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What bothers me about a well-crafted film such as this one is that audience members are so caught up in their sheltered, private worlds that they are not able to comprehend the difference between "mainstream" characters and characters that are actually realistic in their depiction.

Though Tucker's character was slightly over-played, I've known quite a few people like him. His two friends, their lives, and their attitudes also closely resemble people I have known throughout my life.

Though I didn't receive consistent laughs from this film, I ended up watching it as a simple drama, and on that note, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

There is a lot of attention to detail that will simply fly right over the head of the average viewer. Everything that came out of Drew's mouth and his later love interest absolutely shocked me - I never thought a movie would actually get the real-world "geek lingo" right on the money.

Of course, the average person would not understand such a fine touch as Lara saying "fear the pink mist", or Drew's use of the incredibly vulgar REAL underground slang "c**dumpster".

Long story short, this was one of the best and most accurate portrayals of the real-world people it was alluding to I have ever seen. For that, it has a lot of my respect. Again, more of a drama than a comedy, but this is really one of those films that if you rate it less than a 6 or 7, you have not experienced enough of the real world to deserve to judge it.

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I'm not a genius, but I'm very far from ignorant, so I'm not sure what the appeal was initially, but that poo scene was HYSTERICAL!!