Had a blast watching this movie! The pace was good and the "fairytale" story was what anyone would want-a chance to do your youth over and come out with a perfect life and perfect love. We laughed a lot but really enjoyed the story. You know that great place in time you go to when you are just having fun, maybe at a party, at the lake, in your backyard, and you forget everything else and actually live in the moment for a while?? This movie does that for me. It takes me away and lets me live in the moment just laughing and having fun and forgetting everything else for awhile. Very therapeutic.
The opening scene has John Cusack listening to a mean message on the answering machine from his ex-girlfriend who has moved out and taken almost everything in their home with her and is rubbing it in. He hates his life and ends up being thrown together with 2 old friends from his youth when one of them nearly dies after passing out in his car while listening to Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue with the car running while parked in a closed garage. They decide to all go away to a ski resort that was a favorite party place from their younger days, hoping to help their depressed friend. When they get there, they all get in the hot tub, drinking, smoking and laughing all night. They wake up in the 80's of their youth. Silly idea or not, it is still hilarious!
As usual, this Led Zeppelin-loving old hippie discovered some really fun music (not a lot, though-it was the eighties after all!). I am a fan of "Let's Get It Started" as done for the movie by Craig Robinson. Will add it above to my youtube video player. And, I will be listening to more Motley Crue!
I have to admit, I found John Cusack's drug binge after an old love breaks up with him, hilarious. Clark Duke, the young, nerdy guy, is hilarious and is trying to keep the other guys from doing anything different to change the future, to ensure that he will still be born. He finds John Cusack sitting in the dark in the hotel room binging on alcohol and drugs and Clark grabs a bag of psychodelic mushrooms and says, "Mushrooms? You are eating mushrooms?!" John says, "I was hungry." When Clark storms out of the room, John picks the bag up and eats some more!
Loved all the actors and have always been a fan of John Cusack. His future love in this has a great line, "Just embrace the chaos ." I think she added, "and see what surprises life brings," or some similar sentiment. I like that. Love the idea of giving up the need to control and obsess over every detail of your life. Just let it go and keep trying to do and be better, without all the guilt and emotion. We, like the characters in the movie, before they went back in time, are a product of our negative expectations about ourselves and our potential. Try starting with a clean slate, at least with your own attitude, each day, believing that you can do anything and BE OPEN TO WHATEVER GRAB BAG OF SURPRISES THE UNIVERSE GIVES YOU!
The opening scene has John Cusack listening to a mean message on the answering machine from his ex-girlfriend who has moved out and taken almost everything in their home with her and is rubbing it in. He hates his life and ends up being thrown together with 2 old friends from his youth when one of them nearly dies after passing out in his car while listening to Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue with the car running while parked in a closed garage. They decide to all go away to a ski resort that was a favorite party place from their younger days, hoping to help their depressed friend. When they get there, they all get in the hot tub, drinking, smoking and laughing all night. They wake up in the 80's of their youth. Silly idea or not, it is still hilarious!
As usual, this Led Zeppelin-loving old hippie discovered some really fun music (not a lot, though-it was the eighties after all!). I am a fan of "Let's Get It Started" as done for the movie by Craig Robinson. Will add it above to my youtube video player. And, I will be listening to more Motley Crue!
I have to admit, I found John Cusack's drug binge after an old love breaks up with him, hilarious. Clark Duke, the young, nerdy guy, is hilarious and is trying to keep the other guys from doing anything different to change the future, to ensure that he will still be born. He finds John Cusack sitting in the dark in the hotel room binging on alcohol and drugs and Clark grabs a bag of psychodelic mushrooms and says, "Mushrooms? You are eating mushrooms?!" John says, "I was hungry." When Clark storms out of the room, John picks the bag up and eats some more!
Loved all the actors and have always been a fan of John Cusack. His future love in this has a great line, "Just embrace the chaos ." I think she added, "and see what surprises life brings," or some similar sentiment. I like that. Love the idea of giving up the need to control and obsess over every detail of your life. Just let it go and keep trying to do and be better, without all the guilt and emotion. We, like the characters in the movie, before they went back in time, are a product of our negative expectations about ourselves and our potential. Try starting with a clean slate, at least with your own attitude, each day, believing that you can do anything and BE OPEN TO WHATEVER GRAB BAG OF SURPRISES THE UNIVERSE GIVES YOU!
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