9. Parties Are Never As Good As You Expect
How many American teen comedies have you watched with a ridiculously awesome party and thought, "Yep, I've never been to a party that cool"? Last year's Project X, though by all usual standards an awful film, at least demonstrated the insane potential for movie parties, full of gorgeous, nubile young women, free-flowing beer kegs, and of course, the obligatory swimming pool. The reality, in fact, is usually a bunch of people who don't know each other getting way too drunk and then puking in the garden before passing out. Oh, and your parents are probably milling about somewhere making sure nobody uses the good china as Frisbees. I'd love to attend a party with that level of mayhem, and though these sorts of films are fun to watch with a few beers, they're not really indicative of what (most) parties are like. They'll only make the ones you throw and attend feel more lame, unless you lose it and decide to actualyl make a flamethrower suit and torch your neighbourhood. Or perhaps I'm just attending the wrong sorts of parties.