There is a genre of movie that I really hate that I classify simply as "guy movies". I generally avoid these movies, because the common themes are guys being wildly irresponsible, drinking, doing drugs, getting involved in violence, and sleeping with some hot, no-personality women. I hate sounding like a prude, but it actually just depresses me to think of the degree of selfishness and recklessness being basically celebrated as an ideal for manhood. All of this comes up now because I just saw The Hangover 2 today, and I hated it (and I sort of expected to going in, but I thought I'd try it anyway). The movie wasn't really all that clever, but it had everything I don't like about guy movies -- and the worst of it for me is the way most of the women (or in many cases, transgendered women) involved were strippers & prostitutes, and it was somehow cool and exciting for the main characters to get involved with them (even though one was married and another on the eve of his wedding). I guess there's just this part of me that revolts against all of the debauchery, because I don't think it's how people are supposed to treat each other. No regard for other people's humanity or background or experience, no thinking about the causes or effects, just indulgence. It grosses me out, makes me feel worse about the world we live in because it's kind of celebrating the things that I wish could cease to exist.
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