Comments on: New Blu Rays for 26 Jan 2009 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2010/01/29/new-blu-rays-for-26-jan-2009/ The random mostly photographic musings of Augie De Blieck Jr. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:46:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Augie De Blieck Jr. http://www.variousandsundry.com/2010/01/29/new-blu-rays-for-26-jan-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-408868 Augie De Blieck Jr. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:52:57 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/?p=6112#comment-408868 I stand corrected. Man, I can't keep track of anything anymore... Though even I know better than to call "Love Story" a romantic comedy. Yikes! I stand corrected. Man, I can’t keep track of anything anymore…

Though even I know better than to call “Love Story” a romantic comedy. Yikes!

]]> By: Nick http://www.variousandsundry.com/2010/01/29/new-blu-rays-for-26-jan-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-408867 Nick Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:31:46 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/?p=6112#comment-408867 <cite> Chick flics? Check and check.</cite> I object! <cite>Atonement</cite> isn't a chick flick. It's adapted from an Ian McEwan book, and is what in times past might have been called a drama movie. Don't let the presence of Keira Knightley fool you. It's a very good film too. Still, this isn't the most egregious representation of a movie I've seen this week, given that one article following Erich Segal's death called <cite>Love Story</cite> a rom-com. Chick flics? Check and check.

I object! Atonement isn’t a chick flick. It’s adapted from an Ian McEwan book, and is what in times past might have been called a drama movie. Don’t let the presence of Keira Knightley fool you. It’s a very good film too.

Still, this isn’t the most egregious representation of a movie I’ve seen this week, given that one article following Erich Segal’s death called Love Story a rom-com.

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