Nope, you hit it. I am especially uncomfortable with the joke frequently being her aggressively hitting on some guy, often white, who looks afraid and uncomfortable with the attention from her. The fact that she is fine with it (and the checks it generates for her) doesn’t make it ok.

Thanks. I’m feeling especially lazy this 3-day weekend.

Google says 6 ft even.

Thanks. I wasn’t being sarcastic so I’m glad that got through.

My issue is that it’s not just slapstick, but slapstick that actively uses black stereotypes to enhance how silly the character seems. She’s not just silly, she’s a large, uneducated black woman from the ghetto who uses Ebonics and stereotypical phrases like “aw hell no”. It seems like she was designed so we would…

I see your point, but one of the reasons I like her is she does and says things women aren’t supposed to, the way the Amys (Poehler and Schumer), or Sam Bee do. I don’t watch SNL because so much of it is either not funny or uncomfortable, but I’ve watched some of her stand up, and it’s pretty physical. Her style is to…

I feel you on this one. The movie looks like it’s going to be funny, but it I can’t help feeling occasionally like Leslie Jones is being placed in sort of a buffoon role, to contrast the three learned white lady scientists. Overall I’m happy that Leslie is getting Hollywood work, I just wish that she could have been…

There’s a part of me that sees what she does as no different than what Tina Fey, for instance, does.

That crossed my mind—for a minisecond, but Jones is just so funny and very bright. I do think it’s cool that a woman in her late ‘40s is one of the best cast members of SNL especially coming after that young “white-out” cast from a few years ago. Jones gets what a lot of those kids didn’t—a laugh.

I knew her personality was large and in charge, but look at that photo up top: McKinnon and Wiig are average height, (estimation from my memory). How tall is Jones? I never noticed that about her before.

I liked how Stephen King handled this when people were all up in arms that the TV show “Under the Dome” wasn’t faithful to the book and claimed the TV show ruined it. He basically said “No. If you love the book, it’s still there, go read it, I promise you the book didn’t change because we made a TV show.” The ‘you…

I honestly and seriously can’t tell if she’s merely a female corollary of a Chris Tucker or Tracy Morgan, in terms of style and presentation of personality and blackness as an individual representation of slapstick and silliness.

These people need to get over it. Books get made into movies and tv shows that don’t live up to the source material all the time. Movies have been getting terrible sequels and remakes for the last 100 years, probably. It’s not the end of the world.

If they remake Harry Potter in 20 years I will still go see it. I loved the books and would want to see what take the filmmakers had on the books. I love the cast they had for the originals but I wouldn’t be like no one ever can try their hand at those characters ever again.

my go to response for this logic is: “if this ruins your childhood- you’re in luck because you haven’t grown up yet. And ultimately, you know what ruined your childhood? The fact that no matter how wonderful you claim it to be, it didn’t materialize into a fruitful and successful adulthood.”

Not to mention, a lot of fans were extremely skeptical about the choice to cast JLaw as Katniss to begin with, what with her not matching the physical description of Katniss, like, at all.

This is especially bad logic because these people were hating on the movie long before the trailer came out. When it was announced there was a reboot starring women, people went apeshit.

It’s about ethics in trailer journalism!

I want to see Leslie Jones in a movie. That woman is awesome.

“it’s not because it’s starring women, it’s because the trailer is really bad!”