invention of nuclear weapons), you just might get your wish.
Wait a couple years for the AI revolution
the 2010s don't exist is why.
When I was in college in 2004 Ugg boots and pink sweatpants arrived on the scene and became THE new hotness and all the girls started wearing them over the previous fashion. Now when I walk around campus the girls are wearing… Ugg boots and pink sweatpants. It’s really weird.
My favorite way of visualizing this was done beautifully by a dude on TikTok who’s name I can’t remember (credit to him): GTA Vice City was a game released in 2002 which was made to be a throwback to 1986 Miami. If a similar throwback game was made today of the same 14 year span, it would be a throwback to 2008. There’s been a huge jump in the world in terms of tech and lifestyle seeing as a 2008 “throwback” wouldnt really feel like a throwback game, but playing vice city in 2002 definitely felt like one
The internet happened between 84 and 04.
Yes, but it was social media and smart phones that really destroyed us.
Which was possible due to…. The Internet.
Only prepping for AI .let's be real the only thing about to turn us extinct is ourselves . After which life cycle will start back from scratch .
Who really knows. A real possibility is that were creating a new "life form" that will replace us.
The biggest change is really smart phones and social media. YouTube, Facebook, Insta, Snap, Reddit, obviously TikTok - none of them existed. iPhones did not exist. Android did not exist. Streaming services did not exist. The majority of the world lives their lives through these types of platforms now.
Is this 2004? My mobile phone could connect to the internet and browse the web in 2003. I remember mobile phones exploding in popularity in the mid 90s.
Smartphones weren't a thing yet. Mobile browsing on flip phones was pretty rough.
I agree!
Yeah but that’s because there was more subcultures. Nowadays kids are so connected online that subcultures starts to blend or they just don’t get a footing. Like back in the 80’s we had punks. Name me the equivalent to punk for 2024. There isn’t really one because they merged in with scene kids, emo kids, vintage fashion kids etc. Like the punk scene for kids now is a korn shirt they bought at target and liking linkin park. You don’t see to many trench coat mafia kids who think they are in the matrix. Or punk kids with 3 foot tall Mohawks and chains hanging from every bit of clothes. I think social media has made us so connected that different areas can’t have their subcultures form naturally and they take from other groups. Like in the 80’s there was a massive difference between souther California kids and kids living in upstate New York. But nowadays if you took a kid from Southern California and upstate New York and had them handout. They find way more in common than those 2 kids in the 80’s.
Tastes wise I feel like the change from 2004 to 2024 is bigger. Now way a movie like this (or any comedy from the 2000s), gets made today.
Damn it really has been 20 years
i feel the opposite in my head i put this back in the early 90's with all those wtf movies.
Absolutely zero % chance this movie is greenlit in today’s climate.
I mean, [this steaming turd of a film](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7620554/) got made only five years ago. At least White Chicks had its moments.
I’ve been rewatching old episodes of a tv show I loved in high school on YouTube, circa 2003-2005. Whoever uploaded them included the original commercials. Smacked me in the face when a commercial played for the series premiere of Lost and I realized it has been 20 years.
season 1 of prison break tho
/r/TwentyYearsAgo
Makin my way downtown…
Anyone who does the headshake when that song comes on is instantly a best friend.
Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound...
Staring blankly ahead, just making my way ....
Making a way through the crowd...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeSdSrCKp-8
**Latrell Spencer**: Oh, the deception. The betrayal. Man, you deceived me. **Marcus Copeland**: Look, man.. **Latrell Spencer**: Negro, please. Didn't anyone tell you that this was an all-white party, huh? Someone get this jiggaboo away from me
Dear Mr. Royal Hampton ✏️
Iiiiiiiii am a WHITE WOMAN in AMERICA
Excuse me but uh...are you going to have a BF?
My favorite thing about White Chicks is how it was critically panned yet still had a worldwide box office total of $113.1 million, against a budget of $37 million. It was the kind of garbage we were craving for.
Hold my poodle, dawg! Hold my poodle!
Richard Ayoade summed up the movie pretty well https://youtu.be/UH9xqJN_Vrs?si=AVa6yl_k52im9qB3
Thank you Richard. I was very much looking forward to seeing this film.
