hollywoodpsychic — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 10:17 PM)

Everyone is complaining about the circumcision scene (at least 10 separate threads here on that topic), but the thing that bothered me the most was that all 4 lead characters misused the word "literally" multiple times throughout the movie. Examples: "That's literally the only thing you said tonight that made sense." "I literally don't know the words that are coming out of my mouth." And so on. If you played a drinking game out of every time someone in this movie said the word "literally", you'd be trashed before Mila even runs for PTA president. (Not literally.)
Anyway, it irked me that it was said near-constantly throughout the movie, but it bothered me even more that all of the characters seemed to get in on it. There's a general rule in screenwriting that basicalls says you give each character a unique voice and try not to make them all sound the same. And I get that this script was probably written by committee, but someone put that word in their mouths so often. Bad, bad writing.
Just had to vent because I've never seen a movie throw that word around as often or as badly as this one. (Literally, even.)
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