Monday, April 09, 2007

Touche

Back in my younger college days I somehow got suckered into watching Meet Joe Black. There had to have been a girl there because two of my other friends Andy and Josh also watched, and I am pretty sure we didn't decide to watch the movie ourselves. One of the reasons why I know we didn't decide to watch the movie is because we were making comments all throughout the movie, and I doubt we would have done that if we actually wanted to watch it (well, that, and it is a girly movie).
Our movie commentary was going great especially when Joe meets the girl that he likes in the movie. When they part they do a series of "look backs" at each other and we were able to call all of them because of the easy to recognize formula of: boy looks, then girl looks, the boy looks, then girl looks, and then finally boy looks. We were calling out this play like a football coach, and then:

I wish someone took a picture of our faces when that happened because that was not suppose to happen. We were pretty stunned/amused.
I'm sure it wouldn't have made such a lasting impact on me if we weren't making fun of the seemingly formulaic approach that they were doing at the time, but even to this day I respect the movie, I won't watch it again (it is after all a girly movie) but I do acknowledge it's existence.

6 comments:

Valerie said...

YouTube is blocked at work so I can't see what you posted...is it the scene where someone gets hit by a car? (I can't remember if it was the boy or the girl.) I'm female (hopefully that's obvious by my name being Valerie), and I saw this with a male friend--we both HAAAAATTTTED it. Formulaic is right. And oh so boring....

Anamika Anyone said...

Whats it with guys really? My brother does the same thing.. its funnt at times, but sometimes its plain annoying..

Ookami Snow said...

@Valerie - Yeah it's the part where he gets ran over. By far the best part.

@Anamika - To us it is always funny to do movie commentary, I think it is just girls that get in a bad mood when they find it funny. :)

Valerie said...

Whoa! It was a double hit--I'd forgotten that!! The commentary stuff makes me think of Mystery Science Theater 3000--that was the best!

Anonymous said...

Pretty funny.

The Math Ninja said...

that is much better than I had imagined it being.