Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
I got up and changed the cat's litter rather than sitting through this whole movie. It was really gross litter, too.
Really bad in the special ways that only a bad comedy really can be. Because, not only is the subject material presented as normal and acceptable, it's funny! Right?! In the Hangover, it was racism and sexism dressed up with some wacky hijinx and presented as hilarious. In HTTM, it's more sexism and absolutely unreasoning nostalgia and regret about life since high school. Like I said, I kinda checked out, but the movie as a whole is pretty brutal. If you compromise you have wasted your life. And if you make changes (going to the pizza place instead of the steak place) people will die. Of E. coli poisoning. (32 people would be really huge for something like that, but it is a comedy! Exaggerate!)
Also most of the cast appeared to be really drunk and just kinda talking.
It's weird because I had been thinking about, you know, the choices I've made in the last few years and things I might have done differently before watching the movie. But, ugh, I really reject the idea that everything I wanted to do in high school was automatically right (that'd make me a computer programmer) and that your high school friends are your true bros forever. (One of the things I wish I could tell my younger self is that making new friends in college is not being disloyal to your old friends.)
Some of the others I would tell a younger me:
- Avoid anime club like the plague. Go to RPG club or medieval combat instead.
- Why don't you go work out instead of sitting on your computer fatty?
- Alcohol is not in fact the devil
- Actually why don't you make your own beer
- Buying a skillion RPG books is not a substitute for actually playing, or actually sitting down and planning a game
- Sometimes people are just jerks. Don't blame yourself about it.
But it's mostly details, you know?
Really bad in the special ways that only a bad comedy really can be. Because, not only is the subject material presented as normal and acceptable, it's funny! Right?! In the Hangover, it was racism and sexism dressed up with some wacky hijinx and presented as hilarious. In HTTM, it's more sexism and absolutely unreasoning nostalgia and regret about life since high school. Like I said, I kinda checked out, but the movie as a whole is pretty brutal. If you compromise you have wasted your life. And if you make changes (going to the pizza place instead of the steak place) people will die. Of E. coli poisoning. (32 people would be really huge for something like that, but it is a comedy! Exaggerate!)
Also most of the cast appeared to be really drunk and just kinda talking.
It's weird because I had been thinking about, you know, the choices I've made in the last few years and things I might have done differently before watching the movie. But, ugh, I really reject the idea that everything I wanted to do in high school was automatically right (that'd make me a computer programmer) and that your high school friends are your true bros forever. (One of the things I wish I could tell my younger self is that making new friends in college is not being disloyal to your old friends.)
Some of the others I would tell a younger me:
- Avoid anime club like the plague. Go to RPG club or medieval combat instead.
- Why don't you go work out instead of sitting on your computer fatty?
- Alcohol is not in fact the devil
- Actually why don't you make your own beer
- Buying a skillion RPG books is not a substitute for actually playing, or actually sitting down and planning a game
- Sometimes people are just jerks. Don't blame yourself about it.
But it's mostly details, you know?