I think guy-jilting-woman is actually much more interesting
Yep.
You know, my big sister could really beat the crap out of her. I mean, really really.
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beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:28:49 pm PDT #3049 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:29:36 pm PDT #3050 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was surprised by the end of Forces Of Nature, actually, because I thought that the carefree woman wasn't neurotic enough to not be the right one.
I do hate the carefree-woman-liberates-stuffy-man genre even more than the jilting one.
flea - Aug 25, 2004 4:30:10 pm PDT #3051 of 10001
information libertarian
Does John Cusack jilt the brunette who's not Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity, or does she get fed up with him and call it all off?
Also, how could ita forget a John Cusack-jilting?
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:31:45 pm PDT #3052 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does John Cusack jilt the brunette who's not Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity, or does she get fed up with him and call it all off?
I was thinking about that! I just remember it not happening, but also recall that they came to the decision together.
Extra points are given for altar-jilting. It's the ur-jilt.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:33:12 pm PDT #3053 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I do hate the carefree-woman-liberates-stuffy-man genre even more than the jilting one.
Jumpin' Jehosephat! Me too.
Drew Barrymore MUST sign a document in blood that she agrees never to play that role again. Ever.
I hate that genre with the same firey passion as the you've been abused so you have an excuse for being a serial killer, rapist, fill in the miscreant. Makes. My. Teeth. Itch.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:35:32 pm PDT #3054 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Despite massive JohnC-love, Serendipity made me want to stick something sharp and hot in my eye.
Even the stellar "This one's climbin' the charts." line could not save it for me.
I have absolutely no recollection of the ending. I must have been banging my head on the seatback at the time.
eta: And I'm a maniac for Jeremy Piven. Cupid was my favorite tv show of all eternity. Even he could not save it for me.
Betsy HP - Aug 25, 2004 4:36:16 pm PDT #3055 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I do hate the carefree-woman-liberates-stuffy-man genre even more than the jilting one.
My least favorite is Crazy Person Is Saner Than The Rest Of Us. (With the subsection of Magical Retarded Person ditto ditto ditto.)
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:36:41 pm PDT #3056 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked Serendipity -- I felt that the protagonists didn't go through with their weddings for reasons, although provocked by, eventually unrelated to each other.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 4:39:47 pm PDT #3057 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Magical Retarded Person
See previous comments about Forrest Gump.
::insert strangling noise here::
Off to the 10 o'clock play group with the pooch. Night all!
Betsy HP - Aug 25, 2004 4:41:01 pm PDT #3058 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Being There made me long for Peter Sellers to watch his own decapitation. Like that, bucko!