It's cheesy and it's frowned upon but it's delicious! Sounds like an advertisement for one of jonmc's junk snacks? No, it's just a humble request for your five favourite romantic comedies. Please include at least one embarrassing, corny and utterly sentimental item; one randy-making; one tear-jerking; one laughter-inducing and, most importantly, one which is romantic (or comedic) to no one but you!
[Yeah, this is a Saturday Night after-an-argument-with-the-wife Special!*]
*About Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, no less!
Sorry, my evil twin, I hate and detest romantic comedies. Unless you count O Brother Where Art Thou. Which I wouldn't.
(Just tell Schweppes Girl she is right. No matter what she said. Trust me.)
Migs, this is way too large and detailed a question for 9622 (Yes! I'm calling Miguel out to 9622talk!)
However, I do have the missus at work on a proper response, and shall reply anon. She's enthusiastic. Does "Sid and Nancy" count?
My dvd collection isn't exactly brimming with romantic comedies, but i'll give it a go:
1. Annie Hall
2. Say Anything
3. Hannah And Her Sisters
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. The Sure Thing
Yes, two by Woody Allen, two with John Cusack. What can I say? I almost threw in Last Tango In Paris. I mean, Ilaughed.
I enjoyed the following romantic comedies:
-- "Notting Hill"
(because you can't have a list of Romantic Comedies without Hugh Grant, and even though it is essentially the same film as "Four Weddings & a Funeral" , I find Julia Roberts infinitely easier to watch than the painfully, painfully wooden "acting" of Andie McDowell)
-- "Addicted to Love"
(yes, a Meg Ryan vehicle... sue me.)
-- "Groundhog Day"
(classic Bill Murray; in this case, I suffer through Ms. McDowell's performance for the sake of the funny.)
-- "Happy, Texas"
(dorky, but cute; also has William H. Macy in it - always a plus. And I generally enjoy Steve Zahn)
-- "A Life Less Ordinary"
(I can't explain why I like this movie. It's weird. And not actually very good. And yet, somhow that scene where Ewan McGregor & Cameron Diaz sing the Bobby Darin tune keeps calling me back)
I'll admit to being not too original:
High Fidelity
Say Anything(no explanation needed for those two)
The Truth About Cats and Dogs(I'd take Janeane over Uma any day of the frackin' week)
Chasing Amy(been there, done that, got the t-shirt)
Oddly I can't think of a fifth, probably cause Holywood, contrary to popular opinion, is far less romantic than reality.
Well, since you've all asked, my list is embarrassingly twee and predictable:
1) Hitchcock's Mr and Mrs Smith;
2) David Lynch's Wild At Heart;
3) Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby;
4) Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers;
5) The Coen Brothers' Arizona Junior
6) Nora Ephron's Sleepless In Seattle;
7) Hitchcock's Vertigo;
8) Antonioni's Mystery of Oberwald;
9) Lubitsch's Ninotschka;
10) Joan Micklin Silver's Crossing Delancey Street.
P.S. I lied about 5 being the maximum number!
Oh - and Bunuel's Tristana. So much so I named one of my daughters after it.
Posted by: Miguel on October 5, 2002 10:49 PMDamn, miguel. Now that's a list.
Wild at Heart should definitely be on my list, as well as Raising Arizona.
Twee, Commish, is what prevented me from listing less shareable (but no less romantic) items like:
1) David Cronenberg's Crash (which the women I know seem to regard as an art movie; i.e. they hate it;
2) Tod Browning's Freaks;
3) Coppola's One From The Heart (perhaps my favourite movie of all time), which women regard as soppily unrealistic;
4) Fellini's Amarcord, for the hilarious love affair of the Rimini adolescents and the town vamp, Gradisca; the town whore, Volpina; and that very buxom tobacconist;
5) Godard's Vivre Sa Vie;
6) Rossellini's Stromboli, which is a long excuse to film Ingrid Bergman's face;
7) D.W.Griffith's Broken Blossoms;
8) Vincent Minelli's Some Came Running (my definite favourite movie of all time);
9) The Farrelly Brother's Shallow Hal (don't ask!);
10) (whoever directed) Neil Simon's The Odd Couple.
Or Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West, the ultimate romantic comedy.
One of my favourite films of all time is the heartfelt, teary, triumphant and yes (I admit it) rather sappy Billy Elliott. Even if you can only understand 10% of the dialogue through the accents, it's an absolutely fine movie, with acting and writing to bring a blush to your cheeks, directing that is at once transparent and transcendent, and a story that, well, made me glow. It is lovely and wonderful.
And dong, friend - there's no way you're going to argue Harold and Maude is your typical romantic comedy.
Also... though I didn't love it, Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulin was pretty terrif, and no matter what your artsy friends say, it was no more than a dressed-up romantic comedy. With Jeunet at the helm, mind you.
