Note to Self

[snurri]

This is absolutely the last time you stay up late watching "Four Weddings and a Funeral" as the melancholy which ensues is really quite unhealthy.

Also, Andie MacDowell just never gets any less annoying.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

You could just watch the first 5 minutes and avoid both the melancholy and the Andie MacDowell.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Too late!

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Go back and just watch the bit where they're all late to the wedding! Nothing clears the emotional palette quite like a nice round of rapid-fire cursing.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Ah, but this is E!, not DVD.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Ah, too bad. Is there any James Bond on tonight?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Didja miss the part where I was already up late? I had to go to sleep!

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Times zones confuse me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

It's really fun, though, to say "Is it raining? I didunt notice" in a vacant, toneless, airy, braindead voice. Handy on all kinds of occasions and I never get tired of doing it.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

WORST LINE EVER.

[snale.livejournal.com]

Also, Andie MacDowell just never gets any less annoying.

There's this trend of throwing a random American into an otherwise all-Brit cast... and the American ends up being deeply annoying every time. Honestly.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Or is it that they choose the deeply annoying Americans to represent us? Perhaps it is in fact just a reflection of how the Brits think of us.

[snale.livejournal.com]

:) I guess that wouldn't surprise me too much. Nor could I really blame them.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Really, Andie MacDowell would be annoying no matter who she's in a movie with. Personally, I loath her hair(?) commercials, she's that annoying.

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

She is SO annoying.
I liked her in Sex Lies and Videotape, and not anytime since.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I think part of the reason the movie makes me so sad is that he chooses her over Kristin Scott Thomas. That just proves that there is no justice.

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

Admittedly I've only seen it once, so my memory's fuzzy on it, but the thing I found very annoying is that the fact he finds her so irresistible seems so imposed; it's not organic at all. It's so clearly an assignment -- Hugh, go be in love with Andy -- and while he does his best there just doesn't seem to be anything there. It seemed to me to be this blatant flattery of Americans -- we're so irresistible and unconventional that handsome English men are always going to fall in love with us.

Michael Palin's American Friends did it much better.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I wish I had only seen it once. I didn't even like it the first time I saw it. Now it's like this periodic guilty pleasure/ordeal I put myself through.

I've not seen "American Friends," and Netflix fails me. Dammit.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

To be fair, she was charmingly weird and funny(!) in Hudson Hawk, which nobody ever saw except me, but somehow I managed to see it a bunch of times back in ye olde 20th century.

But yeah, other than that, and in SL&V where her blank blandness sort of worked for the character, I usually just wish they'd cast someone else.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I think she works in SL&V because EVERYONE in that movie is blank and bland.

I don't hate her quite as much in "Groundhog Day," but she's a bit like Julianne Moore in "The Big Lebowski"--the glaring flaw in an otherwise perfect film.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

Oh that's right, I'd forgotten she was in Groundhog Day. Okay, I'm going to give her a pass on that one; she was fine. Mainly because her role there was to be a focal point and catalyst for Bill Murray's growth, rather than her own full person. She was just the object of his interest. But she was believable as a likeable person, and made a perfectly adequate object, since we were all busy watching Murray anyway.

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about Grandhog Day too, and I did like that film.
I suppose it's all the cosmetic commercials that get me grouchy.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Personally, I get melancholy after watching it (or Sliding Doors) because there are no Scottish boys to read me poetry in my life. (I also get afflicted with a similar melancholy after watching Bend it Like Beckham when the sad lack of Irish boys in my life is revealed.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I never get melancholy after "Bend It Like Beckham." That movie makes me very happy.

Perhaps surprisingly, the reason I get melancholy after watching FWAAF is that the character I identify with most is Fiona.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Oh my god that's the best making-happy movie EVAR.

It's sort of a romantic comedy, isn't it?

See? My heart is only _mostly_ stone.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

It's BARELY a romantic comedy.

Nope, still heartless. :-P

[jonhansen.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, IMDb says MacDowell's role was supposed to originally be played by Jeanne Tripplehorn.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

That would have worked!

[jonhansen.livejournal.com]

Now all we need is an Amazon.AltEarth site to order the DVD from, and we're set.