movies of the week: Sweet Home Alabama, The Barbershop

to start off with, Sweet Home Alabama was indeed a pretty good movie. i suppose if i was female i would like it a lot more. it had a good cast, for the most part. when i say good cast i mean, having people from such blockbusters as Can't Buy Me Love, Can't Hardly Wait, and Wet, Hot, American Summer, not Legally Blonde. The story was fairly predictable at every turn and sometimes WAY before you got to the intersections. but it was sweet, and had a couple good lines and a couple funny characters. i never really felt sorry or cared for the girl though, as i felt she did not deserve the guy who had been trying to make something of his life to impress her for 7 years. so, in summation, though it is a decent film (especially if you are trying to get in good with a girl), it is no You've Got Mail -- end of story

on the other hand, Barbershop was our weekly racial reconciliation flick. it had an all star black cast and was pumped full of stereotypes and such like you would expect from such a film. with no real dramatic plot to speak of, it still faired well as it was just a day in the life of some people going through some times -- one of those kinda movies. in my opinion it is what happened when a black screenwriter watched steel magnolia's too many times. it took a few times cause you know the first couple times he was only paying attention to one thing, like the rest of us... dolly pardon, hehe. j/k anyways, point being, it had it's funny moments, but mostly i felt that i would have enjoyed it more if i were black. i am not sure why -- maybe i am just too lame to get that kind of comedy. ok, i am...

as always, keeping it real... REAL real...