Rajaah
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Watched this to see Dakota Johnson (pretty much will watch her in anything), quickly turned on the movie and basically hate-watched the last 90% of it.
This movie really encapsulates everything wrong with our current society and dating system. It means "single" not in the sense of being single and going your own way, but that other definition of "single" where you're sleeping with like 4 or 5 people and none of them are "serious".
It has so many opportunities to send a good message but it always seems to flip 180 and go in the opposite direction every time you think it's going to say something good.
For example, Dakota Johnson's character starts out being responsible and chill, then starts becoming a big drinker after she moves to NYC, and over the course of the movie she goes full-on alcoholic, constantly drinking and waking up with hangovers. One scene she has like 8 beers and loses count, and I thought she'd stop and realize how much she was overdoing it...nope. Another scene she meets her ex for coffee and is drinking multiple mimosas at 8:30 AM, and the guy even comments on it and declines having any because "it's...8:30 AM" and you think it's gonna say something positive...nope, it's more like he's the stodgy one. After a while she's a mess and her apartment is a mess and she's rolling out of bed in her clothes from the night before and it's played off as being cool. It was clearly negatively affecting her life more and more, and I was waiting for the movie to stop and address it, or point out that binge drinking constantly actually wasn't a virtue, but it never did. A girl I know died from heavy alcoholism so it pisses me off to see a movie like this glorifying it.
This whole movie felt like a propaganda piece in "how to make society weaker" and "act like this and fuck up your social cohesion please" and how to keep tumbling down the hole we're tumbling down. Every bad thing everyone did was rewarded, every unhealthy behavior was presented as a virtue, and it whiffed on every opportunity to teach anything better. Great movie to watch if you just want to get angry, I guess.
Also, Rebel Wilson's character is fucking gross, just an absolute Jabba the Hutt she-beast, rolling around binge-drinking and boning a different guy every two hours and occasionally going home to bathe while her 300 pound walrus-body probably stunk to high heaven. Turns out her character was rich from inheritance so "she didn't have to work" but she did anyway to meet guys. That "why do you even work then?" attitude in movies is really weird, really downplays the value of hard work and makes it entirely a means to an end to pay your bills. Some people work to keep themselves busy and work hard even if they "don't have to", maybe the 20 year old generation doesn't understand that, I don't know.
So goddamn rustled that I wasn't sure whether to put this in the rate thread, the rustled thread, or this one.
Fuck this movie and whoever wrote it and put it together
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yarr prob gonna watch it this weekend. supposed to be a decent comedy and j law is full nude but i've already seen her butthole
