You know what I’ve always wandered why When Harry Met Sally doesn’t work for me (I always though I’m just too superficial to buy Billy Crystal as a Leading Man); and I also often wonder why I love Moonstruck so much and it makes a lot of sense that it’s because WHMS is very mean (specially in comparison with other romances!) so thank you for helping me in this realization (and fir making this post free <3)
I do love When Harry Met Sally and I am generally a defender of "mean" romances as an art form. Just as I get older, the relationship is not nearly as aspirational in real life. I do have a major crush on Bruno Kirby though--that mustache!
My theatrical Twilight experience was memorable in a different way. I was getting so impatient the second half of the movie with every face close-up shot, because my friend gave me her free “small” soda I didn’t think I would get through. I had read the books, I don’t know what I thought I would miss by stepping out briefly for the restroom.
“Nobody’s a villain in the movie; everyone’s a person.” I’ve never felt more alive than when I left a recent screening of Moonstruck - it was exhilarating! I love your point about how the movie would be less romantic if we spent more time with the main romance. John Mahoney walking Olympia Dukakis home was my favorite scene this last viewing.
You know what I’ve always wandered why When Harry Met Sally doesn’t work for me (I always though I’m just too superficial to buy Billy Crystal as a Leading Man); and I also often wonder why I love Moonstruck so much and it makes a lot of sense that it’s because WHMS is very mean (specially in comparison with other romances!) so thank you for helping me in this realization (and fir making this post free <3)
I do love When Harry Met Sally and I am generally a defender of "mean" romances as an art form. Just as I get older, the relationship is not nearly as aspirational in real life. I do have a major crush on Bruno Kirby though--that mustache!
My theatrical Twilight experience was memorable in a different way. I was getting so impatient the second half of the movie with every face close-up shot, because my friend gave me her free “small” soda I didn’t think I would get through. I had read the books, I don’t know what I thought I would miss by stepping out briefly for the restroom.
“Nobody’s a villain in the movie; everyone’s a person.” I’ve never felt more alive than when I left a recent screening of Moonstruck - it was exhilarating! I love your point about how the movie would be less romantic if we spent more time with the main romance. John Mahoney walking Olympia Dukakis home was my favorite scene this last viewing.
I’m so excited for the Balogh episode!
The one thing I regret not mentioning during the Balogh episode is how she incomprehensibly has a heroine named Jude Law.