February 27, 2004
This Charming Man
Posted by nerdling | February 27, 2004 02:38 PM
My roommate and I spent our evening last night eating some excellent Chinese takeout and watching two, uh, female-oriented films: Sliding Doors (with The Paltrow and her terrible British accent) and Shag (with Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda and their rather large breasts). All that estrogen might have jacked my brain, or perhaps it was just remembering how it felt to be a teenage girl, watching maudlin, cheesy movies all night as I did then, but it certainly made me remember how important all those grossly female movies were when I was in high school.
There wasn't much to do in my hometown so my friends and I watched a lot of really terrible movies to pass the time. It never really occured to me then that watching movies like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or Dirty Dancing did more than just pass the time. For myself in particular, and probably some of my friends (though I never asked them), those movies gave us hope that being shy or overweight or heavily regulated by our parents didn't mean that someday we couldn't be happy or successful or popular. Sure, watching lots of those movies probably encourages unreachable hopes but it doesn't negate the fact that Dirty Dancing is still the best girl movie ever.
