Moonstruck

I watch a lot of movies. Sometimes I don't want to, but lately I've had so much free time that I'm going through my Blockbuster Online movie queue like a mad woman. So today Moonstruck arrived in the mail, and I immediately popped it in the dvd. It was a great romance, but without all the romantic comedy stuff that usually makes me gag. It probably didn't hurt that it had an oh so hottt young Nicholas Cage, whom I've loved ever since 'Peggy Sue Got Married'.

I feel like something special in 80's movies, especially romantic comedies, is so missing in movies today. They seem more real, more relatable. A movie like Moonstruck, or Ordinary People(not a rom-com), or whatever, isn't afraid to have more dead, slow screen time, which makes the characters more relatable. Their on screen awkwardness has the effect of making them seem more human, and not a character. I guess they seem to live life more at the pace of you or I.

In this film Cher's character's parents are both involved in infidelity in a saddeningly unresolved way, and its juxtaposition with the burning central romance creates melancholy questions about the longevity of romantic love. All in a film that gives you such excitement about the passion of its central characters, too!

Next on the movie queue is the HBO series Six Feet Under (so I get to see a gay Dexter! Yess!) and American Gangster (which I've been putting off. It's been on my coffee table for a month.)