Drag Me To Hell

Drag Me to Hell is a 2009 movie about a woman, Christine, who is cursed by an angry gypsy.  Great movie, but Fit Inspiration?  Let's review.

Christine was an overweight child who struggled with poverty and a mother who was an alcoholic.  As an adult, she is thin, dating a wealthy man, and a bank employee ambitiously pursuing a promotion.  Despite outwardly doing so well, Christine remains internally impoverished and struggles with the ghosts of her past.  This manifests as determination that leads her to acting against her conscience, which leads to her downfall.   

When Christine is introduced, she stops at a bakery to admire cupcakes, letting us know she has weight issues.  Annoyingly, this ruins the Fit Inspiration.  Bakeries become invisible when you're a Fiturist.  You just walk right on by.  Or JOG!  

The actress looks great, doesn't she?  Think she thinks about cupcakes?  Hell no.  I guarantee you she doesn't.  If she ever says otherwise, she's lying or heavier.

Later, Christine bakes a cake while remembering being overweight as a child.  That's when the goat spirit attacks her....See, when formerly overweight people are alone with junk food, it's trouble.  Trouble as in eating-cake-batter-trouble.  When Fiturists bake (like twice a year), they dump the batter down the drain.

 She baked this cake and took it to a dinner party......

........which later turned into this

Flies started flying out of the cake as the dinner party was eating it.  (Yes!  Start that relationship with your in-laws off right).  Bad things can happen when you bake.  More realistically, there could've been hair in the cake or a bug (embarrassing).  I mean, it could've been really gross.  Fiturists Tip #1: Buy a cake (but only if you need a cake).  

^ Here's for the part that'll really make you mad.  Christine boo-hoos into her ice cream.  I hate that.  I hate emotional eating in movies.  Normal people don't do that, and if anyone ever does, it's because they got the idea out of a movie (typical trope).

Fiturists don't do emotional eating.  They exercise.  I've seen it.  When they're up to their eyeballs in problems, they jog.  There are times when you can't do anything but wait.  People want to be doing something.  Non-action isn't an option for some people (overachievers).  But binge-eating doesn't solve the problem.  Better to relax and unwind.  Stop worrying. 

When we see Christine eating the ice cream, she's given up.  Game over.  Christine lost.

Not to ruin the movie for you, but, she goes to hell.

So let's rate this movie for its Fit Inspiration.  On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best:

+10 for a girl who overcame her weight issues
-4 because she loses at the end 
-2 for emotional eating
-2 for baking a cake
-2 for the bakery scene at the start

= 2/10
Overall, great movie, but it isn't Fitness Inspiration. We know that what we see can influence our actions.  Even after it is forgotten, what one fills his mind stays there, forever.  So it's important to watch these things with a critical eye, not allowing oneself to harmonize with poisonous thoughts, but to fight against them.

Remember, the Fiture is now!
  
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