It made me angry

Hello readers. This is your uncommitted blogger visiting you from the great beyond - also known as the land of self-pity. Do you know this land? I myself am on the corner of self-loathing and 'I can't believe I'm here again' but I just wanted to touch base with you guys and let you know of a movie that really pissed me off this weekend...well, two of them. The first movie: 'Someone Like You' starring Ashley Judd, the ever-studly Hugh Jackman and Greg Kinnear. The plot in a nutshell: Girl meets boy (Greg Kinnear). Girl falls in love with boy. Boy hacks her heart to pieces. Girl loses faith in men and goes on a personal crusade to show what liars and hacks men are. Girl gets fooled by same boy again. Girl gets Hugh Jackman (eventually). This is just like real life, right? Right - except the girl never gets a Hugh Jackman. Instead, she winds up settling for the slightly overweight, slightly balding version of the man she really wanted just so that she no longer has to be alone. Also, Girl has crazy, zany, single friend played by none other than Marisa Tomei. This friend is also constantly screwed over by guys and guess what? She doesn't find her happy ending. Nope. She is left in spinsterhood - left forever to do yoga and hold out hope for that one true love without actually ever finding it. Instead, her doe-eyed, unremarkable friend finds love...in the form of Hugh fucking Jackman! What the hell is going on here? The second movie to piss me off: 'Eat Pray Love'. The plot goes a little something like this (I've never read the book so I'm obviously simplifying) - Girl gets married to perfect man. Girl is tragically unhappy. Girl falls in love with young, sexy actor type. Loses herself...AGAIN. Breaks up with him and goes on soul-searching quest to Italy, India, and Bali where she finds love in the form of Javier Bardem - tall, dark, handsome, brilliant, and sweet (he loves his kids...awwww). Girl freaks out and won't get on boat with gorgeous man. Girl goes to her little toothless friend the medicine man who tells her to chase her true love. She does. She and sexy man wind up on a boat together, forever... Frankly, I find it insulting that we women are supposed to believe this shit. You get your heart broken and all of a sudden your womanizing, man-whore roommate wants to really try with you - yea, the girl he once loved destroyed him, but you're worth it. He will happily give up easy, unattached sex for your ability to cry at the drop of a hat. OR, you are a neurotic woman who is NEVER happy but all of a sudden you find this sweet, adventurous man who is willing to traverse the world with you because, well, your neuroses are just that much fun. Bullshit. Thanks. Sincerely yours, Angry