when the status quo frustrates.

Adventureland

Hi. I’m a 21 year old white male. I just graduated from Oberlin College and will be attending Columbia’s graduate program in journalism next fall. My still-married parents have paid for everything in my life to the point where I’ve not had to hold a single job. Ever.

BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO FEEL SORRY FOR ME BECAUSE I’M A SHY VIRGIN AND MY DADDY DRINKS AND MY PARENTS MAY NOT PAY FOR MY SCHOOL OR MY NEW YORK APARTMENT AND I LIKE THIS GIRL WHO HAS THE GALL TO BANG SOMEONE ELSE EVEN THOUGH I WAS JUST TOTALLY BROKEN UP OVER SOME OTHER GIRL I DATED FOR 11 DAYS LIKE 2 WEEKS AGO AND ALSO OTHER GUYS PUNCH ME IN MY NUTS OVER AND OVER AND I JUST TAKE IT SO NOW I’M WORKING AT AN AMUSEMENT PARK WHICH IS LIKE WHAT POOR PEOPLE HAVE TO DO WHILE I READ HENRY MILLER AS A STATUS SYMBOL AND MY FRIENDS ARE UGLY.

I need another movie about a depressed well-to-do white boy like I need someone to rip out my teeth with pliers. Enter Adventureland, one of the most tone-deaf comedies I’ve ever seen. If you like feeling sorry for privileged Nice Guys(TM) chasing cardboard cutouts of actual women, check it out.


Two thumbs up. Its own ass.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 pm and is filed under Dudes, FUCKING IDIOTS, Looks like someone needs an intervention, Movies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “Adventureland”

  1. Kyso K says:
    April 3, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Damn. I worked at an amusement park once and as I remember it, it would be incredibly easy to make an excellent comedy about two people having a summer relationship at their crappy amusement park job. It seems like it would take a special amount of antigenius to make that suck.

  2. punkass marc says:
    April 4, 2009 at 10:55 am

    I’m with you, KK. This was a slam dunk, but they managed to get their face stuck between the rim and the backboard. Then lost control of their bowels.

  3. Quin says:
    April 4, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    More movie reviews, please. But only for ones you hate.

  4. punkass marc says:
    April 5, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Also of note: one black person in the movie. Has zero lines. And yet we’re told by her white friend that she’s responsible for one of the cruelest developments in the film. Niiiice.

  5. Kyso K says:
    April 5, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    That was probably for realism, because we all know that you never see black employees at a real amusement park.

  6. violet says:
    April 5, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    “From the director of Superbad,” sayeth the poster.

    Well. I’m shocked.

  7. witless chum says:
    April 6, 2009 at 11:12 am

    “I’m with you, KK. This was a slam dunk, but they managed to get their face stuck between the rim and the backboard. Then lost control of their bowels.”

    That made my laugh a lot.

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