Here are some romantic “pairings” I thought of today:
“Love & Sex” and “Love, Actually“
a.k.a., the Love Roller Coaster Collection.
“Say it! Say, ‘I love you, horseface!’” (Love & Sex)
It’s a nice twist on the classic romantic dramedy, and from the moment Jon Favreau steals Famke Jannsen away from the momma’s boy, I knew this movie was a winner. Far too many male leads are “nice guys” and it was cool to see a guy who actually had balls playing a romantic lead. How many times can we watch Tom Hanks emasculate himself just to score with Meg Ryan? Once? Twice? Stick to war movies, Tom! Your days of dressing up as a girl are over!
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The dialogue I wish they’d used for this scene:
“This is for the skanky chick in your office, I presume?”
Rowan Atkinson’s steals the one scene he’s in, but the all-star ensemble in “Love, Actually” and the multi-threaded story line was supremely sappy, but fulfilling and sort of cool. It also has a wonderful scene that implies British accents make American women horny, to the tune of a foursome. Or so we are led to believe.
Oh, and I’ve been a fan of Rowan Atkinson ever since I got hooked on “The Black Adder.”
“Remains of the Day” and “The English Patient“
a.k.a., a cure for insomnia!
Seriously dude, just frickin’ ask her out before you get too old to something about it. This movie is like watching Red in “Shawshank Redemption” wrestle with life on the outside — you want to just grab Anthony Hopkins and tell him “Get busy! No, really, just get busy with the girl or get busy dying!”
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Movie synopsis: I was a Nazi sympathizer and stole my best friend’s girl (even though she was in Prince’s “Under the Cherry Moon“), but did I really deserve to be burnt to a crisp?”
That said, the secondary story with the minesweeper and the nurse is pretty delicious.
More to come as I think of them…