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This would be what motivated me to make a LJ post: please name your top 10 romantic comedies, friends. Define "romantic comedy" however you see fit. (That sentence makes it sound like I want you to go indie or weird -- I don't, I just want to know your favorites. If your favorites are "You've Got Mail" and "Love Actually", that's what you should

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haha idk I always feel like lj entries have time limits these days, like if you comment past the day it was posted the poster'll have moved on :( that's so sad! I started rereading last year (or the year before? omg has it been that long?) and I thought I'd get through all of them but I got through TWO. absurd. part of it is I think I lost a bunch of the series when we moved when I was 16 and always hoped I would just find them buried somewhere so I never replaced my copies :( I took advantage of cyber monday sales though and FINALLY ordered the boxed set, I'm so excited! AND ANNE OF THE ISLAND IS MY FAVE, you should borrow it from a library and reread it anyways tbh. Do you have twitter or some place I can pick your brain about fave scenes or will you be around if I leave a comment here now and again?

YES it was great I'm so sad I went so long without watching it! The thing about Love Actually for me is 1) I watched it fairly late so it was SO heavily hyped up and 2) with movies that have a lot of different threads, I'm often bored by a lot of them so most of the movie is spent waiting for the ones I actually enjoy? I get the appeal of the movie though, it's just not my favorite

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LOL I'M THE OPPOSITE, I always feel like a lj post "expires" when someone posts again so now they like -- never expire, bc no one ever posts. But aw omg that sucks that you lost your original copies -- I love mine, my grandparents gave them to me :( I have all of them except Anne of the Island, which I had to replace bc it broke I read it so many times. I SHOULD TOTALLY GET IT FROM THE LIBRARY, that's such a good idea. I do have twitter but o m g how could I possibly talk about my favorite Anne of the Island scenes in 140 characters!?!?!? That's like. LJ/email stuff. I need the rambling space.

I generally feel that way about movies with a lot of threads too so I don't know why it's different with Love Actually?? I guess it's that I like watching most of the storylines, which is pretty rare. But yeah that makes sense if you watched it late -- you'd probably heard so much about how it was the BEST. EVER. that you really expected that. I think I watched Love Actually the weekend it came out in theaters, with my friend and my MOM lol god that was awkward but we weren't old enough to see R stuff by ourselves (in retrospect I'm shocked she even agreed). It's funny how viewing experiences can completely change how much you like something?? Catherine and I were just talking about that yesterday.

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I'm probably just dumping my own tendency on everyone else, I post so rarely but when I do these days it's usually that meme where it's a continuous cycle of asking and answering questions, WHICH I LOVE!!, and I'm so excited about it the day I post it and maybe the day or two after, but if anyone comes in after that I start slipping. Usually it's because if I post on lj I make a note to block out time to actually respond to comments (or I post when I have nothing to do/am procrastinating) but any time after that school/life gets in the way and the comments accumulate and it becomes a task on my to do list, i.e. REMEMBER TO RESPOND TO THESE COMMENTS!! which I want to do and I tell myself I will do but which takes so much time + energy + thought to actually do?? and then I never do and I feel bad about it until the next time it happens. So I always feel like posts have a time limit BUT your way of doing it is so much better??? AND THAT IS VERY TRUE, LJ is 100% okay with me now that I know you actually check it!

I only have my original Anne of Green Gables and Rilla of Ingleside :( it's so cute that you got your set from your grandparents! I used to do the summer reading program at my library when I was a kid and they threw this party at the end of the summer for all the kids who completed the program where they gave us like, fruit juice and cookies and goody bags with books! So that's where I got Anne of Green Gables for the 1st time, and then I just read and collected the rest over time. I think they gave us Heidi and Pollyanna too and I'm just realizing I haven't reread either of those like, probably since the first time/have lost my copies of those also and am suddenly SO SAD, oh god.

oh my god, I totally forgot it was rated R?? but yes that's so true :( also like when you would probably enjoy something if it wasn't over hyped for you beforehand or if something you think you would enjoy has been ruined by negative associations to something else, that's the worst :(

but also now I'm thinking about how I watched titanic with my parents when I was like 4 or 5??? yet I can't even watch a kissing scene in front of my parents now, AT PRACTICALLY 21, what the hell. or flirting? OR ANYTHING VAGUELY INTIMATE. OR ANYTHING AT ALL.

