defend the indefensible: romy and michelle's high school reunion

I liked part of it. I think it was just really satisfying to see smug high school girls become dull stay-at-home moms - just like you know the ones from your high school have. No need to invent glue for post-it notes!

I perhaps over identified with the characters. This is really quite a worry.

I haven't seen it for years and years.

"This dress exacerbates the generic betrayal that is my legacy."

also, the scene where one of them (can't remember which one) gets hit by the limo will always make me chuckle.

maria loves this movie!

i like it fine.

i hadn't seen it but the title sounds dull and should have been a warning.

sounds like it may be good to watch this and "my big fat greek wedding" in one sitting, though.

this might actually be maria's 2nd favorite movie. i'll have to ask her.

the last time i watched this i was really, REALLY drunk and also humoring someone, so i'm sure i probably found it hilarious

given my general taste in movies i'm sure i'd probably find it hilarious stone sober

it's pretty funny.

oh shit, mira sorvino's bizarre "accent"! okay yeah this is funny

i think i walked around talking like that for a week

keep in mind this was like six months ago

it's funnier than legally blonde, that's for sure.

speaking of accents, this is maria's favorite movie of all time:

http://blogs.citypages.com/amadzine/images/7)Faces_of_Dr_Lao.jpg

she's a weirdo.

does dr. lao know if you've been bad or good?

I LOVE DR LAO

(but was a teeny bit disappointed when I saw it as an adult and realised he was Tony Randall)

It also has Justin Theroux in it. Against much of my better judgement I find him wonderfully attractive.

i really wanted to see this at the time, never got round to it. nothing about the premise is wrong at all!

oversexed hispanic garage attendent - check

is this a common stereotype or something?

http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects/fp/images/ChicoandtheMan.jpg

I never could quite tell if Richard Edson's character in Ferris Beuller was supposed to be hispanic or not.

the girls finally achieve respect from their former classmates by dancing really well, which they can do because they used to go out clubbing every night - so why is their dance some "interprative" sub-modern ballet crap that they would never do in a club? (and why is the respect of these odious people even important in the first place? i.e. the vogue editor is snide and up herself - so why is it some big validation when she compliments romy and michelle's ho outfits?)

the message of the movie is that success is relative and what's important is to be yourself - so why do the girls then get to fly off in a helicopter, gawped at enviously by everyone else?

why does kudrow's dream about what the reunion will be like match so closely with reality? how could she possibly know that the A-girls are pregnant? how could she know what the reception hall would look like? why did the dream go on for SO LONG??

the A-girls jeering the both of them for their ludicrous lie about inventing post-it notes was mean. romy and michelle jeering the A-girls for having kids makes is even meaner!

dude it was the 90s

that's our generation's "it's chinatown"

theory: that half the "hilarity" lay in seeing mira sorvino cast "against type"; now that 10 years have passed this underlying joke has been forgotten

you're right, Tracer, it never should have won that Oscar.

the entirety of pop culture had been ceded to 28-year-old stoners with a grudge against popular kids and in an advanced stage of whimsy-induced dementia. i don't know why this is so hard to understand.

You should sock it to The Breakfast Club and Predator next.

haha if tracer won't sock it to the breakfast club, i will

now that's some bullshit

i gots no problem with predator, however

WHY DOES HE HAVE A GERMAN ACCENT WHEN HE'S A U.S. SOLDIER?! WTF?! SO DUMB.

this is a weak defense you're putting up, da croupier

oh this is all pretty par for the ilx course these days

tracer what is your favorite "dumb" comedy?

the entirety of pop culture had been ceded to 28-year-old stoners with a grudge against popular kids and in an advanced stage of whimsy-induced dementia.

man this almost makes me miss that decade

My defense is that I like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Kudrow, breezy one-liners and goofy ballet sequences. I don't think the movie was taking itself that seriously so I wasn't bothered by how "telegraphed" it was.

we're only thinking that now because we're now the 28+ stoners, tom

but disenfranchised

Romy and Michele vs Grosse Point Blank

even lisa kudrow is more palatable than cusak

I'm just curious what movies the AFI or whoever recommended this movie to Tracer compared it to, so that he DIDN'T expect what he got from "Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion" starring Lisa Kudrow & Mira Sorvino.

if movies like this are so inconsequential as to be beyond discussion then why don't you go post on some other thread dude

someone told him it was really the final reel of the magnificent ambersons

strongo i have so many dumb comedy favorites i don't know where to start. all the farelly movies are great, friday, school of rock, even freakin ELF is a masterpiece of comedic timing and artful plotting next to this total disaster

okay everything there except friday is...no.

alex in nyc, pabulum, standards raising, etc.

i don't even know you any more

rose mcgowan is aight in strongo's book too

you might remember her from such hits as Urban Legends and for running over some poor kid in LA. I give you Rebecca Gayheart.

http://starz.ru/celebrities/Rebecca_Gayheart.jpg

noxzema!

i was gonna say that i just posted a picture of rebecca but fortune city says otherwise apparently. she has hypno-eyes. and is actually pretty funny.

