But guess what: I watched it and Sleepless again this week, and my case stands. When I revealed that I was actually on a bad date for that screening, you and your Mailies accused me of being tainted. What kind of madness is this? I distinctly remember attending a media screening of the movie in 1998 (in the very same Lincoln Square theater in which Meg Ryan and Greg Kinnear fight in the movie) and finding it an interminable cutesy-thon (complete with Meg Ryan bippity-boppity-booing around in pajamas like she was starring in a body-switching movie with an Olsen twin) that made no logical sense. And I had an up-is-down-down-is-up reaction that lasts to this day. When I said it was simply an unsuccessful reunion that existed only to milk residual good feelings to the cast (the Fierce Creatures to Sleepless in Seattle’s A Fish Called Wanda), all women - nearly to a one! - winced and declared that Sleepless in Seattle was actually not very good. Josh: A couple of years ago, when Mindy Kaling declared You’ve Got Mail the ultimate rom-com, I assumed it was just a personal, wrongheaded quirk - like children who prefer the Star Wars prequels over the original trilogy - but then in our staff meeting, a bunch of you began citing the movie yourselves as the ne plus ultra of romantic comedies. Which is better? Which is truer? And do children really like the new Star Wars movies? Here, on Valentine’s Day, Wolk and Margaret Lyons pit Ephron against Ephron in an exploration of the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romance staples You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle. Horrified, staffers begged him to explain this insane position, and they later discovered that he prefers Sleepless in Seattle. A few months ago, Vulture staffers discovered a terrifying truth about their noble leader: Josh Wolk does not like You’ve Got Mail.
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