Superbad

[prosodic]

I just got back from the cinema. Andrea and Jeff picked me up shortly after 6 and we ate dinner at the cinema in the cafe they have there. I've been there before, but only for drinks. Their food isn't bad. I had gyro meat and fries with tzatziki sauce and washed it down with a Smirnoff Ice.

I tried to pay, but Jeff wouldn't let me. Their going away present to me, he said...they were treating me for the whole evening.

The movie of the night? Superbad - which has been advertised as the funniest movie of the year. Sure...if you're a 16 year old guy. But we found enough to keep us entertained. Not enough to where I would see it again, but I laughed. I actually think Lance would like it. It's kind of a combination of American Pie, Jay & Silent Bob and Napoleon Dynamite...at least in the sense that there were things about this movie that reminded me of those movies. Lance likes more juvenile humor than I do. But in the end, the movie has a good message, and all the scenes with the cops were just stupid funny (and I mean that in a good way).

And hey, we got free Superbad zipper pulls. Random!

Lance called me while I was waiting for them to show up, so I couldn't talk to him but for a minute. I told him that I would call him back, but he said he would be at a pub until late probably. And that's where he is at the moment, I assume. I don't know how late I'll stay up to call him...I'm getting pretty tired. I might set the alarm and call him at some point in a couple of hours. He doesn't have any work to do tomorrow, so he doesn't need to get up early.

Comments

[mrs-picasso.livejournal.com]

I actually saw this movie, too. It was a fun stress release, but like you I don't think I'd watch it again!

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Do high school kids actually talk/act like that? That hasn't been my experience, but then again, I don't see them in my off hours unless I run into them on base. The chubby kid in the movie was incredibly obnoxious. That's why he reminded me of Jay from the Jay & Silent Bob movies. He was disgusting.

[mrs-picasso.livejournal.com]

I went to see this movie with a friend who has teenage kids. He said that yes, they actually are like that. Kids in general are more rude and crude these days. When I used to work with kids we would talk about the changes we saw and it was disgusting.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I'm already a cynical person (No! Really?)...but this just makes me even more depressed about humankind in general. Maybe it's just because the high school where I worked existed in a vacuum, but I didn't see this kind of thing. Sure, there were jerks and jocks and nerds and everyone in-between, but they mostly co-existed peacefully, and I never heard any of them talk like the kids do in this movie. I'm sure the high school here is altogether different from American high schools.