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Thaaaaaaaaat makes sense. You do need to block off time to do that one, and after that block it's like... a chore.

AW. Well at least you have those!! But yeah I did. I guess they knew I loved the movies?? I bet that summer reading program was fun though. Did you watch the movies before or after you saw them?

Yup!!!! But I mean I think how you watch things also makes you love them more sometimes -- it goes both ways! Positives and negatives. LOL THAT YOU GOT TO SEE THAT WHEN YOU WERE 5, all I wanted when I was 7 was to see that movie (all my friends loved it!) but I was not allowed. Which was probably wise but v insulting at the time.

ok watching sexy stuff with parents is just always going to be awkward though. like... I could have kids of my own and it would still be awkward.

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THIS IS KINDA EMBARRASSING I GUESS BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN THE MOVIES!!! I was maybe 7??? when I got the 1st book and hadn't really heard of them before then, and when I found out (muuuch later) there were movies, I thought about watching them, but the books were so precious to me and adaptations are always difficult, they could be great or they could be terrible, and I had such specific pictures of Anne and Gilbert in my head (and Diana and Marilla and everyone) that I didn't know if I could get used to them??? BUT I'VE HEARD FROM EVERYONE SINCE THEN THAT THEY'RE GREAT AND I SHOULD WATCH THEM and I think I probably will once I finish my reread????? IDK

I think my parents took me to see it when it first came out?? My parents took me to movies all the time when I was little, like stuff they wanted to see. I remember one time I wanted to see the Jimmy Neutron movie but the next showing was at 11 which was too late so we saw A Beautiful Mind instead and I was really upset about it, I kept grumbling about how I REALLY wanted to see the Jimmy Neutron movie (.................... lol in hindsight I'm glad we didn't waste money on that) and my dad had to calmly explain to me that it was 3 hours til the next showing and I could watch it on TV in a few weeks and this was a better movie anyways, GOOD JOB APPEALING TO AN 8 YEAR OLD. but anyways I'm assuming they didn't know there were gonna be steamy scenes in there, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT ANYWAYS, I was like ooh what are they doing in there!!!! probably, plus my parents never paid attention to ratings. like they vaguely knew ratings were a thing and that R was "bad" and PG-13 was also "bad" and I "wasn't allowed" to watch those except they didn't really understand what the labels meant other than that they were ...somehow bad

SEE THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT but I know so many people who watch soap operas and sexy movies (not like pornos but ykwim) etc with their moms?? And I'll never have that relationship with my mom, my mom comes into a room and sees anything remotely sexy or even vaguely APPROACHING sexy and she gives me THIS LOOK, please mom I KNOW YOU WATCH IT TOO. WE JUST CAN'T WATCH IT TOGETHER. and then I have friends who watch sex scenes with their moms and it's cool because that's how they are with their moms, I guess????

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The first movie is literally the most perfect book-to-film adaptation I have ever seen?? I feel like I might've said that to you before, because the fact that you're haven't watched them is giving me distant deja vu echoes of when we talked about Anne of Green Gables before. The second one is still excellent but not as faithful/kind of weird (but I'm sure you knew that!) and istg they completely made up the the third, it's ridiculous. But yeah I actually saw the movies first so I never had that problem??? I would recommend them??? But I would hope that it isn't another Love Actually for you?

Hahahaha I mean I guess that makes sense with an only child though?? If I had one single kid I'd probably wrap them up and just take them to the movies I wanted to see too. My parents, on the other hand, had such a brood that I wonder if they went to see grown-up movies like... ever.

One time when I was like, 16, I was watching Will & Grace with my sister (14) and my sister's (male) friend (15), who was visiting from Texas and staying with us, and my mom came in, stood there for a minute, and then pulled me into the next room. And then she said "Alexandra, are you wearing any clothes under that blanket?!?!" and like, I was totally wrapped in the blanket but I was FULLY CLOTHED, and when I showed her that she was like "YOU'RE WATCHING SEXUALLY CHARGED MATERIAL WITH A TEENAGE BOY!!!". I was super offended bc no self-respecting 16-year-old would hook up with a rando 15-year-old! But anyway. That's about my mom's + my relationship with sexually charged material. I'll never be like that with my mom.