Love Story, a [bullshit] review.
There's a line on an episode of Gilmore Girls when Lorelai and Luke are in the diner, talking about her daughter and his nephew dating (GO LITERATI!) and Lorelai makes a comment about how she's done fighting against them and is just "hoping for the best" at this point.
Luke: Very romantic.
Lorelai: Says the man who yelled "Finally." at the end of Love Story.
Maybe I came into this movie with a predisposition because I've heard it's cheesy and I hate that, but it's always been described as a film that defined the chick flick, and I quite like chick flicks. Or at least I like good ones; there are some really terrible ones out there.
This definitely falls in the latter category.
I don't know what it was - maybe it was Ali MacGraw's annoying face (although she did have cute hipster glasses), or maybe it was just the terrible dialogue, which was very contrived and stilted half the time. Or maybe I just felt like it didn't have a cohesive storyline; it was just a bunch of scenes, some sort and some long, featuring romantic things a couple does. I mean the movie basically starts with them already in an awkward argument that just makes you feel like you missed the first three minutes.
And the end? I won't spoil, but there's this kind of "twist" that occurs in the last 30-40 minutes of the movie that just made me go, "WTF? Is this necessary?"
But I think what really pissed me off the most were two things:
1. BULLSHIT. How many fucking times did MacGraw's character have to use this word?!?!?! UGH. I'm so the last person to be complaining about curses, but this word was just so overused. The only acceptable curse that can be used excessively without annoyance is "fuck."
2. "Love means never having to say your sorry." EXCUSE ME? I'm sorry, but this is complete BULLSHIT, to steal from Jenny Cavilleri. Just because you love someone and someone loves you back (platonically or romantically), and you get into a large fight, I don't know about you, but I still expect an apology of sorts, an acknowledgment must be made of the situation that at least one of you was in the wrong. At least Oliver apologizes - I don't know what Jenny was thinking by denying it just so she can get out of apologizing for her actions o_O No me gusta.
Ugh, whatever. Never watching this movie again, but I'm glad I've seen it since it's kind of a big deal in our cinematic culture *le sigh*.
~MissGoalie
Luke: Very romantic.
Lorelai: Says the man who yelled "Finally." at the end of Love Story.
Maybe I came into this movie with a predisposition because I've heard it's cheesy and I hate that, but it's always been described as a film that defined the chick flick, and I quite like chick flicks. Or at least I like good ones; there are some really terrible ones out there.
This definitely falls in the latter category.
I don't know what it was - maybe it was Ali MacGraw's annoying face (although she did have cute hipster glasses), or maybe it was just the terrible dialogue, which was very contrived and stilted half the time. Or maybe I just felt like it didn't have a cohesive storyline; it was just a bunch of scenes, some sort and some long, featuring romantic things a couple does. I mean the movie basically starts with them already in an awkward argument that just makes you feel like you missed the first three minutes.
And the end? I won't spoil, but there's this kind of "twist" that occurs in the last 30-40 minutes of the movie that just made me go, "WTF? Is this necessary?"
But I think what really pissed me off the most were two things:
1. BULLSHIT. How many fucking times did MacGraw's character have to use this word?!?!?! UGH. I'm so the last person to be complaining about curses, but this word was just so overused. The only acceptable curse that can be used excessively without annoyance is "fuck."
2. "Love means never having to say your sorry." EXCUSE ME? I'm sorry, but this is complete BULLSHIT, to steal from Jenny Cavilleri. Just because you love someone and someone loves you back (platonically or romantically), and you get into a large fight, I don't know about you, but I still expect an apology of sorts, an acknowledgment must be made of the situation that at least one of you was in the wrong. At least Oliver apologizes - I don't know what Jenny was thinking by denying it just so she can get out of apologizing for her actions o_O No me gusta.
Ugh, whatever. Never watching this movie again, but I'm glad I've seen it since it's kind of a big deal in our cinematic culture *le sigh*.
~MissGoalie