Valentine's Day- The movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hp7npquUUk

As I was reading the directions for this blog post, I was thinking of one thing and one thing only, Valentines Day. I thought that the topic of Valentines day just in general was a little bit too broad so I narrowed it down to the movie Valentine's Day. I decided to use the clip from the movie where Taylor Swift's character is being interviewed and being asked questions about how her and her boyfriend in the movie, played by Taylor Lautner, met. Taylor's character says at first that she was not into her boyfriend and that he used to shoot spitballs at her during spanish class. Later in the day she found a spitball that was stuck in her hair and it said "whats up?" She thought that this was really cute and then she decided that she liked him. After she says this, the clip goes on to show Taylor Lautner's character, her boyfriend, practicing his hurtles on the track and he sees her and ends up tripping over the hurtle and falling. Taylor Swift's character yells "oh my god baby are you okay???" and she acts like she is very worried and concerned. She goes on to tell him to just walk it off and that he is still hot!

This entire movie and this clip especially I think are so cliché. The whole idea of Valentine's Day is a big joke to me. Valentine's day is a "greeting card holiday" and I think it is just an excuse for girls to act like prissy spoiled little brats and expect their boyfriends to buy them flowers, chocolates and diamonds. I think the meaning of what Valentine's day should be has been completely lost. Valentines day should be about spending a day with the person you love and being with that person should be enough in itself. Stressing about gifts and making the day perfect shouldn't be the focus of Valentine's day. The movie Valentine's Day just portrays all the wrong things about what Valentine's day should be.