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Happy Valentine’s Day, Movie- lovers!
Unlike Santa, I am incapable of light-speed and thus cannot make to each and every house to deliver bon-bons and smoooches. So instead, I open my heart to you, now you can see its gooey center, sample its bittersweet core. As promised, below, a link to my appearance on KUOW during which I reveal my choice for three romantic comedies that do NOT suck. Feel free to disagree with my choices here… or, send me virtual valentines.
Be mine?
Warren
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February 16th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Wow, you liked Out Of Sight? That’s one of my favorite movies of all time… every time I mention it to people they always say either: A. it sucked (because of J-Lo), or: B. it was boring. (Actually, most people choose: C. what are you talking about?)
I don’t get it. I also thought Ms. Lopez did a spot-on, great job. So many people stubbornly refuse to see that (likely based on her other, perhaps lesser, performances) even when I’m forcing them to watch it. Oh well.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
In the Great Gibbie’s bizzarro universe:
The winner for BEST Romantic Comedy OF ALL TIME is… the envelope please (insert suspenseful drumroll) — “Back to the Future III” !!! (1990)
Starring Christopher Lloyd as Professor McNutty, Mary Steenburgen as Schoolmarm McHottie, Micheal J. Fox as Marty McFly (also Seamus McFly), and Tom Wilson as ‘Mad Dog’ McBully. This movie has everything a bonafide Romantic Comedy needs to warm the heartstrings and leave one felling all warm and cozy inside. Gibbie highly recommends it for your Valentine’s Day viewing pleasure.
Now, many folks will be likely to argue the Back to the Future trilogy solidly belongs in the Science Fiction genre, and not the Romantic Comedy catagory, to which I must retort: “My friend, you’re not thinking four dimensionally!” In this new millennium, where anything is possible now that a black man is President of the United States of America, any attempt to pigeon-hole a movie into a single catagory is terribly limited. We must think outside of the box here, people!
What with The Curious Case of Benjaman Button being a top theatrical favorite, the catagory of Science Fiction Romantic Comedy surely must be recoginized by the Academy Awards. Take The Butterfly Effect, please… but I digress.
(Cue the voice of Mike Myers as Wayne Cambell from Wayne’s World)
WAYNE: “Grrrrrrrrowl! Mary Steenburgen as Schoolmarm Clara Clayton! Back in the wild west days, MILF stood for ‘Marms I’d like to Fuck!’ ”
GARTH: Hats off to Doc Emmett Brown for bagging a bodacious betty of yesteryear! SCORE!
WAYNE: I’d totally trash my DeLorean to hook up with a McHottie like her. YEAH! (High fives Garth)
WAYNE: I thought about calling her a SchMILF, but dismissed the thought as crossing that line of comic decorum that exists between us gentile funny-men and our Hebrew brethen. Imean, hey, Jerry Seinfeld totally trashed that dentist for converting to Judaism just so he could tell Jewish jokes. Plus, Madonna gets a lot of heat for going as kaballah on everyone. Also, the term SchMILF smacks way too much of Smurfdom for my liking.
GARTH: I really like how he rode off into the sunset with her on his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flying choo-choo train. That scene gave me some serious wood. SCHA – WING!