I always over Kristin Scott Thomas....
Posted on 04/22/2018 10:07:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Monday is St George's Day, which is England's national day. So I thought for this week's movie pick we'd choose something English - and in recent decades, cinema-wise, the dominant school of English film-making was essentially the work of one man: Richard Curtis. Emma Freud was a comrade of mine on Ned Sherrin's "Loose Ends" for many years, and she was also Richard's sweetheart (as she still is). So he used to come meet her after the show on Saturday mornings. And my memory of post-show tipples in the ghastly BBC pub afterwards is that he strongly disliked musicals - although maybe he just disliked me boring on about them, as there were a lot of them about back then. But he had a fascination with big-time romantic comedies, and one morning I remember saying to him that romantic comedy is the only film genre that counts: if you can't do that, you haven't got a motion picture industry. Which isn't true now when it's just Sequel Man flying around battling Captain Franchise to save CGI Girl. But it was more or less true then, and Richard Curtis wound up inventing a British version of romantic comedy that, for a while, was every bit as boffo as Sleepless in Seattle and the other Hollywood stuff.
It wasn't formulaic at first, although it got so, fast. In 2003 my opening sentence ran thus:
Love Actually is crap actually.
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I always over Kristin Scott Thomas....
So four separate weddings, but one funeral for those poor suckers?
They’re dead, Jim.
Kinda my point.
Mark hasn't seen many movies lately if he thinks CGI Girl needs saving. It's pretty much the other way around.
Drugs.
Lack thereof.
While at home, she left her inhaler in one room, and had an asthma attack in another.
I go hot and cold about her. I think I appreciate her French roles more than her Anglo/American ones.
Sorry Mark. You are wrong.
The critics loved this movie, but I hated it so much that it made me stop trusting critics opinions. Besides pushing the idea that just being gay is being a hero, it insulted American women, implying that a woman was a slut because she was an American.
My husband and I saw this on our first date (blind) after successfully making it through dinner together. We were married 10 days later.
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