Half of New Movies This Weekend Lecture us to Recycle

Look, 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. (more…)