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Never before has a comedy depressed me as much as this one did

posted 11 years ago by DanandKirb
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And I say that because it hits really close to home for me, because I'm 2 years shy of being the exact same age as these characters, and I'm currently going through a lot of the exact same nostalgic frustrations that these guys were, especially Stifler and Finch, Just like Stifler...I too am still constantly trying to come to terms with the fact that my youth years are officially over and I'm not young anymore, yet I still feel like a kid who never wants to stop relieving all of my past good and care-free adventures with my friends, but at the same time just like him...I'm currently single, unemployed, and struggling to finish with school, while so many of my childhood friends and peers are now married, living in a nice house with kids and have gone on to do bigger and better things with their lives, and like Finch, I too even though I'm older I'm still seeking so much more from life which I didn't get to experience in my younger years, and like all of the rest of them pretty much, I'm still trying to come to terms with the reality of how much time has just flown by and every-time that I go back to visit my parents in my hometown, I instantly keep running into friends from high school who instantly transform my mind back into the past where like Jim said to Stifler, I too don't want to accept the fact that things will never be the way they used to be. And for the record...I personally found this sequel to be amazing and very thought-provoking, but I can't watch it that often, because every time I do...it has me over-analyzing my own current life too much!!!

[–] shawneuser 11 years ago

Never before has a post about a comedy depressed me as much as this one did.

[–] DanandKirb 11 years ago

That's the beauty of these types of comedy, they always add a touch of heart and realism in with all the zaniness

[–] frandalf_stormcrow 11 years ago

Yeah, I know how you feel...I grew up on American Pie as a teenager, and now I saw this movie and I perfectly understand all the tensions for the characters here...life goes on, but waaaay to fast :(

[–] DanandKirb 11 years ago

So many moments made me feel like the screenwriters were reading my exact thoughts, such as the part where they're reading their senior wish lists in the old yearbook, and Oz replies "we'll I kinda thought I'd have a family by now", or when Jim's like to Kara at the end "I was pretty obsessed with sex too when I was your age" the way we always used to hear older people say it to us back in the day, and of course all of the 90's music almost made me shed a tear (and I'm a grown man)

[–] Prismark10 11 years ago

No worries, there is life after being 29!!

Its that man again!!

[–] Tastyfrog 11 years ago

*beep* that sh!t I'm jihading myself at age 28

http://i.imgur.com/RHxg1.gif

[–] Dream_Demon 11 years ago

I'm 27 and boy, did this movie make me feel nostalgic. I made me feel a bit sad as well, but it didn't depress me. I overall enjoyed this movie.

Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger

[–] visual_sky 11 years ago

Don't feel depressed people, life is eternal, reincarnation does exist, look up the book 'Journey of Souls'. It's okay to be nostalgic about the past and miss. It's also okay to feel unfulfilled about your current life now. The percentage of people that find lasting happiness and fulfilment in their current lives is about 5 percent.

[–] DeanWin 11 years ago

Paha, yes, because books are proof of everything. Want to know about THE SOUL? Read "Yes, there is SOUL". Want to see god? Read "The Bible". ........get real.

[–] Bantam_Storm 10 years ago

I'm 35, (33 at the time of this movie's release), and it still conjures up the same type of nostalgia and realization that we're not "young" per se. I was 20 when the first movie arrived and in college but since I was only two years removed from high school, I could really get into the characters.

I can safely say that as long as you take care of adult responsibilities, i.e. paying bills, mortgage, rent, family and so on, you can act as immature as you like. That's my little creed anyway.

[–] Spongeyone 11 years ago

I'm the same age as these guys, started dating my wife a couple of weeks after seeing the first movie in the theater. Weird how it turned into a series pacing my life.

Death to shakeycam directors!

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[–] DanandKirb 11 years ago

And it's just amazing how realistic they managed to make this sequel, with both Toy Story 3 and Scream 4, those two movies made me feel nostalgic, but they didn't quite tug at my nostalgia heart strings the way that this one did, probably because it's harder to relate to the above mentioned two, but with this movie, all of us from genX are facing pretty much the exact same problems and frustrations at this stage in our lives that guys like Stifler, Finch, and Kevin all were throughout the movie.

[–] Manth_Sigdaw 11 years ago

Being over 30 isn't all that bad. I'm 37 about to be 38. Think about how I feel, I'm approaching 40. I think approaching these ages is far worse then actually being a certain age. Though I often have a solemn, sobering feeling know that I could technically be the parent of a teenager or even someone in their early 20s. I graduated high school in 1993, that was 20 years ago now!! A friend of mine and I recently met for dinner and we talked about getting older, approaching 40, what we used to think of people over 35 or over 40 back in the 90s and even early 2000s, and knowing we can parents of these very young adults/teenagers around today. He was recently in the army a couple of years ago, and he said a couple of the 18 and 19 year old kids born in the 90s kept calling him "daddy", even though he would have had to have them when he as a high school kid in 1992 or 1993. According to him, everyone born after 1993 pretty much sees people my age as parental, older, authority figures. And it's hit and miss with the guys born in the early 90s, depending on how old their own parents were. So if you guys are 27 or 28, at least you're not "one of the adults" yet to these teens and early 20s crowd.

I wasn't a teenager when this movie was released in 1999, I was already a young adult of 23 1/2, but from what I remember I think the original and it's sequels were the last high school themed movies I ever went to see in the theater with my friends and that we thought funny. I was still in that early 20s phase where I could hang with my friends and watch an idiot movie like this back in 1999. Yes, time does go by FAST and it surprises everyone to see babies grow up and become adults. The same way we surprised older folks ahead of us. I remember back in the 80s and 90s hearing older folks talk about how it shocked them to get older and dealing with turning 30 and turning 40, but as a kid I just couldn't relate to their world, since my perception of the passage of time was still like that of a kid. After age 18, the years just SOAR by at breakneck speed.

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[–] hitman624 11 years ago

I saw the first movie in the theater with my buddies when I was 18. Class of '99. When we assigned ourselves American Pie characters, I got Finch and wasn't that pleased with it. But after seeing Reunion, I'm astonished at how like him I turned out to be.

[–] RelpScooby 10 years ago

Life is just life. When I was a pre-school teacher and 1 of my students was crying, I had to ask my supervisor why the child was emotional.

Mrs. Clark told me = change. His friends will stay in pre-school while he's moving up to kindergarten.

Change for some is good, for some it's extra extra difficult. Everyone can laugh butttttttttt I'm like the "Ghetto Stifler" within my friends and family. I got the mouth on me and always have. I've been a very good friend, someone who listens, I also make people laugh until they cry and I never try to have a dull moment and my old ass is 37 going on 38 and younger/older chicks like me.

Unfortunately time doesn't wait for anyone, I'm the "only" 1 from my pack that isn't married or have kids and "no" I'm not proud of it. SHoT happens (sigh)

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