I mean, technically, a movie called Dude, Where’s My Car? need only be about two stoners looking for their misplaced automobile. In my mind, it’s almost as if Philip Stark, who’s credited as the movie’s writer, saw it as a personal challenge to take the carte blanche blank slate gifted to him by the ridiculous title-slash-premise and just sprint off into complete and utter madness with it. This article I just found with the film's production notes informs me that it unfortunately didn't happen that way, but whatever, I like to live my life according to John Lennon’s lyrics ("You may say I'm a dreamer."). 1: Besides Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott playing stoner best friends, what should the movie be about? My son can’t boil water, but he can find all the drug references he thinks are hidden in the Toy Story trailer. Well, we can’t blatantly market it that way, but teens will know what’s up. 1: A stoner comedy geared toward teenagers…that’s genius. 2: My degenerate son who’s spending his inheritance on marijuana won’t stop watching that one movie. I mean, they’re cute kids, but they don’t look like the sharpest tools in the shed, am I right? No one’s buying them as Mensa members. 1: Should we pair up Kelso and Stifler in a buddy comedy? It would have to be really dumb. ( Shuffles some papers to look like there’s research to back this up.) 1: Hilarious! He’s charting through the roof right now. Studio executive 2: You know who else is great? That Seann William Scott from American Pie. Marketing executive 1: I know he tests well with both male and female teen demographics. Studio executive 1: That Ashton Kutcher kid from That ‘70s Show is gonna be huge. I like to imagine that the movie, which hit theaters on December 15, 2000, came into existence during a Very Important Hollywood Meeting that went something like this: For the perfect example of just how fucking up in the clouds we were soaring, look no further than the fact that a movie studio greenlit a film called Dude, Where’s My Car?. And because everything was totally fine, we spent the next 12 months riding out a sweet, sweet year 2000 high. We were headed toward full-blown pandemonium, and you’d be wise to have your underground bunker stocked with canned goods, Monopoly, and Twister.Ībsolutely nothing of an apocalyptic nature happened, of course. Y2K was going to take effect, and none of our technology was ready to accommodate the Gregorian year now starting with 20 instead of 19. When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2000, many people were terrified that the world was going to end.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |