And no, I don't (any longer) have a spreadsheet of all of those shows so I can keep track.
But over what we will call my "winter break," (aka the kids are out of town with their dad), my wife and I were able to sit down and watch a few movies together. And honestly, I wish we would have chose better.
22 Jump Street
Honestly, this was my favorite of the bunch. Was it as good as the first? No. And the continued to references to it being a sequel, even as jokes, kind of made it worse. The relationship between the characters of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill strayed too far from funny to absolutely weird. However, Tatum was possibly the funnier of the two for me as I prefer him in a role like this, not serious, 9 times out of 10.Appearances by Dave Franco and Ice Cube were also favorites of mine and the credit montage of all of the "future" jump streets was probably the very best part of the movies.
The Interview
This was a movie I was looking forward to watching even before the controversy. The only difference is that before the Sony hack, I was probably waiting until DVD distribution as it was not ever a must see film. And now I know why North Korea was mad and did not want this movie released. And no, it wasn't the mocking of killing Kim Jong-Un, it was because this was just a terrible movie.Seth Rogan was barely funny and oddly, only when shoving a payload up his butt. James Franco, always creepy, was funny only because he was so over the top wild and creepy in this film. Two of comedy's biggest young stars forced funny in this one and it just didn't click. We all knew the storyline was going to be far fetched and over the top, so I can forgive there. But other than a handful of laugh out load moments (mostly at Franco's facial expressions), I kind of wish that Sony kept this one in the vault.
This was absolutely one of those movies that Rogan and Franco got high and thought would be a good idea. It wasn't.
What If
I don't know the answer to the film's title question. Mostly because we stopped watching this movie with about 20 minutes remaining. I don't normally do that. I see movies through (except a terrible indie film I once tried to watch called Junebug, starring Ben McKenzie). Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter was funny throughout to me, but I highly doubt he would be to a lot of people because A) they can't separate him from the Potter role and B) not a lot of people find dry, sarcastic British humor as funny as I do.Adam Driver was also humorous when allowed, but otherwise this movie just seemed to drag on forever to the point that I don't care, not even one bit, about whether or not the two characters get together in the end. I just don't.
Also, there was some weird LSD trip type of animation that really was just lost on me.
I know disliking this movie is an utter sin according to my sister, but it just didn't land in my opinion. I am however happy to see Radcliffe in something other than Harry Potter movies and I do think with time away from that role, that he will become one of my favorite actors because I do like his delivery.
Tammy
This one was probably the winner with my wife of the four movies and probably second for me. Again, I feel like I got drug along for more than I wanted to. Movies sold as comedies are always better off with a "get in, get out" approach on length and there was a lot of seriousness for this film, which was advertised as purely slapstick.Other than that, Melissa McCarthy knows how to do funny well on a lot of levels and she nailed the over-the-top nature of fast food clerk turned runaway Tammy well. Different kinds of appearances from established non-slapstick actors like Susan Sarandon and Dan Aykroyd were major plusses. This one brought more laughs than "ugh" moments, which is great. But it also wasn't just the mindless comedy I was looking for.
