The Garbage Film

I love “garbage” films. “Garbage” films is a label that I gave (or maybe someone else has, too) to movies that aren't particularly bad but aren't particularly good that I love watching. It randomly pops up on TV or I own the DVD and it's great to just toss in and watch even if it is just background sound at times. Everyone has to have this type of movie in their lives.

Last night, I watched Two Ninas. Two Ninas is my favorite garbage film. If you're my friend, I love you. However, you may not be a true friend until you've visited my apartment and I have subjected you to this movie. There's nothing special about Two Ninas. It's a pretty standard film. A down on his luck guy meets two girls at nearly the same time (both named Nina, what a coincidence!) and they both bring out two very different things for him, so he dates them both at the same time, and then of course that becomes a mess. It brings together a pre-Office Space Ron Livingston, a bitchy as usual Amanda Peet, a very hot Cara Buono whose character I want to marry, a stage actor named Bray Poor who is probably the only funny character, a post-Law and Order Jill Hennessy and even a cameo by Fred Norris. How more random can it get?

The movie isn't particularly deep. I don't think I laugh at anything in it except a couple moments and it's supposed to be a comedy. But, it's just so 90s and so entertaining that I love it and I can't stop watching it and you'll watch it, too. Hell, you should buy it. I think I saw a ton of copies of it in Wal-Mart's $5 bin years ago. It's probably gone down to the $1 rack at this point.

Check out the trailer at the IMDB link above. Also, if you're wondering what my runner-up garbage movie is, here's the trailer.

Nobody plays the field like Dangerfield!