There ain't no "typical" romantic comedy.
"Duh! Don't you guys get the point, duh!"
(paraphrasing Mrs. Commish, looking over mah shoulder)
Anyhoo, here's my our list, as far as it's got (no rankings, though - everything is relative, after all!)
High Fidelity (again!)
The Fisher King (my personal favorite movie, Holy Grail be damned - this is a romantic movie on any of several levels)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (a big vote from Mrs. C here)
Sid and Nancy (ditto. I think the disjunct is why I married her.)
Chocolat (heck, it was good)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (despite that Oscar-winner guy)
Arthur (Hell, it was good. Even Liza Minelli)
Ok, I'm drubk, but here's my list off the top of my head:
Philadelphia Story as my all time favorite romantic comedy. A cliche maybe, but why argue with success.
Hannah and Her Sisters or Manhattan or Annie Hall depending on my mood, but probably Hannah if for no other reason than Barbara Hershey.
Metropolitan or Barcelona. Either one, really. I thought the former was funnier, but the latter is more romantic.
High Fidelity -- Boy meets Girl meets record collection.
Tampopo or Sirens as my (semi-)randy choice. I'm sure there're randier romantic comedies, I just can't think of any just now. But Tampopo's raw-egg-eating-off-girlfriend's-naked-body scene is worth the price of admission alone.
Runner-ups might include:
Addicted to love Especially for the opening sequence backed by "Walk Away Renee". Hopelessly gushy, but isn't that the point?
A weird little 80's flick called The Coca-Cola Kid
Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulin
Scrooged Yes, I know it's Bill Murray and I know it's kinda dumb, but it never fails to entertain me.
Octobersurprise, thanks for reminding me of Scrooged! It's a great movie.Those staples with which Bill Murray attached the antlers to the mice are unforgettable!
Come to think of it, Groundhog Day could also be seen as a moving romantic comedy - all those opportunities to seduce the woman you're in love with.
Commish, my wife had the same reaction to this thread. She says not one of us has the guts to nominate The Princess Bride or Pretty Woman.
So I just...
Ooh - jon's "Truth about Cats & Dogs" nomination reminded me of that other Garofalo romantic comedy I really like - The MatchMaker. I think it was panned pretty badly when it came out, but I have it on video & it actually stands up to repeat viewings very well. (actually, the disclaimer here is that I like Janeane G. a lot & would probably enjoy any movie she starred in. However, I still think the movie is a good one...)
Also, another one I remembered whilst away from the computer was The Apartment, with Jack Lemmon & Shirley McLaine. Love, love, love that film.
Oh, and while we're on classics, Adam's Rib, with Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
(that is all)
Scribblative - The Matchmaker is a lovely, lovely work of art. As precise a portrait of the relationship between Ireland and the U.S.A. as that Pogues'song Fairy Tale Of New York.
Since we're being so sincere (and I have meanwhile made up with my wife, thanks entirely to this thread) does anyone else have a soft spot for Michelle Pfeiffer's and George Clooney's truly sappy One Fine Day?
Say Anything (but of course)
Kicking and Screaming
Amelie
Rushmore
The Lion in Winter
Wild at Heart
Joe Versus the Volcano
Singin' in the Rain
Kiss Me, Stupid
The Apartment
(I *heart* movies but gots no idea how to count.)
Brittney: Kiss Me, Stupid! Of course! One of the sweetest movie ever made! It made a trailer more glamorous than even the Sherry Netherland. But it reminded me of another passionate film, also Kim Novak-fuelled (if only for the score and the closing scene) which was My Pal Joey, with Sinatra and Hayworth. And also of Billy Wilder's magnificent Some Like It Hot...
Posted by: Miguel on October 6, 2002 01:18 AMMiguel, I got to see a deleted scene from Kiss Me, Stupid at the Forum in Manhattan this August that was cut for American audiences that completely changes the tone, and even the basic plot, of the movie.
Did you see this European vesion?
Miguel - my goodness, what are you doing up this early? It must be some ungodly hour there.
Posted by: scribblative on October 6, 2002 01:36 AMOh, and I'll be getting The Matchmaker on my next trip to P-Lo's hated Hollywood Video as I have the largest girl-crush on Miss Janeane. I was just waiting for good word from a trusted source before I did so.
Posted by: brittney on October 6, 2002 01:37 AMBrittney - could you describe that scene? Here in Europe, we tend to watch "classic" American movies full-length in Cinemateques, in black turtle-neck sweaters, sipping gins and tonics and flipping through catalogues raisonées of the director involved. For a third of the price of a normal ticket.
"Kiss Me, Stupid" seems perfect enough as it is! Don't spoil it for me, please...
