Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate”
Negative Reviews
When this movie came out, the critics certainly weren’t kind. In fact, a writer for Entertainment Weekly, wrote this scathing review:
“Before you buy into this crude, foulmouthed ego trip (story by Martin Lawrence, screenplay cowritten by Martin Lawrence, starring Martin Lawrence, and directed by Martin Lawrence), please consider these alternative activities: (1) Revisit Fatal Attraction, since that’s the superior model on which this lazy story — about a woman (Lynn Whitfield) who turns murderous-crazy on a slick playboy (Martin) after he seduces her and leaves her — is based; (2) see Waiting to Exhale, since the producers of Thin Line have the chutzpah to suggest that this vulgar, misogynist ”comedy” is the ”male side of the Exhale coin”; (3) listen to the original 1971 recording of the great, bitter R&B song from which the movie steals its title, sung by the Persuaders, or the wailing 1984 remake by the Pretenders; (4) alphabetize your CD collection, write a letter to your senator, run an errand for an old person, or give your hair a deep conditioning.”
Yikes.
But despite the negativity, the movie became a cult classic in the urban community. We still ride for it.
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