The first question that always comes up about the blog is, what kind of movies is it really going to be about? Well, Out Cold is at the top of the list. Just check out it's stats:
Critic's Rating: 8%
User Rating: 82%
This is exactly the kind of spread we're looking for. Out Cold has everything you can look for in a movie: the star of a classic whose career never panned out, 8 years after the hit (Jason London, the QB from Dazed and Confused; perpetual supporting cast members (David Denman, aka Roy from The Office); 70's TV action star Lee Majors; a former Playmate; comedy's perennial Andy Richter David Koechner; and to top it all off: the one and only Zach Galifianakis.
If you're one of those people that think Zach's style has gotten old since The Hangover in 2009, you might be surprised to learn that it he's been doing it for over a decade, ever since he started "performing his unique brand of humor in the back of a hamburger joint in Times Square."
So what do you get when you put all of these actors, along with the fat kid from Bar Santa, together? A snowboarding stoner-movie loosely based on Casablanca....?
That's right. These back country-boarding stoners are movie buffs, apparently, although not very classy ones. References are scattered throughout the movie, most notably by substituting a fake Cancun spring break bar called Pedro O' Horny's into Bogart's "We'll always have Paris" line. Oscar-worthy stuff.
Summary
Here's what you're going to get with this movie. Are there painful-to-watch stretches of terrible dialogue, with jokes that target 14 year-olds that still don't land? Absolutely. But the critics got it wrong. You get exactly what you would expect from this cast, along with some pretty solid heli-boarding shots. 82% audience rating can't be that wrong.
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