Scribblative: it's almost seven in the morning here, but we're still up, as tomorrow (today, Sunday) we only have lunch about three or four in the afternoon. Nothing much happens before then. And, after lunch, we have a bare-legs, fresh-sheets, three-hour-long nap!
brittney - I too have some sort of weird, straight-girl crush thing happening with Ms. G. It's very odd; I've been compared to her a lot, too (by friends, family, etc.), so some might argue that it's a wee bit like having a crush on myself. That's just a tad too Freudian for my liking, though. :)
I think maybe (more realistically) it's just a case of really identifying with someone. I think she is like the role model for all those girls out there who are smart, and funny, not afraid to speak their minds; even more so for those of us who, like her, may not fit into that Hollywood, 5'10"/120 lb, blonde & blue-eyed mold of beauty.
Bottom line: I like 'er.
I went off Joan Rivers (and Howard Stern) because she criticized J.G. She's like a contemporary Lucille Ball - all she needs is an eternally-running TV show.
Posted by: Miguel on October 6, 2002 02:02 AMI also find Scrooged oddly moving, as it is the one and only time ever got all sinffly and girl-like at a movie.
When the little mute Tiny Tim kid at the end speaks, I turn into a freakn' guest on Oprah. It's disgusting to witness.
Also, Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
I find that cheezeball oddly romantic.
Janeane Garofalo is the prettiest woman on the planet. Just in case there was any doubters out there..
Posted by: jonmc on October 6, 2002 02:54 AM
Breakfast at Tiffany's (just cut my bangs a la Ms. Hepburn in some sort of perverse homage)
"Life on the Fast Lane" (first season Simpson's episode...Marge has a little wing-ding with a sexy bowler because Homer's an oaf, but they reconcile of course, where-by Homer tells his co-workers while carrying Marge through the nuclear plant: "I'm going out to the parking lot with my wife and I won't be back for ten minutes!" *sniff*)
Fight Club (there's romance in there, it's just a little befuddled)
Goldfinger (I mean, sure Bond romances everybody, but it's still romatic...)
High Fidelity
Almost Famous
The Philadelphia Story
Rear Window (that Grace Kelly, rrrroooowwwl!)
Heathers ("I love my dead gay son!")
Delicatessen (big thumbs up for this one; I keep waiting for the damn dvd, but NO! they put out that Jeunet bastard-son Alien: Resurrection, but Delicatessen? Apparently not good enough)
That's all I've got for now...I'll keep thinking on it.
The best of all romantic comedies: In Like Flint.
I can't believe I left that one out.
This could be considered a spoiler for those who haven't seen Kiss Me, Stupid, though it is hardly the type of movie where it really matters. But I get irate when I read endings to movies I haven't seen, so for those like me, consider yourself warned.
In the "the unseen (slightly dirtier) European version" near the end of the film when Dino romances Zelda (Lambchop) in Polly the Pistol's trailer the two actually act on their lusty attraction, whereas in the American version she merely goes to sleep.
Of course, later Orville and Lambchop reunite, yet with this major change in the alternate scene the picture is less inherently sexist, for one thing. The sex in the trailer was only hinted at, naturally, with a fade to black, so the only rationale I can come up with for censoring it would be that in that era the portrayal of a cheating wife, who suffered seemingly no consequences for her actions, was unacceptable--no matter what he was doing just down the street (and in her name, no less.)
This scene presents, best of all, a laughable irony due to Orville's rabid jealousy--a trait totally lost in the censored version when the two don't tango.
(I can't believe I just refered to sex as "the tango.")
Thanks, Brittney. That does change things for the better, you're right!
Posted by: Miguel on October 6, 2002 08:29 AMI'd tried to post four times (one was a long comment) with no success - even the "post, dammit"s didn't work. So I leave for twenty minutes, come back and find the Server has kept the last remark on ice... quite impressive, actually.
Posted by: Miguel on October 6, 2002 08:31 AMEvery time you curse the Server, I kill a kitten.
(You're welcome, dong.)
Octobersurprise, I loved Sirens. I saw an uncensored version in the theatre and was so disappointed later when I rented it at Bollocksbuster and they had cut out the strip-poker scene. When the one girl took the other girl's knickers off - wooo.
Notting Hill gets another vote, and Groundhog Day, because I like the way they show what love isn't as well as what it is.
Breathless - I liked both the French and the American versions. Richard Gere was actually sexy, and didn't seem like a gay man trying to play straight like he does in Pretty Woman!
beyond that, I'm just drawing a complete blank. But I'm glad Miguel's cinema crisis ended happily ever after.
Yeah, a lot of the one's I would have nominated are already up:
Heathers...just because. :)
Pretty Woman...I love that movie
Overboard ("I'm not a bitch, everyone wants to be me."
Kiss Me Kate...I think that's the name of Ken Branaugh's version of The Taming of the Shrew...
