Poll Did a Girlfriend you love dearly "Make" you watch The Notebook "Or Else"?

[Guy Gardener]

I haven't seen Titanic.

Too late.

Right now it's just a fairly good movie.

If you'd bothered to watch Titanic, when you were supposed to have watched Titanic, you would have been involved in a global phenomenon and consensus of pure love and acceptance.

 

[hux]

Actually, it's Christoff who falls in love with Anna (whom he just met) all while making fun of her for agreeing to Marry someone she just met. Anna is also having doubts about Hans even before the big reveal. In the crucial moment when Anna can choose to save herself, by meeting up with Christoff on the ice. She chooses to save her sister instead, the purest example of true love and selflessness. Anna grew an immense amount from the time of singing For The First Time In Forever to the end where she saves her sister. She was so caught up in the whole fairy tail princess because of the shut in life she was leading. She gains a worldly, more realistic view without loosing her optimism.

I bet Hans was way better in bed though.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kristoff was raised by Rock Trolls, I doubt he's been explained what Human sex is.

Anna's centre of gravity is in completely the wrong place for that boy to know what the hell he's doing with her.

 

[Pingfah]

Too late.

Right now it's just a fairly good movie.

If you'd bothered to watch Titanic, when you were supposed to have watched Titanic, you would have been involved in a global phenomenon and consensus of pure love and acceptance.

I have no intention of ever watching it. Any film where the director thought "Hey, a Celine Dion song would go GREAT here!" is immediately blacklisted as far as I am concerned.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The grinding sound of reel to reel on a video player added another element of grunt that the limp hum of a bluray player just can't compete with.

You literally missed the boat.

 

[SPCTRE]

You literally missed the boat.

 

[stardream]

I did not watch Titanic in the theater and it was not until years later that I finally saw it on TV. Thought the whole thing rather silly.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If Titanic had ONLY been about the sinking of the ship, I might have gone to see it.

 

[Captain Crow]

If you have a Girlfriend you dearly love and they "Make" you watch The Notebook "Or Else", bite your lip and fuckin' watch it and be grateful you actually have someone in your life that loves and wants to be with you.

Be happy that you're not one of us who'll be forever alone and get to look forward to being the bloated corpse discovered after the neighbors complained about an awful smell, the bloated corpse discovered when their landlord who hasn't been paid in months comes to throw their shit out, or the unidentified skeletal remains found on the side of the road that gets buried in a potter's field somewhere when they die.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ That's a whole lot of morbid, captain crow.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

A good rule of thumb is this:

If somebody pulls an "or else" on you, they don't really love you.

 

[thestrangequark]

@hux , yeah, no.

1. Who saves Anna? Anna. Who saves Elsa? She and her sister do it together.

2. Which relationship is considered the important relationship? The sisters'. i.e. While romance is included, it is peripheral, and not the point of the story at all. The relationship that is developed and mended is familial, not romantic.

3. If you think it was the "same shit" -- well, the only explanation I can think of for that is that you are so brainwashed by that "shit" that you thought it was a romance?

 

[Jedi_Master]

I got this ultimatum about a week ago, and then it was CONSTANT NAGGING, until I finally submitted last night, and relented to watching this mash of clustermush. Not terrible, but seriously how did this film shape a generation of women?

I'm not sure, but when I was dating the woman who would become my wife, she not only insisted on me seeing it, I also had to accompany her and a group of her girlfriends. I was the only male in the theater, and I clearly remember listening to the agonized sobs that permeated the air as the credits rolled. No one moved for about 5 minutes, and the "crew" spent dinner analyzing the film.

Oh, well. It was a serviceable, albeit predictable film. I have never watched it since - but my younger brother was subjected to the same relationship test when he was dating the girl who became his wife.

I imagine these kind of things are just expressions of "If you love me, you will show in an interest in things I love" - which is alright in my book even if the thing she loved was a textbook example of a sappy romantic movie.

By the by - Nicholas Sparks has made a lucrative career off of the tears of his readers, so maybe we should all blame him.

 

[hux]

2. Which relationship is considered the important relationship? The sisters'. i.e. While romance is included, it is peripheral, and not the point of the story at all. The relationship that is developed and mended is familial, not romantic.

Yeah, that's what they wanted you to think. Now go buy the merchandise. BUY IT!!

3. If you think it was the "same shit" -- well, the only explanation I can think of for that is that you are so brainwashed by that "shit" that you thought it was a romance?

It was an oleaginous, defecating pig in a bikini that made mum feel less guilty for buying pink dresses and tiaras for her daughter.

Be happy that you're not one of us who'll be forever alone and get to look forward to being the bloated corpse discovered after the neighbors complained about an awful smell, the bloated corpse discovered when their landlord who hasn't been paid in months comes to throw their shit out, or the unidentified skeletal remains found on the side of the road that gets buried in a potter's field somewhere when they die.

Let it go. Let it go.

 

[stardream]

I'm not sure, but when I was dating the woman who would become my wife, she not only insisted on me seeing it, I also had to accompany her and a group of her girlfriends. I was the only male in the theater, and I clearly remember listening to the agonized sobs that permeated the air as the credits rolled. No one moved for about 5 minutes, and the "crew" spent dinner analyzing the film.

Oh, well. It was a serviceable, albeit predictable film. I have never watched it since - but my younger brother was subjected to the same relationship test when he was dating the girl who became his wife.

I imagine these kind of things are just expressions of "If you love me, you will show in an interest in things I love" - which is alright in my book even if the thing she loved was a textbook example of a sappy romantic movie.

By the by - Nicholas Sparks has made a lucrative career off of the tears of his readers, so maybe we should all blame him.

I don't understand these sort of 'tests'.

 

[Kemaiku]

I'm not sure, but when I was dating the woman who would become my wife, she not only insisted on me seeing it, I also had to accompany her and a group of her girlfriends. I was the only male in the theater, and I clearly remember listening to the agonized sobs that permeated the air as the credits rolled.

You poor bastard, and you went along with it?

 

[Jedi_Master]

I don't understand these sort of 'tests'.

It's not a pass/fail kind of thing its a "do I want to invest more time in effort in someone who won't even give up a few hours of his/her time to do something I want to do" kind of thing.

@Chemahkuu - Not sure if you are being sarcastic
It wasn't a big deal, and made for a memorable experience.

 

[thestrangequark]

It was an oleaginous, defecating pig in a bikini that made mum feel less guilty for buying pink dresses and tiaras for her daughter.

Elsa's crown was gold and blue. Jesus, the level of ignorance I have to deal with here.

 

[hux]

Defecating pig in a bikini!!

Say it!

SAY IT!!

 

[Kemaiku]

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/447766531465048064/iVJTCNes.jpeg

To be fair, that jewel looks turquois.