Battling Over Movie Turds
I’d like to introduce you to my sister-in-law, Kate*. Everyone, say hello to Kate!
This past weekend, Kate and I got into a–I hate to call it heated, so let’s say *LIVELY*–discussion about two of my most detested movies in the universe.
There’s Something About Mary (Blech! GAG! Ugh! Barf-o-rama!) and The Wedding Date (AWFUL!).
The fact that I spent money, hard-earned money, going to a theatre to watch two turds is one of my life’s greatest regrets. That’s $14 I’ll never get back. When I think about the bottle and a half of wine I could have purchased with that money instead, I feel sick. Just plain sick.
Kate completely disagrees and find these two movies delightful and hilarious. (YUCK! I’m gonna hurl.)
I realize that most likely, I’m in the minority on this one as I remember that when TSAM came out, it was a huge hit. People kept telling me, “Oh you MUST go see that movie! It’s the FUNNIEST movie EVER made.” (Like, gag me with a spoon, ya know!)
So what do you think, are you a fan of these movies and agree with Kate? Or do you agree with me and think they are terrible, horrible, awful, putrid movies?
(Kate would like to tell you all how lovely you look today.)
(I would like to tell you how pretty and smart you all are and how much I look forward to your visits each day.)
Looky here! You can vote in the handy-dandy poll!
On your mark. Get set! GO!
*Kate is a pseudonym. So is Tate. My mother-in-law would like to make it known that she would never name her children rhyming names.
Ye also forgot Wedding Crashers. That was the first movie that we say after I had Bacon. We paid an arm and a leg to see that piece and I am still angry about it. It “sucked more than anything that has sucked before” A lot like TSAM. Yes TISAM…SHE SUCKS!
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TSAM sucked and it sucked royally. I can not stand Cameron Diaz so that made the suckatude of the movie 10 fold.
I loved The Wedding Date. I could watch it over and over but without paying an arm and a leg to do so.
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I would like to add to the turd pile any movies starring Jim Carey, Adam Sandler, or Jack Black. Steaming piles of turd right there.
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I hated TSAM! Now, I was the only one in a full theatre not laughing through the whole thing, so we may be in a minority … but I hated it!
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I’d like to register a complaint w/Burgh Baby - how can you NOT like Adam Sandler? OMG.
Anyway, I did see TSAM and thought it was OK but yeah - ew - gross.
Never saw the other one, I don’t think.
Kate & Tate. Seriously, I never knew Tate was not his name LOL
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The Wedding Date was ok - wouldn’t have gone too see it in the theatre. And I thought TSAM was funny - really I did. But I was also young (?younger) and carefree and had a different sense of humour then.
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Husband and I went to TSAM after he INVITED MY MOM TO GO ALONG despite my protests of “she won’t like that kind of movie”. My mom was bored so she said okay, then she AND MY DAD show up at the theater. I refused to sit by them. I was mortified when I heard my father laughing uproariously at the *ahem* bathroom scenes. I think my parents got amusement from the fact that I was so embarrassed about it. Quite possibly the worst 2 hours of my life.
Oh wait. Maybe that was sitting through Waterworld.
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I’m with you on this one. I’m NOT a fan of either, although my DH finds them hilarious.
Then again, my DH loved Dumb and Dumber…so I can’t use him as a measuring stick.
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Those two movies bite, and usually TSAM is my kind of funny. Go Jen!
Baby Mama was hilarious…go see that!
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I am sure Kate is a lovely person, despite being SO WRONG.
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I’m sorry - we can’t be friends anymore. What’s not to like about The Wedding Date?
I did see it in the movie theatre - and loved that 1.5 hours of oogling at Dermot Mulroney! Bliss, with a bucket of popcorn thrown in for good measure!
kate and tate… bwahahahahaha!!!!
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I can’t really vote…bc though I didn’t LIKE TSAM, I did find some parts funny. I never saw the other one either…
*shrug*
To each his own I say.
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I hate, Hate, HATE TSAM. And Cameron Diaz in general. The Wedding Date, I’ve never seen, so I can’t say. but if it’s in the same boat as TSAM, I assume I hate it too.
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Madness agrees with Jennifer TOE-TALLY. Those movies Suck Donkey Balls… and when Madness says Suck Donkey Balls.. it makes her giggle.
