figure i had to post on friday the 13th, heh. we've been so kneedeep in wedding planning stuff and a bit stressed out so i figure this wasn't the best place to vent. i will vent about something a bit more superficial though.

since last summer, there's one movie that everybody and their mother has asked me if i'd seen. unfortunately, i had neglected to see this movie, as it didn't really look that good to me. this movie is wedding crashers.

i finally got around to watching it earlier this week. is it possible for your entire world to come crashing down just from watching a 2-hour movie? i hated it. i'm not trying to be overly critical, i just hated it. and i hate that i hated it. almost everybody i know recommended i watch this movie cuz it's so terrificly funny. i wasn't offended by the movie or felt like it was beneath me, it just wasn't fuckin funny, man. i'm not sure how much more philosophical i can get about it, it just wasn't funny. i sat, i waited for the funny parts, the funny parts didn't come. while a movie like this isn't supposed to have a fantastic oscar-nominated plot, this one was so unbelievably uninteresting that i couldn't wait for it to be over.

and why do i take it so personally that i didn't enjoy this movie? cuz it makes me feel old, or too advanced or clever, or something. understand that i absolutely loved swingers, and consider it one of my favorites movies largely due to vince vaughn's character in the movie. he was absolutely hilarious in that. the problem is that movie was about 10 years ago, before he was a big deal. now it's basically the same schtick, it's just been overdone for a while now and it's a lot funnier for the 16 year old kid who's never even heard of swingers than it is for me.

if you want some real comedy, try dazed & confused, dumb & dumber, any kevin smith movie, office space, snatch or tommy boy instead. or if you need more recent, the 40-year old virgin.

you know where to console me.

--j