Thirty-six?!
Concur.
I believe it was “37? … Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot.”
I found Clerks to be a good reflection of those kinds of people at that time in their lives. (Urban, profane, broke, young).
I have to agree with Love Actually, Harry & Sally, High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine too. Love in different ways, but very relatable.
The two famed montages in “Up” pretty much sum up a real, living relationship of two people who love each other, and do it without much in the way of dialogue.
Absolutely.
My wife and I noticed the same thing. Good choice, says I.
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Oh yes. While watching this, after Ellie died, my husband looked at me with his eyes a little moist and said, with humor, but also complete sincerity “I’m so glad I’m going to die before you.”
Exactly. The Wife and I have a similar arrangement.
(It helps that all the women on her side of the family have lasted well into their nineties for four generations, and the of the men on my side only one has broken into his eighties.)
Frankie and Johnny. A film where a romantic scene is about them being comfortable enough to brush their teeth in front of each other. Much better than moonlight and roses.
It makes love look stronger than all the downfalls that beset them. I loathe Wall-E, but loved this film, especially this montage.
came in to offer that one!
I thought Donnie’s family from Donnie Darko were pretty convincing as 5 people who drove each other mad occasionally but nonetheless genuinely loved each other. I thought it made the movie much better that quirky misfit protagonist came from a family that did in fact like and care about him.
Just watched “Julie & Julia” and was rather impressed with the portrayals of those marriages.
I agree with Lost in translation partly because of my personal experience.
The whole feeling of not knowing what is going to happen, is very touching to me on a deep level.
On Golden Pond.
Regards,
Shodan
Actually, it was: “Thirty-six dicks?!…Including me?”
<mumbling> “Okay, thirty-seven.”
Entropy struck a chord with the kind of madly intense, ridiculously emotional, and probably doomed from the beginning relationships you get into in your early 20s.
High Fidelity; Lost in Translation; Eternal Sunshine; Love, Actually are all excellent examples, I think.
“Fargo”. The Gundersons are comfortable with each other; outsiders may see them as boring but amidst the mundane there are little gestures and private words which show a very real, solid love and respect for each other.
Similarly, how about Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The love shown between Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn was as real for the actors as the characters, and everyone knew that Tracy was dying.
Here’s a clip from the film.
Enjoy!
Males me choke up. And not because of the damn dementia or that Christopher Reeve died, either.
Please excuse the song at the end. I am sure it was meant well, but I wish it weren’t there. It spoils the theme which is called Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini
Quasi
A lot of fuss has been made by movie critics about the relationship between John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph in Away We Go, but it’s all deserved. I think the relationships that they witness are overly cartoonish for the most part, but Burt and Verona look so much like a real couple it’s amazing.
There was I guess more of an indie film out several years ago with Mark Rufallo and Laura Dern, about two college professor couples cheating with each other, & falling apart, I think at some location in the Northwest.
Sorry I’m blanking on the name. I found it to be a fairly accurate depiction of adult romantic relationships. Needless to say, scarier than any horror flick! :eek: