Thursday, January 29, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #29: All in the Family Edition - Married Couples Movies





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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is All in the Family Edition - Married Couples Movies

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Every last Thursday for the first nine months of 2015 I'm running the All in the Family Edition and today is the the first theme for the edition - Married Couples. I don't know about you but I'm finding it hard picking movies for this theme. There are a few films that would have been perfect for this theme but I unfortunately have not seen. Then there are others that I've seen that were potentially great picks until I realised the couples were actually unmarried while some of the other more memorable movies that featured married couples seem to delve more into the dark and toxic side of marriage and many ended up into a lot of lists in the wake of Gone Girl thus I decided to not do a similar kind of list. So what's left for me to pick from then? Well not much, making my list admittedly quite pathetic with only two picks which are not really movies about married couples but both have one that is important to the movie.

I am not an animated movie person, but funnily enough both my picks today are animated, the first being The Incredibles. I really like the interaction between the couple and I just love the whole Parr family as whole. The really are like a "real" family. 

So we only got a short montage of the Carl and his wife in the beginning of the movie but it's one of the most lovely portrayal of a married couple which possibly had you in or on the verge of tears by the end of it.
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So that's it...my embarrassing short list this week. I'll definitely do better next week. What three movies made your list today?

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15 comments:

  1. You picked two beautiful depictions, especially Up...

    You're going to hate how toxic mine is...like...TOXIC.

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    1. Haha...no I won't I just decided not to go the same route.

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  2. You're probably going to hate mine too, it's all about bad marriages. lol

    I love the two you picked though. Up kills me every time.

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    1. No I won't hate it...some of the memorable marriage movies I've seen were the bad/toxic marriage types.

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  3. I'm likewise not an animation viewer so I've seen neither of these but I constantly hear wonderful things about Up so I may break down and give it a look.

    Funny you mentioned about several possibilities that occurred to you where the couples weren't married, the same thing happened to me when I started. In my search I found so many more films about as you said the toxic side of marriage which is easier to dramatize but I tried to find ones that didn't have a completely brutal outlook.

    My three:

    The Marrying Kind (1952)-Funny, sad look at a marriage from courtship through breakdown. Decidedly on the more sober side in its portrayal of marriage the Garson Kanin/Ruth Gordon script has touches of levity making it feel very true. The situations are as relevant now, money troubles, miscommunication etc., as they were then and played with infinite sensitivity. Judy Holliday considered this her best work and it's probably Aldo Ray's as well. Would be perfect for a remake with the proper actors although these two would be hard to top.

    The Way We Were (1973)-Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford as perhaps the ultimate couple who are both perfect for each other but also a complete mismatch at the same time. A fine study of people coming from different life experiences who are drawn together by undeniable attraction and then driven apart by their innate dissimilarities which they can not change despite the fact that they will always love the other. Wonderfully directed and beautifully shot.

    Fools Rush In (1997)-A comedy about a couple who meets and marries impulsively. Not only do they have to learn to live with each other's idiosyncrasies but since he is a Manhattan born and bred only child, moneyed and ambitious and she from a large, effusive Latino family there is a huge culture clash especially when their parents become involved. Fluffy but with some beautiful location filming, a solid supporting cast and Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek have a nice chemistry as the lead pair.

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    1. Yep a few of the movies that I was considering had to be left out when I realised the couples weren't married and I can't even mention the titles because for at least one of them it's kind of spoilery in that we only find out at least a third through the movie they are not married. Which is a pity because these couples had such a wonderful (though not always easy) relationship.

      Of your three, I have seen Fools Rush In but it was such a long time ago I can hardly remember a thing.

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  4. I honestly considered both of these amazing movies. The first segment of Up is jaw-dropping. The rest of it is awesome, too. And I'm still waiting for The Incredibles 2. Great picks.

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    1. I know right...how can a movie make me feel so much within the first few minutes? An animated movie too?

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  5. Great choices! Loved The Incredibles, and I can't wait for the sequel.

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    1. Me too. We've all been waiting for it since The Incredibles.

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  6. These are great picks! I love that marriage montage in UP and The Incredibles' family is so fun & adorable.

    Btw, I've decided to participate on this so it'll go up tomorrow. I'll come back and submit the link.

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  7. I love UP so freaking much. I was a mess by the end, all because of that beautiful "Married Life" sequence and the way they kept hearkening back to it throughout the film. I adore The Incredibles too, for completely different reasons. The Parr's marriage feels far more real than most relationships in animated films, despite the high-concept premise.

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    1. Pixar movies sure know how to throw that emotional punch right.

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