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I think Cameron is adorable.
I thought parts of TSAM were humorous. I really don’t get a kick out of potty humor and the like so I’m not a huge fan.
I haven’t seen TWD so I have no opinion on that one.
Hi Kate *waving*
Kate and Tate *snicker*
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I didn’t like TSAM at all. And with as much hype as they gave it for Brett Favre being in it (back in MS), you’d have thought his part would have been huge. Whatever! It’s probably more due to the fact I can’t stand Ben Stiller.
I haven’t seen TWD yet. I have Netflix, so I don’t feel so guilty if I don’t like the flick.
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Oh, TSAM is the WORST movie ever, I totally agree. It’s just bad. I hated it.
The Wedding Date? It was SO cute! I loved it.
“I think I’d miss you even if we never met.”
and
“I’d rather fight with you than make love with anyone else. ”
Come on! That’s good stuff right there.
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I thought that they were both ok, but I did NOT get the enjoyment out of either one that most people did.
What about Austin Powers? Now there are movies that I don’t particulaly care for…
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I loved TSAM, sorry.
I remember finishing The Wedding Date and just turning it off in disgust. I didn’t buy it at all and couldn’t figure out what he would actually see in her. I also find Dermot Mulroney to be too smug for my tastes.
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My hubs has some sort of evil parental control blocker on this @#$% machine that prevents me from commenting on your blog more often than I can. I’m getting a bit perturbed and maybe need to learn a little bit more about computers since my ASKING him to fix it isn’t doing a blessed thing!
Anyway, I liked TSAM, but I never saw Wedding Date. The movie just plain LOOKED DUMB, so I didn’t waste my money. Of course, I also found Jerry McGuire extremely boring and repulsive. I am an outcast now, aren’t I?
And since I was having problems commenting before….I wanted to let you know of my “almost-related!” celebrity events. Um….I’m from the same small IN hometown as Greg Kinnear. I went to the same college as David Letterman–and had a class NEXT TO the room with his dedication plaque which said “To all C students before and after me.” Oh–and Jim Davis (Garfield creator) went there too–and he was always on campus–maybe at the same event as I was! Oh! And the best–last summer MY kid was on the same t-ball team as LOU GRAMM’S kids. I sat next to him AT EVERY SINGLE GAME, so obviously we are BFFs!
Here’s a pic for proof: http://caquincy.blogspot.com/2007/06/louand-new-do.html
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Kate, I think you look lovely, too. In fact, I think you’re also smart, sophisticated, stylish and have great hair. Nevermind that I’ve never seen or met you. TSAM, though admittedly silly, almost caused me to go into premature labor with my first child. I’m still brought to tears when someone yells out, “WE’VE GOTTA BLEEDER!”
While neither are by any means favorites of mine they didn’t totally suck.
I wonder if it was the build up around TSAM that caused you to be disappointed. Everytime people rave about a movie and tell me how hilarious it is I usually don’t find it nearly as funny as they did
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Maybe I’m retarded…but I’ve never heard of the “Wedding Date” Ive heard Wedding Singer..and Wedding Crashers but not Wedding Date. Its probably best I missed it.
I didn’t get the hilariousness of TSAM, but thought it was meh ok, never see again. Which I haven’t.
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I voted that I liked TSAM but not the Wedding Date. But I wanted to clarifiy that I don’t really LOVE TSAM. I just thought it was “okay”. Not awful, but not worthy of the adoration it received either. I’ve DEFINITELY seen funnier. But the Wedding Date was just… boring! It wasn’t funny and it tried to be “poignant” in certain places and I didn’t buy that either. It was just a total waste. Luckily, I just caught it on cable and it’s not like I paid to see it. Whew!
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Hello - lurker here. I’ve been reading your blog for awhile and thought I’d finally comment and say hi!
I am with you on TSAM. My hubby absolutely loved it. I thought Wedding Date was pretty good but not on my top ten list or anything.
Thanks for the fun posts. I enjoy your blog!
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I thought TSAM was ok, but not nearly as fantabulous as others seemed to think it was.
I’ve never seen TWD.
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I never saw wedding date, and I have no desire to do so. TSAM was just stupid. Like I’m supposed to think that “hair gel” is funny and not ewwwww.
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Kate and Tate…hahahaha!
