Saw it yesterday. The storyline is more convoluted and an almost satirical attempt at character development but it's funnier with a couple of unexpected twists. However, I'm not writing this as a movie review but as a strange set of coincidences.

Christoper Wolff's intro is in Boise, Idaho where he's gaming a speed dating event using a "matrix" and semantic analysis. Coincidentally, my DEFCON claim-to-fame is semantic analysis and I lived intermittently at a family estate outside of Boise from 1991 to 2018, so, yeah, not a huge coincidence yet...

But pair it with this..

Dating
My dating strategy from 2006 to 2008. I met over 400 women through six venues and kept a spreadsheet to find the best approach. But eventually I realized that I just wasn’t rich, handsome or personable enough for most, and most of the rest were bland, which left three matches.
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Yup, that is my dating spreadsheet ("matrix") strategy from 2005-2008, originally posted on RealMeme.com in 2006 and reposted in late 2022. An excerpt:

"Many female ads specify "honesty and integrity" in a man, but as near as I can tell, women don't actually respond to it."

Wolff makes an almost identical remark after the speed dating event derails. Then at the movie's end, he's off to Chattahoochee, Florida, about an hour's drive from me in Tallahassee.

Most action takes place in L.A. where I coincidentally grew up and left in 1990. And the line dancing scene. Cadillac Ranch in Southington is the regional line dancing destination in the Northeast and my hangout during 2011. A bit much.

Very curious. How many autistic semantic analysts can there be who lived in Boise, created a dating spreadsheet and ended up in the Florida panhandle?

Three? lmao.gif