I'm SO glad to not be alone in my love of Ever After. When I am in a crap ass mood, I can pop that in and get lost. If I didn't have other plans tonight....
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I liked Ever After too. Liked that Dougray Scott's character was basically kinda feckless and self-absorbed but that Cinderella loved him anyway.
Plus, she rescued him, and then she rescued herself. What's not to love?
Paperback Hero was kinda cute. Romantic more than comedy, but cute.
While I have to confess that my first foray into Farscape dvds did not result in fanfection, the movie looks kinda fun.
It used to be that a gentleman never jilted a lady, period, end.
So in older movies, the gentleman hopes to annoy the lady so much that she will jilt him. This provides the romantic tension when he's in love with lady A but betrothed to lady B. See, for instance, Holiday, where Cary Grant is in love with Katherine Hepburn but betrothed to her bitchy older sister.
Man, I still need to see Holiday.
I need to see it too. I have a huge urge to see the entire jilting oeuvre, although I know most of it will make me scream.
Holiday. Sigh. Where's the friggin' DVD, I ask you?
It's not a true left-at-the-altar movie though, as Cary Grant and Bitchy Sister don't go as far as the wedding.
Now you're gonna get JZ all riled up about Holiday again, since it's one of her favorite movies and she can rhapsodize about it for a good five paragraphs without taking a breath.
I will simply opine (for the fifth time at least) that Kate/Cary totally trumps Kate/Spencer.
I will simply opine (for the fifth time at least) that Kate/Cary totally trumps Kate/Spencer.
Maybe there's a Kate/Spencer movie that can come close to either Holiday or The Philadelphia Story. If so, I haven't seen it.