A Nothing Monday

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It's Monday, I just got back from walking Rocky, and I'm ready to sit down and watch last Friday's episode of Battlestar Galactica. We missed the episode because we were out seeing Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the romantic comedy starring Jason Segel, Kristin Bell, and Mila Kunis. Wonderful movie. Really funny, very sweet, and it studiously avoids all the rom-com cliches, which is refreshing. Plus there was a good amount of male nudity and almost no female nudity---also refreshing!

Here are some of the rom-com cliches the Jason-Segel-penned script avoids:

* No one is bad; every character is reasonable and has a legitimate side of the story. Irrationality is kept to a minimum.

* When the hero and his ex-girlfriend get briefly involved again, it's for understandable reasons, not because they are, I don't know, practicing a part in a play, which is totally innocent but looks bad.

* When the hero and his ex-girlfriend get briefly involved again, the new girlfriend finds out because the hero immediately tells her, not because she bursts in on them unexpectedly, looks horrified, and runs away with letting anyone explain.

The plot is conventional, but the quality of the movie is in those details that are handled just a little bit better than in most. And the editor deserves a nomination for his work; the comic timing is fantastic---a function of the editing as well as the actors.
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