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Spring Break just came and went, so I was able to catch up on a few movies that came out in theaters. I got to see movies from both ends of the spectrum as three movies made me laugh very hard and cringe so bad that I may have died a little bit inside.

I Love You, Man

Whenever you combine actors Paul Rudd and Jason Segel you know you’re in for comedic genius. The two come together f or yet another movie to take on the daring theme of “Bromance,” and you could really feel the love between the two. Granted, we’ve seen all there needs to be seen from Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” but he and Rudd open up and let the audience into the depths of their emotions.

So if you couldn’t tell from the previews and from your friends who have already seen “I Love You, Man,” the movie is about Peter Klaven (Rudd) looking for a male best friend so he could maybe have a best man at his wedding. Klaven is one of those guys that we all know, nice guy to be around but he was too involved with his girlfriend to form any kind of friendship with. Honestly, I hate those guys in real life because of how they separate themselves from the people who had their backs in the past. Someone called me one of these people once, but I still refute that argument because I was with the baseball guys just about every day of that summer rather than She Who Must Not Be Named.

Well, through a series of man-dates and an open house Klaven hosts at the Lou Ferrigno estate, he meets Sydney Fife (Segel) and forms a quick connection as Fife dissects another man’s need to fart. Their connection turns into a deep friendship and the eventual and often sought after “Bromance” that every guy is in search of.

Their relationship gets a li ttle too heavy for Klaven’s fiancé (Rashida Jones) and through a series of unfortunate events the two have a forced falling out. For almost the remainder of the movie the two seem depressed that they can’t be with each other until they reunite at the end.

“I Love You, Man” is a funny movie that has heart, even though just about every Rudd and Segel movie seems to get while delivering gut-busting laughs. I suggest anyone who has a sense of humor to see this movie as soon as possible.

Oh, if you’re a Rush fan, you’ll love this movie no matter what.

Duplicity

“Duplicity” is just a good movie. It’s fun, clever and at times exciting.

The movie is about two spies, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, who team up after she pulls a job on him. They go undercover with major health products companies and do whatever they can to obtain $40 million. Through a series of flashbacks we get to see how Owen and Robert’s partnership, both business and emotional, evolves into by the end of the movie.

This is one of those movies that I don’t want to say too much about because it would reveal too much of the plot outside of the stuff you’ve seen in the previews. Just trust me when I say you will enjoy “Duplicity.=E 2 Also, Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson do a really good job making their characters into well developed people that the audience may actually care for. Plus, we get to see them fight in slow motion while in the rain. Who wouldn’t enjoy that?

All I’ll really say is that the ending has a nice little twist that is hard to see coming, which is refreshing for a movie to do because so little do that anymore.

Miss March

THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE I’VE EVER SEEN. This movie makes “Little Man” seem like a Martin Scorsese film. This was one of those movies that makes me believe that with the right equipment (i.e. a laptop and digital camera) I could make a better movie than “Miss March.”

I know Daily Writer Dusty Somers reviewed this movie and basically said it sucked, but I didn’t get from his article that it sucked this much. I apologize for misinterpreting his review.

Well, this movie, if we can even call it that, is about a guy who goes into a coma at his after-prom party. He gets into that coma by having a few drinks, getting drunk, falling down the basement stairs and have some stuff fall on top of him. The character (I’m not going to give out his name because this movie doesn’t warrant that much research) had a few shots because his girlfriend20was waiting for him upstairs in the bedroom. Good job, man. Now you’re in a coma.

He wakes up three years later when his best friend hits his coma-ridden head (medical majors pay attention) with a baseball bat. What the hell?! I’m calling BS. Yeah, they were trying to get a laugh, but doing it while insulting the audience’s intelligence is complete and total crap.

When he wakes up he finds out his dad doesn’t care about him, his best friend is the only one who gives a crap about him (only God knows why) and his girlfriend went to California and became a Playboy Centerfold. Good for her, at least she accomplished more than this movie can ever dream of. So, he and his best friend go and try to find her so the two can reunite. The only problem is that he can’t really move his body or control his bowels. This gag is funny the first time we saw it, but it got old by the fourth of fifth time they use it.

During all of this they meet up with an old friend who became famous and piss off a bunch of fire fighters who follow him across the country so they can kill him. Honestly, I wish they killed him earlier in the movie so I could have gotten out of the theater faster.

I’m just going to ruin the ending for you people so you don’t have to waste $10 or time on the internet watching this POS. The co ma guy meets up with his Playboy girlfriend and they make up after he gets the crap beaten out of him by security. Apparently she became a centerfold because she was paying for his hospital bills. So, still a virgin, she waits for him in a bedroom in the Playboy Mansion while he takes a few shots so he can get everything up and going. The screen goes blank and the credits begin to roll implying that he will fall into another coma. You know what? My dad and I deserve to go into a coma with this waste of a character for paying to see this monstrosity.

Jono Greco is a journalism sophomore.