Monday, June 05, 2006
The Breakup
I saw the Breakup this weekend. I really felt that i had to. I mean I saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith last summer, the movie that broke Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt up, and brought Pitt and Angelina Jolie together in Namibian baby birthing bliss. And I spent the whole movie looking for sparks between Pitt and Jolie, and totally saw them, mostly cause they are both so beautiful. Well, I felt that I had to watch the movie in which Aniston moves on from her heartbreak and starts dating Vince Vaughn to complete my understanding of celebrityland. I think they are still dating, but you know, sometimes I miss things, and I don't have cable, so no VH1 to tell me these things. Anyway, Aniston and Vaughn are not as visually compatible, but it is harder when you are not the two most beautiful creatures on earth.
Anyway, on to the movie, and I warn you there are spoilers.
So here is my problem with the movie...they actually break up! And I don't mean at the beginning as jumping off point to let them spar and build sexual tension, but they actually end up broken up, no longer a couple, apart. I was very upset. I do not go to romantic comedies to see two stop loving eachother. Actually, I go to romantic comedies to see the exact opposite.
And why do they end up apart? Well, cause Jennifer Aniston's character is an idiot. I mean an idiot whose point I can totally see, but an idiot nevertheless. Vaughn's character is pretty self-absorbed and takes Aniston for granted. So basically, she breaks up with Vaughn's character so that he realizes how much he needs her and changes in order to get her back. She wants him to want to put effort into the relationship. At the end of the movie, Aniston gets what she wants, he misses her and realizes he must totally change to get her back, and cooks her dinner, and promises to change, and you know what she does? She tells him that she is drained and breaks up with him for good. Yes, you heard it correctly, woman gets exactly what she wants and this causes her to dump guy forever. When he was being a dick, she was doing everything in her power to get her back.
What kind of lesson does this teach guys? And I am assuming that guys are meant to see this movie, since they cast frat pack member Vince Vaughn in the lead. Well, it teaches not to bother to give a woman what she says she wants because she does not really want it anyway. How unfortunate of a moral is that?
Anyway, on to the movie, and I warn you there are spoilers.
So here is my problem with the movie...they actually break up! And I don't mean at the beginning as jumping off point to let them spar and build sexual tension, but they actually end up broken up, no longer a couple, apart. I was very upset. I do not go to romantic comedies to see two stop loving eachother. Actually, I go to romantic comedies to see the exact opposite.
And why do they end up apart? Well, cause Jennifer Aniston's character is an idiot. I mean an idiot whose point I can totally see, but an idiot nevertheless. Vaughn's character is pretty self-absorbed and takes Aniston for granted. So basically, she breaks up with Vaughn's character so that he realizes how much he needs her and changes in order to get her back. She wants him to want to put effort into the relationship. At the end of the movie, Aniston gets what she wants, he misses her and realizes he must totally change to get her back, and cooks her dinner, and promises to change, and you know what she does? She tells him that she is drained and breaks up with him for good. Yes, you heard it correctly, woman gets exactly what she wants and this causes her to dump guy forever. When he was being a dick, she was doing everything in her power to get her back.
What kind of lesson does this teach guys? And I am assuming that guys are meant to see this movie, since they cast frat pack member Vince Vaughn in the lead. Well, it teaches not to bother to give a woman what she says she wants because she does not really want it anyway. How unfortunate of a moral is that?
