She's Out of My League

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: March 12th, 2010 (wide)

Starring: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, TJ Miller, Mike Vogel, Nate Torrence
 
Directed by: Jim Field Smith  

Premise: Kirk, an average Joe, can't believe his luck. Though he's stuck in a seemingly dead-end job as an airport security agent, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, has fallen for him. Not only is Kirk stunned, but his friends, family and his ex-girlfriend, too. Now he has to figure out how to make the relationship work, even though he'd be the first to admit she's totally out of his league.

[matt35mm]

The idea of this movie makes me angry.  It's a movie based around objectifying people that probably has some lame message at the end about not objectifying people, but really, the movie is objectifying people the whole time.  From the commercials, it looks to be very sexist all the way through (i.e., jokes like, "I thought my wife was hot but your girl makes my wife look like a pig!" and one commercial that shows a beautiful girl and calls her a "7" because she's not blonde with big breasts like the "10" girl).  

[pete]

don't think I'll watch it but who doesn't like a movie about a girl falling for a guy who doesn't think he has a shot (rhetorical question don't say no please?)  I think your problem is not with the movie but with the idea of leagues.

[picolas]

they drove a dump truck full of money up to his house! he's not made of stone.

i'm getting a little tired of baruchel lately.. i was really rooting for him when he just had tiny parts in good movies.

[matt35mm]

don't think I'll watch it but who doesn't like a movie about a girl falling for a guy who doesn't think he has a shot (rhetorical question don't say no please?)  I think your problem is not with the movie but with the idea of leagues.

Yeah it's a perfect set up for everyone to want to root for the couple to work out, so I think it'll be popular.

I might just have a problem with leagues... I haven't thought about leagues too much.  I just think it's icky the way this movie seems to advocate the idea that women who aren't a "7" or above should be ignored.  It's not enough to say, "But they're showing men who are "5" and below!" as a good thing.  There are plenty of movies that show guys who are "5" and below and get us to root for them, but nearly none presenting a wide range of what women can look like.  This movie clearly has a very limited view of what women can look like, and the casual sexism is really disturbing to me (I forget if it's in the trailer but it's in the TV commercial: "Are you sure she's really hot?  You said that about Marnie and she's kind of a skank. (Marnie walks up) Oh hi, Marnie!").  Like I said, I expect the movie to carry the message: "Oh but that's just what the dumb loser friend with his dumb bullshit ideas says, and at the end you'll see that objectification is wrong!"  Except, we're supposed to laugh at the joke.

I'd say my problem, then, is with the extremity of the idea of leagues when it comes to women in films.  You can root for guys like Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen, but if the women don't look like Alice Eve or Katherine Heigl, you can treat them like shit, or just never hire women who aren't "hotties" in the first place.  I think racism and ageism are also very much in play but that's a whole other issue.  For now I'll just say, "loser schlub" with "bangin' blonde hottie?"  Seen it.  If they're gonna pull this story out again, can they at least not, within the span of a 30-second TV spot, call women "skanks," "hot boxes," and "pigs?"  I don't like to be humorless about it, but it's just so gross and tired.

[Pas]

Also most 10s I've seen in my life were going out with 5s.

[I Love a Magician]

as an 8 how should i react to this movie

[pete]

I would sincerely deem magician an 8.

[SiliasRuby]

I'm a 7.5 on a good day. A 6 on a bad. I think Matt's just jealous he's a 5... Sorry that was bad.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

Is it even possible to derail this thread?

[Pubrick]

why is this even being talked about.

what a piece of shit.

[matt35mm]

Yeah, I shouldn't have paid this much attention.  It's just that it's by far the most advertised movie right now.  I feel like I've seen the commercial for it 10 times a day for the past few weeks, and I don't even watch that much TV!  I would believe that the commercial actually comes on 10 times during the Stewart/Colbert hour.  I've practically got the TV spots memorized.  So it got me a lot more annoyed than it would have otherwise, and resulted in a rant.

What a piece of shit.

[OrHowILearnedTo]

Jay Baruchel looks like an alien.

(what a piece of shit?)

[Pas]

Just finished subtitling this one... wasn't so bad, really. I laughed a whole bunch of time. Not Appatow-calibre but it's alright.

That was my review of this film I will forget I have seen in 10 days.

[Reel]

Just finished subtitling this one...

is that something you do for a living or your damn self?