Philadelphia Story...because you can't go wrong with Kate Hepburn. Also in that genre, Bringing Up Baby, the one with the tiger. Love that movie. :)
*crawls out of his sickbed long enough to add:
1) Bull Durham
2) Grosse Pointe Blank
3) When Harry Met Sally
4) Sixteen Candles
5) True Lies, just to see who's still reading this.
I'm sorry to hear you're feeling poorly Crash! Have some chicken soup...it's good for you. :)
Posted by: dejah420 on October 6, 2002 09:42 PMWow, so much agreement here; isn't this where one of us is supposed to say, "Or not."
The Apartment is great--it definitely makes my revised list. But whenever I watch it I become furious with CC Baxter for being such a pushover ...
Pretty Woman: I still like the movie, for all it's silliness, but does anyone believe everything works out for Gere and Robert's characters after the movie ends? I want to, but never really do. To me, at least, Gere's character never stops feeling just a little too creepily possessive. A few years later, when Roberts starred in Sleeping with the enemy (filmed not far from where I lived then, btw, and where we saw Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland shooting pool in a bar one day) I joked that it should have been called Pretty Woman: the Divorce
And yes, everything everyone's said about Janeane Garofalo.
Speaking of sexy(to us sophisticates) but ignored by the philistine masses..
Aren't Maggie Gyllenhaal and Sara Rue the absolute living end of hotness??
just sayin..
well, Made for Each Other, with Carole Lombard and Jimmy Stewart and Heathers cover all those categories, but there's a Cary Grant/Carole Lombard(?) from the thirties where they're adopting a kid-Penny Serenade(?) that's an automatic box of kleenexes...
Posted by: amberglow on October 6, 2002 11:23 PMIt doesn't get any more romantically comic than Johnny Got His Gun.
Posted by: kafkaesque on October 7, 2002 12:20 AMI just saw Monsters, Inc. I think that tops my most romantic comedy ever. I laughed, I cried...It was beautiful, man.
Posted by: readymade on October 7, 2002 01:26 AMThough you belong
To somebody else,
Tonight you belong to me.
Though we’re apart,
You’re part of my heart,
Tonight you belong to me.
Down by the stream,
How sweet it will seem,
Once more to dream in the moonlight.
Though with the dawn,
I know when you’re gone,
Tonight you belong to me.
I'm back, so this is a legitimate post. Did you fuckers get those packages I mailed out?
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 09:28 AMI'm back, so this is a legitimate post. Did you fuckers get those packages I mailed out?
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 09:29 AMThis fucker got no package.
Wait. I don't like how that sounds.
can't you make the mailman deliver it? they were sent 'book rate' so they should take longer, but this is ridiculous. it took 2 weeks to get from new york to boston? the newly founded anarchist postal service could have gotten it there by then.
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 09:39 AMJudging from the lists above, I should be marrying either brittney or jpoulos.
My hastily put together list:
1. The Long Hot Summer (filmed in my hometown and starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodard, Orson Welles, Tony Francioso, and that "Murder She Wrote" woman as the town whore. Oh, and a screenplay by William Faulkner at his surliest.)
2. Annie Hall ("Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love.")
3. Say Anything ("I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.")
4. Can't Buy Me Love (My embarrasing one)
5. Bullets over Broadway (Aren't we required to have two Woody Allen films?)("I'm a WHORE! I'm a WHORE!")
Hmmm. In no particular order:
What's Up Doc? possibly my most favorite movie of all time. If you think that Barbra Streisand could never be funny or sexy, watch this movie and change your mind. Also, the divine Madeline Kahn is in this.
When Harry Met Sally
His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
Room With A View
Impromptu (everyone who's anyone knows that this is the REAL Hugh Grant Romantic Comedy. Grant is Chopin, Judy Davis (one of the greatest actresses living today, IMHO) is Georges Sands, Emma Thompson (another one of the Greatest Actresses Living Today) is riotously funny as a country Duchess, Mandy Patinkin is George's spurned ex lover, can't remember who, some writer, Julians Sands is Liszt, Bernadette Peters is Liszt's constantly pregnant and grouchy mistress, anyway, if you haven't seen this movie, rent it today!)
Some Kind of Wonderful
Pride & Prejudice (the 1996 BBC Version)
Addicted to Love - yes, a Meg Ryan vehicle, but a darker Meg Ryan
Sixteen Candles
Amelie - I couldn't have been more charmed even if Shannen Doherty had put a spell on me
Threesome - because finally! a threesome with 2 men!
Caligula (that's a sick joke)
Although I am a big Garafalo fan, I can't second "The Matchmaker" nomination. I guess I'm just tired of the movies where people fall in love with each other even though they know nothing about the other person except that they don't get along.
