I believe you can tell how good a movie is based upon the amount of time it takes you to turn on your radio on the ride home from the theater. If you get in your car and immediately turn your radio on, the movie probably wasn’t that good. You have already moved on from it.

The really good movies are the ones that stay with you. The ones that are so good you keep rehashing in your head until you pull into your driveway and realize you drove home in complete silence. Taken was that way for me. So was The Fault In Our Stars. I was just happy I made that drive home without any more crying.

The Radio Principle, as I decided to call it about 15 seconds ago, does not just apply to drama or action movies. I remember driving home from seeing Superbad with three of my friends and spending the entire 45-minute car ride retelling the jokes we had just heard and laughing hysterically every time. The Radio Principle was also in full effect Saturday as I drove home after seeing Pitch Perfect 2.

I made it halfway home before I turned the radio on, and even then I barely listened to it. I was trying to recall all of my favorite jokes from the movie as if they would be lost forever if I couldn’t remember them at that moment. I knew I liked the movie, faults and all, as soon as it was over. I didn’t realize how much I liked the movie until I recalled the Radio Principle.

Pitch Perfect 2 is really, really funny, but in a lot of ways it is a typical sequel. The plot is formulaic not particularly interesting, and the film did nothing to add to any of the characters we already knew. The songs are fine, but aside from my new favorite version of Winter Wonderland, the music was not particularly inspiring.

Of course, I suspected Pitch Perfect 2 would have the same issues as most sequels, and I saw it on opening weekend in the hopes it would be good anyway. The same is true most weeks of defending champions in PGA Tour events.

Only one player—Matt Every, of all people—has successfully defended a title this season, yet every week the defending champion and other top finishers from the year before cost more and are played more than counterparts with a similar body of work. This week’s defending champion, Adam Scott, is a great example. He has fewer FPPG this season than guys like John Peterson and Martin Laird, yet only five players cost more this week. The odds of Scott repeating as Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial champion are pretty slim, but there is a pretty decent chance he rebounds from his missed cut last week and has his best finish in more than two months. After all, Pitch Perfect 2 didn’t match the original but it was still really, really funny.

There are actually a lot of players in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial field who have had sustained success there over the last few years. In that way it the complete opposite from the Wells Fargo Championship last week. I am avoiding many of those players, including (for the most part) Adam Scott, in favor of players who have had some success at Colonial and have played well lately. I’ll let somebody else take a chance on David Lingmerth being aca-awesome.

PlayerDraftKingsComments
Jordan Spieth13000Finished seventh and 14th in two Crowne Plaza Invitational Starts. 
Ryan Palmer9600Two T5s in last three starts at Colonial. 
Chris Stroud6800Three consecutive top-15s at the Crowne Plaza Invitational.
Bo Van Pelt6600Has made every cut at Colonial since 2003. 
Boo Weekley7700Has made five straight Crowne Plaza Invitational cuts, including a win in 2013. 
Jimmy Walker11200Has as many wins (5) as missed cuts over last two seasons. 
Steve Stricker8500Rounding into form after a long layoff. 
Jonas Blixt6800GPP play. Has missed four consecutive cuts, but finished 10th and 11th in only Crowne Plaza Invitational starts. 
Adam Scott9400Another GPP play. Defending his title could be just what he needs to get back on track.
Fredrik Jacobson6400Has made the cut in five straight tries at Colonial; 10 cuts in 13 starts this season.
Patrick Reed9300Third-most FPPG in this week's field. 
Martin Laird6800Has made the cut in all four Crowne Plaza Invitational starts, including two T10s. Two missed cuts in 13 starts this season.