Valentines Take Down

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The AV Club have a funny article entitled “24 Romantic-Comedy Characters Who Don’t Deserve Love”. Among those who receive a beat down – Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones’s Diary, Meg Ryan in Sleepless In Seattle and Woody Allen in…everything.

Garden State’s Sam is one of the 24, despite currently leading our Valentines poll.

15-16. Zach Braff and Natalie Portman, Garden State (2004)
The myth of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl was pushed to its most egregious extreme in Garden State, where beautiful Natalie Portman “redeems” a self-pitying, thoroughly unlikeable wimp (Zach Braff) by inexplicably falling in love with him, in spite of his rancid self-absorption and unseemly level of pussitude. In fact, she enables his bullshit, taking out a bottle to preserve his single, precious tear when he finally works up the nerve to cry over paralyzing his mother back when he was a kid.


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Carter Jenkins

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I'm going to try and keep today's updates on topic. Valentines Day posts and then later I'll focus on our birthday a bit. That's if I have time after opening…

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Tomorrow

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Remember that tomorrow is Valentines Day AND our 10th Birthday. I haven't received much in the way of fanart so...*nudge nudge*. Don't let it come to this.

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Dream Couples

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Buzzsugar have put together a list of their ideal celebrity couples. The funniest is probably George Clooney and Meryl Streep, a pairing that would make my brain implode. For Natalie…

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