What Did You Rent Last Night?

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I can still rewatch You've Got Mail, though, and enjoy it. More for the side characters, their dialogue, and nostalgia for 90s era NYC. Plus, bookstores!
Runaway Bride just wasn't funny. Too many big name stars squeezed into small bit parts. Not much chemistry between Julia Roberys and Richard Gere. And so many cliches, stereotypes, and a really annoying plotline!

[Ladybug]

Apr 11, 2005 22:21:31 GMT -4 @stargirl said:

I can still rewatch You've Got Mail, though, and enjoy it. More for the side characters, their dialogue, and nostalgia for 90s era NYC. Plus, bookstores!

Definitely! I still watch and enjoy it, Kathleen's adorable apartment, the little bookstore, and the UWS scenery, "he ran Spain," even that charmer Joe Fox. The character and plot would cause holy hell in the Twitterverse these days, though.

[scarlet]

Book stores!!

I still love “Notting Hill.” I'm just a girl, hitting play on a rom-com, telling it I love them. (Sorry!)

[magazinewhore]

Watched Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and it was very good. Viola and Chadwick will both get the Oscars.

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Hubs and I signed up for Disney+, and we watched Hamilton over the weekend.

Maybe it's just because it's been hyped up as the greatest musical ever in the history of musicals, but I thought it was...fine? Like, good for sure, I would even call it great, but I would also call other Broadway shows I've seen great too. Wicked was great. Book of Mormon was great. I don't know if I'd rank it above them, to be honest.

Then again, my opinion might be more favorable if the lead was played by someone who could sing. Lynn Manuel Miranda, I'm sure he's a visionary and an artistic genius, but a great singer he is not. He was painfully outmatched by everyone else on stage. They were Broadway caliber; with him, I feel like I've seen teenagers in local plays with better voices. It was distracting after a while.

King George was definitely the best character.

[laurenj]

We watched 21 Bridges the other day. It's hard to say what I would have thought of the movie if not for Chadwick Boseman's death, I spent most of the movie watching him marveling at the fact that he did so much so close to his death. And also that he just looks so damn young.

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Rewatching an oldie, The Music Man, for the first time in years, and while it's enjoyable and fun with great music and choreography, for some reason it really bugs me that Marian, the elderly spinster librarian (so, I assume she is supposed to be around 30 or so?) has a very much younger brother who must be over 20 years younger. Especially since the widowed mother seems like she is well into her 50s.
I don't know why it's bugging me, but it seems so improbable. Never struck me as odd when I was a kid, but watching it as an adult, all I can think is that the obvious explanation is a baby out of wedlock and the mom is really the grandma😆

[ladytrentham]

I just figured the middle Paroo siblings were lost to childhood diseases or something.

[divasahm]

Dec 23, 2020 13:04:38 GMT -4 ladytrentham said:

I just figured the middle Paroo siblings were lost to childhood diseases or something.

My grandmother loved the score from this show, and when I was a very little girl, I asked her why the little brother and big sister were so far apart in age--she told me that in the early part of the 20th century, we didn't have vaccines for diseases yet, and as a result, many died of the flu, measles, mumps, pneumonia, polio, and other diseases that those vaccines have made much, much more scarce today. She also told me that by the time I was her age (which is approaching like a runaway mine train) there would be many new diseases, and many more vaccines, developed more quickly, that would require more research and knowledge than we had at the time.

[ElleCee]

I just watched Dashing in December it's a Paramount Christmas movie similar to the Hallmark type. This had gay leads and the actors are actually gay, it also had diverse characters with storylines! Andie McDowell played the mother of one of the characters and was a producer. It was so good, so sweet and with really wonderful characters everywhere. I loved it.