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Defend a Maligned Movie: The Love Guru
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(Unedited Language) Not to be confused with The Guru (2002), which was about an Indian man coming to America, using porn to get his start in Hollywood, lives a sterotype, until he falls in love with a “Pretty Woman” porn star with a heart of gold, and they drive off. That movie is offensive just from the description. But it’s delightful, and funny, and surprisingly progressive. I’ve wanted to write a letter to Mike Meyers for a long time, telling him how The Love Guru (2008) doesn’t deserve the bad rap it’s gotten. And after thinking about it for a long time, I think it was because he was too accurate. Which is a shame, because it was funny as hell. My experience in the theater was isolated. There were plenty of people around, but I was laughing almost the whole way through, and e...

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