Well, on Labor day I thought it would be a good idea to catch a movie. I’ve heard good things about Tropic Thunder and wanted to go see a comedy anyway. Having some errands to run, I stopped by the theater to see when it would be playing. I just missed the start time so, off I went to do other things.  

My errands took me to another side of town where I was determined to see a movie there. Once inside I looked for Tropic’s start time, but it was an hour away. So instead, I thought I’d sit and watch College. It was still a comedy and I remembered the lofty comparisons the ads made for the movie, basically comparing it to this generation’s Animal House, and Revenge of the Nerds.  I knew that wasn’t true and watching the movie confirmed by initial beliefs. I would have done better staying home and watching Super Bad again, but I didn’t hate the movie.  It was a solid effort.

The movie stars a bunch of kids I didn’t know. The one I recognized played the geek in the movie, but I couldn’t figure out where I’d seen him. I think I saw something that said he was in American Idol. The comedy was very much by the book as the three main characters: the previously mentioned geek (striving to win his parent’s attention), the overweight risk taking wise cracker, and some kid from Nickelodeon (who plays the average guy wanting to make his ex girlfriend jealous). 

These three find themselves at  a University where they meet their nemesis’, a fraternity that’s on suspension for hazing. The Alpha Betas, they are not. Ogre is replaced by a man named Bear Cat, and “Marcy Darcy” replaced by a Tyler Durden clone. Though the story’s pretty predictable, and this comedy follows the new generation’s “gross out” formula to a “T” I didn’t hate it.  I don’t plan to see it again, but it was an okay way to blow a couple hours.

More interesting than the actual movie, were these three 60 year old women that refused to stop talking during the trailers. They talked about politics and about Lexus cars, only to stop their conversation to comment on how bad the trailer being shown was.  They just wouldn’t shut up. The behavior repeated for about 5-6 trailers, when one of the old hags finally got up (I assumed to get a cam corder. Hell. They were talking enough. Why not bootleg the damn movie and complete the reversal of stereotypes).

In a couple minutes “Blanch” came back and motioned to the other Golden Girls to follow here to the next theater over. Obviously they hadn’t realized until now this was not their movie.

About 2/3 through the film, three people came in to watch the rest of the flick. This was during a scene where there was about to be a lot of nudity (hey that’s 1 plus about the movie) and feces(and that’s why I’m not watching it again). I had to warn them as the person sitting in the middle of this three-some was a boy that couldn’t have been any older than 7. I have no problem with people walking into a movie like that, but there’s just some things that children shouldn’t see.  Luckily they took my suggestion ( I told them this movie’s very vulgar) and left to a different movie just seconds before crud hit the wall (literally) followed by the previously mentioned nudity.

So, it wasn’t a terrible experience and this will be a lesson learned about knowing what time your movie starts before getting to the theater. I don’t know of any good flicks coming out soon, so I’ll probably mention something about Tropic Thunder when I get around to seeing it.

-C.