Ms Blue Jay

Ok.

I agree, the movie is chock-ful of cliches and is totally problematic. I hate how Rachel's character has absolutely no agency and is (as women are ALWAYS in these types of male driven movies) engaged to a complete asshole with no agency or assertiveness to do something about her situation until a man rescues her. OF COURSE! And to add to your complaints, Jane Seymour's character is incredibly sexually aggressive towards Owen's, too! Forcing him to touch her?! However, it's always been one of my favourites. Vince and Owen, especially Vince, are hysterical. Vince's performance is one for the ages. I also like the DVD commentary where it's just the two of them bantering. As a comedy, if I could erase the bad parts (LOL) it's great. Will Ferrell at the end too. Off this topic, I just rewatched "It's Complicated". One of my favourites. I used to have minor complaints about this movie in 2009, but I've watched it almost once a year since then and basically, I love it. I love Nancy Meyers.

Greg Kinnear is the second-fiddle man in both You've Got Mail (to the real main love interest, Tom Hanks) and Sabrina (to the real main love interest, Harrison Ford). I was trying to make a case for Bill Pullman (Sleepless in Seattle) but he actually ends up getting the woman in While You Were Sleeping.

Ha, I think they just do that to make casting easy. It'd be hard to make a television show about how friendship really is, or perhaps less interesting. Six, or a number close to that, is attractive for these shows to attempt to make the number of women and men in the cast even. HIMYM, 70's Show, Friends, Community, etc. It's just the logistics of running a show.... I like how this show had 'extras' outside of the 'core' friend group, like Billy's character, Annie's character's husband, and Marianne's date. That's more realistic. For those who have watched all of it, I think it's funny that Although, I have witnessed that in real life. Is there really something so special about Keegan's character. Kind of funny to see such a neurotic, sort of wimpy guy be this apparent super-lover.

Many definitions of Millennials puts the oldest at around 33-35. So no. They're young Gen Xers. A great hint is that the entire soundtrack is 1990s built around their college experience. As one of our oldest Millennials, the soundtrack to my college experience was the 2000s. Being college age around 1990s = Gen Xers, Reality Bites, grunge, apathy, all that stuff. Like I said, I really enjoyed Annie Parisse in this, but what is with her voice? It distracted me soooo much in the early episodes. I thought she was doing a schtick. But it sounds like (unless she was sick) she has this naturally croaky, squeaky voice. Just thought I'd ask. I agree with you that Cobie is devastatingly beautiful and definitely more conventionally attractive than Annie. However, two things 1) I end up finding Annie's character a lot more appealing than Cobie's 2) I've watched many men in my day cheat on beautiful women with much less attractive ones. I've never seen looks being the factor in making a man stay. As for this particular situation,

I'll be there! I saw Rough Night recently. I really didn't like it. I have hopes that this one will be better..... although the premise is exactly the same.

I watched all 8. Meh. I liked the ACTORS; Keegan, Annie, Fred and Billy were my favourites. I loved Annie's clothing (forget her character's name). She was so glamourous. But the show itself is just a bunch of assholes. I can't reconcile it. I thought Keegan and Annie showed a lot of chemistry and I wish the show was just about them, having friends. Yes, I watched the entire thing, and I watched all of Glow, too, not really feeling like I even liked the show! They're just easy and addictive watches. It's like this new Netflix thing. I hate how Seinfeld is always thrown in as an example of a show with immoral characters. None of them remotely were adulterers. None of them did anything close to what the people on this show did. While Glow has a good 80's soundtrack, Friends from College has an incredible 90's one. Besides Kate McKinnon, these two actors have good cameos as well.

