That's what the teenaged ticket window dude said when my uncle went to buy three tickets for Role Models. I knew family date night was off to a great start. The joy of being taken for a student was enough to erase any sadness I felt about going to the movies with my aunt and uncle on a Saturday night in New Jersey.Role models won out over Quantum of Solace after a friend of mine had this to say about the latest Bond film "I am not sure if the lack of any real drama in the movie made it boring or beautiful"...uhh pass, Role Models it is.
Role Models with its base humor and cheap laughs once again proved that the New York Times should no longer be allowed to review movies. That liberal, elitist rag has no clue what is entertaining to real, main street, Americans.
You might remember it was that hateful A.O. Scott, in the employ of the New York Times, who panned 27 Dresses (a perfectly lovely film) and then sent me into the 2 hours of torture that was Don't Mess with the Zohan. Well this time it was Scott's similarly out of touch colleague Stephen Holden who tried to dissuade me from a night of real laughs by calling Role Models "the newest entry in the increasingly worn-out 'boys will be babies until they are forced to grow up' school of arrested-development comedies".
Turns out, 'boys being babies" is really f-ing funny sometimes. What part of a using ambien as an aphrodisiac and endless jokes about boobies and other lady parts isn't funny? Loosen up New York Times.
Date weekend with my aunt and uncle continues this evening with a romantic dinner at a lovely country restaurant. Just the three of us.
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I suffered through You Don't Mess With the Zohan on Friday night. Fortunately, Netflix allows for a lot of wine and that is exactly what I needed in order to make it: a lot of wine. Today Mark and I stood at the movie counter and actually flipped a coin to decide btween Role Models and Zack and Miri Make a Porn which unforunately won so I was forced to say "Porn" to the creepy ticket guy. Real funny though AND I got to see a full preview for Bride Wars. You're making the trip to DC for that one right?
well,darling, you are only 24... it is completely understandable that the young chap mistook you for a college coed.
I too was treated to a full length preview of Bride Wars (in addition to about 6 previews for all manner of scary movies...I felt I should have been warned about that). I can not wait to watch that fine film in DC.
Oh, and Towbin...I am pretty sure he thought I was a cool senior from the rival HS who wasn't embarassed to be seen with her parents on a Saturday night.
I rarely (never) comment on your posts, mostly because I agree wholeheartedly with everything you have to say. This is probably the same reason for the low number of comments per post relative to the million-plus readership you maintain.
At any rate, I feel compelled to comment on Role Models.
It sucked. I certainly did some laughing, but the potential for humor that Paul Rudd and whomever-the-hell-Stifler-is-in-real-life possess is much like the potential that Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey possessed, AND DELIVERED ON, in their 1998 classic The Negotiator. Not to say that Role Models was all bad. That little African boy was quite funny. Is that the politically correct way of saying that? Maybe I shouldn't have capitalized african. Oh well.
I do agree that the NY Times should no longer be allowed to review movies, especially comedies. See www.nytimes.com/movies/reviews/aoscottisanidiot/billymadison1995.
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