When I started my vacation almost three weeks ago, I bought a bunch of pirated DVDs of the latest movies and watched them in two days. For lack of a better subject today I will talk about these movies:
1- What Happens in Vegas: Crap. Cameron Diaz wears nice dresses in it though. I am envious.
2- Sex and the City: Double crap. This is the quintessential chick-flick type movie which I abhor but enjoy all the same because it really doesn’t demand any thinking on my part. It basically encourages conspicuous consumption and frames it so that it appears to be the omega of every achieved woman’s life. Let’s not forget that it also portrays marriage as the ultimate goal even for the most successful, independent women out there. Bullshit. Even the shoes in the movie are meant to slow us down. Fergie’s song is good though.
3- 27 Dresses: Triple crap. What a sucky movie. Another chick flick but one I did not enjoy at all. Stupid dresses too. Katherine Heigl is not my type.
4- The Incredible Hulk: Good movie! Yay! Cheers for the green giant! I love Edward Norton and Liv Tyler. The movie kinda lost its momentum at the end though. Oh, and it also featured the man-macho woman-fragile theme and shits like that. That was not cool.
5- You Don’t Mess With the Zohan: Hmm. I am a bit puzzled how to review this one. On the one hand, it has a good theme of coexistence between Arabs and Zionists. On the other hand, it has some images of Arabs which I did not like. For example, you have the shouting crazy fanatic armed Arab and then you have the sophisticated and disciplined Zionist who beats the Arab. Also, I think I noticed they claimed Hummus was an Israeli dish. HELL-O? Hummus is very Arab but yeah Jews in the U.S. and elsewhere normally claim Hummus and Falafel are their own. That’s basically stealing cultural heritage, made grave by the conflicts between the two cultures. Unforgivable.
Thus ends my review of these movies. Let’s hope that I will have something better to write about tomorrow.
