The movie "Bridesmaids"
premieres today, but if you’re a woman, you know that. Across the
country,
screening parties and loosely organized groups of friends are
planning events around the
film’ wedding dress for cheap wedding dress for cheaps premiere. It’s just a
movie beach weddings cheap cocktail dresses , but it’s also a movement.
Salon writer Rebecca Traister proclaimed the “viral enthusiasm”
surrounding the film akin to “a grassroots presidential campaign”.
The message: support a movie that’s by women for women so we can
keep making them.

“I encourage each and every one of you to see ' bridesmaids '
this weekend not just because it's hilarious, but because we
MUST show Hollywood that women DO want movies that are not vapid
rom-coms or something about shopping,” formal evening gowns reads a forwarded email
Traister received from the writer of "Legally Blonde" and
another writer friend. “A lot is riding on this movie.”

Ever since the "Bridesmaids" trailer was released a few
months ago, the film has been treated like a gem in a swamp of,
well black dresses , fool's gold.
Romantic comedies are on the decline, both in quantity and
quality. The 'chick flick' label has scared off male
ticket-buyers, causing Hollywood executives to resist the
once-conveyor-belt-production formula. Why make another ladies-only
“Best Friend’s Wedding” when "The Hangover" will target
both men and women ticket-buyers?

But don't blame movie-goers, blame the movies.  Chick
flicks have gotten really bad. The jokes revolve around tripping
and falling, and the goal revolves around getting the cookie-cutter
guy to propose. We need more, and we used to have it.
Traister's article looks back to the days of "9 to 5"
and "Baby Boom", wondering where on earth the relatable
female character in film has gone. Remember when movies starred
real comedic actresses, when their conflict revolved around work
and when their romantic counterpart was Sam Shepherd women summer dresses women summer dresses ?  That
was the '80s, the women's movement of film, when
"Working Girl" could drive both men and women to the
theater.

But "Bridesmaids" might just harken to a second movement,
set appropriately on the stage where women have the most conflict
in the new millennium: not at work, but at the altar.  Since
the early 2000's, romantic comedies start, end and revolve
around the wedding. But somehow, nobody has actually nailed why
we're so obsessed with it.

“In most wedding movies an actress may have the starring part
(though not always), but it’s only because her character’s function
is to land a man rather than to be funny,” writes Manohla Dargis in
her rave
New York Times review of the film. “Too many studio bosses seem
to think that a woman’s place is in a
Vera Wang.”      

Think "Bride Wars", 90 minutes of two friends in $3,000
gowns gowns pulling each other’s hair out. What man or woman in their
right mind would pay to see that? In movies, the wedding premise
has too often become a wrestling ring for women to compete and
sabotage each other. In real life,  bride/bridesmaids
trajectory is far more "Hangover" than "Brides
Wars."  It's filled with conflict, self-questioning,
over-spending, and momentary lapses in judgement. There’s
frustration yes, but there’s also friendship. bridesmaids seems to
elicit the same revelation "Sex and the City"  first
bestowed on viewers: women actually like each other. And not
because they share clothes, but because they make each other
laugh.

That seems to be the larger message of the movie, as real friends
make plans for tonight’s premiere. It’s empowering, and not in an
Angelina-Jolie-holding-gun-way,  but in a fart-joke way. With
that in mind, supporters of "Bridesmaids" are hoping
women won&#8217 gowns ;t be the only ones packing the theater tonight. If the
movie can make the “chick flick” equal opportunity or do away with
the stigma altogether, more people will see the movies, more women
can make them, and more people can understand the horrors and
hilarity of being a woman today.  A lot is riding on
"Bridesmaids," and if the reviews are any indication
it's going to deliver.&#160 wedding dresses ;

“Perhaps the biggest, most pleasurable surprise,” writes The
Times' Dargis, “is that “Bridesmaids” doesn’t treat Annie’s
single status as a dire character flaw worthy of triage: she’ prom dresses prom dressess
simply going through a rough patch and has to figure things out long dresses long dresses, as
in real life.”

A single woman in a movie who isn’t desperate to wed? We’ve got to
see this.