# Help me remember a new movie I just saw! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890 "2006-09-15T22:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/41 "2006-09-16T07:43:55Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] _Nacho Libre_ was like that and is in about the right time frame. [/QUOTE] Only problem is, Jack Black as a Mexican wrestler is sort of hard to forget. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/42 "2006-09-16T07:45:39Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] **The Breakup**? (Jennifer Aniston and that guy) [/QUOTE] Perfect choice - a comedy slightly too close to the truth to be funny, but it has that scene with that guy and the barman with the nod,nod,wink,wink that I found too funny to forget. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/43 "2006-09-16T18:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] Perfect choice - a comedy slightly too close to the truth to be funny, but it has that scene with that guy and the barman with the nod,nod,wink,wink that I found too funny to forget. [/QUOTE] Okay, Vince Vaughn is too tall, and especially too creepy, to be “that guy”. Vince Vaughn is “that annoying guy from _Swingers_.” Jon Favreau (also from _Swingers_), on the other hand, is the prototypical “that guy”. Heck, if you put him and Jeremy Piven side by side, I couldn’t even tell them apart. How about _Along Came Polly_? I know I saw the film (under duress) but I’ll be damned if I can remember anything about it, except it was one of the ones _with_ Ben Stiller that _didn’t_ feature Robert DeNiro whoring out his image. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/44 "2006-09-16T19:52:27Z")
Fearless? United 93? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/45 "2006-09-16T20:58:06Z")
None of these excellent suggestions. We are still convinced it was a comedy, not so sure about the rating (PG vs. R), both agree we thought we wouldn’t mind seeing it again. Since we can’t think of the hero, we wonder if it had an anti-hero. No nuking from orbit noted. Still no motherfucking snakes. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/46 "2006-09-16T22:01:42Z")
**Benchwarmers**? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/47 "2006-09-17T02:18:09Z")
Okay, it wasn’t on my previous list. Reaching a little farther back, was it: A Prairie Home Companion? Aquamarine? Art School Confidential? Failure to Launch? Find Me Guilty? Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties? Hoot? Just My Luck? Keeping Up With the Steins? Kinky Boots? Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector? Lonesome Jim? On a Clear Day? Phat Girlz? RV? Scary Movie 4? She’s The Man? Stick It? Thank You For Smoking? The Shaggy Dog? I think we’re reaching the point where we’ve mentioned every mainstream English-language non-animated comedy that was in release this summer. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/48 "2006-09-17T02:55:04Z")
That’s it! Thank You For Smoking. Whew. (So it is a little postmodern around the edges, but only the visuals, not the plot.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/49 "2006-09-17T03:36:36Z")
I win! I win! > [@](#): > > So it is a little postmodern around the edges, but only the visuals, not the plot. You should read the book (by Christopher Buckley). It’s great. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/50 "2006-09-17T03:41:11Z")
You did. I will. It astonishes me that we could like a movie and blank it out completely. I still think covert British Airways mind control was a factor. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890/51 "2006-09-18T17:24:58Z")
You know, if you hadn’t been chain-smoking Camels throughout the flight, you might have remembered the movie. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-new-movie-i-just-saw/372890.md?page=2)