There are bad movies every year, especially this year. I watched too much this year, which is consistent with my changing my viewing habits. I used to insist on finding bright spots in bad films, but after being hit by bad films again and again, I now believe in "there is no need to watch a film that doesn't attract you in the first 20 minutes", which turns out to be a truth. . . (30 minutes of Cameron Diaz's rotten movie "The Best Thing Was Wasted" yesterday, a movie of three and a half old MILFs scratching their heads and posing, my god!) The
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Two out of place middle-aged eccentrics begin their pilgrimage after visiting Comic-Con. As a duo of veteran comic fans and amateur science fiction writers and illustrators, their road trip stops include: Alien-infested Area 51, Black Mailbox, and Alien Specialty Bars. But unexpectedly, an alien in a car accident was found on the road, and the little green man called himself "Paul". Paul had been in America's secret base for 60 years, until he found out that he was about to be dissected for psychic research, escaped with the help of a base agent, and contacted the home planet for help. After meeting the weirdo duo, Paul got into the weirdo's RV and drove to the docking site of the rescue spacecraft. Of course, the base would not let this living alien specimen go, so it was destined to be an impossible road trip. . .
The performances of the three protagonists (including the animated CG protagonist Paul) are very, very successful, and the script and lines are quite powerful. The geek duo played a pair of people who were middle-aged, but still full of fantasies and their minds were still teenagers. After checking their information, they found out that they were old partners from "Zombie Sean". No wonder the rivalry plays so tacitly. At the beginning of the film, when they were photographed taking a group photo next to the black mailbox, while imagining the scene where the UFO suddenly landed, it made people feel a real joy of realizing their childhood dream, which was very contagious. How many people can realize their childhood dreams? Even in the eyes of us as adults, how unreliable those dreams are, but when we grow up and have the ability to realize them, how many people are often ashamed to admit that they once had "childish and ridiculous" childhoods and give up. . . Watching the duo keep their childhood dreams alive into middle age and finally put them into practice fills me with admiration. Sometimes, the realization of dreams has nothing to do with ability or money, let alone "no time" as an excuse to delay. How many people in middle age still have a best friend who can realize their dreams with you? On the way of growing up, we really gave up a lot, but in exchange for what we really need?
Paul is an atypical alien character who, after spending too much time on Earth, falls in love with Earth's pop (Bob Dylan), movies (ET, Star Trek), marijuana, chocolate, and T-shirts And beach shorts, full of foul language and slang, and become fully American. If it wasn't for the base to dissect it for its superpowers (healing, teleportation, invisibility), it might have lived on Earth "reluctantly" forever. When it can understand the duo learning the Klingon language of Star Trek, it is equivalent to admitting that he is a green-skinned geek. Sure enough, there is a gravitational force that transcends distance and transcends race between geeks!
After Paul joined, the trio's journey on the road was full of fun, not only shit, but also mockery of GAY, pop culture, Catholicism, and the government. Didn't they always say that the British are the most humorless race in the world? How could it be possible to make such a movie full of dark humor? After checking the information, I realized that this was a British film made by an American director, and I felt a sudden realization.
It's a great movie, and I personally recommend it on the Oscar shortlist for Best Screenplay. I don't know if the Oscars will appreciate the performance of the geek duo, but I've decided to find out all the movies they've collaborated on.
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