Bad chick flicks
Mar. 4th, 2005 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieInspired by Katranna
OK, movie studios, listen up. I know you want my money. But just because I am a woman who likes moments of on-screen mush, doesn't mean I have the IQ of a rabid puppy.
Ahh, Kate and Leopold, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
1. Meg Ryan as a reason to ban inbreeding, falling for the great-etc-grandfather of her ex. Bringing "incest is best" to new levels.
2. Umm, yeah, you really want to give up your rights to vote and go back in time to a place where women had no voting rights, racism and classism were supreme, there were no social services, no antibiotics and people still died in childbirth, to spend time with a plastic nitwit who fancies he invented the elevator, years after it's been invented and in use and who dresses like he is his own great-great-father (or the footman) and with whom you have no chemistry.
Yeah, that screams true love. Either that, or it's my eyeballs being violently ripped out.
Screen masterpieces like Kate and Leopold are the reason that I spend money on movies starring people who dance around trees while lip-synching in Hindi.
Come on, how hard is it to make a watchable romcom?
Do they really expect anyone to like something like the Wedding Date or an eternity of movies staring J.Lo, Sandra Bullock or Ashley Judd (I think they should use those as an alternative to "intensive interrogation." Anyone would crack). Not to mention looking at those women being "cute" makes me feel the wiseness of King Herod's course should have been applied when they were in the cradle.
As of now, Quills is a better romcom than those, and that's a movie with Marquis de Sade, people having their tongue cut out, rape, and priests fantasicing about necrophilia.
OK, movie studios, listen up. I know you want my money. But just because I am a woman who likes moments of on-screen mush, doesn't mean I have the IQ of a rabid puppy.
Ahh, Kate and Leopold, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
1. Meg Ryan as a reason to ban inbreeding, falling for the great-etc-grandfather of her ex. Bringing "incest is best" to new levels.
2. Umm, yeah, you really want to give up your rights to vote and go back in time to a place where women had no voting rights, racism and classism were supreme, there were no social services, no antibiotics and people still died in childbirth, to spend time with a plastic nitwit who fancies he invented the elevator, years after it's been invented and in use and who dresses like he is his own great-great-father (or the footman) and with whom you have no chemistry.
Yeah, that screams true love. Either that, or it's my eyeballs being violently ripped out.
Screen masterpieces like Kate and Leopold are the reason that I spend money on movies starring people who dance around trees while lip-synching in Hindi.
Come on, how hard is it to make a watchable romcom?
Do they really expect anyone to like something like the Wedding Date or an eternity of movies staring J.Lo, Sandra Bullock or Ashley Judd (I think they should use those as an alternative to "intensive interrogation." Anyone would crack). Not to mention looking at those women being "cute" makes me feel the wiseness of King Herod's course should have been applied when they were in the cradle.
As of now, Quills is a better romcom than those, and that's a movie with Marquis de Sade, people having their tongue cut out, rape, and priests fantasicing about necrophilia.
