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Throwback Thursday: Pixels

This is a movie I've never seen before... but I've always kind of wanted to... and despite the awful reviews... it was pretty fun to watch. I have a lot of problems with it... but honestly... I had fun watching it. I watched it while trying to clear out my room for new furniture... and after the Pac Man scene it was kind of hard to focus on anything else... it was pretty fun to watch.

My main issue with the movie... It's incredibly misogynistic... where to even begin with that... there are a lot of jokes that are not the best picture of women. I'm sure the intent of these jokes weren't to demean women... but this is almost a kids movie (I'll get to that in a bit)... and when you hear them joking about the husband leaving the wife for a 19 year old named Sinnamon, Adam Sandler's character thinking that the wife that was dumped for Sinnamon would be old and unattractive because her husband left her, Peter Dinklage's character saying he wished he had chosen to date Martha Stewart instead of Serena Williams because "At least she would make me some food or something" Sandler saying that Kevin James' wife hates him and he says "She just doesn't get it..." Also James says "Ohhh you're the first lady, she's a 10..." about Sandler's love interest... and a woman being a literal trophy at the end... you start to think "Gee... this is sending the wrong message to kids." That's a LOT. And... movies like these make a difference. I'll probably get more into that whenever I re-launch my feminist blog... but there's definitely a big problem here... Also Lady Lisa doesn't talk... which is another problem.

Also not to mention the funniest person in this ENTIRE cast is Jane Krasinski. You know who barely gets any screen time or good lines... Jane Krasinski!

Now back to another thing I didn't like about the movie... I have no idea who this movie was geared towards. It definitely seems like a kids movie... but then there are jokes like Josh Gad's character saying "I'm going to die a Virgin." Which is weird for a kids movie. It is rated PG-13... but I can't really imagine a group of adults seeing this unironically and enjoying it. It's like more family friendly than the movie Evolution... and maybe it's a little more fun... but it doesn't have the eye candy that is David Duchovny... so I don't see why anyone would watch this lol.

Anyway... it's also weird because they keep mentioning things like "ohhh back in my day we played Pacman in arcades and socialized." I know arcades aren't really big anymore... but Pacman hasn't really gone anywhere... I'm sure kids today know these video games just as well as the more violent games like the kid was playing. It's not like Pacman is some indie game or something... I'm pretty sure Pacman has always been HUGE. It's something people would know.

This is also a world where Kevin James is President... and they modeled him after Chris Christie... which is probably why I hated his character... I mean it was fitting for the story... but I live in NJ and I don't think most people in NJ are very big Christie fans... and we have good reason for that. Lol. I'll leave it there... but yeah. It kind of alienates people when you model a character after a real life politician and you portray them as a hero.

Anyway in spite of all that... I still had fun watching the movie for the time I watched it... so if you're looking for something kind of fun to watch... this is 105 minutes long... and you don't really have to pay much attention to it... If you like arcade games a lot... Wreck it Ralph is a better movie... but this is still a little fun... it's also a little funnier than Evolution... but again no Duchovny. There was better chemistry between everyone else for the most part... but seriously... Jane Krasinski was underused. Nobody puts Jane Krasinski in the corner!

Byeee! Hope you enjoy this break from writing about Friends... next week I think I'll have another little break from that and then I'm almost done with Season 3... so I'll be back on track!

Byeee!
-Shannon

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