The first 30 minutes of Joe v. Volcano is some of the most magical film-making I've ever seen.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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javachik - May 02, 2012 12:24:55 pm PDT #19699 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Scrappy - May 02, 2012 12:24:58 pm PDT #19700 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Bridget Jone's Diary
Shop Around the Corner (Original version--and once you get past the pen-pal premise)
Pat and Mike?
Fever Pitch (original Brit version)
High Fidelity
Steph L. - May 02, 2012 12:28:31 pm PDT #19701 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think American cultural myths/stories about romantic love and relationships are toxic and damaging.
Tim still -- after 6 years of dating -- feels bad, or regret, or something, because he didn't fall head over heels crazy in love with me right away. That drives me nuts. Like our relationship *now* is less valid because it didn't start out like some dumb movie?
FTR, *I* didn't fall head over heels crazy in love with him right away, either. I'm just not wired that way, and it doesn't bother me.
erikaj - May 02, 2012 12:33:13 pm PDT #19702 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod. It's Complicated(the people struck me as real-ish in that one) Catch and Release(apart from the hero banging the caterer in the bathroom thing turning into a meet-cute, that is)
Connie Neil - May 02, 2012 12:54:24 pm PDT #19703 of 30000
brillig
I wonder how many parents scolded their daughters for sighing over the romantic tales the bards told back in Medieval Europe.
IE, the unrealistic nature of romance stories is hardly new.
erikaj - May 02, 2012 12:59:15 pm PDT #19704 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
probably...although the fantasy itself was different then, anyway, right? Real Women Have Curves(friends fuck and part friends...Ana goes to college.)
erikaj - May 02, 2012 1:00:24 pm PDT #19705 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Dirty Dancing, till the big dance where All is Forgiven, of course.
Tom Scola - May 02, 2012 1:08:47 pm PDT #19706 of 30000
hwæt
Can anyone think of a well-done rom-com that skirts closely to what might actually happen in RL?
Sid & Nancy?
tommyrot - May 02, 2012 1:17:01 pm PDT #19707 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sid & Nancy?
Prick Up Your Ears?
Polter-Cow - May 02, 2012 1:24:39 pm PDT #19708 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!