Here's something you might be interested in.
Remember This is 40, Judd Apatow's meditation on what his life would be like if he looked like Paul Rudd?
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43098/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43099/
Well, Adam Sandler has his own "man faces middle age" movie coming out. It's called Grown Ups 2, and it doesn't involve magically transforming into a handsome, friendly funnyman.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43101/
Instead, he magically marries Salma Hayek.
But while I am not generally a fan of Adam Sandler or his movies, I have to grant that as chuckleworthy as this image of middle-age from This is 40 is...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43102/
...it is nowhere near as cinematically illustrative of midlife's existential character as being forced by a bunch of younger, stronger men to jump off a cliff, naked.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43103/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43104/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43105/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43106/
Point, Sandler.
Remember This is 40, Judd Apatow's meditation on what his life would be like if he looked like Paul Rudd?
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43098/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43099/
Well, Adam Sandler has his own "man faces middle age" movie coming out. It's called Grown Ups 2, and it doesn't involve magically transforming into a handsome, friendly funnyman.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43101/
Instead, he magically marries Salma Hayek.
But while I am not generally a fan of Adam Sandler or his movies, I have to grant that as chuckleworthy as this image of middle-age from This is 40 is...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43102/
...it is nowhere near as cinematically illustrative of midlife's existential character as being forced by a bunch of younger, stronger men to jump off a cliff, naked.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43103/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43104/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43105/
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/03/43106/
Point, Sandler.