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July 1, 2009

I Need A Vacation After Watching This Couples Retreat Trailer

Couples Retreat trailer, you guys:

Get it? They're all miserable people with tiny, wretched lives! In the sun!

Boy, I sure wish I was in a dead-end loveless marriage, spending my days cheating on my spouse and using subtle insults and passive-aggressive behavior to inflict as many psychological wounds on her as I was feeling myself so that I could understand these hilarious jokes! People who think this movie looks relatable and find the humor to be a comic reflection of their own lives are so lucky!

Help! I am trapped on OPPOSITE ISLAND!

Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in
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Teh Cazbar

Isn't this exactly what you went through 25 years ago during your third divorce, right after you had the peptic ulcer surgery Gabe? Stop lying to yourself and get back on the alzheimer's meds

Posted by: Teh Cazbar profile link at 07/01/09 10:26 AM | Reply
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ok... i can't login and comment AGAIN - but anywho...


this is basically every shakespearean comedy. OMGEVERYTHINGISCRAZY! let's go out into wilderness and figure everything out. PASTORALANDSHIT! and then mother nature's glory will restore order and innocence to our corrupted values!
HUGZANDSHIT!

Posted by: becca/jodie at 07/01/09 10:29 AM | Reply
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aww, I wish I was back in college so I could write a paper about it.

Posted by: HB in reply to becca/jodie's comment at 07/01/09 5:17 PM | Reply
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I work with weddings. I know, "WHY?" but the money thing, and eating/survival, it all evens out. So I'm taking pictures of the groomsmen all getting ready and laughing and telling stories. And the best man tells everyone about the married "broad" that he "slammed" the night of the rehearsal dinner. The groom says "Man, that's a huge step in life!" I should get that couple advanced tickets to this.

Posted by: Gmarley at 07/01/09 10:29 AM | Reply
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if they wanted screen saver-esque landscapes without having to talk about feelings (BOO), why didn't they just go to sandals or the John Mayer Mayercraft Cruise Carrier instead?

Posted by: sorryicecream at 07/01/09 10:34 AM | Reply
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Kristen Davis is one cougar that I'd let maul me.

Posted by: Deezey at 07/01/09 10:39 AM | Reply
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Me too, if I was suicidal...

Posted by: Aaron in reply to Deezey's comment at 07/01/09 1:54 PM | Reply
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I hear they all go to Twilight Summer School in the sequel.

Posted by: whoa! at 07/01/09 10:46 AM | Reply
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is it me or is Jason Bateman the go to guy for movies with big, impressive, ensemble casts that look terrible.

also speaking of Bateman, did anybody know about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC4RToo6XeI

Posted by: bearface profile link at 07/01/09 10:52 AM | Reply
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booferama

Dear Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn,


It is no longer 1996, when Swingers came out.

Sincerely,
Everybody

Posted by: booferama profile link at 07/01/09 10:54 AM | Reply
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God this just screams of lazy Hollywood. "Let's figure out some bullshit story so we can spend a month in Bora Bora." Fuck this movie.

Posted by: Steve at 07/01/09 11:01 AM | Reply
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This appears to be the same movie as Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married. Except trashier, and with white people.

Posted by: Georgina at 07/01/09 11:08 AM | Reply
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apesofmath

It looks like they could all use some Stella Doro Breakfast Treats.

Posted by: apesofmath profile link at 07/01/09 11:10 AM | Reply
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Couples therapy? Bullshit! I can't spend time working on my marriage, not when there's still so many dick jokes to tell!

Posted by: Ben (waiting for the perfect GIF) profile link at 07/01/09 11:17 AM | Reply
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DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!!! i thought it had potential with the cast and not knowing really what it was about. but it was SOOOOOOOOO terrible. just bad joke after bad joke. and stupid sappy after school special moments that seemed so out of place. the entire time i was praying it would end.

Posted by: madfishes at 07/01/09 11:28 AM | Reply
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Why is Kristin Bell always in movies by/at the beach? So se can wear a bikini? Is that her talent (although I admit Forgetting Sarah Marshall is one of my favorite movies, but not because of her)?

Posted by: Faith at 07/01/09 11:47 AM | Reply
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Detroit Dutchgirl

Directed by Peter Billingsley. Yep.

Posted by: Detroit Dutchgirl profile link at 07/01/09 12:01 PM | Reply
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Dear Hollywood,

Ken Jeong is not the only funny Asian man alive.

Thank you.

Posted by: Joshua at 07/01/09 12:09 PM | Reply
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If not Ken, then we're stuck with Bobby Lee...and nobody wants that.

Posted by: JD in reply to Joshua's comment at 07/01/09 1:43 PM | Reply
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or john cho though! he is in things, and we want more of him.

seriously though, is ken jeong just in EVERY movie now?

Posted by: tough titties turkleton in reply to JD's comment at 07/02/09 11:57 PM | Reply
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let's all do yoga, swim with sharks, and comically rehabilitate our loveless marriages ya'll! 2009!

Posted by: jdar at 07/01/09 1:03 PM | Reply
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How does Jon Favreau find time inbetween making two Iron Man films to also be in every Vince Vaughn movie?

Posted by: zach at 07/01/09 1:06 PM | Reply
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You know who would think this movie is soooo funny because it's sooooo like TRUE?: Jon and Kate. w00t!

Posted by: Rachael at 07/01/09 1:06 PM | Reply
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Blucheez

Yeah, being married to a woman who looks like Kristin Davis would seriously deflate my sex drive.

Posted by: Blucheez profile link at 07/01/09 1:07 PM | Reply
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Blucheez

Yeah, being married to a woman who looks like Kristin Davis would seriously deflate my sex drive.

Posted by: Blucheez profile link at 07/01/09 1:08 PM | Reply
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Nicolina Marie

Am I really supposed to believe that those men do not want to have sex with those incredibly attractive women? I'll pick up for Lindsay and say I wish this movie had some Paul Rudd.

Posted by: Nicolina Marie profile link at 07/01/09 1:19 PM | Reply
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This is what happens when you let RALPHIE from "A Christmas Story" direct a movie.

Posted by: JR at 07/01/09 2:09 PM | Reply
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Niamh

Hey, it has Peter Serafinowicz in it. I somehow hope that makes it not shit.

Posted by: Niamh profile link at 07/01/09 5:19 PM | Reply
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YES! carlos ponce! what! no one cares.

Posted by: sol at 07/01/09 10:46 PM | Reply
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