McConaughey... you sly dog you!

First, let me apologize to my faithful readers for my being absent so long. Perhaps it is the fact that I’ve had nothing to say that has kept me away, or maybe I just haven’t been feeling humorous enough to supply an offering. But it’s time to “get back on the horse” as they say. I trust you’ll forgive me if my initial offering is subpar.

I watched an interesting film recently. “Surfer, Dude” is a film starring Matthew McConaughey as Steve Addington, a self-professed “soul surfer”. The film takes its viewers along for the ride as Addington experiences the biggest crisis of his lifetime. He is presented with the opportunity to participate in a reality-based television show in which he will live in a house on the beach with a few other surfers and virtually surf the biggest and best waves in the world. Yes, I did say virtually… (as in he dons some high-tech goggles and jumps on a surfboard machine in a room that simulates the surfing experience). Ridiculous concept… maybe. Entertaining… definitely.

Of course, the soul surfer turns down the offer. What follows is a series of the most absurd and impossible situations imaginable. There is a lull in waves. Let me rephrase; there is literally no waves to surf on the West Coast for an unsustainable period of time, at least from a legendary surfer’s standpoint. With his funds depleted, Addington is forced to take the offer and indulge himself in surfing porn. What follows is not important. What’s more important is that you watch this movie as soon as possible.

Not quite as ridiculous as The Roadhouse, although McConaughey and Swayze channel a strikingly similar aura in that they are both existential journeymen on a road leading to God knows where, this movie completely changed my opinion of McConaughey. The fact that I ended believing in and rooting for one of the most unbelievable characters ever created by the end of this movie got me thinking… and I’ll let you know where those thoughts lead me if I ever figure it out.

Check out the trailer and video clips here:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=surfer+dude&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#