GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK

RYAN: Well we just saw “Good Night and Good Luck.” And I, actually, was so bored.

CAROLINE: Bored to tears!

RYAN: Yes. I was so bored. I’m gonna come out with the final thought right away: I hated it.

CAROLINE: (laughs)

RYAN: Let us begin this with a final thought. I have to say – it sucked.

CAROLINE: I have to say we’re aware that we are in the minority; but, this movie was horrible. Horrible.

RYAN: By the way, I apologize. We started out the night… I was like, “This movie is at the top of my list.” There were three movies we were deciding between and I was like, “This is my number one film. I’m dying to see it.”

CAROLINE: And I was like, “Ok. Alright. We’ll go.” And we were mizer-ahb-luh.

RYAN: Let the record show, I apologize. I am sorry. Had I only known… Everything the film portrayed… I had studied in college. I learned nothing new tonight. The dramatization was without drama, in my opinion.

CAROLINE: Yes. It was basically a documentary about news; in black and white. If you like “60 Minutes,” this is your type of movie.

RYAN: Yes. It was a documentary. That’s it.

CAROLINE: Basically it was file footage of McCarthy, a couple reenactments of, what’s that dude’s name? Edward R. Murrow doing his broadcasts.

RYAN: So dry.

CAROLINE: Well acted. Other than that, quite lit’rally the most boring thing I’ve ever seen.

RYAN: I can’t even congratulate director George Clooney here. Because I was so bored. I was not engaged. I didn’t care. It had no impact that I thought it should’ve.

CAROLINE: Meanwhile, everyone I know loves it.

RYAN: That… I do not understand.

CAROLINE: My parents were like, “FABULOUS!” They loved it.

RYAN: Maybe we have poor taste in movies.

CAROLINE: Perhaps. We may have to accept that about ourselves.

RYAN: Exactly. But, hey. We see movies. No. We see A LOT of movies. If nothing else… that gives us a right to our opinion.

CAROLINE: Indeed.

RYAN: You even slept during part of it.

CAROLINE: Did I?

RYAN: You certainly did, Yakel.

CAROLINE: (Laughs) Did I really?

RYAN: Ok. That you don’t remember both proves it and frightens me. You must remember.

CAROLINE: Vaguely.

RYAN: I’m not going to accuse you of sleeping during every film, but when it happens… I gotsta call it out. I mean you also slept during “Vanity Fair.”

CAROLINE: (laughs)

RYAN: The pinnacle performance of Reese Witherspoon’s career: “Vanity Fair.” Where we sat with our knees under our chins, in the cramped, upper rows of the balcony theater at the Loews…

CAROLINE: 68th Street.

RYAN: That movie was terrible. But there was something wrong in the theater where we saw “Good Night and Good Luck” because it wasn’t projecting in color.

CAROLINE; (laughs) It was in black and white!

RYAN: I know! I’m kidding! Alright. final thoughts?

CAROLINE: The most boring crap I’ve ever seen.

RYAN: Skip it.