If you like Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston — who doesn’t — and you want a comedic movie where you can relax and just go with it. Ha, ha! I used just go with it and that’s the name of the movie Just Go With It. So anyway, the movie is predictable — no surprise there — and fun. Anniston and Sandler have good chemistry just like Sandler and Drew Barrymore had good chemistry in 50 First Dates. That’s not my favorite movie or anything, but it has the best ending of any movie I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of movies. A lot.
It’s like all I ever do is watch movies. Most of them are so UNremarkable I forgot what they were about before I even review them. That’s how many movies I watch.
Oh yeah, Just Go With It is a fun movie, a few laughs, and is one of those feel good movies where everything is right with the world. So if you want that kind of movie just go with Just Go With It.
On the other hand, if you’re not in the mood for frivolity, Inside Job could explain why you don’t have a job, why you lost your home in foreclosure, and above all else keep you awake worrying about what those damn bankers are going to do next to further F*#! up the economy. The good thing about Inside Job is it wasn’t terribly political: it didn’t blame the Democrats, it didn’t blame Bush and the rest of the party. Although, according to the film, the Republican demi-god Reagan was the one who started us on the path toward economic collapse. However Clinton kept it going and Obama is doing very little.
There was one telling line in the movie and I paraphrase badly: Wall Street controls our economic policy. Take heed all of you who want to blame the other party, it is both parties’ ignorance of basic economics and of course their own greed that makes them submit to the whims of Wall Street.
There was another little factoid in the film that was especially troublesome. These guys who brought us down the primrose path of economic ruin are the ones writing the economic textbooks that our children will be studying.
I will tell you something. Our nation has gone through economic disaster before and we as a nation have weathered other storms and we’ll get through this — but only if we teach our kids how to think. One of my jobs is a private tutor, which because of the economy jobs are harder to find and I had to lower my rates. I see first hand how kids are being taught to regurgitate information to pass a test. They are not being taught or allowed to think. I have actually gotten in trouble for encouraging children to think. Probing questions are highly discouraged. When these kids go to college and read the pablum in the texts pushed off by the Wall Street Elite, if they don’t have the capacity to dig deeper and put two and two together this country is doomed.
Sorry for the rant.
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