I just returned from my first viewing of The Hangover, An Occult Film (not many people know that was the actual complete working title). I have some thoughts:
-I hope America is now exposed to the brilliance that is Zach Galifinakis. I just also hope he does not become ubertrendy. I hate when too many people start knowing people that I know, or funny people that I enjoy. Then they act all, "Oh man, I love that guy" and I act all punch them in the face and tell them they are fake posers who just like someone because they have suddenly gained popularity. And then due to the Internet, everyone can see everything the person has ever done and act like they are experts because they twitteroodled a Galfinakis funny as a quote and read a bunch of his other stuff on Wikiquote and his life story on Wikipedia (which, by the way, I implore you to do, because I already added a bunch of fake shit on there. For instance, he did not say "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind" but I put it as one of his quotes. And he was not born inside a cantalope, but see what else seems fake on his wikipedia entry....you'll leave there with more questions than answers.)
-I really enjoy the premise of the movie, but generally from what I have heard about rapies (5th grade DARE class) they don't just make you black out, you also pass the fuck out, leaving little time for shenanigans like getting married, stealing tigers from mike tyson, and dragging matrasses to roofs of hotels. Just saying. I'm willing to let this one slide even though they kept harping on the fact that they took rapies over and over again.
-Jeffrey Tambor was underutilized in this movie. And the importance of his sweet Benz to him was suddenly not resolved at the end of the film. No one said a thing at the wedding. And for some reason I don't think the 80 grand worth of bellagio chips would cover the repairs. Or else everyone would just have a car like that. His character in his brief screen time vacillated from cool (It's Vegas, I understand) to weird and anal (Put armorall on the tires once you get to Vegas due to the sand). Rubbish.
-Other than that, solid flick. If I ever start and write more than about seven pages of a film, I will tie up all the loose ends on the eighth page. All in one scene, the way both great movies and games of Clue do it.
One last thing for the film industry, rebels from Chechnya keep being the main villanous characters in many movies. Can we just go more realistic and have villains from the Middle East and Afghanistan more often, or is the Checnyen infuence still that great? Are there just a bunch of evil badasses there? Is it the easiest accent for actors to do? RIDDLE ME THAT.
