Saw The 40 Year Old Virgin. It hit me hard in the awkward. I kept feeling bad for Steve Carell's poor character. Why this fascination with his disappointing sex life? Why this plying with hookers and booze? I feel like I've just watched some asshole hilariously eviscerate some nerd. Oh yeah and he's got porn so he must be a serial killer, and he's got action figures so no woman in the world would want him, and his neighbors comment on how he should get laid (which as near as I can tell is like musing that a starving man should really get himself a sandwich.) Ick ick ugh ugh.
Coming into it I was dreading this film for these reasons and I think I let my preconceptions and hangups get in the way of my enjoying what is in the end really just a goofy sex-comedy. I couldn't get myself to give this one a fair chance. I should really re-watch this film drunk and calmer, but I just don't want to. I found it too painfully awkward.
Edit: according to imdb trivia, for general release of this film, Apatow cut scenes that got no reactions from preview audiences, but reinserted the cut material for the uncut version which I saw, so maybe there's a punchier version out there I've not seen. Let's hope.
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