So one of my readers contacted me offline (not actually offline, but offblog) and mentioned seeing Lars and the Real Girl. I guess I should have posted about that movie sooner, because it pretty much sucked. It was painless enough in a quirky arthouse sort of way, but really it just seemed like a good enough idea that went nowhere, and anybody with any sense saw where nowhere was a mile away and we just waited like hell to get there. It is a bit of a shame really because Ryan Gosling is good, and there should be a movie about real dolls. There was a very interesting article on salon about real dolls. If you haven't read it you should. Follow this link:
http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2005/10/11/real_dolls/
and one of the guys in the article had a website for a while which was pretty darn crazy. I would imagine that the people who wrote this movie read this article, but they didn't capture any of the real craziness. Also Ryan Gosling is too good looking and was not strange enough to be believable. It might have been a better movie with Paul Giamatti in it, or really Crispin Glover would have been perfect.
Dane Cook is not funny. I know he is the most popular comedian in the whole wide world, but he is not funny. Perhaps he is so popular now that he doesn't need to be funny anymore, and maybe he was really funny at one time (anyone who has seen that steve martin video of his concert knows what I am talking about). I am not going to transcribe any of his jokes, but they were basically like this "Guys love to get head, they really do". 7.5 out of 16.
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Dude - it's funny because it's true! And: I saw a review of that Lars movie wot said "eschews cheap laughs" to which I say "too right mate." I'd say half a dozen cheap laughs would have made that movie nearly watchable. And (SPOILER) creepier than anything, he doesn't f the real doll. ??!!??
Dane Cook went from stand up comedian to starring in a ton of major movies... pretty impressive.
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