Yeah, I never understood the appeal of this film.
I have no problems with the subject matter. A bunch of guys getting hammered. That was pretty much the agenda for the day whenever my military buddies and I would go out on liberty and hit up whatever country we happened to be visiting at the time. The characters in this film were definitely light weight amateurs.
A friend asked me to watch it because he kept saying how hilarious it was.
After seeing the film on dvd all I could say was what that one guy in the film tells Bradley Cooper and his buddies as they're walking out of their hotel and spot the mattress on the roof. The stranger says something to the effect of "some buttholes just can't handle vegas."
That right there pretty much sums up this entire god awful piece of cinematic fecal matter. I endured watching this film to the bitter end tuning out parts here and there as I occassionaly dozed off.
All the wackiness that ensues all seemed so forced and ham-fisted in. I imagined that at the meeting with all the writers sitting around the table they just decided to throw whatever crap idea onto the board to fill in the gaps between all the dead moments that happens from the stag party to the wedding. Nothing made sense and seemed to ONLY be there to stretch the bounds of credulity, or as shock value. There didn't seem to be any point to it. Or maybe that's the point. I don't know.
I didn't bother to watch the sequel since I've actually been to Thailand, and I really don't appreciate how some Westerners act whenever they visit The Land of a Thousand Smiles.
So essentially you're saying you're too awesome to enjoy this movie because the characters are lowly lightweights compared to you, they don't party as hard as you, and they act like typical ignorant Westerners, whereas you are an enlightened Westerner who calls Thailand the Land of a Thousand Smiles.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but your review is essentially an essay about how awesome you think you are, without saying anything about the content of the movie. You tell us you think the movie sucks. Why? You never get around to actually telling us why because you keep getting sidetracked by bragging about yourself.
It's all incredibly tedious, and really not all that surprising that this kind of comedy is lost on you.
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knoxfan2008
10 years ago
Hangover didn't suck, it was just mediocre and a retread of films we've seen a million times before
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ShadowsGathered
10 years ago
LOL! Thank you... I was thinking the same thing!
~ the hardest thing in this world... is to live in it ~
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cliff_niblr031
10 years ago
@ xystophoros - If you bothered to actually read the comments I posted you would have seen that I did go into some specifics of why the Hangover seemed like a tired retread of mediocre films that have been shown many times over.
You, on the other hand, decided to take it as a personal insult that I didn't lap up this obnoxiously dull crap of a comedy.
It is incredibly tedious. And if that's the kind of "comedy" that makes you chuckle, that's fine. Whatever bakes your brownies.
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