smacky and bucky

So my wife is vice president of a video production company, and she's a member of Women in Film (which sounds like an alliance of porn actresses, but they're referring to the women on the other side of the camera, so it's not like that.) They offer free movie tickets for sneak previews every now and then. A few weeks ago she saw the new Bridget Jones (with a girlfriend) and last night we went to see Christmas with the Kranks. It's not winning any Oscars, but it's got a few laughs in it. Awful title for a movie, but someone explained to me that they decided to change it from Skipping Christmas (which was also the title of the Grisham book) so people wouldn't confuse it with the Ben Affleck turd of a movie Surviving Christmas.

If I really wanted to nitpick about the accuracy of this movie, I would concentrate on one part of the movie: the daughter. She supposedly joins the Peace Corps and goes to Peru. She leaves on the day before Thanksgiving (wrong), flying straight to the country (wrong. you actually have to be processed for three days in the DC, so you can get immunizations, visas, etc.). She decides at the last minute to come home for Christmas, after only a month in Peru (wrong. you have to stay in your country six months before traveling outside the country borders). But none of this is important to the plot of the movie, and I didn't even bother explaining these things to my wife, because that would be like watching Star Trek with someone and having them explain why something couldn't have happened because in episode ___ Spock said "_____," so he shouldn't be doing _____ now. There, my time in the Peace Corps has now been compared to being a Star Trek geek. I've taken to insulting myself.