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Take Me Home Tonight

I wish my friend had taken me anywhere but to a TV to watch this drivel. At least I didn’t watch the whole thing.

Character

The character of the fine actor Topher Grace graduated from MIT (in the backstory) and, rather than work in his field till he figured out his life, worked in a video store. That’s also known as working in Loserville. Regardless of his issue, the character was stupid and implausible with this ridiculous setup.

We were supposed to root for the guy, but he helped his friend steal an expensive vehicle. That’s not cool or fun.

Objective

All Topher wanted was to get the girl’s phone number. While that implied at least a little more, like one date, it was a lousy and trivial goal for a movie character. Worse (my friend told me this), Topher got close to the girl and had sex with her and, after a brief falling out, reunited…and then got her number. That’s how stupid the objective was- he accomplished it when it was no longer necesssary or meaningful.

Structure/Plot

He chose to lie to the girl of his dreams, a typical romcom device that felt stale here. Worse, not much into Act II, he opened up and told the girl the truth about most of his life, just not the part about where he worked. Say what? It’s all or nothing, the way he opened up meant he should’ve said everything. Obviously, that would’ve ended the movie 40 minutes in so the point was to not open up, but keep on lying or further cover the original lie.

Not one thing amused or intrigued me till that point so I stopped watching it.

Little thing

A bad movie shows its flawz early on and, aside from the above, a poster for Back To The Future was hanging prominently in the video store. The problem? The movie was set in 1984 and BTTF came out in ’85 (1985 is even part of BTTF’s plot!) and didn’t reach home video till a year later, ’86.

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