I love the movie. I haven't watched it in years (husband has a mild dislike based totally on people telling him he looked like Harold when he was younger, and which he really needs to get over FOR MY SAKE), but used to watch it on an almost-daily basis.
Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?
Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
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P.M. Marc - Jan 23, 2005 2:39:58 pm PST #8363 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jesse - Jan 23, 2005 2:55:05 pm PST #8364 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, on a similar nit-picky note, in In Good Company, I was thrown off when his divorce went through immediately like that -- in New York, I'm pretty sure you have to be legally separated for a year first.
bon bon - Jan 23, 2005 5:27:28 pm PST #8365 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Jesse, you're right, for a divorce on regular grounds.
Jesse - Jan 23, 2005 6:03:55 pm PST #8366 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There was nothing unusual in the case of the movie, I don't think. Ah well. I can let it go.
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2005 6:57:22 pm PST #8367 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I also adore Harold and Maude, though I wonder if I might think it was too sentimental if I were to see it for the first time now. The accent thing never occurred to me, and I was totally willing to buy that they developed such a close relationship over such a short period of time.
Alibelle - Jan 23, 2005 7:15:30 pm PST #8368 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Jesse, if it really bothers you, maybe a year did pass. I mean, it takes some time to get a second mortgage, too, I'd imagine.
Volans - Jan 24, 2005 4:52:42 am PST #8369 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Ooo! Umbrellas of Cherbourg! Must remember to add that to DVD library.
We watched Secretary last night. I'd been avoiding it, being a little too strung-out for psychological stuff, but my husband swore on a stack of DVDs that it was a comedy. For proof, he pointed to a couple reviews on the DVD cover that say "This is one funny movie!"
It's not a comedy.
There were some funny moments, and some unintentionally funny moments (about the fifth or sixth water image we were both yelling "SYMBOL!" at the screen) and it has some student-film-type problems, but Maggie Gylenhaal (sp?) was tremendous.
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2005 5:00:09 am PST #8370 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Maggie Gylenhaal (sp?) was tremendous.
Gyllenhaal...I think. That is one hell of a last name to have to spell. And yeah, she was amazing in that movie. I must have missed the water symbolism, though. At least, it didn't jump out at me enough to yell, "SYMBOL!"
victor infante - Jan 24, 2005 5:07:09 am PST #8371 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Yep. "Gyllenhaal." It's funny, I'm on the advisory board of an arts organization which her father is on the board of directors for, although I've met neither of them. But every time I see that movie, I can't help but think that we're one degree of separation apart.
Lyra Jane - Jan 24, 2005 5:46:30 am PST #8372 of 10001
Up with the sun
I was totally willing to buy that they developed such a close relationship over such a short period of time
See, I had such a strong sense of time passing that, when they cut to Maude's birthday, I assumed a year had gone by since they met, she was turning 81, and they were already married. Threw me for a loop when it turned out she was 80.
I could probably have let the accent pass if the movie had spent more time developing Maude as a Holocaust survivor. It felt almost arbitrary as it was played -- like the screenwriters decided they wanted that element there, but didn't know what to do with it -- and the lack of an accent was one part of that.
It's a tremendously sweet movie, and I did like large parts of it. It just made the nitpick center in my brain very busy.