Half of New Movies This Weekend Lecture us to Recycle
by Debbie SchlusselLook, if I wanna recycle (and sorry, right now, I just threw out a dirty plastic cup, without washing it out and reusing it–horrors!), I’ll recycle. I don’t need hypocritical, non-recycling gazillionaire starlets to tell me to do so. Including when I’m trying to watch a movie.
But Hollywood, while stupid, ain’t that stupid. So, instead of telling me to recycle, they’re doing it through t-shirts. . . . in two out of four national movie releases this weekend, the star wears her political views not on her sleeve, but on her chest. In “He’s Just Not That Into You“–a funny movie that turned into a sappy, non-credible chick flick–Ginnifer Goodwin (whose parents got the “Jennifer Memo,” but couldn’t spell) wears a recycle symbol t-shirt while she’s lying on her bed. In “Push,” the ever-dull Dakota Fanning wears the same t-shirt. Same recycle symbol. You can read my full reviews of both of these movies–I was Just Not That Into for than one of them–and the far superior “Coraline” here.
OK, I get it. You chicks who probably don’t recycle a thing want me to recycle. Enough. When half of the new movies coming out, pull this trick, I gotta send Hollywood a t-shirt of my own:
Actually, I really meant this t-shirt with a more appropriate symbol, but didn’t think the Big Hollywood folks would like me posting it. Time for the folks in wardrobe to shut up along with the hacktresses.
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Just think of all the recycled junk Hollywood gives us (sequels) – usually worse than the first one. Ni imagination.
I like the Mr T shirt!
The single digit IQ’s that respond to the inane Moralists from The Church of Hollywood will shrink in numbers when things get tough enough.
T-shirts lecture you?? Jeezy-Creezy. You must have a hard time walking the streets.
…non-recycling gazillionaire starlet.Bravo. Preaching the “please recycle” message is pointless, since it is so easy. My 4 year old nephew does it automatically, looking for the right bin for his paper plates.
I especially like it when they flex their national security and domestic policy muscle. Those drama classes seem to have really paid off!
In this past Monday’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, Leonard wore the same damn green shirt with the recycle symbol on it. And not just in one scene, the whole episode! Stuff like that just makes me want to STOP recycling. Although here in California, I’ll lose out on the CRV fee if I don’t.
You realize this is kind of a popular shirt, right? That it’s not anywhere NEAR something unlikely for them to be wearing?
Popular t shirt = 1 of 100 other popular t shirts. Certainly I haven’t seen 1 percent of the people on the street wearing those shirts.
Probability that two independently chosen women would be wearing the same “popular” shirt =1/(100 x 100) = 1/10,000
That makes the occurence about 100 times less likely than the probability that you will be killed in an auto accident in your lifetime. Hope you’ve got your insurance paid up, Bob.
Frankly, I’ve had it with all of the preaching, and finger wagging from the left. Mind your own business, and leave me alone!
“While I agree with recycling (been doing it for 30 years) I don’t need Hollywood to encourage me. These overpaid actors are the poster children of conspicuous consumption.”
Big Bear – you mean those Prius-driving hypocrites who then fly their Gulfstreams around the world?
I have stopped recycling. I also go out of my way to avoid companies that sanctimoniously proclaim that they’re Environmentally or Earth friendly. I’m sick of the self-righteous libtard nannies wagging their finger in my face, telling what to eat, what to wear, what to say, what to think, even how much toilet paper to use when I wipe my a$$.
The backlash begins at home. I’m sick of it, completely fed up with it, and I’m not going to take it anymore! I’m going to eat deep-fried Twinkies, mix paper, plastic and glass in my trash, and use half a roll of toilet paper.
Now excuse me, I have to go stock up on incandescent light bulbs while I still can.
It would’ve been ok for you to post a t-shirt with a middle finger on it. that’s just the kind of thing that libs, the mainstream/pop-culture need to see from conservatives to prove their stereotype wrong.
flippin’ a big bird at hollywood,
ac
Peg,
Did you notice that Blu-Ray sales are increasing?
DVD’s are the new 8-tracks.
Thanks for staying current.
-GSD
P.S. Debbie, time for a new headshot that was taken this century.
I too am sick of hearing the green propaganda. I avoid companies and products that shout this message. Because I live doesn’t make me harmful to the planet.
Miles
Move to Canada or Cuba if you want national heath care. I don’t want that crappy health care here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I have been recycling stuff for about 30 yrs. However, recently, folks have started to make it a self-righteous, moral stand. That pisses me off.
My take on it, as relayed to some whack job at the local Jimbos recently, was-”Hey, do it, or don’t do it, whatever. Just don’t lecture me on my obligations to Mother Earth. I have enough on my plate without the whole earth on as my project.”
Geez, these folks need to get a job, or a life.
Hey Bill Brandt:
I had a Prius but I never had a Gulfstream. I recycle my soda cans to get my money back! You could say I was thrifty.
Hey, people. It’s not the actor or actress who chooses what they wear on screen. It’s the wardrobe people, duh!!
Had it crossed your mind that maybe, instead of this being a lecture, that it was appropriate for the character to wear? Would Hollywood be lecturing us to buy oil by having an oil tycoon character?
I think Ms. Schlussel is taking things a mite too seriously.
Penn and Teller have a very informative and humerous look at recycling in their BS series. It is on youtube and worth a look.
Enviro-prop. It’s everywhere. Just watched that The Last Templar online (Mira Sorvino as a world-class archeologist?! Like watching a cheerleader do the Sunday NY Times crossword. With the solution.) and the cookie-cutter male lead lists everything he’s given up for Lent. Last on the list? Carbon emissions. Oy.
I remember George Will the political commentator once saying, “The schools no longer teach the three R’s Reading W(R)iting and A(R)ithmetics, they teach recycling, racism, and reproduction”.
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