Week 4 - Annie Hall

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Judging people in the park on a date? Where do Lauren and I sign up?

I can finally date Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother, since I like Annie Hall.

$400 for a tiny apartment in New York with bad plumbing and bugs is too much - yes, this movie is definitely 35 years old.

YOUNG CHRISTOPHER WALKEN?!?!?!?! Equally as creepy as current Christopher Walken.

And YOUNG SHELLEY DUVALL pre-The Shining???

SPOILER ALERT: A romantic comedy where they main couple doesn't end up together? WHAT?

• What made me choose this movie?
• Classic romantic comedy - has always been on the list. And it just happened to be staring me in the face at the library.
• Describe this movie in one word. JUST ONE.
• Timeless. This movie could be set now with very few changes (I wonder what Woody Allen has to say about social media?)
• Would I recommend it to a friend (or talk ad nauseum with my friends about it)?
• Recommend - yes. Unless you don't like Woody Allen.
• Talk ad nauseum?  Probably, but I'd need to watch it and talk through it with someone. It is too jumpy to remember everything I want to talk about.
• Did I look anyone or anything up from the movie on IMDB or Wikipedia?
• Not really - I was pretty set with this one.
• If I was trapped on a desert island, which character from this movie would I want to be trapped with and why?
• Alvy Singer. We'd have a lot to talk about. There's no one I can maintain dialogue with better than an educated, neurotic, sarcastic person (even better if they can also talk pop culture, but Tony and Rob don't have the other characteristics).
• Did this movie provoke any outward emotional reactions? Crying, laughing out loud, throwing crap across the room, etc./et al. (Warning - I cry A LOT.)
• Laughed. A lot. I even clapped my hands when Alvy was momentarily shown dressed as an Orthodox Jew at Easter dinner (this would have been a knee slap, but my knee was under my computer and a blanket).
• Would I stop to watch this movie at any point during a showing on TBS?
• Probably, yes. It jumps around so much that it would be easy to watch for the one liners while catching up on email, cleaning or organizing on a Saturday afternoon.
• Would I buy it on sale at Target for $5 or less (or even splurge on it full price)?
• Probably not, but (as you'll come to see in the remaining 48 weeks), I don't buy a lot of movies.