Here's my guilty pleasure: Cousins, with Isabella Rossellini (mmmmm...Isabella Rossellini), Ted Danson, Lloyd Bridges, William Petersen, and Sean Young. It really is a beautiful, touching movie. It also has the requisite high cornball quotient that renders allows one to enjoy it only with some guilt.
There are others (The Breakfast Club, anybody?). But It Happened One Night is great if you can get past the fact that it's, like, old and stuff.
If Cold Chef marries jpoulos, can I be a bridesmaid? Please, please? I'd even wear purple tafetta for that one.
Posted by: tizzie on October 7, 2002 10:15 AMI volunteer to jump out of a cake at the bachelor party.
Posted by: jonmc on October 7, 2002 10:58 AMI'll be the one objecting, twice, once for Lupo (he's mine!) and once for ColdChef (he's nine too!). Mind you, list-wise, I'd marry witchstone if if weren't for Impromptu (never has an actor been more gravely miscast or ill-served by the hair-dressing department). OK, even with Impromptu - I could grow to love it, even if I weren't in the meantime struck blind.
Posted by: Miguel on October 7, 2002 11:09 AMI'm sickly disappointed that nobody has mentioned Cameron Crowe's Singles, dammit. Also liked Amelie. Glad pardonyoume added it to the list.
Posted by: Ufez Jones on October 7, 2002 11:19 AMThe first time I watched Impromptu, I was home sick with the flu... Miguel, if you can't get through it whilst 'sober', I recommend you try taking some flu drugs before hand - I was a sobbing wreck at the end of it.
Posted by: scribblative on October 7, 2002 11:33 AMMiguel, before you marry me you have to have a few more marriages under your belt. I refuse to be anything less than somebody's 7th marriage.
Pardonme! I was going to put down It Happened One Night, but I forgot it in my flurry of other films. That's the film that taught me that a woman should be in charge of the hitchhiking. ;-)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Taming of the Shrew
Joe Versus the Volcano
Run LoLa Run not sure actually what the correct label is for this movie, than great butt with the music, the irony, and then that {{{ass}}}, I loved it.
Buster Keaton's "Seven Chances" - the best boulder avalanche in romantic comedies.
Posted by: liam on October 7, 2002 12:04 PMYoung Frankenstein is not romantic, I know, but when my husband wants me to fall in love with him all over again, he sings "Puttin' On The Ritz!" in the monster's voice. It gets me every time.
Posted by: tizzie on October 7, 2002 12:23 PMThe Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "What's Opera, Doc?"
Leaves me a sobbing wreck everytime.
Oooh, oooh! Two more:
Gotta agree with Thom: Joe Versus the Volcano is a great, great movie. What can I say? I'm a flibberdigibbet.
Also, When Harry Met Sally is the best Woody Allen film that Woody didn't actually, technically make. But it's all him.
but thank sweet jesus that woody allen isn't in it.
Love Joe Vs. the Volcano! My sister and I and one other person were the only people who were laughing in the entire, packed theatre. Philistines!
"Someone tells you that you have a brain cloud and you don't get a second opinion?"
That's funny. I also really liked Joe Versus the Volcano, though I have heard it disparaged any number of times.
Must be the orange soda.
so in love with all of you--just wanted to add "Bridget Jones' Diary," because I am such a freakin' cheesemonger.
Posted by: whatnot on October 7, 2002 01:21 PMWould "Being John Malkovich" be considered a romantic comedy?
I think it must.
Cheeseburger? I'd be in love with you if you were a cheeseburger, for sure.
off-topic: go GIANTS!
Witchstone, Being John Malkovich is just awful. I tried, believe me, I tried. My loyalty to Malkovich as a Steppenwolf guy, and my usual love of John Cusack, could not redeem it. Yuck.
Posted by: tizzie on October 7, 2002 01:30 PMAlso, When Harry Met Sally is the best Woody Allen film that Woody didn't actually, technically make.
blasphemer! the wedding's off.
...and i'm taking your woman wit me.
*gasp*
I. love. that. movie. Which means henceforth I can have no love for Tizzie. Tragic, but there you have it.
Come on! The 7 1/2 floor! "I'll build a wee floor for you and your accursed kind!"
Being John Malkovich is just awful.
blasphemer the second!
who knew that such an innocuous little thread would bring out the ugly truth among us...
:-)
witchstone and lupo do not love me anymore!
*sobs*
*realizes life is not worth living*
*orders her cheeseburger rare*
I saw Being John Malkovich twice before i realized that was Cameron Diaz. She was actually so good that it never occurred to me.
Posted by: jpoulos on October 7, 2002 01:41 PMAlso, When Harry Met Sally is the best Woody Allen film that Woody didn't actually, technically make.
Dammit, Lupo - I agree with ColdChef! Does this mean we're all going to fall out eventually?
What about Splash?
I have a very soft spot for When Harry Met Sally. I lost my virginity because of that movie.
