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ALoveSupreme:
I just saw this and I thought it was very, very excellent!
I am pretty self conscious of my movie reviewing capabilities (plus it is really late) but it is a total downer of a film in that way that is really, really enjoyable (maybe sort of like Eternal Sunshine but not as complex but in the way where you see a relationship begin really beautifully and just kind of go wrong... I'm sure there are a lot of movies where that happens but that was that I thought of for some reason).

Anyway, here is the trailer, which I also really enjoyed, simply on its own

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0A_yg8XjU

sean:
well, i now have plans for valentines day this year

ALoveSupreme:
There were two teen girl squad type girls sitting behind me and my friends who were laughing at inappropriate parts of the film (like, there is definitely comic relief in it but they were just being dumb) and when it ended one of them was like, "ok, that was definitely not a romantic comedy," and booked it out of the theater.  I wanted to be like, "WAIT, STOP, I really want to know what kind of fucked up, stupid digest you have of the past hour and a half or so of our lives!!!!"

Graphite:
I saw it and it was fucking extraordinary, but in the worst way - like, it was an incredible portrait of two characters and it was extraordinarily open to interpretation from many sides, but I was on the verge of leaving the entire time because it almost hurt too much to watch. Going to see it alone was a mistake. Probably that feeling peaked during the hotel room scene after the dinner, because at that point my brain was not just uncomfortable but screaming for them to stop ever being in the same room together just to make that scene stop, but it was near-constant.
You should see it, but don't expect to be functional for the next two hours.

Also a writer I follow on facebook wrote on his page that he saw a couple of people leave the cinema indignant during the oral sex scene, which was insane to me because that was the only joyful and fully enthusiastically consensual sex in the entire movie and that was the scene that made them angry? Really?

KvP:
If there's anything that makes American moviegoers uncomfortable, it's women being given head. Blue Valentine got a lot of free publicity when it got an NC-17 rating based on that scene (the MPAA was later shamed / bum-rushed by Weinsteins into changing it to R). This Film is Not Yet Rated has a section devoted to that sort of ratings disparity.

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