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Sense And Sensibility Her Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (to inspire visuals) Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby (not the dry original with Mia Farrow/Robert Redford) Crazy Stupid Love
I'd avoid:
Love Actually (some people love it, but not me - too clichéd and had me groaning even though I'll concede some scenes are pretty good)
There you are. Now you're going to be stuck in a darkened room with a box of tissues and they'll be sending out a search party for you.
Oh no! Just earlier I was saying how much I disliked this one. Boring and over the top visuals with very little in the way of a story.
Glenn, I was pleasantly surprised because I disliked the original so much and didn't expect anything of the remake, and of course Baz always makes things look so hyper real (your version of 'over the top' - think The Red Curtain Trilogy of films) but if you read some of the screenplays they're quite inspiring in terms of teaching you how to write filmically - jmh.
Yep, Luhrmann is all about the extravagant. I don't mind that at all if the story is strong but I felt that's where it was lacking. I quite liked Moulin Rouge and Romeo & Juliet. Hated Australia though!
Being sort of dyslexic, I read this as Blue Velvet...
I have a serious question here. As a person who only watches darker fare and despises rom-coms and even worse, sad romantic dramas, I can't understand why anyone would want to watch them. I'm not stupid, I know a lot of people, mainly women, love them, but why do you love them? Why on earth would anyone want to cry? Laugh, I can see, but cry? I don't get it.
Being sort of dyslexic, I read this as Blue Velvet...
I have a serious question here. As a person who only watches darker fare and despises rom-coms and even worse, sad romantic dramas, I can't understand why anyone would want to watch them. I'm not stupid, I know a lot of people, mainly women, love them, but why do you love them? Why on earth would anyone want to cry? Laugh, I can see, but cry? I don't get it.
Don't let some of the guy's fool you. They cry as well (well, some of them do, not all).
Imh, it's the same parallel of why you enjoy being scared on a roller-coaster or watching a horror movie - just a different gene I guess. You experience the emotion vicariously through the character. With romantic films you relate, with horror you can experience terror and scare yourself stupid but be safe. Perhaps you don't have the tear-jerk factor in your DNA, Pia. Nothing wrong with that.
I love all the dark stuff - Blue Velvet, True Romance are two of my favs, but I also love a good weepy.
I hate it when they overdo the saccharine that'll ruin it for me. Richard Curtis is a terrific writer but 'Love Actually' nearly sent me around the bend.
I'd say I'm in the camp of around 80% dark stuff to 20% the other way.
Being sort of dyslexic, I read this as Blue Velvet...
I have a serious question here. As a person who only watches darker fare and despises rom-coms and even worse, sad romantic dramas, I can't understand why anyone would want to watch them. I'm not stupid, I know a lot of people, mainly women, love them, but why do you love them? Why on earth would anyone want to cry? Laugh, I can see, but cry? I don't get it.
I don't like sad ones, personally. I love rom/coms though. I avoid sad movies. Some people say they like a "good cry". I have enough stress and heartache in my life that I don't meed any more.
To me, crying is for tragic events and funerals. I can't imagine wanting to pay for it the experience.
Some people have asked me how I can like horrors and dark stuff, but I live with a "comedian". I hear jokes and laugh heartily every day. I just need relief from it, comic that is, every now and then.
To me, crying is for tragic events and funerals. I can't imagine wanting to pay for it the experience.
Some people have asked me how I can like horrors and dark stuff, but I live with a "comedian". I hear jokes and laugh heartily every day. I just need relief from it, comic that is, every now and then.
Yeah...I think it's about what balances out your life.