Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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The Wedding Planner had the groom fall in love with J Lo, but he was too honorable and nice to break it off with the bride. Luckily, at the altar, she realized she wasn't ready to be married, and broke it off with him in the nicest fashion possible, and took the honeymoon tickets and went on a self-awakening Grand Tour of someplace like Tahiti. Freeing the groom to go sex up J Lo.
In the same movie, there is some nice guy who is willing to marry J Lo, and everybody seems to want them to be together, except for her (due to the groom). I don't think it gets to the altar, however.
she realized she wasn't ready to be married, and broke it off with him in the nicest fashion possible
Interesting. So he doesn't get to do the leaving.
Sumi -- remind me about 4 Weddings.
In
Ever After
the prince leaves the hysterically crying Spanish princess at the altar to go marry the Drew Barrymore character.
remind me about 4 Weddings.
I'm not Sumi, but I was going to suggest 4 Weddings too.
Hugh Grant is in love with Andie MacDowell, but she's married to someone else, so he's going to get married to an ex-girlfriend. At his wedding, as people are arriving at the church, he finds out that Andie has got divorced. He starts to go through with the wedding, but at the "does anyone here present object" bit his brother says Hugh's in love with someone else, and Hugh admits that he is. Whereupon his no-longer-bride-to-be punches him in the jaw.
In Ever After the prince leaves the hysterically crying Spanish princess at the altar to go marry the Drew Barrymore character.
I don't think I've seen this either... I am remiss.
Whereupon his no-longer-bride-to-be punches him in the jaw.
Whoot! Why did I forget that? More women deserve to be recipients of righteous ire when the tables are flipped.
Whereupon his no-longer-bride-to-be punches him in the jaw.
Kristen Scott Thomas, right? Anybody who throws over KST for Andie MacDowell deserves at least a punch in the jaw (and I like Andie).
I don't like either of them, but then, I don't like Hugh Grant either.
In Ever After the prince leaves the hysterically crying Spanish princess at the altar to go marry the Drew Barrymore character.
Oh yes. But, part of the reason he can laugh and leave is that her much older, ugly boyfriend is standing in the front row, crying and reaching out for her as she cries out for him. So, the prince is doing her a favor breaking up with her, rather than breaking her heart.
(The best part is that her parents bust out in a screaming argument (In Spanish) about whose fault it all is.)
Kristen Scott Thomas, right?
Nope, Anna Chancellor. Kristin plays the friend who has secretly been in love with him all along, but she doesn't get him to the altar.
Whoot! Why did I forget that?
Plus there's that great shot from above of Hugh crumpling onto a gravestone on the church floor after the punch connects.
Nope, it's not KST who clobbers Hugh in 4Ws&aF. She plays the stalwart best friend who never catches his fancy.
Anna Chancellor plays the whiney ex-girlfriend, "Hen"rietta, whom Hugh finally agrees to marry.
That movie introduced me to John Hannah-love. Man, he was great.
eta: x-post!
Duckface!
Her character was such a wackjob though. In contrast, most guys who get left at the altar by the girls tend to be decent and stodgy sorts.
