10.08.09 COUPLES RETREAT CUTS INFIDELITY
(Amerikki devil, cannot spell infidelity without… infidel! Ululululululu!)
One of Hollywood’s strange, or at least totally unrealistic clichés is that in comedies, no one, not even the bad boys and anti-heroes, cheat on their spouses unless they’re clear villains. (See: Vince Vaughn in Old School). Which is why it was a little odd that cheating showed up in the trailer for Couples Retreat, Vince Vaughn’s latest half-assed paycheck movie. Oh yeah, about that…
I was struck that one subplot appeared to involve Jon Favreau vigorously, enthusiastically cheating on his wife (Kristin Davis) and that Universal would actually advertise that. [...] Well, guess what? All those scenes of infidelity in the trailer (including Kristin Davis’s own assignation [hehe, 'ass' -Ed.] with her personal trainer) have been cut from the film, something I should have suspected when Favreau was dragged away from Iron Man 2 to do Couples Retreat reshoots shortly after the trailer’s release. Both Favreau and Davis still have wandering eyes in the film, but temptation is the couple’s main problem rather than onscreen cheating. Aside from an argument the two have late in the movie (which feels like it’s referencing the original storyline), there’s no indication that either one has ever been adulterous. [MovieLine]
I’m always amazed at how often mainstream entertainment will neuter itself because some unemployed dogwalker in the focus group cried when the movie barbie rubbed her crotchlump on a doll that wasn’t ken. So now what’s the story, they saw other attractive people and then had a funny argument and stayed married? Oy. The romantic comedy has long been losing any male audience that wasn’t specifically dragged there by a date by shutting out any storyline that isn’t sorority girl wish fulfillment. Comedy characters are supposed to be less traditional than you. It’s why George Carlin is funnier than Jay Leno, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is funnier than Two and Half Man, and why Kenneth from 30 Rock sucks. Entertainment, and especially the romantic comedy, needs to grow some balls in a hurry. And they can start by greenlighting my script for Planes, Trains, and Auto-erotic Asphyxia. God, I drank way too much coffee this morning.
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COUPLES RETREAT CUTS INFIDELITY
I don’t know, I’d have trouble finding a character likable and funny if they’re cheating…unless they’re both cheating on each other, then it’s okay. I’m just a traditionalist, I guess.
/re-zips mouth on leather S&M hood after offering his opinion
Just as long as we remember that guys that cheat are cool and girls that cheat are dirty filthy sluts, everything is ok by Him.
Stone, Chod…care to chime in?
Even at the risk of my wife finding out about it, I’d eat copious amounts of poi out of Kristin Davis’ ass crack. My defense arguement would be, “Eatin’ ain’t cheatin’”.
“And they can start by greenlighting my script for Planes, Trains, and Auto-erotic Asphyxia..”
Whoa…Whoa…not before my script for Donkey Punch-Drunk Love!
“And they can start by greenlighting my script for Planes, Trains, and Auto-erotic Asphyxia.”
Or my script for Internal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind.
It’s funny because they want you to believe that women want to have sex with Vince Vaughn.
Kristin Davis apparently cheats with French men.
This just in: I would have sex with Vince Vaughn.
God, I remember when Vince Vaughn was hungry and actually did respectable projects that tested him as actor. What happened to that Vince Vaughn?….said Vince Vaughn to himself in a dressing room mirror.
“The romantic comedy has long been losing any male audience that wasn’t specifically dragged there by a date by shutting out any storyline that isn’t sorority girl wish fulfillment.”
That’s not really true, otherwise modern romantic comedies would feature girls spanking other girls in the ass with paddles and getting trains run on them.
This is the same lefty, hedonistic, amoral Hollywood that’s undermining Traditional Family Values, right?
Just checking.
I’ll worry about them letting morally ambiguous characters cheat on their spouses in chick flicks after I get hollywood to start putting more boobs in R rated films. That used to be the norm, now they get cut out so that the director can say some shit about keeping his artistic integrity in a movie about Christian Bale taking Robocop’s heart so the giant robots don’t finish off humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.
I do believe that letting your eyes wander is punishable by stoning according to Sharia law…reshoot #2 coming soon
@Donk
Are you talking about Newsies?
Sounds like Vince is allover the script for the life story of a David Carradine movie.
*applauds farts then buttercups*
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