Netflix can be pretty good about guessing what I might want to see and it send me an email a few days ago telling me it had added Burying the Ex and it bet I wanted to see it.  And it was right, it is a movie I have intended to watch since it was first announced.  It was always going to be viewed by me at some point.  So I sat down and watched it and man it was a huge disappointment.  Oh, Joe Dante, what happened to you man?  Among the most egregious of it’s sins is the way it set up the two competing love interests in the movies.  Ashley Greene was basically the movie harpy girlfriend who you have never met in real life because if anyone was that monsterous her mother would have smothered her in her crib.  Except you know, she was horny all the time so… I guess… progress?  She isn’t a frigid shrew?  On the other end is Alexandra Daddario who basically plays a horror nerd’s dream girl.  Or maybe just like mine.  Maybe when I was 13.  It felt a little too pandering to me as an adult.  Oh, she’s so cool and she likes horror movies and she owns her own ice cream shop with flavors she mixes herself with punny horror names and… ok, I have to admit, I think I would be down to date someone who owned and ice cream parlor.  Also, I do like anyone who likes the old General Mills Monster cereals.  But my point is she, like the evil ex of the title, seemed to lack any character at all.  Which is disappointing.  Which is the sort of thing that means someone wouldn’t get mentioned in a post, much less get posted.  I very rarely post, “I saw a bad movie and the character was hollow.  So here she is”.  The thing is though, Alexandra Daddario is really, really hot.  Like way too hot for just a bad movie to drag her down.  She definitely is hot enough to transcend a movie I didn’t particularly like.  Today I want to fuck Alexandra Daddario.

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