I made a bad choice.
Murray and I went on a date last night. It was WONDERFUL to get away for awhile! He chose the restaurant, I chose the movie. 50% of our date was really great!! Can you guess whose pick was the good one???? I didn't think there were a lot of great movies to pick from...., "The Women" looked like it had some potential. It had a lot of really great actresses in it. (Meg Ryan, Debra Messing, Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett Smitt, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen...Eva Mendes, but I don't really like her). I knew it was solidly going to fall in the "chick flick" category of movies but surely some other men would be with their wives/girlfriends so Murray wouldn't have to suffer alone.
Uhhhhh...he's where my choice started to go south....not a single other man in the theatre. Oops! Ok....at least there will be some funny on screen actor that will bring some lightheartedness to the flick. (Chick flicks are full of great guys, right???...Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal ....). Uhhhh...wrong again! There is not a single scene in this movie that has one single man in it!! Not one! Even the scenes where the leading ladies are walking the busy streets of NY...only women are behind them! It was really ridiculous! There were male "characters" in the movie but you never once saw or heard them. They were only on the phone, or their footsteps were heard as they ran out the door and then started their car! One of the characters even gives birth without her husband b/c he hasn't made it to the hospital yet. I mean, come on!!!
I wouldn't even wait for the rental. It was that bad. The main message (I think) from the movie was to love who you are, in the deepest parts of who you were created to be. Yet, there was way too much plastic surgery on the actresses themselves (Meg looked so much better with her natural face) and scenes in the movie to really make it sound like their "message"was believable. It really came across as, have plastic surgery until you can feel good about who you are. Keep having surgery until you look as young as the women that your husband is flirting with (or more) and then, grieve over the loss of a friendship more than the loss of your cheating husband, b/c men are suppose to betray their wives, but women should never betray a friend.
Yick!! What a waste of 2 hours and $20!!!
Sorry, Murray!!! You get to pick the movies from now on!!!
The Magnificat
1 year ago
4 comments:
Ooooo, I would have totally gone to see that. Thanks for the warning!
Okay, that's good to know. I can now mark that off of my short list of movies I want to see.
My mom was unimpressed as well. I miss Meg's Sleepless and You've Got Mail days. "Harses, Harses, Harses"
Thanks, Jaime, You may have saved my marriage! :) We take turns picking movies, and whoever picks a "stinker" forfeits his/her turn.
Don's last two picks were: Traitor (a good one) and Hamlet 2 (the worst movie ever--we walked out of it, and I complained to the theater staff). (We thought it was about Hamlet, and didn't read the awful reviews.) My last two picks were: The Traveling Pants 2 at the dollar movie...we both liked it...Don less than me....and then Nights in Rodanthe. It was predictable and glorified an adulterous relationship...I had read the book, because I usually like Nicholas Sparks, but I forgot the story. The movie was forgetable, too. Oh, I didn't mention that Don saw Momma Mia with me, too. I think I owe him "The Mummy" and "Fly Me to the Moon." :)
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