Thursday Movie Picks: Meet Cute
1) La La Land
Mia and Sebastian have a bad run in at the club, but their official meeting at a garden party where Mia makes his band play I Ran is about as cute as it gets.
2) 5 to 7
Brian and Arielle have an adorably awkward first meeting while smoking cigarettes and begin an affair that can only last between 5 and 7 pm. Did I mention Arielle's husband has a mistress too? This is a great film, and I highly recommend. Especially if you're an Anton Yelchin fan.
3) (500) Days of Summer
This isn't about how Tom meets Summer, but how he meets his likely eventual girlfriend. In the lobby at a job interview that they're both competing for, and she has the ironic name of Autumn.
Well, I didn’t know the meaning behind this...hahahaaaa. I just went with cute but I think my picks would still fit. I have only seen La La Land and their meeting would make it cute. Maybe, one day, I will see 500 Days of Summer but it just sounds too ooshy wooshy for me.
ReplyDeletelol I had to look it up so no judgement here. 500 days isn't very romantic, it's kind of the opposite of it. It's really interesting.
DeleteWe share 500 Days of Summer! And damn, I can't believe I didn't think of La La Land myself. I adore that movie.
ReplyDeleteI'm always happy to see 500 Days love.
DeleteI love that scene in La La Land so much! <3
ReplyDeleteI do too!
DeleteI was so disappointed in La La Land. It had been praised to the skies before I saw it and I found it exceedingly average.
ReplyDeleteI liked JGL in 500 Days of Summer but I can't abide that Deschanel girl so it isn't something I'll ever watch again.
I'm unfamiliar with 5 to 7 but it sounds interesting.
I decided to do a theme within the theme as a tribute to one of the queens of romantic comedy-Doris Day.
Pillow Talk (1959)-Ultrachic interior designer Jan Morrow (Doris) and wolfish songwriter Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) battle over their shared party line without ever meeting. One night when Jan is enduring a bad unwanted date with a client’s drunken son at a nightclub Brad sees her dancing. Instantly attracted and knowing he’s poison to her if she hears his name he pretends to be Texas rancher Rex Stetson. Laying on the charm and aw shucks naiveté he sweeps Jan off her feet soon falling for her himself but when Jan’s other beau (and friend of Brad’s) Jonathan (Tony Randall) discovers the deception he hurries to let Jan know she’s being taken for a ride. Complications ensue but true love eventually wins the day.
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)-Jennifer Nelson’s (Doris) father Axel (Arthur Godfrey) runs a tourist boat with a glass bottom off Catalina Island and to help business Jennifer swims underneath dressed as a mermaid complete with tale. One day Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor) hooks her fin and they bicker until he returns her costume. Later she discovers he’s her new boss at her day job in a research lab, tensions and sparks continue to fly.
Lucky Me (1954)-Candy Williams (Doris) is a member of a cash strapped traveling vaudeville troupe stranded in Miami who are forced to work at a hotel when their leader Hap (Phil Silvers) tries to scam the place out of a lavish meal for them. Staying at the hotel is Broadway producer Dick Carson (Robert Cummings) working on his new show. The superstitious Candy goes for a walk one morning and in trying to avoid a black cat crossing her path jumps to the side causing Dick to smash his car into a wall while she walks on blithely unawares. Dick takes the car to a garage and the mechanic loans him the garage’s jalopy while he works on the car. Heading back to the hotel he again espies Candy now jumping along the sidewalk to avoid cracks and distracted he runs into a fire hydrant. Candy apologizes and takes him for a mechanic, he plays along which eventually leads to complications before love and Broadway success for all wraps things up.
La La Land was massively overhyped. I liked it, but I thought I was going to fall in love with it based on all the TIFF hype and I just didn't. I rewatched it not too long ago and it held up better than I remembered at least.
DeleteI haven't seen any of your picks this week, but I'm familiar with the first one by title anyways.
If you see any of the three make it Pillow Talk. It's fluffy and puffy and silly but still a delight. It has some very 50's sensibilities but it's also progressive in its way Doris is an independent very successful career woman with a drop dead great apartment.
DeleteShe and Rock share the sort of chemistry you can't manufacture, Tony Randall gives a gem of a performance and the sets and especially her clothes are A-MAZ-ING!!
It was the first in a string of films that placed her at number one at the box office four times within 10 years during which she was ranked every year, the only performer to hold that record.
Of those, Pillow Talk is definitely what I'd go for first. Thanks for the rec!
DeleteI still need to see 500 days of summer! I've been hearing lots of good things about that movie! Great list!
ReplyDeleteIt's a really lovely movie. One of my favorites.
DeleteI've seen all 3 films as they're all enjoyable. I went with a different route just as a way to fuck with people's expectations.
ReplyDeleteYour picks were hilarious lol
DeleteGreat list! I found La La Land and 5 to 7 okay - definitely agree to giving it a shot if one is a fan of Anton Yelchin. 500 Days of Summer was lovely.
ReplyDeleteI miss Anton so much :(
DeleteI LOVE that you included 5 to 7!! The writer/director actually came to Twin Cities Film Fest but I missed that screening, so I saw it like a year later on rental. I loved it!! It's so well-written, beautiful and heartbreaking... such an underrated film!
ReplyDeleteIt really is! I adored it. I'm fairly sure I watched it on Youtube the first time because I couldn't find the DVD anywhere. lol
DeleteI've seen all your picks. And that was really a clever end to 500 Days of Summer.
ReplyDeleteIt was. I liked it.
DeleteI know what a meet cute is thanks to The Holiday, they talked about it there! :D
ReplyDeleteI love 500 Days of Summer here too! It would hurt to see Yelchin's movie again... and I still haven't seen La La Land :D :D
Did they really? I've seen that movie and I don't even remember. I suck. lol
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