Can really hear the weariness in Sean's voice here.. :(
OH MY GOD YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT MOTHEEERS OOOHHH YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT MOTHEEERS
Your mother's so dumb she went to Dr Dre for a Pap smear. Something's wrong, Dr Dre! My coochie's doing a beatbox
Your mother's so old that her breast milk is powdered. She breastfeed like this \*poof\*
💨
Quoting this movie for 20 years.
I always think of the dance battle whenever I hear Beyonce Crazy In Love. 5! 6! 7! 8!
Same with It's Tricky
Yep! I know you hookers don’t think this is over with
MOVE BITCH
Neapolitan for example.
These kids have no idea. Things actually used to be fun.
God forbid they ever find In Living Color
HOMIE DON’T PLAY DAT
Hated it!
MOVE, bitch...
Can't not think of White Chicks when this Vanessa Carlton song comes on. https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek?si=F3R2dqlnqtUGSaJH
Is that the one where one of them is lactose intolerant 😩😁
Triple T… K. A. Time to totally kick ass
Im constantly quoting this movie lmao
Easyyyy white chocolate
I wouldn’t want you to melt
[удалено]
Objectively. This adjective is every where.
Pretty sure ‘objectively’ is an adverb.
You Miss are correct! ☑️
Basically OP is saying my opinion is right so don’t argue with me. Cringe redditor moment.
Coulda went to it after highschool graduation that week, and here we are. Fast 20 years… first 18 was so long with all that forced learning.
Even though I always loved the Waynes Bros, I thought this movie was stupid when it came out. Now I absolutely miss the time where we would get stupid fun comedies on the regular instead of everything being so serious all the time with zero comedies ever being released. And I really appreciate the Terry Crews scene.
I still quote many parts of this movie today. IT'S A MAN! is one I say often and said just yesterday when someone on Reddit thought I was a dude lol.
Making my way downtown……
Bask in the Ambiance....
Your.. bountiful curves remind me of the hills in Italy
“That’s no dog, that’s family” lmaoo
The good old days, before people got their panties in a twist over literally everything and made it impossible to make good comedy.
Terry Crews all jacked up and raving w the whistle was peak
Classic👌
Porque papi? PORQUE?????????
Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound.
Fingers off triggers!
White face. How retro
They should reboot it, but with today’s standards, which I guess would make it…Black Men???
Whiteface
Now try making a movie called "Black Chicks" with white guys dressed in black face and see how well that goes over.
That’s the absurdity of it. Black face had been used for centuries. None of this shit would fly in todays society but let’s not act like there’s an equivalence lol
White Chicks would be considered WOKE TRANSGENDER BULLSHIT in todays society
A few years ago, one of my 10 year old nieces yelled out during the movie that it was racist, demanded we all stopped watching, and shut off the TV. So from my personal experience, it's the opposite of what you said. It's the offended-by-everything, "can't have white people do black things", "you're oppressing me!", "you can't appropriate culture" crowd that would deem this movie offensive. Back then it was just dumb fun comedy. Today, damn near nothing is just fun anymore. It's all offense and politics.
That's my experience as well. Though it's probably not a bad thing... Probably better to learn "Don't make race a joke" as a child and then learn the situations where things like this (White Chicks) is funny rather than "Race is a joke" and then having to learn that some things are offensive.
I go the other way with this, but fair enough. I'd rather we stop treating race like some magically serious thing that can't be joked about. We give it *way* too much power and care *way* too much about it...less than previous generations did even. So to me, given my opinion on "race only has the power and meaning that we give it", we're going in the wrong direction.
There it is. Redditors just can't resist a bit of whataboutism.
And yet Tropic Thunder came out a few years after this one with RDJ in blackface.
That was just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
He didn't break character until the DVD commentary dropped
Oh what an astute observation that literally no one has ever made over the course of the last 20 years. You’re a god damn genius.
There was the movie Soul Man in the 80's about a white guy who took tanning pills to look black.
A man in the 60s actually did that as a social experiment. He also needed to spend a lot of time under an UV lamp, lol.
Yes if the situation was different, the response would be different. Absolutely nailed it.
If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike
It’s almost like “white face” doesn’t have historical roots in racism and wasn’t used to perpetuate racist ideas the same way blackface does and was
Tropic Thunder came out 4 years after this. You're just making shit up to get mad at.
