He was crazy in bed, kept asking "who's your daddy? Who's your daddy?" I believe that was the most he ever asked me about myself...

Spoilers: But they're crappy movies, so who cares?

I took advantage of the low marginal cost of nextflix this weekend. First I watched Whipped which I saw a few years ago and remembered being marginally interesting. I don't really remember what caused me to put it on my queue, maybe it was watching Amanda Peet in a few movies recently. Anyway, it was on there, so I watched it again. I must admit, I didn't really watch the whole thing. I made judicious use of the skip button for the DVD player, but I watched enough of it (especially since I'd already seen it.)

This movie tried to be interesting. The idea that Amanda Peet's character is playing all the guys the whole time, solely for her own amusement, is actually kind of a fun idea. The problem is you don't get to see that part until the very end of movie, once you've suffered through the whole thing. And I think suffered really is the right adjective. The story focuses on these four guys, who are all unlikable, and mostly behave like jackasses. I guess this would be ok if it was consistently funny, but it's only occasionally funny, and that's not enough to carry it all.

I wonder if they had rearranged the whole thing, really focused on Amanda Peet's character, and just used the obnoxious guys as fodder it might actually have worked - but I doubt it.

But the movie that really takes the cake on the no marginal cost front is Starship Troopers 2. I lasted 7 minutes and 22 seconds before I hit the "skip disc" button on the remote (this is the true reason to have a DVD changer...)

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