Old Dogs trailer, you guys.
During the 2008 election, I supported Barack Obama for president. And I was very happy when he won. A lot of people were. But the thing that struck me more than anything last November was not the fact that the Democrats established controlling majorities in the House and Senate, or that America had its first black president, but that MILLIONS and MILLIONS of Americans voted for John McCain (and Sarah Palin). MILLIONS! Now, obviously they did. That was to be expected. It was not a surprise. Please have the decency to not think that I am such a moron. But my point is that it's very easy to get lulled into the sense that your opinion is the "correct" opinion; that your view of the world is the "right" view of the world. And in this particular instance the choice was so stark and to my mind OBVIOUS that it actually did require a certain amount of actual thinking to get my brain around the fact that faced with the choice between Barack Obama and John McCain (and Sarah Palin), more people than I can even fully conceptualize beyond a vague abstract idea of "millions" chose John McCain (and Sarah Palin).
Duh. Fine. Duh.
But the point is that, similarly, there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people who will see this trailer and think "That movie looks funny and enjoyable, I am going to spend some of the money that I have on a ticket to go see it." They will not cringe, or derisively snort, or feel that it is scientifically impossible to find a less appealing duo than Robin Williams and John Travolta. They will not wonder what kind of world we live in that this is considered genuinely entertaining to anyone; a world in which the director of Wild Hogs was ever allowed near a movie camera again. They like it. They really do. Wild Hogs made 168 MILLION DOLLARS at the box office. So maybe we're wrong. Maybe we're the stupid assholes.
No we're not. This movie looks awful. I also dislike the taste of Brawndo.
