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July 15, 2013 at 3:23 am #115028
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ParticipantI am just tired how muscular women are portrayed in Tv and Movies these days…They treat the concept of an empowered woman like the fucking plague.
They either get Lauren Powers with her deep voiced and chiseled jawline to represent, or they get a beautiful woman like Kris Murrell and have her grunt and flex like an idiot and then have gals call her “Sir” or some stupid joke like that.
No wonder why a regular woman would look at that and be turned off about getting strong.
It really sucks.
July 15, 2013 at 9:39 am #115040BodybyBane
ParticipantIt’s a comedy and and likely not a very good one. I think you guys are taking it a bit too seriously.
We are not getting upset/serious about a comedy
Just how they chose to portray FBBers OR simply women that have muscle in a negative light
Tatiana Anderson in American Pie:Beta House is represented better than Kris seems to beJuly 16, 2013 at 7:29 pm #115062
AlexGKeymasterA couple of reviews, thought I’d pass them along.
Link: http://www.craveonline.com/film/reviews/533671-review-grown-ups-2
In Grown Ups 2, everyone just makes fun of a character played by first-time actress Kris Murrell because she’s very muscular. The men and women of Grown Ups 2 alike make callous remarks about her constantly, suggesting publicly, to her face and at horribly inappropriate times that she must have a penis because she doesn’t fit traditional standards of femininity. It’s not funny that a film with such a hackneyed anti-bullying message would condone bullying throughout its entire running time, and at no point even bother to tack on a little message about how wrong everyone was for doing it. There’s a lot that’s not funny in Grown Ups 2.
Link: http://www.film.com/movies/grown-ups-2-politics
“Grown Ups 2″ fumbles harder when handing LGBT characters. Bodybuilder Kris Murrell plays a character named “Beefcake Kitty,” a muscle-laden athlete introduced in the fitness scene and resurfaced for gags over the course of the film. The joke is that she’s transgendered — although she clearly looks like a female bodybuilder, she may have a penis. When David Spade’s character is revealed to be romantically linked to Beefcake Kitty, that makes the group visibly uncomfortable. “Grown Ups 2″ makes jokes at its transgendered character’s expense to maintain a “normal” suburban profile. In a current climate that’s opening itself up to being more accepting of a spectrum of sexualities, that’s heinous.
“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)July 16, 2013 at 10:24 pm #115065ParticipantThanks Alex for posting excerpts of reviews of Grown Ups 2.
I feel that the portrayal of Kris Murrell’s character may have been worse than I could have imagined.
These two reviewers seemed to be sympathetic towards the obvious negative portrayal of the character, it is a shame, but then again it may be what is expected from an Adam Sandler movie.
Still a shame.
July 20, 2013 at 1:40 am #115106ParticipantA couple of reviews, thought I’d pass them along.
Link: http://www.craveonline.com/film/reviews/533671-review-grown-ups-2
In Grown Ups 2, everyone just makes fun of a character played by first-time actress Kris Murrell because she’s very muscular. The men and women of Grown Ups 2 alike make callous remarks about her constantly, suggesting publicly, to her face and at horribly inappropriate times that she must have a penis because she doesn’t fit traditional standards of femininity. It’s not funny that a film with such a hackneyed anti-bullying message would condone bullying throughout its entire running time, and at no point even bother to tack on a little message about how wrong everyone was for doing it. There’s a lot that’s not funny in Grown Ups 2.
Link: http://www.film.com/movies/grown-ups-2-politics
“Grown Ups 2″ fumbles harder when handing LGBT characters. Bodybuilder Kris Murrell plays a character named “Beefcake Kitty,” a muscle-laden athlete introduced in the fitness scene and resurfaced for gags over the course of the film. The joke is that she’s transgendered — although she clearly looks like a female bodybuilder, she may have a penis. When David Spade’s character is revealed to be romantically linked to Beefcake Kitty, that makes the group visibly uncomfortable. “Grown Ups 2″ makes jokes at its transgendered character’s expense to maintain a “normal” suburban profile. In a current climate that’s opening itself up to being more accepting of a spectrum of sexualities, that’s heinous.
I called it!
Knew that it would be her&David Spade hooking up.
Didn’t know it’d be off-screen though
Even LamerJuly 23, 2013 at 8:39 pm #115194AlexGKeymasterBad as the treatment towards Kris is, its only fictional.
Unlike what reportedly happened to Emery Miller eariler this month.
“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)July 24, 2013 at 4:35 am #115200jsimon
ParticipantWow. That story is unbelievable on so many levels. First off, even just from the shoulders up, she’s really beautiful. That face is stunning. Then you add that physique which she took so much time and stamina to sculpt like marble and her sexiness is off the hook! Now THAT’s something I would say to her.
😉July 24, 2013 at 4:53 am #115203Joe Blow
ParticipantBad as the treatment towards Kris is, its only fictional.
Unlike what reportedly happened to Emery Miller eariler this month.
Kudos to Emery (and her hubby) for turning their lives around – from being Fat to Fit. My guess is the “guys” who did this have small dicks (if any at all) and were made because of it. Emery is BEAUTIFUL! I’d consider myself one of the luckiest guys alive to be able to spend time with her and the only thing harder than her body would be a certain body part of mine I’d want inside her for quite a long period of time
Too bad women like Emery and Kris have to put up with stuff like this. David Spade is an ASSHOLE! I know this was written into the script – and thus Adam Sandler is the one who needs to be beaten alive – but Spade is a midget who isn’t funny yet thinks he is the funniest guy alive and the sexiest. He got airheaded Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace pregnant and now has 18+ years of child support for it.
Kris is as sexy as any woman out there and to be insulted by someone like Spade is a disgrace
July 26, 2013 at 6:37 am #115263Participant[quote=”AlexG” post=113305]Bad as the treatment towards Kris is, its only fictional.
Unlike what reportedly happened to Emery Miller eariler this month.
Kudos to Emery (and her hubby) for turning their lives around – from being Fat to Fit. My guess is the “guys” who did this have small dicks (if any at all) and were made because of it. Emery is BEAUTIFUL! I’d consider myself one of the luckiest guys alive to be able to spend time with her and the only thing harder than her body would be a certain body part of mine I’d want inside her for quite a long period of time
Too bad women like Emery and Kris have to put up with stuff like this. David Spade is an ASSHOLE! I know this was written into the script – and thus Adam Sandler is the one who needs to be beaten alive – but Spade is a midget who isn’t funny yet thinks he is the funniest guy alive and the sexiest. He got airheaded Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace pregnant and now has 18+ years of child support for it.[/quote]
Wait,..Emery is married still?
Thought she got divorced a few yrs.ago…July 26, 2013 at 7:29 am #115265
TC2ParticipantShe did get divorced. She went from fat to fit while with her hubby, but they separated a few years after.
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