It was Carrie who did this, not Samantha. Never Samantha. Carrie did exactly this. Set up a meeting with Big's ex to meet her. Liza could have been assertive about the situation and said No. She's like 40 years old. I don't know if Kelsey is in any way Liza's superior but I've had superiors try to get me to drink more than I wanted to and there are so many ways to handle it besides what Liza did. I am sure a lot of us went through that job hunting hell..... right after graduating from University I went to a bunch of interviews where I was told I was either underqualified or overqualified. Most corporations / companies are a joke this way, they want "experience" for an entry level position. I went to so many nightmare interviews until I just sat in my car and cried. I have no idea how anyone gets positions at all. Most of mine I got because I knew someone and I was also not at all qualified for those positions. And so now I have "experience". That experience won't get me another job unless I know somebody at the company. Hiring is mostly bullshit.

I am extremely, extremely happy with the Emmy award nominations today. The Leftovers fans are upset, but I don't watch that show, so I can't comment. But for great POC actors like Sterling K. Brown, Tituss Burgess, Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, Samira Wiley, and on and on and on, it's great. So happy to see Atlanta and The Night Of and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Master of None so strongly acknowledged.

San Junipero staring Gugu was nominated for a few Emmys today!

You sound like me when I'm watching The Bachelorette.

Huh? Wow I find them so sexy. And I'd prefer it on women 20 or older. I love the look. Ha! I laugh at my own jokes all of the time..... It's something I find endearing about others, too. TOTO (To each their own?) (Just explained something.... oh dear)

I love these tv references so I need to ask what you mean by this! Please fill me in?

I personally hate when people add an S to franchise names when it makes no sense. Marshalls, that requires an S. KFC, you're not supposed to call it KFCs. LOL. But I know people who will talk like this. Whatever. I hate when people say 'literally' when it doesn't make sense for the sentence. Somebody on here took issue that I was using an abbreviation instead of the full word. Everyone has their pet peeves. I don't even know why I bring this up. Everyone has their deal breakers. None of these would be dealbreakers for me they're just annoying. I guess I'm just making conversation. I like how Eric was going to be on national television yet didn't care to change how he speaks. George Springer, a baseball player who was interviewed to international audiences for the All Star Game last night, has a stutter and said he was going to speak publicly anyway, to make kids feel more comfortable being themselves. It melted my heart! Obviously, Eric doesn't have an impediment, I just find it interesting that so many people have an issue with how he speaks. I don't really care about that because it's so superficial, not a dealbreaker to me personally. But everyone is different. To me he seemed real, very authentically himself. Like Bryan doesn't seem real. Dean seems real, even if that is nervously laughing and making jokes to not talk about real issues. He's not putting manipulative sentences in place of what he's being asked to talk about. He's just trying to avoid it for the time being and on international television. I wonder if Rachel pushed Dean to go deeper because she actually wanted it, or because the show forced her. Oh god it was so awkward. They do not seem like a match at all. But if I was on the show I'd want Dean , hell yeah! LOL! Next week he's going to show vulnerability and I know I'll fall for him even harder. I personally did not find Adam attractive whatsoever (superficial, yes, but I definitely did not) but I think Matt was kind of cute. And for me, there was no getting over Adam's dummy. Just like I guess other people are not going to get over Eric's speaking patterns.

Doesn't have to be a white director though. Could be someone like Mira Nair.

I'm happy to hear that.

Why is AJ, indeed! I believe that "AJ" is Adam Junior, aka Adam's ventriloquist dummy, aka many posters' favourite character on this show. Dean is so hot. He's probably too young to be the new Bachelor, but I'm going to miss him when he's off my screen. He should be an actor.

Rachel herself says "fill" instead of "Feel". I guess that's an accent thing (She's from Dallas?). I always notice it. They're only 2 of the most beautiful guys I've seen on this show. Peter is not really my thing but just seeing the way women react to him, I am impressed. Now Dean? Has one of the most beautiful faces I've ever seen. People probably think Dean seems so young, and I admit, he really does. But honestly, Peter seems so old. He's probably way younger than me but his grey hair and his stilted, old man way of talking. LOL. But no hate. He seems like a sweetie pie. I just can't feel anything through the screen.