Posted by: jonmc on October 7, 2002 01:46 PMNatural Born Killers
I really must lay off the caffine...
And on preview: Details, jonmc!
Not much to tell really.
'twas 1989. I was a pimply 18 year old mullethead off to college in the Big Apple. I watched a tape of the movie with this really pretty girl named Bianca. We had the usual post-WHMS talk about whether men and women can be pals and all that, and she piped up and said, "Well, I'm freindly with you and all but I've wanted you since the moment I saw you..."
Didn't have to ask me twice. Sad part was she had a boyfreind and didn't actually like me or me her. Just a weird chemical thing I guess. 2 years later she had another botfreind who was in rehab and we hooked up again. Haven't seen her since. In 1998 I happened to pass by her original boyfreind at the mall. The poor slob still looked like he wanted to kill me.
Strange world.
duh, his platonic best friend realized that he was the right one after all.
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 01:56 PMor more what jonmc said, because he was actually there.
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 01:57 PMAlmost all of the movies you guys listed I either didn't see or hated (with the exception of The Princess Bride)
"no more rhyming, and I mean it!"
"anybody want a peanut?"
I am NOT a mushball. My dear hubby on the other hand is mush through and through. We've made him an honorary female. I mean, he even liked Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Ah. Cool. And to think I was imagining it had something to do with reacting the infamous "Faking An Orgasm" scene. Guess I hung around with too many horny theatre dorks back in the day.
Posted by: romakimmy on October 7, 2002 02:04 PMAnyone ever see Once Around? I am also a sucker for Lasse Halstrom films.
*drowning in the cheese of guilty pleasures. Or do guilty pleasures have more of a velvety, creme-de-menthe texture?*
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The mere mention of this movie sends shudders down my spine. It was made by demons.
Demons.
The part where Ash's dead girlfriend is dancing outside the window in Evil Dead 2 is pretty romantic.
Posted by: kafkaesque on October 7, 2002 02:18 PMAnyone find it surprising Tom Hanks wins this
thread.
What tv show would be appriate for Mig's thread? Boosum Buddies again Tom Hanks.
I forgot this, I don't know how and if said well kudos,
Big.
I didn't realize how big a Tom Hanks fan I am. Have to say Great Actor.
This one reminds me why I hate being a homeowner,
The Money Pit.
I thought I had installed a filter on this site that would replace the words "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" with the words "Monkey Crap". Must be the server acting up again.
Posted by: jpoulos on October 7, 2002 02:27 PMI thought I had installed a filter on this site that would replace the words "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" with the words "Monkey Crap". Must be the server acting up again.
Irony: the server choked on this comment the first time i tried to post it.
I went to see Ya Ya with about 8 or 9 female friends, then we went for Chinese food afterward. I actually enjoyed it. Hubby took my girls the next day.
so why do you all hate it so bad? Too much Southern estrogen or something?
Dude, the server is TOTALLY a tom hanks fan, as it just devoured my biting criticism. I said:
"Seriously. Tom Hanks is a demon. How he became the new Cary Grant is beyond me.
Unless Cary Grant was a demon as well."
Cary Grant didn't try to make his career over into: Oscar Winning Actor Playing Serious Roles.
I thought Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya Sisterhood was a very moving book that dealt with some very tricky issues about mother/daughter relationships. Also race relations (line from the book that I can't quite remember, something to do with "When are all of the white women who grew up with black mothers (aka, "nannies") going to deal with that relationship?"
I didn't bother seeing the movie because it looked like they'd turned it into a cheese fest that didn't have much to do with the book.
But, I forgot, I do have a Sandra Bullock favorite: While You Were Sleeping (go ahead, mock me).
I with kaf and goneill here. Tom Hanks reminds me of every smug, self-satisfied, Tony Robbins-esque, master-of-my-own destiny, bobo yuppie prick I ever met.
YMMV, of course.
I couldn't have put it better jonmc, but I wish I had (or at least on par). I've not seen a Tom Hanks movie since "A League of Their Own" or Apollo 13, which I had to watch for a communications class. yes, that means i have never seen Forrest Gump or The Green Mile or the WWII one, Shindler's List, etc. I've also never seen Titanic or Jerry McGuire. They showed Titanic on a London to Dalls flight I was on. I drank four cocktails, took a Sominex and passed out for 6 hours. Thank you easter bunny.
Posted by: Ufez Jones on October 7, 2002 02:52 PMTom Hanks was in Schindler's List? How did I miss him?
Posted by: witchstone on October 7, 2002 02:58 PMOh hell, maybe he wasn't. It just seems like the type of movie he'd jump on to get an Oscar. He's an award whore. Like the way Robin Williams craves attention. Have you ever seen him on any of the late night talk shows? He's everywhere.
Posted by: Ufez Jones on October 7, 2002 03:01 PMI wasn't a big Hanks fan until The Road To Perdition.
