I suppose taking the stand against it all those years ago put me on a path which was difficult to leave. I have not been able to find my way back. Part of me yearns to watch the movie again and hope that I have changed, that I can see the humor in the sword fight with ski poles. May I laugh at the Howard Cosell impression. Oh that I can smile at Booger as he makes reference to the snow being cocaine. Or that I can laugh at the kid who wants to be paid for delivering newspapers.
How nice it would be if I could just go along with the reverse racism of "throwing away a perfectly good white boy." Or finding a chuckle in the French girl who mistakenly referred to the "testicles" of the octopus boy next door. Yes, it would be much easier to admire the genius little brother who can build anything.
As one may be able to tell, I have seen this movie tons of times. I really do want to like it. I want to be able to see its value, that it was an important movie in my youth.
Unfortunately, it wasn't. I cannot understand how all these people found such great laughs in a movie where the climax is a guy skiing on one ski. Don't get me wrong. I love John Cusack. He is a great actor and most of the time he is spot on. He speaks to our generation. But in this, he just didn't. He was so mopey and uninspired. Does everybody really identify with that? How did he ever get the hot girl to begin with? I guess one could say that we caught him at the mopey phase because the hot girl left him. Before that, he was really quite winning and charming, right?
If somebody could just make a good argument for it, then I could watch it again and maybe see it in a different light. Maybe someone did their thesis on it. Maybe there is an element of Shakespeare I missed somewhere.
It is an okay movie romance-wise. I like the French girl being the mechanic and seeing them ski together is cute. But funny? I just don't see it.
Give me a funny line! Give me one funny line! Something that is funny in it.
