Adventure…land.

 

Adventureland:

I’d give it a 3.5 out of 5.  Movies have really just been somewhat disappointing recently.

When slightly over 21 year old, James, is forced to move back to the hometown he grew up in, he becomes reunited with his old friends.  The kind of “friends” that as James says were cool “and then I hit middle school.”  When James’ dad loses his position at work and can no longer afford to put James through school at some NY university, nor fund his planned overseas travels, he’s forced to begin working the only place he can find a job and save money, the carnival.  Thus the name, Adventureland.  The movie quickly falls into a love story when James meets Emily or “Em.”  Long story short: Boy meets girl, boy messes up, boy fixes, girls messes up, boy not willing to forgive so quickly, girl moves to boy’s little dreamland, NYC.  Months later, boy follows.  Happy ever after.  

Don’t get me wrong, the movie is good.  I laughed, I felt some happiness and some sadness (likely just self pity), but when it all boiled down, I didn’t leave very impressed. 

HOWEVER, as Lance and I both had the evening off on Tuesday, The Departed came on t.v.  Now, that movie I was impressed with.  I personally don’t think you could go too wrong with a movie starring Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, and Jack Nicholson.  The t.v. version was 3 hours long.  *gasp*  It was worth it though.

I’m not entirely sure where those random movie reviews came from, but there you have it.