Manifesting my ideal movie: sapphic teen period piece rom-com
Top 4: Female Catharsis Edition
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Sanaa Lathan! Omar Epps! Alfre Woodard! Regina Hall! Gabrielle Union! The All State Guy!
Working Sanaa’s scar into the plot of the movie!
Scenes of black girls getting their natural hair done!
Showing a woman being angry!
Gabrielle Union’s eye roll!
Dynamic filming of the basketball scenes!
Top-tier make-over moment!
Gabrielle Union’s subtle, realistic, vicious insult - "Damn, girl, I didn't know Nike made dresses..."!
Playing Maxwell’s cover of "This Woman’s Work" during a long & sensual sex scene!
Using condoms!…
My running thoughts/reactions while watching this:
- This feels like a fairy tale production put on for children at a renaissance fair or amusement park, amped up & on acid (compliment).
- Now I desperately want to be marched around / displayed in a giant ornament when I die.
- I think this Dad King wants to fuck his Princess Daughter? (Yes, yes he did)
- Wow this really captures the feeling of traditional fairy tales - a dreamy fantasy with…
Wow, really cool set design & practical effects! The werewolf transition moments were gnarly (compliment).
Granny's advice of "and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet" could have just ended at "and never trust a man."
It's weird that this is one of my "comfort movies", right?
I don't know what everyone else isn't seeing here. I loved it. Probably because I'm 36. This is a "I'm 36" kind of romance. (Truly. Both Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas were 36 when this came out).
Michael Douglas is SO sexy. Even more than in his films from the late 80s/early 90s when being sexy was his main thing.
The poster is awful. So bad. Someone please upload a pretty new poster for this so I don't have to…