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Nine Lives (2016)
Fun Movie
Ignore the critics on this one. The professional reviewers sound like Yelpers. Yeah, the "parent too busy for this kid" trope is here, but so what? Want to complain about a RomCom where boy meets girl too? BTW., ever wonder why it's so common?
This is a fun movie. Yes, it's targeted at a young demographic. Yet I'm pushing 60 and I liked it. I heard the kids in the audience enjoying it too.
There are even cameows by famous internet cats as you can see in the credits.
If you don't like cats though you may not like the movie. It is what it says on the box.
The Sopranos (1999)
Perpetuates negative Italian-American stereotypes
"It's just TV; don't watch it" So that makes it OK then? The answer to that is No. No it's not.
The same old same old. New Jersey Italian guys are not only mobbed up, but uneducated. They speak with NY street accents in sub-vocal grunts.
They also love to portray NJ negatively - as if stupid NJ jokes told by generations of third rate comedians who should be playing Grossinger's were not enough. People who have never been here think that those "gritty" locations are representative of the state. Take a look at comments made on social media sites after hurricane Sandy.
What are the chances that a show doing this to another ethnic group would ever get off the ground?
Even worse is that young Italian Americans are aping these characters. That's how they're supposed to be, right?