It's a great movie and he's undeniably good in it.
Also, if you go see a movie, it has the sort of trailer that the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has, and it's horrible, well, you get what you deserve.
Robin Williams is one manic dude. Feed him lithium and he'd be working in retail.
Posted by: b****fire on October 7, 2002 03:16 PMwe like the fun cuddly type of demons like catwoman and the Penguin not the nasty meanie ones that made Ya-Ya...
Posted by: jonmc on October 7, 2002 03:17 PM
we like the fun cuddly type of demons like catwoman and the Penguin not the nasty meanie ones that made Ya-Ya...
doggone it
I had a meeting, I'll never leave my computer again:
I'm actually quite famous as I was in a play with robin williams' double once.
In the interest of science, I have more to confess here. The ya ya sisterhood movie was MUCH better than the book. Sorry witchstone, but the book was absolutely awful - poorly written drivel.
Oh, and the server totally loves tom hanks - it deleted MY biting criticism also.
Also, my old roommate was *in* some sandra bullock movie, about a beauty pageant. You can almost see him during the pageant scene.
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 03:40 PMhey, i happen to like poorly written drivel. why do you think i like you guys so much?
Posted by: witchstone on October 7, 2002 03:48 PMSandra Bullock makes me want to claw my eyes out with a garden trowel. She is the female equivalent of Tom Cruise:
Smug, self-satisfied piece of wood that has a few gimmicks and then nada. The best direction that Tom Cruise got in Minority Report was to wipe that shit-eating grin off his face. If only they could do that for ol' Sandra.
Tom Hanks is better that these two, but he's always relying on Tom Hanks-iness to get by: A sort of boring earnestness.
I supposedly know a guy who was in the Pauly Shore opus BioDome somewhere.
No, really.
You can touch me, if you want, but keep the line orderly.
Thread 916: It destroyed the house of Monkey.
Being John Malkovich was genius. If for nothing else, than the fact that the monkey's name in the human word was the same as his monkey name in the monkey world. If you've seen the movie, that last sentence makes sense.
Tom Hanks gets way too much hype, but he seems like he'd be a nice guy in real life. He's by far one of the best hosts of Saturday Night Live (him and Alec Baldwin) and he grew a madman beard for his "craft." Plus, he's an assistant scoutmaster.
But then again, I chose Fatal Attraction as a post-prom flick, so what do I know?
you might even be more famous than me.
you have to admit for someone really plain and talentless sandra bullock had been very successful.
Damn it, someone needs to write me more money!
Joe vs. the Volcano is great. I think I saw with maybe another half-dozen people in the theater. But I always hated the ending.
Robin Williams, man, now there's a sad, sad story. He went all soft and warm. To think that the man who did Live at the Met wound up as Patch Adams and that excruciating ripoff of the equally excruciating Life is Beautiful is just, well, tragic. I think The Fisher King was the last think I liked him in.
I reserve the right to hate Tom Hanks in the future, but Big and Apollo 13 are faves of mine. Castaway was nothing but a good idea, unfortunately.
And yeah, I gotta vote "yea" on Being John Malcovich.
Ya Ya Sisterhood?
*shudders*
Let us never speak of this again.
"Sandy" Bullock used to live down the street from me when I lived in Austin. I saw her literally dozens of times around town. She seemed like a nice person, but from everyone I know who worked with her, she was horrible.
"Hope Floats" was actually a pretty good script about a bitch who gets her comeuppance and has to start all over again, but "Sandy's people" defanged it and made it about a fairly nice woman who has to deal with getting her comeuppance.
Her boyfriend was pretty cool, too, but she treated him like shit.
God, I hated that movie. Harry Connick Jr's character was a creepy rapist type.
Posted by: witchstone on October 7, 2002 04:45 PMdidn't she live out by the lake? did you live out by the lake? i didn't picture you living there. i thought you'd be a south austinite.
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 04:53 PMaustinite?
sounds like a man made element.
a Bionic-man made element, at that.
if i lived in austin i'd want to be called an Austinian. Either that or Dirk.
Posted by: jpoulos on October 7, 2002 05:01 PMwell you wouldn't be. texans have their traditions, you know. its austinite. chef, please back me up, you don't have to post your old address to the internet.
Posted by: goneill on October 7, 2002 05:04 PMI live in Connecticut, and I have no idea what you call us Nutmeg State natives. I do know that someone who lives in Bridgeport is called a prisoner
Posted by: jonmc on October 7, 2002 05:07 PMZinglebert Bembledack?
Yingeebert Dymbleban?
Zynglebert Bingleback?
Winglebert Humptyback?
Slut Bonwalla?
Yes, I was a South Austinite (Sout' side in da houze!) But, for the first year or two, Sandy lived a couple of blocks from me on Spyglass, right off of MOPAC. Big gated deal overlooking the greenbelt.
