The Last Movie You Watched

[Clueless Morgan]

Oh I got suckered in to watching The Notebook last night. It wasn't a bad movie, but it was just way to much of a chick flick for me to enjoy it. I kept getting distracted by the obvious signs of a chick flick.

1. The man she falls for has a beard. (This is the immediate tell-tale sign of a chick flick.)
2. The woman's mother is a bitch at first, but eventually redeems herself in the eyes of her daughter. (Why is it such a thing for women to hate/love their mother?)
3. None of the men get mad when she cheats. (Seriously? She tells her fiance that not only did she have a tryst with another man but that she had feelings for him as well, and he never once raised his voice.)
4. The man is overly gooey romantic, beyond the realm of actual male romanticism. ("You were so peaceful I didn't want to wake you, so I left flowers on the pillow next to you and then meticulously cut out arrows and laid them out on the ground leading you to a porch with an easel where you can paint while naked.")

All in all though, wasn't a bad movie. I'd give it a B+.

(My underlining above)

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I always got the feeling that when the mother takes whatever Rachel McAdams' character name is to the lumber yard and tells her all about the poor boy she loved as a young girl that she was lying in order to make a point to Rachel's character.

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As for the mother/daughter love/hate thing, I'm willing to bet that there are an equal number of love/hate father/son relationships, as well as mother/son and father/daughter ones. But we womens be bitches so we get more press about.

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