He wasn’t the only one. Elvis spanks a teenage girl in Blue Hawaii (she even says something like “nobody ever cared enough for me to do that”). I remember thinking it was sooo odd (and kinky) when I saw the movie, especially since I knew a little about his real-life fetishes.
Who also nabbed Paulette Goddard. What exactly did that penguin have?
Who’s this Betty? Bogart had four wives: Helen Menken, Mary Philips, May Methot, and Lauren Bacall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart
Re: Oldboy
Voyager falls into this category too.
Lauren Bacall’s real first name was Betty.
French Kiss- Kevin Kline plays such a total sleazebag, that I can’t see Meg falling for him. Besides, he’s a* smoker,* and she’s not.
[Penguin] Faugh! Curses! Foiled! Waugh-waugh-waugh-waugh! [/Penguin]
I second, or erm…twenty-second (or whatever it is) Pretty Woman. I didn’t see it in the theater because it sounded absurd, then when I finally saw it on video the whole time I was thinking–this is absurd! I was equally disturbed that women thought it was so romantic, too…dude, he BOUGHT her. What kind of quality guy is HE?? Ick.
Other than that, pretty much ANY movie where the male romantic lead is nearing double the age of the female that interests him. This is an instant turnoff for me and I won’t see a movie that has it. Granted, I hate romantic films anyway (generally speaking), but when the guy is ohh…Steve Martin, and the girl is, ohh…Claire Danes…? Ewwwwwwwwww.
That’s ironic because in real life he’s a non-smoker and she chain smokes.
What I loved was that he paid her $3,000 (her price) to stay with him for a week, escort him places and have sex with him, and she gets furious because he makes her feel like a prostitute. Also I loved that the hotel manager told her to “come back anytime”- uh, yeah… 5 star hotel managers love to have hooker patrons who can’t use silverware, as long as they’re pretty.
When the movie was big there was a great SNL parody of its trailer with Mike Myers called “Opposites Attract”. I can’t remember the exact script, but the voiceover was something to the effect of “He was on the Harvard Yachting Team, she has hepatitis and hears voices, but Opposites Attract!” There was a scene in a restaurant where the waiter asks “Do you like lobster, madame?” and she responds “I don’t know… I’ve only had crabs” and Myers’ character smiles and laughs as the theme music starts again. One of their better efforts of the time.
I was more than a little disturbed by the romance in V for Vendetta. maybe not so much disturbed as pissed off, but there was definitely a disturbing element to it, for me… probably because I have read the graphic novel, and the fact that there is some question as to him being her father made it, in my mind, thoroughly disgusting that they should have any sort of romance.
Actually my sister decided in high school that Taming of the Shrew and 1984 were companion pieces.
:mad: :dubious: What’s wrong with that, thou vile ephebophilophobe?!
Absolutely. Ew. But of course, the opposite is just fine. Like the 79 year old Maude (Ruth Gordon) with 18-19-20? year old Harold (Bud Cort) in Harold and Maude.
I know, double standards are a bitch, but I love that movie.
As for V for Vendetta, well the whole movie is pretty disturbing on a number of levels (I liked it a lot, though). Regarding nevermore’s concern, I think it’s pretty clear that this is not the case (according to quotes attributed to Alan Moore on the subject), and it’s not like they…
…do anything physical besides a chaste (there’s a friggin mask in the way) kiss and a profession of love which, arguably, could be seen as more spiritual than romantic.
But, ya know, to each his/her own.
arguably. and though I really, really wanted to read it that way, the explicit “I fell in love with you, Evey” really fucked all for me.
and I know that he WASN’T her father, but the thought crossed her mind more than once (in the comic), various parallels were drawn, and so forth, thereby it should have obliterated the possibility of romance in her mind, as it did in mine. granted, the movie and the graphic novel were different universes… but I can’t rightly separate the two in my mind enough to allow for it.
The way I read it in the movie (but not the comic) was that V may have orchestrated all the recent tragedies in her life, not just the one we knew about, and that he’s a colossal, narcissistic dick. But it’s okay because the bad guys were a lot worse.
yikes, Krokodil, that’s a pretty big spoiler. you might consider asking a mod to edit that for you.
also, I didn’t read it that way at all. but this really isn’t the thread for that discussion, so if you’ll post your reasons for that interpretation in the V for Vendetta thread I know is floating around her somewhere, I’ll respond there.
Mods, my apologies for the above. I should not have included the word “vile” . . . or at least included a winking smiley . . . I hope Ruffian does not take seriously an “insult” I had to coin a new word to get across.
But this issue touches a nerve with me. This old man/younger woman “ick factor” is something I’ve never been able to understand. Might start a GD thread on it. Or would IMHO be more appropriate?
Ick…gotta say, the “ew” factor is pretty high for me on that one, too.
I’m equal opportunity on the whole massive age (20+ years) difference thing. Ick. It’s just that in Hollywood, it seems there are about 10 movies–if not more–of (much) older male/younger female romances for every one film with an older female/younger male.
Gotta say though, one of my favorite films of the last 5 years or so is Lost in Translation. It had the potential of turning me off if Scarlett Johannson/Bill Murray hooked up, but it did a brilliant job of displaying more of the intricacies of their relationship. They were painfully lonely and lost, and though the tension was there, the fact they never acted on it showed they were a bit more aware of their circumstances (age, marriage, time in life, etc.) than what we see in typical Hollywood schlock.
FTR, the flick with Steve Martin and Claire Danes (Shop Girl) supposedly takes a more realistic perspective of their May/December romance. Both characters are aware of the difference, which adds to their characters’ dimensions and believability. But when Richard Gere and Winona Ryder just blindly hook up without someone saying, “Hey, she was in diapers when you bought your first house,” it just is odd and icky to me. YMMV.
I gotta add another–this isn’t the movie, but the play version of My Fair Lady. It just might be the version I saw, but I was slack-jawed stunned when the BIG moment Henry Higgins confesses his love for Eliza, or something, his “touching” words to her are, “Fetch me my slippers.”
Waaaahhhh…??? I remember turning to my equally-aghast friend, who then said, “GET A COCKER SPANIEL!” Probably the oddest end to a romance movie/play I’ve ever seen.
Lone Star Star crossed lovers finding out they are half siblings, and deciding to continue their relationship because she can’t have anymore children! Eww.