Driving down Bundy to get on the 10 this afternoon, I saw a billboard for the film Couple's Retreat and contemplated risking my life taking a picture of it with my shitty Blackberry camera phone. The premise of the movie, from what I gathered by half-paying-attention to the preview and from said billboard, is four couples go to an island to rekindle their relationships. Vince Vaughn is in it--playing himself as usual I presume--as well as some other fairly big names (Kristen Bell, Jason Bateman).
I wanted to snap a picture because, well, look at the actors' faces, pained with crinkled foreheads and misery. Take note of the forced hand-holding, the despondently slouched stances. It's like someone in the movie-marketing meeting was like, "Okay I got it--we'll have the actors stand knee-deep in water and look like they want to kill themselves." Or maybe the execs know the movie is terrible, and the posters are supposed to discourage people from going to see it. While they were at it, though, they should have given the film a better title, like Marriage Sucks.
Billboard aside, who wants to watch married people fights for two hours, anyway? Sounds like a blast to re-live similar scenarios we've had with our significant others, only these people are better looking and on a beach. And I really don't need to watch them go to therapy and "work" on their "issues." Whoever came up with this idea should be fired. And then forced to watch the movie on repeat forever.
All I know is, I will not be partaking.
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I am so amazingly sick of Vince Vaughn playing Vince Vaughn. It was funny in one movie, maybe two but twenty is just more than I can take.
And now Jason Bateman is doing movies where he plays the same character - essentially all Michael from Arrested Development.
Yeah, he's gonna need to play a psycho killer or a superhero like STAT. I don't know how much more Michael schtick I can take...
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