He wants his GF back;
she just wants to ruin and impoverish her ex.
Here she has just used her ex's credit card to
purchase a fabulously expensive ring for herself.
she just wants to ruin and impoverish her ex.
Here she has just used her ex's credit card to
purchase a fabulously expensive ring for herself.
The two of them shop for exotic electronic bugging gadgets on "Radio Row" in lower Manhattan, which used to be on Canal Street when I was a teenager; it has probably moved due to gentrification. It was quite a place. You could buy resistors or capacitors by the pound; they had barrels of them. You just plunged a sugar scoop into the barrel and scooped out a couple of pounds of resistors onto the scale. "And could I have a half-pound of dipped-mica capacitors with that?"
This movie has an interesting, humorous view of romantic obsession. It is a good romantic comedy, but not a great romantic comedy. It is mostly a vehicle for the two stars, especially Meg Ryan, who flirts with the camera quite shamelessly, viz:
Well, almost free. Miss Ryan and Miss Preston never appear in the same scene. Why? Because Miss Ryan has a clause in her contract that no other blonde will appear in the frame while she (the party of the first part) is on screen.
Funniest line: The jilt-or couple is making love very enthusiastically and very loudly while Ryan and Broderick (the jilt-ees) listen in from their hide-out across the street. Ryan is seething with rage, but Broderick clamps his hands over his ears and chants, "She's coming back! I know she's coming back!" Ryan glares at him and says, "Face it, Sam. The only way that girl is coming back to you is if a blast of semen catapults her out the window and across the street."
Now, I'd pay good money to see that.
Funniest line: The jilt-or couple is making love very enthusiastically and very loudly while Ryan and Broderick (the jilt-ees) listen in from their hide-out across the street. Ryan is seething with rage, but Broderick clamps his hands over his ears and chants, "She's coming back! I know she's coming back!" Ryan glares at him and says, "Face it, Sam. The only way that girl is coming back to you is if a blast of semen catapults her out the window and across the street."
Now, I'd pay good money to see that.
2 comments:
Isn't it interesting how what's madcap and sidesplitting on screen when played out by attractive folks will land average-looking folk snugly ensconced in a restraining order or behind bars? That said, Meg Ryan's always been adorable, and she's barely a smidge off Ellen DeGeneresness, imho. I say forget the dumpers, anyhoo.
I don’t know if you’ll ever read my comment, and I had wondered as I was writing it whether Addicted to Love have been mentioned on any blog, anywhere, in the past year. I would honestly be surprised if it had. It’s sad how quickly a movie is completely forgotten, lost in the torrent. In Addicted to Love’s case, I would say that it’s a grave injustice.
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