Also, once at a certain Chinese restaurant in Austin, she sat right next to us. My friend ate the other half of her fortune cookie when she left. Lemme say this for her: she can POUND down some Chinese food.
Cold Chef, down in Dallas for the last several years, I thought I saw Sandra in and about. But I thought it couldn't be her because she seemed not so tall(movie star size), 5'9" with heels. This was all during the rumors of her buying a house outside of Dallas.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on October 7, 2002 06:56 PMI saw...uh...Jm J. Bullock once, who was born in Odessa, Texas, and who also goes by the name Sandi Ego, which added all together is just as exciting as having seen Sandra Bullock.
Posted by: Crash on October 7, 2002 07:31 PMRobin Williams is one of those people who - like (for example) Eric Clapton - were better when they were high. That's my theory, anyway. It's not that they were terrible once they sobered up, it's just that they lost their edge.
Posted by: tizzie on October 7, 2002 08:50 PMApropos of nothing, while we were walking the mutts tonite, the interstate was shut down so that El Presidente's motorcade could drive past on the way to Cinci for a Big Speech.
We were about 25 yards from the road in an empty field, and the Secret Service backed up to the fence to keep an eye on us while we walked past. I guess anybody playing catch with 5 dorky dogs looks suspicious... or perhaps they could read my mind as I kept thinking, "Must. Not. Fling. Poo. at Limo. Must. Not. Fling. Poo at Limo..."
You should have flung the poo.
Not that I want to see you in the clink or anything--it's just that someone needs to do it, and you did have five dogs with you....there must have been plenty of ammo.
Throwing shit at Dubya is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Posted by: Crash on October 7, 2002 09:14 PMCongratuations, b****fire.
With a single you've managed to wipe out any moral high ground you might have had on us.
jpolous:
Zinglebert Bembledack?
Yingeebert Dymbleban?
Zynglebert Bingleback?
Winglebert Humptyback?
Slut Bonwalla?
(*scrib rolls on floor laughing*)
Nothing like a bit of Izzard to brighten a girl's day... :)
I have video.
crash, your next move, then, is to put up a paypal account to accept payment for not posting it.
Hey, one of my overweight friends sent me that calendar by email-only her version was entitled the Krispy Kreme Calendar.
No, i don't believe I want a doughnut now.
And dear Crash, I believe that skeleton belongs in the closet.
Can I put a clause in my 9622 contract stating that the other monkeys only post clean replies to my offerings here?
*except for the poo of course. Goes without saying*
With a single you've managed to wipe out any moral high ground you might have had on us.
*waaaaahhhhh*
Hey, now...ain't nothin' wrong with diggin' the big gals, ya know.
Only a dog wants a bone, as they say.
Having just helped my youngest son with his English homework (write a quatrain), I'm inspired to posit:
Big fat girls are way more fun
Than itsy-bitsy little ones
You never fear you're gonna break 'em
If you don't want 'em, I will take 'em!
*high-fives with the crashmeister*
I'm with Mr Mixalot on this one--
"36-26-36?
Only if your 5 foot 3"
Real men love only women who worry about their weight. Thankfully, no one's ever heard of one.
Posted by: Miguel on October 7, 2002 11:28 PMCrash and Jon defy
American gal standards
thank god, real women!
You know, since participating at FilePile my ideas on men's perception of what is sexy or attractive in women have changed. I am continually surprised to see that time and time again photos of healthy, well-porportioned women win out over deathly thin or obese ones. Pilers boo Christina Ricci's newly emaciated form and lament the days when Jennifer Connelly wasn't so scrawny. They point out airbrushing before I notice and have utter contempt for the blonde or siliconed.
Restores my faith in the face of Maxim and Stuff and stuff.
I long since stopped arguing with people who would accuse all men of only digging the teeny women. I've been to both lands and am happiest right in the middle.
Nothing worse than the crack of pelvis on pelvis.
How could I have forgotten Strictly Ballroom?! One of the best romantic quirky comedies of all time. I love quirky Australian films (wait, is there any other kind?). And if a man's love affair with his house counts as a romantic comedy, then there's always The Castle.
Posted by: witchstone on October 8, 2002 10:13 AMi'm sick of men talking about what kind of women they like, and kind of wearing it like a badge.
Posted by: goneill on October 8, 2002 10:25 AMi'm sick of men talking about what kind of women they like, and kind of wearing it like a badge.
I am totally into chicks who are sick of men talking about what kind of women they like, and kind of wearing it like a badge. They are killer in the sack.
Come on, goneill, it's not like we women don't have preferences when it comes to guys.
Of course I always thought I'd marry a short darkhaired fellow-but instead I have a TALL man with light brown hair. I practically need a stepladder to kiss him.
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