Valentine's Day (The Movie)

Went to see it this evening with Hallie. I...loved it. Most of it was predictable, but it was still good. There were some pretty good quotes.

I wasn't expecting much from the Taylor Lautner/Taylor Swift couple. Their acting was bad enough to be laughable. I laughed. Then I realized that they were intentionally over dramatizing it. So it wasn't so bad. You could tell they had fun with it. The one part that was real was at the end when he left in the elevator and she was by herself. She did a happy/giddy dance. That actually happens in real life.

I loved part where the football player came out as gay. I was not expecting that, but it was great. At the end his partner walked into his house and gave him flowers. It was so cute. Good job Eric Dane!

Then there was a part where a highschool girl's mother walked in on the girl's boyfriend naked with a guitar. That was hilarious and awkward (for them).

Here are a few quotes that I feel are true:

"in a relationship you have to accept the other person for all of who they are and not just the parts that are easy to like, and you're stupid if you turn back on something as important as love"

"When I was a kid, most of the advice that my dad gave me was crap. But there's one thing that he said that was pure genius... he said, if you're ever with a girl that's too good for you, marry her."

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"when you ask a girl to marry you, do you want her to just consider it? Or do you want her to just know?"

There are more, but I can't remember them. I had this elated feeling after the movie - like tomorrow will be Valentine's Day and it will be great. That day is passed for this year, but that doesn't mean I can't carry that happy feeling around.

During the car ride home, I thought about how I used to feel like the embodiment of women's vengence. Somewhere along the way that changed. Now it's all love and happiness. Maybe my puppy had something to do with that. Maybe it was something else. Doesn't really matter. What matters is this great feeling I carry around with me all the time.

*Photo taken by Katy Regnier (Website)