chairs for sale...

A couple of weekends I watched a bunch of movies… born on the fourth of july, red dawn, phenomenon, and bridget jones – the edge of reason… good times… war movies and love stories…

My discussion of the war movies is as follows… wow… intense… as far as born on the fourth of july goes – I appreciate oliver stone’s ability to pull out the “hard stuff” and shed it in a new light – and in a different way… even though I don’t necessarily always like intense war-type dramas… (even though this one mostly focuses on “after the war”) it really made me think about stuff a lot differently than I had before… and I’ll drop it at that…

Okay – onto the love stories… could I linger on war movies long? No…

Okay – I’m a HUGE bridget jones fan… I loved the first movie… I can honestly see all the things that she does and think – that is me… (for the most part – there are definitely things that she does that I don’t do… mostly because of morality issues…) but the way she pretty much says the wrong thing at the wrong time a whole heck of a lot of the time… well, yeah, that’s pretty much me… and the way that she does dumb stuff – like getting herself into weird situations… well, yeah, that’s me, too…

So, I went to see the second one… I hadn’t really heard good things about it – but I thought… I love bridget jones… so I’ll definitely love it!!! And I did really like it… it was different than seeing the first one – probably for a couple of reasons… 1) I had already read the book, so I kind of already knew what was going to happen… 2) I was already expecting her to do a bunch of dumb stuff, so it kind of took the shock value out of it for me… however… I still laughed a whole lot and snorted several times… and even got teary eyed…

And… I still loved the story… here’s bridget dealing with the “perfect man” but she feels like she isn’t good enough… and there are some statements she makes that totally hit home… and it got me to thinking – I know there’s a mark darcy out there for me… in the sense of – there is someone that I’m going to embarrass trememdously on a very regular basis and who will probably have to bail me out of some sticky situations every now and then… poor guy…

She makes some statements – stupid imdb hasn’t put up all the great quotes, yet, so these aren’t exact…

She says something to mark about how she always embarrasses him in front of his friends and always says the wrong thing and that she’ll always be a little bit overweight… and I think the reason I identify so much with her character is that it feels a bit more real that the characters I’m subjected to when I choose to watch a dumb chick-flick…

I watched phenomenon twice in the theater when it came out and loved it… I have the soundtrack, even… but I don’t think I’ve seen it very much since then… but there is this great scene… terrific… after george has gone through a whole bunch of stuff and it’s close to the end… and the doctor is talking with some of the guys in the bar…and he sticks up for george – in talking about lace…
Doc: Banes... how's your lady love? Banes: We... um... we broke up.
Doc: Really? That's too bad, yeah. Now George has a love at his side and she is sticking with him. You know why? Because he bought her chairs. That's pretty smart to me. You ever buy Lisa's chairs?' Banes: Doc's real drunk tonight.
Doc: Every woman has her chair, something she needs to put herself into, Banes. You ever figure out what Lisa's chairs were and buy 'em?
I love that scene… it is probably my favorite scene from the movie? Why?

Because I have my own set of uncomfortable chairs… and it was like… he understands… he “gets” it… I don’t know what my chairs are… i doubt that in the movie she was really looking for someone to physically buy the chairs… but the analogy is beautiful… and that made me think, too… I don’t necessarily want to go into all of that, so I think I’m going to leave it there… but my word of advice to guys – if you like a girl, figure out what her chairs are and buy them – all of them… fill your house with them…:)