America's Greatest Viagra-Themed Love Story is IN THEATERS NOW!

(In the U.S. only; other countries may have to wait upwards of nine weeks, if a release date has been set at all.  SORRY SUCKERS.)

Well, we made it!  And what a ride it has been.  It may not seem like it, but our little community here has had quite a few ups and downs as we waited for Love & Other Drugs to reach our local cineplexes.  Why it seems merely yesterday that we were all on edge with the lack of movie promotion and also because of that idiot on Twitter who said Jake was dead...

"Jake Gyllenhaal has had such a busy week this week, what with dying and then coming back to life and all.  He's like Jesus, except less hairy...no...wait...he's exactly like Jesus."

... but it wasn't yesterday, it was August, and much as America turned to the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show to cheer them after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, we at ISJ turned to Entertainment Tonight's "First Look" segment to remind ourselves that Jake was not only alive, but frequently naked in his upcoming movie.  And no sooner had ET calmed our fears, but we finally had a trailer (!).  Remember that, chums?  How excited we were?  Because along with the trailer came more Jake porn than a fan could know what to do with...

Your blankie porn:



Your sad Jake porn:



Your comedic hand gesture porn:



Your sans serif porn:



...etc, ad nauseum...

We were all on a high as August boldly marched forward.  The screencaps kept coming, and before we even had time to catch our breath, we had a second trailer, bigger and better than the original, in which we learned a lot more about Jake's skills as a comedian...

Scowling while talking on the phone:



Scowling while at the office:



And this picture, in which he just looks like he's going to reach into the mouth of whomever he's speaking to and rip out their spine:



And that is what Jake thinks comedy is after all of these years of playing characters who are mentally disturbed and/or depressed and/or have a 50% chance of dying before the end of the movie.

By September we'd worked ourselves into a frenzy.  We saw what the poster looked like, and then we saw what some intrepid Photoshopper thought the poster should look like.  It seemed like nothing could dampen our enthusisam.  That is until we realized that our enthusiasm was not being echoed by those in charge.  Enter the Official Love & Other Drugs Facebook page...

"Dear Love and (&) Other Drugs Facebook page,

Why do you suck so much?  Why is ET Canada scooping you?  Why did you not even name your page with the actual name of the movie?



Why have you linked to Perez Hilton and no one else?  (Perez Hilton is terrible and so is the post you linked to.)"

...and thus our troubles began.  I blithely agreed that we should have our OWN Love & Other Drugs Facebook page, a page which would later disillusion all of us at a time when I was experiencing several major life upheavals, the net sum of which made me realize that I needed to be honest with you and admit that I just didn't really care as much anymore... :-/

It was such a sad and anticlimactic end to our joyful summer (well, you were joyful...and I faked it well).  Which is why, dear friends, I am determined that our Love & Other Drugs experience not end on that note.  

Because of travel restrictions, I probably won't be able to see it until next week regardless.  But YOU should see it before then!  And talk about it amongst yourselves!  And then I will come back and offer an overly-serious analysis of it, as is my wont.

To everyone who is seeing it today:  HAVE FUN!!!  And to everyone else, particularly those who have to wait anywhere from days to months, er, sorry, and we'll try to label our spoilers, 'kay?!

With this post, I hope to remind everyone that we may be a small, strange community that frequently veers off-topic and is, for good reason, ignored by most Jake fans.  But most of us are here because at one time or another (or maybe even still!) we thought Jake Gyllenhaal was the best reason God ever gave us to pay $10 to sit in the dark with a bunch of strangers.  
So Happy Jake-Has-A-Movie-Out-Today Day, goddammit! 

And Happy Thanksgiving to anyone whom that may apply to!  I'll be back, stalkers...

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