My wife wanted to watch a “family Christmas movie” last night, though it really just needed to be one of those descriptors. She suggested Love Actually and I shot it down - just didn’t think a 13-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl would be too interested to watch that with their parents.
We opted for…Trading Places (clearly the “Christmas” part of the equation, but other ideas ditched her wishes altogether). A couple things: a) more boobs than I remember - the party scene where Billy Valentine kicks everyone out had 100% left my brain, and b) not as funny as I remember.
I thought this was a great guess, and just ran upstairs to ask her. “Not even close. My guy is dorky looking. This guy is good looking.”
I appreciate this is frustrating (and I am frustrated - I have no idea who she’s talking about). I think a critical piece of information is that her cultural knowledge more or less hit a dead end when we had our first kid in 2006. So it’s very possible/likely that we’re talking about someone who was popular in the 1990s/early 2000s.
This is a fantastic guess (according to me). But he’s an older (20s?) more ethnic guy. Big eyebrows. Similar to Grant Heslov when he didn’t have facial hair and he’s younger. But more funny looking? I suspect he’s the kind of the guy that would be like the third or fourth cop or FBI agent in a movie.
I don’t think I responded to this. “Yes that’s the right skin tone. But not him. You would never look at this guy and say he’s attractive.” She REALLY wants to emphasize that this is a dorky unattractive guy.
The origin of this conversation was talking about the new Spiderman movie and how she wasn’t sure if she had seen the Andrew Garfield movies. So I suspect that this mystery guy resembles Garfield in some way.
