Love Actually
Sep. 22nd, 2004 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmI loathe romantic comedies. But for whatever reason I got Love Actually in from Netflix and finally watched it after it glaring at me from atop the stereo for a week. And I bawled my eyes out. Granted, I am menstruating.
Some of it sucked. Some of it was much better than it had any right to be. There were weird loose ends, conflicting styles, misplaced emphasis and certain unfortunate patterns (I remember when this came out and everyone I knew sort of freaked out about class and status issues in it, and I do get what they are seeing, but I think mostly they are seeing it as Americans and as Americans we deal with class and class humour differently -- so yeah, it was weird in places, but I think not so much as we think, maybe?)
But oh I just cried and cried.
It's like, that freaky looking little kid is sprinting through the airport, and it's beautiful in the fucked up way that Gattaca was porn for the age of AIDS. This was like porn for the age of bogus useless security and a world we finally noticed was scary.
Oh cry cry cry.
And the other DVD sitting in the house... Maurice, which I've seen, but even so, I think I'll wait a day to abuse myself with that.
Some of it sucked. Some of it was much better than it had any right to be. There were weird loose ends, conflicting styles, misplaced emphasis and certain unfortunate patterns (I remember when this came out and everyone I knew sort of freaked out about class and status issues in it, and I do get what they are seeing, but I think mostly they are seeing it as Americans and as Americans we deal with class and class humour differently -- so yeah, it was weird in places, but I think not so much as we think, maybe?)
But oh I just cried and cried.
It's like, that freaky looking little kid is sprinting through the airport, and it's beautiful in the fucked up way that Gattaca was porn for the age of AIDS. This was like porn for the age of bogus useless security and a world we finally noticed was scary.
Oh cry cry cry.
And the other DVD sitting in the house... Maurice, which I've seen, but even so, I think I'll wait a day to abuse myself with that.
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Date: 2004-09-22 09:53 pm (UTC)The people at Netflix must be wondering why they ship things to you and then almost immediately ship them to me. :P
Also, there's a quote in Idoru by William Gibson that made me think of you, but the book's downstairs. I'll fetch it tomorrow.
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Date: 2004-09-23 04:27 am (UTC)I actually liked "Love, Actually", actually. :)
My wifey is the romantic-comedy afficionado. I have no stomach for them. Whenever I see the male lead and the female lead, who despise each other, get into some sort of conflict where they're forced to work together, I have to stifle myself from turning to my wifey and gasping sarcastically: "Oh my STARS!! Do you think they'll eventually get TOGETHER in the end!?!?"
But then almost all of my favorite movies involve swords and dismemberment. Although romantic comedies are cliched and predictable, they've got nothing on action/fantasy/sci-fi.
I'm such a MALE. ;)