Lesson learned when letting your girlfriend choose a movie
Saturday, I told my girlfriend, let’s just rent a movie and watch it on this crazy TV I bought. We went to a local video rental store. We walked the whole store looking at the new rentals. I wanted to see Wall-E. She had never seen it but was not in the mood. She wanted a comedy. We saw some Dane Cook movie and thought maybe. Then she found Burn After Reading. I made the mistake of NOT reading the back of the movie case. I asked her, since she just read the back, what is it about?
To my surprise, she tells me it’s a comedy of sorts. I see it has George Clooney and Brad Pit from the front cover. (Again I rely on her reading the back). I say why not…I’m sure it’s funny and has to be better than Dane Cook.
We end up renting that one and buying Wall-E (only $10 to own).
OK…well after 2 hours …we both found ourselves saying. What the F just happened. We were so disappointed. And I made sure I let her know she did not pick out a comedy. This is not a bad movie, but more random. If you’ve seen it you know what I’m talking about. Not only do some of the characters act like they don’t know what the F is going on, but we, the viewers, felt the same way as the credits still rolled.
Girlfriend admitted defeat.
Lesson learned….I pick out our next movie!!!
Someone is being productive at work… I’m glad you bought walle- tho, now I can watch it too!
Comment by Jill — 1/26/2009 @ 12:46 pm
hahaha, burn after reading – yeah i liked it but boy what a movie
Comment by chouse — 1/26/2009 @ 1:02 pm
Hey…I never admitted defeat….just that it was incredibly strange
Comment by Amy — 1/28/2009 @ 12:01 pm