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Grandma's Boy
2006 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Nicholaus Goossen
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother.
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The films Grandma's Boy and Nacho Libre come to mind, too.
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I'm always reminded of the movie Grandma's Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU
Reminds me of the movie Grandma's Boy:
https://goo.gl/images/mk6nvU
It would help if this company posted a pic with someone actually sitting in it/ using it.
JP had this in Grandma's Boy in his awesome techno cave room[1], which is a somewhat unfortunate movie that pokes fun at the personality side effects of people who immerse themselves in technology. I like the movie's themes but I wish the premise wasn't so much about mocking and taking down the weirdo boy genius. I too want robot legs and there's nothing wrong with that!
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWD6rpivqM
Your basically just described a scene featuring Joel David Moore (as JP) in Grandma's Boy:
http://youtu.be/bHLR3faI7lU?t=12s
I still think of that setup years after having seen the movie.
Glen it basically comes down to a genre by genre breakdown I think. If you're looking for a comedy which should inherently have high rewatchability, if any are rated as low then I can assume I should avoid them. For example, in college my buddies and I alternated watching 40 Year Old Virgin and Grandma's Boy for an entire semester. Neither would have the best quality ratings, but they were fun and sure had high rewatchability.
Now take the other end of the spectrum of film like Black Swan or even some slower paced films. I love 2001 A Space Odyssey but am not rushing to rewatch soon (though it has top quality) because it is way too slooow for me. Or take some dramas that while interesting on first glance don't really merit another watch.
Basically I think you should start with a top down approach by genre, and if something like comedy then the dominant factor is rewatchability but then for others it may be "quality" (which itself could be subdivided further into cinematographic elements for an auteur film, the musical score for a certain type, etc). But I feel like maybe you end up going down a rabbit's hole, so perhaps I'm asking more questions than I'm answering.
I don't see why he is still living with his parents if he pays $700 a mo to them in rent for a room.
For that amount he can get a few roommates and live on his own.
I wonder if he calls his parents his roommates like that programmer guy from grandma's boy movie
Contributing to the segway-smug/ridiculous factor is the fact that the segway is parodied in so many movies and television shows, most notably with JP in Grandma's Boy or in other movies like Paul Bart: Mall Cop. It's such an odd looking mode of transportation that it's easy to use it as some ridiculous prop.