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Bridesmaids and Baby Mama
Oct. 23rd, 2011 11:06 pmThere's a category of progress that is "you know, it would be better if this didn't exist, but if it does, it should be distributed equally." For example, it would be nice if no one felt pressure over their looks, but having both sexes feel it is in some ways better than having just women feel it, because then we aren't penalized on the job for the extra time it takes. It's not ideal, but you go to culture war with the army you have.
It is in that spirit that I say: Bridesmaids and Baby Mama are not particularly good movies, and are so much more predictable than movies about things never before featured in movies should be, but I am glad they exist, and I sort of wish I'd paid money for them.* I will give a dollar to support movies that show women's primary goal as something other than a man, even if they both did incidentally pick up the perfect man. It helps a lot that both films genuinely had their moments, and Bridesmaids had Melissa McArthy, who needs to be given several movies right now.**
*One was library, the other was Redbox with a promo code.
**I liked her on Gilmore Girls, but she had more to work with here and she has a range that should be standard for actors but sadly isn't. I may need to check out her suspiciously awful looking current series, Mike & Molly, or at least leave it running on my computer while I'm at work.
It is in that spirit that I say: Bridesmaids and Baby Mama are not particularly good movies, and are so much more predictable than movies about things never before featured in movies should be, but I am glad they exist, and I sort of wish I'd paid money for them.* I will give a dollar to support movies that show women's primary goal as something other than a man, even if they both did incidentally pick up the perfect man. It helps a lot that both films genuinely had their moments, and Bridesmaids had Melissa McArthy, who needs to be given several movies right now.**
*One was library, the other was Redbox with a promo code.
**I liked her on Gilmore Girls, but she had more to work with here and she has a range that should be standard for actors but sadly isn't. I may need to check out her suspiciously awful looking current series, Mike & Molly, or at least leave it running on my computer while I'm at work.
