25000 days of marriage

On recommendation of physicsxmagic, I just saw 500 Days of Summer which (unusually, as t'sons normally have to be dragged into watching anything resembling a romcom and will then make disparaging remarks all the way through; o to have daughters) was enjoyed by two generations. (It was the cool soundtrack wot redeemed it in their eyes.)

Me: {sole reason for acquiring t'film: Inception fandom and presence of Joseph Gordon-Levitt}
Son: "Oh, its' got him in it. He's in loads of films.
Me: "Is he? Oh yes, he's in that Inception film."
Son: {peers at DVD cover} "Yes! He's in Inception!!"
Me: {He's Arthur!!! ARTHUR!! O MY GOD} *says nothing*
Son: {after 1/2 an hour of film} "But he was much better in Inception."

I tend to agree. He needs good direction. And I'm not 100% sure (I'd need to see more of him) that he can carry a film on his own. Leonardo can. That's why Leonardo gets to be Dom Cobb and top dog. But JGL lacks that stillness that the top stars have (Brad Pitt, Di Caprio, even corny old Tom Cruise -- they all have that). JGL does too much waggling of the eyebrow and twitching of the jaw without purpose (now with Cruise, for example, every jaw twitch is deployed to a purpose) and shaking of the head. Even JGL's little shake of the head in the ICONIC DARLING SCENE in Inception: for me, that breaks the fourth wall, and suddenly I'm watching not a character but a little bit of acting business.

Still. He's ten times better than old Orlando. And look where my so-called critical attitude got me with that one.... *facepalms*

Also, there is a scene that reads like a scene from my pre-marriage.

Movie:
Arthur Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character to blind date woman: "And she was so hot, and so funny, and she did this, and then she dumped me that, but on the other hand, she is this, and she's so fabulous, and that one time when we did blah and blah blah."
Blind date woman: *looks on with dazed expression*

My rl:
T'h before he was t'h: "And [insert rl name of the Other Woman] is so hot, and so great, and she did this, and then she dumped me, and she's now with this other guy, why o why, and the other day we spied on her and we saw how she went out with this other guy even though she had told me that she had had a dream about me, about ME, and she's so beautiful and so sexy blah blah blah blah."
Me: *listens fairly boredly but also patiently in firm knowledge that she who waits it out and she who displays no wanton jealousy will Get Her Man*
13 years later: ALTAR. (Hah. *fistpumps*)
31 years later: Er, why did I bother being patient again?

Marriage, eh.

( bb in 500 Days )