{"id":1193,"date":"2009-07-06T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T10:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-01-24T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:44:51","slug":"the-real-cancun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cancun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Going into it, I considered that this may be my most embarrassing review ever. And if you\u2019ve been reading this for any amount of time, you know that\u2019s saying kind of a lot. It\u2019s like, The Real World, right? Sort of the first big reality TV show, took over MTV and removed all hope of music videos ever gracing those airwaves again? Yeah, that. Some years later, they decided, hey, what if we made a movie about these kinds of people going to Cancun for Spring Break and getting nakeder than MTV generally approves of since the early \u201980s? And then they did so.<\/p>\n

And, y\u2019know,\u00a0The Real Cancun<\/a> really is about what you\u2019d expect. It\u2019s like, let\u2019s take a whole bunch of college age students, give them way more than they can afford, and let them do random stuff. In the Real World, that turns into weeks of annoying drama interspersed by fake community service work, or maybe that stuff like happens on Donald Trump\u2019s show? The point here, is that I don\u2019t really watch much reality TV and have no clear idea what happens except what I\u2019ve tried to ignore while others were watching. But it turns out that if you reduce the time they spend together to just a week or so, put them into lots of wet t-shirt contests (and beefcake contests, to be fair), and (especially this one) change the show\u2019s duration from weeks of 23 minutes down to about 90 total, it\u2019s a lot more palatable. I, ever so slightly, cared about what happened to these characters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going into it, I considered that this may be my most embarrassing review ever. And if you\u2019ve been reading this for any amount of time, you know that\u2019s saying kind of a lot. It\u2019s like, The Real World, right? Sort of the first big reality TV show, took over MTV and removed all hope of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[370,371,372,373,374,375,376],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-a-whole-bunch-of-college-age-students","tag-beefcake-contests","tag-cared-about-the-characters-ever-so-slightly","tag-documentary","tag-lots-of-wet-t-shirt-contests","tag-nakeder-than-mtv-generally-approves-of","tag-this-may-be-my-most-embarrassing-review-ever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}