I’ve been seeing the ads for the new Debra Messing flick, The Wedding Date, and I know it’s going to suck massively – and I want to see it anyway. Dermot Mulroney is in it – need I say more?
I will probably be too embarrassed to actually go see it in a theater (which would be worse – going alone or asking a friend to go with me?) – but I know I’ll see it within a month of it coming out on video.
And, yeah, I kind of want to see Hitch (Will Smith as dating coach who falls for a girl and turns into a babbling fool) as well. That I could see dragging someone along to, though.
A middle-aged woman going alone to see a romantic comedy? What could possibly be more pathetic than that? At least if I wait and rent it it’s not clear that I’m a lonely and bitter old maid – some poor schmoe could be waiting for me at home.
uh . . . a middle-aged MAN going alone to see a romantic comedy.
My wife is agoraphobic and doesn’t leave the house. So if I want to see a movie, I have to go alone. That isn’t a problem usually, and I actually prefer being able to get into a movie and not have to interact with another person.
But that leaves me right out of romantic movies, which I rather enjoy. The last movie to present this dilemma was Shall We Dance.
As you said, I’ll just have to wait for the video/DVD release.
Count me as another person planning to go see The Wedding Date, even though I know it’s going to make me furious with its anti-feminist pandering. OTOH, Dermot Mulroney. Luckily, I have a deal with a friend that we’ll go to see stupid girl-movies that we don’t want other people to know we’ve seen together.
However, there are some movies I can’t even tell her I want to see, for instance:
I’m totally going to give people money in order to watch Constantine. All alone, since everyone I know who is a comics fan is too put off by Keanu Reeves’ presence to go, and the non-comicgeeks just think it looks stupid. (not that they are wrong.) I am a sucker.
The other movie I know is going to be bad, but will probably netflix is…I can’t even type the title, so I’ll just say, “The elves decided on a L-shaped ambush, and laid down a heavy suppressive fire on the gnomes.” What’s wrong with me?
In this thread, there was some mention made of going to the movies alone on Sunday. Now, secure in the knowledge that I’m not the only semi-intelligent adult in the country who wants to see this, I went to check listings. Bad news for my inner trash lover: I found that Being Julia, which was in and out of the indie theater too fast for me last fall, is now playing at the local multiplex. Half-price matinees Sunday at 1:30 and 4:30 – guess that takes care of my Super Bowl Sunday plans.
My friend Bret and I love cheesy teenage (highschool/early college) movies.
Thus, I must shamefacedly admit that we are going to have to go see a little movie I like to call Ice Princess. That’s right. “From small town mathlete to big time athlete”.
Me and my friend Paul went together to go see Ever After. Wouldn’t have been so embarrassing if we weren’t both straight. Or if it hadn’t been so awful.
Other than that, I don’t think I tend to be embarrassed by wanting to see crap movies.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Mean Girls. I’m not the kind of guy who drools over Lindsey Lohan or her nubile teenage gal-pals, although I hear she is a pretty decent actress in it. Usually I hate teen movies (especially teen movies where nobody has any real problems and everyone is incredibly good-looking) with the white-hot passion of a thousand suns. However, Tina Fey wrote it and acted in it, and I AM the kind of guy who drools over Tina Fey. Still, the embarrassment remains.
I used to go alone to the movies all of the time. But now I usually wait for the DVD. That said, I do have a couple of good “beards” here for movies that I might be too embarrassed to see alone. I definitely second you on “The Wedding Date”, Twickster. The bathroom scene alone would be worht the price of admission…YUM! If we were closer, it would definitely be a date!
BTW I took one of my “beards” , my 30 year old mildly autistic brother, to see “Spongebob Squarepants”. It was us, several families with kids, and several gay male couples. Made the last five minutes of the movie very interesting to say the least. My brother is a HUGE Spongebob fan, and I try to indulge him, when he shows an interest. Makes it easier to get into the “kiddie” movies that I am dying to see.
(Nope, haven’t forgotten – just haven’t gotten around to it.)