I almost forgot about the speech where Dean shaded Bryan. It was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny.

Same question... Of course nothing I want on Amazon seems to be discounted.

Melkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Did I claim that they weren't? Yeah, you are definitely not following me. A man is at the helm of this romantic comedy (A man directed and another man co-wrote and starred) and it's getting 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. That is an extremely, extremely high score for ANY movie, and ESPECIALLY a romantic comedy, a genre that is often derided, and I pay attention to the scores that my favourite films get, so yeah, I notice it. Taking a bunch of romantic comedies that either starred, were directed by, or written by a woman, or a combination of all 3, these are the scores on Rotten Tomatoes. I took my personal favourites from since 2014. Sleeping With Other People - 63% Fifty Shades Darker - 10% The Other Woman - 24% Life Partners - 63% How to be Single - 47% Mother's Day - 7% When men are involved with romantic comedies, they are given better critical acclaim. Look at Woody Allen movies. When a movie stars a bunch of women, or is a romantic movie written or directed by a woman, it is looked upon worse by critics. Do you really not see that? I found one exception from recent years - Trainwreck at 85%. And yes, the director was a male obviously, Judd Apatow, and of course he'd support his own movie. (Same thing happened with Bridesmaids back in 2011.) My overarching point is that many critics are white and male and tend to see inherent quality in films directed or written or starring a bunch of men, regardless of genre, whereas romantic comedies (Women's movies, where women are the protagonist of the rom-com) or movies starring a bunch of women are often seen as garbage. Women's movies or movies seen to be about women's topics are often not respected. Looking at some of my favourite movies of the 21st century, Sex and the City is one of them. The Rotten Tomatoes score is 49%. Gee. I wonder why male critics didn't like this film? Looking at another romantic comedy from the exact same year, starring a man, from a male protagonist's point of view, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, why don't you go ahead and guess what the RT score is? It's 85%. There is a bias. I'm pointing it out. The bias exists. I think some critics out there are just waiting to hand prizes to men for "daring" to make a romantic comedy yet when women do it, critics probably think it's "easy".... The person who wrote and directed my favourite romantic comedy of all time, Amy Heckerling, has had quite a roller coaster of a career. If you are at all interested in the topic, you should read about her point of view. Her last romantic comedy starring Michelle Pfieffer was not released theatrically in the US and was sent direct to DVD. Against a 24 million dollar budget, it made 9.5 million back.

Failing upwards. Happens to a lot of white men in the biz, like super young white men who direct movies that fail or make zero money at the box office and then are offered big superhero movies or Jurassic World. Lexi Alexander tweets a lot about it. I watch a lot of comedy, so lately I've seen Jason Mantzoukas everywhere. Brooklyn 99, The House, Sleeping with Other People. He says he gets cast as Indian or Arab a lot, but he is "100% Greek". Good for him for his career, but it disappoints me in these white movies I'm watching, when I think I'm watching a person of colour being cast as the buddy, he actually isn't one (Brooklyn 99 is of course a VERY diverse show, so I don't mean that.) I just think it's interesting. Somebody who's career is doing amazingly well in comedy (he's obviously very well connected to Will Ferrell's production team) is of course, not an actual person of colour.......

I have to admit I kind of roll my eyes when the media goes nuts over The Big Sick. It's getting very good reviews. It's a romantic comedy, right? Or at least similar. Yet I feel like the same type of movie written , directed, or starring a woman would never get that critical acclaim. "Sleeping with Other People" was written and directed by a woman. I'm not sure what happened but it only made $3 million, for example. I'm sure The Big Sick is good, I just can't believe it's getting like 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. I would love this kind of support from insiders, the media, celebrities if it was a movie starring a bunch of women or with a female protagonist.

Yeah, Priyanka is a big big deal. I totally get why she had her opportunities in the US. Just read her Wikipedia or IMDB: "One of India's highest-paid and most popular celebrities". You're not going to see similar reading about Alex.