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Sadly, I can't watch these at work. So in my mind I'm making up some crazy shit that Corey Feldman is doing, like snorting blow of a zombie hookers decaying ass while saying something clever like "Yo, Cory (Haim), you gotta check this shit out! She's, like, DEAD!"

Matt Damon would be fun to hang out with. He's the only reason I can never totally write Ben Affleck off as a douchebag. If you have Damon's approval, you can't be all bad.

Between that Disney clip and Candyman 2 I feel I have a pretty well rounded view of life in New Orleans.

Way to go, MD! You keep fucking that chicken.

There were miniscule amounts of AAVE (African-American Vernacular English, the linguistic term for Ebonics) in that trailer. I heard more exaggerated Southern accents than anything else, and I heard some definite statements which would have been grammatically incorrect in AAVE. It sounds to me like they are incorporating certain rules of AAVE into a Southern dialect, presumably so that African-American girls more closely relate to Tiana.

There's nothing wrong with adapting your speech to try to relate more closely to your audience. If Disney wants to relate to African-Americans, then it's a good call to have their characters adapt their speech. We all do that- I talk to my fellow teachers in a different way than my colleagues who only do research, politicians change their accent slightly depending on their audience, and even children can adapt their accent. It would be racist if it was exaggerated, or if there was a quality judgement being made based on the speech, but I didn't see either of those things happening in that trailer.

Addendum to above comment: Not referring to the trailer, but to the 5 minutes. I'm not going to step into the quagmire surrounding that lightning bug in the trailer.

That Matt Damon (always said in my mind ala Team America) video is a constant reminder of how sad I am to this day of the day I saw him. He's clearly a nice, intelligent, friendly guy and I'd heard nothing but good things from friends and acquantainces that walked up to him before.

It was a chance sighting at his usual NYC Starbucks location. It was also by chance that I had just walked out of The Brothers Grimm and really need some caffeine to get the stank of the film out of my mind. So of course the only chance I ever had to gush at Matt Damon happened to be the day that I couldn't even look him in the eye because I was embarassed for him appearing in that dreck.

I'm a very honest person. Brutally so. There is no way that interaction could have been positive. I wanted to slap him across the face with my ring hand, shake some sense into him, and warn him against really bad movies in the future. So I did the only smart thing: I walked out, bought real coffee at the Mud truck (smelly hipsters be damned, that's some good brew), and went back to my room to read some Margaret Atwood in a vain attempt to rebuild the destroyed brain cells after seeing The Brothers Grimm.

It would be racist if it was exaggerated, or if there was a quality judgement being made based on the speech, but I didn't see either of those things happening in that trailer.

True. But having the rich white family and the poor black family, with the mother who makes clothes and the father who has a dream of opening a restaurant and yet we don't know that he even has a job, with the daughter who already knows how to cook, with the people coming out of the woodwork (shambling I may add) to eat a little pot of gumbo, with the crappy southern accents (which can insult the intelligence of black people if you assume they can relate to it better), with the stereotypical facial features...no, of course it wasn't racist in the least bit, not at all, no way.

Best part of that trailer was the voice of John Goodman and that fucking cat.

I hate Disney. I hate Disney with an angry little boy passion from having to sit through those fucking movies because it was the only thing my slightly older sister would watch. Because she was older and Daddy's little girl and got away with whatever the fuck she wanted. Because Disney eats your goddamn soul and then flushes it down the fucking toilet. Because the fucking theme parks are entirely too shit balls expensive. Because I never had sex with Belle. Fuck Disney. I want to take a giant shit on its chest. Fuck Disney.

> Because the fucking theme parks are entirely too shit balls expensive.
Because I never had sex with Belle. Fuck Disney. I want to take a giant
shit on its chest. Fuck Disney.

@DeistBrawler
Here I was going to invite you to come and out visit, but F that now Mister ;-D

{someday I learn how to do all the cool formatting and quoting on these comments}

@ Tracer

You can add me to the list of stereotypically red blooded American males.

I also like porn and steak.

And I'm not a red-blooded American male like JakesAlterEgo, but I do enjoy porn and steak.

@ Tracer

I got it too and I'm not American. The rest of you bitches should be ashamed.

Also, I like porn and steak sex with the mukluks on.