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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Fantastic Four and things that science girls are not

So, I said that I found something horribly unrealistic about Fantastic Four. No, it wasn't the whole multiple DNA manipulation thing (and the fact that mutated DNA gives you superpowers - it will probably just kill you) or the space travel, or any of that. The most unrealistic aspect was this:

Not a real science girl

Brilliant female scientists don't look like that, y'all. Trust me, I've had lots of science classes - and maybe there were [Derek Zoolander] really, really ridiculously good-looking [/DZ] girls in my freshman classes, but it's rare for them to make it past organic chemistry. You either have time to spend four hours daily with a personal trainer and getting your hair perfectly straight and working on your tan, or you study.

Of course, you don't go to a movie like this because you want gut-wrenching reality, right? If you want gut-wrenching reality, you go to Fahrenheit 911. Ha ha.

Fantastic Four was entertaining - lots of action, special effects, and stuff blowing up. But the acting was meh, and there were some cheesy lines. Despite the cheese and the fake brilliant science girl, it was worth watching. Also, take the kids - they would like it, and it wasn't the alleged "boob raunch fest" (tm Drudge) that Wedding Crashers was. (Actually, I liked Wedding Crashers better - not because it wasn't for the chirrun, but because it was funny. More on that later.)

Fantastic Four does have a pretty good soundtrack, I'm actually listening to it right now.

Edited because I decided I should include a disclaimer - I'm not saying that pretty girls can't be scientists, so don't give me a long lecture in my comments about how I'm furthering the stereotype that women are intellectually inferior and blahdeblah. I'm just saying that I never had a upper-level science class with a girl who looked like Jessica Alba. You usually don't get [Derek Zoolander again] really, really ridiculously good-looking [/DZa] and an aptitude for science in the same package. I mean, I had some of my upper-level science classes with a girl who looked exactly like Conan O'Brien. I'm not kidding - they had the same head, hair and all. Now that I think about it, I also knew a girl who bore an uncanny resemblance to Chris Farley, which is arguably more unfortunate. What is it about me that I keep encountering girls who look like red-haired male comedians? That's veerd.