Rants About Ridiculous Scenes In Otherwise Okay Movies #1: the Underwater Makeout Scene in Whip It
A good kissing scene in a movie should leave something to be desired, something that seems just a little out of reach, yet achievable. Example: the pouring rain kissing scene from The Notebook. It’s romantic, and hot, and even though it’s maybe not LIKELY that I’ll just happen to get in a little argument with a fella in the middle of a rainstorm that culminates in our making out hardcore, it’s still possible. (Right?)
In Whip It we have Bliss, the roller girl, and her adorable indie rock crush, Oliver. Somehow they end up at a deserted but very well lit indoor pool late at night. They stand on opposite sides of the pool deck, make eyes at each other, then dive in and start kissing underwater. The good news is that instead of using the cliched “let’s pull off all our clothes and swim naked”, they instead take off their clothes underwater. (This movie has a lot of cliches already.) The bad news is that the whole scene was SO. FREAKING. STUPID. It looked nice enough, but I kept thinking oh hey you guys just drowned because give me a break you can’t stay under that long without air. Believe me I’ve tried. Also oh hey I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a pool with chlorine but keeping your eyes open underwater actually hurts a lot and isn’t super sexy and you can’t see anything all that well and doesn’t Bliss wear contacts anyway and OMG THIS IS SO FREAKING STUPID.
So yeah. The movie was enjoyable overall, I mean, nothing spectacular, but fun enough. Why they had to go and ruin a potentially very fun makeout scene is beyond me, though.
