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June 8, 2007
Top 5 Shows/Movies that have lied to you about love.*
* now with correct link...
You ever get this idea in your head about how things are "supposed to be" and then sadly realize you saw it in a movie? Every once in a while this happens to me, and today I thought I'd start placing the blame for these over-romantic, irrational, unreasonable thoughts in my head. In no particular order, here are the offenders.
1) Love Story
"Love means never having to say you're sorry" I've never ever seen this movie, but have heard its cliché spewed about in books and magazine articles. This quote is so widely known, it was voted number 13 in the Top 100 Movie Quotes of all Time. It's a good thing there were numerous reponses to this, personally, I agree with Lisa Simpson, who said "No, it doesn't!"
Seriously, who believes this? Love is not ESP, nor does it automatically produce empaths. If you're sorry, say it.
2) Sex and the City.
I'm going to get flack for this, but let me put it to you straight. That guy, the one you have been with on and off for years, who never offered anything substantial regardless of how much you asked... you know the guy? Good. Listen... he is not going to find you in Paris and rescue you away from the person you went there with. It's just not going to happen.
3) Pretty Woman
As wonderful as love can be, it will probably not be enough to make a multi-billionaire forget that you are a whore he picked up on Hollywood Boulevard.
I know this is more about sex than love, but doesn't one usually lead to the other?
Although Mickey Rourkey was certain smoking hot back in those days, was he really hot enough to withstand getting schtuped in a sewer? Nine 1/2 Weeks is guilty of showing you hot, steamy sex scenes that cause you to go home and try them, and be unbelievably dissapointed. It just doesn't work the same way at home, boys and girls.
This blog post has been hijacked by a higher calling. Forget my silly lists and continue on with something import. Go Save Veronica Mars
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Posted by lysa at June 8, 2007 9:10 AM
Comments
As usual, I agree with all points above. All I have to contribute is that last year I decided having never seen Love Story was a big gaping hole in my pop culture knowledge repository.
I saw it, and now I have a big gaping hole where my "give a movie the benefit of the doubt" repository used to be, because this movie sucked that repository dry. It. Is. Dreadful. Words do not convey how bad this movie is. I could do a whole blogpost on how bad that movie is. I don't know what they were smoking in 1970, but it must have been truly potent stuff for that flick to have been as popular as it was.
Posted by: average blogger at June 8, 2007 4:53 PM
Damnit.. I wanted to hear #5.
Though I am thinking of using the line from #1. Next time I fuck up and J tells me that i should apologize... Yeah.. Right there Baby..HAHAHHAHAHA
Posted by: scottie at June 8, 2007 6:04 PM
Flack you were after and flack you shall receive! If I don't have the "Monsouir John appears and makes absolutely everything okay" scenario to believe in then what's left? "As you wish"!?
*DEEP SIGH*
We may not ever agree on movies or love, but I'll be sending a shipment of Mars bars today, nonetheless.
Posted by: Kbee at June 11, 2007 11:23 AM
This is funny stuff! I finally got motivated today to find some new funny websites to read in which I came across thefakenews.com --> that guys blog --> he had your link in his blog. Glad I found it.
Cyrus
http://blog.uible.com
Posted by: Cyrus at June 13, 2007 5:04 PM