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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2023 23:58:32 GMT
Nobody warned me about An Affair to Remember.
So I went to the fridge, got an onion, and rubbed it on my eye lids.
Whew! Could have been embarrassing otherwise.
Okay, seriously. I’m not a fan of Cary Grant.
Sometimes he is so corny. But he was at his best here.
A Walk to Remember is a film from 2002.
Overall, it could fit well on TCM.
No one warned me there either. I was at a movie theater. Haven’t been to one since.
A lady nearby was crying a river and left the theater.
Her son, I’m guessing, just kind of sat there.
My masculinity went flying out the window and I let out a snort that would wake the dead.
Not that romance has to be sad, but An Affair to Remember should be on your romantic list.
Sleepless in Seattle is an adorable parallel.
Not to be confused with, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
Billy Crystal, not Tom Hanks.
“When Harry Met Sally” is good stuff too.
Okay, who’s next?
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Post by Newbie on Jan 15, 2023 1:09:33 GMT
Nobody warned me about An Affair to Remember.
So I went to the fridge, got an onion, and rubbed it on my eye lids.
Whew! Could have been embarrassing otherwise.
Okay, seriously. I’m not a fan of Cary Grant.
Sometimes he is so corny. But he was at his best here.
A Walk to Remember is a film from 2002.
Overall, it could fit well on TCM.
No one warned me there either. I was at a movie theater. Haven’t been to one since.
A lady nearby was crying a river and left the theater.
Her son, I’m guessing, just kind of sat there.
My masculinity went flying out the window and I let out a snort that would wake the dead.
Not that romance has to be sad, but An Affair to Remember should be on your romantic list.
Sleepless in Seattle is an adorable parallel.
Not to be confused with, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
Billy Crystal, not Tom Hanks.
“When Harry Met Sally” is good stuff too.
Okay, who’s next?
Funny, I like Cary Grant (never found him "corny") but hate An Affairs to Remember. Talk about overrated. I like Deborah Kerr, too. But not that movie. I liked Sleepless in Seattle better. |
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Post by topbilled on Jan 15, 2023 23:05:01 GMT
I enjoy the original version best, LOVE AFFAIR (1939) with Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer.
There was a later remake, also called LOVE AFFAIR (1994) which featured Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, with Katherine Hepburn in her last big screen role as the grandmother. But I haven't seen that one.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jan 23, 2023 22:59:18 GMT
I have to say that, in general, I love Deborah Kerr almost unconditionally, so I don't have any negatives for her performance in An Affair to Remember. In the case of Cary Grant it's more conditional; I have problems with his hyper-kinetic side which can rely on facial tics and grimaces in movies such as Bringing Up Baby (1938) and Monkey Business (1952). He stays on a very even keel in An Affair to Remember but he seems maybe a little miscast as the boy/man who hasn't yet found his fully formed self. He's older than a character like that should be to be entirely sympathetic, though his particular charm is still there for me. Charles Boyer seemed better cast as the wastrel due for a comeuppance, whereas Grant seemed overdue because of his age.
An interesting sidelight in a mix-and-match kind of way is that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne were wonderful together in George Stevens' Penny Serenade (1941), another heavily romantic drama. It's fun in a fantasy football kind of way to imagine Grant and Irene Dunne in either one of the two movies, Love Affair or An Affair to Remember.
I can't watch An Affair to Remember now without thinking of the use to which it was put in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), with Meg Ryan and Rosie O'Donnell sobbing on the sofa and passing the tissue box. Oddly, I don't think I've ever been moved to tears by that version, whereas Love Affair can really get to me. But I guess this discussion is moot because the originator of this thread seems to have deleted him/herself and now has zero posts.
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