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August 4

Favorite breakup movies: the sequel

Filed under: media — posted by Maria @ 7:41 am

Apparently breakup movies are on everyone’s minds these days.

Not content with just five, eHarmony broke out the 20 Essential Breakup Movies â€” this time “High Fidelity” makes the list, along with a lot of other BG reader favs. Though, oddly, no one here has mentioned “Chungking Express” yet.Â Focus, people, focus!

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July 28

What’s your favorite breakup movie?

Filed under: media — posted by Maria @ 10:43 am

[Note: We areÂ powerless to remove the italics from this post. We believe that at this point only robots can help.]

The Canadian Press’s Things That Go Pop! pop culture blog has listed the five best breakup movies of all time. I was with them on “Casablanca” (1942) and “Annie Hall” (1977), but then the blogger decided that the 00’s was a decade that ranked three spots on the list. Of the three, I’m willing to give him “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004), because who amongst us HASN’T wanted to have the memory of a very bad breakup erased? But there’s nothing better from the 50’s, 60’s, 80’s(!), or 90’s that outranks “All the Real Girls” (2003) and “The Break Up” (2006) â€” a movie that even Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn didn’t bother to see? (And that is misspelled. Breakup, noun, is one word, as in Breakup Girl, the superhero/grammar stickler. Break up, verb, no hyphen, is two.) Posters to the site seem to be favoring “High Fidelity,” which is also from the 00’s (2000, to be exact), as missing from the list. What’s your vote?

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