The Adventureland.

You know how every movie that you would have seen before has that guy who likes that girl but she is with this guy but her and this guy don’t really work and then she falls for that guy that likes her and then that’s the end? Adventureland is really nothing like that at all, and I think that’s why I enjoyed it so much. Thinking about the movie in a nutshell though, it really is the same as that stereotype of romantic comedies, but it is one that does it in a way that you don’t think it is happening. Everyone that I talked to about Adventureland said that it was good but slow, except for Lauren who said that it was slow, boring and not even worth watching.

Now I don’t know if I am just a patient movie watcher or if I like slow movies or whatever, but I think that every time someone tells me that a movie is slow and that I shouldn’t bother watching it, I always end up really enjoying it. Adventureland is one of those perfect balance movies, the balance being funny and serious. You get those movies like Superbad; who is by the same guy just so you know, but you get movies like that where it’s just funny, like there is pretty much no seriousness to it, and it is just joke after joke after joke. Then you get those movies like Gladiator where it is really serious and there isn’t a single joke in it. Why I brought up Gladiator I don’t know, it was just a really serious movie that I can’t remember being funny like, in any way, but what I am trying to say is that Adventureland is a really serious funny ass movie… like Juno.

Now I have never, ever seen Juno, so bringing that up might be even more of a regret than bringing up Gladiator, but from what I have seen in trailers and heard from people, Gladiator, no I mean Juno, is a really serious comedy, and that is the same vibe that I got from Adventureland. There were the scenes that had me cacking myself laughing, like, you know, nearly dying and stuff, but then there were just those moments where you, ah, you just feel like you just want to help the fucking awkward guy who is like Michael Cera but he isn’t, it’s the guy from Zombieland. That’s the other thing about this movie, it is just full of people from big movies but I just don’t remember their names for some reason. You have that teenager guy from Zombieland, that main chick from Twilight, the other cop from Superbad, the one that isn’t Seth Rogen, you have that guy from Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place; which I am surprised that I even remember that it existed, and then you have that girl from Saturday Night Live who was in that one episode of Flight of the Conchords.

In a world of easy to predict romantic comedies like, well, all of them, Adventureland really stands out as being less predictable. I mean it is kind of predictable, but there was just something about it that left my opinion on what is going to happen open. Normally I can pick who will end up with whom within the first five minutes, or even by looking at the front cover, but Adventureland is a really different one, and that is why I just enjoyed watching it so much… oh and the movie is set in nineteen eighty seven, so the soundtrack is bloody great. The only thing that wasn’t good about this movie is that it ended at five, nearly six in the morning, so it fucked up my sleeping pattern even more… something tells me I am actually going to just, have to work night shift because there is no not being nocturnal for me.