One for the Money and Anonymous

I got out to two movies this last week. I went and saw One for the Money just for kicks and giggles. I also saw Anonymous - partly because I saw the preview and thought it looked really interesting and partly because it is nominated for an Academy award. So - here's my take on each movie:

One for the Money - I am still trying to figure out why Katherine Heigl or any self respecting woman for that matter would take on the role of Stephanie Plum. The fact that the book on which the movie was based on was written by a woman goes to further baffle me. The role of Stephanie Plum was the most outwardly degrading role towards women that I have seen in a LONG time! Either Katherine Heigl got a boob job for the movie or they were doing some pretty nifty camera tricks. The entire movie sexualized and objectified her character and she never even seemed offended when the two main male characters in the movie continually insisted on calling her misogynistic nicknames like "cupcake"

I am saddened to realize that we still live in a society so completely degrading towards women. After all - no smart, capable woman would ever choose to be bounty hunter because that's a mans job and she would much rather be selling lingerie in a department store right? This movie makes it abundantly clear that Stephanie Plum only chose to be a bounty hunter out of desperation and only lived to see the end of the movie out of sheer luck and brazen stupidity. I mean  - who else gets handcuffed to a tension rod for a shower curtain and instead of just pulling the rod down and reattaching it after sliding off the cuffs needs to call a man to come "rescue" her? The only saving grace I can give this movie is that at least when they gave the men Katherine Heigl's enhanced chest to ogle they threw in some male eye candy for the girls to appreciate as well. Thank goodness for Daniel Sunjata!

Anonymous - Since this movie didn't get very good marketing I have included the trailer so you can understand the premise. Also pay close attention to the costumes as this movie is up for an Academy Award for best costume design. I honestly thought it should have been up for best original screenplay as well. It was hard to keep facts seperated from speculation in this excellently written proposal of history. I am always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor era and so this movie had me entranced from start to finish. The acting was well done, the story was intriguing and if you took every piece of information in it proposed as fact you would be utterly convinced that Shakespeare was not only a complete fraud but a buffoon as well. A Shining performance by Rhys Ifans who took on a role completely outside anything he has attempted before and did an outstanding job - keep an eye on him for great things to come. All around a great movie and I trully could not find much of anything to pick on so I will just leave it at the comments made and off I go to watch another movie!!!