The indeterminate length of time away from my usual exercise routine gives me pause, as does my partner's loss of a running buddy – and her desire to not make me feel bad should she continue exercising.
If my kids have a fight with a buddy, they need to resolve these things in person, and not come in and complain on social media about it.
And there's little chance that What Would Kenny Do? will be nearly as hopeless as 1997's Double Team, the film that consciously decided to buddy Jean-Claude Van Damme with green-haired basketball weirdo Dennis Rodman and make them battle a nonspecific international conspiracy by jumping out of an aeroplane and getting chased around by tigers.
Movie history is littered with the corpses of hopelessly mismatched buddy films, and Kutcher and Bieber will have to go over and above the call of duty if they even want to breathe the same air as some of the worst.
Matrix's nemesis, his former buddy turned obsessive henchman-in-chief, is played with an exaggerated campness that would be considered offensive today.
The opportunities are clear - new ways to do new things to help improve our lives, be it a home helper, a musical companion, a driving buddy or a fitness adviser.
A buddy comedy about a 17-year-old boy guided by a hologram of himself as an adult, it made the prestigious Black List of unproduced screenplays three years ago, before being touched up by (500) Days of Summer's Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber.
A man about town, he owns a nightclub in Charlotte called Butter, is a buddy of Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain and exchanges text messages with Michael Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Naturally, for a slave to be freed requires a plot contrivance of some sort, but Schultz (or rather Waltz) having performed that function comes to dominate the film, which becomes in effect a buddy movie, though without much pretence of equality.
Its foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, was a drinking buddy of Cameron's at Oxford University's Bullingdon Club.
McConnell deployed a novel buddy system, in which about 10 GOP senators worked privately in pairs with friends across the aisle to sound out various provisions of the deal.
