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[nny]

I really don't know why I watch romantic comedies (unless they have zombies.)

Actually, I'll amend that comment. I don't know why I watch romantic comedies unless they have Paul Bettany (or zombies) because Paul Bettany (which I just tried to spell with one T and two Ns, oops) makes anything watchable, really. (As, indeed, do zombies.)

That's enough parentheses.

Romantic comedies, especially those by Richard Curtis, are dreadfully formulaic. Four Weddings I will forgive, here, because it was the first, the wittiest, and it had John Hannah. But everyone in these films has a dreadfully close group of friends, and has a dreadfully (no matter how much they complain about it) successful life, and the understanding is that they will get whoever it is they're after provided they're adorably British.

I'm adorably British, dammit. I'm reasonably intelligent, I am embarking on a decent career path, I'm always willing to be the first up and boiling the kettle, and I haven't yet made anyone projectile vomit purely through looking at me. Other reasons, possibly yes - there's at least two people on my f-list that I have made vomit, and I'm always looking to collect more - but I'm honestly not repugnant. Not to my knowledge. So I watch these films and hope, vaguely, that there'll be a different ending, this time (something, quite possibly, with zombies). Something that doesn't make me feel quite so dreadful and wish I were Hugh Grant, dammit, because that's really just distressing. I don't want to be Hugh Grant so much as I want his little bookshop, really. I'd wander around in it with tea and a variety of stylish dressing-gowns.

Somewhat tangential - Hugh Grant kept making me blink because he really does look a little like a thinner Oscar Wilde.

Poor Oscar.

I forget what my point was, really. General whining, I suspect, and a vague wish that I could meet someone nice who'd make me tea and let me snuggle them an awful lot. Oh well. I shall curl up with Oscar instead. I much prefer him to Hugh Grant, really, when it comes down to it.

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[apiphile.livejournal.com]

See, while you were watching Chris's favourite film (and he was stomping and whining because I wasn't letting HIM watch it), I was watching scallies being beasted and homoeroticised all round an army base. MUCH more fun. :)

I'd wander around in it with tea and a variety of stylish dressing-gowns.

A variety of stylish teas too, I hope?

I could meet someone nice who'd make me tea and let me snuggle them an awful lot

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[villainny.livejournal.com]

Bad lads army?

I watched a bit of that while in America. It was really quite... well, amusing up until there was a headbutt which made me go OMG YOU PSYCHOPATHIC FUCKSTICK!

Watching that is like... Southampton, really. Chavsville, oh baby yeah.

(You know someone whose favourite film is Notting Hill?)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Exactly that. :D I am quite horribly addicted. Last year was worse because it was the first time I'd seen it and I got so EXCITED.

I like headbutts. Well, I'm less disturbed by them than perhaps I ought to be.

Hee, you forget I grew up in Plymouth. WE KNOW CHAVS. I just like seeing them being redeemed or struggling their way to a conclusion like "Maybe I dunt ought to be doin that".

(Fictional character from NaNoNovel. He loves Notting Hill and Cole Porter, has managed to infect me with the latter but NOT, thankfully, the former)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I... like headbutts when I know it's stunt guys? 'cos frankly the bits in the Matrix look bloody ridiculous with just Keanu going GRR instead.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

You could pretend they were stunt chavs?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...harry potter-withnail crossover. Ow. Ow, my head, ow. Ow.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Had you not seen that one before? Tut. Remember what I said about the Withnail/Marwood relationship having echoes of Sirius/Remus for me? :p

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Well... yes. I remember. But but but but Sirius wouldn't - no, wait. He would. Um. Remus wouldn't attack himself with perfume?

My argument is weak.

*sighs*

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

He would if he was an alcoholic. Or if Sirius vomited on his boots after drinking the lighter fluid. And you *know* Sirius would drink lighter fluid because it was there.

"I think your argument is specious."
"I think your tie is ugly."

*glomp*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I suspect that perfume is more offensive to werewolf noses than lighter fluid vomit.

Also, Sirius is too stupid to run away from a fight.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Alright, he'd have used something less awful than essence of petunia, perhaps, but vomit is really pervasive ...

That's true. Withnail is Sirius + self-preservation instinct + booze

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...oh god. Withnail is Sirius with a self-preservation instinct. That's just sad.

...and yet the idea of Sirius quoting Shakespeare at Remus (before he walks away, please, before) is... yes. :D!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Sirius is properly loony by the time he gets out, though. Withnail's merely alcoholic and frustrated.

Isn't it, though? Someone needs to write that pastiche.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

You are adorably British. If I were not a) straight, b)taken, c) in the States, I would give you all the tea and snuggles you wanted. <3

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*tackles*

That is precisely what I needed to hear. Thank you. :D

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

*hugs randomly*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*hugs back, slightly less randomly*

Thanks, sweetie.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

If'n I wasnt so far away, hugs and cuddles and tea would be yours for the asking and not asking, wehnever.

But there is this sea thing and the fact that I cant swim...

[shati.livejournal.com]

You are the adorabliest of Brits. *nods firmly*