I was trying to find a movie to watch with my friend (Jessica), who doesn't have the same taste in movies as I do. So we picked Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. There were some funny moments and some touching moments. The asteroid that is the cause of the apocalypse is named Matilda. Fun fact: there actually IS a asteroid named Matilda, but it will never come even close to hitting our Earth. Yay! But I'd like to take a moment here, while I have your attention, for a little rant. It will ruin the ending, but that's okay because you're not ever going to watch it. Hollywood really needs to stop having young girls fall for old dudes. Keria Knightley is twenty-seven years old. Steve Carell is fifty. THAT'S A GAP OF OVER TWENTY YEARS. Sure, Mr. Carell's character certainly didn't look fifty, but he was considerably older than Keira Knightley, who was playing a younger woman. This trend first started to bother me when I first watched My Fair Lady, one of my favorite musicals. I won't give you a plot summary, but once again a young, pretty woman ends up with the older guy. Switched around, people would be calling the woman a cougar, but there are no nicknames of that sort for men who date/marry much younger women. I hate it. Not that I plan on marrying a considerably younger man, but I'd prefer not to be prescribed a label if I chose to. I don't know how to fix this problem. The movies Hollywood produces are (usually) just a reflection of what our society values and our general values. There isn't a solution. I'll just go sit in my pretending-the-world-doesn't-exist corner and do just that. You may join me if you'd like. We can make fun of people together.
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| 2 out of 5 asteriods |
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| (this is how I felt at the end of the movie) |
