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.

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[onefishonly.livejournal.com]

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 for comedies with female protagonists, rather than taking it as a response to the individual movie.

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 half and half. And trailers aren't really marketing it as "full of hot women" (even that poster only has two and a half of them vamping), so it's surprising that's the tack taken to mock it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the women's fault if their movie tanks. That's always been the case, alas.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is just an excuse to let boys be bad, so long as They Learn An Important Lesson, which? None of them really do. Their conversions, where they happen, are shallow, and then you have Seth Rogen who's just a prick throughout. I know you're not supposed to like them, for whatever that's worth, but they're the "friends," and their worldview is hardly challenged enough to make it clear that they're not likeable. Gag me. Bits of Superbad are really cute--I like that alcohol abuse is portrayed as unsexy as it really is--but it's mostly a "meh" movie for me.