The overall message is you only get the guy when you do pooja, cry frequently, is a virgin, wear long dresses & "patao" the guy's mother.Īnd the guy can cheat on, hook up with & stay in the house of his girlfriend but will marry the "good girl" as the girlfriend is not "wife material".Īnd the parallel FL is only moral when she reunites her ex-boyfriend & bff. And we are supposed to feel nothing for her when she gets cheated on & her bff gets into a relationship with her boyfriend when she was the very one who helped her bff from a crisis. The other FL is a "bad girl" because she drinks, has hook-ups & wears short dresses. The parallel FL breaks the girl-code/backstabs still we are supposed to support her as she is "Abla nari". And I feel that it was absolutely problematic. ![]() Join MovieBabble on Patreon so that new content will always be possible.So I just saw "Cocktail" this week starring Saif, DP & Diana. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to MovieBabble via email to stay up to date on the latest content. Thanks for reading! What are your thoughts on Cocktail? Comment down below! Critics rolled their eyes but Cocktail’s blend of star power, romance, and killer tunes was a recipe for box office success. ![]() It’s no Breakfast Club or Dirty Dancing but there was enough there for me to watch again over the years and I certainly owned the soundtrack on cassette. Bad CAN Be Goodĭespite regularly featuring near the top of the ‘Worst Tom Cruise Movies’ lists, Cocktail is a bit of fun remembered fondly by many. It was also so enthusiastically thrashed that it went on to drive us all nuts. Bobby McFerrin became a household name after ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’ featured in the movie and then hit number one in the US charts later that year. You know when you have to clean the house so you put on music and it instantly changes your mood? There is no doubt that great music can lift a mediocre movie and, in this case, the soundtrack sold 4 million copies. It’s not a given that the falling-in-love bit will be believable, but in this case the montage was tummy-flippingly good. The onscreen chemistry between Cruise and Shue was pretty sensational. You could imagine yourself being her and wearing those cool hammer pants to the beach. By then we knew and loved her as Ali in the original Karate Kid movie that was such a big hit in 1984. She was likeable and sassy. The Girl Next DoorĮlisabeth Shue’s Jordan was so relatable (to use a term that no one used then). Cocktail came out hot on the heels of Top Gun and The Color of Money and Tom was pinned to the bedroom wall of every girl I knew - along with Michael J Fox, Ralph Macchio, and that guy from Growing Pains. Whatever you think about Mr Cruise these days, back then he could do no wrong. It was pretty terrible and yet people liked it. The film also made it into The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. ![]() So, despite a dodgy plot, average performances, and questionable underlying values, Cocktail was a big hit at the box office. I’m not getting into that except to say that it’s nice to reflect on what progress has been made. That’s the thing with this movie, it represents women with money as either: Rich Chicks (Dad’s money) or Corporate Witches (their own money but they are unpleasant, overbearing, and obsessive). ![]() Brian’s mate Doug Coughlin ( Bryan Brown) older, and never afraid to give a bit of advice, places importance on two things: Money and ‘scoring’ women (wealthy ones preferably). Looking back through a pair of 2018 glasses the movie has some err … problems. Image courtesy of IMDB With the Benefit of Hindsight …
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