MOVIES THAT RUINED MY LOVE LIFE
(in autobiographical order)
mary poppins
goonies
the empire strikes back
the empire strikes back
grease
dirty dancing
when harry met sally
breakfast at tiffany’s
reality bites
sliding doors
some kind of wonderful
a new kind of love
high fidelity
say anything
annie hall
serendipity
amelie
garden state
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
2046
some like it hot
walk the line
chungking express
pandora’s box
in the mood for love
la notte
pride and prejudice
la vie en rose
sex and the city
Hey again,
Caleb here. Just perusing your list of life-ruining movies and couldn’t help but notice that Mary Poppins is at the *expletive* top! What?! Are you kidding? What the heck did she ever do but be practically perfect in every way!? She’s a true model for women (and us half-women). Not to mention centaurs, elves, and dragons.
PS: I still lust you though. Hahaha!!I can’t afford a ring right now, but I can give you a temporary one from a cracker jack box. Uh oh, a few cracker jacks just fell into my naval. hahaha!!
PSS: You crazy, girl. But that’s why I’m in wicked like with you.
I had to laugh at this list since there are so many that I watched over and over again when I was single. Sliding Doors is a particular favorite. The trick to translating movie love to real life is to recognize and fall in love with the good guys out there–It’s harder than you think.
Dear Anna,
Thanks so much for your comment! The problem I have with the list, is every now and then, I remember another one, and it just keeps growing. Thanks Netflix.
I agree that the key is recognizing real love and letting yourself fall when it does happen. There are a lot of truly good guys out there–they are my friends and friends’ boyfriends….but it IS hard to find and keep one, especially the older I get. And, it seems that with internet dating, and maybe things are just changing in general, but there is an ability to do a lot of “window shopping”, and not really needing to make a choice, and be with someone. At least that is the feeling I get from a lot of guys I’ve dated.
The other thing for me, is that I have actually had some pretty cinematic, dramatic, ultra-romantic things happen in my life. So, it does happen. The ending is what usually doesn’t translate to real life.
Anyway, glad to know you share the movie list!
Joanna
I don’t think this is an example of a movie ruining my life, but asked once by a friend to think of the movie which approximates my idea of “romance” I came up w/ Robert Bresson’s A Condemned Man Escapes, at the end when Fontaine, the prisoner escapes w/ the German boy – Fontaine has had to decide whether to kill the boy or trust the boy enough to incorporate him in the escape plan. In terms of Bresson films I think it’s one of the few wherein characters touch one another (in some of his other titles characters get hit – not the same thing). Let’s say it’s a template of a paradigm of some psychic disturbance. Or so.