Blake Lively Slips in the Inevitable

In between making babies with Ryan Reynolds, the dream of every woman with a uterus and a channel to get Reynolds sperm therein, Blake Lively is making movies the studio won’t let critics review until immediately prior to release. That’s akin to posting blurry selfies on a dating site. Attractive people somehow find working cameras. The Shallows is about a chick who’s stranded on a buoy just two hundred feet from shore of an isolated beach while a great white shark circles her position. Seems interesting enough. Lively had to ruin it by noting that the realism lies in the reality that:

Because of global warming, sharks are pushed closer to shore.

There’s a grand tradition of actors assuming that roles they are hired to play imbue them with the skills and understanding of their characters. Like a child dressed as Superman leaping off a roof and breaking his arm. It’s okay to make a movie where you’re in a bikini and covered in fake blood and screaming a lot. There’s no need for you to show off your extensive knowledge of the environmental sciences gleaned from sharing Facebook articles while on maternity rest. The minute you announce you’re having six kids you disqualify yourself from environmental savior status. Nature needs a victory. Let the shark win.

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