3 Chinese guys, A Filipino Dude, and a Girly Movie

This is sort of a sequel to my previous post. After a few hours of sleep (after the rights to royalty concert), I took a shower and headed to G4 at around 3 in the afternoon to meet Kabo, Tay and Tops (‘di nakasama c charles, team building ampota) to watch a movie and have dinner. We were supposed to watch Stealth, but I already watched it last Wednesday. So, we watched Wedding Crashers instead. I don’t know why we did it, after making the same mistake before (hitch). But there we were, 4 straight guys (3 chinese, 1 filipino), watching another girly movie.

Before we go further, I have to give my definition of a girly movie. According to the dictionary of mike the invincible man:

Girly Movie (aka chick flick): A movie about a love story between a guy and a girl. guy meets girl, guy and girl fall in love, guy screws up, guy loses girl, guy apologizes and confesses his undying love to girl (sometimes in private, but most of the time in front of a big crowd), guy gets girl and they live happily ever after.

Here are some additional characteristics of a girly movie that may or may show itself.
-guy has a quirky best pal
-girl has a quirky best pal
-weird parents
-bitchy girlfriend (for the guy)
-tough, obnoxious, sexist boyfriend (for the girl)



wedding crashers: On the invincible man’s scale of girlyness, this movie gets a 5.5 over 10.

Scale:
1 being a movie like Honey (Jessica alba), 5 being a movie like Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) and 10 being Crossroads (Britney Spears).

Anyway, the movie was okay. It was pretty funny actually (especially Vince Vaughn, love his rape/bondage scene). Owen Wilson was… well, Owen Wilson (he plays all the parts he plays the same way. In fact, I don’t think acts as all, he’s just himself in all his movies). Will Ferell makes a cameo. What is it with Vince Vaughn, Owen and Luke Wilson, Will Ferrel and Ben Stiller!? They keep popping up in each other’s movies… Though the story was predictable (very), all in all, I think the movie was good.

But, Wedding Crashers IS a girly movie, thus I couldn’t help notice the people watching it. In our isle, the sitting arrangement went something like this; guy, girl, guy, girl, guy, girl, GUY, GUY, GUY, GUY (that would be us), guy, girl… shit.

Bottom line is, I enjoy watching movies like Wedding Crashers, girly movies they may be, but they can be really fun. Its just that watching it with guys is so… unmanly. If there were a girl in a group (kahit na isa lng, romantic attachments unnecessary), it would be different, guys could then watch the movie, masculinity unquestioned.

Note to Self:
Next time, watch the girly movie like wedding crashers with a group that has a member of the opposite sex in it. That way, watching it will not make me feel uh… weird. Then, watch the macho man movie like Stealth with the guys, so we can be sexist jerks and stare at Jessica Biel in a teeny weeny blue bikini.