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Posted: 03.09.2003 And your penis is the star!
Have you noticed the new Hollywood "must" -- the group sing-a-long? I first caught on to the new trend back when "My Best Friend's Wedding" was released. (You know, the "Say A Little Prayer" scene. I would wager $100 that if I put a table of my friends together in a restaurant, not a single one of them could belt out the chorus to that song -- much less the lyrics. And certainly not the entire table.) Taking it a step further is the group dance number à la peanut butter sandwiches from "She's All That". Now I went to not one, but three, high school proms in my day -- and not a single time did the entire room break out into a choreographed number that would make our state champion drill team turn green with envy. Your mileage may have varied. I've yet to see it (and probably won't unless forced), but "The Guru" combined the spontaneous group singing and dancing in its previews. "The Sweetest Thing" did it, too. And it looks like the hella-lame-in-the-previews "What a Girl Wants" is going to have its own little number as well. Hell, just about anything that could be labeled "date flick" these days has some variation of the above. Which brings me to...
We went to see "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" last night by default. (We just showed up at the theater to see what would be next.) Don't get me wrong. It was "cute". (How could it not be with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson?) It had its moments -- many of which were very funny. It followed the typical "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl fight, boy realizes he can't live without girl, boy rushes off to right things and win back her heart only to realize she's taken off and he has only moments to find her and live happily ever after" cookie-cutter formula to a tee. The only thing it lacked to make it truly cliché was the group sing-a-long scene. But not to be disappointed, Matt and Kate did a karaoke-style duet (with Marvin Hamlisch on backup) to "You're So Vain". Again, a song most of us know the main chorus to...but raise your hand if you can sing it top to bottom, left to right. And if you can, well I really can't help you there now can I? Maybe I'm just hanging out with the wrong crowd. I don't know. But the day my dinner table busts out into a chorus of "When Will I Be Loved" over dinner -- much less hops up from the table to shake their bon-bons in sync all over the restaurant -- is the day I yell "Check please!" and hit Craig's List in search of new pals.  So, I shouldn't mention that I know several of those songs by heart, and sing them in public, just to embarass my child?? ¤ ¤ credit: Tracy | 03.09.03 at 01:45 PM | link- -this ¤ ¤ Depending on the group of friends, we could come up with some seriously odd songs to sing around a table. Probably get us kicked out a McDonald's, too. ¤ ¤ credit: Da Goddess | 03.09.03 at 01:45 PM | link--this ¤ ¤*note to self...scratches Nebraska off the list...* ;-p ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 03.09.03 at 01:51 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Hmm, shouldn’t that read “My penis is a rising star” Nebraska is on a list? Oh yeah, I almost forgot the “More Dumbass’s Per Capita” list – LMFAO. And yeah S&M I live Nebraska, but not by choice… first chance I’m the fuck out of this never ending corn field. [Mister Mittens – One corn-holed pussy] -this ¤ ¤And yet, Mittsy, you just PROVED you are a dumbass. Because nobody else here would know the S&M reference. And, you're too freakin' stupid to leave a state you apparently abhor so much. See that interstate out there...You know...I-80...it'll pretty much take you WHEREVER you wanna go. Dumbass. ¤ ¤ credit: Tracy | 03.09.03 at 03:15 PM | link--this ¤ ¤You left out the CLASSIC of this genre: all the Air Force guys in the bar joining Tom Cruise, sereneding whats-her-name in Top Gun (song: "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"). ¤ ¤ credit: Brad, Guy of .NET | 03.09.03 at 08:07 PM | link--this ¤ ¤[sheepishly raising hand to admit knowing all the words to 'You're So Vain'] Yeah, I can't say much of my gang would be prone to bursting into song or spontaneous choreography. Although we may have been seen outside a Friendly's singing "Shall We Dance" and doing the polka after our senior production of 'The King & I'.....that may have happened. ¤ ¤ credit: hmw | 03.09.03 at 09:04 PM | link--this ¤ ¤The closest I've come to this is by being on a trip with a choir. In my high school choir, a bunch of us went to a haunted house and sang while we were waiting in line (nerd alert?) to amuse ourselves. As an adult, I was on a choir trip in Italy and a bunch of us sang some Italian songs during our gondola ride in Venice. Pretty romantic! ¤ ¤ credit: Lauri | 03.09.03 at 09:39 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Hey, most of those I could do. I'm a freak. But One Week by the Barenaked Ladies, while driving in a car with my posse? Mmmmmmmm. No. ¤ ¤ credit: OneGirl | 03.09.03 at 10:25 PM | link--this ¤ ¤You forgot to mention the highlight of "How to lose a guy in 10 days" - Matthew takes his shirt off. More than once. *drool* ¤ ¤ credit: theresa | 03.09.03 at 11:23 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Dont forget Something About Mary doing Build Me Up Buttercup ¤ ¤ credit: Darren | 03.10.03 at 09:35 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Good call, Darren! 'Nuther song most people wouldn't know the words to if it weren't for the trailers... ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 03.10.03 at 12:58 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Did anyone catch that the new movie with Gwenyth Paltrow and Christina Applegate (where they are stewardesses) has a song and dance number with "We Are Family"? Which reminds me...I forgot to include "The Birdcage" as well. Although with that scene being in a nightclub, it made a little more sense. ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 03.13.03 at 12:32 AM | link--this ¤ ¤
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