Or maybe I just love Mimi and because she could kick Katherine Heigl's ass any day (in many different ways).

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@Lizard in the Wires, is movin' to Fresno! Any Jezzies need a roomie?: I love "Bringing Up Baby" and own "Singin' in the Rain." Unfortunately neither Cary Grant nor Gene Kelly are Glaswegian. Like I said, bad feminist!

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@queenieinmanhattan: Understandable. There are some movies that I just don't like. And I found Borat to be incredibly offensive, even though most of my friends thought it was hilarious. There just seems to be a lot of anger around here sometimes towards movies/books that aren't meant to be thought provoking at all.

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And I feel the same way about those horrible spoof genre movies like The Spartans. Those movies get wide distribution while other, better, films, don't. And they're awful. Opinions and varying tastes aside, some things are, on a basic, structural level, not good stories or movies.

I think I get frustrated that every time someone has a problem with these movies we're always accused of being anti-fun or "reading too much into" things. And I think that's problematic, dismissive, and strange. Movies are pop culture, that communicates and entertains. And likewise influences and is influenced by our cultures assumptions, ideas etc. I absolutely get that people will be entertained by different things. But finding these types of movies problematic and frankly, so intellectually void as to be insulting, isn't weird.

I do like to be entertained, and have fun, and sit down to a good movie that isn't a documentary or a lecture or a dissertation on Important Issues. But WHY does that somehow mean I can't also discuss or criticize it when it goes beyond that, into some banal, creatively dead, hideous mess? I'm sorry, but I find it insulting that this is the dreck we're constantly marketed as women. And even beyond that, as a story person, I find it really sad that we value stories so little.

If I want to watch a fun movie that isn't basically like a giant fuck you to my intelligence while it also takes my money and votes with it that this is what I want to watch...I'll watch Go, or Pride & Prejudice, or When Harry Met Sally, or Chocolat, or Slither, or Adventureland, or Star Trek, or Big Trouble in Little China.

And I realize other people don't care about this stuff the way I do. Okay, fine. But I'm tired of being suggested that makes me, or others who feel the same way, somehow "unfun" or weird. It's not.

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She was right about Knocked Up being kind of sexist, I don't get why she has to wear the mantle of the female avenger for one comment. No one asks why Gerard Butler is in this movie.

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and i don't have a problem with any of kh's career choices - i actually like her a lot as an actress, but if she felt so strongly about knocked up, it makes sense that she'd distance herself from such movies.

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I don't think it is a terrible, evil movie. I've listened to the commentary and I think Judd Apatow was going for balance, I just don't think he achieved it.

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Plus her reactions were totally forced to me. Lets just say some shenanigan like this were to happen to me. I'm pretty sure I could remain seated, not bang on the table with my fist or go 'yes! yes!'

Maybe I'm just not a 'deviant' like she is. Blech.

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