It would have been amazing but all the connectivity issues (plus
the general awfulness of OS X media servers circa 2007) shut that idea down.
But the whole «everything's like this, except when it isn't» thing is an excellent characterization of
the general awfulness of the entire movie: the aliens, walking around in their Eddie Murphy robot spaceship body, either understand humans and Earth culture, or they don't, depending on which would be «funniest» (none of it is actually funny, natch).
Granted, this is certainly not a cure, but a reduction in symptoms of PCOS is a pretty exciting idea (imagine, ladies, more regular menstrual cycles, fewer cysts, weight loss, less
general awfulness!).
Not exact matches
There are many ways to define the shrieking
awfulness of The Family Stone, from the
general lack of wit to the cheap exploitation of cancer to its casual cruelty.
So this is the big question, then: Are so many American men so oppressed by the «horrors» of modern life — high cholesterol, uppity wives, smartass children, cell phones, boring jobs, the
general dead - eyed
awfulness of suburbia — that they need a stupid movie like this one to tell them that if they don't like their lives they should do something about it?
Of course, some of the annoyance stems from
general Kindle
awfulness such as frequent bugs in how the platform does sharing and
general disregard for basic typography.
However, the scattered bright spots aren't enough to compensate for the
general...
awfulness.