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Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
One of the better satires...
This movie was great, and for 1 reason that nobody around here seems to see. This movie completely made fun of product placement in everything. Whether it be music, TV, film, or wherever you can place an ad, this movie did it, and did it to the point of where it was not only noticable, but made you sick of it. This, I believe, was the point. Not many movies have really taken a stab at themselves like this, and this one did it succesfully.
Other than that, Tara Reid stayed faithful to the Melody character; Rosario Dawson played an interesting Val; Rachael Leigh Cook was cool as Josie; and I dug the Cabots.
Being a fan of the whole original Riverdale gang, more inside jokes about the Archies (those guys across town) would have been cool.
Also, did anybody else notice the abunce of gay humor in this movie? Or the lesbian overtones between Josie and Val?
Just curious.
South Central (1994)
A great show that was never given a chance...
This show was one of the great moments of TV, when a show went beyond the obvious and focused on the goal of curing problems instead of causing them. It did for TV what the movie "Boyz in the Hood" did for film... it showed the world that everything isn't perfect everywhere. What it also did, though, was show that environment didn't produce animals, but people with purpose and morals. Larenz Tate did his thing, and ever since shows like this one and "Roc" went off the air, it has been downhill for black television.