Train rides are not commonplace for me back home, let alone drunken train rides.  While I’m in Prague, I’ve gotten quite used to them.

During one of my many discussions with Steve, we started on the topic of tropical films, namely Couples Retreat.  I mentioned that it’s a general rule that films that take place in vacation spots feel like half-assed movies.  Everyone’s in paradise!  Why would they want to work?

So we started thinking about the exceptions and the rules.  Obviously, on the inebriated spot, we didn’t mention most of these:

RULES

• Couples Retreat
• Club Dread (I liked this one, but it really isn’t that good)
• Club Paradise
• The Beach
• Into the Blue
• Blue Crush
• Fool’s Gold
• Six Days, Seven Nights
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• A Perfect Getaway
• Jaws: The Revenge
• 50 First Dates (also likeable but weak… let alone twisted)
• Summer Rental
• Joe Versus the Volcano
• Captain Ron
• Cabin Boy
• Cutthroat Island
• The Pirate Movie
• The Heartbreak Kid (remake)
• My Father the Hero

EXCEPTIONS

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Cast Away
• Jurassic Park
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
• One Crazy Summer (you gotta give me this one)
• Point Break (you don’t hafta give me this one)

UNDECIDEDS

• Blue Lagoon
• Return to Blue Lagoon (probably a RULE)
• The Heartbreak Kid (original)
• Lord of the Flies
• Open Water
• Scooby-Doo
• Weekend at Bernie’s
• Weekend at Bernie’s II (probably a RULE, too)

It even applies to TV shows, if not more so than.  But I’ll save that for another post.

Oh!  And as to why there’s a mention of bowling balls – Steve wondered what it would take to have a bowling lane in your home.  If it looked like this…

…then it would only cost $88,000.  If it looked like this…

…then prepare to shell out $149.99.  Plus tax.

Did I miss any?  Did I misplace any?  Comment below!