Sorry, I have to go with Kate. *ducks and runs*
Ha ha Kate and Tate. I do love your choice of pseudonyms. Oh and yeah, you have my taste in movies. As in those ones leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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“There’s Something About Mary” is hilarious (Matt Dillion should have at least been nominated for an Oscar that year), but “The Wedding Date” is probably even worse than you think.
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As usual, I’m in the minority and have never seen them. Shocker.
But since I lurve you to pieces and don’t know Kate from a hole in the ground (though I’ve met your MIL and Tate and know she’s raised a good guy, I’m sure she did a good job with the daughter too!) I’m going to side with YOU and say they are awful! awful! awful! Just THINK of the wine we could have purchased with 28.00!
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I thought TSAM was fine at the time, funny enough, but I wouldn’t purposely seek it out for another viewing.
I strong-armed my husband into watching The Wedding Date with me on pay-per-view and truly thought it was awful. Lame dialogue, slow pace . . . the list could go on. I am even a Dermot Mulroney fan and I could barely get through it. It was not even a $4 experience. Plus, my hubby and I have a difficult time agreeing on movies we can watch together as it is. Now, when I make suggestions, he cites my choosing of The Wedding Date as a reason not to honor them.
A movie I absolutely hated and regretted spending $1.50 to see at the Super Saver Cinemas in high school: Weekend at Bernie’s.
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I liked both of them but I have also been told that I have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy.
I just saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall which you would probably not enjoy but I went for the full frontal male nudity. And I laughed my booty off!
That is just how I roll….
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I am SHOCKED that so many of your readers dislike these classic movies. I mean really, “franks and beans!”…hilarious. I also find it appalling that someone mentioned The Wedding Crashers as an awful movie. WHAT? That is just too much to wrap my head around, because it is one of my all time favorites. Jennifer, it appears I will have to step in and show Carson and Ella the real cinematic treasures of our time
I didn’t mind TSAM, but like Teri said, I was younger and I think if I saw it now I would feel much the same way about it as you did. As for Wedding Date, never seen it. Probably because I can’t stand most mainstream comedies. They bore me to tears. And also? Faith and Burgh Baby’s comments were so dead-on.
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Ha! Kate and Tate, glad you pointed that out. I think “gag me with a spoon” is a phrase not said enough in the English language. Hello expanding vocabulary!
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Personally, I avoid anything with Cameron Diaz as I just don’t get the “Diaz Love” never have, probably never will.
And while we have “Chick Flicks” movies like TSAM, Dumb and Dumber, Weekend at Bernies, The Wedding Crashers et al are definately Guy Movies.
Wow, I never knew you wrote in pseudonyms! I think pretty much everyone does, though. Can’t say I blame ya!
Oh, I didn’t vote in the poll, but I do love both movies. (but then again, I love a LOT of movies that other people just don’t like) I didn’t go see them in the movie theaters, but when I was able to watch them for free I thought they were fine.
Does that put me somewhere in the middle? I do hope so!
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Oooh, Connie? Whose full frontal nudity are we talking about in Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Russell Brand’s?
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No, It is Jason Segel…the main character. He is also in How I Met Your Mother. I think he is a cutie but trust me…you won’t be looking at his face!!
By the way, you get to see it three or four times. I lost count!!
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TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! People were always telling me, “OH, you haven’t seen American Pie? There’s Something about Mary”??? So I finally saw them, and was hugely disappointed. But then again, I have a very sarcastic sense of humor………I enjoyed This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman…….maybe it has to include Christopher Guest?
So what are your favorite movies?
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TSAM is distinctly average. I haven’t seen the other one.
I will never forgive my husband for making me watch Titanic though. I want those 57 hours of my life back. It was the most excruciatingly painful experience of my life. I’ve had drug free births, 10 weeks of nipple thrush, knee reconstructions, broken bones in various parts of my body and NOTHING beats the pain that was watching Titanic. Nothing.
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oh and BTW Dawn…it’s oh so easy to loathe Adam Sandler.
: )
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I love that their pseudonyms rhyme though!
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I liked TSAM but my favorite movie in that genre is Meet The Fockers!
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I actually have never seem TSAM. It’s honestly never appealed to me as a “must see!” but if my friends knew this, I would probably be flogged.
I LOVE The Wedding Date. It makes me laugh and cry. I could watch it every day and never get sick of it!!
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