Love Actually

“Does it make me metrosexual if I think the last 1/2 hour of the movie Love Actually is heartswelling?”

“I love that movie. It's a good one. Besides for the heartswelling moments, I love the porn stand-in scenes. They cracked me up!”

“Those are great. and they just keep chattering on about traffic and other nonsense LOL”

“I hate to say it but it is a good movie. They manage to get you to like the characters in such a short space of time.”

“yep, i liked it a lot too.

and I'm not afraid to admit it!”

“Geez, I'd think you guys would have enough pride not to admit that a chick-flick affected you.

You don't see me running around telling everyone that I liked Steel Magnolias do you?”

“I confident enough in my own sexuality to enjoy chick flicks ;op”

“homo”

“I have to admit, Love Actually is one of my favorite movies. I mean, Martine McCutcheon, Kiera Knightly, how can it be bad? And all the stories in one movie. Of course I liked Notting Hill too, does that make me less of a man???”

“"Of course I liked Notting Hill too, does that make me less of a man???"

squirrelbait
11:42:49 AM
6/01/05

Only when you admit it.”

“Bison just must not be confident enough in his manlyness to admit that he really feels the same.

:)”

“Hey, I like men who are in touch with their inner feelings, LOL!”

“I like women who let me touch their inner feelings.”

“great, now to make up for Bison's opinion I'll have to kick the cat when I get home.....”

“hey, nothing wrong with knocking some #&%!$ about.
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“I think that's a little extreme squirrelbait, how 'bout you just watch the entire Terminator series in one sitting, that should pump your testosterone level back up.”

“Years ago I went on a date to the movie "Lady in Red." Yes, it had the song in it. When it played, my date started crying. It had "special meaning" for him. His eyes were still watering an hour later.

FYI, while it's said the "sensitive guy" is popular with women, that is TOO sensitive for ME!! lol”

“So crying didn't get him any? hmmm, scratch that plan”

“yeah, that's a little too sensitive there lizs.
I think the only reason I'd have cried is if I was forced to listen to that #&%!$ing song.”

“LOL, I knew that might help all mankind. There is "sensitive" and then there is "much too much sensitive."”

“I admit I am a sap, but my tear ducts seemed to be broken for the last 20 years or so until I read "The Lovely Bones". I bawled like a baby all through that book; it was embaressing”

“what is that about hy?”

“about 300 pages”

“Sebold's first novel after her memoir, Lucky is a small but far from minor miracle. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace. The novel begins swiftly. In the second sentence, Sebold's narrator, Susie Salmon, announces, "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Susie is taking a shortcut through a cornfield when a neighbor lures her to his hideaway. The description of the crime is chilling, but never vulgar, and Sebold maintains this delicate balance between homely and horrid as she depicts the progress of grief for Susie's family and friends. She captures the odd alliances forged and the relationships ruined: the shattered father who buries his sadness trying to gather evidence, the mother who escapes "her ruined heart, in merciful adultery." At the same time, Sebold brings to life an entire suburban community, from the mortician's son to the handsome biker dropout who quietly helps investigate Susie's murder. Much as this novel is about "the lovely bones" growing around Susie's absence, it is also full of suspense and written in lithe, resilient prose that by itself delights. Sebold's most dazzling stroke, among many bold ones, is to narrate the story from Susie's heaven (a place where wishing is having), providing the warmth of a first-person narration and the freedom of an omniscient one. It might be this that gives Sebold's novel its special flavor, for in Susie's every observation and memory of the smell of skunk or the touch of spider webs is the reminder that life is sweet and funny and surprising.”

“I watched the first part and then the last part on cable a while back. Never did see all of it, but I enjoyed the parts I saw.
Plenty of female eye candy in this one.”

“I think teh reason that novel got to me while so many other "sad story" books never even scratched the surface is that it did go after my feeling in the normal way of pointing out the tragedy and saying now isn't that just tragic. The story is told by a chracter that is completely and emotionally removed from the tragedy that happened to her, but who speaks with both an otherworldly understanding and a 14 year old's innocence. It just snuck in under my radar. I was reading along and didn't realize how much empathy I was feeling until something that the father did that I would probably have done too just wrecked me.

When I finally started reading again, that page was soaked with my tears. I hope the librarian understands.”

“SS, it was the rock star that really made the movie though. God was he funny.”

“Oh and to futher clarify about the "sensitive" guy. He was crying over some past girlfriend. Not cool to cry... and then keep on crying... and crying... and crying... over EX gf. Nope, not cool at all for current gf.

:-)”

“I love that movie. I rarely buy dvd's, but that's one I have. I also have the soundtrack. Love love it!”

“Yea hyway, he was very good in that role.
Funny actor.”

“What a #&%!$wit lizs. Do we know this guy?”

“Team America rocks, especially the sex scenes.....”

“hyway, you are evil. ;-)
Now I have that stupid song the 'rock star' was recording stuck in my head.”

“If it goes to Number one on TT you will have to sing it in the nude at the next TT event”

“you know a movie is good if Hugh Grant is actually tolerable!

i loved that "Lovely Bones" book too, made me cry like a baby. does that make me less of a man??”

“I loved that book Hyway! I cried too....:)”

“lyra & embear - Sissies! ;-)”

“You girls should be forced to watch The Dirty Dozen. That movie will make you cry, too.”

“Y2... nope, you don't know that guy. Now if someone wants to pine over me... well, that is waaaaaaaaaaaay cool, however.

LOL”

“Any Lee Marvin movie is a guaranteed tearjerker.
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“Brian's Song”

“Gardens of Stone, Ol Yeller, Ladder 49, We were Soldiers (Bigtime, real men can weep like babies at this one, especially vets)”

“We Were Soldiers is the best of the vietnam movies.”

“Only two recent war movies I have seen have gotten it "right" We were soldiers and blackhawk down. Both of those movies were done from a soldiers standpoint and really captured the essence of what it is like for a soldier in combat.”

“One of the theories propounded in Love Actually is that if you are a foreigner somewhere, you should use your accent to your advantage. Remember the dude who can't get a date in the UK, but scores big in Milwaukee? A friend of mine did the reverse. He is American but was working in the UK. One night while in England he was sitting at the bar when an English woman walked up to the bar to get a drink. He said something to her, and her reply, rather #&%!$ily, was, "You talk funny." And the rest is history. They are now engaged and will be married soon. Love Actually is their favorite movie.”

“That just proves, Ruby, that here in WI, we have lots of babes....”

“"Remember the dude who can't get a date in the UK, but scores big in Milwaukee?"

Ruby
5:23:35 PM
6/01/05

What are you talking about? Y2 lives in DC not Milwaukee...”