I say we only use 10% of our hearts…

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So I saw Wedding Crashers on Monday, and I thought it was really, really funny. I laughed. A lot. The girl Owen Wilson falls for is completely adorable. (Rachel McAdams
, who I have to say, looks much better as a brunette than as a blonde.)

And holy crap…I spent the entire movie trying to figure out who was playing the boyfriend, and it wasn’t until the credits rolled that I slapped my hand to my head and said “Of COURSE.” Bradley Cooper. aka Will from Alias. His character was so completely and utterly un-Will
like that I just couldn’t figure it out.

Two questions…Vince Vaughn almost always plays a mysoginistic ass (Dodgeball excluded), and yet I almost always like him at the end of the movie. How does he get away with that?

And second, relating to the boyfriend thing…in romantic comedies, the “other” is almost always a complete asshole. It was true in this movie, and it was true in The Wedding Singer, for example. On the one hand, I understand this tactic as a way to gain sympathy for the romantic lead who is, essentially, trying to steal the girl away. We would kind of hate him for it if we didn’t want to see him get the girl, and it seems justified if the guy she’s with is a jerk. On the other hand, in these movies, he’s *such* a jerk that it just makes us wonder why she’s with him at all…do you think this is at all realistic?

Anyway, if you want a good laugh, see Wedding Crashers.

Oh, and hey! The soundtrack included a tune by the Weakerthans. 🙂

3 thoughts on “I say we only use 10% of our hearts…”

  1. no one would attempt to steal someone’s boyfriend or girlfriend if they did not think that they were even in the smallest level “better” than the other guy / girl.
    It is a point of view that everyone internally feels therefore projected in the movies

    my humble opinion

    -T

  2. Bradley Cooper – THANK YOU! I saw this a few weeks ago and couldn’t figure out where I saw him before, but I haven’t seen Will for so long I just thought I was imagining things when I recognized him.

    But it really is a good movie. Go see it everyone!

  3. You’re welcome. 🙂

    T, I agree with you, I was referring to the tactics used to gain sympathy for the boyfriend/girlfriend stealer. In most cases, I think, most people would tend to disapprove of this behavior, unless given reason to believe that the behavior is warranted. 🙂

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