Have you seen He Loves Me…He Loves Me Not, the movie Audrey Tatou starred in the year after Amelie? That movie is sort of like how Amelie would actually be like in a realistic world.

I'm also reminded of the line in Annie Hall where Tony Roberts talks about how he's with 16-year-old twins. As a teenaged Woody Allen fan that stuff didn't faze me, but now that I'm in the age range as the adults in those movies…brrrr.

I like that one because it's one that shows a relationship developing out of genuine friendship, over time, instead of people just sort of being thrown together in wacky circumstances.

I am, actually! I guess I just believe that chasing the "they lived happily ever after" ideal is just as — if not more — prone to unhappiness as the "come what may" ending of a lot of these rom-coms. Long-term happiness is never guaranteed, since one constant of human nature is that we change over time, and our needs…

I liked Sex, Lies, but for me it was despite MacDowell. I guess her appeal just eludes me. I find her acting flat and (again, to my eyes) she has very little presence, range, or charisma.

Yeah, I don't think the film suggests that they have a long-term future at all, but he is obviously a much-needed comfort and support for her while her dad is in prison. Should they break up and leave her alone in her unhappiness, just because they probably won't be together 20 years later?

That seems to be the conventional reading of that movie, so when I finally saw it recently I was surprised by how off-base it is. Her deception isn't because Bullock's character is some kind of sociopath, it's more like she kind of gets swept up in the flurry of events and is too socially awkward to navigate out of…

I'll never understand how Andie MacDowell was ever a star. Her acting was just awful.

It's interesting that a lot of these relationships are judged according to their expected longevity (Say Anything, for instance). Because is that really the truest metric for a romantic life well lived? Looking back on my own life, I couldn't say that my most satisfying relationships, or the ones I look back on most…

They're just giving slow wits like me a chance to come up with snarky comments!

Fête the rich!

The cure for canceraids!

I would watch this solely for the battle bland-offs!

Film trilogies where each film was better than the previous one. Bourne? Toy Story? Man With No Name?

Maybe it's a trip featuring girls, sort of like "88 Lines About 44 Women."

Hot Taek: I don't bother resting Hot Staeks.

Ash Fuck

With a machete!

11 years = nearly 20 years?

Counting down to cocktail hour!