The first movie for this topic is entitled The Tao of Steve, and for the record, "tao" is pronounced "dao". This is a 2000 romantic comedy by Jenniphr Goodman starring Donal Logue and Greer Goodman.
Donal plays an overweight "womanizer" named Dex that always gets the girl with the foolproof "Tao of Steve", at least until Greer's character Syd comes to town. The Tao is simple:
- Eliminate your desires.
- Do something excellent in her presence, thereby proving your sexual worthiness.
- Retreat, for as Martin Heidegger said, "We pursue that which retreats from us"
This movie is based on the life and personal experiences of a college friend of Jenniphr. Impressed with his apparent success with women despite being an overweight kindergarten teacher (hey, I'm not knocking overweight kindergarten teachers, just saying it is surprising) and his life philosophy, decided to draft ideas for either a movie or a one-man TV show. After many revisions and delays, financial backing and the right mix of actors (which included Jenniphr's sister Greer) the movie began shooting on this day in 1999 (July 7th).
This is a must see movie for all movie lovers for many reasons!
- Donal Logue
- Great story
- The Tao!
Another reason I had for intro'ing with this move is because of a theory a good friend (and amazing Trivial Pursuit and Scene It player) of mine has. The theory is that EVERYONE must own at least one movie with their name in the title! He owns The Life of Brian and I therefore own The Tao of Steve. However, despite this reason for owning it, I would have bought it anyway since it is a great movie. So go out right now and find it, I promise you will love it!
Warning: Reel Geekz cannot actually promise you'll love it, just highly suspect that you will thoroughly enjoy it. However, if you do end up loving it, we promised you would! If you hate it, then oh well, there is always one.
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