Come Anticipate The Family Stone with me

So apparently my parents have fallen in love with this movie and we are all watching this now as a new Xmas tradition or something. Uh.

time to disown them

Tempting but that's a bit harsh. I've already mentally checked out.

Quirk! Meets WASP Woody Allen! Meets other stereotypes! Argh!

I'm already waiting for the revelation of the slightly darker bit in the past which will explain the awkwardness and result in a greater understanding between everyone and all.

Or maybe I'm wrong! I hope I am!

Thirty minutes in and it feels like two hours.

I got a bad feeling about the motel in town called the Inn. And the one heavily pregnant character.

Oh hey, it turns out Diane Keaton's character has cancer or something and the overwhelming sadness is starting to emerge with the piano musizzzzzz.

And now Claire Danes as the beautiful sister everyone goes crazy for and and and. S1ocki did you actually see and LIKE this?

So wait now this is a savage indictment of societal attitudes about homosexual identity? Or rather, Sarah Jessica Parker's? And she's bashing up her car in an attempt to escape and the music is...quirky! And Luke Wilson is going to give her some beery stoned wisdom and humor because she's crying about it all!

So now there's coincidental meetups and extended meet cutes and temples and totem poles and beer! Again!

Motherfuck the fucking fuck and fuck it. FORTY MINUTES TO GO.

you're going to be reconsidering the disowning before it's over

All I can say is that I'm glad I'm venting through here instead of suffering in silence. So maybe it's a good balance in the end.

Also I love how they just plunk down _Meet Me in St Louis_ and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" into this film to kill time 'meaningfully.' You deserve better, Judy.

Hey, the first bit of interest in the movie, Luke Wilson's character likes _"Express"_ by Love and Rockets. Anyway back to the gruel.

There's a wacky incident with a ring in the kitchen! Rings are on the wrong fingers or are they the right ones! Cherry poppers! BLACK AND GAY DEAF PEOPLE IN LOVE!

Coffee!

Christ could we at least get back to the coffee.

And seventies black and white photography shall bring people together, even cynical Dinosaur Jr fans.

Oh hey awkward self awareness! Sex that wasn't!

Tchaikovsky! Farce!

I am dying by inches.

How does this have ten minutes to go still?

Still, the dude does like Love and Rockets.

I hope they get back to the house and Diane Keaton says something quirky and heartfelt. I WOULD BE SO SURPRISED.

I hope she pulls a gun and starts blasting away

It's the year later epilogue! The circle of life!

"Honey, remember that weekend last summer? I gave your uncle a case of crabs."

I am touched. Can I have dessert?

Come Defenestrate The Family Stone with Ned

I love how it is implied that SJP's bigotry can be overlooked by the family in the end thanks in large part to the excellent way in which she spills her carefully prepared Christmas breakfast onto the floor, possibly causing life threatening injuries to others.

first time I saw this I didn't catch Coach reaching out to tenderly touch Annie Hall's mastectomy scar, that was pretty whoa

apparently missed the coda where Annie Hall dies both times!

How could you not take away the properly heartfelt message of whatever without knowing that.

Apparently the director's first film _Big Eden_ might be much better. Might.

I was pretty distracted by Rachel McAdams in a Dino Jr t-shirt tbh