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Re: No cause for complaint

2005-05-16T15:54:21+00:00

Yes, yes, I’m very narty. I think it’s partially that she portrayed such an annoying character. If, for instance, I were a blonde, and people said I looked like Harmony on Buffy, I might be deeply annoyed, as despite the fact that she’s pretty, she’s a vapid and aggravating vampire-kitten :P

At least, that’s my best excuse for being annoyed by it :)

No cause for complaint

2005-05-16T12:48:46+00:00

As you’ve already seen, I don’t think you’ll get a lot of sympathy on this one. It’s not enough to be a cute_chick? You’ve gotta not look like a famous_cute_chick?

Now if people were saying you looked like Fred Savage, I could understand.

Re: I agree! It could be worse.

2005-05-11T00:34:09+00:00

Thanks for the support, Winona!

And why should I write her fan mail? So she knows she plagues some random girl? “Hi, please stop pairing my face with that voice. By the way, I liked it on THe Wonder Years when you were dressed up as one of those Star Trek chicks with the pain remotes. Laughed and laughed.” You underestimate my largely feigned petulance!

I like the name ‘Elsie’. It’s flirtatious.

I agree! It could be worse.

2005-05-04T10:19:02+00:00

Son of a biscuit, she DOES still look like you! Maybe you should write her some fan mail. In other news, “Elsie Snuffin?” More than one writer down at the West Wing has been “snuffin’” something, if you know what I mean.

Re: Amelie 2: The War Years

2005-04-21T20:35:22+00:00

Wow. Umm, I can’t believe people really think the movies are that similar. Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles is kinda frickin’ dark. It was violent in bits, and dealt with war and the violence it does to the human spirit as well as the human body. Amélie is about the worlds we create within ourselves and what there is to be gained by opening them up to others.

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T19:04:04+00:00

Blah blah, that was sarcasm and you know it. I loved it, but only because I thought it was Amelie 2. Now I hate it. So there.

Amelie 2: The War Years

2005-04-21T17:44:12+00:00

This implies that you’ve seen Un Long Dimanche de FianÃ§ailles. And having done so, how can you possibly argue that it is not at least as similar to Amelie in flavor, spirit, cinematagraphic style and basic plot workings as any movie is with its sequel?

Let’s look at another sequal, just for comparison’s sake. Say, Waiting For Godot 2: The Denmark Years. Sure, there are a few more changes here—like some veritable action and plot movement in the notable, if predictable, deaths of the two main characters, but nevertheless, not as similar as A2: TWY is to Amelie.

The most accurate review I read of it called it “3/4’s the movie that Amilie was, but as such, still good enough to be on my top ten list [of movies of 2004]. I have to whole-heartedly agree, though having some different criteria, it made my top 3. (also, obviously, The Incredibles and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) (I think Incredibles is pulling out as my favourite of the year though).

Anyway, I think all I was really trying to say was… I Hate Saurkraut! ...That’s all I’m really trying to say.

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T15:52:37+00:00

Well, you did say it was the worst movie ever. Why didn’t you demand your money back then?

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T15:47:41+00:00

What? I want my money back.

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T15:09:33+00:00

Also, Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles is not Amélie 2. Don’t make me yell at you in FRENCH on this MEXICAN soap opera.

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T15:04:35+00:00

Well, I tried to get pictures of them at my age, by and large. And whilst Audrey T. did three movies in her 24th year (note to self: international stardom not yet achieved), that was the best represented in Google Images. Hence, Dirty Pretty Things.

A comforting note; I couldn’t readily find pictures of Salma Hayek at 24, without delving into the frightening world of Mexican soap opera. Salma wasn’t an international star at 24. And, if I’m aiming for ‘affluent published author’, not ‘babelicious movie star’, perhaps this blog is the equivalent of a Mexican soap opera!

{dramatic jerky zoom-zoom-zoom on EMeta} {angry yelling in Spanish}

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T14:52:16+00:00

And yes, you do have enough resemblance and enough of the mischeivious factor in your general appearance to be well compared to the Aubreys. (As such, more of the Tautou of Amelie & Amelie 2: The War Years than of the Dirty Pretty Things pic you pulled in the parent.)

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T14:48:27+00:00

But, at the same time as whe was annoying, wishy-washy, incomprehensible, and inscrutable, well, at least to a oversmart childhood outcast romantic like yours turly, she embodied that same kind of non-sexualized long dark haired beauties (like Connelly in Labrinth, of course) that has dominated my major romantic engagements for my entire life. Is it such a bad thing that you inherit that sort of legacy? It should be indubitably noted that the two Audreys (Hepburn and Tautou) are the other major contributers of this effect & I don’t think it’s such poor company.

Which is to say, there are worse things than having one looks compared to someone else who has universally considered positive looks. Per comparison, I get David Spade more often than any other. Yeash!

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T14:01:17+00:00

It reminds me of middle school.

Re: Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T13:57:32+00:00

I will answer your question with bullets, because that makes me more forceful:

Admitting it’s not that awful detracts from the humorous effect.
I swear she’s less pretty in motion. She guest-starred on B5 one time (they gave her a chin by tying a scarf under her lack of chin and attaching it to her headband) and I swear, it’s like she has a cute face compressed into too small a space by a photo-editing program. Plus, no chin. Or I could be unfair and set in my ways.
No matter how much she plays Elsie Snuffin and Rebellious Centauri Damsel, to me she will always be Winnie Cooper. Not only an annoying wishy-washy person, but an emblem of the incomprehensible, inscrutable female a male obsesses over but can never understand or grasp. She’s part of a framework of objectionable gender relations, and part of a romanticization of them, at that.
Also, ‘Winnie’ is an ugly name.
Annoying voice.
Also, see again point 1 (drat, should have used numbers rather than forceful bullets.) Are you not entertained?

Is it really so bad?

2005-04-21T11:10:58+00:00

She apparently got a hell of a lot hotter since The Wonder Years. Is it really a bad thing that as Danica McKellar’s hotness increased she began to look even more like you?