What's the term for when a piece of media makes a meta-reference to its own inadequacies and then fails to correct those inadequacies? Like, say, theoretically, just for argument's sake, a movie makes a pointed reference regarding how women's ages in Hollywood are often and regularly cause for them to be marginalized, but then said movie tries to actively age down its female lead by twenty years? Is there a word for that?
Whatever that word is, that's what this movie is.
This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are taking on the 2022 album, er, film, Marry Me, starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. We'll talk about the state of the music industry (again) and how pop culture has evolved over recent decades, why this movie does such a poor job at living up to its own ideals, and whether or not there is such a thing as a real version of Jennifer Lopez's personality.
Even more fun discussions include the second week in a row we take on a movie about a female rockstar whose tremendous fame is bizarrely inconsistent, whether or not a mid 50s Owen Wilson can actually pull of mid 30s as is implied by this film, and questioning the wisdom of coming up with an album concept and trying to reverse engineer a movie from that.
Plus! Stay to the end for a look behind the curtain at how much Josh and Ryan panic when they think they're about to lose a 90 minute recording session.
All this and more on this week's episode of The CineMeh Podcast.
Marry Me was released in 2022 and stars Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Sarah Silverman, and John Bradley.
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