Bride Wars

Last week my cousin sent me a text: "I think we should see Bride Wars. :p". I think she added that little emoticon at the end as an out. I could have been a brat and shot down her suggestion. Instead, I decided to rise to the challenge,step out of my comfort zone and see a chick flick. A chick flick about brides and weddings. Bride Wars is not a movie I would subject myself to, my own upcoming nuptials aside. So the movie should have hit some mental/emotional nerve seeing as those nuptials are 64 days away. It didn't.

Bride Wars was missing something, it fell short. The movie is perfect for women who have dreamed of weddings since they were little girls. Women that believe in all the materialistic trappings of lavish dream weddings. Women who are willing to destroy a lifelong,supposedly awesome,friendship so they can have one perfect day. The missing piece of this movie is the friendship of the two characters. The friendship never seemed genuine. The dissolution of the friendship by cat-fighting reaffirmed female stereotypes. Why did creators of this film make the cat-fighting seem more probable than the friendship? While we are on the subject of the probable; the potential husbands of these future brides are non-existent and furthermore seem like bad matches to their mates. This movie clearly suffers from bad casting.

There are scenes in the film that ascertain that a woman's life is meaningless until marriage. Not true and a poor message to send to women watching the film. I do agree that after being married it is the "first day of the rest of your life." A different life than the life one lead's as a child or teenager. The day after I graduated high school was to me the "first day of the rest of my life." I think a person can have several "first days of the rest of one's life."

The makers of the film seemed to set themselves up for a sequel. Nothing bothers me more than the assumption that movie goers are going to flock to a sequel. Especially, a sequel for such a poor movie.

In the parking lot of the theater my cousin mentioned that her brother wanted to see Bride Wars. I was shocked. I mean here I am,a bride and a girl, and I barely want to see this movie. She said her brother has a sense of humor and that maybe there would be a boob shot. I'm pretty sure I saw Kate Hudson's nipple when Anne Hathaway and her fight and Hudson's strapless wedding gown shifts. So maybe Bride Wars does have something for everyone after all.