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Terrible movie with subliminal messages

posted 15 years ago by EmilioCacao
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I think this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen; not because its predictability but also because of these subliminal messages about love and life they've been trying to stuff teenagers and young people in general. According to Bride Wars:

1. The poor needs to make way to the rich's wishes of having their dreams come true. Hathaway's character ends her wedding dreams so Hudson's can be married where and when she wanted. At the Plaza, on June 6. Since Hathaway played a teacher making way less money than a lawyer, she had to break up with her boyfriend...

2. After a breakup of an almost 4-year relationship, It takes less than a year to marry your best friend's brother. It was obvious Hudson's brother made way more money than Hathaway's ex. It was just a matter of time to solve the economic situation for the teacher by marrying someone with a higher income.

3. Money matters, not love, not even sex. It's all about how much you make, that's gonna make you happy. Nothing else. Proof of that is the scene when they found the ring and the Vera Wang dress incident. Hudson's character didn't learn or evolved in any way during the movie. She will still be the same materialistic bitch for all sequels to come. Hathaway will be at her side, adapted to a mediocre, insensitive life.

4. It's ok to be cruel to your best friend and make her fat with candy, color her hair blue, make her tired to death with a crazy dance teacher and send invitations already mentioning your wedding date without having talked to her.

If you have more "life lessons" from this movie, feel free to post.

Javier H. Moreno
www.cacaorock.com

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[–] butterflymetamorfose 15 years ago

I did seen some stuff people didn't comment here, these are things you see in other movies not just in this one.

*The main characters are two women who believe that happiness in life only happens after marriage.
*The character Emma wanted to marry a guy just because he's a friend. They never carried serious conversations about their relationship and future. There's nothing else between them besides some level of friendhship and pure lust.
*The character Liv doesn't show any interest besides physical in her soon to be husband. Is clear that if Liv's marriage was real it wouldn't last long.

Why people marry when they know divorce is knocking at the door since the first minute? This movie shows few of the reasons why there are so many divorces happening.

Now talking about the movie. There are some funny parts that I enjoyed and is a good comedy, not a very good but it's interesting.

[–] joesdomain 15 years ago

I watched this the other night, has to be one of the unfunniest films I've seen for a longtime. Kate Hudson needs to employ a new agent, I can add this to a long line of dud films she's made in recent years.

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[–] Howlin Wolf 15 years ago

Movies are movies, not instruction manuals!

Love United. Hate Glazers.

[–] smallpaul_24 15 years ago

The thing that got me was that they both wanted 'the perfect wedding' but it didn't seem to matter that their best friend would not be there. Seemed a bit of a pointless mission...

[–] majictiger3-1 15 years ago

Get a life man....it was only a movie! "subliminal messages"...Christ, how pathetic....

[–] EmilioCacao 15 years ago

I do have a life. And although it was "only a movie", we know how a movie can influence controllable minds. You're right, it's very pathetic and mentioning Christ just reminds me of how manipulable people can be.

Javier H. Moreno
www.cacaorock.com

[–] shananika 14 years ago

I thought the film actually had a lot of possitive messages. Liv is a control freak. She micro-manages every detail of her life and because of this she has become very successful. Emma, on the other hand, is very submissive. She lets people step all over her and she's settling for the wrong guy because she's comfortable with him.
Throught this whole wedding experience, Liv learns that she can't control everything and that it's okay to let go. Emma learns to stand up for herself and also lets go of a bad relationship.
They just threw in the attraction between Nate and Emma so that Emma wouldn't be alone at the end of the film.

[–] worldywings38 14 years ago

@ OP

Bitter, bitter, bitter!

Geeze, lighten up! This movie is time passing fluff and if you are taking life lessons from this drivel, you made need help!

[–] Starriknyghts 14 years ago

Why would you watch a movie like this one looking for "life-lessons?" I agree with the poster who said it was "time wasting fluff." If it were supposed to be educational on any sort of level, it wouldn't have been a rom-com. Now on to disputing your points...

#1- Anne's character, Emma, didn't end her wedding to make way for Hudson's character, Liv, to get married, she ended her wedding because she realized that she didn't really love her soon to be husband. So she called off the wedding, not because Liv deserved the Plaza more because she had no money, but because Emma couldn't imagine spending the rest of her life settled with someone.

#2- As someone else has pointed out, it was a 10 year relationship, not 4. It is not "obvious Hudson's brother made way more money than Hathaway's ex" as you seem to think, since it was never mentioned or hinted at what either man does. Perhaps Emma is a teacher because that's what she loves doing. And maybe, just maybe, as hinted at (the scene where Emma and the brother go to the tux fitting) Hathaway's character and the brother character have feelings for each other and have for a long time, like probably since they were kids, but couldn't do anything about it because of Emma's relationship with her now ex.

#3- No sequels planned, not every movie these days has a sequel. Also, Liv did "grow and change" she realized that she didn't have to micro-manage everything and that she could let people help her once in a while. I believe that your disgust with this movie comes from the fact that you really seem to hate Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.

#4- It is NOT okay to be cruel to your best friend. Playing practical jokes on someone is also not really being cruel. Either way, the girls felt guilty about what they were doing to each other.

Since you think that this movie has to have some sort of socially redeeming quality, life lesson, learn and grow from it, thing going on, how about this...

True friends are there forever, no matter what horrid things happen, or you put each other through.