13 - The Girl Next Door & The Alamo (April 2004)

What, another DOUBLE FEATURE?! What is it about movies from 2004 that makes us itch to watch more than one at a time? Speaking of itching, something tells me a few characters from The Girl Next Door are no strangers to that particularly 'prickly' sensation... Join us as we watch a walking bag of hormones, morning wood, and teenage naïveté, fumble around in the dark trying to land the insert "shallow-as-a-wading-pool, blonde sex-symbol, manic-pixie-dreamgirl archetype" here—in a movie that throws around more uh... "legacied" f-words than a bunch of high school hockey bros in an uncomfortable locker room. It's crass, it's crude—but damned if it isn't a magnificent time capsule and exaggerated snapshot of the early-2000s, all-American high school experience. Oh, and then there's the other movie, where everything dies at the end… not least of all Ron Howard's once-ambitious and genuinely promising plans for what had, by all accounts, started off as a really good idea for a compelling film. Woops.