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Sep. 18th, 2005 11:02 pmSo, I'm sitting around, waiting for Rome to turn up on HBO On Demand because I didn't get to the TV till the episode had started. I'm flipping arond looking for something to half watch whilst working on my latest losing entry for the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
jackman_stills icon contest. Preferable is a movie I know already so I'm not rivited by the plot twists. I caught the last half hour or so of Crocidile Dundee - which has one of my favorite exchanges in any movie.
*Native pokes the captive men, speaks in his native language*
Other Native: No mate, we're just suppose to hold them.
Female Lead: What did he say?
Other Native: He asked if we were allowed to eat these men.
(Hey, I've never actually seen the movie through, but I've caught that line often enough to love it.)
Then ... I caught the last hour of Love Actually. Whee! A sappier, cornier, more cliched movie there never was. It's the kind of movie where the only things that aren't predictible are the things that most people would dismiss as too outlandish.
Highlights include ... The ending song. Hugh Grant falling head over heels for a girl who is often dismissed as "fat" or "chubby" and is no such thing ... Emma Thompson emoting to the newer recording of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" - and that whole scene ... Rowan Atkinson's stint as the salesman ... The school concert at the end ... Colin Firth's broken Protugese confession of love ... Watching Kiera Knightly's realization of the guy's feelings for her ... and his subsequent direct admission of love (I originally typed admittal, which I think would be a good word) ... Liam Neeson's direct acceptance of even possible gayness in his step-son ("How does she ... he ... feel about you?") ... And, as they would say in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "most of the rest of the book."
I know, I know, the movie is a sappy cheeseball, ut sometimes I like a good old fashioned sappy cheeseball. It's a very nice, light movie with very little thinking required. None at all, actually. Which makes it more fun to think about.
Off to see if Rome is on yet ...
I want my Naked Purefoy, dammit!!
jackman_stills icon contest. Preferable is a movie I know already so I'm not rivited by the plot twists. I caught the last half hour or so of Crocidile Dundee - which has one of my favorite exchanges in any movie.*Native pokes the captive men, speaks in his native language*
Other Native: No mate, we're just suppose to hold them.
Female Lead: What did he say?
Other Native: He asked if we were allowed to eat these men.
(Hey, I've never actually seen the movie through, but I've caught that line often enough to love it.)
Then ... I caught the last hour of Love Actually. Whee! A sappier, cornier, more cliched movie there never was. It's the kind of movie where the only things that aren't predictible are the things that most people would dismiss as too outlandish.
Highlights include ... The ending song. Hugh Grant falling head over heels for a girl who is often dismissed as "fat" or "chubby" and is no such thing ... Emma Thompson emoting to the newer recording of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" - and that whole scene ... Rowan Atkinson's stint as the salesman ... The school concert at the end ... Colin Firth's broken Protugese confession of love ... Watching Kiera Knightly's realization of the guy's feelings for her ... and his subsequent direct admission of love (I originally typed admittal, which I think would be a good word) ... Liam Neeson's direct acceptance of even possible gayness in his step-son ("How does she ... he ... feel about you?") ... And, as they would say in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "most of the rest of the book."
I know, I know, the movie is a sappy cheeseball, ut sometimes I like a good old fashioned sappy cheeseball. It's a very nice, light movie with very little thinking required. None at all, actually. Which makes it more fun to think about.
Off to see if Rome is on yet ...
I want my Naked Purefoy, dammit!!
