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The ramblings of an idiot.

All the opinions and views reflected here are personal.
emilieee: WALKING AND TALKING (1996) I have fallen in love with this cheeseball movie over the past few days, thanks to Meaghan letting me shamelessly overuse her Netflix account. (I say “past few days” because I am absolutely incapable of watching an entire movie in one sitting).  I started watching this because the copy on Netflix was so painfully true to my life that I laughed out loud: “ For the first time, their lives are taking different paths: Laura is in love and planning her wedding, while Amelia begins to despair that she’ll ever find the right man. But as they try to adjust their childhood friendship to the challenges of adulthood, these friends continue to laugh together at life and love.” I was having a bit of a self pity party, and this made me laugh to the point of snapping me out of it. I am not an asshole, see? Anyway, as a rule, I automatically like anything that takes place in New York in the summer, and for a movie like this to ALSO be dated enough to just reek of the 90s, well that is the Emilie ultimate movie setting trifecta right there. New York. Leaves on the trees. Early-to-mid 90s. But anyway, besides the setting, this movie had many pros for me: Catherine Keener, who just has the most endearing ESSENCE somehow, wears the same ill-fitting pair of cut-offs throughout. Anne Heche just Heches around in gigantic overalls. Their characters openly talk about farting, which to me is one of the most important things a lady can do as a feminist. Catherine Keener’s Amelia is obsessed with her cat. The geeky guy at the video store (played by Kevin Corrigan, whom I’ve never heard of before but apparently is on Fringe) is, like, THE ULTIMATE adorable hipster nerd. He might be “the ugly guy” in this movie but in Williamsburg of today he’d be killing it. Liev Schreiber’s character is addicted to pornography—but charmingly so! And last but certainly not least, Yo La Tengo’s “The Summer” is on the soundtrack. So, although it’s painfully corny at times, and Anne Heche is always just kind of creepy, I highly recommend this movie as a great rom-com to enjoy in bed while feeling a little sad and self-absorbed. And that’s pretty much the highest recommendation I can give to anything, as I am an expert in this area. And Kevin Corrigan was also the younger brother in the wheelchair in Goodfellas as well as the younger bro in the supremely underrated Grounded For Life.

emilieee:

WALKING AND TALKING (1996)

I have fallen in love with this cheeseball movie over the past few days, thanks to Meaghan letting me shamelessly overuse her Netflix account. (I say “past few days” because I am absolutely incapable of watching an entire movie in one sitting). 

I started watching this because the copy on Netflix was so painfully true to my life that I laughed out loud: “ For the first time, their lives are taking different paths: Laura is in love and planning her wedding, while Amelia begins to despair that she’ll ever find the right man. But as they try to adjust their childhood friendship to the challenges of adulthood, these friends continue to laugh together at life and love.” I was having a bit of a self pity party, and this made me laugh to the point of snapping me out of it. I am not an asshole, see?

Anyway, as a rule, I automatically like anything that takes place in New York in the summer, and for a movie like this to ALSO be dated enough to just reek of the 90s, well that is the Emilie ultimate movie setting trifecta right there. New York. Leaves on the trees. Early-to-mid 90s.

But anyway, besides the setting, this movie had many pros for me: Catherine Keener, who just has the most endearing ESSENCE somehow, wears the same ill-fitting pair of cut-offs throughout. Anne Heche just Heches around in gigantic overalls. Their characters openly talk about farting, which to me is one of the most important things a lady can do as a feminist. Catherine Keener’s Amelia is obsessed with her cat. The geeky guy at the video store (played by Kevin Corrigan, whom I’ve never heard of before but apparently is on Fringe) is, like, THE ULTIMATE adorable hipster nerd. He might be “the ugly guy” in this movie but in Williamsburg of today he’d be killing it. Liev Schreiber’s character is addicted to pornography—but charmingly so! And last but certainly not least, Yo La Tengo’s “The Summer” is on the soundtrack.

So, although it’s painfully corny at times, and Anne Heche is always just kind of creepy, I highly recommend this movie as a great rom-com to enjoy in bed while feeling a little sad and self-absorbed. And that’s pretty much the highest recommendation I can give to anything, as I am an expert in this area.

And Kevin Corrigan was also the younger brother in the wheelchair in Goodfellas as well as the younger bro in the supremely underrated Grounded For Life.