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Channel surfed around this evening to find something to watch while we ate my pad thai . . . lit upon Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, great case of fascination of the abomination there. I watched just enough to assure myself that Roger Ebert’s review was spot on, and enough to remind myself how much I hated that book. Then channel surfed across the cable and got torn between two movies I really love: Groundhog Day and Clueless. Clueless won, but only because Alicia Silverstone is so adorable.
And once I start watching, I have to watch to the end. I’m that way about rom-coms more than anything else. I have to see Alicia hook up with Paul Rudd, or Bill Murray with Andie McDowell, or Gene Wilder with Teri Garr (what, you didn’t know Young Frankenstein was a romantic comedy?) I’m that way with Grosse Pointe Blank, too, and I don’t even care that much for Minnie Driver. But you gotta love John Cusack’s blood-soaked proposal at the end.
How about you — what movies do you love so much you’ll watch them over and over, no matter how many times you’ve seen them before?
Listening to Pandora right now . . . Uncanny how well it reads my likes.
D.
Gladiator. 🙂
Hunt for Red October. 🙂
I’m not one for Rom-Coms. They make me dissarisfied with my life.
They’re pure escapism. Of course life isn’t like that 😉
I’ll second Gladiator. I haven’t seen Red October, though.
Currently I’ve been rewatching and still loving The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Alfred Hitchcock Movies, Sabrina (both versions), Big, Gone with the Wind, Zoolander, Bogart & Bacall Movies, (sheepishly) Reese Witherspoon movies, and the list goes on so I’ll spare you.
I couldn’t watch ‘Lovely Bones’. But I have two young-teen daughters and can imagine the grief, rage, and pain only too well.
I tried, the girls watched it, but I just couldn’t watch it. Couldn’t take it.
HEY! I hated that book too. I loathed it passionately. I don’t have the attention span for movies these days. Have you watched Terriers?
Dean: yeah, I have zero tolerance for things like that. Violence towards children, ugh. The movie handled it a bit better than the book; the beginning of the book was, I thought, gratuitous in the way it reveled in the crime.
Kate, I’ve watched Terriers, and Chihuahuas, and Great Danes, and the occasional Shih Tzu —
What, is it a movie or something?
Television show. Not the best writing ever, but the lead characters are scruffy and slightly skeevy when it comes to the morals. That’s such a nice change from standard tv fare.