From: dars@joplin.biosci.arizona.edu (David AR. Sanders)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: ***Top-notch romantic movies?***
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:59:14 GMT
Distribution: usa, world
Organization: University of Arizona, Biotechnology, Tucson

In article <1993Jan25.162026.29116@netcom.com> altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.184331.6833@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dars@joplin.biosci.arizona.edu (David AR. Sanders) writes:
>
>"Here Comes the Groom" - Bing's character stands up his fiancee twice,
>then brings home two orphans, thus necessitating a wife.  He proceeds
>to screw up her marriage to someone else so that he can marry her.

Well, that's *your* rather depressing and critical evaluation of the movie,
I rather enjoyed it as being a light and humorous romantical comedy. Here's
a quick clue,  the characters were supposed to be outrageous, that's why
its called a comedy.

>"Holiday Inn" - Bing & Fred Astaire play dirty tricks on each other and their
>prospective mates, including having the women drive into a pond to keep
>one/both from being seen by a Hollywood agent.

Once again, read above notes. :-)

>I don't understand why movies where people are cads and play destructive
>games to get into what can't possibly be decent relationships are
>romantic.  I mentioned this previously when I talked about how most
>movies are (and were in the past) like this.
>
>Yeah, the musical numbers are lovely, but the lessons they teach - 
>bleech.
 Maybe not all movies are designed to teach the great and wonderful lesson.
 Let's see if we can sum up your evaluation of movies so far and how they
 are corrupting the values of all of us :
 
 Ladyhawke :  During daylight, she's a hawk and he's human, at night
 he's a wolf and she's human, and they're in love with each other.  This
 one is obviuosly a story about bestiality.... Very corrupting.
 
 Green Card : He's a lout and the plot's wat too obvious that they're going
 to fall in love.  Speaks for itself (BTW : In case you hadn't noticed,
 most movie love plots are fairly obvious how they will turn out... Something
 about happy endings ??)
 
 Princess Bride :  The characters are one-dimensional, people are popping
 pills which make them "alive" (obvious drug reference), woman gets
 fought over by two men, piracy, killing, mutants and a rather monotonous
 Spaniard.  All definitely bad role models.
 
 You failed to criticize Don't Tell Her Its Me.... Didn't see it ?? Allow
 me to fill you in.  Man pretends to be somebody else in order to win girl's
 heart, she finds out and rather than killing the poor schmuck, they eventually
 fall in love.  Teaches people to be different people in order to impress women.
 
 Let's see...... How about Casablanca : Bogie's playing all ends against each
 other in an attempt to keep making a good living, and maybe live happily
 ever after.. Doesn't work out.....Teaches kids to use whatever methods are at
 their disposal to get what they want.
 
 If I missed any important films, please let me know and I'll be glad to add
 to your hit list.


	Dave

	PS : I loved all the movies, with all their faults and deep disgusting
	messages that they were teaching me. ;-)