Feminism- Is it in You?

This is actually a movie review, sorry about the misleading title.  I saw Passengers, that movie starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence where they look cute together on a space ship.  If you haven’t heard of it, I’m sure you will be able to find it On Demand within a week or two.

The plot is that Chris Pratt is on a spaceship where everyone is frozen until they arrive at some far-off destination in 120 years, but you see, Pratt’s hibernation pod breaks down after only thirty years and he and JLaw swim in zero-g water and the robot waiter is funny because he looks like a human but doesn’t act like a human and Pratt can only afford to eat the low class breakfast every morning while Lawrence is rich and can eat eggs and bacon at the replomat and Chris Pratt is a man’s man who makes things with his hands and Jennifer Lawrence is a writer who is actually named Aurora and a video call to Earth takes forty years and costs $6,000.

And, not to ruin the movie for you, but things on the ship don’t go quite as planned.  As a matter of fact, things on the ship start to go very wrong.  So it’s up to the cute couple to save the day, and maybe the human race while they’re at it.

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Reviewing the Criterion Collection

Note: A college professor once made the mistake of telling me that I would make an excellent sportswriter, movie reviewer, or literary critic.  It immediately went to my head, and ever since that day I’ve thought that people would want to hear what I have to say about pop culture stuff.  Now that I have this forum in which to vomit my thoughts on just about anything, I am proud to dust off the childhood dream and make it a reality.  To that end, I’d like to present the first in a line of reviews that I’ve lined up exclusively for the readers of Baveblog.org.  The movies I review will run the gamut from comedy to action to drama to romance, but each will have one thing in common with the others- some outstanding distinguishing feature or criterion* that sets it apart from its contemporaries.  Some of these movies will be popular fare, and some will be titles of which you’ve likely never heard.  The hope is that by writing about these forgotten classics, I may revive some small discussion about the merits and demerits of movies that, regardless of your thoughts, are deserving of analysis.  So without further ado, I present the first movie review of what is known as the Criterion Collection.

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The ManSlap Club

sly-and-arnold

Right now, at this very second, I am watching a wrestling pay per view.  This is notable because it is the first wrestling pay per I have viewed in sixteen years.  (Side note: Are they still called pay per views?)  I stopped watching back in 2000 or so, around the decline of the “Attitude Era”.  But that’s a tale for another day.

Here’s what I noticed watching this pay per view- man are these guys muscular and good looking!  A far cry from the days when you could make a living rasslin by possessing nothing more than a prodigious gut or laughable physical abnormality.  Now you gotta be jacked and vascular, just like my two heroes Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sly Stallone.  Watching these beefcakes narrowly miss punches and kicks has got me thinking back to what my buddy Dan and I dubbed “The ManSlap Club”.

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