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Baby, It’s Predictable Outside

Made the mistake of including this title in my 3 for $20 purchase at Lackluster, only because of my love for all things Vince Vaughn. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I feel like such a DRAMATIC talent has been thrown under the bus, in the name of a quick paycheck and a cheap laugh. Remember when he used to do great dramatic stuff, like The Locusts, Return to Paradise and Domestic Disturbance? Then Old School was a runaway hit and it just snowballed from there. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy some of them (Swingers, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, etc.); they were enjoyable, but really, you want your entire body of work to be summed up by ball jokes and double takes?

I bought this DVD before I’d seen the movie, knowing that if nothing else, it would have a totally HOT Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn’s lips. I tried to black out the fact that Reese Witherspoon’s chin and highly reflective forehead would be in it as well.

So, I watched the movie and, yet again, got sandbagged with the whole ‘Family and having babies completes you’ message. And again, it really turned me off. It was just a total affront to the fact that they (Reese & Vince’s characters) were totally fine with the relationship they had, until everyone else around them basically told them otherwise, whether it be in actions or sideways comments about the nature of their relationship. If it’s not the norm, it’s deviant and weird. I get so sick of that, but then again, I’m not the demographic that this movie was obviously made for.

I think a reviewer (C.S. Wood) on IMDB, believe it or not, summed it up best when they wrote:

I really hate how the couple has a pretty fun and carefree relationship at the start, then as soon as she sees her guy holding a baby, even though she has made it pretty damn clear she never wanted a baby up to that point, she must now have a baby and he must now, also, want a baby too or the relationship is over.

Now, if the man was the one who came up with the idea to have a baby he would be the bad guy trying to control a woman’s body and she’d go after someone else.

Why the hell would they go through the trouble of establishing they have a good relationship without marriage or babies only to turn around and make it seem like they have a horrible relationship if they don’t make a baby in the next 5 minutes? All the people they hate or avoid being around is/was married or has crying babies that throw up, which they were both repulsed by! Why would they suddenly want that? IT MAKES NO SENSE!

Plus, if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the funniest parts of the movie. I’ll keep my copy for the shot where Vince is lying on the ground after falling off the roof (his lips are kissable) and for Favreau’s beefy bod, but that is the ONLY reason. I’ll file it in my Eyecandy category, where I put movies I own, but don’t necessarily like, but they contain some semblance of mancandy.

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