Jun 8 2007Canuck Claims Knocked Up a Rip Off

hey asshole!
filipino hah?!
puta ka gago!

So two people had the same horrible idea of an excuse for a story? Remarkable!

From Amazon:
"Canadian journalist Eckler was a young hipster covering club openings, trends and the minutiae of yuppie life for a newspaper when a "whoopsie" moment after her engagement party (later dubbed the Conception Party) left her pregnant. The 29-year-old author and her fiancé, who lived far away and whom she planned to marry and move in with at some point, were initially shocked but later accepting. This wasn't exactly in Eckler's plan (though what was in the plan isn't quite clear, either). She becomes cautiously excited about her vague perception of parenthood, but repeatedly horrified by what pregnancy brings: weight gain, a ban on alcohol, stretch marks. Eckler writes, diary-like, about each of these revelations as well as more than anyone would want to know about both her weight and her daily trips to McDonald's. Eventually, she and her fiancé move in together and seem genuinely excited about the baby's arrival, which may comfort readers unimpressed with some of Eckler's other decisions (she doesn't completely stop smoking; she schedules a C-section for nonmedical reasons). Sometimes this mommy memoir feels like a humorous crash course in maturity, though at other points the author's attitude comes dangerously close to that of one who has a baby as a chic accessory."

From the summary, at least, it seems that the two stories have very few things in common.

Eckler is considered a joke and a hack in the journalism and literary community here in Canada. The fact that she describes herself as "a hip mother-to-be" on the book's byline should be a good enough indication.

Actually, the story of Knocked Up is also a rip-off of Nine Months, with Hugh Grant not wanting to be a dad and eventually learning to be a man and read the books and learn the lingo, plus the fight and not making up until birth day, the crazy new doctor who's not their regular doctor, and so on. These stories are all the same, really. Any wedding movie is a lot like Father of the Bride. Any relationship movie is a lot like When Harry Met Sally. But you're right that in this case the story itself is almost irrelevant with this film. What makes this movie, I think, are the one-liners, the characters, the clear connection these actors have off-screen, the improvised scenes, and so on.

Your comment about "your Filipino Boy" is very racist.
stick to your news and reviews, lay off the racist remarks

Or you could not be so pissy about a vauge joke, you wouldve laughed if he'd said malaysian or some shit, soooo dont get all pissy just because he randomly chose your race to target, Yano.

You should feel flattered Yano. Out of all the races that could have been chosen, he chose yours! Perhaps he's commenting on the hardworking nature of your peoples.

wtf so two movies have the same not fantastically original title.

Yo! Now check again "I believe in Harvey Dent too" Batman web and highlight the occult text

S'old news Villano.

i'm curious.. what mental image do you have when you think of Filipinos? cause i didn't even know you've heard about the Philippines and its people, being ignorant Americans and all. hehe can someone enlighten me! i'm really curious.

btw, i've never heard of a Filipino being "enslaved" sexually. yes, some of our people might work as helpers in your countries, but that's about as far as it goes. and most certainly not Filipino boys! if you must know, the Philippines is a masculine society, much like China or Japan (minus the pissing and shitting on women, of course), so it's kind of strange hearing talk about our boys in that way.

one last thing, I've heard similar allusions to Filipinos on MADTv before. i don't know how the hell they've heard about us. maybe they got Filipino writers. haha

Having never even heard about this book until last week, and having only read the sypnopsys from Ponysaurus' post, I've devised a comprehensive list of all the similarities between Eckler's book, "Knocked Up" and Apatow's film, "Knocked Up":

1. The Title
2. Unexpected Pregnancy [?]

I put a question mark there because she was getting freaking married. Now before I get an inbox of rant-mail from angry feminists, I *do* realize and fully understand that having a child, while not a necessary part of marriage, is usually an eventual part of marrage.

Seriously, did Ecklar do this because she wanted some of the opening weekend's net grosses to compensate for the [probably] shitty sales of her shitty-sounding book or was it all to stirr up publicity for this shitty-sounding book, thus increasing said sales?

Just reading that she was "repeatedly horrified by what pregnancy brings," which includes "weight gain, a ban on alcohol [and] stretch marks" made me want to punch something. The closest thing was a grapefruit, god damnit.

All I know about Filipinos is a oddly large percentage of the male population is good looking. And that's speaking from experience.

Ecklar is a smarmy twat. She writes very self-indulgent journalism, if it can be called that -- along the lines of the semi-literate "articles" you read on MSN after logging out of Hotmail, but with fewer multiple choice questions. The fact she thinks someone would desire to plagiarize her twaddle is a testament to her smarmy twatishness.

Amazon's review chastizes her for not completely stopping smoking while pregnant? Ehmm.. if you're more than a social smoker you shouldn't COMPLETELY stop. Withdrawls during pregnancy cause just as many issues with fetal health.

Croteus, the problem isn't that she didn't stop smoking, the problem is that she wouldn't stop whining about having to cut back.

Back when her columns that comprise this book were in the National Post I figured out that it was no big loss to just skip the page they were written on. Knocked Up, the film, is about relationships and maturity; Knocked Up, the book, is about Rebecca Eckler not being able to do anything anymore. It's worse than Spike from Degrassi.

...and the 40 Year Old Virgin was a ripoff of that Simpsons episode where everyone found out Principal Skinner was a virgin. *rolls eyes*

I'm a Filipino and I didn't think that the comment was racist. Besides, it was a joke. To those Filipinos who got upset/annoyed/agitated and shat themselves because of the comment, I suggest you just bury yourself because our country, or any other country for that matter, doesn't need people whose brains have shrunk.

I bet you would have laughed if it were an African boy.

I'm really tired of the Cosmopolitan cocktail being 'hip'. It's not fucking hip. Not even on the cover of "knocked up".