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Originally from Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London and then Leeds, England, I now live in Toronto, Canada. Oh and now back again. Anyway, you can take the woman out of Ireland but, you know the rest. Basically the stuff on here will be the same no matter where I am. Ramblings and rantings about stuff, some from Canada.Some of them really do say 'eh' ~~~~~ "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed"

Monday, February 11, 2008

Monday Movie Quiz...the return

Valentine's Day. I don't know your feelings for this day. I find it to be a troubling time.
Forced, ritualised displays of affection, where the pressure is on to supply or receive conspicuous bouquets or ridiculous balloon arrangements and public displays of affection.
And, of course it's then there are the "romantic" movies ... I'm not talking about actual romantic movies like Casablanca, Harold and Maude, Amelie, True Romance or even Shrek.
I mean movies that are either overrated or, in some cases, just plain creepy. Like Dirty Dancing, Maid in Manhattan or Along Came Polly.
Disagree, call me a cynical jerk, whatever.
Anyway all the quotes below are about all that gushy mushy stuff. Well sort of. If you are expecting hearts and flowers, you are on the wrong blog.

Name the film.

Update -some answers
1. I know better than to argue romance with a French woman.

2. We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

3. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. And til this day, the events that followed all still seems like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever.

4. You wanna know why? Cause you wanted to believe it. You wanted it all. All the romance and emotion, all wrapped up in a cute little nose and a cute little ass!

5. [voice over] random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

6. Jane divorced her husband. I never knew him, it was before I met her. Apparently she came home from work unexpectedly one morning and found him in bed with the milkman. Honest to God, the milkman ! But from that day forward I've noticed she never takes milk in her tea.

7. Equally important: will find nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workoholics, sexaholics, commitment-phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits, or perverts. cristin got - Bridget Jones's Diary

8. It would be nice to think that since I was 14, times have changed. Relationships have become more sophisticated. Females less cruel. Skins thicker. Instincts more developed. But there seems to be an element of that afternoon in everything that's happened to me since. All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one. Aunty got - High Fidelity

9. Wouldn't he? Lizzy, how can you put your faith in a man you spectacularly binned for being unreliable? A man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and an impenetrable fortress are the same thing? It's... This is a pub! We are in a pub! What are we going to do? Aunty got - Shaun of the Dead

10. Marriage license, did you say marriage license? Oh I love you Adam, Alex, Peter, Brian, whatever your name is.

11. I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.

12. Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.

13. A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

14. Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.

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3 Comments:

At Thu Feb 28, 05:08:00 p.m., Blogger Maire said...

8. High Fedelity
9. Shaun of the Dead

btw I trust you got to see Hot Fuzz in the end?

 
At Thu Mar 13, 05:42:00 p.m., Blogger Amanda said...

yeah I did aunty and loved it.

 
At Sun Mar 16, 10:56:00 a.m., Blogger Kathy said...

3. True Romance - always loved using the comment of White Boy Day with my ex.

13. Annie Hall--a college ex was called The Shark because of this bit of dialogue.

Taffy

 

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