Well, we’re only two weeks into 2010, and I don’t want to sound like a whiner or anything, but keeping resolutions is haaaaarrrd. Unless you set the bar pretty low, like “I will continue to breathe this year” or “I will age one year this year,” you may already be hitting the wall on your 2010 resolutions. I know I am.
So what are we to do? Give in to the vices we resolved against? I say yes. But, so as not to totally ruin the year that has just begun, let’s do it through the magic of motion pictures! Join me, won’t you, as I detail some of my favorite vice-filled movies. By living vicariously through these sordid pits of vice, you can hopefully keep your clean livin’ going through the end of the year. Or at least until February.
The Hangover
Is your resolution to stop losing your best friend while engaging in a drunken spree of depravity? Or perhaps you’ve resolved to become a one-man wolf pack. Even if you have the more common resolution of partying and drinking less, The Hangover will let you join in the excitement of over-imbibing, gambling, committing misdemeanors AND felonies, and trashing a hotel room. All from the relative safety of your couch.
Smoke
Trying to give up smoking this year? This excellent indie film set inside a Brooklyn cigar shop can take you to flavor country without covering your lungs in unsightly black gunk.
Kicking and Screaming
If your resolution is to get started with your life and make something of yourself, then you might enjoy Kicking and Screaming, one of my favorite movies. It follows a group of recent college graduates as they (kind of) adjust to life in the real world. Revel in the entropy.
Julie & Julia
If you’ve chosen to stop overindulging in rich foods in the new year, Julie & Julia will allow you to enjoy the delicious cooking of everyone’s favorite TV chef without packing on the pounds or entering a shame spiral that ends in you eating raw cookie dough from the tube in your pajamas at 8pm on a Saturday.
Wedding Crashers
Determined to settle down this year? Enjoy the philandering exploits of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn to alleviate the stress of wedding planning.
