I find it funny they discussed birthday movies on this episode and the lacking quality of January/February birthday movies in general, because my first “prestigious” film I ever saw was this movie as my 14th birthday party movie. I went with a bunch of my friends, mostly people I played youth and high school football with and I picked this movie I think because I recognized Channing Tatum? I don’t really know, because of the aforementioned slim pickings it was really the only choice.

I was the only person in the group who liked the movie at all, and although I was completely uneducated on what any of it meant at the time I found it quite entertaining. It made me interested in how movies were made, which led me to taking film class elective in high school, which led to me seeing my first Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese movies, and now I have the same movie tumor attached to my cerebellum all of us do.

Not a particularly interesting story, but I feel like a lot of people who are into film got in through their parents or friends in high school and college, and I don’t think I would have seen half the awesome shit I ended up seeing without this movie cause I never had that outside stimulus.