Only problem is, Jack Black as a Mexican wrestler is sort of hard to forget.
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.
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
Fearless?
United 93?
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.
Benchwarmers?
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.
That’s it! Thank You For Smoking. Whew.
(So it is a little postmodern around the edges, but only the visuals, not the plot.)
I win! I win!
You should read the book (by Christopher Buckley). It’s great.
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.
You know, if you hadn’t been chain-smoking Camels throughout the flight, you might have remembered the movie. :dubious: