Me, too-ing "Just Friends" "How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days" I love this shit, and I kinda hate myself for it. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" "The Proposal" "Notting Hill"
Does Two Girls, One Cup count? I really liked Trainwreck. I thought it was funny and sweet. I also have a thing for chubby blonde chicks.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is ridiculously good. I'd put it more in line with a comedy drama than some sappy, poorly written, pandering romcom. It helps that it is f'n hilarious and well acted. Then the writers lay some real shit on you and inbetween dick jokes you're all, "Damn, that's truth." Mind blown. "He turned down a blow job from his ex-girlfriend, mid-blowjob. You know how hard that is for a man? It's called blue balls. He's like Gandhi. But better." It is down to Closer and The Fountain for my favorite non-comedy romances. Both of those make you want to swallow a tub of pills.
The scene where Ryan Renyolds puts on rental skates and plays pond hockey while trying to impress Amy Smart was funny. Rental skates are notoriously shit, not the best for showing off. Then he takes a slap shot trying to impress her and ends up nailing a 9 year old in the chest with the puck, good stuff.
I really like (500) Days of Summer and Fever Pitch. And these two are borderline by genre, but I'll also add The Spectacular Now and There's Something About Mary (my all time favorite comedy).
The break-up scene in Closer is soul-shattering. I can't stand Juila Roberts but that shit was REAL. Clive Owen got an Oscar nom because of that scene, it drives you up the wall with how personal it gets. An entire movie like that is Blue Valentine. I think it's one of the best movies of the decade but man it will make some viewers squirm.
"Dude, The Notebook is soooo gay!" That kid's scream is amazing too. He was funny in Girl Next Door as the porn addict friend, but Timothy Olyphant owned that movie. Completely.
It's been awhile since I saw it, but doesn't he do the slap shot and it bounces off the goal which nails him in the face.
Anyone want to talk about *the* anti-romance movie? Last Tango In Paris. Marlon Brando plays Marlon Brando having sex with a 22 year old, while just screwing with her head. It's a mess of a movie, but filled with gems, like using a stick of butter to lube her up before butt sex. It has no plot. I have no idea what the fuck is going on. The whole script is prompts of "Scene where Brando completely unravels and ad-libs for 10 minutes." Below is a scene where he's giving Maria Schneider a bath while insulting her. Then to prove - something - he lets her finger his ass dry, but during you get the best monologue I have ever heard, "Put your fingers up my ass, are you deaf? Go on. I'm gonna get a pig, and I'm going to have the pig fuck you. And I want the pig to vomit in your face, then I want you to swallow the vomit. You gonna do that for me? I want the pig to die while you're fucking. Then you have to go behind 'em, and you have to smell the dying farts of the pig. You gonna do all that for me?" Log in, NSFW.
Ow, we want the funk Give up the funk Ow, we need the funk We gotta have that funk Spoiler: I don't think this is what they had in mind I sometimes buy cards just because I'm drunk and amused. This is one of those cards. C'mon....dude's name is Frank Funk. How awesome is that?
I've bought and sold cards for about 40 years, so I've sold off my collection multiple times. Most of that time I've concentrated on 50's-early 70's cards, occasionally straying into newer stuff. That being said, much of my collection got stolen when I left Mississippi and then I sold off most of the rest when the market started to go bust. About a year ago I started building another collection because the market is down, but it's slowly coming back and there are good deals available if you keep your eye out. At the moment, I have about 500 PSA graded 53-57 Topps, about 300 '58-'75, and maybe 1000 ungraded cards from the 50's & '60's. Most valuable card? I have no idea. To be honest, I'm not even sure what I have at any given moment. I buy them, go "Cool!", and stick them away. If you're a curious, here's a link to the PSA set registry of my 57's, which also links to the other sets I registered with PSA cards: http://www.psacard.com/PSASetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=195738&ac=1
I just realized something. I've been wondering where all this nonsense you guys post comes from, because the blogs I follow and the people I know in real life who do this kind of social justice stuff never even talk about this kind of idiocy, let alone endorse it. Then it hit me - the common factor is that all of these decisions are made either at college or by college students. And college students are by and large really fucking dumb, and dumb in that annoying way where they think they're so much smarter than everyone else. Since the aforementioned people I follow or know are all past college and live in the real world, it all makes sense why this stupidity nevers comes up.