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  2. Dargis was rather kind to it in the Times, too.

    BTW, I saw “Cedar Rapids” the other day and quite liked it — good call on that one. They showed trailers for “Hall Pass” and “Paul” before it and the audience was unmoved by either.

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  4. I’ve been torturing myself for almost a full day now wondering why I didn’t think to ask this when the Boston press Q&A’d the Farrelly’s last week: Why don’t they just go on Craigslist (or whatever) to hook up?

    I mean, I know the “real” reason – the “joke” of the movie is seeing pathetic married losers strike-out in the modern club scene… but they don’t even bother to ADDRESS the fact that there’s a billion and one legal, well-advertised businesses out there that are 100% built around the “married guys looking for a one-night stand” clientel. This literally never comes up in the movie, and the unreality of it is unavoidable.

    Sidenote: The more times goes by, the more I *HATE* the bit where Wilson goes all “get a job, hippie!” on the douchebag-ex-machina kid at the Starbucks. It’s such a naked, pandering example of “rarr! power to the upper-middle-class white suburban dude!!!”, totally out of character, etc. Kissing your (presumed) audience’s ass is never pretty, but is there any kind of pandering MORE consistently irritating than movies actively trying to convince the real-life Lester Burnham’s of the world that they don’t suck as much as they know they do?

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  5. Pete Hammond giving thumbs-up to some thing isn’t especially unlikely, no matter what it is. And Drew has strange tastes in comedy, IMO — as I recall, he was one of the only fans of The Love Guru.

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  6. SPOILERS:

    Forget Craigslist or “professionals.” Why doesn’t Owen Wilson just go for the horny co-ed babysitter when she’s throwing herself at him? Low. Hanging. Fruit.

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  7. Movie Bob – they address it in the movie. They say getting a pro would be cheating, since they want to score on their own.

    But beyond that, I don’t think these guys would know where to begin looking for hookers in their little suburban world. That’s part of the movie’s ‘joke.’

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  8. Onion AV also liked The Dilemma, too.

    Drew McWeeny seems to have a bias toward the Farrelly Bros. because they’ve let him see test screenings in the past.

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  9. @Devin,

    Forget “hookers,” man – these two guys, supposedly walking-embodiments of male suburban restlessness, have certainly heard of internet porn, and everyone knows you can’t even GLANCE at the stuff without getting bombarded with ads for swinger/poly/etc hookup “dating” services. Hell, there’s like five more jokes at least: “Aw man, your a hooker? I totally thought I was just on my game!” “Holy crap, thus chick is too freaky for me!” Etc etc

    SPOILER

    But yeah… the REAL answer is more likely that if they DID, they’d actually get some and the audience would never “forgive” them – the moralizing in stuff like this gets really old. Of course, only the wife “seriously” cheats, but then she almost DIES so it’s “okay” because she’s “paid for it” I guess. Ugh. Fuck that.

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