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Friday, October 9, 2009 12:00 AM

"Couples Retreat" is marital hell

Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau costar in a flaccid comedy about couples desperately trying to keep it together

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Friday, October 9, 2009 04:54 AM

Vince Vaughn - ugh

Has he been funny in ANYTHING since Swingers?

Friday, October 9, 2009 05:14 AM

Another in an endless line of fat-schlub movies

Who is this dolt? Who funded this train wreck? WHEN WILL THE ENDLESS PROCESSION OF CRAP COMEDIES COME TO AN END? I realize that society has been dumbed-down relentlessly, but we must eventually grow tired of scraping on the rocky bottom, no? Was I imagining it, or were movies actually funny at one time, before the tidal wave of "Dumb and Dumber" type of moronic comedies?

Friday, October 9, 2009 09:30 AM

Just to change the subject

...Zacharek didn't like this crappy depression movie, nor Moore's "Capitalism." She safely reviewed Capitalism before anyone else could see it, of course.

In his film, Moore is not happy. Nor is "Capitalism: A Love Story" as funny as Sicko. Moore is subdued. Quiet. Reading his lines somewhat artificially. Not a hog at all. This is an anti-capitalist film. How many anti-capitalist films are even made in the US for mass release? None, at my count. Moore finally says what he's been thinking all along - about layoffs, sickness, gun craziness, war-making. It's all about capitalism. And he's sick of it. But liberals still love capitalism.

Why have the yucks gone out of our society? Perhaps because it ain't funny anymore. It never changes really. Moore's open suggestions that he will leave film-making show quite clearly that it isn't about him. It is about us.

Friday, October 9, 2009 12:35 PM

A review of Stephanie Zacharek

I'll give a dollar to anyone who could actually make it through reading this entire review without skipping sentences. Stephanie Zacharek is the worst writer on earth. Sadly, her writing skills are light years past her movie reviewing skills.

That said, I am quite certain this movie is awful.

Friday, October 9, 2009 01:54 PM

Further Proof Hollywood Run by Fat, Sloppy, Less-than-Intelligent Men

Another comedy in which fat, unattractive, not too bright men are paired with gorgeous little hotties. Proof that men of this very description are the ones green-lighting projects.

Hey Hollywood, news flash: women don't want to look at out of shape, unattractive idiots any more than men want to look at their female equivalent.

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughan haven't been funny (or even marginally attractive) since Swingers. And what female actress would even have a career after letting herself go the way these two have?

Yes, that's right. Shallow: not just for (some) men anymore. If you can't give me a decent plot (and it sounds like this one fails), at least give me a good looking guy to watch.

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