‘Pineapple Express' and feeling tropical

Sometimes when I get movie invites and I am logging them onto my calendar, I wonder what I might be doing so as to have a reason not to attend the screening. With two films --”Pineapple Express” starring Seth Rogen and James Franco and “Tropic Thunder” starring my least favorite actor (Ben Stiller) and one of my favorite actors (Robert Downey Jr.) - I searched for excuses, but I am glad I found none. Just a few days before the screenings, I had joked with a friend, who wants to write reviews, because she wants to pick and choose the films she sees. “No can do,” I told her. She, like the rest of us, needs to take the good with the bad and in fact, I feel lucky, because I laughed like crazy in both “Pineapple Express” and “Tropic Thunder” - and I did not even want to see either.