I liked this movie a lot. and I generally really like Kevin Smith. I think it is pretty ridiculous for criticize comedies for unsophisticated camera work or dialogue that is distinct from the way that people actually talk. it is not cinema verite, nor is it going for gritty realism. The dialogue is different from the way people actually talk, because people aren’t actually all that funny in real life. I too have always thought the 3some plan felt forced, but it is not like the resolution of the movie actually hinged on the success of that ill-conceived plan. Nor is it inconceivable that a character that identifies as a lesbian could possibly have a love affair with a man. It surprises me that in your hipster ethic you regard sexuality as completely static. All the time in movies we accept that characters that identify as straight, particularly female characters and Peter Sarsgaard, have homosexual dalliances. I also agree that it is hard to take your self-righteous pandering to political correctness in issues of race and sexuality identity, when you so casually find humor at the expense of, or use words that people find offensive in relationship to, easy targets, ie. the developmentally disabled, the over weight, the jean shorted etc.) . I find it disappointingly lazy on your part as a humorist. Also having read a lot of Smith interviews and watched all of his Evening With and Evening Harder series, I think has been pretty upfront that some of the inspiration for Chasing Amy was explicitly about his insecurities about Adams’ sexual history and dating life before him (she did after all take Bud Bundy’s virginity) not about a trip to Australia.

That being said, I would like to nominate Rollerball
not with James Caan, but the ll Cool J version. It is a steaming pile of garbage and has been all over HBO as of late.

So here’s my frustration with last night’s episode . . .
What year was Alex in high school? I assumed a senior, I also assumed she was taking the AP European History exam because that is waht BEn had his PhD in. SO the AP exam is a national date. They are pretty much always the first couple weeks of May. Which means Alex would know whether or not she got into Yale, as May 1 is the National Decision deadline. I suppose she could have gotten waitlisted but it seems that would have been worth mentioning. And wouldn’t she still have asked her Principal for a letter way in advance any way. And Yale doesn’t actually care all that much if the person writing the letter is an alum, they care much more about the quality of the letter, in which case Dr. Ben’s letter would have probably been superior. Now if she is a junior, as my wife suggested, why is she asking for a letter in May of her junior year anyway? What was she going to do with it? And how exactly would the disgraced principal destroy her opportunity to go to Yale? He would just take it on his own to recommend she not get in? I think Yale admissions would find that suspicious. Also what does doing well on an AP exam have to do with Financial Aid? Nothing. Besides Yale meets 100% of financial need, and if she is qualified for Yale she could go to any of the excellent UC schools and get in state tution. But she is not going to get into Yale because she is stupid and French as that whole college tangent was stupid.

And I care about stuff like this because I am stupid. But I am not French.

“Let’s go see Couples Retreat in England in case there are no black people in it”
-Tom Cruise

first of all Betty liked being tricked into having sex with louis because sex with louis is awesome because louis is a nerd and nerds are awesome at sex because all they think about is sex, whereas all jocks think about is sports. and second, Superbad is all about raping chicks? Are you referring to the “we could be that drunken mistake” line? Alcohol being used as social lubrication and reducing inhibitions in the high school/college mating ritual is tantamount to rape? That is certainly a cynical view of the world. It is not as if they were waiting for girls to pass out to have sex with them, or were investing in roofies.