RmG had a botched eyejob last winter but chalked it up to an injury sustained in a minor car accident. I'm not buying it. Why do I know these things?

good thread

well thank god BIG HOOS has weighed in

OH MY FUCKING GOD JESUS CHRIST ON TOAST TARA REID'S BOOBS SAG AND HER TUMMY HAS A CRINKLE!

you are all such assholes.

cap'n save-a-ho

well thank god KENAN has weighed in.

huh

TUMMY HAS A CRINKLE!

you are all such assholes.

Actually - that crap on Tara's stomach is from botched Lipo. Trust me, I'd be the last to say a word if it was just pudge.

i think it's really sad tara isn't getting proper recognition for her role in pan's labyrinth

http://www.thedougjonesexperience.com/panimage~9.jpg

kenan i really doubt she's reading

defending tara reid is some next level ho-saving shit.

http://www.bitetv.ca/blog/archives/Tara%20Reid

enbb otm also plz to not forget her boobs aren't sagging, that's a botched, uh, shop so to speak.

lesson: do not pick plastic surgeons while high and drunk

those... were..... the........ days, my friend
we thought they'd never end
ornaldo bloomps - just a twinkle in someone's eye

http://thesuperficial.com/2006/12/28/tara-reid-st-barts-bikini-11-thumb.jpg

"adhesions"?

Scott is right. I LOVE Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.

gabrielle anwar sadat x

^^ girl is in that new spy show on usa, i saw her and went "oh, claire forlani, saddd"

^^ double sad

also i recently espied l.l. sobies k on a SCI FI ORIGINAL MOVIE w/ sean astin, so this thread is really making poignant the shitty insomniac tv of my last several days

I've never seen any of these movies but I like Liz Tyler a whole bunch. Plus former NYC ILXor known to some of you used to make deliveries to her from a certain WVillage eatery and he said she was ALWAYS nice and smiley-giggly and tipped well, unlike lots of other sleb clients. He fantasized of stealing her away from scrawny brit rocker husband but no luck.

Liv. Liv Tyler. Was thinking of work author at the same time.

I can't read this whole thread - lemme just say who cares about "the message"? If there's a message, it's "be yourself" or "be silly" or something. It's like a 2-hour version of what Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" is about. Also, I love anything about high school and have had fantasies about going back to my reunion and "showing them all" and so this movie tickles a sensitive part of me and makes me laugh about it. I also recognize some of the characters -- the guy who was all that in high school but who's now a loser contractor philanderer, etc. It's silly! It makes me feel good - and it reminds me of a sweet time with my friend, aimurchie.

It's like a 2-hour version of what Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" is about.

Yeah but it's "Time After Time" that plays during the climactic dance scene! (This is the only scene in the movie that I actually remember.)

topanga i miss u ;_;

BEST FRED EVAH!

gillian anderson, we forgot about her, she still exists!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/morganzola/gfy/74977038.jpg

i like liv tyler too. her husband is ugly and short in person

SCULLY NOOOOOOO xpost

wtf that dress

http://i.ivillage.com/E/Tracker/E_MelissaJoanHart_250.jpg

I WOULD LIKE HER TO EXPLAIN ALL THIS

WE'VE BROKEN MORE THAN THE 4TH WALL HERE PPLS

i guess no one explained condoms ;_;

http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/ap/ny11504120036.widec.jpg

Not bad.

WRONG DECADE

the 90's hotties were so WHOLESOME!

guys i see topanga around my hood all the time. shes BIG now but still looks bangable. i told her that 'i loved her work' once and her bf cracked up. also i delivered something to fenn's house a year or so ago. she answered the door and was SO SKINNY it was scary. she had NO FURNITURE except an elliptical machine and had a fat son running around.

http://yeeeah.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/danielle_fishel_lakers.jpg

http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/daniellefishel/danielle_fishel_1.jpg

huh.

it's hard enough following über threads like this on a computer at work but trying to keep up on a cell phone is impoosible

in summation, I love you all </ned>

Hey Eli, (and since this thread can always be bumped) here's one for your wish list:
Romy & Michele: In The Beginning!

related:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490822/

in what way?? (i still haven't seen the bring it on sequel, crazily)

pete, er, the messageboard comments there are all like "what a disappointment after the brilliance of the original"

lisa kudrow is hilars in this movie

I love the climactic dance scene because the whole dance is ... not just unrehearsed but ANTI-rehearsed. Like the point isn't that they're great dancers, but that they're above caring what anyone things about their dancing.

Full disclosure: I love this whole movie and can't think critically about it.