Shit is Off the Menu
we watched a movie last night. it sucked.
the movie, Lost in America, is about how this ad exec and his wife leave their secure and stifling traditional lives to live like "easy rider." it stars albert brooks and julie hagerty as husband and wife.
basically (and yes i'm going to spoil this turd of a film) they liquidate their assets and buy a winnabego (much like some friends of ours) to find themselves on the road. except, ha ha, in their first night in vegas hagerty goes nutsy-cuckoo and blows their entire savings at the roulette table. seems leaving her stifling life was a bit too liberating for her.
ha ha ha. $100,000 lost. so they fight. and have a brief adventure or two. then get really really crappy jobs in podunk nowhere. then, after one day, decide they should "eat shit" and beg for their old lives back at a loss.
which is what they do. the end.
it's a comedy, see? about, uh, well... it's about, um... trying and failing? having a dream that doesn't work?
well? you tell me!
we both tried to like it but at the end we agreed it was awful. albert brooks was kinda funny in his super-neurotic way. and the whole thing was a little funny in that depressing sit-com fashion. but at the end, when they gave up their dreams: they were happy to do it. eager to eat shit. as if it's stupid to have dreams. as if there's no point in trying to escape your dull, mundane life. free is too much for you. you can't handle it. you'll just fuck it up if you don't play the game as writ.
so just give up. be happy you can afford a luxury car. don't worry about the fact that your office doesn't have a window.
fuck you albert brooks.
i'm outa here.
at least it's funnier than that "leaving las vegas" movie. that wasn't that funny at all. i thought "adventures in babysitting" was *much* funnier.
Ha, ha, ha, why did you watch that one I wonder? I love that movie, but yeah, it's sad.
bartlebee picked it.
walking to work this morning, though, it occurred to me that i'm not SUPPOSED to like the couple. that it's much funnier if you go, "ha ha, look at the poor idiots!" rather than "yes! leave your job! that's exactly what you should do!"
then, when he begs for his job back at the end you can go, "yep. he got exactly what he deserved. schmuck."
i still hate it.
yeah, that movie sucks ass.
next time rent the cremaster 30 minute excerpt & watch it 3x's in a row instead.