What do you mean? White women are incapable of understanding that they live in a culture where they are valued over women with darker skin tones by men and society in general? And some could actually be disgusted and horrified by that? Any white woman in an interracial relationship would understand that people will…

I find this whole situation sad and unfortunate. Just the way it went down.

Oh we revoked those awhile ago. Stay woke

The “We Hate Movies” podcast has an episode about this where they posit that Dermot Mulroney’s character is a serial killer, among other things. It’s hilarious and I recommend it highly.

Hang on. Did you watch a different version of Sleepless in Seattle?

This and Notting Hill are my all time favorite rom-coms. Julia Roberts at her peak was really unbeatable.

Exactly. It’s a heightened, comedic version of that crisis a lot of people feel when they realize their life *isn’t* going to work out like a romantic comedy.

Pssh. Read any romance novel. Apparently everyone in fictionland has multiple post-grad degrees, great careers, and no debt by twenty-five.

PSA: Meg Ryan’s character was actually an unhinged woman from Baltimore, MD. She was a tourist in New York.

My kid self vaguely thought this too! Like a platonic BFF marriage or something? It made sense in my kid brain. They’re official best friends now, they need a commitment ceremony!

Did anyone else die a little bit inside realizing Julia Roberts’ character is only 27? Successful at 27! 27! Something else to cry about when watching this movie now....

Every time I watch this movie, I eye-roll at Dermot Mulroney’s Michael SO HARD. Yes, let’s demand the 20-year old from a wealthy family give up her career prospects because he’s feeling insecure about his own career in the face of the success of his soon-to-be father-in-law (and, let’s face it, the more technical…

Can we talk about how the Diaz/Mulroney relationship is fucked and they’ll most likely be getting a divorce 4 years on? He wants her to quit college so he can further his sport writing career, and she very much does not want to do this, and the movie never resolves it. Plus he turns into a total douche when she…

I watched this movie incessantly growing up (I still tell my sister “you’re never gonnaaa be jellooo”), but the gender politics are painfully retro (never mind the the hilarious plot point of breaking into a building to send an email as Walter, somehow without him knowing?) that it’s hard to enjoy it the way I used…

My mother, sister, and I still shout “KIMMY! KIMMY!” to one another in order to figure out which stall they maybe inside of in a public restroom. I come from obnoxious stock who cannot let go of a joke, so this makes sense.

I remember as a teen, not getting this. I was almost mad. How could the movie end without America’s Sweetheart getting the guy? I was so entrenched in my preconceived notion that Julia was the heroine that I was blind to how horrible she was on first viewing and was flabbergasted she didn’t end the movie with…

i think as a kid i assumed they were making her bff not gay at the end and he was going to marry jules?

I’ll always love the Wishin’ and Hopin’ song, and any scene with Rupert Everett. 

Someone needs to slap the black off of those couples. If you are American and you are Black you have no business fucking with no plantation as a wedding venue I don’t know what the hell is wrong with people? Would they go “hey let’s get married at a concentration camp!” I bet they wouldn’t. You don’t see people…

These sorts of mishaps likely wouldn’t happen if folks didn’t trivialize/fetishize/white wash everything antebellum culture represents.