I Suck At Year One

For "Family Night Friday", Karen and I decided to watch the movie "Year One" after giving our newborn daughter (Briana) a bath. Now, I suck at Year One.

(The video below is a trailer for Year One.)


Surprisingly enough, Year One was not absolutely terrible. The movie actually had its moments. The movie, directed by Harold Ramis (Egon Spengler of Ghostbusters fame), is about an inept hunter (Jack Black) who is banished from his tribe for eating the forbidden fruit. Michael Cera accompanies Black, who now believes he is the Chosen One... and apparently hilarity ensues as they meet up with some certain biblical figures. Among the biblical references are Cain and Abel (played by my friend's [Marc] man-crush, Paul Rudd), Abraham and Isaac (McLovin), and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

I had very low expectations for the movie because... well... it starred Jack Black and most, if not all of his movies, are pretty terrible. So I was quite surprised that I did not dislike the movie.

Of course, Briana again was asleep throughout the entire movie. In fact, she also slept through the other movie that I watched following Year One. That movie: Pandorum. Pandorum is a sci-fi movie starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster (who played the X-men's Angel) who wake up from deep hyper-sleep only to find their ship crawling with monsters.

(The video below is a trailer for Pandorum.)


Karen was also asleep for the movie, which is just as well because she would not have enjoyed the movie. Heck, I only thought the movie was so-so. But all in all, the movies were a good way to kill the time before Briana's next feeding.