The 40 Year Old Virgin Suicides

Steve Carrell is a funny, funny man; from his work as a correspondent on "The Daily Show", to his work in "Anchorman" as Brick Tamland,and even the Americanized "The Office" that lasted on NBC for about 3 weeks. In fact, to celebrate Carrell's contribution to the history of the motion picture; I will post his introductory quote from Anchorman:

"I'm Brick Tamland. People seem to like me because I'm polite and I'm rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks. Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an IQ of 48 and am what some people call 'mentally retarded.'"

Fantastic. The inevitable debut of Steve Carrell as a Hollywood leading man is finally upon us, but strangely I'm not overly excited. Why? Well, let's just say that the evil marketing people that I spoke of in a previous post probably should have had more input on this one. I think a simple glance at the movie poster (provided above) makes the problem sufficiently known. I have a number of issues here:

1. I have to go up to a ticket booth and say "One for 40 Year Old Virgin". That just feels stupid. This might be the most order-unfriendly movie name ever. What other options are out there? I guess you could say "One for Virgin", but that's probably worse. "One for 40 Year Old" would probably work, but that is so obviously an attempt work around the actual name of the movie. I'm really not seeing a good solution outside of getting other people to buy your tickets for you; or sneaking in, which is illegal and NOT endorsed by this fine and upstanding blog. The Carrell-aholics, as they prefer to be called (according to me 7 seconds ago) are just going to have to deal with it.

2. Let's take a trip to Hypothetical Land, where this movie's unfortunate title doesn't cripple it at the box office and drive Universal Pictures out of business... How will being typecast as The 40 Year Old Virgin serve Mr. Carrell? You may say "Hey, Jim Carrey got past Ace Ventura", to which I would respond "Yeah, but it took several years, and even Ace Ventura didn't have this dopey of a grin on his face in advertising materials".

3. I don't really have a #3, so I'll just go with THIS MOVIE IS TITLED "FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN". I'm gonna see it anyway, but this should be stowed away for future reference.