The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

Make life a buddy movie

make it dumb, make it dumber

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Jim Dalling
Jan 08, 2026
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What’s your favourite genre of film dear reader?

I likes me a buddy movie.

What’s not to love about a couple of bumbling idiots finding their way against all odds and coming out on top?

It’s a romance novel for weirdos and fuck ups of every type.

And the best buddy movie of all time?

Dumb and Dumber.

One of my favourite scenes is the montage of them crossing the Rockies on a cord pull start mini bike.

Every buddy movie needs a good montage. Since I likes me a buddy movie, I loves me a buddy movie montage.

Upbeat, outrageous and full of hope, the buddy movie montage is always hilarious and frequently inspiring.

In Dumb and Dumber’s cinematic masterpiece, Harold and Lloyd’s journey through the Rockies is compressed into a three minute montage.

What took hours and was likely unendurable cold and painful gets reduced to a bit of frivolity set to an indie rock beat.

My god, there are so many days that I wish that I could merely montage my life.

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