We’re the Millers

By M

N and I are going through tough times as some radical changes are coming to our lives in the near future, so please, no judgement on our recent choice of movies. We need warmth.

This movie is not as bad as one might think it is. I mean there are reasons to watch it, honestly.

Firstly, one of our ongoing themes: Jennifer Aniston is a hard-worker, and, we, for one thing, support hard-workers. She is forty-something and has an amazing body, which is clearly the product of hard-work. Bravo. It’s nice seeing it. It’s nice seeing that Hollywood takes forty-year old women as hot. Good statement. We support that.

Secondly, if we are not bothered by a pure objectification of people and consumption of desirable men. it’s worth mentioning that Tomer Sisley is as hot as Tomer Sisley is.

Thirdly, some things are funny. The dialogues are quite rough and so are the scenes. The characters that are portrayed as ‘normal’ are willing to explore their sexuality, I mean it’s not done in a revolutionary way, but so what?

Ok, there are a lot of cliches and prejudices in this movie (on Mexicans to start with, on women, on marriage) and a lot of moral lessons (“it must feel good to do the right thing at least once” I am actually quoting). There is also what could be called a radical lack of aesthetics, except maybe for the strip-tease scene. Maybe not. Sure.

If your target is not to survive the next two hours or if you don’t think entertainment could help you with that, don’t watch it.

The Hangover III

By M

The first is my favorite, the second is the best, this one has very little interest.

The aesthetics are obviously the same as in the previous two, except Bradley Cooper is now old and fatter – I do not know when that happened, but it happened. Maybe it happened because of Silver Linings.

Many things were interesting about the first movie, it was seemingly outrageous, but not really – Bradley Cooper’s character, who was supposed to be the prick disrespectful of women turns out to be utterly in love with his wife and happy with his kid, etc. The movie didn’t harm anyone (this is not a commentary about the first so I should probably stop right there) and was a good laugh. It was humor by surprise, and it felt really refreshing.

The second was better, because the limits were further away. In the first, taking drugs and marrying prostitutes was the ultimate offense. In the second one of the characters loses a finger and he is told to pull himself together, Bangkok is just a bit crazy. Another character, the one who is getting married, has a relationship with a trans and everyone is super cool with it, he himself assuming his bisexual tendencies. It was also way more delirious as the crazy characters encountered in the first, were given more space, and again, a full defense of bisexuality was on the table. So I say: BRAVO.

On this one… nothing like that. Nothing. At all. A few jokes here and there. Some of them amusing, some of them less provocative than those of the previous two, and overall a boring message about love, how everyone finds it, how everyone is saved by it,  how it’s waiting for you where you expect it less and how everything has a meaning.

The good news is that this appears to be the last one (I know, we are all sure it won’t).

I would strongly recommend that you don’t lose your time watching it.