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judecorpYesterday I had the pleasure of hanging out with the Simmonses! After the odious task of underwear shopping (btw, if you wear women's shoes between the sizes of 8 and 9 and you want some roller skates - not blades, but four on the floor skates! - you can get Skechers skates at Marshall's on Bethel for $22!), Jen and I decided to indulge in some Asian Star chinese buffet since we were in the area. We called ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pattisimmons and scottsimmons and they met us there. Yay!
After that, Jen, Patti and I went to Carriage Place to see Sweet Home Alabama for $1.50. The theatre was /packed/. Oy. And the movie was worth $1.50... it was cute, and Reese Witherspoon /was/ my fantasy girlfriend until Clea Duvall blipped on my radar. Parts of the movie didn't sit well with me, though.
I was telling Jen on the way home that since it's no longer PC to poke fun at particular ethnicities, we're now "acceptably" poking fun at lower classes within Caucasians. For example, blonde jokes are still acceptable, as is redneck humor. So the movie was pretty damned classist in that there was a lot of "make fun of the lower class Southerners" but at the same time it painted a pretty ugly picture of the wealthy Northerners, too. So maybe that wasn't so bad.
There were two gay characters in the film - one of them being a fashion designer, but the other was one of the boys from back home in Alabama. I liked that there was casual inclusivity in a very mainstream movie geared to a heterosexual audience (I mean, it's a girl-meets-boy flik), but I didn't like the number of jokes kind of tossed in at his expense. For example, a bunch of the old gang is sitting around deciding what to do that night. Someone says something like, "We could go play pool," and someone says, "We could go arrest some people," and then the gay guy says, "I know a good place..." and all the guys yell, "NO!" I think that was the part my audience laughed at the hardest.
I don't think it was particularly harsh or anything, but I wonder why the funniest things in a heterosexual romance movie are the parts that surround the gay characters. And why did those two guys have to, of course, start to get together in the end? Bleh.
But all in all, it was a pretty cute movie, and I didn't pay much, /and/ I got to see Patti. So I would call it a success. :)
pattisimmons and scottsimmons and they met us there. Yay!After that, Jen, Patti and I went to Carriage Place to see Sweet Home Alabama for $1.50. The theatre was /packed/. Oy. And the movie was worth $1.50... it was cute, and Reese Witherspoon /was/ my fantasy girlfriend until Clea Duvall blipped on my radar. Parts of the movie didn't sit well with me, though.
I was telling Jen on the way home that since it's no longer PC to poke fun at particular ethnicities, we're now "acceptably" poking fun at lower classes within Caucasians. For example, blonde jokes are still acceptable, as is redneck humor. So the movie was pretty damned classist in that there was a lot of "make fun of the lower class Southerners" but at the same time it painted a pretty ugly picture of the wealthy Northerners, too. So maybe that wasn't so bad.
There were two gay characters in the film - one of them being a fashion designer, but the other was one of the boys from back home in Alabama. I liked that there was casual inclusivity in a very mainstream movie geared to a heterosexual audience (I mean, it's a girl-meets-boy flik), but I didn't like the number of jokes kind of tossed in at his expense. For example, a bunch of the old gang is sitting around deciding what to do that night. Someone says something like, "We could go play pool," and someone says, "We could go arrest some people," and then the gay guy says, "I know a good place..." and all the guys yell, "NO!" I think that was the part my audience laughed at the hardest.
I don't think it was particularly harsh or anything, but I wonder why the funniest things in a heterosexual romance movie are the parts that surround the gay characters. And why did those two guys have to, of course, start to get together in the end? Bleh.
But all in all, it was a pretty cute movie, and I didn't pay much, /and/ I got to see Patti. So I would call it a success. :)
