Journal #2: My Favorite Movie
Short Clip from Grumpy Old Men Courtesy: Youtube
One of my most favorite movies of
all time would have to be Grumpy Old Men. Directed by Donald Petrie, I found it to be a hilarious movie everyone should see. I personally find this to be a good
movie because of its use of humor and how well I can relate to the movie. I
think I like the movie so well simply because John and Max, longtime buddies
are constantly playing cruel jokes on each other. The movie is a romantic
comedy so there are many cultural elements in it. There are no such things as
moral codes and assumptions when it comes to John and Max, that’s why this
movie is so different than others. The prejudices they reference about gender
and class are the best. Mainly because the two are fighting over a lady, and at
their ages it is really funny. I really like the part when Max uses his truck
to push John’s ice shack towards open water with John in it yet. I find this
part to be really connecting with me because the movie takes place in northern Minnesota,
and normally they don’t make movies about the bizarre things that go on up north.
I
like how the two guys are always arguing, competing, and insulting each other. They
do this no stop with most of us can relate to people in our own reality. I
found there to be one moral code in this movie too. Both men respected each
other, even though they were constant playing pranks on another. They respected
each other enough actually that they helped each other our financially actually
when it was needed. This can teach us, as the audience an important life lesson
on how to live with no regrets. Since
the movie is a comedy it is hard to watch seriously but there are important
lessons to be learned from it.
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