Gotta love truth in advertising

[trinityvixen]

I think my favorite of this series of movie posters re-titled to accurately reflect their meta-content has to be the one for Bridesmaids. I laughed at the Transformers 3 one and at the Cowboys & Aliens one, but nothing is quite so cynical as the Bridesmaids one. I fucking hate Judd Apatow's whole clown posse, so I appreciate the skewering all the more.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The unfortunate thing, of course, is that Hollywood is so crappy about giving women starring roles that if Bridesmaids doesn't do well, all the big studios will just use that as further excuse for saying "audiences still aren't ready comedies with female protagonists," rather than taking it as a response to the individual movie. (Though I guess there's also that Anna Faris comedy "What's Your Number?" coming up, so if ONE of those succeeds, more have a chance...)

I'm more mixed on Apatow (I liked, um, parts of 40 Year Old Virgin and Superbad?), and I'd consider seeing Bridesmaids if reviews are good. But I'll also say that while all the actresses in it are real-person hot, they're not all "movie-hot" -- looks like approx. half and half. And trailers haven't seemed to be marketing it as "full of hot women," so it's surprising that's the tack taken to mock it.

[onefishonly.livejournal.com]

My internet explorer (stupid work browser) was acting up. Feel free to delete the anon post (and this one).