Okay, look at this collection of names: Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Minka Kelly (for a minute), Salma Hayek, Leslie Mann, Keri Russell, Emmanuelle Chriqui,, Jessica Alba, Kate Beckinsale, Paz Vega, Drew Barrymore, Marisa Tomei, Emily Watson, Patricia Arquette, Joey Lauren Adams, Kristy Swanson, Julie Bowen, Fariuza Balk, and Bridgette Wilson. Okay if this was an IQ test, and you were asked to pick out what doesn’t fit the pattern, you’d pick Balk and Watson. Just sayin’.
So you’re wondering why all those names are together, is it Hirp’s “list?” No, those are the women that have played the love interest of one Adam Sandler. I like Sandler, and his movies are usually good fun, but I feel comfortable saying this, he’s no looker. Pretty sure his movies are just his fantasies, only he gets to wake up and play them out. He’s been: a golfer, allowed to go back to school, a lawyer who doesn’t have to work, a singer, a college football player, inherited millions, a marine-life veterinarian, a chef, architect, fireman, Hollywood agent, Israeli counter-terrorist, a big successful movie star, and a world class plastic surgeon.
That all said, I enjoyed Just Go with It. It’s the same Sandler formula we’ve seen, but it’s matured just enough so that it still works. Jennifer Aniston was really funny, and I’d like to see her do more comedy instead of the romantic comedy. Even if this was kind of a romantic comedy, it was a sneaky one at that. Kind of the way Jerry Maguire was a sneaky chick-flick. I went in with pretty low expectations, as you should too.
Later in the evening, it lead to a conversation with Mrs. Hirp regarding the roles women get in movies. This happened as she watched The Holiday again, and I was desperate to ignore the screen. I accept chick flicks, it’s a necessary evil, and occasionally they can be done well. My biggest beef with them isn’t how ridiculous the premise is, but how bad they are for women, especially younger girls. The leading lady is always either with a real ass. He treats her like crap, but she sticks it out. Then some other bumbling idiot comes along, and he’s so quirky that he’s charming. He has his own baggage, like he just might be a bit of a man-whore. Or she’s torn between the guy who just won’t commit and the good guy. There’s always another woman that is involved with one of her men of interest, and someone has to get dumped for the happy ending. It’s almost never a strong, smart and independent woman, whose just looking for the right guy, who finds the right guy. The best character, I could think of, is Uma Thurman’s character in Prime.
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I understand the difference between Song of the Year and Record of the Year. In case you don’t, SOY is for the song writer, while ROY is for the performer. Either way you cut it, Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” is the biggest turd to win since “My Heart Will Go On” in 1999.
I’m holding out hope, that the best side effect of our current economic climate will be better music. Grunge and hip-hops golden age came from artists who came of age in the 70’s. The decade of: Kent State, Nixon, Jonestown, Iran, the ’72 Olympics, and the oil crisis. They were the grand children of “The Greatest Generation.”
Then we had the era of the Spice Girls, N’Sync, Backstreet Boys and Brittney. Those kids grew up in the 80’s, the age of greed and excess. Now we have kids growing up who have experienced terrorists attacks in the United States, never ending wars, ridiculously high unemployment, tsunami’s, devastating earth quakes, Darfur, Katrina, H1N1, Yes We Can, the revolution in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and the iPod.
Justin Bieber, Ladies Gaga and Antebellum (yes, I know the latter is a band), Bruno Mars, Ke$ha, and anyone who appears on “American Idol” simply is not evidence of a great generation of musicians.
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