I just wanna say that what you said about Sex and The City made me laugh ! I'm a big SATC fan BUT what you said is so so valid and exactly why it took me forever to finally watch it (some episodes do still kinda annoy me). I wasn't into it at first either ! I think I finally started to like it once I got attached to the characters lolol it's one of those where they start to feel like your friends over time. Plus, I think the friendship is well done.
I also watched Fried Green Tomatoes for the first time this summer and loved it !
I did find myself starting to get attached to Charlotte! I think her approach to romance is most similar to mine from the episodes I watched. I do wanna try rewatching one day because I did get those friendship feels! But funny story, the first time I tried watching I couldn’t even make it the whole episode because SJP’s voice annoyed me 😂 I recently learned Fried Green Tomatoes is a novel and now I have to read it before summer ends!
HAHAHAHA I feel it. I almost didn't watch after season 1 cuz I didn't know if I could handle her narrations😂
omg reading Fried Green Tomatoes sounds like such a summer vibe! I didn't find out it was a book until I saw it on the credits scene and by then I was already watching so it was too late lol
Every time I read your writing I think we should be friends. You have me chuckling to myself far too much.
Anyway, I loved Saltburn but fear I was in a post-Christmas and sexy-British-Jacob-Elordi haze when I watched it. Totally get all of its weak points though!
I read American Psycho before watching the film and I'm so glad I did, because the film is a walk in the park in comparison. For starters, it doesn't have multiple pages just analysing an album. Clearly I hated myself at 18 because I compared this bad boy to The Great Gatsby (both books, not the films) for my A Level English coursework.
Also I'm totally with you on We're the Millers. What a bloody film.
Haha thank you! Yeah I gave Saltburn a star for Jacob Elordi lol. The American Psycho film is just so much better than the book! I appreciate that the director still included the monologues about music but in a comical way. Not gonna lie, sometimes I skipped ahead of the music monologues in the book cause they were so boring. The comparison to The Great Gatsby is actually fascinating! Both books analyze NYC in such different ways yet there are similar themes. Gatsby is superior though.
i agree with so many of these titles... i am so bummed that i didn't enjoy the bluest eye :( and oooh i watched fried green tomatoes for the first time a couple of months ago and loved it so much
I can’t remember what Toni Morrison said but in the version I read, she wrote a forward basically stating that she wasn’t too happy with some of the choices she made with the story. I wonder what she’d say about it now. I recently learned Fried Green Tomatoes is a book and Idgie and Ruth’s romantic relationship is more overt in it, so I definitely need to read it!
ohh interesting! i haven’t heard about that. and yessss i’ve also seen some quotes and pages from friend green tomatoes and their relationship is very much apparent there
I agree with The Bluest Eye and Bottoms. Bluest was my first and only Toni Morrison I’ve read (I know, I suck) and while the prose and the stories are captivating, I too feel like something was missing from the grand scope of the stories. Found myself only thinking about Pecola and the sister’s mother. And Bottoms! A real let down. Shiva Baby was annoying but in that anxious way that worked. Bottoms just fell flat for me. Wasn’t a fan of the writing, didn’t really believe anything happening even in the absurdist tone. Kinda the same as Bodiesx3. Just…not a great movie. But then I have to ask if I’m being too harsh on media. Not everything has to be groundbreaking. Hm.
I think that’s why Bottoms should’ve been more absurdist because sometimes it leaned back and made it kind of confusing to determine which events were real. But I think thats a me problem, it takes me a while to wrap my head around absurdist films because I forget they’re not really meant to be taken literally. I loved Bodiesx3! Nothing groundbreaking but a great horror comedy for me! Yes, the stories in The Bluest Eye were all captivating, even the ones I didn’t understand the point of, but their greater purpose evades me. I wish more focus was on Pecola and the two sisters.
I just wanna say that what you said about Sex and The City made me laugh ! I'm a big SATC fan BUT what you said is so so valid and exactly why it took me forever to finally watch it (some episodes do still kinda annoy me). I wasn't into it at first either ! I think I finally started to like it once I got attached to the characters lolol it's one of those where they start to feel like your friends over time. Plus, I think the friendship is well done.
I also watched Fried Green Tomatoes for the first time this summer and loved it !
I did find myself starting to get attached to Charlotte! I think her approach to romance is most similar to mine from the episodes I watched. I do wanna try rewatching one day because I did get those friendship feels! But funny story, the first time I tried watching I couldn’t even make it the whole episode because SJP’s voice annoyed me 😂 I recently learned Fried Green Tomatoes is a novel and now I have to read it before summer ends!
HAHAHAHA I feel it. I almost didn't watch after season 1 cuz I didn't know if I could handle her narrations😂
omg reading Fried Green Tomatoes sounds like such a summer vibe! I didn't find out it was a book until I saw it on the credits scene and by then I was already watching so it was too late lol
I really liked The Bluest Eye but it was also very very triggering to me because I could relate to it so much.
Every time I read your writing I think we should be friends. You have me chuckling to myself far too much.
Anyway, I loved Saltburn but fear I was in a post-Christmas and sexy-British-Jacob-Elordi haze when I watched it. Totally get all of its weak points though!
I read American Psycho before watching the film and I'm so glad I did, because the film is a walk in the park in comparison. For starters, it doesn't have multiple pages just analysing an album. Clearly I hated myself at 18 because I compared this bad boy to The Great Gatsby (both books, not the films) for my A Level English coursework.
Also I'm totally with you on We're the Millers. What a bloody film.
Haha thank you! Yeah I gave Saltburn a star for Jacob Elordi lol. The American Psycho film is just so much better than the book! I appreciate that the director still included the monologues about music but in a comical way. Not gonna lie, sometimes I skipped ahead of the music monologues in the book cause they were so boring. The comparison to The Great Gatsby is actually fascinating! Both books analyze NYC in such different ways yet there are similar themes. Gatsby is superior though.
i agree with so many of these titles... i am so bummed that i didn't enjoy the bluest eye :( and oooh i watched fried green tomatoes for the first time a couple of months ago and loved it so much
I can’t remember what Toni Morrison said but in the version I read, she wrote a forward basically stating that she wasn’t too happy with some of the choices she made with the story. I wonder what she’d say about it now. I recently learned Fried Green Tomatoes is a book and Idgie and Ruth’s romantic relationship is more overt in it, so I definitely need to read it!
ohh interesting! i haven’t heard about that. and yessss i’ve also seen some quotes and pages from friend green tomatoes and their relationship is very much apparent there
I agree with The Bluest Eye and Bottoms. Bluest was my first and only Toni Morrison I’ve read (I know, I suck) and while the prose and the stories are captivating, I too feel like something was missing from the grand scope of the stories. Found myself only thinking about Pecola and the sister’s mother. And Bottoms! A real let down. Shiva Baby was annoying but in that anxious way that worked. Bottoms just fell flat for me. Wasn’t a fan of the writing, didn’t really believe anything happening even in the absurdist tone. Kinda the same as Bodiesx3. Just…not a great movie. But then I have to ask if I’m being too harsh on media. Not everything has to be groundbreaking. Hm.
I think that’s why Bottoms should’ve been more absurdist because sometimes it leaned back and made it kind of confusing to determine which events were real. But I think thats a me problem, it takes me a while to wrap my head around absurdist films because I forget they’re not really meant to be taken literally. I loved Bodiesx3! Nothing groundbreaking but a great horror comedy for me! Yes, the stories in The Bluest Eye were all captivating, even the ones I didn’t understand the point of, but their greater purpose evades me. I wish more focus was on Pecola and the two sisters.