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[salixbabylon]

1. What happened to causette? Anyone?

2. Watched Down with Love. I think I am the only woman on earth who dislikes it when people start to sing and dance. Kind of an annoying movie, really. But hey - towel scene. I'm there.

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So I guess I should focus on controlling the external world. Stop underestimating me or else! ;)

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[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope she's OK. *frets*

Down with Love would have been a lot better with a different actress. Ewan did the smarmy thing so well and David Hyde Pierce was totally brilliant. Rene on the other hand, just annoyed me.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I totally agree - the male actors were great. The women were a little too good at being vapid and annoying. :P

[miladyhawke.livejournal.com]

Umm, no... though I usually love movies where they randomly start to sing and dance, 'Down with Love' made me want to strangle some of my favorite actors and the next several generations of their children. It was really a very horrid movie, which is why it flopped. ;)

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Heheheh. See, I don't remember it coming out at all, but that's not really saying much. Glad to know I wasn't the only one disappointed.

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[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I think you can change things - never give up! ;)

[andolinn.livejournal.com]

My husband's mother is in this amateur singing group and so all through his childhood he was dragged to her shows. Then we were both dragged to them. Finally, she stopped asking and we escaped. At first I thought it was because they weren't very good, but then I decided I hate the medium.

Musicals are just strange to me. Even when they're brilliantly done like Chicago, it's just incongruous when Richard Gere breaks into song.

So no, you're not the only woman...

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe. Yeah, I think I was "forced" to see too many musicals out of politeness. I like acting. I just don't like random busting into song and dance. :P

[heartofslash.livejournal.com]

I heart Down With Love completely. I went to see it with The Man in the Attic and we laughed our asses off through the whole thing (we both used to watch Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies when we were kids, and are big fans of culture kitsch) so I dragged the Dwarf to see it and he liked it too.

I think you have to be in or have a particular mindset to appreciate it, and it's a very strange, off-the-wall, kitschy sort of mindset, and you have to have a familiarity with the source material as well, so the audience is quite limited.

Ewan was fabulousy smarmy and David Hyde Pierce was great in the Tony Randall role. And Tony Randall was great too. I thought the female leads were okay (Sarah Paulson more, since Renee seems to carry and inherent ick factor)and I squeed out loud for the dry cleaner's wife, becaue she was played by the actress who played Fish's wife Bernice on Barney Miller! (totally dating myself with that reference...)

I didn't find the song-and-dance number at the end off-putting at all, since it followed the exact format a two-camera variety show of the era would have used. Before he was even up for the part, Ewan McGregor wandered up to Peyton read at a party and said "Hey, I hear you're doing Down With Love. You should do a musical number in it, man." And he said it again after he got the part, and they threw it all together at the end of filming and we loved it.

But then, we're a bunch of kitsch weirdos. Plus I'm ten years older than you, so I'm old enough to remember stuff like that on TV. Hell, I remember Liberace TV specials and the original Sonny and Cher Show. (S&C was much later than the Down With Love era, but it had the same feel.)

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is the unfamiliarity with that genre/era of film-making. I did love the witty banter and all the lovely innuendo and outright naughtiness...

But it totally lost me when she revealed herself and went on and on and on and fucking ON about all the things she knew would happen next. *retch*

I was totally into the movie until that scene - I do like the kitschy stuff, although it's true that I'm not that familiar with it.

And no, the actual song and dance number wasn't too bad - I'm exaggerating. It was nice that it was at the end of the movie, not random-bursting-into-song like in an actual musical. And I'm frankly even inconsistent with that - "Grease" is probably my favorite movie ever, followed closely by "The Wizard of Oz." So I do like some, but mostly ones from my childhood. :)

*smooches my weirdo*