Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where each Thursday you have to pick three films to match the week's topic.
And this week we got high school reunions, that terrible moment in life when people do their best to look like their lives are perfect and that turned out exactly how they planned. God, I'm so not looking forward to that.
The Best Man (1999)
Harper's doing great in life: his first novel is soon to be published and he's been asked to be the best man at this friends' wedding. Unfortunately, most of his book has been drawn from real life, and when he reunites with his old buddies, shit happens. This isn't much of a high school reunion flick, but it kinda is. Anyway, I love it, it is real pleasure to watch and there a spectacular cast.
American Reunion (2012)
The gang return to East Great Fall for their high school reunion and reconnect with each other. This time around there is no virginity to lose, true love to be found, or a great wedding to be organized, it's all about the guys dealing with their individual issues. Not my favourite of the series, but I'm impressed that after all these years they still managed to make it funny.
Grown Ups (2010)
After their coach passes away, a group of five friends reunite for a 4th of July holiday weekend at a house where they used to party. What follows is a weird composition of family moments and dumb jokes. Seriously, what did you expect? It's an Adam Sandler movie, it can't be good. I only picked it because I was in the mood for an awful film this week.
The only one I've seen is American Reunion, and I used it as well. It surpassed American Wedding, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteYes, it was better than American Wedding, but number 1 and 2 were better than Reunion.
DeleteI haven't seen any of these but will try to catch American Reunion as I liked the first 2
ReplyDeleteIt isn't as good as the first 2, but it's worth the time.
DeleteI actually went to a high school reunion a few days ago but it's only been three years so there wasn't much to compare yet! I avoided Grown Ups because I thought it would be terrible, seems like I was right!
ReplyDeleteLaura @ What's Hot?
I've seen all of these! Kicking myself for not thinking of The Best Man. Love that movie. The other two, not so much.
DeleteYou did the right thing avoiding it!
Delete@Wendell and I was pretty sure you were going to pick The Best Man
DeleteNot seen any of these. Not an American Pie fan or Adam Sandler hahaha - so The Best Man is by best bet :)
ReplyDeleteIt's impossible not to love The Best Man!
DeleteThe Best looks like a film worth watching, the same can't be said for Grown Ups though I too do feel in the mood for a shit film
ReplyDeleteYeah. I haven't seen a new Adam Sandler movie since 50 First Dates. He sucks now. His early stuff is so great though. American Reunion is hilarious.
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