Talking 'Bout My Generation

When did the word “balls” go out of fashion? I liked it. Lately there is too much use of the word "nut sack" which is getting really annoying; nut sack is used over and over in every film. Is it supposed to be funny or shocking or did people just get tired of the word balls?

Now I am readjusting to nut sack, not nuts, nut sack, in case you forgot the nuts are enclosed in a sack. God forbid you know that underneath all that skin, the testes are in fact separated and hanging by a thread on either side of the penis. So, has that word changed too?

Actually, I think today it’s more commonly referred to as the penis shaft. Penis alone will no longer suffice. Don’t forget the shaft. What is a penis if not a shaft? Are there actually two parts? The penis and the shaft? Does that mean there can be a shaft-less penis? What does that look like, a clit? Okay, sorry to be going in this direction but, I am sadly a by-product of this generation.

Maybe it has nothing to do with reality, but from all the blockbuster movies I’ve been illegally downloading lately, I have come to think our generation is just fucking pathetic.

And, by the way, if you have been watching all these movies too, the word “fuck” is very common. Maybe it always has been when it comes to movies, at least since the 80’s, right? Is there a specific person to whom we can pay tribute for helping us get to the everyday usage of fuck?

I think it goes way back to comics like Eddie Murphy and that one dude who burned half his face off from free-basing, Richard Pryer. And let’s not forget Robin Williams. However, contrary to today, when they used the word “fuck” it was shocking. People actually held their breath and smiled nervously. These comics were navigating in unknown territories. They were taking a risk. But today, I feel like you can say it anywhere at any time.

At the Drive In at McDonald’s, “Yes, I’d like a Big Mac, a small fries, and a fucking Coke, please.”

“That’ll be 7.50, ma’am. Please pull up to the fucking window.”

I just feel our generation's humor is lacking novelty and innovation in so many ways. Is there anyone out there who can come save us comically?

And speaking of… what makes you part of a certain generation? As long as we are alive, are we not a little bit of every generation? I don’t get it. Is my generation solely composed of people my age and classified by what people my age like today, by what brings us nostalgia? Is my generation limited to MC Hammer and Beavis and Butthead or can I also consider today’s Top 40 part of my life? It is something to ponder but let’s continue on with the fascinating topic of what makes a blockbuster comedy today.

Any comedy you see nowadays will at one point focus a scene on a man’s ass. This has been going on since Austin Powers and then Borat. Ah, Borat. I know it was a hilarious movie and that guy sure knows how to push the envelope (is that the right expression), but let’s be honest! Is a 10-minute scene dedicated to deep face-in-ass shoving really that funny? After two minutes I was ready to move on, weren’t you? My husband did seem to enjoy it. He sat shaking and laughing, holding his sides for the entire scene.

Needless to say, it’s part of today’s comedy recipe: two men and an ass. If it’s a romantic comedy, that’s a different story which I’ll get to later.

The other night I saw Get Him to the Greek. If you have seen it, you’ll agree it had all the major components of a modern day comedy: the word “fuck”, the word “nut sack”, an ass scene and a bonus for you, an intelligent scene where the British Rock Star asks his girlfriend to put her vagina on the phone. (And let’s not forget the one thing that will transcend time, the gratuitous tit scene, if there aren’t tits, it’s not a good adult comedy)

Is this what our generation has come down to or has it always been this way?

Another film I saw was a romantic comedy called “The Back-up Plan” with Jennifer Lopez. I realize I am not choosing the artsy intellectual films but still, millions are going into this mierda?

Please tell me you were disturbed several times to see J.Lo stoop so low? Disturbing scene one: J.Lo’s character is pregnant and eating a bucket of chicken in bed like a slob. Then she climbs on top of her boyfriend while chewing some chicken and she kisses him. He pushes her off and she happily goes back to her binging. Am I the only one out there who wanted to yak during that scene? Why did they make her do that?

Disturbing scene two is when she has an orgasm without the guy even touching her because she's pregnant, hyper-sensitive and horny. Why couldn’t she have been sexy as she climaxed? Her facial expression looked like some Italian bonehead getting kneed in the balls (correction: nut sack).

But what could ever compare to the disturbing scene of Meryl Streep wearing Keds and doing a choreographed dance scene in Mama Mia? (Hugh Grant dancing while presumably alone in Love Actually?)

Ohhh, oh, ooh!! Where are all the intelligent people like Sam Kennison and his infamous scream? What happened to Porky’s, a simple penis poking through a hole in a wall? Or Weird Science where Chet is reduced to a green, bubbly pile of shit?

Wait a minute. Have comedies always been dumb? Are we just slowly increasing our obscenity level? Before it was a pie in the face, now it’s an ass in the face? And, I have not gone into some of the thrillers I have seen with such graphic and disturbing violence that I’m left feeling tortured for days. Is it all about pushing the limits? Is that what we thrive on now?

Push it, push it real good. Maybe I’m just getting old. Maybe I’m just a prude? Then again, maybe we’re just talkin’‘bout my generation.