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I wish they made more movies like this. But they don’t.
It’s kind of wild how wholesome many 2000 comedies were deep down. But the world changed and a lot of them were re evaluated a in the 2010s as being awful and terrible because they were given surface level analysis and turned into rage-bait for the ‘love to be offended’ crowd who often can’t see beyond the surface of things.
2005 was the year Youtube was launched, 5 months after 40 Year old Virgin was released in theaters.
Right. “Van Wilder” is raunchy, but when Van was put to the test, he stood up, which should be inspiring for many young adults.
My friend had this policy, “always attend class,” and he graduated on time where I had struggled.
Matt Damon explains how mid budget cinema died when physical media became obsolete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8
yeah I’ve heard this. Makes sense. I was a big buyer of DVDs myself back in the 2000s, but once streaming came along it was over.
I still have a couple dozen movies on blu ray and such, and people are total assholes about it asking me why I am so ‘weird’ owning physical media. Movie collecting doesn’t get the cultural ‘cool’ of say, owning records on vinyl, and btw often the people who own vinyl are the same ones who give me shit about having physical media… sigh
everything is streaming rights sales now, and you can’t command a high price for it on a low budget movie, hence why most streaming services are full of cheap schlock and the high priced premium content moves from service to service ever other month.
Warlock?
Bold of you to assume it stops at 40 💀
Hey, welcome to the fediverse!
Unrelated, of course.
The 35 years old virgin is not that much better
I feel this. Getting there myself. Part of the problem is that I can’t experience sexual pleasure and I have a hard time experiencing sexual attraction. But I really wish I could experience what those endorphins feel like even once! But even doing it myself, it doesn’t work that way.
To my knowledge, I don’t seem to have any physical abnormalities. I’ve been to the doc for a checkup before there. Nerves just must not be hooked up right or something.
That sucks. Good luck.
If someone is happily asexual, then I guess it’s not a problem. Some people might feel no desire and carry on with life not feeling like they miss anything because “there’s nothing to miss”. But suffering with it or feeling deprived sucks.
Yeah it’s mostly fine for the most part. Just occasionally it gets to me. People describe it as such an immense pleasure that I wish I could experience something like that at least once in my life. Oh well.
I’m confused, like you still desire it but you can’t experience it?
Desire? I would say not really. Very occasionally yes and fleeting.
But more it’s like missing a sense. Image all of your friends and family talk about how amazing chocolate tastes. But you were born without a sense of taste. Because people talking about the taste of chocolate are everywhere around you and you’ll never get to know what it tastes like, it bothers you on occasion. You never crave chocolate because you can’t taste anyway, but you’d just like to know what everyone tastes sometimes.
Except replace chocolate with sex/relationships. It’s a bit more significant than chocolate because essentially all forms of media prominently feature sex/relationship. It’s ubiquitous. And many people’s sense of life purpose comes from the outcome of that (children). And man the way people describe what an orgasm is like, it sounds like freaking heroin or something. I’d like to just once be able to experience something that powerful and pleasurable. Most of the time I live with it and am unbothered, but occasionally it leaves me feeling really left out and at some times not even the same species.
Hey virgies, talk to the person you’re interested in and show them you’re interested. Make sure you let them speak freely and until they finish their point, and show that you’re interested in hearing what they have to say with your body language. Best of luck!
This is the fastest way for them to get fired at their job for sexual harassment.
It’s not 2005 anymore when showing interest was a largely consequence free thing to do.
Okay. I talk to whoever I want like this at work without issue. I’m happily in a relationship, but I treat everyone I talk to like this—with respect. Ask questions and show you’re interested in what people say. It’s just friendly as well. Maybe in America this is an issue in the workplace?
But if you genuinely feel interest for someone at work, show them outside of work. Ask them out to somewhere where you can talk. If they say yes and agree to it, surely they shouldn’t report you for harassment. But there’s no harm in talking to a colleague at work, surely. Otherwise what the fuck kind of bullshit workplace are you at?
After all, most people in relationships are also good friends within that relationship… So speaking in a friendly way should never be an issue.
I was super afraid of that movie when it came out (I was an incel at the time).
when it came out incels didn’t exist, at least the modern version of them.
they only hit the cultural radar when they started killing people in the 2014. a decade after this film came out
I’m pretty sure I existed. I was bitter, angry at women while at the same time longing for their attention. I was jealous of other men and had the impression that was the only nice and worthy man and women where stupid to chose other men. I think that’s pretty much the same mindset as “the modern version”. Also the book “The Game” by Neil Strauss, about pickup artists was released around the same time.
What exactly do you mean with “modern version”? I’m also not sure which murders you are referring to.
were you part on an online forum where you talked about this and called yourself an incel?
being young and confused and angry at the world isn’t a special unique thing dude, it’s normal. hate to break it you but millions of tens of millions of people have read such books about how to pick up girls, they just forgot about or or didn’t regard it as a big deal.
so much of what is fucked up about online culture is people hyperbolic their totally ordinary experiences into an ‘identity’ and them form a support ground around it where they turn it into a pathology about how the world is oppressing them because of ‘who they are’ when ‘who they are’ is just some stupid arbitrary bullshit they made up.
literally every dude and every woman has struggled in romantic relationships. nobody is unique in that. when I was in high school before internet shit widespread, everyone whined to each other in person about they couldn’t get girls/boys they wanted an nobody liked them and kept trying to ‘figure out’ how to get to bang the people we wanted to bang. we just didn’t do it online or think it made us special or different.
incel became part of the modern popular discourse in 2014 when Elliot Roger mass shooting and self identified as an incel. the concept has only been around a decade, though apparently self-identified incels started using online forums in 2004 or so.
Time for me to give up at that point.
Already did, for the most part.
Hey, at least you’re StillAlive.
While youre dying I’ll be, still alive
life is better when you stop trying to achieve things you were never going to achieve.
and focus on things that are rewarding and fulfilling.
That picture is so disconcerting because that is simply not Carell’s face. Maybe I just am face blind. Also that movie didn’t stand up over time except I remember Catherine Keener
