Blog 3- Movies' Commentary on Society

First of all, I want to start off by saying that since the year 2000, I've probably only been to the movies a hand full of times. I hate going to the movies. I hate everything about it. I hate paying ridiculous prices to see shit cinema with a bunch of strangers with no taste when it comes to the movies. The recent movies that I have seen don't hold a candle to anything made before the year 2000, and I'm really not sure why. I guess they're just running out of ideas. But one trend that I have picked up on is this new type of fast-talking, witty comedy, which tends to take the side of the men, whereas a decade a go men in comedies were never viewed as a hero with morals. I'm talking about your 'Wedding Crashers', 'Dodgeball', '40-Year-Old Virgins', your 'Knocked Up' and 'Superbads'. Each of these movies feature the same people every single time (Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Steve Carrell, Owen Wilson), and the same quick, fast, sarcastic dialogue that by now, in my opinion, is just old. There's no one I can't stand more than Will Ferrell or Vince Vaughn. But they always have to do with sex, and they always take the angle of the guy who is already the player and finds that he's too cruel to women, or the nerd who becomes a player by the end of the film. Sure, they have their high-points, but I feel that its like the same movie over and over again. 'Knocked Up' turns the fat, ugly, stoner guy into a wonderful dad while 'Superbad' allows for the fattest geek in school to get into bed with the hottest chick in school. Comedy is my favorite genre, but these scripts appear to be appealing to the lowest common denominator. Give me some Steve Martin or Mel Brooks. That is comedy, not some stupid conversation between Vince Vaughn and a smart ass 6-year-old. But eveyone that I talk to about these movies seems to love them. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think I just have taste.