Rom Com Roundup: 40 Days, 40 Nights [8 of 30]
Posted by AW in 40 Days 40 Nights, E, movies, Rom Com Roundup
[Rom Com Roundup is a project where I watch 30 romantic comedies I've never seen from now until valentine's day and document how it affects my outlook on love. (Link to the full list of movies)]
The Movie: 40 Days, 40 Nights
The Blurb: A guy getting over his ex decides that sex is ruining his life, so for Lent he cuts out all forms of sex (including masturbation). Ironically, he meets a girl he legitimately falls for, and of course things go a kerfluffle! What follows is a series of events that involve boners, porn, weird religious undertones, and one of the worst love scenes I've ever seen in my life. This includes the scene from Alone in the Dark, LD. And in the end, he realizes what true love is! Or something.
The Conventions: Retarded guy friends group, pornography is hilarious, laundry is where love forms
Did I cry? No.
Current State of Mind: Y'know, it's kind of amazing that a movie so "unconventional" can be so utterly uninspired. You can kinda see what this movie was going for, an R-rated movie that focuses mainly on sex with a weird....religious message mixed in, and in the end strives to say something about love. It's even kind of refreshing to see a comedy that tries so hard to be frank about sexuality without attempting to be edgy. But jesus, this movie is fucking stupid. It's not bad even, it's just stupid.
So what is my current state of mind? I've come to the realization that no matter how bad a movie may be, it does have the cheerful effect of reminding me that I am utterly alone. Hooray! So I think to myself, how would this feel if I was in a relationship and watching these movies by myself. Undoubtedly, I'd return to the relationship with an inflated sense of optimism having obviously spent the last hour and a half thinking of HER in the context of all these sappy romantic comedy conventions. And at some point, things wouldn't go the way they do in the movies...sure we'd have moments, we've all had moments where our lives were like a good (or not so good) movie, but at some point things would go awry. And in some cases, things wouldn't work out by the end. If I'm used to this structure, these convnentions, these signals that things are heading to a logical conclusion, and I'm thinking of her with regard to these movies, it's a 100% probability that she will disappoint. Knowing that, is that helpful to me for the future? Or making it worse?
I don't know, but I have 22 more movies to figure out.
Up Next: Good Luck Chuck. dj, get that sniper rifle ready...