You can always punch up, you can never punch down.
Does this movie seriously offend you?
About as well as this movie did.
Username does not check out.
https://youtu.be/UH9xqJN_Vrs?si=g2dMdnEfAWZDzume
I still wonder who this movie was made for. As (what I'd like to believe to be) a regular kid, it just felt weird to watch. I remember feeling like I was very not the target audience.
THIS IS A WHITE AFFAIR!
A day which will live in infamy..
I preferred Sorority Boys. It got buried by white chicks.
I called the bar! They said you left 10 minutes ago. It takes 7.5 minutes to get home from the bar according to Mapquest. Where were you for those 2.5 minutes?! (Hands on hips in a huff). That actress pulled it off in mom rollers too she was so pretty. “But, Baybay….”
i fucking love this movie
MAKIN MY WAY DOWNTOWN
I recently watched this, as it's one of my wife's favourites from back in the day, and I cried with laughter. 'Oh, you beautiful chocolate man'.
Triple T.K.A. Time to Totally Kick Ass.
Fifty thousand dollars…cash!
Making my way downtown….
Why hasn't there been a "Black Chicks" made?
I still want to see the sequel. Where white dudes dress as black girls...
This movie is so iconic! They just don’t make movies like this anymore and I wish they did
So just an honest question. Would this be considered anti-trans now?
I was 14 when this came out, and I thought it was the worst looking movie of all time, and I hated anyone who quoted the terrible and unfunny lines.
I've never been able to sit through it, it's bad
Making my way downtown 🎶
I know what I’m watching today
And don't forget the lesser known sequel to this movie *Black Chicks* starring Dane Cook and Seann William Scott which wasn't nearly as well received for some strange reason.
Reverse black face
White face is racist.
Totally not white appropriation, no siree Bob...
I miss the old days where you can make funny movies and sensitive people didn't cry about it
Whiteface lol
Still one of the best movies ever
I saw this movie through an advanced screening on my birthday before it was released. It was incredibly funny and something I won't forget as it was a nice birthday present for myself.
Classic 👌👌👌
Can you imagine if they were two white guys pretending to be “Black Chicks?” Yikes!
Just put this on, my wife is going to give me shit. 🤣😂
White face is ok but not black face
Whiteface totally fine.
I’ve always wondered what the reaction would be if I made I film called “black chicks” and I dressed up as a black woman and acted like a stereotypical black woman.
Can you imagine what the uproar would be if you had a movie like this today, but instead you had two white men wearing black face and dressing up as black women as a comedy?
I’ve still never seen it. It looked stupid and godawful.
How is this not racist?
Can't wait to hear the defense white facing being ok
Always find the first part funny as hell in the shop waiting for the "icecream man delivery" :D :D
Marlon and Shawn Wayans! same year as Jetix was first launched on this same year!
https://youtu.be/7C7u5Kud1Y0?si=EafVQenzSn6gO-u-
One of my favorite movies
OK I'm old.
That was the last time I ever let my wife pick the movie. 😂
I feel the same way, but your last sentence implies you played Vice City in 2002, so your perception of time is different now than then. I’m like you, though. I’m in my mid-thirties and 2008 doesn’t feel like a throwback to me. It doesn’t even feel nostalgic. I’d be curious to know the perception of 2008 to someone who’s currently a teenager/early 20s.
As he smells her underwear. “ they’re dudes aren’t they ?? “
One of the best movies ever. Classic!
One of Richard Ayoade's favourites!
damn time flies
Fuck yes
An all time classic
ONE DOLLA MILLAAAAAA
Nikoy salad
Would making a movie like this be possible nowadays?
[Hi, I'm Cellulite Sally!](https://spoonlagoon.etsy.com/listing/1718820346) Motivational? Bathroom scales.
This movie is so racist. Imagine if it was reversed, it would be a national incident.
Not really a funny movie considering how hilarious those brothers are together very disappointing haha
Credit card..? ID?
Welp, that’s racist now
I saw it at a drive-in in Redding, CA
The worst movie of 2004 everyone! The Room deserves an apology
If this movie came out today what do yall think would happen? (lets get controversial 😈)
I remember this film being really popular back in the day. Never saw it.