"They'll be stockholders in their own happiness!"

For some reason Brandon was very against watching Be Kind, Rewind. He loves Mos Def and Jack Black, so it didn't make a bit of sense to me when he complained that it was going to be "dumb and lame." So, I feel like he went into it biased and determined to prove he wouldn't like it, because I spent a good portion of it falling out of my chair laughing while he sat there stone faced. How anyone could remain silent while watching these nutballs reimagine all kinds of movies after all the videos in the shop become magnetized is beyond me. Full disclosure: I have had a crush on Jack Black since Cable Guy, so it was a foregone conclusion that I would like this movie. However, I really feel like he didn't give it much of a chance. The whole cast was great, and I was really surprised to see Mia Farrow being all goofy. The tone was really sweet and of course I shed a few tears at the end when the whole community comes together. That was the ONLY thing that made Brandon laugh - me crying.

I am not sure what they could have done differently to win him over, but I thought it was a good little movie. He claims that he just couldn't get into it because he didn't understand how anyone in the movie lived - the video store made no money, Jack Black was never at his garage/junkyard so he never made any money. Everyone was poor but it seemed to be because they were dumb or lazy. He also said, "I think my thing is that I WANT to like Jack Black but I don't think I actually do. He Jack Blacks it up too much." I guess I could agree that I like him more when he reigns it in a bit, but I disagree that this movie would be the place for that. He grudgingly admits he liked the movie more than he expected to but that it was still way too unrealistic for him.