Tuesday, January 7, 2014

#3: The Guilt Trip (2012)

God... What can I say about this movie... other than it was boring...
I love Barbra Streisand. I love Seth Rogen. I don't love this movie. It was basically an hour and half of watching an argument between a mother and her son. Zzzzzz. I feel like the road trip story has been done to death. It's been done every which way and watching people travel cross country really isn't that interesting. The best road trip movies I've ever seen - Easy Rider, National Lampoon's Vacation, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Thelma & Louise - are so much more than road trip films. They're all stories that just happen to take place on the road rather than stories about being on the road. This movie just didn't do it for me. Like many real-life road trips I've been on, after 20 minutes, I just wanted out.

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