While the "Gilmore Girls" have never watched the movie "Dragonfly" to my knowledge, I still felt it belonged here.  It just seems like something they would make fun of. I think that Paris was in the opening scenes, although it was difficult to tell since she wasn’t talking or acting like Paris.  If that was her, she was actually a very good actress, not Paris like at all.  She deserves to be in a movie better than "Dragonfly".  I couldn’t tell because this movie had the credits still flashing about 10 minutes into it.  In retrospect I don’t think a lot of these people would want their names on this movie.  I’m interested in how this was pitched to Kevin Costner, "Ok, so you are in love with your wife who is pregnant with your child & she dies, & then she comes back & haunts you & is really creepy & leaves dragonflies everywhere even though you don’t believe in an afterlife.  Plus your wife is now a little bit spooky & you are scared of her, oh & if you could cut out that whole acting thing you do so well, we’d really appreciate it."

In short, Kevin Costner just shouldn’t be around any movie with water, like "Water World", or "Message in a Bottle", & definitely not "Dragonfly".  Put him in a field, &  he’s great, but no water.  I’d been wanting to get a piece of dragonfly jewelry as a tribute to the dragonfly inn, but that desire is gone now, I wouldn’t want it to turn up all haunty.

"Glitter" has been mentioned several times as one of the worst movies, both on "Gilmore Girls" & of all time. I’m a big fan of Mariah Carey, my youth was spent listening to Mariah Carey music on new fangaled CD’s.  So of course, I would hate any movie that caused her to have a nervous breakdown, or was associated with that in any way.  It wasn’t a terrible movie, yes it didn’t haven’t a lot of plot & relied heavily on music.  The camera angles made me seasick.  However, that is pretty predictable for anytime you put a singer in a movie & tell her to act.  I think the reason this movie got such a bad reputation was the story of Mariah Carey’s breakdown.  Otherwise it would have just faded away into the mediocre movie hall of fame where all movies featuring popstars go to die. I would give it a solid entire pop tart, basically because people showed up to make the movie.  That is still one more pop tart than most critics would give "Glitter".  I’m kind hearted.

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"An American in Paris" is another one of the DVD’s that Lorelai buys for Emily in "Dear Richard & Emily".  I had the common misconceptions while watching this film:

1.  Wow Fred Astair looks so good there.  He almost doesn’t look like himself.  That’s because he is actually Gene Kelly.

2.  Where are the werewolves?  I had confused this movie with a classic horror flick.  I kept waiting for a creature from the netherworlds to jump up & eat someone during one of the dance numbers.

3.  I’m sarcastic, I’m tough, I’m cynical, I don’t need musicals.  It was nice to escape into a simpler, happier world.  I’m surprised how much I do not need plot lines.

All in all, it was an enjoyable movie.  Even my cold, black heart enjoyed it.  It could still use a werewolf or two.

One of my favorite "Gilmore Girls" episodes is from Season 5 believe it or not.  I love the episode "Say Anything", right after Emily makes that mess at her vow renewal & Luke & Lorelai break up.  Lorelai watches "The Way We Were" & then calls up Luke & says something to the effect of I just need my best friend.  I watch this episode every time I break up with someone.  I find myself wanting to break up with people just so I can watch this episode again.  So it made sense that I would watch "The Way We Were".  There were some good moments to it, but I just didn’t like it.  It’s like spinach, it’s good for you but you aren’t excited to see it. This is a spoiler so stop reading here if you don’ t want to know.  When they are standing in the street at the end & Babs runs across the street I find myself thinking ‘The only way this movie could be saved is if one of them gets hit by a car right now".  No one got hit by a car, so I wasn’t a big fan.  I just found the movie to be a downer.  So I wasn’t a fan of "The Way We Were", but I still like the episode of "Gilmore Girls" that quoted it.  That didn’t make a lot of sense, I better simplify.  "The Way We Were"= :(      Gilmore Girls talking about "The Way We Were"= : )

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