Comments on: Maybe Baby

By: harry b

harry b — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:04:53 +0000

western dave—her judgment in spouses is evidently better than her judgment in films.

By: The Modesto Kid

The Modesto Kid — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:20:35 +0000

Oh just remembered—my first date with my wife was a viewing on video of The Man With Two Brains. Not recommended at all as a movie for watching but it made a fine movie to ignore whilst necking.

By: Western Dave

Western Dave — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:52:26 +0000

My wife and I saw the John Sayles movie Lone Star on our first date. We are still fighting about whether it is brilliant (my carefully considered opinion) or horrible (her churlish response to Sayles’ indiscriminate use of something she called “the law of thirds”). Needless to say I think dismissing future spouses on the basis of movie tastes is a sure way to stay single forever. One doesn’t find spouses by ruling out but by ruling in.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:50:07 +0000

Tilting the thread: Baby Mama was funny in parts, but both Fey and Poehler watered down their humor quite alot, probably for $$ (and fair play to them for it). Fans of theirs can tell where they added their own humor to the script, and it didn’t happen enough. PLUS, the politics were far weaker than they could have been. However, I encourage seeing it in the theaters as many times as possible, on dates or not, at full price, to support adult comedienne-driven, more or less feminist popular films. Send a message to Hollywood, baby.

By: Richard Schrader

Richard Schrader — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:01:32 +0000

Most excellent first date movie—the original In-laws, resulting in many decades-long marriage, two kids, etc. Arkin’s method-induced breakdown before the firing squad is his only scene-stealing success in the film’s fierce mano-a-mano with Falk. Actually his hysterical jabbering, bitter weeping and consuming despair in having slept with only four women in his life remain troubling nearly 40 years later…

By: Cryptic Ned

Cryptic Ned — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:01:14 +0000

Not a good date movie: Brazil. Especially if the date consists of watching it in your dorm room. That movie starts out fast-paced, but ends up going on about forty minutes longer than you think it will.

By: eszter

eszter — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:18:08 +0000

I once went to see Scary Movie in the company of my then boyfriend and my father. Bad choice.

By: Flippanter

Flippanter — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:04:02 +0000

Not a good date movie: The Wild Bunch at the Brattle.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:55 +0000

Don’t Look Back at some alternative place in London was our first one, back in 1982. Not sure my Dylanological choice was appreciated, but it clearly wasn’t held against me.

By: Chris Brooke

Chris Brooke — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:40:14 +0000

Reservoir Dogs at the Penultimate Picture Palace (now the Ultimate Picture Palace), Oxford, 8 February 1994.

By: ozma

ozma — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:53:03 +0000

The Pity Card is brilliant. Oh God, so true. So horribly, horribly true.

By: belle waring

belle waring — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:00:24 +0000

arcseed, I think that at least you would be assured everyone would be really careful about using protection.

also, I think we all have a crush on dsquared and his genially evil ways. one of the things that I liked about joining this blog was that I thought, we’re on the same team now, and dsquared probably won’t attack me with vicious accuracy now!

By: arcseed

arcseed — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:34:32 +0000

Heh. I recently saw Juno with my girlfriend. Not getting laid that night. But, in fact, probably a really good first date movie.

By: Naadir Jeewa

Naadir Jeewa — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:21:26 +0000

I’d give +100 kudos points to anyone who went on a first date to see “Sex Lives of the Potato Men.”

By: idlemind

idlemind — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:46:45 +0000

The first movie my wife and I went to was Lawrence of Arabia (the 227 minute “restored roadshow” version—with an intermission). It ended way past her bed time; when I invited her up for dessert, she wound up falling asleep on my couch.

It was the start of a trend.