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Tuesday , December 14, 2010
All-Time Top 5 Things We Loved About Whip It
1. KRISTEN WIIG IS SO GOOD
One of my favorite parts of Whip It was forgetting entirely that Kristen Wiig is Target Lady on "SNL." Instead, she played warm-hearted, sexy single mom Maggie Mayhem with the aplomb of a character actress; it was a performance entirely free of any Dorothy Hamill bowl cut expectations. Please please please someone give Kristen her own show and make it good! (Kat)
I don't know what Eve is thinking in regards to Kristen Wiig here. Ten points if you write an imaginary caption in the comments!
2. LANDON PIGG IS SO BAD
I'm kind of super-stoked that the "love story" in Whip It was kind of lame and eye-roll-inducing; in the larger context of "studio movies about teenage girls for teenage girls," its lackadaisical treatment was practically subversive. It's like the film refused to deviate from its grrrl-posi, pro-sporty central mission and was like, "Eh, I guess we HAVE to put this in here." So they got a piece of dude candy and made him run around in cool clothes. Fine with me! (Kat)
Dude candy.
3. ANDREW IS SO THE HOTTEST WILSON BROTHER
I've long suspected this (he's Future Man!) but Whip It really drove it home. When we got out of the movie I told my little sister that Coach Razor was my new number-one dream dude and she went "Ewwwwww, what the fresh hell???" and then told me I was gross. But that's OK. She's only 18. Give her 10 years or so and she'll totally get the appeal of a bearded, unwashed, scraggly-haired almost-hesher in stonewashed cutoffs.
P.S. In this sporadically hilar vid about the making of Bottle Rocket, Andrew's bearded, unwashed, and scraggly-haired, which leads me to believe that that's his actual look, which makes me really happy. (Unless it was shot while Whip It was being filmed, but who knows?) Skip to 4:54 for proof that Andrew's about 12 times foxier than Luke, at least.
P.P.S. Juliette Lewis was hot too, and perfect. (Liz)
Dude candy, Liz-stylez.
4. ELLEN PAGE'S COMBAT BOOTS
This is so obvious, but I don't care. It's so awesome to see in celluloid an outfit you probably wore all the time when you were in high school. Self-validation! (Kat)
Ellen's all like, "You know that feeling you get? That vast emptiness within?" And Landon's thinking, "Man, I really want that Stryper t-shirt."
5. THAT MONTAGE SET TO "CAUGHT UP IN YOU" BY .38 SPECIAL
All the rollerderby scenes were mega-goosebump-giving and so geniusly soundtracked, but the "Caught Up In You" montage (in which Bliss gets her skates) squoze* my heart harder than anything else in Whip It. For a couple minutes it's simultaneously 1982 and whatever year it was when you were 17, and now I can't ever stop listening to this song, especially when drinking Diet Coke while walking through some gas station parking lot on a swampy-aired Friday night. Guys, the "little girl" she's "so caught up in" is HERSELF. That's heavy. (Liz)
*"Squoze" is a real word, invented by Steve Martin in L.A. Story.
The arm-wrestling match is probably my favorite part of this video.
Tags: combat boots, dudes, heshers, Kristen Wiig, Southern Rock, The Brothers Wilson, Whip It
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7 Comments!!
"damn that skinny bitch got a nice ass." that's what I hear at least.
Whip It made my weekend, and I'm with Liz on which hot guy is best. Scraggly dude is much better than boy-who-never-called-and-broke-her-heart... and hotter.
By Rachael on October 18, 2009 1:08 PM
Part of me really wants to see it Whip It (this is the same part that owns Kansas City Bomber and the original Rollerball with James Caan on DVD), and another part is conflicted. Mostly because I actually USED TO PLAY DERBY for about 3 years. I retired in 2007.
And I think about it all the time.
By JP on October 18, 2009 3:04 PM
JP, "Whip It" is like that amiable good-time movie that you go see with low expectations except to be entertained and amused in a totally fun way. i normally would say there's no reason to need to see it on the big screen, except that it's totes true that hollywood really believes that films directed by women don't make money, so i went to see it partly as a political point...but yeah, i could see how being bona fide derby could make you kind of go "hmmmm..." but i think the film totally respects the sport and does its best to show how awesome it is...ok, rambling now...xo k.
By Kat
on October 18, 2009 5:01 PM
No, that's fine. Ramble away.
I might have to make Whip It be the next movie I see in the theater-- the last one I saw Inglorious Basterds.
- Brat Benatar #66
PPDD
By JP on October 18, 2009 10:50 PM
I've become convinced that "Whip It" needs a second life on the midnight movie set, when local roller derby leagues can show up in force & in uniform, and zebras (refs) can whistle the illegal stuff from the theater seats.
Bat Fasterson
SCRG
By Masonic Youth on October 19, 2009 3:57 PM
Agreed on all counts! I adored Whip It too :)
By Erin D. on November 8, 2009 2:18 AM
I loved Whip It, only just come out here in th UK but I wanted to see it from the word go! And.... I thought it was amazing! To me there was no phony bullpoo in it, just a girl wanting to be herself with her friends and showing in a good way that girls definitely can kick ass without needing boys :)
In fact ive hunted down a local roller derby team and im now after my first pair of skates to get going, woohoo!
By Angharad on April 18, 2010 10:40 AM