Everybody wants to be John Hughes these days

Last night I saw Adventureland This is the story of a college grad who is about to go to Europe and then grad school at Colombia…until his dad takes a pay cut and he must get a summer job in his home town, rather than touring ancient cities and ruins with his roommate। Since this spoiled intellectual has never had a real job before, he’s only qualified to work at Adventureland। Here he meets a handful of quirky and doomed characters। He starts dating Em (Kristen Stewart) but she has some things going and well...I don’t want to give it away।

The movie has a nice theme-park-in-the-80’s feel and a few hilarious lines, mostly delivered from Martin Starr। Overall, I’d say it was okay though। Being that Bill Heder and Kristin Wiig were in it, I assumed it was going to be more of a comedy। I wonder if they cut out some of Kristin Wiig’s part because she mostly just stood in the background next to Bill Heder। She did have one really funny part though that was thrown in there।

I think I spent the whole movie trying to imagine it was really 1987। It’s possible that short of having a 6-year-old Kerry go on one of the rides, they weren’t going to convince me। Even though The Wedding Singer was so over-the-top I feel like it was more convincing, maybe because the 80’s were over-the-top too। Or maybe it was because young people today look a lot like young people in the 80’s so they partly left them the way they are। They did a really good job with the clothes which were very bright; pants were very high। They got the hairstyles right but they could have been fluffier and more out of control। Also, Ryan Reynolds didn’t really fit in with his beef-cake-iness। I liked Kristen Stewart though and believed her as the troubled/edgy college student। Let’s do a comparison, shall we?

Anthony Michael Hall from Sixteen Candles vs। Jesse Eisenberg and Martin Starr

AH

1. Hair is higher Notice,
2. not everyone in the 80’s actually wore ringer t-shirts। AH went with the loose button-down alternative, ala Tom Cruise।
3. Total skinny nerd, definitely doesn’t work out
4. Not intellectual, just bad with girls
5. And…for some reason, in real 80’s movies the nerds had Kevin Bacon from footloose kind of confidence

JE and MS

Hair is flat and in place, more 70’s

Wearing everyone’s fav 80’s throw back t-shirt

Even for skinny guys, they look pretty fit to me!
Intellectual and get with girls
Not confident…These guy are starting to sound more like studs: smooth hair, buff, cool shirts, smart, and modest! What more could Em want in a man?

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