Sunday, April 11, 2010

The proposal of girlfriends past

I'm realizing now that I never did a post of my trip to Moab, Utah a few weeks ago with some girlfriends...I'll have to correct that situation in the near future.  Anyway, a few weeks ago I went on this quick weekend trip to Moab with two girlfriends, Kara and Trisha.  One of the two nights we stayed in a hotel.

We ended up  watching Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Golly, what to say.  It was ridiculous and cheezy and without many redeeming qualities but I did get a little teary in one section.  Hey, I have emotional episodes from time to time...But that aside, I recommend that you DO NOT SEE IT.  A quote from a New York Times review is all I'll offer, it's "a junky-looking romantic comedy that’s neither remotely romantic nor passably comic."



Moving on, my man was out of town for a night last week and I took the opportunity to waste time watching another pretty bad movie: The Proposal. I don't know why I selected this movie, except that it looked like junk food for the brain and I craved some junk food.



The movie is about "A pushy boss [Sandra Bullock] forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada."  Although I generally disliked the film, the one part that I did enjoy was where Sandra B's character said that her first concert was Rob Base and DJ Ez Rock and went on to sing a bit of "It takes two." 



I think I liked that part because it was so out of character.  But I guess, truth be told, I do like watching movies where women, for better or worse, kick ass and take names.  I think in "real life" it doesn't happen that often.  Sandra Bullock's character wasn't a far cry from the Oscar-winning character she played in The Blind Side.  I liked that character even more. All that said, I do not recommend watching this movie either.

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